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Jeff Lisandro entered Day 3 play as the chip leader of Event #44, $2,500 Razz, looking to claim his third bracelet of the 2009 World Series of Poker. Seven hours later, Lisandro had dispatched his final opponent to claim his third bracelet of the 2009 WSOP.

Lisandro entered the final day with 438,000 chips, which was more than 100,000 up on the next guy. Once it was down to five-handed, the Aussie (who now resides in Italy) had control of the majority of the chips in play. In heads-up play, Lisandro's enormous chip stack proved to be just too much for the nearly felted Michael Craig, who would ultimately take home $116,405 as runner-up.

After outlasting 314 others, Lisandro took home the largest portion of the $792,500 prize pool, a cool $188,370. More importantly, he grabbed career bracelet #4.

With the win, Lisandro has completed the Seven Card Stud trifecta this year...

To read Poker Pages' complete live coverage of the Final Table of Event #44 at the 2009 WSOP, click here.

The World Series of Poker was taken over by 2,707 seniors who quickly bought up all of the seats in this year's $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, Event 43.

The field included luminaries such as Amarillo Slim, Humberto Brenes, Berry Johnston, Barbara Enright, Mike Sexton and T.J. CLoutier, but none of those big names would be able to capture the title. Neither could last year's winner Dan Lacourse, who won $368,832 after besting a field of 2,218 players.

After three days of play, it was Michael Davis who earned the gold bracelet and the $437,358 that came with it. The final table was rapidly thinned out until Davis got heads up with the Scott Buller, who had been the chip leader for most of the final table play...

To read Poker Pages' complete live coverage of the Final Table of Event #43 at the 2009 WSOP, click here.

We are deep into the 2009 World Series of Poker and Poker Pages continues to bring you unparalleled LIVE event-by-event coverage.

On Wednesday, May 27th, at the crack of noon PDT, the first of 56 bracelet events kicked off from the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Harrah's has quite the schedule on tap, as the 2009 installment is celebrating 40 years of the WSOP. The biggest tribute to four decades of the Series is Event #2, a one-time-only $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event won by Russian Pro Vitaly Lunkin.

Also worth checking out are Phil Ivey's two bracelet takedowns. Ivey's first '09 bracelet came in Event #8 a Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball (No Limit) tournament with a $2,500 buy-in. And then shortly after, Mr. Ivey did it again taking down Event #25 a Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better $2,500 buy-in tournament.

Also taking down two bracelets in this year's WSOP is Brock Parker. Both of Parker's bracelets came in short-handed events. He took down his first bracelet in Event #14 a $2,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament. And a few events later Brock was able to win Event #19 a No Limit Hold'em Six-handed $2,500 buy-in tournament.

And to top them all, Jeff Lisandro has secured three bracelets in '09. First Lisandro took down Event #16 a $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud tournament. He only had to wait twenty one events to win his second bracelet in Event #37 a World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better tournament with a $10,000 buy-in. And finally, Lisandro won bracelet #3 in Event #44 which was a $2,500 Seven Card Razz event.

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The World Series has been running for almost a month now, and the place is still packed every day. I actually think some of them are playing poker just to get out of the heat; it's been so hot here in Vegas, I saw a guy frying eggs on the sidewalk. I might be stretching the truth a bit about the heat, but not about the crowds. You'd never know an "economic downturn" is happening...

To read more of poker legend T.J. Cloutier's exclusive Poker Pages' blog click here.

Go with what you got I'm back living on Kauai. I've been on an internet/news/info/television fast and I'm digging it.
Sometime soon the post office will deliver my stuff and among it will be a computer. I'll sit down in front of it and see if my fingers tingle.

Life here is so good and I'm back on track after being one wheel at least off the side for about seven years. I'm going back to creating exactly what I would want for myself and then offering it to others. I'm going to build it and we'll see if they come-- they always do though.

There's a guy here who starred in a poker movie called "Rounders"...

To read more of poker philosopher Shaun Tobin's exclusive Poker Pages' blog click here.

After 11 1/2 hours of driving, you definitely appreciate arriving at your destination. I crested the last hill on I-15 about an hour ago and saw a sea of yellow lights floating on Nevada's coarse sand. You might think I'm crazy but at that moment I decided to check my pulse to see if I was still alive. Half asleep at this point, in my mind it was entirely possible that I had crashed into a mountain five miles back and was now driving toward the wrong set of bright lights. Pulse checked out, thankfully, and I am now checked in. Have to thank Rob and Mandalay for putting me in another great suite this year. I feel very lucky to be here and if history is anything to go by, I will be able to focus and think creatively having somewhere comfortable to stay...

To read more of M.J. Bernstein's exclusive Poker Pages' blog click here.

Over the past year my traveling has increased drastically. Trips have become longer, with more of an emphasis on really going to work when I'm away. I had wanted to go home for a while, but as it came time to go, I had mixed feelings. Things seemed like they were just about to turn a corner and for me...

To read more of Jason Young's exclusive Poker Pages' blog click here.

The 2007 GoldStrike World Poker Open WPT Championship event attracted 294 players for a total prize pool of $2,856,200. After four days of play, the six remaining players were evenly split between well-known poker pros and relative unknowns. Daniel Negreanu, JC Tran, and Thang 'Kido' Pham joined Young Cho, Gary Kainer, and Brian Sumner on the WPT set to vie for the $913,986 first prize.

The 2008 Main Event begins on Sunday the 20th at noon CST and runs for 5 days. This year, there will be two starting flights, so Sunday will be day 1A and Monday will be day 1B, with the survivors returning for day 2 on Tuesday, January 22nd. The final table and filming for the WPT Season 6 which will air on the Game Show Network (GSN) will take place on Thursday, January 24th.

Live Coverage of this Event can be found by clicking here.

by Justin West



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The 2007 Winter Borgata Poker Classic drew 571 players willing to pony up $10,000 for a shot at glory. Five days later, John Hennigan found himself $1.6 million richer. The final hand of the tournament shocked everyone as his opponent, Charles Kelley, turned his cards up after betting was completed on the turn, believing action was over. After seeing the river card, John moved in and Charles still made the call, suspecting a bluff, but John held the goods and the tournament was over. Charles still walked away with a tidy sum -- $849,082 -- for his second place finish.

This year, the Borgata Poker Classic’s Main Event is a $9,700 + $300 NLHE event and it begins on Sunday, January, 27th at 11am and runs for five days. The final table will be filmed by the WPT on Thursday, January 21st beginning at 5pm.

Find out all the action-packed details by clicking here for live coverage.

TJ Cloutier, Hall of Famer, 6 WSOP bracelet holder and one of the world's greatest tournament players will be there to spend the week with the 10 lucky finalists and their guests.

TJ Cloutier will be conducting a seminar, playing some poker and giving one on one advice to the players before the main final $500,000 Sit n Go event on June 4th, 2008. US Players Welcome! Ways to Qualify

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