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The World Heads-Up Poker Championship (WHUPC) is an annual elimination-format poker tournament of one-on-one no limit texas hold’em matches. The tournament was co-created by Late Night Poker’s Nic Szeremeta, PokerInEurope’s Jon Shoreman, and gaming journalist Rich Geller.

The event has run since 2001 and is held in Europe, although entry is open to all. Its success led to America’s creation of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

The Tournament :

The event will be No-limit Texas Hold'em Freezeout (no rebuys). Each player will buy-in for £6,000 and start with 10,000 chips.

The 56 players will be made up as follows :

• 44 players will be invited to play
• 8 on-line qualifiers
• 4 land-based qualifiers

Prize Pool :

A total prize fund of £500,000 will be comprised of the buy-ins plus a £164,000 top-up from William Hill.

• 1st prize - £175,000
• 2nd prize - £100,000
• 3rd prize - £70,000
• 4th prize - £50,000
• 5th prize - £35,000
• 6th prize - £25,000
• 7th prize - £20,000
• 8th prize - £15,000
• Runner up in semi final £10,000

Direct Buy-In :

42 professional players will be offered the chance to buy-in directly to the 2006 William Hill Grand Prix. These entries will be strictly invite only - no other direct buy-ins will be taken.

Online Satellites :

GrandPrixMTT
£1.75 + £0.25
One seat for every 8 entries

GrandPrixMTT
£13 + £1
One seat for every 10 entries,
maximum of 100 runners

GrandPrixSTT
£30 + £3
One seat for first place,
second place wins £50

Grand Prix Final
£120 + £10
Two Grand Prix seats guaranteed, maximum of 149 runners

William Hill Grand Prix Seat
£6,000 buy-in to the Grand Prix
Travel and accomodation expenses

The Schedules for Heats and Semi-Finals are :

Tournament Schedules for the Finals are :

Heat 1
1. Bo Sehlstedt (Qualifier) - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Tony G - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. John Shipley
4. Devilfish
5. Peter Roche
6. Luke Patton
7. Juha Helppi
8. Steve Vladar

Heat 2
1. Johnny Lodden - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Ross Boatman - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Dave Colclough
4. Xuyen Pham
5. Voitto Rintala (Qualifier)
6. Marcus Bebb-Jones (Qualifier)
7. Willie Tann
8. Pascal Perrault

Heat 3
1. Wayne Hutchins (Qualifier) - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Roy Brindley - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Mickey Wernick
4. Andy Black
5. Joe Beevers
6. Kevin Poast (Qualifier)
7. Vicky Coren
8. Tore Lagerborg

Heat 4
1. Jeff Lisandro - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Brian Cassidy (Qualifier) - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Paul Jackson
4. Anthony McConnell (Qualifier)
5. Surinder Sunar
6. Barny Boatman
7. Liam Flood
8. Julian Thew

Heat 5
1. Antonio Esfandiari - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Ben Grundy - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Shelley Mullett (Qualifier)
4. Sami Yusuf (Qualifier)
5. JP Kelly
6. Ram Vaswani
7. Keith Hawkins
8. John Duthie

Heat 6
1. Ken Lennaard - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. John Kabbaj - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Julian Gardiner
4. Phil Laak
5. Marc Goodwin
6. Oliver Puhr (Qualifier)
7. Jeff Kimber (Qualifier)
8. Harry Demetriou

Heat 7
1. Martin Wendt - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Stuart Fox - wins a seat Grand Prix Semi-Final table
3. Ben Roberts
4. Christer Johansson
5. Robert Williamson III
6. Tony Bloom
7. Russ Taylor (Qualifier)
8. Roland de Wolfe

Semi-Final
1. Ben Grundy - wins a seat at the Grand Prix Final table
2. Brian Cassidy - wins £10,000
3. Ross Boatman
4. Roy Brindley
5. John Kabbaj
6. Stuart Fox
7. Tony G

Final
1. Martin Wendt - wins £175,000
2. Wayne Hutchins - wins £100,000
3. Antonio Esfandiari - wins £70,000
4. Ben Grundy - wins £50,000
5. Johnny Lodden - wins £35,000
6. Bo Sehlstedt - wins £25,000
7. Jeff Lisandro - wins £20,000
8. Ken Lennaard - wins £15,000

The prestigious team poker tournament, hosted by PartyPoker.com, was played in Cardiff, Wales, last week. The United States had put together a strong team that included the team captain Robert Williamsom III, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Tilly, and Phil Laak.

Team USA made it all the way to heads-up play against Sweden and was in the lead when Robert Williamson III sat down to face Anders Henriksson. The Swede managed to turn things around, however, and knocked Williamson out.

Besides the honor, first place was worth $100,000 in prize money.

“We are really pleased with this victory. We had a pretty big side bet going with the Americans, so it was very nice to win,” said Mats Rahmn, one of the Swedish players, and just like Anders Henriksson a 2006 WSOP bracelet winner.

In total, six countries competed in the 2007 Poker Nations Cup. Besides Sweden and USA, England, Germany, Denmark, and Holland participated.

The team captains:

Sweden: Bo Sehlstedt
USA: Robert Williamson III
England: David Ulliot
Holland: Marcel Luske
Germany: Michael Keiner
Denmark: Theo Jorgensen

“Ultimate Poker Challenge” has announced the launching of “Cash Poker”, a new game format, where top-notch pros and hungry amateurs battle it out for cold hard cash in the biggest televised cash game ever. This is not a tournament!
On “Cash Poker”, actual fortunes are won and lost with the turn of a single card.

“Though broadcast television has long been filled with game shows, most recently including poker,” states Supervising Producer Eduardo Eguia, “There has never been a contest of this magnitude where contestants risk their own money in a game of skill and courage- this is truly The Ultimate Gamble!”

“Cash Poker” requires a $25,000 to $100,000 buy-in from its participants and this Texas Hold’em event promises to bring home all the excitement of high-stakes, casino-style poker! Our players bet with real money (no fake tournament chips used here) with hopes to end up on top. In this game anyone can play, as long as they have the cash and THE GUTS to sit down.

”Fundamental Theorem of Poker states that the best way for players to play is the way they would play if they knew their opponent’s cards”. In other words, “duh”. Obviously though, this is more complex then just the words stated in the theorem. Unless you have superpowers, or somebody behind your opponents with binoculars, there is no way you can actually know what they have in their hands.

Let’s say you’re holding:

Jh & 10h

While your opponent is holding:

Ks & Qd

The flop comes:

Qh, 8c, 7h

You check, your opponent bets, and in response, you call. Then the turn comes:

Qh, 8c, 7h, Ad

You bet, trying to represent aces. If your opponent knew what you had, his correct play would be to raise you so much it would cost too much to draw to a flush or a straight on the last card, and you would have to fold. Therefore if your opponent only calls, you have gained. You have gained not just because you are getting a relatively cheap final card, but because your opponent did not make the correct play. Obviously if your opponent folds, you have gained tremendously since he has thrown away the best hand.

How could the opponent have known what was in your hand? How would they have known raising was the correct call? You are dealing with odds and probability. The odds of you completing your flush or straight were not good. If you pulled another Jack, the opponent could still beat you with a pair of Kings or Queens. The odds that you would pull three Jacks were equal to the odds the opponent would a triplet of Kings and Queens. You can see where this is going.

Staying on the happy side of the odds will result in more wins then losses. Occasionally that 10% chance that a player is going to beat you with an unlikely straight, is going to happen, and you will watch your money go into their stack.

“Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponent’s cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.