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March 28, 2008

Lee Markholt Claims First WPT Title

Tags: bryan devonshire, david-pham, lee markholt, Reno, Tournament-Coverage, world-poker-challenge, WPT

Courtesy of the World Poker Tour

The WPT World Poker Challenge wrapped up in Reno this evening.

David Pham attempted to claim his first WPT win after finishing third in the same event in 2007. Lee Markholt was at his first WPT final table in 15 cashes - six in the current WPT season alone - and tried to seize the moment. Bryan Devonshire was going for his first major tournament win after a second place finish at the 2007 WSOP.

In the end, Markholt beat Bryan Devonshire in heads-up action in only two hands. Not sure who wanted that title more, but Markholt clearly had the chip advantage that allowed him to take it so quickly.

The final results of the final table were:

1st place: Lee Markholt - $493,815
2nd place: Bryan Devonshire - $271,625
3rd place: Zachary Hyman - $149,862
4th place: Jason Potter - $103,030
5th place: David Pham - $93,664
6th place: Jeff DeWitt - $84,297

Congrats to Lee! And congrats to Devo for an admirable run at the title!

All of the details of the final table can be read over at WPT Live Updates.

Side note: Last year’s World Poker Challenge brought 425 players out for the $5k buy-in event. This year, the buy-in was raised to $7500, and only 261 players entered. Thus, the small prize pool and payouts. Coincidentally - or not - Reno was not on the recently-released Season VII WPT schedule.

Posted by California Jen at 9:33 pm

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March 25, 2007

Re: Pokerati at the Tables

Tags: chantel, Clonie Gowen, dustin-woolf, Reno, TJ-Cloutier, Tom-Schneider, world-poker-challenge, WPT

So as Karridy tells us, Tom has had a successful Day 1 so far at the WPT World Poker Challenge in Reno, nearly tripling his stack. Sweet. It’s still early, so lots of people are still alive. But I couldn’t help but notice that Clonie is also kicking ass, as is Chantel McNulty* … and her old beau Dustin “Neverwin” Woolf. Juicy. And speaking of juicy, Karridy’s favorite Texas man-with-big-hands, TJ Cloutier, is alive and fine with a slightly below-average chip stack.

I wonder how many days Tom will have to survive before CardPlayer (which so far seems to have the best coverage of this event) will take note. From CP:

Sun Mar 25 12:06:00 PDT 2007
Big Names in the Field
The Big names that have already been spotted are: Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Ted Forrest, Erick Lindgren, Victor Ramdin, Barry Shulman, Chau Giang, Clonie Gowen, David Singer, David Williams, Devin Porter, Gavin Smith, JC Tran, Nam Le, James Van Alstyne, John Juanda, Layne Flack, Michael Mizrachi, Phil Laak, Ralph Perry, Sean McCabe, and Bill Edler.

UPDATE (10 pm pacific): Clonie is out. Chantel still kicking butt. Tom just took a huge hit, but I don’t know much about it, because CP doesn’t pay attention to his cards.

UPDATE UPDATE: Text from Tom (at 10:34 pm pacific) says, “Fuck everyone im out”. Yikes, dude, sorry. Interestingly, the CardPlayer Live Updates did not take note of Tom’s exit. I am typing this extra small because I don’t think this is the sorta thing he would really want to hear right now.

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Reno gets DonkeyBombed

Tags: Reno, Tom-Schneider, WPT

Tom Schneider makes the World Poker Tour A rushed phone call from Pokerati contributor and Beyond The Table co-host, Tom Schneider, informs us that our friend is sitting comfortable with over T$27,000 at the first break in the World Poker Challenge in Reno. For those who recall, this is the same event where the WPT gave Tom his television debut and Mike Sexton gave him his nickname, “The Donkey Bomber”. Our Blog fingers are crossed for another final table. And while another quarter mill wouldn’t be bad, if it comes with a less than first place finish, we doubt Tom will share our sentiments.