Poker Hall of Famer Bobby Baldwin has been named Chief Executive Officer of Drew Las Vegas, a future casino on the Strip. The 1978 WSOP Main Event champ served in a comparable role for MGM’s CityCenter amusement facility, additionally on the Strip.

Baldwin is an unusual titan in both poker and the corporate world. He’s invested the majority of his grown-up life playing high-stakes poker as well as representing major gambling establishment brand names as an executive. The 69-year-old left MGM Resorts last year. Numerous guessed that he was forced out.

Bobby Baldwin won the 1978 WSOP Main Event and after that three extra bracelets during the 1970’s. Ever since, he has actually sculpted a specific niche as a high-stakes poker cash video game professional. He’s so much of a casino poker celeb that the famous Bellagio poker room– Bobby’s Space– was called after him.

However those in the gambling globe outside of the online poker area recognize him a lot more as a successful exec at many Las Vegas casinos, consisting of Aria, Mirage, and also Golden Nugget. The former poker globe champ currently takes over as Chief Executive Officer of Drew Las Vegas, a future casino on the north end of the Strip.

Drew Las Vegas is unfinished, huge resort formerly named the Fontainbleau, previously occupied by the Algiers Hotel. The building was partly integrated in 2007 but was stopped because of financial factors in 2009. Since then, the glossy blue building has actually stood there vacant. In 2015, nevertheless, the new proprietors– Witkoff Group and Marriott International– announced plans to complete construction and at some point open the hotel as well as casino site.

The new proprietors have hired Bobby Baldwin to act as the hotel’s first CEO as well as vice chairman. Witkoff CEO Steve Witkoff called the former online poker champ a “transformational leader who has unmatched experience.”

Drew Las Vegas, 67-story hotel, is expected to open in 2022. Obviously, that’s assuming all goes to plan. The hotel is called after Witkoff’s son, Andrew Witkoff, who died of an OxyContin overdose in 2011.

The north end of the Strip is presently going through a face-lift. In recent years, renowned gambling enterprises on that portion of the Strip such as the Riviera have been knocked down. The old Sahara, which ended up being SLS previously this years, is currently the Sahara once more. As well as, together with the Drew, an additional online casino– Resorts World– is being constructed.

Las Vegas is frequently altering.

Tomas Ribeiro from Portugal claimed the title in Event #11: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha of the 2019 WSOP Europe. The poker pro topped a field of 271 total entries to become the 5th Portuguese player in history to win a WSOP gold bracelet.The four previous champions from Portugal were Joao Vieira, Jonathan Aguiar, Francisco António da Costa Santos and Diogo Veiga.

“Actually it’s my first trophy ever,” said Ribiero, who focuses primarily on cash games. “I won three tournaments, but they didn’t have trophies and winning my first ever trophy at a WSOP event, it’s totally overwhelming.”

The final day began with Tobias Peters leading the remaining eight players, while Ribeiro sat in fifth chip position. The first player to hit the rail was German Christopher Frank. He got all-in with a double suited rundown, but his 8Diamond Suit7Spade Suit6Spade Suit4Diamond Suit could not overcome the AHeart SuitKDiamond Suit10Diamond Suit5Heart Suit of Marc Palatzky, who flopped trip aces and held from there. Frank earned $12,833 USD as the eighth-place finisher.

Leonid Yanovski also lost a key preflop showdown against Palatzky. Yanovsky got all-in preflop with AClub SuitKDiamond Suit10Club Suit9Club Suit, and Palatzky looked him up holding ADiamond SuitQDiamond Suit9Diamond Suit6Spade Suit. The flop came down 9Spade Suit6Heart Suit6Club Suit and Palatzky hit a full house right off the bat. The 2Club Suit left Yanovski drawing dead. He took home $16,824 USD for making it down to the final seven.

The reigning champion of this event Anson Tsang put in a valiant effort at defending his title, but in the end fell just short when his ASpade SuitKDiamond Suit9Diamond Suit3Club Suit couldn’t beat out the KSpade SuitQDiamond Suit10Club Suit7Spade Suit on the surging Palatzky, who flopped a pair of tens and ended up with queens full by the river. Tsang earned $22,516 USD for his sixth-place showing in this event.

Palatzky scored his fourth knockout of the day, with Ilyaz Dosikov getting all-in on a 8Spade Suit4Heart Suit2Diamond Suit flop with 9Diamond Suit8Club Suit7Spade Suit4Spade Suit for top two pair. Palatzky had AHeart SuitADiamond SuitQClub Suit7Heart Suit for the overpair and a backdoor flush draw. The KClub Suit on the turn and KHeart Suit on the river gave Palatzky the superior two pair to secure the pot. Dosikov had to settle for $30,741 as the fifth-place finisher.

Palatzky began four-handed play as the runaway leader, but Ribeiro managed to win some key pots against him to fight back into contention. Ribeiro closed the gap even further by eliminating start-of-day leader Tobias Peters. All the chips got in preflop with Peters holding KDiamond SuitQHeart SuitJSpade Suit9Diamond Suit and Ribeiro the AClub SuitKSpade SuitQDiamond Suit9Club Suit. Ribeiro flopped an ace and held from there to send Peters home in fourth place ($42,825 USD).

That knockout gave Ribeiro the lead, and from there he took control of the table. He won several medium pots from Palatzky, further extending his advantage. Despite his red-hot start to the final table, Palatzky fell to the bottom of the leaderboard during three-handed action. He ended up getting his last chips in preflop with KClub Suit7Heart Suit5Heart Suit3Club Suit against the QSpade Suit7Diamond Suit4Club Suit2Diamond Suit of Ribeiro. The ASpade SuitAClub Suit8Diamond Suit4Diamond SuitJSpade Suit runout secured the pot for Ribeiro. Palatzky was awarded $60,814 USD for his third-place showing.

Ribeiro took nearly a 5:1 chip lead into heads up play with Omar Eljach. The Swede fought his way back into the match for a bit, but was still well behind when the final cards were dealt. He got his last 14 or so big blinds in preflop with AHeart SuitKHeart SuitJSpade Suit6Spade Suit. Ribeiro held the KClub SuitQSpade SuitQDiamond Suit10Spade Suit. The board came down 6Diamond Suit4Heart Suit4Club SuitJDiamond Suit9Spade Suit and Ribeiro’s queens were good enough to lock up the pot and the title. Eljach took home $88,013 USD as the runner-up finisher.

2019 WSOPE Event #11: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results:

Asi Moshe has become the 50th player in WSOP history to win four or more gold bracelets. The Israeli poker pro joined this illustrious group by topping a field of 279 entries to secure the title in the 2019 WSOP Europe €1,650 no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha mixed event. Moshe earned $108,186 USD as the champion of this event, managing to emerge victorious despite not having much experience playing PLO in a live setting.

“It’s really crazy, especially considering I don’t really play Omaha, just a little bit online but just the way I pick up the cards feels really weird,” Moshe told WSOP reporters. “But poker tournaments are poker tournaments, it still worked out. I looked at the ICM and I got many chips so everything worked out but I’m not an Omaha player for sure.”

Moshe entered the final table of this event as the chip leader with nine remaining. The first player to hit the rail was six-time WSOP bracelet winner Chris Ferguson (9th – $7,651 USD). He and Quan Zhou (8th – $9,836 USD) both fell to Harout Ghazarian in the early going.

Dragos Trofimov got his last chips in wiith pocket aces, but his AHeart SuitADiamond SuitQClub SuitJHeart Suit could not beat out the QDiamond Suit8Diamond Suit7Heart Suit5Heart Suit of Kristoffer Rasmussen, who had turned a straight on a 6Heart Suit5Spade Suit2Heart Suit4Spade Suit board. Trofimov had outs to a higher flush draw, but the 9Diamond Suit on the river sealed his fate. He earned $12,900 USD as the seventh-place finisher.

From that point on, it was all Moshe. He scored every single knockout from six players down to one. He started by busting WSOP braceler winner Erik Cajelais in sixth place, beating out his QHeart SuitJHeart Suit with AHeart Suit5Club Suit to further extend his lead. Cajelais cashed for $17,258 USD.

Moshe had more than five times as many chips as his nearest opponent at one point during five-handed play. He procedded to knock out Jakob Madsen (5th – $23,539 USD), William Chattaway (4th – $32,723 USD) and Harout Gharazian (3rd – $46,347 USD) to take more than a 7:1 chip lead into heads-up play against Kristoffer Rasmussen.

It took Moshe just two hands to seal the deal. He shoved with JClub Suit10 and got called by Rasmussen, who held QHeart SuitJSpade Suit. The board came down KDiamond SuitQSpade Suit8Club Suit9Spade Suit6Diamond Suit and Moshe turned a straight to lock up the pot and the title. Rasmussen took home $66,855 USD as the runner-up.

Event #9: €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha/No-Limit Hold’em Mix Final Table Results

Instead of Phil Hellmuth celebrating his 16th bracelet, it was Norwegian Espen Sandvik celebrating his first World Series of Poker title.

Sandvik bested a 71-entry field in the €2,500 8-Game Mix event at the World Series of Poker Europe to earn his first title and €75,246. He also earned 252 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. The 2019 POY race is presented by Global Poker.

This was Sandvik’s first career WSOP cash and resulted in the first win of his career. Sandvik bested Finland’s Ville Haavisto heads-up after Hellmuth busted in third. Haavisto earned €46,613 and Hellmuth left with €31,058 for their efforts.

Despite a lackluster career record in tournaments, Sandvik credited his work away from the table for a dominant final table performance.

“More confidence and more inspiration to work harder,” Sandvik told WSOP reporters after his win.

Sandvik busted Joao Vieira in seventh-place, which set the six-handed final table and gave Sandvik the chip lead at the outset of the final table. It was a lead that he would never relinquish as he steamrolled the final table, barely losing any pots along the way.

At the start of the final table, Sandvik held 1.28 million chips with limits of 30,000-60,000, nearly a third of the chips in play. At no point during the final table did another player cross the million-chip mark as Sandvik eliminated every player at the final table.

He took care of Jochen Kaiser in sixth in 2-7 triple draw when he made an 8-7 low after the first two draws and Kaiser couldn’t improve to better than an ace-low.

He continued the run by sending Thomer Pidun to the rail in fifth when he made a 10-low in razz against Pidun’s queen-low.

He hit running spades to crack Jeff Madsen pocket 10s in limit hold’em and eliminate the American pro in fourth before turning his attention to Hellmuth.

Hellmuth was gone in third in triple draw. Sandvik won a big pot with an 8-7 low to leave Hellmuth with 1.5 big bets. Hellmuth was all in after the first draw and ended up with a pair of fours, while Sandvik made a 9-8 low.

Following Hellmuth’s departure, Haavisto was facing a nearly insurmountable chip deficit. Haavisto started heads-up play with 183,000 to Sandvik’s 3.367 million. It only took one more hand of triple draw for Sandvik to secure the rest of the chips in play.

Here are the final table results:

Place Player Payout POY Points
1 Espen Sandvik $83,723 252
2 Ville Haavisto $51,740 210
3 Phil Hellmuth $34,474 168
4 Jeff Madsen $23,738 126
5 Thomer Pidun $16,911 105
6 Jochen Kaiser $12,479 84

Faisal Siddiqui won his very first World Series of Poker gold circuit ring and $113,143 at the Horseshoe Baltimore circuit main event.

Faisal topped an area of 303 players as well as a final table pack with professionals as well as successful circuit mills to win the title and also one-up his previous ideal circuit centerpiece finish. He completed second in the 2014/2015 circuit major below at the Horseshoe. He won $127,484 for his coating there.

Siddiqui said he was initially a little overwhelmed with the talent at the final table.

“A lot of the messages I was getting was that the others are equally afraid of you as you are afraid of them,” he said, “That kind of helped me get my nerves right.”

He provided a shout out to his household and also John Gorsuch, the 2019 WSOP Millionaire Maker victor, for their support and also pleasant, favorable messages throughout his main event run.

Siddiqui 51-year-old who operates in software program and modern technology. He states the actually wonderful thing regarding poker is that he can concern occasions as an amateur and compete against specialists.

“There is no other sport in the world that is like this. I also play golf. I could never beat Phil Mickelson at golf. But at the final table today, there were multiple pros, and I was able to beat them, which is a great feeling. It’s not about the money it’s about playing the best in the world and coming out ahead,” he said.

Siddiqui went into the last table with the chip lead and he claimed that he was influenced by third-place finisher Ryan Jones disposition at the table after he saw Jones grind a brief stack early in play during Day 1a.

“He kept about his wits, and kept playing good poker, and letting things come his way,” Siddiqui said, “playing with him I learned a lot. In the end it was bittersweet that I knocked him out.”

The day started with eight players remaining and Ryan Tamanini fell in eighth place when he got all in preflop against Jones. Jones won the race and Tamanini took home $11,860.

When he obtained all in preflop versus Jones, the day began with 8 gamers continuing to be as well as Ryan Tamanini dropped in 8th place. Jones won the race as well as Tamanini took home $11,860.

Mark Redding was alongside go after he turned versus Malebranche for around twenty large blinds each. Redding finished in 7th area and won $15,247.

Minutes later, Joseph Cashen ended up in 6th location for $19,961 after Cashen mistakenly revealed a card and also played the entire hand with an ace subjected. He ultimately pushed all on the river of a paired board and Jones called with pocket aces to get rid of Cashen in probably one of the most distinct hand of the event.

It took just a couple of even more hands for Shinya Shimada to find his method to the rail. He three-bet shoved his last ten huge blinds into Jones who lagged. Jones made journey 8s on the river to send out Shimada residence with fifth-place cash ($26,605).

One of the most likely winner of the Casino Championship, Mike Wang, that already had two circuit rings from this stop was eliminated in 4th area. Siddiqui doubled with Wang and after that Jones completed him off on the next hand.

The gamers continued three-handed for concerning 4 hrs before Siddiqui sent out Jones to the rail. Jones pushed done in on the river and also Siddiqui at some point contacted us to win the hand with a much better 2 pair.

It didn’t take wish for Siddiqui to finish off Malebranche directs to declare the title.

Siddiqui currently has $247,806 in WSOP competition payouts on 5 circuit cashes. When he asserted his first-ever WSOP circuit ring in the Horseshoe Baltimore circuit event, he had three top-three coatings prior to today.

Siddiqui topped an area of 303 gamers and a last table pack with experts and also successful circuit grinders to win the title and finesse his previous ideal circuit main event finish. He ended up second in the 2014/2015 circuit main right here at the Horseshoe. He won $127,484 for his coating there.

He three-bet shoved his last 10 large blinds into Jones who was behind. Jones made journey eights on the river to send Shimada residence with fifth-place cash ($26,605).

The Hublot WPT Player of the Year race continues to take shape and see plenty of movement. WPT Maryland and WPT UK produced some interesting results that have shifted the standings a bit toward the latter half of the Top 10, and there should be even more movement with the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble less than a week away.

After winning the WPT Borgata Poker Open in August, Donald Maloney dipped into WPT Maryland however had not been able to money. Regardless of that, he stays in the top area in the standings. He earned 1,200 factors and $616,186 in Atlantic City and also has vowed to chase after the Hublot title this season.

WPT Legends of Poker champion Aaron Van Blarcum rests just behind Maloney in second with 1,200 factors $474,390 for his win at the Bike. He’s likewise looking to play even more events this season and make a run at the POY title.

Simon Brandstrom is new to the standings following his win at WPT UK this weekend break at Dusk Till Dawn. The win gained Brandstrom 1,200 factors along with the $330,000 he gained for his finish. Brandstrom sits in 3rd location behind Maloney and also Van Blarcum as an outcome of the sudden death for cash made.

Borgata Poker Open runner-up Uke Dauti moves to 4th location with 1,000 factors and also $410,787 in profits. Gardens Texas hold’em Celebration champion Roger Teska sits in fifth with 1,000 points ($ 368,475). Nitis Udornpim moves up to sixth after taking down the WPT Maryland for $ 319,415.

Legends of Casino poker runner-up Gueorgui Gantchev slides a couple of places down to 7th place with 900 points ($ 306,265), and also Borgata third-place finisher Kevin Albers moves to the ninth location with 900 factors ($ 303,903). Jared Greiner, who took 3rd at Legends, is now in 10th with 900 factors ($ 226,040).

WPT UK runner-up Ryan Mandara is in eighth place in addition to his $221,650 reward for second place.

After completing 3rd in Maryland, WPT Champions Charter member Brian Altman is just outside the top-10 with 900 points and also $195,455. Altman positioned 10th at WPT Legends of Casino Poker.

4 gamers have 800 factors with Gardens Poker Festival runner-up Laszlo Molnar leading those in cash money payouts with $ 235,615. Players have an additional opportunity to move up in the standings with the WPT bestbet Bounty Shuffle just nearby.

What Can You Win in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year Race?

As the main timekeeper as well as main watch of the World Poker Tour, Hublot is once more today enroller of the WPT Player of the Year award for Season XVIII. The company will be awarding a customized Hublot wrist watch to the champion of the Hublot WPT Player of the Year race. In addition, the Season XVIII winner obtains $15,000 in WPT competition buy-in credit scores and also free accommodations at all WPT Main Tour events in Season XVIII.

Prizes will additionally be granted for the 2nd- and also third-place finishers in the race. The runner-up will certainly obtain $7,500 in WPT competition buy-in credit histories and also 3rd location will obtain $2,500 in buy-in credit reports. Credit scores can be made use of in any international WPT event, including the Main Tour, WPTDeepStacks, WPT500, and also WPT Special Events.

Next Stop on WPT Main Tour – WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble

After the UK, the WPT rolls into the Sunshine State for the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble in Jacksonville, Florida. This popular $5,000 event features a $1 million guarantee as well as several players with $2,500 bounties on their heads. Some of those include Darren Elias, Anthony Zinno, Mike Sexton, Matt Savage, Maria Ho, and more. For more information on this event, click here.

Following Jacksonville, the tour heads north of the border for the WPT Montreal. The event features a CAD$3,300 buy-in and a CAD $3 million guaranteed prize pool. With plenty of action on the horizon, it should be a fun fall.

Mike Postle does not need to cheat due to the fact that he’s “among the most effective” poker players on the planet, and he’s ready to “play any person heads-up.” Or, so he claimed on Mike Matusow’s podcast.

The accused Stones Live cheater denied the allegations brought forth by poker player Veronica Brill. Yet it appears he did little to repair his track record. Couple Of on Poker Twitter buy his tale.

Mike Postle Didn’t Do Himself Any Favors

Mike Postle couldn’t just disappear and hope this story fades. As CardsChat wrote, he owed the poker community an explanation. So, conducting a public interview may have been a smart idea. But it doesn’t appear many, if anyone, have changed their opinions of him based on the conversation with Mike Matusow.

Postle made some insurance claims that many really felt were ridiculous. He claims to have actually been among the “most significant winners on Ultimate Bet” before the poker site was shut down for the DOJ in April 2011. But he really did not divulge his screen name and given that exact UB gamer statistics aren’t available, there is no other way to verify that declaration.

He likewise stated that he is just one of the “ideal gamers worldwide.” And also he will test any person to a game of heads-up poker, “when this is around.” Postle particularly called out Doug Polk, but it doesn’t appear that suit will certainly ever before occur.

Postle did bit in the interview to aid his situation. He really did not describe just how he’s able to make such difficult river decisions while playing on the Stones Live stream. As well as Matusow, who asserts he was attempting to be neutral, really did not press his visitor with compelling follow-up questions.

Questions Remain Unanswered

Mike Postle still hasn’t offered an explanation for his outrageous win-rate as well as ability to consistently make the proper decision on the river during Stones Live streams. Till that occurs, he likely won’t alter the minds of his critics that believe he is just one of online poker’s most notorious cheaters ever.

Postle’s informed Matusow on “The Mouthpiece” podcast his live-stream stats that are being floated around social media sites are incorrect. He declares to have actually won far much less than what has been reported– an approximated $275,000. He says that Stones inflates chip heaps.

Even if that held true, he still really did not describe to listeners just how it’s possible that he practically never ever makes an inaccurate decision on the river. He declares there are many video clips of him making bad choices during the stream. And he states he hired somebody to brush with hundreds of video clips to locate them. But the online poker neighborhood has actually been incapable to situate such clips.