2005 Final Poker Championship
Andy Bloch, defending Champion of the 2004 Ultimate Poker once in a lifetime super challenge Championship.
The Ultimate Poker once in a lifetime super challenge at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas began the Championship with 55 poker players entered in the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event. Many of poker's well known professional community were vying for some of the $533,500 prize pool. Play continued today for approximately 13 hours until 28 poker players remained from the starting poker field- as was seen on speil poker Ladbrokes TV show.
When the poker cards flew at about 12:30 PST Sunday the professional laden poker field included previous WSOP World Champions Phil Hellmuth and Scotty Nguyen. WPT Championship winner Martin de Knijff was joined by Barry Greenstein, David Williams and Kido Pham, none of whom survived the day. Neither did Phil Hellmuth; but, Scotty Nguyen will be returning on Monday at noon when play is resumed- guess he read our poker tips section.
The crowds and poker players filled the tournament area at the Plaza Hotel. poker players that will be there for the second poker round are poker chip leader, Patrik Antonius with $241,400. poker chip Jett, Men 'Master' Nguyen, Amir Vahedi, Michael 'the Grinder' Mizrachi, Layne Flack, Captain' Tom Franklin, Ted Forrest, John Pham and the sole surviving lady, Kristy Gazes. The 2004 Ultimate Poker once in a lifetime super challenge defending champion, Andy Bloch, will begin the second day of play fifth on the poker chip count list at $78,400.
The play on Monday will continue until 9 remain to fill the final table roster. The championship final table will be played on Tuesday and filmed for later broadcast on national television throught the syndicated Ultimate Poker once in a lifetime super challenge Series. I wandered a poker round the tournament area today watching the poker, visiting with online poker players and old friends. Shot some photos of the event and have ioncluded a mini gallery in the continue reading section below.
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