Both Gabe Kaplan, whom you may better know as Welcome Back Kotter teacher Gabe Kotter, and Howard “The Professor” Lederer would be considered “old school” poker players. Both have been very good players for decades, and the two showed how well they know each other in a hand on a recent episode of Poker After Dark.The hand took place early in the event, so all six players were still at the table and the blinds and stack sizes weren’t a really a factor at that point in the game. The hand began with Lederer sitting on the button and Kaplan in the big blind.
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The final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker had lots of entertaining hands. We saw some hero calls and some bold moves at the poker tournament, but no hand could compare to the crushing beat that Scott Montgomery suffered to get eliminated in fifth place. He had just suffered a big loss for a good portion of his chips, but it looked like he was going to get right back into contention until the unspeakable happened.
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One of the hottest online poker players in the world right now is Bertrand Grospellier. This year he won the Festa Al Lago / WPT Event Season 7, taking home $1,411,015 for his efforts. He also won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for another $2 million back in January of 2008, and you can add three other final tables to this year’s online poker money finishes.
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One of the best poker players never to win a WSOP bracelet found himself head-to-head against one of the best online poker players on the planet, in the 2008 WSOP Mixed Hold’em Event #4. Erick Lindgren, who had won over $5 million in tournament poker play and is a multiple WPT winner, had never managed to win a WSOP bracelet. And to win his first he had to beat one of the best young poker minds around, in internet sensation Justin Bonomo.
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The WSOP November Nine certainly was a group of good players. Throughout the final table coverage there weren’t many mistakes made by the players, and some showed amazing poker strategy and instincts in pressure situations. One of these clutch hands occurred when there were four players left at the WSOP final table. With only Peter Eastgate, Ivan Demidov, Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz remaining in the daddy of poker tournaments, Demidov showed why he’s been one of the hottest live poker players in the world over the last five months.
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