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WSOP 2008 Main Event Final Table Players Have Been Decided

The main event has so far spanned over 11 grueling days for the poker players so far and is far from over for the 9 final table finalists. The tournament took a 117 day break on July 14th to return on the 9th November to finally decide who the world champion will be.

The 9 finalists and their chip counts are as follows:

Dennis Phillips - 26,295,000
Craig Marquis - 10,210,000
Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,000
Scott Montgomery - 19,690,000
Darus Suharto - 12,520,000
David ‘Chino’ Rheem - 10,230,000
Ivan Demidov - 24,400,000
Kelly Kim - 2,620,000
Peter Eastgate - 18,375,000

The overall prizepool for this tournament is a staggering $64,333,600 in which 6,844 players paid a buy-in fee of $10,000 each.

The final table payouts are as follows:

1. $9,119,517
2. $5,790,024
3. $4,503,352
4. $3,763,515
5. $3,088,012
6. $2,412,510
7. $1,769,174
8. $1,286,672
9. $900,670

However we all know, whoever takes that number 1 spot will ear a lot more than that with the media and sponsorships which will be knocking their door down almost instantly after the tournament is won!

Kläser Takes Down WSOP Event Number 43 for $216,000

Martin Kläser who is a 21 year old German Full Tilt Poker professional took down the $1.5k Pot Limit Omaha 8-or-Better tournament recently overcoming a field of 720 other poker players.

He overcame the final table which held players such as fellow Full Tilt Poker professional Erik Seidel and entered the final heads-up play with a 3:1 chip lead ratio over his opponent Casey Kastle. His aggressive heads-up style allowed him to take down all but 3 hands of the 19 that we’re dealt between the two which ultimately gave him his first career bracelet.

Kläser’s win makes him one of the youngest WSOP bracelet winners recorded to date.

Below is the top 10 finishes in this tournament:

1. Martin Klaser ($216,249)
2. Casey Kastle ($137,985)
3. Michael Fetter ($83,538)
4. Erik Seidel ($68,304)
5. Jon Maren ($56,019)
6. Chad Burum ($44,226)
7. Joseph Haddad ($34,398)
8. Larry Wright ($27,027)
9. Tom Chambers ($19,656)
10. Daniel Klein ($12,285)

Absolute Poker Fined $500,000 After Cheating Scandal

It’s what most of the online poker and gambling community have been waiting on hearing about and most of us will know the on-goings of the ‘PotRipper’ scandal that surfaced at AbsolutePoker a while back with the claims of cheating, and being able to see other online players whole cards.

It was brought to everyone’s attention via the 2+2 Forums whereby a user first got sight of this when a player named ‘PotRipper’ went on a 20 minute run of not folding a hand pre-flop.

As more discussion arose over this matter, players started asking AbsolutePoker for full player hand histories so they could look into it all with a little more detail. This then spurred another event in that the email sent from AbsolutePoker exposed more information than it should have done! It included IP addresses, hole cards for every player and user details of every player at the table whether it be playing or watching.

Initially AbsolutePoker denied all allegations of this but then retracted that and since have paid back any players losses who were involved around the matter in question.

Well last week The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) fined AbsolutePoker $500,000 and will perform random unannounced audits at the poker sites expense over the next two years. for this mishap and then went on to say that the site had now fixed the security breach however they asked the online poker room to place a “security deposit” with the Commission in case it needed to investigate them again.

However going over the recent audit, there still seems to be unanswered questions such as:

· How much money was caught up in all this

· When did it start

· How long did it go on for

· How did it happen

· How widespread was it

Was this fair?! What do you think should have been done about the matter?!

Playsafe Holdings Not Paying Out Players

It appears that Playsafe Holdings is under scrutiny for amounts unpaid to customers and licensees. The company who is one of the top developers and owns the ActionPoker.com, Tiger Gaming.com and an affiliate website for Wagerprofits. The original reports stem back from August with players owed money all the way back from April of 2007. Point-Spreads.com first reported that they had recieved complaints from players who were not being paid from the company as promised. Although the company did eventually email the players to tell them that payment would be made, they never recieved it.

Point Spread has been viglantly attempting to collect the money on the player’s behalf and was able to do so with two accounts however at this point in time all communications with Playsafe Holdings have ceased.

Initially back in March of this year Playsafe Holdings AS owed one licensee $16,518.00 in rake alone and poker players of the actual licensee the amount of $55,314.17. They also continued to run the licensee’s poker room after the room was supposed to be closed. The licensee at the time did not know anything of this. Playsafe also stopped sending reports once they closed off all access to the admin panel from the licensee.

Players and affiliates are taking caution at the moment untill further details develop and it is advised that players not use this network until such time as the issues with Playsafe Holdings is resolved.

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