Poker Tournaments – 2010
December 30, 2011 Poker Facts Poker Tournaments
The year 2010 has been a good one for poker players, who had multiple opportunities to play and participate in tournaments all over the world. Some players got lucky this year and bagged great prizes in poker tournaments. Some facts about poker games, tournament games and popular players are given below:
WSOP 2010 Main Event: The Main Event at the World Series of Poker was the biggest tournament of the year. Poker Champion Jonathan Duhamel won the WSOP title earning $8,944,138 winning and won against the 7,310 people on their way up to the final table.
Facts about WSOP 2010:
2010 World Series of Poker was held in Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.
The 41st annual WSOP started from May 28 to July 17
Final table of nine players on November 6
Duhamel won the title of world champion and for the outstanding record of “First Canadian WSOP Champion”.
Tyson ‘POTTERPOKER’ Marks: Poker Stars WCOOP Main Event: Online poker’s history gave us the millionaire Tyson Mark also known as ‘POTTERPOKER’. At the 2010 WCOOP main event he recorded the biggest tourney score and won the prize pool of $2,278,097.50.
Facts about World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP)
Played in September
Sponsored by Poker Stars
Casino games like Texas Holdem, Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit, Horse, Seven Card Stud, Pot Limit Omaha High and Razz were played.
Nicolas Chouity: EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final: Nicolas admiringly won the EPT Grand Final in 2010 with prize money of 1,700,000 and was the second player from Lebanon to win a major event.
Facts about European Poker Tour (EPT)
A series of televised poker tournaments that started in 2004
Known in Europe
Sponsored by Poker Stars while the Sunset plus Vine taped for its television broadcast
Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure Main Event: Harrison Gimbel, 19 year old then and is the youngest person to win the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), who took home $2,200,000 as the prize money.
The North American Poker Tour’s inaugural event was the 2010 PCA.
Aussie Millions Main Event: Tyron Krost won the 2010 Aussie Million, proudly keeping the title of Aussie Champions for another year. The total prize money was $2,000,000 that he took home. It was a true ‘competitive poker challengers’ when he played against the 746 players who joined the main event and are poker pros.
Australian Poker Championship or commonly known as Aussie Millions
Is held at Melbourne’s Crown Casino, Australia
The tournaments also featured the $100,000 Challenge where the Aussie Millions 2010 recorded 24 entrants.
There are more poker pros who jot the best record in the 2010 biggest tournament list. Their achievements will remain alive in the history of poker. This will continue to be an inspiration for poker players who aspire to make their dream poker career succeed. I hope this was inspiration for you as a poker player and you will too aim to be amongst them some day!
