World Poker Tour season 9 results
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Below are the results of season nine of the World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...

 (2010–2011)

WPT Grand Prix de Paris

  • Casino: Aviation Club de France, Paris, France
  • Buy-in: €10,000
  • 5-Day Event: May 8 – 15, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 247
  • Total Prize Pool: €2,347,797
  • Number of Payouts: 27

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Theo Jørgensen
Theo Jørgensen
Theo Jørgensen is a Danish professional poker player, based in Copenhagen who has made two European Poker Tour final tables.Jørgensen began playing poker in the early 1990s...

 
€633,902
2nd   Antoine Amourette €328,690
3rd   Per Linde €234,780
4th   Mickael Guenni €187,825
5th   Fabrice Touil €140,870
6th   Nourredine Aïtaleb €93,910
7th   Arnaud Mattern €82,175
8th   Jimmy Ostensson €70,435

WPT Spanish Championship

  • Casino: Casino Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • Buy-in: €3,200 + €300
  • 5-Day Event: May 19 – 23, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 326
  • Total Prize Pool: 1,034,400€
  • Number of Payouts: 36

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Ali Tekintamgac €315,000
2nd   Roberto Garcia Santiago €160,000
3rd   Mats Erik Iremark €81,000
4th   Manuel Blaschke €71,000
5th   Mads Smith Hansen €61,000
6th   Tristan Quentin Clemencon €51,000
7th   Per Emil Mattson €41,000
8th   Bartolome Gomila Romero €31,000
9th   Manuel Cuberos Lopez Cozar €21,400

Bellagio Cup VI

  • Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

  • Buy-in: $10,000 + 300
  • 6-Day Event: Jul 11 – 16, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 353
  • Total Prize Pool: $3,424,100
  • Number of Payouts: 50

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Moritz Kranich $875,150
2nd   Justin Smith
Justin Smith (poker player)
Justin "Boosted J" Smith is an American professional poker player living in Los Angeles, CA. At 21 years old, Smith has been a participant in stateside poker tournaments for less than a year due to age requirements, winning nearly $900,000 in that time span.Smith began playing poker at the age of...

 
$594,755
3rd   Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey
Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables...

 
$363,650
4th   John Caridad $237,902
5th Robert Akery
Rob Akery
Rob Akery is a professional poker player from Bristol, UK.- Career :Akery started playing poker in 2004, and went professional in 2005. Rob started playing poker aged 18 after receiving a $5 transfer into his account from a friend...

 
$169,930
6th   Eric Afriat $118,950

Legends of Poker

  • Casino: The Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

  • Buy-in: $4,800 + 200
  • 6-Day Event: Aug 20 – 25, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 462
  • Total Prize Pool: $2,151,072
  • Number of Payouts: 45

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Andy Frankenberger
Andy Frankenberger
Andy Frankenberger is a professional poker player from New York City.Frankenberger won the WPT Season 9 Legends of Poker event in 2010, then followed that up with another WPT final table at the Festa al Lago event later that year...

 
$750,000
2nd   Kyle Wilson $370,000
3rd   Tom Lee $147,772
4th   Thomas Braband $109,000
5th   Jared Jaffee $86,000
6th   Franco Brunetti $63,000

WPT London Poker Classic

  • Casino: Palm Beach Casino, London, England
  • Buy-in: £5000 +£300
  • 6-Day Event: August 30, 2010 to September 4, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 171
  • Total Prize Pool: £820,800
  • Number of Payouts: 18

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Jake Cody £273,783
2nd   Nichlas Mattsson £176,979
3rd   Bruce Atkinson
Bruce Atkinson (poker player)
Robert Bruce "Elvis Senior" Atkinson is an English professional poker player and the President of the European Poker Players Hall of Fame.Atkinson started off playing seven card stud in the early 1980s, but moved to hold'em later....

 
£93,316
4th   Kristoffer Thorsson £56,311
5th   Giovanni Safina £42,233
6th   Sandiep Khosa £34,189
7th   Fabian Quoss £26,144
8th   Gareth Teatum £18,100

Borgata Poker Open

  • Casino: Borgata, Atlantic City, New Jersey
    Atlantic City, New Jersey
    Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for the American version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast...

  • Buy-in: $3,300 + 200
  • 6-Day Event: Sep 19 – 24, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 1042
  • Total Prize Pool: $3,438,600
  • Number of Payouts: 100

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Dwyte Pilgrim $733,802
2nd   Kianoosh Mohajeri $440,945
3rd   Ofir Mor $266,835
4th   Brandon Novena $223,475
5th   Daniel Makowsky $183,449
6th   Benjamin Klier $148,427

Festa al Lago

  • Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

  • Buy-in: $10,000 + 300
  • 6-Day Event: Oct 15 – 20, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 335
  • Total Prize Pool: $3,224,000
  • Number of Payouts: 50

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Randal Flowers $831,500
2nd   Michael Benvenuti $564,200
3rd   Noah Schwartz $344,968
4th   Jason Koon $225,680
5th   Andy Frankenberger
Andy Frankenberger
Andy Frankenberger is a professional poker player from New York City.Frankenberger won the WPT Season 9 Legends of Poker event in 2010, then followed that up with another WPT final table at the Festa al Lago event later that year...

 
$161,200
6th   Skip Wilson $112,840

Foxwoods World Poker Finals

  • Casino: Foxwoods Resort Casino
    Foxwoods Resort Casino
    Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, United States. Together with the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, it is one of the largest casino complexes in the world in terms of floor space for gaming. The entire resort comprises of space. The casino has over 380 gaming tables...

    , Mashantucket, Connecticut
  • Buy-in: $9,700 + 300
  • 6-Day Event: Oct 28 – Nov 2, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 242
  • Total Prize Pool: $2,276,978
  • Number of Payouts: 25

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Jeff Forrest $548,752
2nd   Dave Inselberg $325,608
3rd   Thomas Marchese $211,759
4th   Nikolai Yakovenko $170,773
5th   Keven Stammen $128,650
6th   Mohsin Charania $104,741

WPT Amneville

  • Casino: Casino Municipal D Amneville, Amnéville
    Amnéville
    Amnéville is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. The town is an important tourist and thermal center in France.-Main sights:*Traces of Roman road*Remains of a Roman bridge*14th century castle and church*Zoo d'Amnéville...

    , France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  • Buy-in: €3200 + €300
  • 5-Day Event: 2 Nov 2010 to 6 Nov 2010
  • Number of Entries: 543
  • Total Prize Pool: €1,640,000
  • Number of Payouts: 54

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Sam El Sayed €426,425
2nd   Franck Pepe €229,613
3rd   Ilan Boujena €161,550
4th   Nesrin Kourdourli €109,886
5th   William Bresson €79,545
6th   Jean-Paul Pasqualini €62,323
7th   Julien Robert €46,743
8th   Georges Chehade €34,442

WPT Marrakech

  • Casino: Casino De Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
  • Buy-in: €4,250 + 750
  • 4-Day Event: Nov 27 - 30, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 222
  • Total Prize Pool: €905,528
  • Number of Payouts: 27

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Sébastian Homann €254,745
2nd   Guillaume Cescut €141,518
3rd   Sébastien Compte €94,345
4th   Félix Oberauer €75,472
5th   Guillaume de la Gorce €56,609
6th   Dominik Nitsche €37,736
7th   Johan Williamsson €30,190
8th   Julien Labussière €26,418
9th   Patrick Muleta €19,920

Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic

  • Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

  • Buy-in: $10,000 + 300
  • 6-Day Event: Dec 3 – 8, 2010
  • Number of Entries: 438
  • Total Prize Pool: 4,261,267
  • Number of Payouts: 100

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player, known for his elaborate chip tricks.-Early life:When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California...

 
$870,124
2nd   Andrew Robl $549,003
3rd   Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Ashley Rousso is a French American law student at the University of Miami and a professional poker player. She is also known by her Pokerstars online screen name Lady Maverick. Born in , Rousso has dual citizenships with the United States and France. Rousso is a member of Team PokerStars,...

 
$358,964
4th   John Racener
John Racener
John Racener is an American poker professional from Port Richey, Florida, best known as the runner-up of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker...

 
$232,271
5th   Kirk Morrison
Kirk Morrison (poker player)
Kirk Morrison is a professional poker player originally from Wichita, Kansas, United States, but who has lived in New Zealand for a part of his life between 1999 and 2006....

 
$168,924
6th   Ted Lawson $126,693

WPT Southern Poker Championship

  • Casino: Beau Rivage, Biloxi, Mississippi
    Biloxi, Mississippi
    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2010 census recorded the population as 44,054. Along with Gulfport, Biloxi is a county seat of Harrison County....

  • Buy-in: $9,700 + 300
  • 7-Day Event: Jan 23 – 27, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 214
  • Total Prize Pool: $2,011,600
  • Number of Payouts: 27

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Alexander Kuzmin $601,469
2nd   Leif Force $315,790
3rd   Allen Carter $218,471
4th   Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr is a professional poker player from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Shorr grew up in Birmingham, where he was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School....

 
$144,985
5th   Pat Mahoney $113,208
6th   Ryan Hughes $89,375

WPT Venice

  • Casino: Casino Di Venezia, Venice
    Venice
    Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

    , Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

  • Buy-in: €3,000 + 300
  • 6-Day Event: Feb 3 – 8, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 523
  • Total Prize Pool: €1,521,930
  • Number of Payouts:

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Alessio Isaia €380,000
2nd   Szabolcs Mayer €228,990
3rd   David Vamplew €149,910
4th   Emmanuel Rodrigues €101,960
5th   Adrien Camille Garrigues €73,180
6th   Luca Fiorini €57,830
7th   Maxim Lykov
Maxim Lykov
Maxim Lykov is a professional poker player from Moscow, Russia. He has both a World Series of Poker bracelet and an European Poker Tour title. Lykov is a member of Team PokerStars Pro.As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000....

 
€43,370
8th   Renato Paolini €31,960

L.A. Poker Classic

  • Casino: Commerce Casino, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

  • Buy-in: $9,600 + 400
  • 6-Day Event: Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 681
  • Total Prize Pool: $6,537,600
  • Number of Payouts: 64

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Gregory Brooks $1,654,120
2nd   Vivek Rajkumar
Vivek Rajkumar
Vivek Rajkumar is an Indian American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.In 2008, he won the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event, securing a cash prize of $1,424,500. He defeated a final table that included tournament veterans Dan Heimiller and Mark Seif to win the title.Rajkumar has...

 
$908,730
3rd   Carlos Mortensen
Carlos Mortensen
Juan Carlos Mortensen is an Ecuadorian professional poker player of Danish descent and the only Hispanic Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Mortensen is known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style.Mortensen moved from Spain to the United States in...

 
$640,680
4th   Amir Lehavot $421,680
5th   Steve Gross $304,000
6th   Darryll Fish $235,350

WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star

  • Casino: Bay 101, San Jose, California
    San Jose, California
    San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

  • Buy-in: $9,600 + 400
  • 5-Day Event: Mar 14 – Mar 18, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 415
  • Total Prize Pool: $3,942,500
  • Number of Payouts: 45

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Alan Sternberg $1,039,000
2nd   Steven Kelly $595,300
3rd   Mike Matusow
Mike Matusow
Michael Matusow is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table...

 
$369,800
4th   Vivek Rajkumar
Vivek Rajkumar
Vivek Rajkumar is an Indian American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.In 2008, he won the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event, securing a cash prize of $1,424,500. He defeated a final table that included tournament veterans Dan Heimiller and Mark Seif to win the title.Rajkumar has...

 
$295,800
5th   Casey McCarrel $221,800
6th   Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton
Michael Richard Sexton is an American professional poker player and commentator. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

 
$148,000

WPT Vienna

  • Casino: Montesino, Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

    , Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

  • Buy-in: €3,200 + 300
  • 5-Day Event: Mar 25 – 29, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 555
  • Total Prize Pool:
  • Number of Payouts: 54

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Dmitry Gromov €447,840
2nd Maxim Kolosov €241,180
3rd Simon Ravnsbaek €169,690
4th Mario Adinolfi €115,420
5th Maximillian Noll €65,460
6th Valentin Stroiescu €83,550
7th Alessio Isaia €49,100
8th Mark Jenisch €36,180

WPT Hollywood Poker Open

  • Casino: Hollywood Casino, Lawrenceburg, Indiana
    Lawrenceburg, Indiana
    Lawrenceburg is a city in Dearborn County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Dearborn County...

  • Buy-in: $9,600 + 400
  • 5-Day Event: Apr 9 – Apr 13, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 97
  • Total Prize Pool: $911,800
  • Number of Payouts: 12

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Mike Scarborough $273,664
2nd   Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.In 2010, he was inducted as a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early life:...

 
$155,103
3rd   William Reynolds $110,788
4th   Thomas Marchese $77,551
5th   Andy Whetstone $62,041
6th   Ali Eslami
Ali Eslami
Ali Eslami is a professional poker player currently residing in Los Angeles area. He was one of two people, who first won the man-machine poker championship....

 
$50,962

Seminole Hard Rock Showdown

  • Casino: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida
    Hollywood, Florida
    -Demographics:As of 2000, there were 59,673 households out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.2% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of...

  • Buy-in: $9,600 + 400
  • 5-Day Event: Apr 27 – May 3, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 433
  • Total Prize Pool: $4,156,800
  • Number of Payouts: 45

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st   Taylor von Kriegenbergh
Taylor von Kriegenbergh
Taylor von Kriegenbergh is an American professional poker player. He was born in Stoneham, MA and is currently a resident of Hollywood, Florida. On May 3, 2011 von Kriegenbergh won his first World Poker Tour championship at the inaugural WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, FL, earning...

 
$1,122,340
2nd   Curt Kohlberg $586,109
3rd   Justin Zaki $415,680
4th   Abbey Daniels $286,819
5th   Allen Bari $211,997
6th   Tommy Vedes $166,272

WPT World Championship

  • Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

  • Buy-in: $25,000 + 500
  • 7-Day Event: May 14, 2011-May 20, 2011
  • Number of Entries: 220
  • Total Prize Pool: $5,309,500
  • Number of Payouts: 27

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Scott Seiver
Scott Seiver
Scott Seiver is a professional poker player from Cold Spring Harbor, New York now residing in Las Vegas, Nevada who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event and is the winner of the $25,100 buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A...

 
$1,618,344
2nd Farzad Bonyadi
Farzad Bonyadi
Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California, who has won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets....

$1,061,900
3rd Galen Hall $589,355
4th Roger Teska $371,665
5th Tony Gargano $278,749
6th Justin Young $225,654
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