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WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals  

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  1. 1. Who do you think will win?

    • Tom Dwan - 4,875,000
      9
    • Nick Schulman - 4,395,000
      29
    • Mike Vela - 4,155,000
      3
    • Michael White - 2,455,000
      4
    • Mark Weitzman - 855,000
      1
    • Nenad Medic - 555,000
      7

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Incubus77546

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So who do you think will take it down? We have some good competition at this WPT final table.Tom "Durrr" Dwan - Famous online poker player with great credentials, with the chiplead he is easily one of the favorites to win it.Nick Schulman - He won this tournament 2 years ago, and he is not far behind from Tom Dwan. Great player, definitely a favorite to go deep.Mike Vela - Has a nice chipstack going into this final table. He has some decent credentials and is said to be playing very solid. Seems to be a pretty good amateur poker player. You cant count him out just yet.Michael White - Claims he is an amateur 1/2 NLHE player. Has a pretty good chipstack, but also claims to be a bit nervous, and also has to go to work! Who knows how this guy is going to play, I have no other info about him.Mark Weitzman - Has some great results throughout the WSOP since 1992. Also this is his 2nd WPT final table in 2 months! Finished 4th in the Borgata Poker Open in September. He is on a short stack though, he could easily be one of the first to go.Nenad Medic - The defending champion from last year, is now on a severely low stack coming into this final table. He is a very solid player, and having position on Nick Schulman and Tom Dwan is going to benefit him. Maybe he can double up early and work his stack from there. With his short stack though, he could also be easily one of the first to go.My picksFavorite(s) - Nick Schulman or Tom Dwan (Flip a coin, it might just depend on who gets the better cards)Dark Horse - Defending Champion Nenad Medic (Probably gonna go out early, but if he gets his hands on some chips he will be a threat)Discuss

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Mike Vela - Has a nice chipstack going into this final table. He has some decent credentials and is said to be playing very solid. Seems to be a pretty good amateur poker player. You cant count him out just yet.loose and a donkcalling stationshows a lot of handsMichael White - Claims he is an amateur 1/2 NLHE player. Has a pretty good chipstack, but also claims to be a bit nervous, and also has to go to work! Who knows how this guy is going to play, I have no other info about him.basic 1/2nl big cards fish usuallyHand #48 - Rodney Legendre has the button in seat 5, Schulman raises under the gun to 135,000, and White calls from the small blind. The flop comes AK9, White checks, Schulman bets 215,000, White moves all in for 880,000, and Schulman calls with AJ for a pair of aces. But White shows K9 for bottom two pair. Schulman will need to improve to bust White here.The turn card is the 10, giving Schulman a gutshot straight draw for additional outs (and another ten would give him a higher two pair), but the river card is the 7. with 17bbs lolMark Weitzman - Has some great results throughout the WSOP since 1992. Also this is his 2nd WPT final table in 2 months! Finished 4th in the Borgata Poker Open in September. He is on a short stack though, he could easily be one of the first to go.standard type player tighter since it big $

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Nick Schulman FTW :D:D:D:D:club:
Durrrr one tiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Although I'm a fan of Schulman because he has without a doubt the best online name ever ainec. So hoping they get HU with some play left.Mark
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Durrrr one tiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Although I'm a fan of Schulman because he has without a doubt the best online name ever ainec. So hoping they get HU with some play left.Mark
They will have tonssssss of play this yr.30/60k5k A 90 min levels @the final t
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Durrrr one tiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Although I'm a fan of Schulman because he has without a doubt the best online name ever ainec. So hoping they get HU with some play left.Mark
aight, I'll bite.. What's Schulman's online screen name?
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I loved watching Nenad dismantle that amateur donk HU at least year's final table, so I'll be pulling for him.
Show some respect, that "donk" took out KFL.
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Here are the official chip counts for Tuesday night's WPT Final Table, along with the remaining prizepool:Seat 1 - Nenad Medic - 555,000Seat 2 - Mike Vela - 4,155,000Seat 3 - Mark Weitzman - 855,000Seat 4 - Mike White - 2,455,000Seat 5 - Nick Schulman - 4,395,000Seat 6 - Tom "Durrr" Dwan - 4,875,0001st - $1,704,986 + $25,500 seat in WPT World Championship2nd - $864,6523rd - $486,3674th - $324,2445th - $243,1846th - $189,142Now for a deeper look at the six players who make up this WPT Final Table.- - - - - - - - - -Seat 1Nenad Medic555,000 in chipsNenad Medic (online name: Serb) is the defending champion of this event, outlasting 608 players last year to claim the first prize of $1.7 million. If he wins tonight, Medic will be the first player in history to win back-to-back titles in the same WPT tournament. As the short stack headed to the final table, Medic definitely faces an uphill battle.This is Medic's ninth cash in WPT events, and his third WPT Final Table -- he also finished sixth in the Season IV PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Medic has more than $1.9 million in career WPT earnings, and a victory tonight would take him over $3.6 million, moving him up to seventh place on the all-time earnings list for the World Poker Tour.Medic is definitely a player on the rise, breaking into the poker scene with his final table in the Caribbean before finishing third in the 2006 Aussie Millions, and winning this event later that year. Regardless of his finish here, this Canadian player looks to remain a force on the tour for a long time to come.- - - - - - - - - -Seat 2Mike Vela4,155,000 in chipsIf asked what he considers to be his home casino, Mike Vela will tell you it's Foxwoods. (I know because I asked him.) He's done well here -- earlier this year he made back-to-back prelim final tables during the Foxwoods Poker Classic.While this is Vela's first WPT Final Table, he's reached the final two tables twice, finishing 13th in this event last year, and 18th at the WPT Borgata Poker Open two months ago.Vela is currently making the most of a single $1,100 entry into a Borgata supersatellite several months ago. He won a $40,000 package that included $10,000 in cash, entry into the WPT Borgata Poker Open (where he finished 18th), entry into the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open (in January, 2008), and entry into this event at Foxwoods -- where he's guaranteed to finish sixth or higher. If he can cash in all three events, it will be an amazing trifecta, and if he can take first in this one or the next one, he'll further parlay it with an entry into the Season VI WPT World Championship in April, 2008.Vela is the senior vice president of an investment company, and he's been playing poker for four years. Between work and poker, this native New Yorker still sets aside time for his two kids, and coaches his son's baseball team.- - - - - - - - - -Seat 3Mark Weitzman855,000 in chipsMark Weitzman has been a professional poker player for 21 years, with six World Series of Poker final tables under his belt (four of them in variations of deuce-to-seven). This is just the fourth WPT tournament that Weitzman has entered, but he has already reached his second final table. Perhaps he shouldn't have waited until Season VI to enter WPT events.Weitzman finished fourth at the WPT Borgata Poker Open two months ago, earning $380,000 for the biggest cash of his career. His career tournament earnings come to more than $750,000, and if he finishes fifth or better, he'll cross the coveted million-dollar mark.While Jonathan Little seems to be running away with the WPT Player of the Year award this season, Mark Weitzman will move into second place if he finishes third or higher, and a victory would really put some pressure on Little.Born in Israel and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Weitzman currently lives in Las Vegas. After two decades as a professional poker player, Weitzman would like to return to school for a Ph.D. in physics.- - - - - - - - - -Seat 4Mike White2,455,000 in chipsMike White is a local player from Hartford, CT, so you might say he represents the home team -- in more ways than one. He actually earned his entry by winning a $1,200 satellite among friends, and he's making the most of the opportunity.White has more than $150,000 in live tournament winnings, including a cash in the 2006 WSOP Main Event and an 18th-place finish in the 2004 U.S. Poker Championship. This WPT Final Table represents the highlight of his poker career -- even a disappointing sixth-place finish would more than double his career earnings. Of course he's hoping to do far better than that.White owns a commercial construction business, and he actually has to be at work at 5:00 am before this final table -- he didn't plan to make it this far and didn't make arrangements for someone to cover for him. But White promises to make it back to Foxwoods in time to hear Mike Sexton say, "Shuffle up and deal."- - - - - - - - - -Seat 5Nick Schulman4,395,000 in chipsNick Schulman is another former winner of this event. He was less than two months past his 21st birthday when he won this event two years ago, making him the youngest WPT champion in the show's history -- a record that still stands.Since then, Schulman has continued to build his poker resume, adding a victory in the WPT Battle of Champions IV, a fourth-place finish in a WSOP Circuit Championship, and a WSOP final table. With more than $2.2 million in WPT earnings, a victory here would catapult him into fifth place on the all-time WPT list with just under $4 million.It should come as no surprise that the youngest WPT champion honed his chops by playing online poker (under the name, "TheTakeover"), though Schulman first started playing the game live in pool halls.- - - - - - - - - -Seat 6Tom Dwan4,875,000 in chipsTom Dwan is a well-known online player who goes by the name "Durrr" (though the number of r's in "Durrr" varies from site to site). He has entered several WPT events since turning 21 years old a little more than three months ago, and this will be his first televised final table. (For those keeping track, Dwan is a few weeks too old to break Schulman's record as the youngest WPT champion.)Dwan starts the final table as the chipleader, but his lead is hardly safe with two players close behind him -- Schulman and Vela. Dwan is no stranger to the chip lead, because he's been near the top of the leaderboard for most of this tournament.Dwan attended Boston University as an English major, but he dropped out after one year, and has been playing poker for the past four years or so. He has impressive results online, but this final table shows he can also hold his own with the best live tournament players in the world.- - - - - - - - - -Will this final table bring the first repeat champion (Medic or Schulman) in World Poker Tour history? Or will chipleader Dwan have a breakout performance on TV the way that Schulman did two years ago? These youngsters will have to get past two local players sure to have plenty of fans in the audience (White and Vela), and a 20-year professional who can challenge for the WPT Player of the Year title. As you can see, there's plenty to root for.CardPlayer.com

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Go LOCAL BOY!!

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I loved watching Nenad dismantle that amateur donk HU at least year's final table, so I'll be pulling for him.
That truly was sight to behold. If you could definte "Owning" that HU battle would be it.I duno, I wouldn't mind seeing Durrr winning it, but I don't mind too much. Medic is great so I guess I'll be rooting for him
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lol classic WPT call-off!Hand #55: Tom "Durrr" Dwan Eliminated in 4th Place ($324,244)Hand #55 - Tom "Durrr" Dwan has the button in seat 6, Schulman raises under the gun to 225,000, Dwan moves all in from the button for 1,290,000, and Vela goes into the tank for several minutes from the big blind. Vela eventually calls, and Schulman quickly folds.Vela shows KJ, but Dwan has him dominated with AK. Dwan is in great position to double up through the chipleader here.The flop comes 1073, and Dwan retains the lead with ace high. The turn card pairs the board with the 10, and Vela needs a jack to bust Dwan here.The river card is the -- J! Vela rivers two pair, jacks and tens, to win the pot.Tom "Durrr" Dwan is eliminated in fourth place, earning $324,244.

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lol classic WPT call-off!Hand #55: Tom "Durrr" Dwan Eliminated in 4th Place ($324,244)Hand #55 - Tom "Durrr" Dwan has the button in seat 6, Schulman raises under the gun to 225,000, Dwan moves all in from the button for 1,290,000, and Vela goes into the tank for several minutes from the big blind. Vela eventually calls, and Schulman quickly folds.Vela shows KJ, but Dwan has him dominated with AK. Dwan is in great position to double up through the chipleader here.The flop comes 1073, and Dwan retains the lead with ace high. The turn card pairs the board with the 10, and Vela needs a jack to bust Dwan here.The river card is the -- J! Vela rivers two pair, jacks and tens, to win the pot.Tom "Durrr" Dwan is eliminated in fourth place, earning $324,244.
Obv saw Mark's WSOP...
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lol classic WPT call-off!Hand #55: Tom "Durrr" Dwan Eliminated in 4th Place ($324,244)Hand #55 - Tom "Durrr" Dwan has the button in seat 6, Schulman raises under the gun to 225,000, Dwan moves all in from the button for 1,290,000, and Vela goes into the tank for several minutes from the big blind. Vela eventually calls, and Schulman quickly folds.Vela shows KJ, but Dwan has him dominated with AK. Dwan is in great position to double up through the chipleader here.The flop comes 1073, and Dwan retains the lead with ace high. The turn card pairs the board with the 10, and Vela needs a jack to bust Dwan here.The river card is the -- J! Vela rivers two pair, jacks and tens, to win the pot.Tom "Durrr" Dwan is eliminated in fourth place, earning $324,244.
Sick. </3 donks
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