On 1997, Bigler was on vacation from his job as a business man when he played for the first time at de Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. At the same time, the World Series of Poker were taking place. About that occasion he says: “I remember wondering myself what was I doing with all those poker chips. I didn’t even know what poker was”.

Poker game was getting his attention and he decided to learn more about it, he read books and his interest in playing started to grow. At his native country, Switzerland, he found very few people who knew how to play poker. In fact he told: “At Switzerland, most people relate poker with old western movies where players got shot during poker games”.

Bigler got experience in poker tournaments at Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam and then he won his first satellite tournament on December of 1998 at Atlantic City. On January of 1999, he won a Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament in Reno, However, Bigler’s ambitions are beyond that and he is decided to make his name really well known at television poker.

On 2001, Bigler sold his business at Switzerland to become into a professional poker player. On 2002 Bigler won his $10,000 seat at the Bellagio’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas and got to the final poker table being the first player eliminated.

The news was first announced by UB through its blog and the poker players also commented on it via Twitter. “I’ve sincerely enjoyed wearing the UB patch, but it’s time for me to move on,” Duke wrote. “So why am I leaving UB? In a nutshell, professional and personal growth. I’m going to explore and pursue other business opportunities on a full-time basis.”

Phil Hellmuth also had something to say about it and posted on Twitter: “Making a BIG move … leaving UB. Truly lots of great memories, but it’s time to move on … Mutual decision … Looking forward to BRIGHT future!” In an interview the player commented that it was just a business decision and had nothing to do with UB management.

Although the poker stars have not confirmed rumors about their future and possible endorsements, Hellmuth is expected to endorse his own site or the WSOP.com site, where he as at the top of the bracelet ranking. There are few chances of Hellmuth joining other sites to be just part of a team since he has a strong personality.

On the other hand, Annie Duke had a great 2010 winning the National Heads-Up Poker Championships and appearing in “Celebrity Apprentice”, which could give her access to a good endorsing contract. One possibility is following her brother’s steps and join the Full Tilt team.

Poker tournament World Poker Tour Diamond World Poker Classic is the scenery of exciting poker hands and plenty of action. Day 4 of the tournament saw the group of poker players decrease from 54 to 15 in the middle of plays that were really great and lots of expectation and good poker.

Antonio Esfandiari continued being chip leader of the night with 2.680.000 in chips. He was accompanied at the top by an impressive number of professional players that included the runner-up of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, John Racener, plus Andrew Robl, Kirk Morrison, Luis Velador, Andrew Lichtenberger and Vanessa Rousso, among others.

Professional poker player Sorel Mizzi may win more than just the first prize if he wins the tournament. Sorel finished the night with 1,380,000 in poker chips and if he walks out of the Bellagio victorious he will win 2,400 points and will have a total of 6,985 points in the Card Player of the Year race, replacing Thomas Marchesi who currently leads the ranking.

Since the championship has so many top level professional poker players, there were several noticeable eliminations during the day, but none of them as noticeable as the elimination of the player after whom the event is named: Doyle Brunson. The veteran player was applauded by the whole room when he was eliminated.

The strangest elimination of the night was David Bakers’ elimination. After accumulating 1 million in poker chips he had to endure a bad luck streak. Finally, he was eliminated by Andrew Robl. The action will continue tomorrow with the 15 finalists showing their best poker Texas Hold’em skills.

Canadian poker player Jonathan Duhamel is the winner of the 2010 World Series of Poker. The 23-year-old professional player from Boucherville took home an amazing pot of $8.94 million after he defeated John Racener in the final showdown that took place on Monday night in Las Vegas.

After he won, Duhamel said it was a dream come true and that it was like the most beautiful day of his life. “Come join the party,” he told a group of about 200 friends and members of his family who cheered him during the entire game. He became the first Canadian poker player to win the WSOP championship.

“I love playing poker so much, so I mean I’m going to be playing all those big tournaments and try to make other big scores,” he commented. “I’ll be there next year in the World Series and try to do my best again.” He also said that from now on he plans to play in all major poker tournaments in the world.

The WSOP championship game started on Saturday with the nine finalists with US player John Racener and Duhamel making it to the final game. Racener won the consolation prize of $5.5 million. The WSOP tournament began on 5^th July and made history as the second largest event in the tournament’s 40-year history, with 7,319 entrants.

Since he won the European Poker Tour Main Event in London, 23-year-old David Vamplew became a sensation in poker circuits and he is now even more popular after winning the UKIPT 2010. Vamplew is now one of the hot names in poker circuits and he is expected to continue winning important tournaments.

The Metropole Hilton in London was the host of the UKIPT poker tournament and many professional poker players from the United Kingdom signed up. In this tournament, the winner takes all and Vamplew managed to beat all the other players and claim the prize while showing his poker skills.

In the final game of the night, David Vamplew and Jamie Burland were the last players standing, but the Scottish showed that winning the EPT Main Event in London was no coincidence. As part of the prize, he won a free ticket to be part of the second season of the UKIPT, including a seat in the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour.

Jamie Burland commented after the game that Vamplew really played a good game and, although he recently won the UKIPT Brighton, he was not able to defeat the young poker player. Vamplew started playing live poker tournaments in 2010 and previously he had only played in online tournaments.

The first game of the World Series of Poker Europe will take place on Thursday this week. Since it first started in 2007, the WSOP Europe has become more and more popular and more poker tournaments have been added. In 2007 there were only three poker events and the next two years offered four events each. This year, there are five events.

More events mean more players and a bigger prize pool, which has reached the £15,166,890. Besides the cash prize, the winner will take home a golden WSOP bracelet, a trophy coveted by most poker players in the world. As to the number of players, in 2007 the competition had an average 207.76 players and in 2009 it climbed to an average 313.5 players, with more participants expected this year.

The schedule for this edition includes only one non-hold’em event: the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. Besides, the tournament will include a £2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event and a £10,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up event. The first one is expected to attract a big number of players and the second one is meant for elite poker players.

The two only players who have managed to cash all three years of the WSOP Europe are Chris Ferguson and John Juanda. Ferguson made it to the final table twice but he has not been able to win yet. Juanda was the winner of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2008 and took home a £868,800 prize. These two great poker players will be back this year to show their game in European poker tables.

Three Madrid students are being the sensation at the World Series of Poker 2010 by getting extraordinary results playing against some of the world best poker players. These three players are part of a group called From Flop Turn The River and they meet to play poker and to improve their poker game very often. Their favorite poker variant is Texas Hold’em.

These guys spectacular performance and their poker skills made possible that three of the four group members got prizes in this poker tournament. Javier Martínez Gil and brothers Pablo and Luis Ubierna got own light shine thanks to their exceptional results which kept Spanish poker community in suspense during days. They survived hour after hour eliminating their opponents with a faultless game while thousands of players of all around the world were falling.

Javier Martínez Gil is a civil engineering student and is 27 years old. This year is the Spanish player who has gone further in the WSOP 2010 by reaching place number 90 among 7.000 poker players from all around the world and taking home $80.0000. Besides being the last Spanish player standing at this poker competition, Javier played a major role in other championship events.

Pablo Ubierna is 27 years old and is considered one of the best Spanish poker representatives. This architecture student has stopped his studies while he becomes a real champion at poker world and during the WSOP he has shown the reasons why he is one of the most recognized poker players. With a solid game survived to the last days of the competition and fell in the position 375 taking a $36.500 prize.

The third day of the WSOP Main Event started with 2,557 poker players, all that is left of the initial 7,319 field. Day three was the first day in which all players played together in the same room, since the first two days of competitions were divided in several calendar days due to the big number of players. David Assouline started the day as chip leader.

The winner of this year’s $10,000 buy-in Main Event will take home a prize of $8,944,138 and the nine players who make it to the final table will receive prizes of more than one million dollars. Some of the players who reached day three of the poker competition were Jesper Hougaard, Jim Collopy, Evelyn Ng, Barny Boatman, Johnny Chan, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Johnson, Dragan Galic, Patrik Antonius and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

Only 1,240 poker players went through to Day 4 after the action during Day 3. James Carroll is the leader with 803,000 and his closest rival is Imari Love with 741,000 in chips. It was also a great day for former poker champion Johnny Chan, known as The Orient Express, who ended in the top ten and was chip leader several times.

Some of the players who were out of the tournament during day three were Scott Seiver, Phil Laak, Jennifer Harman, Chris Moneymaker, David Williams, Erik Seidel, Kara Scott, Bill Chen, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso and last year’s Main Event winner Joe Cada. Michael, Robert, Eric and Danny Mizrachi made it to the fourth day of the poker tournament.

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