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Sammy Farha Wins WSOP Omaha High-Low Championship

There is no one in the poker world quite like Sammy Farha. Dashing and debonair, Farha is part James Bond, part Humphrey Bogart, part Hugh Hefner, all wrapped up into a five-foot-nine dynamo of a man with an unrelenting passion for fast living and high-stakes gambling. Farha initially burst upon the poker scene a decade ago when he won a gold bracelet in the Pot-Limit Omaha championship at the 1996 World Series of Poker. But it wasn't until his alluring television appearance on ESPN in the 2003 Main Event championship that Sammy Farha became a household name. Indeed, if the World Series was all about style, then Farha would have been its grand champion a long time ago. Farha blitzed through 837 players that fateful year. All that stood in the way of Farha and a $2.5 million cash prize was a previously-unknown accountant from Tennessee named Chris Moneymaker ...

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Harold Angle Wins First WSOP Bracelet in 2010 WSOP Seniors Championship

Harold Angle was the winner of the $1,000 buy-in Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory. Angle won the biggest seniors poker event ever on record, as he came out on top of a field numbering 3,142 entries. No senior's-related poker tournament has ever broken the 3,000-player mark prior to this monster-sized attraction. In fact, this year's record turnout eclipsed the previous 2009 record mark by 16 percent. The prize pool amounting to $2,827,800 was also a record.

Angle is a 78-year-old retiree from Sun City, FL. He formally worked in sales for a major shoe manufacturer. He was the eldest of nine players at the final table. In fact, some of the players who were in their 50s were "young" enough to be Angle's children ...

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Phil Ivey Near Top of World Series of Poker Leaderboard After Day 4

Day 4 of the World Series of Poker has now drawn to the close. 789 players remained in the tournament at the start of Day 4. By the time that play wrapped for the day, the money bubble had burst and only 407 players remained. After four full days of play, Ludovic Lacay is the tournament chip leader with approximately 1.6 million in chips. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who finished as the Day 3 chip leader, has a very respectable 1.25 million in chips. Unfortunately for the other 406 players who are still alive in the main event, Phil Ivey also has a very healthy stack heading into Day 5, and has to be considered the favorite to win the entire event at this stage ...

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