Hellmuth Stands Over All at the WSOP - and my top selection of links

We're speaking about people (Phil Hellmuth, Ylon Schwartz, Scotty Nguyen and Phil Ivey), places (Canada) and the rest in the middle.


Right, why don't we get started. All the links:

• "Hellmuth Stands Over All at the WSOP" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
• "Ylon Schwartz Leads Final 18 in WSOP Event #27" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]
  
• "Joe Cassidy carried a huge chip lead to Thursday's extra day of play, and took less than three hours to finish off Scotty Nguyen and claim the bracelet" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
  
  
• Phil Ivey Misses Out On Ninth WSOP Bracelet; Tournament Paused Heads-Up - "Nguyen wanted to finish the tournament tomorrow (tonight in the United Kingdom time zone) whilst Cassidy was more than happy to continue playing to a conclusion It was a case of close but no cigar once again for Phil Ivey as he crashed out in third place in Event #24, the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-better tournament at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Ivey, who is thought to have a substantial proposition bet based on him winning a bracelet at this year's series, looked set to cash in on that bet as he was flying high at the top of the chip counts with just three players remaining but it all started to go wrong when he was quartered by Scotty Nguyen" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
• "Once the board came with no Ace or other strange occurrences, Simon Charette had seized the second bracelet for Canada in winning Event #23" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
  
  

Brian Hastings Wins First Bracelet; Phil Ivey Lurking In Event #15 - and top links

Thanks for visiting my collection of on-line poker links for today. We're dealing with people (Brian Hastings), places (Bulgaria, Macau and Spain) and everything in between.

Right, why don't we get going. The links:

• Betfair WSOP Qualifier Nicholas McGarty Wood aka nemox4 - "Professional horse racing trader Nicholas McGarty Wood Nicholas McGarty Wood is a 49 year old from the United Kingdom who plays on Betfair Poker under the alias nemox4" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
• Eureka2 Bulgaria: Day 2, Level 14 & 15 updates (blinds 1,500-3,000 ante 300) - "Petar Zografov, Bulgaria, PokerStars qualifier, 305,000Daniel Karlson, Sweden, 301,000Ted Stolzenbach, Netherlands, PokerStars qualifier, 250,000Michal Misterek, PolandPokerStars qualifier176,000Nagy Barnabas, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 163,000 6.35pm: The bubble approachesIn the first four levels of play today a field of 86 has been reduced to just 34 players" - [www.pokerstarsblog.com]
  
• "PokerStars have recently announced that they are to cancel the Macau Poker Cup that was to be held in August and as yet they haven't confirmed any other poker events to be held in Macau for the rest of the year" - [www.pokerblog.com]
  
• "Brian Hastings Wins First Bracelet; Phil Ivey Lurking In Event #15" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
• WSOP $1 million buy-in poker tournament update - "We are now just a few weeks away from the biggest poker tournament in the history of the game (eat your heart out Brett Maverick!) and the World Series of Poker has updated the entrant list of the #1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament, which now has 42 official entries, with rumors putting the exact number at 46 entrants at this time" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
• "Somehow Flack had missed the draw for the other table that featured Justin Schwartz, Jeff Madsen, Brandon Schaefer Group and Jarred Solomon in action" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
• "Spain Grants Licences To Online Poker Rooms" - [www.pokerchanneleurope.com]