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Thanks to the excellent reporting from Wicked Chops Poker, we have learned that Erik Lindgren has won $340K from a golf prop bet with Gavin Smith, Chris Bell, Phil Ivey and a few others.

The bet had the following rules:
1) He had to play four rounds of golf at Bear’s Best in one day.
2) He had to walk all four rounds back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
3) He had to shoot from the pro tees.
4) He had to shoot under 100 on all rounds.

Apparently the bet came about after Lindgren and some other pros were out drinking.  Lindgren, who was upset about losing in the $50K H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2007 WSOP, mentioned that he was just going play golf all day the next day.  Shortly after the bet was formed.

According to Wicked Chops Poker, “after shooting a 48 on his final front nine and being at 69 after 13, the buy-outs began. Gavin Smith, who was originally in for $100k, bought out for $60k. Chris Bell and others bought out as well. Ivey remained on the hook for his full amount.”

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I definetly recommend checking out Betfair Poker today!

pr1nnyraid picked up a nice $200K pot while playing against perkyshmerky this morning over at Full Tilt Poker:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2744950747: Table Colleen (heads up) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold’em - 3:40:13 ET - 2007/06/23
Seat 1: pr1nnyraid ($100,137.75)
Seat 2: perkyshmerky ($111,281)
pr1nnyraid posts the small blind of $200
perkyshmerky posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
pr1nnyraid raises to $1,200
perkyshmerky raises to $3,600
pr1nnyraid calls $2,400
*** FLOP *** [9s 5c Qc]
perkyshmerky checks
pr1nnyraid bets $5,400
perkyshmerky calls $5,400
*** TURN *** [9s 5c Qc] [3s]
perkyshmerky checks
pr1nnyraid bets $16,400
perkyshmerky calls $16,400
*** RIVER *** [9s 5c Qc 3s] [Qs]
perkyshmerky has 15 seconds left to act
perkyshmerky checks
pr1nnyraid bets $74,737.75, and is all in
perkyshmerky has 15 seconds left to act
perkyshmerky has requested TIME
perkyshmerky calls $74,737.75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pr1nnyraid shows [5s 5h] a full house, Fives full of Queens
perkyshmerky mucks
pr1nnyraid wins the pot ($200,275) with a full house, Fives full of Queens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $200,275.50 | Rake $0.50
Board: [9s 5c Qc 3s Qs]
Seat 1: pr1nnyraid (small blind) collected ($200,275)
Seat 2: perkyshmerky (big blind) mucked

Vinnie Vinh has gone missing at this year’s 2007 WSOP yet again.  Vinh first went missing on day 2 of the $1000 NL Holdem with rebuys tournament.

His stack was eventually blinded off in that event and his chair went on to take 20th place earning Vinh $16,232.

Yesterday Vinh did it again in the $2500 short handed event.  Once again he never made it to the second day and was blinded off to finish in 22nd place, earning Vinh $12,468.

Something must be very wrong with Vinh, but the series is not over yet.  Either way, he isn’t doing too bad considering he has never played the 2nd day of an event at this year’s World Series of Poker.

Wicked Chops posted a great version of this story.

Since I haven’t been able to update the winners from every event, here is the current list of bracelet winners at the 2007 WSOP:

Event #1 $5,000 Mixed Limit/NL Hold’em: Steve Billirakis
Event #2 $500 Casino Employee NL: Frederick Narciso
Event #3 $1,500 NL: Cairan O’Leary
Event #4 $1,500 Pot-limit Hold ‘em: Michael Spiegel
Event #5 $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud 8: Tom Schneider
Event #6 $1,500 Limit Hold ‘em: Gary Styczynski
Event #7 $5,000 PLO w/rebuys: Burt Boutin
Event #8 $1,000 NL w/rebuys: Michael Chu
Event #9 $1,500 Omaha 8: Alexander Kravchenko
Event #10 $2,000 NL: William Durkee
Event #11 $5,000 Seven Card Stud: Chris Reslock
Event #12 $1,500 NL Six Handed: Jason Warner
Event #13 $5,000 Pot-limit Hold ‘em: Allen Cunningham
Event #14 $1,500 Seven Card Stud: Michael Keiner
Event #15 $1,500 NL: Phil Hellmuth
Event #16 $2,500 HORSE: James Richberg
Event #17 $1,000 Ladies Event NL: Sally Boyer
Event #18 $5,000 Limit Hold’em: Jard Getzoyan
Event #19 $2,500 NL: Francois Safieddine
Event #20 $2,000 Seven Card Stud 8: Ryan Hughes
Event #21 $1,500 NL Shootout: Don Baruch
Event #22 $5,000 NL: James Mackey
Event #23 $1,500 PLO: Scott Clements
Event #24 $3,000 Seven Card Stud 8: Eli Elezra
Event #25 $2,000 NL: Ben Ponzio
Event #26 $5,000 HORSE: Ralph Schwartz

Brian Townsend posted in his blog today that he had his worst day of poker ever yesterday.  Townsend said he was playing live at the $1K/$2K table.  After playing for 24 hours straight, Townsend says he lost $1.02 Million.

He posted one of the hands where he lost over 1.2 Million against David Benyamine:

“I opened from the cutoff in the NLH rotation with the Ad 8h and was cold called by David Benyamine who was on the button, both blinds folded and we took the flop HU. We both had plenty of money in front of us. The flop was Kd 8d 9d and I checked. David bet ~20K into a 20K pot and I check raised 60K more. He called and the turn brought the 6s. I lead for 135K and he called again. River brought the Qh and I fired for 400K and he almost instantly called me with AK with no diamonds. I really have to give David credit for the call. He put me on the exact hand I had and went with his read.”