By
Dan |
Published
Mar 23 2007, 12:54 PM
On Friday, March 30, 2007, all eyes in the poker world will face east towards the Mecca of all casinos, Foxwoods. The largest casino around, Foxwoods boasts six casinos, 7,000 slot machines, and one of the biggest and best venues for poker anywhere in the world.
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Court Harrington will be on hand to cover all the action from the World Poker Tour’s Foxwoods Poker Classic. You can either wait to see your favorite live and online poker stars until August 1st when the tournament airs on The Travel Channel or follow poker’s best and brightest on
PocketFivesLive.com.
Last year’s Foxwoods Poker Classic was won by poker pro Victor Ramdin, who defeated Alex Jacob heads up for $1.3 million. Jacob walked away with over a half million. Others at the final table included Edward Jordan, Larry Klur, John Russell, and Bruce Kater. “Foxwoods is a great tournament,” says Harrington. “The casino has a large poker room and is known for running satellites year round. Jon "pokertrip" Friedberg and Devin "TranquilChaos" Porter are among many tournament regulars that will be playing at Foxwoods, but the many satellites to the $10,000 buy in event that the Casino runs year round will also be giving many players that are not regulars at the major tournaments an opportunity to play in a WPT event.”
In the World Poker Open (the fall event at Foxwoods), PocketFiver Mike “swiper_fox” Perry made a final table run and finished sixth for over $200,000. Pete “TheBeat” Giordano (pictured at left) and Friedberg cashed in the event as well. One PocketFiver who has dominated the halls of Foxwoods is Giordano, who, in the World Poker Open, cashed for his fourth consecutive time in a WPT event at the casino. Harrington comments on Giordano’s run at Foxwoods: “Pete "TheBeat" Giordano has an impressive run of in the money finishes at Foxwoods going back four years and is expected to be a major contender again this year.” Giordano received a large amount of television time on ESPN for his play against The Simpsons star Hank Azaria, whom he busted from the 2006 Main Event.
Joe Sebok (pictured at right), who just appeared on the PocketFives.com Podcast one week after his father, Barry Greenstein, appeared on the show, will also be at the event at Foxwoods. Harrington’s views on Sebok’s WPT success: “He has been on a tear lately, building massive chip stacks and going deep in tournaments. After being the chip leader at the L.A. Poker Classic and losing a huge pot to eventual second place finisher JC Tran, Sebok came back with a seventh place finish in the Bay101 Shooting Stars event in San Jose. Sebok has been one of the hottest tournament players over the last year, and he continues to put up impressive results”
Come catch all the ups, downs, and key hands from the Foxwoods Poker Classic starting Friday, March 30. The final table will occur on Wednesday, April 4. Visit PocketFivesLive.com for more details. If you’ve won your way into this or any WPT event (or are just buying in), you can sign up for coverage live on PocketFivesLive.com.