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WSOP Event #26: Akkari on the limit

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Life's come a long way for Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari. Not so many years ago he pitched up in Vegas with nothing more than a few bucks in his pocket and a head full of dreams.

Now he's back as one of Brazil's best known players, and having the time of his life as he ploughs his way through the WSOP.

Andre Akkari

Today he's playing the $1,500 Limit Hold'em day one, and is sharing a table with fellow Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, something that he could never imagined as a struggling freeroll and small stakes player when he touched down in Vegas for the first time.

Then he kickstarted his carerr by winning $500 in a Binions tournament, and next day used that to buy in to a $450 event, which he won for $22,000!

Now he's playing for much more - the winner in this event will win $197,488, a tidy sum generated by the 643 runners. Only 63 of them will be paid. You can follow Akkari's exploits on his Twitter page, which he updates in an entertaining mixture of Brazilian and English.

Negreanu had got off to a sluggish start, bleeding chips, but now claims to have "woken up" and his chips are heading north again, much to Akkari's disappointment.

Victor Ramdin

Also playing in the $1,500 Limit event are Team Pros Victor Ramdin, Ylon Shwartz, Marcel Luske, and Noah Boeken.

Meanwhile Chad Brown is going along nicely in day two of the $2,500 Omaha/7-card Stud 8 Hi-Low 8 or Better event, and is in the top ten with 95 players remaining. 40 will get paid.

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WSOP Event #3: When four cards are quieter than two

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

While all the roller-coaster no limit excitement bounces off the Amazon Room's walls, there's a quieter bunch of players crafting away in one corner. This is the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Low 8 or Better crowd who, with only a few exceptions, tend to go about their business in a more controlled fashion. When you have four hole cards to study, and have two possible ways to win with each hand, concentration really is the name of the game.

They started this limit marathon yesterday with 918 entries, and are now down to 142, with the money kicking in at 90th. But there's still an awful long way to go before they get down to a final table, which is scheduled to run tomorrow afternoon.

Andre Akkari

Still playing are Team PokerStars Pros Chad Brown (37,000) and Andre Akkari (28,600), as well as Team PokerStars Germany Pro Sebastian Ruthernberg (26,000) - with the latter two now sharing the same table. But they're all a mile behind current chip leader Eli Elezra, who sits atop 91,000.

Brown had been further up the leaderboard but dropped back when he tangled with Chip Jett. They saw a flop of [kc][qc][5d], and Jett check-called Brown and one other player. On the [jc] turn Jett bet out and only Brown called - as he did on the [6d]. But he mucked when Jett turned up [ac][5c][2c][2h] for the nut flush.

Chad Brown

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Team PokerStars Pros cash in, miss final table

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

When battling against more than 600 of the world's top poker players, even making it into the money of the L.A. Poker Classic is an accomplishment, It's safe to say, however, that three members of Team PokerStars Pro are a little more than disappointed this morning.

Andre Akkari, ElkY, and Steve Paul-Ambrose all made it into the money of the LAPC and were looking to make the final table. Alas, when play ended last night, the Team PokerStars Pro crew had nothing to do but count their winnings.

Paul-Ambrose finished in 47th place and picked up $27,395. ElkY managed to make it to 32nd place for a $38,085 finish.

Akkari had entered the day with an above-average stack. Of the three remaining Team PokerStars Pros in the field, Akkari was the only one who had not yet won a WPT event. He managed to get closer than the rest of the team at the LAPC, but ended up going out in 29th place for $38,085.

Congratulations to all three on their finishes.

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Akkari, ElkY, and Paul-Ambrose in the money at LAPC

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Which one of these things is not like the other?

Andre Akkari.

Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Steve Paul-Ambrose.

Sure, you can probably come up with a good argument for any answer here, but for the purposes of this discussion, the answer is "Andre Akkari."

Why?

Well, out of the three remaining Team PokerStars Pros left in the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, two of them have WPT titles and one does not. That, of course, is Andre Akkari. Steve Paul-Ambrose won his WPT title at the PCA in 2006. ElkY won his WPT title last year at the Festa al Lago event.

Now, Akkari is looking to make a run for a title of his own.

Going into Day 4 of the LAPC, Akkari has an above-average stack. Sixty-three players remain in the event, all of whom are in the money. Paul-Ambrose and ElkY both are below average, but at this stage, they could turn their stacks into final table appearances by day's end.

Good luck to all three players in Day 4.