Haralabos Voulgaris Poker Tournament Updates

Haralabos Voulgaris Eliminated in 40th Place ($32,740)

Feb 24, '09

Haralabos Voulgaris moved all in from the button for his last 61,000. Peter Feldman made the call from the small blind and Mike Sowers folded in the big blind.

Voulgaris showed J9 and was racing against Feldman's pocket sevens. The board came 5526A and Feldman's sevens held to take the pot.

Voulgaris was eliminated in 40th place on the hand and he will take home $32,740 in prize money.

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris,   Peter Feldman

Level 14 Update

Feb 23, '09

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000-2,000 with a 300 ante

Players Left: 94 out of 696

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts:

Mike Sowers - 470,000
Kofi Farkye - 418,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 297,000
Cody Slaubaugh - 290,000
Zach Hyman - 253,000
Jeff Garza - 240,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 215,00
Chris Karagulleyan - 215,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 210,000
David Daneshgar - 205,000

Average: 148,085

Notable Eliminations:

Mohsin Charania
Todd Brunson
Ali Eslami
J.J. Liu
Olivier Busquet
Jon Dull
Eugene Katchalov
John Monnette
Ross Boatman
Luis Calvo
Farzad Bonyadi
Kevin Song
Rajkumar Ramakrishnan
Mickey Mills
Hevad Khan
Liz Lieu
 

Big Hands:

Todd Brunson Eliminated

Peter Fedlman raised and Todd Brunson called preflop. The flop came 8-6-3 and Feldman bet. Brunson moved all in and Feldman insta-called. He held pocket sixes and Brunson flipped over 10-8 for top pair. Feldman won the hand and Brunson was knocked out of the tournament.

Liz Lieu Eliminated

Liz Lieu just got the last of her chips into the middle with QQ and her opponent held AK. The A fell on the turn to knocke Lieu out of the tournament.

Voulgaris Doubles Up Opponent

Seat 3 was all in with AK UTG+1 on a board of K739K and Voulgaris had him covered in the big blind. Voulgaris mucked his cards and doubled up his opponent. He held 160,000 after the hand.

Ben Straate Doubles Through the Master

Ben Straate was all in on the short stack with Q-10 against Men "The Master" Nguyen's pocket nines. Straate flopped two pair and then turned queens and jacks. Nguyen was looking for a straight card, but the river bricked, doubling Straate up to 65,000. Nguyen is now short stacked with 30,000.

Left In The Deck:

Al Barbieri Yells his Opinion

A shouting match recently erupted over at table 26 between Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri and Ryan Young. Young was involved in a hand and asked his opponent, "You don't want to knock me out, do you?"

This table talk upset Barbieri who felt that Young was inducing a particular action with his words. Most of the table came to Young's defense and agreed he had done nothing wrong, but an irrate Barbieri continued the rant anyway. Tournament Director Matt Savage came over and agreed that Young never disclosed the contents of his hand and did nothing wrong. Order was restored and play continued, albeit with more tension than before.

Player Tags: Todd Brunson,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Al Barbieri,   Ryan Young,   Liz Lieu,   Peter Feldman

Level 10 Update

Feb 22, '09

Level: 10

Blinds: 400-800 with a 100 ante

Players Left: 216 out of 696
 

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts

Antonio Esfandiari - 438,000
Kofi Farkye - 271,000
Mike Sowers - 232,000
KJ Nam - 180,000
Phil Ivey - 155,000
John Phan - 149,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 149,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 148,000
Zach Hyman - 141,000
Greg Mueller - 140,000

Average: 64,444

Notable Eliminations

Phil Hellmuth
Jason Mercier
Kenny Tran
Amit Makhija
Christian Harder
Arthur Azen
Howard Lederer
Gabe Thaler
John Racener
Kelly Kim
Vinnie Vinh
Jonathan Jaffe
Annie Duke
Alex Outhred
JC Alvarado
Marco Traniello
John Duthie

Featured Table

Table 19

Seat 1: Paul Smith
Seat 2: Nick Schulman
Seat 3: Greg Thompson
Seat 4: Eric Hershler
Seat 5: Dan O'Brien
Seat 7: Karga Holt
Seat 8: Isaac Haxton -- OUT
Seat 9: Paul Wasicka -- up to 134,000

Isaac Haxton Eliminated by Paul Wasicka

Isaac Haxton moved all in preflop and Paul Wasicka made the call. Their cards:

Wasicka: A10
Haxton: AK

Board: J9873

Haxton was eliminated on the hand and Wasicka was up to 134,000 after the hand.

Big Hands:

Haralabos Voulgaris Doubles Up

Haralabos Voulgaris was all in for 69,500 and Mickey Mills had called him down. Thier cards:

Voulgaris: A2
Mills: KJ

Board: J74J10

Voulgaris doubled up on the hand and he now has about 150,000.

Chiu Power Bet

With 7,600 in the pot and a flop of Q1010 on the table, Hevad Khan bet 5,000 and David Chiu raised to 30,000. Khan went into the tank for a moment and then mucked his cards.

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated by Kofi Farkye

On a flop pof KJ8X Phil Hellmuth was all in with A-K against Kofi Farkye's Q9. The river was an offsuit ten, giving Farkye a straight and eliminating Hellmuth from the tournament.

Erica Schoenberg Picks Up Chips From Blake Cahail

Blake Cahail raised to 2,000 and Erica Schoenberg made the call from the small blind. The flop came K96 and Schoenberg checked. Cahail bet 2,700 and Schoenberg called. The turn was the 4 and Cahail continued with a bet of 5,600. Schoenberg took her time and then decided to check raised to 15,000. Cahail eventually mucked and Schoenberg picked up to the pot to increase her stack to 65,000 in chips.

John Duthie Eliminated

John Duthie was just eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari when two fives sat on the board. Esfandiari out kicked him with K-5 and Duthie mucked what looked to be a ten before he stormed for the rail.

Player Tags: Mickey Mills,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   David Chiu,   Hevad Khan

Haralabos Voulgaris Eliminated in 40th Place ($32,740)

Feb 24, '09

Haralabos Voulgaris moved all in from the button for his last 61,000. Peter Feldman made the call from the small blind and Mike Sowers folded in the big blind.

Voulgaris showed J9 and was racing against Feldman's pocket sevens. The board came 5526A and Feldman's sevens held to take the pot.

Voulgaris was eliminated in 40th place on the hand and he will take home $32,740 in prize money.

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris,   Peter Feldman

Level 14 Update

Feb 23, '09

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000-2,000 with a 300 ante

Players Left: 94 out of 696

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts:

Mike Sowers - 470,000
Kofi Farkye - 418,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 297,000
Cody Slaubaugh - 290,000
Zach Hyman - 253,000
Jeff Garza - 240,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 215,00
Chris Karagulleyan - 215,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 210,000
David Daneshgar - 205,000

Average: 148,085

Notable Eliminations:

Mohsin Charania
Todd Brunson
Ali Eslami
J.J. Liu
Olivier Busquet
Jon Dull
Eugene Katchalov
John Monnette
Ross Boatman
Luis Calvo
Farzad Bonyadi
Kevin Song
Rajkumar Ramakrishnan
Mickey Mills
Hevad Khan
Liz Lieu
 

Big Hands:

Todd Brunson Eliminated

Peter Fedlman raised and Todd Brunson called preflop. The flop came 8-6-3 and Feldman bet. Brunson moved all in and Feldman insta-called. He held pocket sixes and Brunson flipped over 10-8 for top pair. Feldman won the hand and Brunson was knocked out of the tournament.

Liz Lieu Eliminated

Liz Lieu just got the last of her chips into the middle with QQ and her opponent held AK. The A fell on the turn to knocke Lieu out of the tournament.

Voulgaris Doubles Up Opponent

Seat 3 was all in with AK UTG+1 on a board of K739K and Voulgaris had him covered in the big blind. Voulgaris mucked his cards and doubled up his opponent. He held 160,000 after the hand.

Ben Straate Doubles Through the Master

Ben Straate was all in on the short stack with Q-10 against Men "The Master" Nguyen's pocket nines. Straate flopped two pair and then turned queens and jacks. Nguyen was looking for a straight card, but the river bricked, doubling Straate up to 65,000. Nguyen is now short stacked with 30,000.

Left In The Deck:

Al Barbieri Yells his Opinion

A shouting match recently erupted over at table 26 between Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri and Ryan Young. Young was involved in a hand and asked his opponent, "You don't want to knock me out, do you?"

This table talk upset Barbieri who felt that Young was inducing a particular action with his words. Most of the table came to Young's defense and agreed he had done nothing wrong, but an irrate Barbieri continued the rant anyway. Tournament Director Matt Savage came over and agreed that Young never disclosed the contents of his hand and did nothing wrong. Order was restored and play continued, albeit with more tension than before.

Player Tags: Todd Brunson,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Al Barbieri,   Ryan Young,   Liz Lieu,   Peter Feldman

Level 10 Update

Feb 22, '09

Level: 10

Blinds: 400-800 with a 100 ante

Players Left: 216 out of 696
 

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts

Antonio Esfandiari - 438,000
Kofi Farkye - 271,000
Mike Sowers - 232,000
KJ Nam - 180,000
Phil Ivey - 155,000
John Phan - 149,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 149,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 148,000
Zach Hyman - 141,000
Greg Mueller - 140,000

Average: 64,444

Notable Eliminations

Phil Hellmuth
Jason Mercier
Kenny Tran
Amit Makhija
Christian Harder
Arthur Azen
Howard Lederer
Gabe Thaler
John Racener
Kelly Kim
Vinnie Vinh
Jonathan Jaffe
Annie Duke
Alex Outhred
JC Alvarado
Marco Traniello
John Duthie

Featured Table

Table 19

Seat 1: Paul Smith
Seat 2: Nick Schulman
Seat 3: Greg Thompson
Seat 4: Eric Hershler
Seat 5: Dan O'Brien
Seat 7: Karga Holt
Seat 8: Isaac Haxton -- OUT
Seat 9: Paul Wasicka -- up to 134,000

Isaac Haxton Eliminated by Paul Wasicka

Isaac Haxton moved all in preflop and Paul Wasicka made the call. Their cards:

Wasicka: A10
Haxton: AK

Board: J9873

Haxton was eliminated on the hand and Wasicka was up to 134,000 after the hand.

Big Hands:

Haralabos Voulgaris Doubles Up

Haralabos Voulgaris was all in for 69,500 and Mickey Mills had called him down. Thier cards:

Voulgaris: A2
Mills: KJ

Board: J74J10

Voulgaris doubled up on the hand and he now has about 150,000.

Chiu Power Bet

With 7,600 in the pot and a flop of Q1010 on the table, Hevad Khan bet 5,000 and David Chiu raised to 30,000. Khan went into the tank for a moment and then mucked his cards.

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated by Kofi Farkye

On a flop pof KJ8X Phil Hellmuth was all in with A-K against Kofi Farkye's Q9. The river was an offsuit ten, giving Farkye a straight and eliminating Hellmuth from the tournament.

Erica Schoenberg Picks Up Chips From Blake Cahail

Blake Cahail raised to 2,000 and Erica Schoenberg made the call from the small blind. The flop came K96 and Schoenberg checked. Cahail bet 2,700 and Schoenberg called. The turn was the 4 and Cahail continued with a bet of 5,600. Schoenberg took her time and then decided to check raised to 15,000. Cahail eventually mucked and Schoenberg picked up to the pot to increase her stack to 65,000 in chips.

John Duthie Eliminated

John Duthie was just eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari when two fives sat on the board. Esfandiari out kicked him with K-5 and Duthie mucked what looked to be a ten before he stormed for the rail.

Player Tags: Mickey Mills,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   David Chiu,   Hevad Khan

Haralabos Voulgaris Eliminated in 40th Place ($32,740)

Feb 24, '09

Haralabos Voulgaris moved all in from the button for his last 61,000. Peter Feldman made the call from the small blind and Mike Sowers folded in the big blind.

Voulgaris showed J9 and was racing against Feldman's pocket sevens. The board came 5526A and Feldman's sevens held to take the pot.

Voulgaris was eliminated in 40th place on the hand and he will take home $32,740 in prize money.

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris,   Peter Feldman

Level 14 Update

Feb 23, '09

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000-2,000 with a 300 ante

Players Left: 94 out of 696

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts:

Mike Sowers - 470,000
Kofi Farkye - 418,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 297,000
Cody Slaubaugh - 290,000
Zach Hyman - 253,000
Jeff Garza - 240,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 215,00
Chris Karagulleyan - 215,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 210,000
David Daneshgar - 205,000

Average: 148,085

Notable Eliminations:

Mohsin Charania
Todd Brunson
Ali Eslami
J.J. Liu
Olivier Busquet
Jon Dull
Eugene Katchalov
John Monnette
Ross Boatman
Luis Calvo
Farzad Bonyadi
Kevin Song
Rajkumar Ramakrishnan
Mickey Mills
Hevad Khan
Liz Lieu
 

Big Hands:

Todd Brunson Eliminated

Peter Fedlman raised and Todd Brunson called preflop. The flop came 8-6-3 and Feldman bet. Brunson moved all in and Feldman insta-called. He held pocket sixes and Brunson flipped over 10-8 for top pair. Feldman won the hand and Brunson was knocked out of the tournament.

Liz Lieu Eliminated

Liz Lieu just got the last of her chips into the middle with QQ and her opponent held AK. The A fell on the turn to knocke Lieu out of the tournament.

Voulgaris Doubles Up Opponent

Seat 3 was all in with AK UTG+1 on a board of K739K and Voulgaris had him covered in the big blind. Voulgaris mucked his cards and doubled up his opponent. He held 160,000 after the hand.

Ben Straate Doubles Through the Master

Ben Straate was all in on the short stack with Q-10 against Men "The Master" Nguyen's pocket nines. Straate flopped two pair and then turned queens and jacks. Nguyen was looking for a straight card, but the river bricked, doubling Straate up to 65,000. Nguyen is now short stacked with 30,000.

Left In The Deck:

Al Barbieri Yells his Opinion

A shouting match recently erupted over at table 26 between Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri and Ryan Young. Young was involved in a hand and asked his opponent, "You don't want to knock me out, do you?"

This table talk upset Barbieri who felt that Young was inducing a particular action with his words. Most of the table came to Young's defense and agreed he had done nothing wrong, but an irrate Barbieri continued the rant anyway. Tournament Director Matt Savage came over and agreed that Young never disclosed the contents of his hand and did nothing wrong. Order was restored and play continued, albeit with more tension than before.

Player Tags: Todd Brunson,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Al Barbieri,   Ryan Young,   Liz Lieu,   Peter Feldman

Level 10 Update

Feb 22, '09

Level: 10

Blinds: 400-800 with a 100 ante

Players Left: 216 out of 696
 

Score Board

Notable Chip Counts

Antonio Esfandiari - 438,000
Kofi Farkye - 271,000
Mike Sowers - 232,000
KJ Nam - 180,000
Phil Ivey - 155,000
John Phan - 149,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 149,000
Haralabos Voulgaris - 148,000
Zach Hyman - 141,000
Greg Mueller - 140,000

Average: 64,444

Notable Eliminations

Phil Hellmuth
Jason Mercier
Kenny Tran
Amit Makhija
Christian Harder
Arthur Azen
Howard Lederer
Gabe Thaler
John Racener
Kelly Kim
Vinnie Vinh
Jonathan Jaffe
Annie Duke
Alex Outhred
JC Alvarado
Marco Traniello
John Duthie

Featured Table

Table 19

Seat 1: Paul Smith
Seat 2: Nick Schulman
Seat 3: Greg Thompson
Seat 4: Eric Hershler
Seat 5: Dan O'Brien
Seat 7: Karga Holt
Seat 8: Isaac Haxton -- OUT
Seat 9: Paul Wasicka -- up to 134,000

Isaac Haxton Eliminated by Paul Wasicka

Isaac Haxton moved all in preflop and Paul Wasicka made the call. Their cards:

Wasicka: A10
Haxton: AK

Board: J9873

Haxton was eliminated on the hand and Wasicka was up to 134,000 after the hand.

Big Hands:

Haralabos Voulgaris Doubles Up

Haralabos Voulgaris was all in for 69,500 and Mickey Mills had called him down. Thier cards:

Voulgaris: A2
Mills: KJ

Board: J74J10

Voulgaris doubled up on the hand and he now has about 150,000.

Chiu Power Bet

With 7,600 in the pot and a flop of Q1010 on the table, Hevad Khan bet 5,000 and David Chiu raised to 30,000. Khan went into the tank for a moment and then mucked his cards.

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated by Kofi Farkye

On a flop pof KJ8X Phil Hellmuth was all in with A-K against Kofi Farkye's Q9. The river was an offsuit ten, giving Farkye a straight and eliminating Hellmuth from the tournament.

Erica Schoenberg Picks Up Chips From Blake Cahail

Blake Cahail raised to 2,000 and Erica Schoenberg made the call from the small blind. The flop came K96 and Schoenberg checked. Cahail bet 2,700 and Schoenberg called. The turn was the 4 and Cahail continued with a bet of 5,600. Schoenberg took her time and then decided to check raised to 15,000. Cahail eventually mucked and Schoenberg picked up to the pot to increase her stack to 65,000 in chips.

John Duthie Eliminated

John Duthie was just eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari when two fives sat on the board. Esfandiari out kicked him with K-5 and Duthie mucked what looked to be a ten before he stormed for the rail.

Player Tags: Mickey Mills,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   David Chiu,   Hevad Khan

Level Five Update

Dec 14, '08

Level: 5

Blinds/Antes: 300-600 with a 75 ante

Scoreboard

Players Left: 237 of 293
Average: 55,823

Notable Chip Counts

Carlos Mortensen - 142,000
Mark Teltscher - 133,000
Scott Bohlman - 129,000
Paul Niemela - 128,000
Liz Lieu - 123,000

Notable Eliminations

Marco Johnson
Gavin Smith

Big Hands:

Layne Flack Doubles Up

Four players saw a flop of 1052 and Layne Flack bet 5,000 from late position. Michael Kamran and seat 10 mucked before seat 2  made the call. The turn fell 8 and seat 2 checked. Flack bet 10,000 and seat 2 went into the tank. He then decided to raise to 45,000 and Flack made the all-in call. They turned up their hands and Flack turned up 1010. His opponent showed down A10 and Flack doubled up to survive.

Haralabos Voulgaris Doubles Up

The flop read 543 when Haralabos Voulgaris bet 2,150. Alan Goehring raised to 6,000 and Voulgaris reraised all in for 15,750. Goehring made the call and they turned up their hands. Goehring held AK and Voulgaris turned up pocket nines. The turn and river fell Q9 and Voulgaris doubled up to survive courtesy of Goehring.

Schreiber vs. Schulman

On a board of A73A both Daniel Schreiber and Nick Schulman checked a pot worth 26,000. The river fell K and Schreiber opened the action for 11,000. Schulman made the call and Schreiber flipped up A9. Schulman mucked and Schreiber took down the pot late on day 1B.

Left in the Deck:

Card Player Player of the Year Breakdown

POY Points awarded for $15,000 WPT Doyle Brunson Classic Championship

1st: 2,400
2nd: 2,000
3rd: 1,600
4th: 1,200
5th: 1,000
6th: 800

Current POY Leader: John Phan- 6,704

POY Contenders (place they need to finish to catch Phan)

David Pham: 6,022 -- points behind 682 (sixth or higher)
Elky Grospellier: 5,510 -- points behind 1,194 (fourth or higher)
Ivan Demidov: 4,940 -- points behind 1,764 (second or higher)
Erik Seidel: 4,754 -- points behind 1,950 (first)
Michael Binger: 4,416 -- points behind 2,288 (first)

Player Tags: John Phan,   Alan Goehring,   Layne Flack,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Michael Kamran

Haralabos Voulgaris Eliminated

Jul 14, '07

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris,   Erica Schoenberg

New Face

Jul 10, '07

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris

Haralabos Voulgaris Eliminated

Jul 14, '07

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris,   Erica Schoenberg

New Face

Jul 10, '07

Player Tags: Haralabos Voulgaris

In The Money

Jul 03, '07

Player Tags: Phil Hellmuth,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Berry Johnston,   Sean McCabe,   Joe Hachem,   Michael Binger

The Sickest Beat Ever?

Jun 08, '07

Level 3 has brought us even more notable eliminations brining the player count down to somewhere around 280 players.

A terminally short-stacked Michael “The Grinder’ Mizrachi was finally eliminated when he moved all-in pre-flop with A3. The player in seat 5 makes the call with 76, and the board came 643J4, giving Seat-5 the higher pair and sending Mizrachi to the rail.

Next to go was Harabolos Voulgaris, with quite possibly the sickest bad bead of the entire World Series to date. Voulgaris raises to $600 before the flop and the player in seat 10 re-raises to $2,100. Voulgaris moves over the top and pushes all-in. His opponent calls and flips over QQ while Voulgaris shows AA. The flop comes AK2, giving Voulgaris a set of aces and putting him way out in front of this pot. The turn brings the 10, and the river brings the J giving seat-10 a straight to the ace. Voulgaris can’t believe that his opponent just went runner-runner Broadway to crack his all-in set of aces and gets up to leave mentioning something about being so sick after that beat that he needed to go throw-up. Seat-10 replies, “I think I just did”, as he rakes a monster pot after dodging not one, but three bullets.

Toto Leonidas was a little more fortunate with his pocket eights when he flopped a set against his opponent’s all-in. Leonidis is seemingly in control of his table and starting to build a real nice stack.

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Player Tags: Toto Leonidas,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Michael Mizrachi