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Ville Wahlbeck To Quit Poker While He’s Ahead

Ville Wahlbeck is having quite a year. Such a year, in fact, that he’s decided it’s his last, as far as professional poker is concerned, at least. In a clear case of knowing when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away, and when to run, this Finnish wunderkind is quitting while he’s ahead. And ahead big, at that.

Wahlbeck became the first Finn ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet when he won the $10,000 Mixed Game World Championship and this year’s 2009 WSOP. Then he managed to come in runner-up in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship and third place in the $10,000 7-Card Stud World Championship.

What’s more, he placed twelfth in a $2,500 Razz event and thirteenth in the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship.

With of $900,000 in 2009 WSOP winnings, this is hands-down Ville’s best year in 6 years of “grinding” in the cutthroat poker world. And he’s a contender for the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Award (POY). So this is the perfect time to cash in his chips. He admits that he may still play a tournament or two now and again, but as for cash games, he’s out.

I guess this means that he will be missing out ont his years EMOP and wont be a contender for the Euro Poker player of the year award.

Online Poker Player Denies Negreanu Big Bracelet Record

Former Magic card game champion Brock Parker has taken the 2009 WSOP bracelet for Event #14, $2,500 6-handed Limit Holdem, snagging it from favorite Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu who was hoping to make this his third WSOP Limit Holdem bracelet, tying the record Phil Hellmuth holds for the most WSOP bracelets held in Limit Holdem. But it wasn’t to be for Negreanu, this being the third time in his World Series of Poker Career that he was runner-up in a WSOP Limit Holdem event.

Parker, meanwhile, a 27-year-old from Silver Springs, Maryland, is now $223,697 richer, making his total live poker career winnings $417,583. Parker is better known in poker circles for his online game, going by the menacing username “t_soprano”. This marks his second appearance in a WSOP final table and his fifth time cashing-in in a WSOP event. No doubt we’ll be seeing a lot of more of Brock Parker’s Magic ahead, and in the meantime, Kid Poker’s quest for that all-elusive third Limit Holdem bracelet continues.

Maybe Kid Poker should take up casino games to offset some of his losses.  He could find Casino Downloads or Mac Poker Site Downloads to help him build up his bankroll again.  Hahaha!