Five things from the arena of PokerStars heading into the weekend.
And so after six weeks in Las Vegas, the sun has set at the World Series of Poker for one more year, a minimum of until the overall nine player return later this year to minimize to a winner. This week our own coverage from the primary Event concluded, and with some style. Much great writing has pop out of the principle Event, but Anatomy of an Elimination and November Nine ball, corner pocket from this week are particular stand outs and worth reading.
The same goes for all of our WSOP coverage, that you can find here for a couple of more days.
Arguably the most important story of the Series outside the primary Event itself was that of Jason Mercier.
To say the Team Pro's summer was eventful can be a daft understatement. Not just did he win not one, but two bracelets (narrowly missing out on a 3rd) he got engaged (proposing to his girlfriend Natasha as she finished third in an event), but in addition earned the WSOP Player of the Year title, the third Team Pro to take action in four years.
As Brad Willis wrote, all of that adds as much as nearly $1 million in earnings this summer, and makes him "A walking, talking, laughing, soon-to-be married poker phenomenon the likes of which we won't see anything like ever again."
No argument here.
From one high stakes series to a low stakes one. MicroMillions 12 began last weekend with the primary of 90 events with a view to award millions in guaranteed prize money, with events at micro stakes running until Sunday July 31.
It's a sequence with countless selling points, not only the buy-ins. For while they are small it doesn't stop the massive names from contesting them, allowing players of any sized bank roll to pitch themselves against professionals and amateurs alike. Although they'll still take some beating, as Team Pro Tyler "frosty012" Frost demonstrated this week when he won Event #17.
Here are the newest results:
| 25 | $5.50 | $22,287.50 | karet2 | Russia | $3,119.07 | 56600 |
| 26 | $2.20 | $31,370.00 | xMilaNis7a64 | Luxembourg | $3,600.00 | 163500 |
| 27 | $4.40 | $92,432.00 | SARAMILI | Colombia | $13,157.01 | 298900 |
| 28 | $3.30 | $56,373.00 | URIEL ROCK | Argentina | $5,873.15 | 177800 |
| 29 | $1.10 | $15,301.00 | Mudrik | Ukraine | $1,754.13 | 159300 |
| 30 | $5.50 | $73,365.00 | Lionet | Romania | $10,482.01 | 190500 |
Find the entire details you will have in regards to the series at the MicroMillions homepage, which has the tournament schedule and statistics able to browse. Meanwhile keep tabs at the everyday results from micro Millions at the PokerStars Blog.
Sometimes great poker stories come from unexpected places, clear of major tournament championships or high stakes competition.
Lee Jones is an ordinary contributor to the PokerStars Blog and infrequently do his stories fail to inspire or make you're thinking that. His latest, "Poker as Distraction" ticks the entire boxes, and makes for perfect, uplifting reading going into the weekend. Test it out here.
Finally we'll send you into the weekend with the consolation of knowing that however bad your beats get sometimes, few count as being worse that the highest five we picked out from PokerStars.tv.
As the video below demonstrates, not all bad beats are of the "heard all of it before kind", as Vanessa Selbst, Phil Hellmuth and others will testify. Watch the video below and tell us in the event you can call to mind any we missed.
That's inquisitive about this week. Good luck to everyone on the tables this weekend. As always you will get involved with us along with your comments via Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.
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Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.
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