The Virtual Rail: Chidwick & Haxton Winning at GGPoker; Veldhuis Likewise on PokerStars

It’s time to take a gander at the weekend action at GGPoker as well as a snifter at the Stadium Series action over at PokerStars.

We begin at the grand racecourse of GGPoker, and all binoculars were on Stephen Chidwick, who won two events ($5k and $10k) and also finished runner-up in a $10k (those $10k events were Short-Deck events).

Chidwick wasn’t the only star sitting under the $10k parasols who bagged a brace, Isaac Haxton booked two wins in $10k Short Deck events to add to his considerable reputation at the highest stakes.

Seth Davies picked up a win and a second in $10k events, and Sam Greenwood earned a win, second and third. Sergi Reixach played the bridesmaid role with three runner-up finishes across the $10k Short Deck games.

Here are those results in full.

Sunday 19 July

High Rollers Blade PLO $5k

62-entrants

Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $91,508.28
  2. Maximilian Lehmanski – $57,587.79
  3. Andjelko Andrejevic – $43,568.06
  4. Hun Wei Lee – $32,961.41
  5. Ronny Kaiser – $24,936.96
  6. Magibpsilo – $18,866.05
  7. Jesus Cortes – $14,273.11
  8. SpeedyDouble – $10,798.34

Bryns High Rollers $10k

11-entrants

Results

  1. Jake Schindler – $69,355
  2. Sergi Reixach – $37,345

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

22-entrants

Results

  1. Isaac Haxton – $97,018.52*
  2. Chi Zhang – $81,932.41*
  3. Sam Greenwood – $34,449.07
    *Indicates a heads-up deal.

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

18-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $99,493.51*
  2. Stephen Chidwick – $75,106.49*
    *Indicates a heads-up deal.

Monday 20 July

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

12-entrants

Results

  1. Seth Davies – $75,660
  2. Sam Greenwood – $40,740

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

11-entrants

Results

  1. Isaac Haxton – $69,355
  2. Sergi Reixach – $37,345

Tuesday 21 July

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

10-entrants

Results

  1. Stephen Chidwick – $63,050
  2. Sergi Reixach – $33,950

High Rollers Short Deck $10k

19-entrants

Results

  1. Daniel Dvoress – $73,194.61*
  2. Seth Davies – $81,353.92*
    *Indicates a heads-up deal

High Rollers Blade Prime $5k

31-entrants

Results

  1. Stephen Chidwick – $47,979.90*
  2. Pascal Lefrancois – $60,894.64*
  3. Wiktor Malinowski – $25,471.
  4. Steve O’Dwyer – $15,654.46
    *Indicates a heads-up deal

Lex Veldhuis Wins a PokerStars Stadium Series Title

Triton commentator and broadcaster, Lex Veldhuis, reminded everyone of his silky skills at the poker table after taking down the 243-entrant $2,100 No Limit Hold’em event during the Stadium Series on PokerStars.

Final table incumbents moored their yachts, not parked bikes, to participate in this one. Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson (2nd), Ivan ‘Negriin’ Luca (5th), Pablo ‘pabritz’ Brito Silva (6th), and Aliaksei “ale6ka” Boika (7th) squeezed into the elevator with he Twitch phenom. ‘MiracleQ’ finished ninth. In Aug he competed in a $1m Spin & Go, finishing second for $100k).

Veldhuis enchanted more than 26,000 people while bagging a personal-best $96,143.60, beating his previous best score of $91,695 after finishing runner-up to ‘GODofHU’ in a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em during the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) in September.

As Veldhuis inches closer to his first six-figure online score Triton may have to go looking for his replacement if he keeps this up.

In other Stadium Series results, the former PocketFives World #1, Michael ‘munchenHB’ Telker, took down the $530, $1m GTD No Limit Hold’em for $157,004. The former Super Tuesday winner, Alisson ‘heyalisson’ Piekazewicz conquered a field of 1,347 entrants in a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event for $185,376 after cutting a deal with Luan ‘Pseduo Fruto’ Piekazewicz