The Gaming Club World Poker Championship
The Gaming Club World Poker Championship was held at the Merrion Casino Club in Dublin, Ireland during 2004.
The international field included 6 World Champions (Phil Hellmuth Jr, Noel Furlong, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Juan Carlos "El Matador" Mortensen, Chris Moneymaker and Greg "Fossilman" Raymer) together with numerous other professionals and celebrities.
The tournament was competed in pot limit hold'em format.
Format
8 preliminary matches were held, each with 16 players. The winner advanced directly to the Grand Final, and the runner-up advanced to the Semi-Final. The Semi-Final featured the 8 runners-up, who played each other for the one remaining seat in the Grand Final. The winner received €250,000 from the €720,880 prize pool.
Episodes were broadcast during 2004 on Sky Sports.
Results
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Grand Final |
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Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani
Juan Carlos "El Matador" Mortensen
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer (4th)
John Juanda (8th)
Korosh Nejad (12th)
Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen (10th)
Padraig Parkinson (15th)
Joe "The Joker" Grech
Jon Rommen
Surinder Sunar (12th)
Lucy "Golden Ovaries" Rokach (6th)
Dave "El Blondie" Colclough (13th)
Cy Jassinowsky
Xuyen "Bad Girl" Pham
Peter "The Poet" Costa (7th)
David Benyamine (15th)
Graeme Putt1 "Notable" is defined here as a player with an existing WIkipedia article who competed in that episode.