The 2013 Retrospective Part 5

In the fifth part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from September and October.

September

The European Poker Tour Barcelona stop provided the majority of topics in the poker media and for the community in September. The most notorious issue was the hacking of the laptops of leading poker professionals. First, PLO pro Jens ‘Jeans89’ Kyllönen reported the trojans and then PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones confirmed the news.

Read more on the scandal here

As far as the festival events are concerned, the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller was taken down by Vitaly Lunkin for €771,300, defeating Erik Seidel heads-up, and the Main Event victory went to Tom ‘hitthehole’ Middleton for €942,000.

Read more on Lunkin’s victory here

Read more on Middleton’s way to the title here

Still at the EPT Barcelona festival, the enforcement of the new Rule 29 of the TDA outraged Daniel Negreanu so much that he gave up his stack in the €10,000 High Roller Re-entry event in anger and stormed out of the tournament floor. Later, he would return and march all the way to the runner-up finish of the event.

Read more on his rant here

Contributing to the debate on an old issue, WSOP 2012 champion Greg Merson weighed in on the question of the rooms’ actions against seat scripting. Merson stated that if PokerStars would not act against players using software to automate table selection for them, he would stop playing at the room.

Read more on Merson’s tweets here

Heads-up ace Dan ‘mrGR33N13’ Colman proved unstoppable at the WCOOP and won $172,500 by taking down the NLHE High Roller Heads-Up event in an incredibly strong field.

Read more on Colman’s road to the spectacular victory here

By winning a $215 NLHE tournament, Chirs ‘moorman1’ Moorman hit he $10 million milestone in online multi-table tournament winnings, a feat one of its kind.

Read more on the fascinating achievement here

October

German player ‘PlayinWasted’ took down the World Championship of Online Poker Main Event, taking home $1,493,499 following a three-way deal.

Read more on the WCOOP finale here

Germans were prominent in the European Poker Tour London High Roller event as well, with Martin Finger, Tobias Reinkemeier and Christoph Vogelsang finishing in the top three positions, respectively.

Read more on the EPT London HR finale here

In the European instalment of the World Series of Poker, Daniel Negreanu won the High Roller event for his Player of the Year title, as well as the honour of being the first player ever to win a bracelet in all three series of the WSOP.

Meanwhile, for his first bracelet victory in his career, young Adrian Mateos won the Main Event of the WSOPE.

Read more on Mateos’ victory and Negreanu’s titles here

Barely a month after setting his goal, Chris Moorman achieved it: he became the leader of the online multi-table tournament world list.

Read more on Moorman’s yet another success here