Bernard Lee Poker Net Worth
In this episode of The Bernard Lee Poker Show on the PokerNews Podcast Network, Bernard Lee interviews Pokernews editor and author Martin Harris. During the interview, Martin discusses how he entered the world of poker, about teaching a course about poker in college, and how the idea for his recent book came about.
Then, Martin discusses his new book, Poker & Pop Culture, which looks at poker through American pop culture over the past couple of centuries.
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Show Time Stamps
| 0:00 | Welcome to The Bernard Lee Poker Show as this week’s guest is PokerNews editor and author of Poker & Pop Culture, Martin Harris. |
| 0:52 | Paul Richardson captured the WSOP Circuit at Thunder Valley, just outside of Sacramento, California, over a field of 414 entrants and took home $130,667. |
| 1:38 | Cary Katz took home the largest pay day of his career, winning the Super High Roller London over a field of 12 entrants and earning over $2.6 million. |
| 2:26 | The British Poker Open Overall Trophy went to Sam Soverel, who cashed in five event, winning two, finishing runner-up in two and ended up third in another. |
| 4:02 | RunGood Gear Ad |
| 4:45 | OddsChecker Ad |
| 5:15 | Bernard welcomes author of Poker & Pop Culture, Martin Harris. |
| 5:56 | Martin joins the show. |
| 6:34 | Martin discusses how he found the time to devote to writing his recent book, while teaching at UNC Charlotte part-time and working full-time with PokerNews and Pokerstars Blog. |
| 7:45 | Martin recalls how he started the concept for writing this book. “I started a blog back in 2006…Probably about 5 or 6 years ago, I ended up getting in touch with an agent and he had a publishing house that wanted to do a history of poker. And that’s where it really started…The process took about a year and half or two years…And it (the deal) actually fell through but that got me going…It was about two years ago D& B Poker got in touch with me…and they agreed to do it.” |
| 9:50 | Martin discusses teaching part-time at UNC-Charlotte including a class entitled Poker in American Film and Culture. |
| 11:56 | Bernard outlines the journey of poker over the past couple of centuries which Martin writes about in his book. |
| 14:32 | Martin explains the origins of his pokerblog hardboiledpoker.com and his nickname “Shamus.” |
| 19:07 | Martin discusses the book in more detail and how it is organized. “Basically it’s a chronological presentation of the history of poker…The early part of book definitely focuses on the 19th century and early poker history. The latter part of the book is definitely about more rect, kind of contemporary stuff.” |
| 19:44 | Martin discusses the early part of the book where poker starts out in the 19th century including the origination of steamboats and the Civil War with poker. |
| 22:26 | Martin discusses the book showing poker in different specific media such as movies, television, radio and music. Also, he discusses how poker has influenced everyday jargon. |
| 27:33 | Las Vegas Laundry Services Ad |
| 28:33 | Bernard continues his interview with Martin Harris. |
| 32:30 | Martin continues his discussion about his book including poker in casinos, which wasn’t always the case in the past. |
| 35:40 | Martin recalls the history about the famous painting series called Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Coolidge. “That’s one of the more fun sections to write in the book.” |
| 39:51 | Martin discusses poker’s significant role in movies especially Rounders (1998). |
| 44:14 | Martin discusses the last few chapters in his book including internet poker, UIGEA, Black Friday and the growth of live poker. |
| 48:16 | Martin discusses where to go online to purchase the book. Bernard will give away an audio version of the book via a promotion on Twitter. Follow Bernard @BernardLeePoker to have a chance to win. |
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Day 1A of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) played out on Tuesday, with 668 players taking to the felts inside the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. Wayne Bentley, a PokerStars qualifier from Britain, leads the way with 329,500 chips.
Bentley nearly amassed 11 times the starting stack of 30,000 in the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament after eight levels of play. He held pocket aces and eliminated a player with pocket kings within the first few minutes of Day 1A, doubling his stack to 60,000, and he never looked back. Team PokerStars Pro member Daniel Negreanu issued the traditional “Shuffle up and deal” command moments earlier. At the end of Day 1A, 430 players remained in the hunt.
Bentley sits comfortably in front of the second place stack of Amnon Filippi, who held a pile of 220,100 chips at the end of Day 1A. The accomplished poker pro was nearly 50,000 chips ahead of online poker pro Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul, the winner of the 2007 installment of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Bellagio Cup for $1.3 million. Last year, Saul finished eighth in the PCA Main Event for $234,000, outlasting all but seven of the 1,347 players who entered.
Team PokerStars Sports Stars will be out in full force on Wednesday for Day 1B, as German tennis legend Boris Becker, Swedish NHL star Mats Sundin, Dutch hockey pro Fatima De Melo, baseball commentator Orel Hershiser, and U.K. football legend Teddy Sheringham will all take to the felts. Also entering on Day 1B is Mike Kosowski, the winner of Season 1 of the “PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge.” Kosowski earned $1 million after defeating Negreanu heads-up in the finale of the poker game show last month.
2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Nine member Eric Buchman sits in sixth place after Day 1A with 159,100 chips. The PokerStars sponsored player finished fourth in the $10,000 buy-in feature tournament in Las Vegas in November, adding $2.5 million to his net worth. The event was ultimately won by Joe Cada, who will take to the felts for Day 1B today. Joining him will be pros like Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Humberto Brenes, and Victor Ramdin. Also playing is rapper Nelly, who has become somewhat of a staple on the poker circuit in recent months.
Here were the top ten chip stacks in the Bahamas after the smoke had cleared on Day 1A of the 2010 PCA Main Event:
1. Wayne Bentley – 329,500
2. Amnon Filippi – 220,100
3. Kevin Saul – 175,500
4. Eric Froehlich – 166,000
5. Dustin Dorrance-Bowman – 163,700
6. Eric Buchman – 159,100
7. Garðar Geir Hauksson – 138,900
8. Jacob Avital – 137,700
9. Christian Schwarz – 133,200
10. Rafal Michalowski – 129,300
The PCA is a stop on both the European Poker Tour (EPT) and Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) and, as such, has attracted a global field. Still remaining after Day 1A are players from the United States, United Kingdom, Iceland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Ukraine, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Turks and Caicos, Russia, Finland, Argentina, France, Norway, Switzerland, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Ireland, Belgium, New Zealand, Romania, Australia, Slovenia, Greece, Costa Rica, Austria, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Curiously absent is a representative from the host nation, the Bahamas.
Last year’s champion, Poorya Nazari, hails from Canada and nearly tripled his stack on Day 1A. Notable players who survived the first starting day, along with their chip counts, include:
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Dennis Phillips – 113,000
Dario Minieri – 109,800
Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar – 106,400
Poorya Nazari – 89,300
Barry Greenstein – 89,200
Jeff Madsen – 79,400
John Duthie – 60,100
Marcel Luske – 55,600
Gavin Smith – 54,000
Jean-Robert Bellande – 53,900
Kevin Schaffel – 53,200
Bernard Lee – 46,800
Amit “amak316” Makhija – 42,000
Steven Paul-Ambrose – 37,900
“Miami” John Cernuto – 36,500
Chris “moorman1” Moorman – 34,700
Ivan Demidov – 27,600
Tom McEvoy – 19,900
Huck Seed – 16,000
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams – 13,100
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Play wrapped up in Level 8, when blinds were 400-800 with a 100-chip ante. Day 1B will encompass the same eight levels before the field merges for Day 2 on Thursday.