The Weekly Turbo: Eli Elezra’s Illustrious Career, Big One for One Drop and a Force Out

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It’s that time of the week again. Sunday is the day of rest and on that day, we want you to know: We understand. You don’t want to be doing any sort of work. That’s why we’ve done it again! Here at PokerNews, we understand the concepts of a lazy Sunday.

As you go about your day, read through these PokerNews stories so you too can be caught up on poker news without feeling like you really had to work for it.

The Winner’s Circle

Everyone loves a winner. Because it may be hard for you to judge, we did it for you. We ranked the World Series of Poker Main Event champs dating all the way back to 2003. Best believe that Chris Moneymaker, Martin Jacobson and Greg Merson found their way to the top.

Daniel Negreanu won the $2,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship during the 2016 WCOOP, but he wasn’t the only one. Michael “SirWatts” Watson walked away with over $280,000 at a star-studded WCOOP final table.

This week’s New Jersey Online Poker Briefing: Jeffrey “bortzork” Miller scored the biggest single win, taking the WSOP.com NJ/888poker NJ $50,000 Ultimate Warrior for $13,500; “GivnUstrokes” won the Sunday Special $50,000 Gtd. For $10,225; Craig “craigruby” Rubinstein made over $11,000; and “COLDWARKID” snagged the $30,000 BIG Deal monthly tournament for $9,947. Other notables here.

Pedro Claus of Argentina won the LAPT Uruguay Main Event for $90,630 following a three-handed deal with Brazilian Fernando Araujo and Argentinian Manuel Vuotto.

Jonas “llJaYJaYll” Lauck won the WCOOP Main Event after turning down two chop offers for over $1.5 million.

Nabil Cardoso won the 2016 PMU.fr WPT National Marrakech High Roller for MAD 650,000 ($66,873).

Ian O’Hara and Kunal Patel chopped up the Coco Poker Open for more than $200K each on Monday night.

The Game Changers

Get into the life and times of Eli Elezra, who reminisces on his poker career, resurges in the poker tournament scene and talks his Hall of Fame nomination. Oh, and if he played as many tournaments as Phil Hellmuth, he’d have 25 bracelets. No big.

In this week’s Five Thoughts, Marty Derbyshire discusses live poker’s all-time leading money winner …

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