Tag: William Tonking

  • Martin Jacobson: Surprise 2014 WSOP Main Event Winner

    When looking through the 2014 November Nine, not many people gave Martin Jacobson a realistic chance to win. After all, he was sitting with 14.9 million chips – just the eighth-largest stack out of the remaining nine players. But through a combination of incredible poker skills and running good, Jacobson worked his way out of…

  • Mark Newhouse’s Nightmare: 9th Place at WSOP Again

    Mark Newhouse captured quite a few poker headlines this summer when he made his second-straight final table in the WSOP Main Event. Last year, Newhouse battled through 6,352 players to make the final table, only to bust out in ninth when it resumed four months later. At the 2014 Main Event, he survived an even…