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Antonius's first match started in the early morning hours Sunday on his personal $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha table against world1969.
Rumored to be Johnny "World" Hennigan, world1969 lasted only 16 hands against Antonius before losing a $212k pot and leaving the match down $191k.
Antonius then turned his attention to 7-Game, where he made an additional $385,000. With $1.4 million in losses, Antonius is now the second biggest loser on the year, less than $2,000 ahead of Brian Townsend.
Tom "durrrr" Dwan played two big-money sessions yesterday as well. The first, at $100/$200 PLO against Townsend, ended after 76 hands and Townsend had lost $133k, the majority of his $164k total loss on the day.
Dwan tried to continue his run-good at 7-Game only to lose $141k, finishing the day down $7,723.
Phil Ivey also showed up for a short session, playing 123 hands of PLO and 190 hands of 7-Game. After losing half of his PLO profits in the mixed games, Ivey finished the day up $36k.
In the meantime, Alexander "PostflopAction" Kostritsyn continued to crush the 7-Game tables, making $332k in a 905 hand session Sunday. This puts the Russian pro up to over $2 million in earnings on the year.
At press time, Kostritsyn sits in second place for the year's top earner, $500k behind Cole South.
Some of the other big names to get in a few hands yesterday included Gus Hansen (-$189k), Ashton "theASHMAN103" Griffin ($78k), Hac "trex313" Dang (-$67k) and Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond ($16k).
Below are three of the largest pots of the day. Head to MarketPulse to see more.
As usual PokerStars led the way with a Sunday Million that drew 9,031 to create a prize pool of $1.8 million.
U.S. online player palurdo annihilated the field and, after making a heads-up deal with golferen50, took down the tournament for a $248,791 score.
Steve “Ilini213” Barshak, who won a $50k guaranteed on PokerStars for $18,700 in December, made an even bigger score yesterday when he outlasted all 1,013 entries in the PokerStars Sunday 500 to win $88,536.
Meanwhile, on Full Tilt there was a small overlay in the Sunday $750k Guaranteed, much to the delight of the 3,542 players that entered. Online player pokerNIRVana5 took the title for $111,037.
Full Tilt’s other major tournament – The Sunday Brawl – saw an established poker pro make the final table.
Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan finished in fourth place to earn $42,121. Ryan has an impressive tournament record that includes big live scores at EPT Dortmund and EPT Copenhagen in 2008.
Ryan has also claimed victories in most of the Sunday majors including the PokerStars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $750k Guaranteed. He’ll have to wait another day to add the Sunday Brawl to that list, however, as DedoDeGorila was the ultimate winner yesterday.
Finally, in the UB $200k Guaranteed, Jason “JP OSU” Potter finished runner up to YANKEE47. YANKEE officially earned $44,920 while Potter took $26,900, although there was some sort of chop.
The 24-year-old Full Tilt Pro outlasted field of 766 and a final table with several well known pros to book the win and bank the $625,006 first-place prize.
"It feels good," Madsen told Borgata bloggers. "It takes a while for it to set in, but in a few days I'll look back on it. It was a really good tournament."
The final table in the $3,000 event began at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa with New York pro Matt Matros saying goodbye 10th losing a race with pocket sixes to Nick Kamen's big slick.
Soon, Chan Pelton ran ace-ten into Madsen eights and failed to improve, bowing out 9th.
Ross Mallor was the next to go, running king-queen into Al Grimes' ace-ten before David Fox joined him on the rail after Grimes made two pair to crack his ace-seven.
All of Grimes' work was for naught, however, as he dropped out sixth pushing with a turned straight draw into Madsen's trips and bricking the river.
Kamen then ran ace-eight into Barkley Hamilton's kings before Hamilton himself fell, losing a massive set-over-set pot versus Madsen.
Tom Marchese then took third when he lost a race with pocket nines against Madsen's ace-queen.
But despite picking off the last two players, Madsen began heads-up with two-time WSOP final tablist Sirous Jamshidi about even in chips.
Within an hour he had built a 2:1 chip lead before Jamshidi pushed with queen high, Madsen called with king-high and the title was his.
"I've had success in the past," Madsen said. "But it feels good to get these big wins and to continue to prove myself in the poker world."
'If we read Ohio law as controlling the contract in question, the parties probably are guilty of a crime under Ohio law, the contract is void, and both parties could be extradited and prosecuted together in an Ohio criminal court.' -Gilbert Stroud Merritt, Jr., Concurring, in Wong v. PartyGaming
A year ago, I wrote, 'Party Poker won a nice victory in federal court in Ohio, because its Terms and Conditions say that all disputes will be heard in the courts of Gibraltar.'
The losers at the trial level appealed. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has now issued its ruling, upholding Party Poker's win.
But one of the justices, 73-year-old Gilbert Stroud Merritt, Jr., from Tennessee, wrote a separate concurring opinion. He agreed that Party Poker should win. But his reasoning fits the old saw, 'With friends like this, you don't need enemies.'
The suit was started by two plaintiffs, Rose Wong and Patrick Gibson, who claimed they... Continue reading Trial in Gibraltar or Jail in Ohio
Let's examine how to earn extra calls to enlarge your bankroll. As a master at the use of psychology on his opponents, Mike succeeds in achieving extra calls time and again. You can become accomplished too with a little knowledge and practice.
Doubt. When attempting to elicit a call from an opponent you should be comfortable, smooth, and confident. It shouldn't seem like a con game. Make it seem like you don't want the call. This plants a seed of doubt into your opponent's mind. He thinks that perhaps you don't have the cards necessary to steal the pot from him? Maybe his cards are better? Then he shoves his chips into the pile, giving you the call you had secretly orchestrated.
How do you make them think that you're cards are questionable to engender a call? You could appear hesitant, shaky, and eager for him to fold. Sometimes this promotes indecision and suspicion. But occasionally more subtlety is required.
If you're in the midst of an e... Continue reading Lesson 163: Profiting From Extra Calls
Victory Poker, Who's Your Daddy, and The Man Behind it All >> Posted By LynnCaesar 23 hours, 59 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment > Victory Poker owner Dan Fleyshman sits down with Las Vegas Poker Source to give insight into his new poker brand, part of the Everleaf Gaming network.
Full Tilt, PokerStars and UB all awarded millions of dollars last Sunday, and throughout the week Cole South, Brian Townsend and Patrik Antonius took turns winning hundred thousand dollar pots in the high stakes cash games.
There were a few stories that didn’t make the front page of PokerListings.com, however, and as part of our Poker News in Brief feature we’ve compiled a list below.
This week we’ll take a look at Isabelle Mercier’s latest promotion, two poker sites switching networks, UB teaming up with an MMA promoter and more.
It’s been months since Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier signed with BetClic, but the room is offering its first major promotion involving the famous French-Canadian.
All this month Mercier will host her own “No Mercy” cash game table on BetClic with stakes ranging from €.12/€.25 No-Limit all the way up to €2/€4 No-Limit.
BetClic will also offer No Mercy Magic Hands where any player that makes a straight flush on the Mercier tables is entered into a special Sit ‘N’ Go with up to €2,000 up for grabs.
The No Mercy cash game tables can be found under the private tab of the BetClic lobby.
To learn more go to the BetClic website.
PlayersOnly.com and SportsBook.com are leaving the Cake Poker network in favor of the Merge Poker Network.
Jezette Enterprises, which owns both sites, made the announcement on Wednesday citing the chance to give players a better platform on which to play.
“This is an industry changing deal and we are delighted to have an agreement with Jazette Enterprises,” said Anthony Taylor, CEO of Merge Gaming.
The migration, which is scheduled to occur by mid-April, 2010, will see Jezette move all its brands onto the Merge Gaming Network.
PlayersOnly.com and SportsBook.com will join sites such as Carbon Poker, Poker Nordica and ACED on the Merge Gaming Network.
Meanwhile the Cake Poker network recently added a number of new rooms including the signature room of Phil Laak – Unabomberpoker.com.
Established Kiwi poker pro James Honeybone won the SkyCity Auckland Anniversary Championships this weekend.
He outlasted 121 players including poker pros Dan Sing and Martin Cardno to win the NZ$36,030 prize for first place.
Honeybone finished fifth at APPT Korea in 2007 and also made an $84,970 score at the Ongame Network Poker Classic in Barcelona in 2005.
The win in Auckland catapulted Honeybone into ninth place on the all-time New Zealand tournament money list with $161,806.
Canadian sports broadcaster TSN has teamed with PokerStars.net to create a custom built poker environment for poker players.
"Poker's popularity in Canada continues to grow and the TSN Poker Club gives poker players of all levels a chance to get into the action and win exclusive prizes," says Geoff Fardy, Canada Country Manager, PokerStars.net.
The club will allow members to enter a series of free-to-play tournaments with prizes like poker tables and snowboards, all while learning the game of poker.
PokerStars.net and TSN will launch the club with three daily tournaments from now until July 31.
UB has entered into an exclusive sponsorship deal with the Bellator Fighting Championships.
The agreement will see UB logos in upcoming Bellator fights while UB will advertise for the fighting brand in its poker client lobby.
"We’re super excited to tie the new UB logo to Bellator—the hottest MMA success story of 2009—and are proud to partner with them in their sophomore year," said Paul Leggett, chief operations officer of Tokwiro, the owner/operator of UB.net.
The Bellator Fighting Championship began last year with headline bouts involving MMA stars Hector Lombard, Eddie Alvarez and Joe Soto.
Here's tomorrow's front page story in the Chicago Sun-Times reports: Casey Szaflarski allegedly runs a multimillion-dollar video poker business for the Chicago mob.
Gene Gioia the founder of RealDealPoker.com is standing by his commitment to offer a fair game of poker online by offering 100-1 odds to players who request and pay for an audit of their game via an independent auditor.
Many Toyota owners are suddenly afraid of their cars, and I don't blame them. As scary as it sounds, though, the possibility that their vehicles may accelerate out of control appears to be extremely rare.
The following freerolls are open to all PokerListings.com players. Qualify in the specified qualification period, then take your seat to win a boatload of free cash.
If you're not a PL.com registered player on any of the following sites, click on the site's name in the list to sign up. Getting your free seat in the tournament can be just as simple as that.
The next $5,000 Monthly freeroll is almost here, buy in with just 25 points.
Just two days left to earn your seat in February's montly freeroll.
A makeup freeroll for the missed Saturday $1,500's. This $4,500 event replaces the standard $1,500 freeroll.
With your final two days to earn your points and qualify, be sure to have collected 100 points in January for your seat in the next $2,000 Party Poker freeroll.
The next massive freeroll from PokerStars comes as a $25k event awarding $24k worth of "turbo takedown tickets" plus $1k cash for the final table. Collect 100 points in January as a PokerListings player to earn your seat.
Monthly freerolls for all PokerListings players on the site. Just 50 pts to qualify.
Qualify between: Dec. 1- Mar. 19
Need a reason for your next vacation to include something more than poker? Maybe your significant other is not a poker player and needs a different diversion? Well, a casino resort may still be your answer. While the obvious destination would be Las Vegas with its myriad shopping, dining, and entertainment choices, there are other locations that offer the draw of a great poker room with first class non-poker
offerings.
If you are looking for golf, there are top-rated courses sitting right next to some of the best casinos in North America. Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut is home to the 36-hole Lake of Isles golf course, designed by Rees Jones. With its beautiful lake views and scenic vistas, the golf course has been rated highly by both Golf Digest and Golf Magazine. And with the largest poker room on the east coast, it is a prime destination for poker players.
In Biloxi, Mississippi, you can stay and play at the Beau Rivage casino, home to the 510 ac... Continue reading Vacations for the Poker Player
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. -George Elliot
[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]
'Timmy Tilt,' played by actor Joey Scroggs, is a fictional poker player in the movie Dude, Where's My Cards? He is no more real than 'Eric Stoner,' Steve McQueen's fictional poker player in The Cincinnati Kid or 'Mike McDermott,' Matt Damon's fictional poker player in Rounders. Yet, when Today'sUSA asked people in a national poll to name the greatest poker player in the world, more than 90 percent of respondents answered 'Timmy Tilt.'
Dude, Where's My Cards was just one of the several low budget 'poker + pot = plot' movies churned out by a Hollywood film studio, which before Dude had produced Aces Up In Smoke, Fast Times At Hold'em High, and Harold & Kumar Toke The Dealer.
The movie Dude, Where's My Cards? tells the story of a young, hands... Continue reading Prisoner Of Poker: On Tilt
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country -- the drugs, the sex, the gambling -- is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl.
At 11 p.m. ET Wednesday night, Dang and Kostritsyn sat heads-up at $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha, where they remained for 1,248 hands until 2 a.m. Thursday morning. Kostritsyn left the match up over $245k.
Both Dang and Kostritsyn put in a few hands on Thursday afternoon, Dang making $147k, Kostritsyn losing $41k.
But at 5 p.m. yesterday, the two players sat for a re-match, this time at $200/$400 PLO. After almost five hours and 2,038 hands, Kostritsyn logged off up over $436k, up $681k on Dang in less than 24 hours.
Dang stuck around until 7 a.m. this morning chasing his losses, but his winning sessions were small and losing sessions large. By the time Dang called it quits he had accrued another $184k in losses, losing a total of $718k.
Meanwhile, Patrik Antonius suffered through a day of swings Thusrsday, but thanks to beating Brian Townsend for the second largest pot of the day (worth $200k), the Finn came out up $257k.
Townsend, who has been on a losing streak ever since his 30-day pro-status suspension, sat for 1,393 hands of PLO spread across ten tables. Townsend ended up losing money at eight of those tables, losing both the largest pots of the day in the process. Townsend finished the day down $377k.
Fellow CardRunners pro Brian Hastings had a relatively stress free day sitting at seven tables, turning a profit on six of them and losing just $9,501 on the seventh. In just 392 hands, Hastings earned an impressive $302k.
Below are the three largest pots from yesterday's action. To see more hands and stats, head to MarketPulse.
The sixth season of the popular show will premier on the Network Sunday Feb. 14, featuring a familiar line-up of renowned poker champions, cash game specialists and promising up-and-comers.
Producers are also promising a brand-new look and feel for the show that puts viewers in the thick of the poker action.
Poker player and former European Poker Tour presenter Kara Scott will join Gabe Kaplan as co-host this season, but not before GSN airs an eight-hour "I LOVE POKER" marathon featuring highlights from past seasons of the show prior to the premier Sunday.
In addition to the usual cash-game action, Scott will report from the High Stakes Poker suite this season, interviewing players about strategy, table dynamics and giving viewers first-hand feedback after significant hands.
Featuring $200,000 minimum buy-in, the new season is promising the toughest line-up ever, including pros Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Doyle Brunson, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Andreas Hoivold, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Dennis Phillips and Lex Veldhuis.
The premier episode will air Feb. 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET and subsequent episodes will air Sundays at 8 p.m. ET with encore airings at 11 p.m. ET and 2 a.m. ET on GSN.
The packages are worth $14,000 and include the $10,000 buy-in, seven nights' accommodation and $2,500 spending money.
However, if a PartyPoker online qualifier wins the tournament, there will be a massive $1 million payout with $500,000 going to the winner and $500,000 shared amongst all other PartyPoker qualifiers.
Qualifiers start from $3 and there are daily freerolls into the sub-qualifiers running until Sunday Feb. 7.
The final main $700+$50 LAPC weekly qualifier takes place this Sunday at 2:15 p.m. ET, where one $14,000 package will be awarded for every 20 players and at least two packages guaranteed.
"The PartyPoker packages are amazingly appealing to anybody who wants to attend the LA Poker Classic," said PartyPoker ambassador and WPT commentator Mike Sexton. "The $1 million payout if an online qualifier takes down the Main Event offers superb extra value. Imagine if you bust out really early and then one of your fellow qualifiers went on to win, you'd still go home with your share of $500,000."
Last Week, PartyPoker qualifier Tyron Krost won the 2010 Aussie Millions.
The LAPC takes place at the Commerce Casino, Feb. 26- Mar. 4.
Last year's the main event was won by Cornel Cimpan and in 2008, Phil Ivey won his first WPT title by taking home the crown.
For more information on how to qualify online check out PartyPoker.
The promotion focuses on rewarding casual poker players in addition to the usual hardcore grinders.
As part of the emphasis on recreational players, Pacific Poker will be giving seats to players who are most active on social media sites YouTube.com, Twitter and Facebook.
The WSOP qualifying schedule on Pacific Poker also includes a special female-only tournament and a bounty tournament with several celebrity players including 2009 WSOP last woman standing Leo Margets and former international cricketer Shane Warne.
One WSOP seat will also be awarded to the player who refers the most friends to Pacific Poker.
Finally the site will reward its more serious players with races related to number of tournaments played, amount of rake generated, status points generated and casino points generated.
The promotion will run Feb. 8 to May 8 and in an effort further entice casual players, Pacific Poker is currently offering $8 free to the first 50,000 that register for the promotion.
Pacific Poker awards $15,000 WSOP prize packages that include a seat in the Main Event, travel, accommodations and expenses.
To learn more about the promotion visit the Pacific Poker web site.
ONLINE betting company PartyGaming yesterday said revenues had been boosted by a punter pumping almost half of a 3.1million jackpot win back into their slot machines.
A poker champion from Worcestershire accused of killing his wife then dumping her body in a US national park is set to find out if he will be extradited.
Nearly 300 blackjack, craps and poker dealers are already in training as the Charles Town Races & Slots ramps up toward a July 1 debut of table games at the Eastern Panhandle track.
With generating revenue and staying competitive with surrounding states in mind, Delegate Frank S. Turner, D-Howard, introduced a bill Wednesday to eventually amend Maryland's gaming laws, allowing sites previously awarded slots licenses to operate table games.
South's massive run started Tuesday evening at $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha, where he sat with Phil Ivey heads-up for 208 hands, earning $152k in the process.
Ivey went on to grind back his losses on the 6-max tables, making $190k, mostly from unknown player rumprammer, who lost $500k during his 709 hand stint at the tables.
After defeating Ivey, and a few hands with Hansen and rumprammer, South sat heads up with Antonius in the early morning hours Wednesday.
By the end of this match, South had punished the struggling Full Tilt pro for around $350k, mostly thanks to winning the largest pot of the match worth $307k.
After an eight hour break (presumably to sleep), South returned to the $300/$600 tables to play Sahamies heads-up, who has been running white hot since the start of 2010.
South struggled from the start of the heads-up match, and in a chat between South, Sahamies and PostflopAction, a clearly frustrated South claimed to be stuck "like a mill" in the four hours he'd been playing.
But almost immediately after making the comment, the cards began to fall South's way, putting him on yet another heater. In the midst of this heater, South took down all four of largest pots in the match, the smallest of which was worth over $380k.
The largest pot of the session saw the money go all in on the flop, with South holding the nut flush against Sahamies' top set. The board failed to pair awarding South $634,777, the largest pot of the year so far.
When the dust settled, Sahamies found himself stuck for over $750k.
In the end, South earned over $1.1 million on the day, possibly a new personal record.
Below are the three largest pots of the South/Ziigmund battle. To see more hands, including South's $307k pot versus Antonius, head to MarketPulse.
The online poker room put in the winning bid of $4,006 on eBay to secure a gold WSOP bracelet up for auction that was originally won by T.J. Cloutier in 2005.
“This was actually done basically on a whim,” explained Cake Poker card room manager Lee Jones. “We talked about it and thought, ‘Wow this is kind of amazing. We could find something cool to do with it.’”
When Cake Poker bid on the bracelet they weren’t aware it belonged Cloutier and Jones confirmed they will return it to him when they are finished with it.
Although Jones and the group at Cake Poker are still deciding what exactly they will do with the bracelet, they’re already throwing around ideas involving photo shoots with the bracelet and taking turns wearing it to home games.
Jones did mention they will treat the bracelet with respect.
“We’re still not sure exactly what we are going to do with it but we certainly understand a bracelet’s place and we’re not going to do anything inappropriate with it,” he said.
Cake Poker has been active lately with redesigned software, a new blog and a larger presence at tournaments like the recent Aussie Millions.
“We’re getting more mainstream players on Cake so we’ve tried to amp up our satellite offerings,” said Jones.
One Cake Poker qualifier, Steven “ringboy69” Silva, finished in 31st place earning $27,689 at this year’s Aussie Millions.
Cake Poker is now running qualifiers for the Irish Open and Jones mentioned he’s expecting an even bigger Cake presence there.
For more information on Cake Poker visit the website here.
The UB.com Pro Freeroll Challenge is set to pit Team UB pros against one another to see who can draw the most players to a $2k freeroll.
The challenge will consist of six freerolls spread out over the next year. Each will be hosted by a Team UB pro who will be asked to sweeten the $2,000 prize pool by adding a lifestyle or once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The pro that draws the most players to his or her freeroll won't just be taking home bragging rights either. The winner will be declared king or queen of the UB.com Pro Freeroll Challenge and receive $2,500 from UB for a night on the town in Las Vegas.
Plus, the Team UB pro who attracts the lowest number of players will be forced to play concierge, doing anything the winner asks to facilitate the night.
UB is also adding an additional $500 to the Pro Freeroll Challenge prize, which the winner may use to tip the losing Team UB pro at his or her discretion.
Once it's all through, the winning Team UB pro will chronicle his or her experience on the UB Blog.
Joe Sebok will be the first Team UB pro to step up to the plate by hosting the first freeroll Feb. 17 and offering the winner a chance to go skydiving with him in Las Vegas.
Should the winner of Sebok's Leap of Faith freeroll prefer to remain grounded, UB is promising to substitute the skydiving experience for something just as exciting.
In addition to Sebok, Team UB consists of Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Brandon Cantu, Liv Boeree, Michael Binger, Tiffany Michelle and a host of other top pros.
For more information check out UB.
To become a potentially market- destroying a oeita group on Wall Street, you need some arrogance, enough brains to justify making huge financial bets, utter cluelessness about lessons learned from financea s booms and busts, and a sincere belief that your unique contributions to Wall Street will mean, ahem, that this time it really is different, so ...
We played $4-$8 hold 'em with Woody recently and learned a few new tricks. Woody plays most every day, arriving at lunchtime and staying as long as he can find a good game. He doesn't win every day-no one does-he just usually wins. We doubt that he even has losing weeks.
Anyway, during our session Woody raised in the blind with Aa-6h, Ks-Js, and 9c-9d. He won nice pots with each hand, making aces-up, a flush, and a set of nines when the dealer turned a nine. We observed that Woody raised in the blind when he held a modest hand and there were many limpers, i.e., a 'family' pot, because in limit hold 'em, limpers usually always call a pre-flop raise.
By raising, Woody priced himself into seeing the turn even with little or no help from the flop. Of course his raise also enticed in the limpers. With favorable money odds due to his raise he can see the turn with only a few outs.
Suppose he raised in the small blind with 6d-5d and the flop came a... Continue reading Raise n Chase: Part 5
Jacque Lavadour, owner of Gresham Players Club, shows where the bullets - fired from the front entrance - struck during the Friday night shooting in his downtown poker room.
An Auburn Hills man who allegedly ran illegal poker games featuring topless female dealers was arraigned Tuesday on two criminal charges that carry a potential two years behind bars.
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