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Today in the 3-Bet we find John Juanda hitching a ride to the Aussie Millions, Jason Mercier pocketing another half-mil and an outsider’s look at the success of social media in the fight for poker regulation in the US.
We've said it before: the best way to get through life is to make friends in high places.
Former Full Tilt pro John Juanda, a veritable regular in the high-stakes games at the Aussie Millions for years, has been surprisingly absent this year but it has nothing to do with the ongoing FTP saga.
The problem? This year's schedule ran right on top of Chinese New Year, keeping Juanda – and 8 wealthy Chinese businessmen, he adds - out of the $100k Challenge.
As explained via his Twitter:
“Really miss Melbourne& Aussie Million; but impossible to go bcos its same time as Chinese NY. Hope they do better job w/scheduling next year.”
Despite the scheduling conflict, Juanda and at least one of said businessman are on their way now.
They'll be arriving in style on the Crown Casino corporate jet (see pic above) no less – a substantial upgrade for Juanda from his previous flight on Continental.
“Crown sent this to pick up my Super HR friend&he let me tag along. I hope its better than my last continental flight!:)”
Look for Juanda and the unnamed super high roller in our coverage of the $250k event at the Aussie Millions this weekend.
It’s been awhile since Jason Mercier binked a huge tourney score (*awhile meaning 6-8 weeks on the Mercier scale) so he’s been forced to take to the high-stakes cash games to keep the #whenwillitend machine going.
Despite an insane line-up including Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu, Dan Cates and Sam Trickett, it’s worked out pretty well for him - to the tune of roughly half a million dollars in the last two days.
Just another day at the office for Mercier, apparently, as he ho hummed on Twitter:
“Kinda nice to win 500k in 2 days ... Gamble on the 250k 2moro :)”
Mercier's office reminds us very much of our office, except we don't play $500/$1k NLH/PLO much any more and Trickett, Negreanu, Antonius and durrrr don't drop by ever, despite our e-vites.
Also coming out big winners from the cash game were Trickett (roughly $220k) and Negreanu ($150k).
Most of the game was filmed for TV and will air shortly, but check Poker Asis Pacific for a recap of some big hands.
Follow Mercier on Twitter here; just skip over the Miami Heat tweets and every third #hashtag.
Truth be told, it may be giving the Poker Players Alliance a bit too much credit.
But noted computer magazine PC World has given the PPA and its ongoing drive to regulate online poker in the US a big thumbs up in a recent list of social media campaigns is says have combined activism and social media to spur change in the world.
Ranking it as “effective” and connecting the campaign to the recent DOJ ruling that online poker falls outside the Wire Act, PC World puts it alongside such heavyweight social media campaigns as the Anonymous hacks, the Occupy Movement, revolutions in Russia and Egypt and Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign.
High company, for sure.
While it may be a stretch to say the PPA was the driving force behind the DOJ decision, there's still no doubt the work of the PPA since 2006 has certainly put the issue in the scope of millions of people who might not care otherwise.
Getting in the discussion is a win in itself.
See the full list here.
The high-stakes action has flourished in the last seven days on PokerStars and looks to be revolving around Viktor “Isildur1” Blom who saw swings as big as $600k before finishing the week just a small loser.
Joining Kyllonen on the list of six-figure winners are high-stakes regulars like Rafi Amit, Ronny Kaiser and Davin Georgi.
Headlining the week’s losers are Patrik Antonius, Sander Berndsen and Theo Jorgensen.
Keep reading for the full rundown of the biggest winners and losers this week in online poker.
Despite Viktor Blom showing just a small net loss on the week, he played an integral part in the distribution of money, and was actually the direct cause of most of the biggest winners and losers.
Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen won roughly $300k on Monday, much of it from Blom, playing shorthanded $100/$200 PLO and finished up $526,000 on the week.
The second biggest winner was patpatman who suffered losses to the tune of $268 last weekend but surged back to just shy of $450,000 in net profit by week’s end. Tuesday was particularly lucrative for the unknown high-stakes player as he raked in roughly $400k in a single 24 hour period.
The list of winners is rounded out by known pros Rafi Amit (+$278k) and Ronny Kaiser (+$266k.
Here are the top ten winners in the online nosebleed cash games this week:
1. Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen: +$52 2. patpatman: +$459k 3. Davin “mTw-DaviN” Georgi: +$408k 4. Rafi “rafaelamit” Amit: +$278k 5. Ronny “1-ronnyr3” Kaiser: +$266k 6. K_0_S_T_Y_A: +$224k 7. nasud 11: +$223k 8. Eunjong Byun: +$193k 9. Sauce123: +$163k 10. phounderAA: +$157kPhil Galfond has been extremely active in the high-stakes games so far in 2012 but this week was an absolute disaster.
Galfond got tuned up for over $700,000 since we reported last Friday, prompting him to release this video blog. Galfond says he’s selling his New York condo since he’s been spending the bulk of his time in Vancouver playing online.
He also updated his fans via Twitter that his Stars account was at just $90k, and he wouldn’t be returning to the $100/$200 games until he had rebuilt it to $250k.
Alongside Galfond on the list of losers, though faring much better, is Fake Love888, the account believed to belong to Patrik Antonius. Fake Love was on the winners list last week, earning $186k, but he gave that back and more in the last seven days, finishing down just over $300k.
In the third spot is Dutch pro Sander “Berndsen12” Berndsen with just over $282k in losses. Much of his losses were at the hands of Viktor Blom on Tuesday.
Here are the top 10 losers in the online poker cash games this week:
1. Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond: -$709k 2. Fake Love888: -$304 3. Sander “Berndsen12” Berndsen: -$282k 4. Terken89: -$279k 5. VietRussian: -$276k 6. 1Il|1Il|1il|: -$154k 7. azn_baller3: -$133k 8. Theo J: -$128k 9. masoren: -$122k 10. 0Human0: -$113kA section of floor collapsed Friday at the construction site of the city's new casino, sending workers tumbling down with it and causing minor injuries for at least 11 people, authorities said.
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It was another fast day at the Aussie Millions as it took only four and a half hours of play to go from 26 players down to 12.
Day 4 was not a good one for Ivey as the former Full Tilt pro was bleeding chips.
Ivey had the misfortune of losing set over set to Karim Jomeen and never really seemed to fully recover.
He eventually finished with 699,000 chips, which puts him in last place. On the plus side the iconic pro still has 34 big blinds to work with so he could still make a late charge to the final table.
It was the opposite for Yann Dion, who crushes online poker as yadio. Dion caught fire in the last level of play and shot up to 2.6 million in chips.
Mohamad Kowssarie, who used to play online as Fast_Freddie and TerrorOfSweden, also had an exceptional day. The Swede won several massive pots and built a stack of 2.2 million chips.
As far as interestingly storylines Lee Nelson would certainly be up there. The 2006 Aussie Millions winner finished with 1.6 million chips and will have shot at becoming the first repeat champ.
Also still in play is recent WSOP bracelet winner Dan Idema who built a stack of 1.8 million.
To say play has been swingy at the 2012 Aussie Millions would be an understatement.
Matt Turk, who won a tournament-leading 2.6 million-chip pot against Jason Koon to end Day 3, was one of the final eliminations on Day 4.
Turk was bleeding chips all day and eventually shipped his last 570,000 chips with pocket tens and got called down by Yann Dion who had pocket kings.
Day 5 begins tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. It's unclear how many eliminations will be needed to set the final table as the usual number of players at the final table seven but in years past they’ve stopped at eight to accommodate star players such as Patrik Antonius and Barny Boatman.
Here’s a complete look at the chip counts at the end of play:
Yann Dionn – 2,670,000 Bjorn Li – 2,471,000 Mohamad Kowssarie – 2,300,000 Karim Jomeen – 2,063,000 Dan Idema – 1,840,000 Lee Nelson – 1,651,000 Patrick Healy – 1,565,000 Janis Lesinkskis – 1,501,000 Kenneth Wong – 1,498,000 Oliver Speidel – 809,000 Mile Krstanoski – 755,000 Phil Ivey – 699,000
Hua Kim Chye, 51, was on Friday jailed seven years after he pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide for killing Mr Tay Chai Huat, 59.
Cafe 540, which shares premises with hotel Tavern 540, pictured, on Port Rd, is offering children free food as an enticement for their parents to play pokies at the hotel.
The latest issue of a Swedish poker magazine featured an article where Antonius alleged Kowssarie sent a trojan virus through MSN so he could read the Finn’s hole cards in a sessiion several years ago.
Antonius was reminded when he saw Kowssarie playing EPT San Remo last month.
Kowssarie was shocked by the allegations, especially considering the amount of time that has passed since he played online poker against Antonius.
“After seven years he publically accused me of [cheating] without any evidence or facts,” Kowssarie said while playing the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event.
Kowssarie, who played under the screen names Fast_Freddie, TerrorOfSweden and TheTerrorist, famously won a $465,000 pot against Johnny Lodden in 2006 – which was the biggest ever at the time.
He is also a polarizing figure in the poker industry and has been called a cheater by Johnny Lodden in the past. The Swede also denied those allegations at the time.
"Played Some Pretty Interesting Pots with Patrik"
Kowssarie maintained he’s up about $200k-$300k on Antonius in his lifetime and has proof that he never cheated the Finnish pro.
“I’ve played some pretty interesting pots with Patrik,” said Kowssarie. “These pots were for $150-$240k and they give the truth in one screenshot.”
Kowssarie plans on going back to the Swedish poker magazine and giving them his version of the story.
“He has no grounds for that accusation and there is no proof,” said Kowssarie.
Of course Lodden was the first player to accuse Kowssarie of cheating but he says the two have reconciled somewhat over the last few years.
“He said he didn’t care about the past and what’s happened.
"I think the media skewed what he was actually trying to say. We had a few drinks one night and that was the impression I got.
"He has to speak for himself obviously.”
Kowssarie certainly isn’t facing any controversy in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event.
On the second break of Day 4 he was fourth in chips with 1.7 million and has a legitimate shot at making the final table, which is set for Jan. 29.
Animal lovers and dog track owners are teaming up in Tallahassee to try and reduce the number of greyhound races in Florida.
Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player's results over six half-year periods.
by Wendeen H. Eolis
No formal confirmations of additional investors yet, but the noise is ever louder today; Group Bernard Tapie has lined up at least one moneyman "ready to punt." According to several generally informed sources familiar with weeks of efforts to raise more funds, GBT has locked up a commitment with at least one and maybe two substantial participants to nail the acquisition of the Full Tilt brand. Additional funding might not be crucial, but for Tapie's reluctance to put in more capital of his own than suits his taste.
A lawyer close to one purported investor says, "The deal should get done." He estimates the time table for a re-launch of the FTP site as before the end of the first quarter." Another lawyer, with strong ties in the current Full Tilt brouhaha says; "The die is cast; Full Tilt is effectively out of control; the deal is now unstoppable unless Tapie fails to deliver the necessary checks to the Court."
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Today in the 3-Bet we find Joe Hachem back in the Global Poker Index, get a major case of plaque envy from the Aussie Millions and watch WPT Raw Deal host Tony Dunst balancing his tweet range.
The latest update to the Global Poker Index was posted today and, to no surprise, Erik Seidel and Jason Mercier held on to the top two spots.
Jonathan Duhamel jumped into the top 10 (from #11), Mike "Timex" McDonald dropped out of the top 10 (to #11) and a slew of other great tournament players moved up or down the rankings as usual.
Making a big move, however, to ring in his new ambassadorship with the Asian Poker Tour and the AsianLogic Group was Australia's favorite chiropractor-turned-poker pro, Joe Hachem.
Hachem came flying back into the GPI this week as his third-place finish in the Aussie Millions $100k High Roller event scored him 228 points and rocketed him back up to #177 in the rankings.
$100k High Roller winner Dan Smith, aka KingDan23, also crushed the rankings this week on the back of his $100k finish and jumped up 90 spots all the way to #65.
Check the full updated rankings for this week here.
The bundles of cash they used on GSN's High Stakes Poker were pretty baller, for sure, but everybody knows what takes you to the next level of money cachet.
Plaques. Flat, plastic stacks of heavy casino plaques.
Because the best way to show how truly above it all you are is to never sully your hands with cash again.
As Daniel Negreanu tweeted along with this great picture of his stack of plaques at the Aussie Millions cash game, plaques are also just "so James Bond."
To paraphrase Chris Rock:
"Bundles of cash make you look rich. Plaques make you look wealthy."
Check out a few more pics from yesterday's cash game in the PL blog and look for more reports later today.
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Think the lingering resentment towards Full Tilt Poker and its primary owners Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer has dissipated at all?
Not if the Twitter tempest around a new report that came out yesterday revealing some “secret” accounts of Ferguson is any indication.
Most notably expressing his latent rage was WPT Raw Deal Host Tony Dunst, who made it pretty clear in a couple of tweets what he’d do if he ran into either of those two again:
“If Chris Ferguson shows his face in poker again I'll happily be the first one to drive a stake through that piece of shits ankle.”
Not to give Lederer a pass, he followed that immediately by:
“I'd bring retribution to Lederer too if I weren't so confident that the fat fuck will eat himself to death if he has any money left.”
Just to balance his range, Dunst was back to his more jovial host persona four minutes later when he tweeted:
“Check out season X of the WPT on FSN starting February 12th!”
Follow Dunst on Twitter here to see who gets it next.
Tobey Maguire and other celebs are being sued by a group of hedge fund investors, who say Maguire and others won cash in an illegal poker ring, which belongs to them.
by Richard G. Burke
Fred likes to fish, so he and his wife rented a Reno resort hotel room for a week. She enjoys the pool while he—armed with flies, rods, reels, waders, and a sack lunch—fishes in the nearby mountains’ catch-and-release streams. After supper they head to the casino, she to play bingo or the slots and he to the nightly low-entry-fee, no-limit hold’em tournament in the poker room.
You need to understand that Fred doesn’t wail about his poker results; win or lose, he has a ready smile and a cheery attitude. Just the same, he came as close to wailing as I ever heard when he called me that night.
His tournament started at 7 p.m. with five full tables of ten, paying five places. Each player started with $1,500 in tournament chips. The blinds started at $25-50 and went up every 20 minutes. After two-and-a-half hours of solid play, catching a few hands, and stealing blinds upon occasion in the right spot, Fred moved to the final table.
For the new season, FSN will bump up each tournament from two to three episodes.
Trickett scooped over a million each for a win at the Partouche Poker Tour main event, a win in the $100k High Roller at the Aussie Millions and a second in the $250k High Roller in Oz.
It took that extraordinary of a year to win the POY title as Trickett had to beat out triple crown winners Jake Cody and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier plus 2011 WSOP Main Event winner Pius Heinz.
Heinz and Grospellier didn’t leave empty-handed however.
Heinz took home Best Tournament Performance of the Year for his incredible Main Event run.
Grospellier won the award for Poker Personality of the Year.
Online high-stakes loose cannon Ilari Sahamies was also named the Internet Player of the Year by the panel of industry and media members who voted on the awards.
Nominees for the awards this year included Liv Boeree, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, Chris Moorman, Eugene Katchalov, Fabrice Soulier and 2011 November Niner Sam Holden.
Complete list of award winners below:
Player of the Year Sam Trickett Best Tournament Performance Pius Heinz Rookie of the Year Andrey Pateychuk Europe's Leading Lady Natalya Nikitina Poker Staff Person of the Year Warren Lush (bwin.Party's PR Director) Internet Player of the Year Ilari Sahamies Rob Gardner Memorial Award for Poker Personality of the Year Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier Best European Event of the Year WSOPE Cannes Lifetime Achievement Award Jesse MayDay 3 of the tournament was a blisteringly fast affair with nearly 50 players going to the rail in just three levels.
Through it all Ivey remained consistent and ended up finishing sixth in chips with 1.1 million.
Amazingly Ivey has never cashed in the Aussie Millions but that will change this year as the money bubble burst early and with only 26 players left at the end of the day every player left is guaranteed $35,000 (AUD).
Joining Ivey in the final 26 is former Aussie Millions champ Lee Nelson who took down the tournament in 2006.
Nelson finished the day with 878,000 and a shot at becoming the first repeat winner in the history of event.
Also in the top 26 are pros David Steicke, Daniel Idema, Yann Dion and Grant Levy.
Not all the pros were that lucky, however, as Swede Michael Tureniec and consistent Australian casher Billy “The Croc” Argyros both busted in the money.
West Virginia product Jason Koon’s last hand of the day went about as bad it possibly could have as he flipped for his tournament life with a massive, tournament-leading, pot on the line and ended up losing.
“Unreal how heartbreaking tourney poker can be,” wrote Koon on Twitter. “Paint a Picasso over 3 days and just lose a massive flip for all the money.”
English pro Matt Turk was the player who won the pot and he finished with 2.6 million in chips, which makes him the overwhelming chip leader.
Still, he’ll have to get past a red-hot Ivey who was stacking chips all day long and even made an opponent, who had already committed half his stack, fold pocket kings pre-flop.
Tournament organizers announced a surprising decision to change the schedule at the end of the day. They have moved the final table back to Sunday despite the fact that there are only 26 players left.
Apparently the decision was made because organizers are moving the $250k Challenge from tomorrow to Saturday so that more players can play and there’s only one TV feature table.
Regardless play will resume in the Main Event at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow and it could be another short day.
Here’s a look at the top 10 chip leaders heading into Day 4:
Matt Turk – 2,675,000 Tim O’Shea – 1,376,000 Patrick Healy – 1,353,000 Bjorn Li – 1,222,000 Yann Dion – 1,156,000 Phil Ivey – 1,107,000 Daniel Idema – 1,033,000 Minh Nguyen – 992,000 Borge Dypvik – 882,000 Lee Nelson – 878,000
The Casino Belaya Veja in Minsk, Belarus, is scheduled to host a series of Omaha poker tournaments in February.
A 9mm Berretta Peel police say was used to murder Kearn Nedd on April 16, 2011. HANDOUT/PEEL REGIONAL POLICE A man linked to a gun used in a fatal shooting at a Brampton banquet hall last April is charged with accessory after the fact to murder, Peel police said Wednesday.
Koon, who is originally from Weston, West Virginia but lived in Las Vegas until this summer, used to play on Full Tilt Poker as the formidable NovaSky.
The West Virginian had over one million chips midway though Day 3 of the 2012 Aussie Millions and was looking dangerous in almost every hand he played.
Despite some close calls over the years, Koon has never won a major live tournament and while he was reluctant to say he was due he did mention he was ready to win in terms of ability, preparation and mindset.
“I do have the ability to dominate this tournament and I’m looking forward to playing the best that I can and going as deep as I can,” he said.
It’s been a life-changing 12 months for Koon who saw his ability to play online poker in the USA disappear with Black Friday. He also had a substantial amount of money stuck on Full Tilt Poker.
“It was a big hit financially and in terms of lifestyle,” he said. “I was back home in West Virginia hanging out with some friends and making a pretty great living grinding four or five days a week.”
Like many online pros Koon opted to move to poker player haven Vancouver, Canada, so that he could continue to ply his trade online.
At first the adjustment of moving from the USA was difficult but Koon eventually got into the rhythm of it.
“Vancouver’s a beautiful city and I lived in Coal Harbor and Yaletown, which are both nice areas,” he said.
Despite his good experiences in Vancouver, Koon is once again on the move and plans on living in Cyprus with Chris Moorman for the next while.
“I’ve been bouncing all over the place and it’s been a lot of fun,” he said.
Earlier this year Koon Tweeted that 2012 would be his year and so far he’s lived up to his promise.
At the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Koon made the final table of the $25,000 High Rollers event and ended up finishing in fourth place to take down $271,950.
The final table was no walk in the park with pros Jonathan Duahamel, Isaac Haxton and Randy Lew all competing for first place.
“I was first in chips heading into the final table I was obviously not completely satisfied with fourth but getting fourth in one of the toughest tournaments in the world is never a bad thing,” he said.
Right now Koon is firmly set on making a deep run in the 2012 Aussie Millions. He had nothing but good things to say about the signature Australian event.
“The value is good and the structure is great,” he said. “This is a fantastic tournament.”
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According to Subject: Poker, over the last four years Ferguson transferred an additional $60 million in Full Tilt dividend payments (on top of the $25 million paid into his personal accounts) into accounts belonging to Pocket Kings Ltd.
Those bank accounts were understood to be Ferguson's personal accounts it claims.
Ferguson withdrew or moved $45 million of the money through various means, the report says, including transfers to other personal accounts, payments to his lawyer Ian Imrich, loans to other FTP shareholders and the purchasing of more FTP shares.
According to Subject: Poker, $14.3 million of the $60 million was not withdrawn and instead was used with Ferguson’s approval to cover Full Tilt’s post-Black Friday expenses.
As for how the accounts could affect the impending deal, Subject: Poker sources say Ferguson and Imrich have been trying to recoup this $14.3 million and have threatened legal action to see an accounting of the money and reclaim any money “spent improperly.”
This may or may not even be possible though, Subject: Poker says.
The report also claims early versions of Full Tilt’s agreement with the Bernard Tapie Group included giving the equivalent in shares to Ferguson but that changed when the DOJ stipulated Full Tilt’s board of directors could not be involved in the new company.
No sources have been officially named and neither Imrich or Ferguson were reached for comment.
Read the full report here.
My column last week on the death of Phil Gustafson struck a nerve that went deep.
by Ashley Adams
Read Part 1 and Part 2
On Wednesday, my friend Andrei and I left the magnificent 65 table Winstar Casino poker room in southern Oklahoma ready to head back toward Kansas City, but wanting to play some more poker before our Friday morning flight. By Wednesday afternoon we had arrived at the major poker room in the Oklahoma City area—the beautiful, 24 table, Riverwind Casino (1544 W State Highway 9, 405.322.6000) just south of Oklahoma City in Norman.
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Today in the Daily 3-Bet we learn the poker talent in the Gold family runs to the top, find math geniuses playing poker for credit at MIT and tip our hats to Kevmath for a nice run in Australia.
Jane Gold, mom of 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jamie Gold, has earned the family a new poker title.
She took down the Borgata Winter Poker Open Ladies’ Event this past weekend.
With over 100 runners and a $400 buy-in, Mom’s take for the win was just over $10k. Not $12 million, but a very nice score in its own right.
Said Gold to Borgata bloggers on the scene:
“Look out Jamie Gold, mama’s coming to get you.”
A staple in the WSOP main event since 2007, even outlasting her son on at least one occassion, Jane Gold is known as a keen poker player and one of the main reasons Jamie got into poker.
More details on the ladies event from Philadelphia-based gambling blog PhillyGambles here.
More on Jamie’s current gig as ambassador for the Tropicana Poker Room here.
As if poker games aren’t already tough enough, 200 more math geniuses from MIT are about to get into the mix.
A course at MIT taught by Ph.D student Will Ma (former Grand Prix de Paris winner with $1.7 million in online cashes) is now up and running and so popular they had to move to a bigger classroom to accommodate it.
It's an introductory course, but it’s also a bit more advanced than your usual beginner poker strategy.
Course topics include preflop ranges, polarization, bet sizing, implied odds, reverse implied odds, flop analysis, credible bluffs, thin value, folding good hands, slow-playing, river odds, ICM theory, faults of Nash Equilibrium, decisions vs. results, statistics and variance and risk management.
Course work is to play in a private home league on PokerStars and to pass you need to earn 10 points playing online poker tournaments.
Check the rest of the syllabus here.
Lectures are online (first one above) if you want to pretend your grades were good enough for MIT.
We lasted seven minutes before it got over our heads.
Last but definitely not least in today's 3-Bet we send congrats out to everyone's favorite poker media icon Kevin "Kevmath" Mathers.
Mathers has been on the scene live in Melbourne covering the Aussie Millions but managed to find some time to play in the $550 Terminator event.
Playing against some stiff competition, Kevmath was on the short stack for a long time but still managed to make the final table.
He ended up cashing in sixth-place for for $6,055 when his A9 couldn't hold against K8.
As expected, he handled his exit like a pro, tweeting:
"Out in 6th for 6055, k8 <a9, guy hits 8 on river. Certainly can't complain after being so short forever."
How's he going to spend it?
"Figured out the first thing I'm doing with my winnings, laundry at the Crown!"
Hat tip to Kevmath. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Follow him on Twitter here.
South Carolina's only federally recognized Indian tribe argues in a lawsuit that laws governing casino cruise ships off the state's coast also mean gaming should be allowed on the tribe's reservation.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Plans are in the works for venues in Kalamazoo to allow nonprofits to host black jack, poker and other casino-style games.
Day 2 of the signature Australian tournament went by today at the speed of a Roger Federer serve, with 239 eliminations in seven levels of play.
Of the 314 players that entered the day only 75 still have a shot at winning the event.
Payouts were announced on Day 2 and although first place will walk away with $1.6 million the more important number for players right now is 72. That’s when the payouts begin.
Ultimately this year’s Aussie Millions, with 659 players, came short of the 721-player mark it reached last year.
Of course since that time there has been major changes to the poker economy with the fallout from Black Friday and Full Tilt Poker’s hiatus.
Regardless the prizepool contains over $6 million, which should provide enough motivation for Ivey.
There is one player, Australian Tim O’Shea, who has more chips than Ivey with 921,000 to Ivey’s 778,000 but Ivey looks almost unbeatable as the field continues to narrow.
Outside of Ivey, many pros had a rough day.
Tom Dwan, Annette Obrestad, Gus Hansen, Isaac Baron, JC Tran, Jason Mercier, Tony G and Maria Ho were all sent to the rail.
Tony G had a particularly ironic departure as one of the players who qualified for the Aussie Millions on the site he represents – PartyPoker – busted The G out of the tournament.
Meanwhile Tom Dwan had an extended battle with Australian Tom Grigg.
Grigg needled Dwan several times and the New Jersey native even called the clock on the Aussie at one point.
Grigg eventually got the best of Dwan when he hit a straight against the pro's turned set.
Dwan was crippled in the hand and busted shortly after. Grigg finished the day with 225,500 chips.
Not every pro was eliminated, however, as Jason Koon (667,500), David Steicke (453,000 chips), Lee Nelson (432,000 chips), Michael Tureniec (289,000 chips), Matt Wakeman (170,000 chips) and Grant Levy (80,000 chips) will all carry on into Day 3.
Day 3 kicks off at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow with the money bubble likely to burst early.
The top 10 chip counts:
1. Tim O’Shea – 921,0002. Phil Ivey – 778,5003. Aage Ravn – 708,5004. Jason Koon - 667,5005. Oliver Speidel – 540,0006. Patrick Healy – 521,0007. Yann Dion – 495,0008. Mohammed Kowssarie – 477,0009. Rob Angood – 470,50010. Janis Lesiwski – 463,500
Melbourne Greyhound Park officials are gambling that a November countywide voter referendum may eventually allow Las Vegas-style slot machines at their facility.
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