The Legislature has plenty on its plate this session with budget issues and Medicaid and pension reform, but Senate President John Cullerton has piled more on with a plan to legalize online poker.
With his three titles this year all in Stud, Deeb was clearly in his comfort zone in Event #38-H, $2,100 H.O.R.S.E., with 60% of the games Stud variants.
Adding in a little bit of run good, Deeb was again unstoppable and ran by a final table that included tough pros Jon Spinks, Jon "FatalError" Aguiar, George Lind and Dylan "ImaLucSac" Linde.
With just 85 players registering, the field was void of soft spots with usual suspects like Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand Grospellier and Lind in the mix.
Undaunted, Deeb swept to his fourth title in just two weeks and added $46,325 to his 2012 SCOOP haul, now up to $236,951.39.
Despite his four wins, Deeb isn't the highest money earner in the 2012 SCOOP (Isildur1 - $438k) but he does have a commanding lead in the Player of the Series race.
Deeb's 825 points is nearly double that of second place Drew M Scott. He’s also tied for the lead with 25 cashes and has eight final tables - again double his nearest competitior.
Final Results Event #38-H ($2,100 H.O.R.S.E.):
1. Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb (Mexico) $46,325.00 2. Jon "LUFCBas" Spinks (United Kingdom) $31,450.00 3. Dylan "ImaLucSac" Linde (Canada) $23,800.00 4. BiatchPeople (United Kingdom) $16,150.00 5. Andrey "Kroko-dill" Zaichenko (Russia) $11,900.00 6. Sivokhan (Ukraine) $8,925.00 7. Jonathan "FatalError" Aguiar (Mexico) $7,225.00 8. George "Jorj95" Lind III (Canada) $5,525.00
The list of big-name pros with SCOOP titles this year continues to get longer with both Luke “lb6121” Schwartz and Mike “Sowerss” Sowers each earning a SCOOP title of their own last night.
Schwartz, famously known for livening up the online high-stakes cash games as “_FullFlush1_”, won his first SCOOP title in Event #36-H ($5,200 PLO 6-max).
Schwartz topped 134 players overall to take the top prize of $174,200 from the $600k+ prize pool.
Among the pros Schwartz outlasted in his fourth career SCOOP final-table appearance were WSOP bracelet winner Joe "enders555" Ebanks and EPT champ Nicolas Chouity.
Sowers, one of the top online players of the last five years, earned his first SCOOP title in the medium buy-in version of Event #36.
Full results for both events below:
Final Results Event #36-H $5,200 PLO 6-max:
1. Luke "lb6121" Schwartz (United Kingdom) $174,200 2. MrDurden (Canada) $117,250.00 3. Nicolas "niccc" Chouity (Lebanon) $87,100 4. GlassOfBeer (Finland) $56,950.00 5. Jorge "twin-caracas" Arias (Venezuela) $43,500.00 6. Joe "ender555" Ebanks (United Kingdom) $30,150.00
Final Results Event #36-M, $530 PLO 6-max:
1. Mike "Sowerss" Sowers (Costa Rica) -- $61,290 2. BackDoorovic (Sweden) -- $45,967.50 3. TheHood (Australia) -- $34,050 4. Jarfish (Canada) -- $23,835 5. xxMatSon (Finland) -- $17,025 6. gillete (Canada) -- $10,025
Just six events of the 2012 SCOOP remain including all three levels of the Main Event with $5 million total guaranteed.
Watch the action play out today on PokerStars or look for recaps here and on the PokerStars blog.
My dad played cards with his young daughters for years: poker, blackjack and rummy.
On Sunday, May, 27, a car boot sale will take place from 9am until 1pm at Exmouth Rugby and Football Club.
Still looking for some family fun today? Nancy Cartwright, the voice of TV's Bart Simpson, is hosting the annual Happy House Poker Tournament and Barbecue.
Judy Berg Kohn is leading the effort to save the 140-year-old Trinitarian Congregational Church.
Day 13 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars was unlucky for many, but a certain few had excellent days.
The interior of the Hollywood Casino in Toledo, March 3, 2012. The casino is scheduled to open in late May.
But, as the rich tend to get richer, Jaka can now add a PokerStars SCOOP title to his resume as he took down an extremely tough field to win Event #33-H, $2,100 No-Limit Hold’em (1R+ 1A), yesterday.
With one rebuy and one add-on allowed per player, Event #33 drew a solid 175 runners but the prize pool ballooned to a massive $808,000 with 120 re-buys and 109 add-ons.
As expected, dozens of top pros were involved including Team PokerStars pros Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Johnny Lodden, Eugene Katchalov and 2012 Player of the Series lock Shaun Deeb.
For a while it looked like Deeb might make an unprecedented run at a fourth title but he ultimately dropped out in 12th, well into the money but just short of the final table.
That didn’t make the final table much easier for Jaka, though, as Randall “RandALLin” Flowers, Rory “Mafews” Matthews and PokerStars pro Max Lykov were all still around.
None could match Jaka, however, as he took the fourth-largest chip stack and ran it up all the way to the title and a $173,729 payout.
Final Table Results Event #33-H $2,100 NL (1R+1A)
1. Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka (Mexico) - $173,720 2. HC_68 (Austria) - $125,240 3. zugzwang16 (Uruguay) - $94,940 4. römpsä (Finland) - $70,700 5. Max Lykov (Russia) - $48,480 6. Sphinx87 (Poland) - $40,400 7. HITTHEPANDA (Canada) - $32,320 8. RandALLin (Mexico) - $24,240 9. Mafews (U.K.) - $16,160
With Shaun Deeb, Viktor Blom and a couple of other players notching multiple event wins, the bar has been set high for success this SCOOP.
Dan "djk123" Kelly can put himself in that successful group despite just narrowly missing out on a second title last night.
Winner of Event #29-M on Thursday, Kelly made another deep run in Event #34-H, the $5k Limit Hold'em Six-Max, but fell just short in third place.
With just 62 players the field was wall-to-wall pros including Ville Wahlbeck, ElkY and Andre Akkari but it was ultimately high-stakes veteran ibadbeatyou who took home the title and $93,000.
Kelly earned $46,500 for third and pro Bryn Kenney $31,000 for fourth.
Final Results Event #34-H, $5,200 LHE 6-Max:
1st place: ibadbeatyou (Taiwan) - $93,000.00 2nd place: valesco (Canada) - $62,000.00 3rd place: djk123 (Australia) - $46,500.00 4th place: BrynKenney (Spain) - $31,000.00 5th place: MaiseE (Sweden) - $23,250.00 6th place: treezer (Sweden) - $17,050.00
For a full rundown of all the day's action and winners, check the PokerStars SCOOP page.
With PokerStars' 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker well under way and the World Series of Poker right around the corner, one might expect the online high-stakes cash games to take a back seat.
Running from now until July 1, PartyPoker players will have a chance to collect one random football player for every 10 Party Points they generate.
There are a total of 64 players up for grabs and all 16 teams of the Euro Cup are represented.
You can win a variety of cash prizes for collecting players but the first player who collects all 64 unique footballers will receive a monster $100,000 prize.
If that seems out of your league you can still win seats in freerolls and up to $20 cash for individual players.
Even better if you collect an entire team you will receive an even bigger prize from $50 for England up to $1,200 for host Euro Cup host Poland.
It gets even better if you collect an entire group, which is four teams, with prizes ranging from $2,000 to $7,000.
You can collect up to 100 football players every day but the promotion will end when the first player collects all 64 players.
If football isn’t your game PartyPoker is also in the midst of its 2012 WSOP qualifying, which gives you a variety of ways to qualify for huge $14,000 packages to the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.
New players also receive access to the special $5,000 bankroll boosters, which take place every week and are an excellent way to bolster your online account balance.
To sign up for an account and be eligible for our exclusive sign-up bonus and freerolls, download the software via our PartyPoker review.
After nearly eight months, the Obama administration finally responded Friday to the American people's online petition to license and regulate Internet poker.
TWO South Australian punters have been revealed in the world's biggest and most secretive gambling club - which bets billions of dollars a year.
Each year when PokerNews compiles it's World Series of Poker Rookie Roundup list, Harrison Gimbel's name comes up.
AFL clubs have hosed down an offer to purge themselves of their poker machines, saying there is little substance to league chief Andrew Demetriou's proposal.
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Today in the 3-Bet we find Liv Boeree lamenting the loss of her fine motor skills, rich investors stealing from poker players and the WPT Young Guns of 2004 showing their age.
Team PokerStars pro Liv Boeree has won the hearts of poker nerds for several reasons, not the least of which is her love of heavy metal and acumen on the guitar.
She’s dropped a few jaws with her metal riffs before (see video below), but accoridng to her latest blog post a couple of years on the poker circuit have left her more Janis Ian than Scott Ian:
“A few years ago at the height of my axe-nerding, my left and right hands would communicate in near-perfect synergy. Now, they belong to different people.
“The right hand is still half-reasonable, its dexterity perhaps maintained by incessant chip riffling and typing on an iPhone.
“The left hand however has become some redundant object that flaps around blindly along the neck of the guitar, ignorant to whatever signals my once powerful guitar-brain attempts to send it. Sigh.”
Since she doesn’t like “not being good at things,” Boeree says she's going deep into practice mode before the WSOP to get her chops back.
Read her full post here; check one of her finer guitar moments below:
Want to make a ton of money investing? All you have to do is think like a poker player, Rob Russell says.
In his latest Smarter Investor column, Russell says he was impressed by the poker skills of a fellow financial advisor and thinks the same skills that make a poker player great apply to being a great investor.
Those traits:
Knowing the odds Knowing when to fold Not betting with scared money Checking your emotions Having a disciplined strategyAs Russell says, "If you can apply all of these common traits, then you’ll have an edge over the vast majority of investors and financial advisers.”
Easy peasy, then.
Now get out there and buy some Facebook stock. We saw a movie about it once, looks like a real up-and-comer.
In honor of the WPT announcing its Season XI schedule and tomorrow's WPT Championship, we dug up this old clip from the “WPT Young Guns” special in 2004.
Highlighting the best players under 25 at the time, eight years on it’s kinda startling how impressive a lineup it really was – and that none of them at 22-24 would really even qualify as "young guns" anymore (thanks Annette_15).
The line-up:
David Williams Scott Fischman Thomas "Thunder" Keller Joe Cassidy Pete Lawson John D’AgostinoStill a tough table today, really, depending on whether Joe Cassidy is on your left. Let's go to the clip:
by A.C. Clark
"Early Saturday morning, I woke up refreshed and ready to go for the day. Why all this energy? Not a normal occurrence for me, especially on a day off. I started a pot of coffee, threw in a load of laundry, made a fire, sat down in my favorite chair, and decided to read a short, motivational book that had been sent to me in the mail. My life was about to change forever. Wow! What an inspiring read!
212 The Extra Degree, by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson, intrigues the mind while making perfect sense. At the core is the notion that water is hot at 211 degrees. Then, at 212 degrees, it boils. With boiling water comes steam, and steam can power a locomotive. Think of that … what a statement. Just simply raising the temperature of water one extra degree means the difference between something that is very hot and something that generates enough force to power a machine. Point made: Small things can make major differences.
The Spanish government announced that despite previous agreements, demands on online poker companies seeking a license to operate within the country will be increased.
Hastings, who is currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, so that he can play online poker, burned through 3,844 hands record a chart-topping $379k in profit on PokerStars.
The American has not been particularly active this year but rejoined the action in April and has been lights out ever since. He’s currently up over $800k on PokerStars this year.
Hastings was hardly the only player to win big this week as Chris “Genius28” Lee and patpatman recorded substantial victories while Viktor “Isildur1” Blom continued to stumble.
Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 winners and losers on PokerStars this week:
Brian Hastings stole most of the headlines this week but Chris “Genius28” Lee continues to crush some of the biggest games on PokerStars.
The recent SCOOP winner picked up another $241k this week and has steadily built up a profit of just over $500k in 2012.
Meanwhile Terje “Terken” Augdal continued his strong 2012 with $147k in profit this week. That puts him at just under $700k this year.
The still unidentified patpatman was the second biggest winner this week with $257k in profit. Towards the end of the week patpatman took on Dan “w00ki3z” Cates in $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em and ended up thrashing him for nearly $100k.
Other notable winners this week included verve.oasis, Takechip and EireAbu.
Check below for the complete top 10 winners this week according to HSDB:
1. Brian “$tinger88” Hastings: +$379,000 2. Patpatman: +$257,000 3. Chris “Genius28” Lee: +$241,000 4. Verve.oasis: +$193,000 5. 0Human0: +$169,000 6. Terken89: +$147,000 7. Glosik: +$130,000 8. N0d1ceb4by: +$106,000 9. Takechip: +$87,000 10. EireAbu: +$82,000
For yet another week Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is a member of the top 10 biggest losers on PokerStars.
Despite an incredible year in tournaments with a PCA Super High Roller victory and two SCOOP titles, Isildur1 has had a disastrous run online.
This week Isildur1 lost a relatively small $120k but he’s now down an astounding $1.1 million on PokerStars this year.
Only Zypherin (-$1.8 million) has lost more than Isildur1 this year.
Interestingly the incredibly swingy !P0krpartyi was active this week but couldn’t get much going and ended up dropping $198k.
Phisherman36, who was one of the biggest winners last week, took a turn for the worse this week and dropped $167k.
Finally consistent grinder doncraignano had some major issues this week and lost a site-worst $208k.
Here’s a complete look at the top 10 biggest losers according to HSDB:
1. doncarignano: -$208,000 2. !P0krpartyi: -$198,000 3. Phisherman36: -$167,000 4. Kanu7: -$133,000 5. YoussefAhmed: -$125,000 6. Isildur1: -$120,000 7. Zypherin: -$102,000 8. ISILDRooN: -$89,000 9. Sussie Smith: -$83,000 10. JackRich: -$76,000
The Peppermill Resort and Casino is hosting a Texas Hold'em Charity Poker Tournament on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The tournament will benefit the Nevada Humane Society's G.I. Dogs Program, which transforms abandoned animals into service dogs and pets for military veterans.
Anthony Mackie is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in the online gambling thriller "Runner Runner" at 20th Century Fox, New Regency and Stone Village Pictures says Variety .
PADDY Power chief executive Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that the internet bookie is not in danger of being left behind in the United States as a number of states there move closer to legalising online poker.
Lee, a prolific high-stakes online player and 10-Game champ at the 2011 WSOP, outlasted an incredibly tough, 107-player field to win Event 31-H, $2,100 8-Game.
Kelly, likewise a WSOP bracelet winner and one of the best online poker players of all time with over $5.3 million in earnings, dragged his title in Event #29-M, $109+Rebuys NLHE Big Antes.
Three-time WCOOP champ Kelly earned his first SCOOP title and $73,040 after a two-way deal while Lee took home $58,315.
As has been the standard so far in the 2012 SCOOP, the fields in the high buy-in, mixed game events have been small but talented and that held true today.
Among the pros knocked out early in the tournament were Martin Staszko, Chad Brown and George Lind while Eugene Katchalov and Scott Clements held on to finish in the top 10.
Team PokerStars pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier made another run at a SCOOP title but ultimately had to settle for third while Lee and Alexander Kostritsyn had an epic, 1.5-hour heads-up match to decide the winner.
In the end, Lee prevailed and claimed his first SCOOP title.
Final Results - 2012 SCOOP Event #31-H ($2,100 8-Game):
1. Chris "Genius28" Lee (Canada) - $58,315.00 2. Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn (Russia) - $39,055.00 3. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (UK) - $29,960.00 4. Richard "CHUFTY" Ashby (UK) - $20,330.00 5. Kecinpulach (Czech Republic) - $14,980.00 6. Ig123456789 (Ukraine) - $11,235.00
When you think of poker pros with over $7.5 million in combined earnings live and online, Dan “djk123” Kelly probably isn’t the first player to come to mind.
The $7.5 million+ range is heady territory - and usually reserved for the Erik Seidels and Daniel Negreanus of the world.
But Kelly has proved time and again he belongs in the discussion of the game’s truly elite and proved it again last night as he dismantled a 1,659-player field to take the biggest share of the $491,400 prize pool.
Kelly didn't have a particularly easy path either as pros Nicolas Chouity and Ankush "pistons87" Mandavia both ran deep. Kelly and Mandavia ultimately decided on a deal to split the top two payouts fairly evenly.
Final Results - SCOOP 2012 Event #29-M $109+Rebuys NLHE (Big Antes)
( * denotes part of two-way deal ) 1. Dan "djk123" Kelly (Australia) *$73,040.06 2. pistons87 (Canada) *$66,542.11 3. Blackbeaty (Germany) $44,226.00 4. matt20 (United Kingdom) $32,923.80 5. kripap (Hungary) $23,341.50 6. ro_Man777 (Germany) $18,427.50 7. djalminha (Portugal) $13,513.50 8. raare01 (Netherlands) $8,599.50 9. YugiohPro (South Korea) $4,914.00
For a full recap of all the day's action plus a preview of the remaining events on the 2012 SCOOP schedule, visit the PokerStars blog.
On a recent business trip to Pittsburgh, PA, I had the pleasure of hanging out with one of the best advisers in the country, Michael Reese from Michigan.
Known as “Jason of Beverly Hills,” Arasheben is renowned for his "lavish, over-the-top diamond masterpieces."
Most notably he's designed the championship rings for the Los Angeles Lakers and Green Bay Packers and several pieces for celebs including Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.
The 2012 Main Event bracelet will feature hand-picked round cut diamonds plus all four suits in either rubies or black diamonds. The bracelet will feature 160 grams of 14 karat gold and over 35 carats of diamonds.
“We are honored to have the opportunity to create this masterpiece for the World Series of Poker,” Arasheben said, “and it will go down as the most expensive piece of championship jewelry across all major sports."
Outside of the Main Event winner, all WSOP champs in Las Vegas and Europe in 2012 will be awarded the new, "blingier" gold bracelet pictured above. The winner of the $1m Big One for One Drop will receive a special platinum bracelet.
“Blinger is Better,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart. “Jason grasped the heritage of WSOP bracelets, but was only interested if he could take it up several notches.
“This is a trophy that truly embodies the promise of today’s WSOP – seemingly unthinkable dreams are dealt each year. I challenge anyone to keep a poker face when they see this bracelet in person.”
For more information on Jason of Beverly Hills, visit www.jasonofbh.com.
Bracelets for the past two years at the World Series were designed by Australia-based OnTilt Designs, who created decidedly less adorned, more metallic bracelets.
It’s an exciting time for poker players and in the span of seven or so weeks players can go from virtually unknown grinders to veritable poker superstars.
This year we tried to highlight a number of both big-name pros and lesser-known players in our version of a WSOP "rookie" report.
Some of these players aren’t complete rookies at the WSOP but for whatever reason have been unable to break through at the series.
Check below for five potential up-and-coming stars of the 2012 WSOP:
Who is he?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (say hi to Howard Lederer for us!) for the last few years there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Viktor “Isildur1” Blom.
The young Swede is one of best online cash-game players in the world and has successfully transitioned to tournament poker with recent wins in the $100k PCA Super High Roller and in two SCOOP events.
Arguably the hottest player in poker, 2012 will be the first year that Blom is old enough to play in the big dance.
Blom will easily be the most famous “first-timer” at the World Series of Poker this year and all eyes will be trained on the young Scandi as he tries to trasnfer his success to the most prestigious poker series in the world.
It’s still unknown how many tournaments Blom will actually play at the 2012 WSOP but he has already said he will at least play the Main Event.
What to expect?
It’s tough to say. A lot of players are pointing to Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s first experience at the WSOP in 2008 when he made two final tables.
It’s going to be tough for Blom if he only plays a few events. You'd think the Scandi will be particularly drawn to the Heads-Up, 6-Max and Pot-Limit Omaha $10,000 championship events.
Interestingly Blom sounds like he will not play the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament despite recently winning the PCA Super High Roller for $1.3 million.
Apparently even Blom’s bankroll has limits.
Who is he?
Harrison Gimbel became the youngest ever PCA winner in 2010 when he won the main event down in the Bahamas for $2.2 million.
The 21-year-old from Jupiter, Florida, has been playing poker since he was 13 years old so the WSOP has been a long time coming.
A very skilled online player, Gimbel has multiple cashes in the Sunday majors including final-table appearances in the PokerStars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl.
Hardly a one-hit wonder, Gimbel won the Fall Poker Open Championship in Florida for $330,000 and has cashed for $3 million in his live-tournament career.
Think Gimbel is psyched to play the WSOP? That’s an understatement. Check out his Tweet from earlier this month:
Finally figured out my Vegas plans for the summer May 27-July 16. I've been dreaming of this moment for years and it's almost here. #pinchme
— Harrison Gimbel (@Harrison_Gimbel) April 26, 2012What to expect?
Gimbel could be a serious force at the 2012 WSOP. An experienced online MTT player, Gimbel has already shown the ability to win live tournaments.
He massacred the massive 1,529-field at the 2010 PCA so big fields shouldn’t be an issue for the young star.
Expect him to follow the footsteps of successful WSOP converts like Dan “djk123” Kelly and James “mig.com” Mackey.
Who is he?
Sebastian Sikorski, who plays online as p0cket00, hasn’t even committed to playing the 2012 WSOP but could certainly do some damage if he ends up going.
The Canadian is one of the biggest winners ever in the PocketFives database with over $4 million in lifetime tournament earnings.
Sikorski has won two online poker Triple Crowns and currently is fourth in the Canadian online rankings.
Despite a slow SCOOP, Sikorski recently finished in second place on PokerStars Super Tuesday for a $64,980 score.
Interestingly, Sikorski has yet to make any waves on the live poker scene and is still looking for his first big live win.
What to expect?
If Sikorski plays he has to be considered a threat to take down a WSOP bracelet. He, along with Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger, Matt “ch0ppy” Kay and Russel “rdcrsn” Carson round out Canada’s online poker elite.
Who is he?
We’re double-dipping with Marcel Bjerkmann considering we already listed him in our top five players to watch in 2012 but it’s just too hard to ignore this guy.
Bjerkmann is a killer online with over $1.3 million in profit but also has nearly $1 million in live tournaments, mostly thanks to winning the Masters Classics of Poker and Belgian Open Poker Championship.
We had a chance to watch Bjerkmann play in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event and were impressed. Excellent table presence and straight-up skill mean good things for his future in this game.
There hasn’t been a Norwegian with this much potential since Johnny Lodden was wrecking people for millions in online poker back in the mid-2000s.
What to expect?
Bjerkmann has already proven he can win major live tournaments so all he needs is a bit of run-good at the WSOP and it could be all over for his opponents.
We have a hunch this is his year and he’s going to make quite a dent in Las Vegas this summer.
Who is he?
Ben “kidcardiff” Warrington has had a little live success but has so far been unable to break through at the WSOP. That could change this year.
Warrington, who is from England but currently lives in Spain, has made over $1.4 million online playing as either kidcardiff or benwa1.
Warrington’s most notable score came in 2010 when he took down a $1 Million Guaranteed Rush Tournament on Full Tilt Poker for $185k.
He also has notable final tables in the old $200k guaranteed on Full Tilt and the Sunday 500 on PokerStars.
He’s been playing a fair amount of SCOOP events recently although he’s been lukewarm in the series so far.
Warrington has limited experience in live tournaments but he did place 47th in the 2010 edition of EPT Berlin for $20k.
What to expect?
It’s still unclear if Warrington will play the 2012 WSOP but if he does he could be yet another hot Brit joining the likes of Jake Cody, Sam Trickett and Chris Moorman.
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.
Day 11 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars spanned nearly 20 hours from start to finish, awarding nine winners.
Beverly Perdue.The key changes would allow live dealer gambling for card games such as poker and blackjack at the tribe's western North Carolina casino, with a share of the revenue from the new games going to the state.The 30-year agreement would begin sharing revenue from the card games with the state, starting at 4 percent and increasing to 8 ... (more)
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Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Hellmuth sharing his verbal rolodex with the radio listeners of Madison, Wisconsin, a heart-wrenching day (or two) in the life of Jose Canseco and the best poker tumblr ever.
Phil Hellmuth fans that have longed to hear his dulcet tones carry them through the post-supper hour have now got their wish.
Hellmuth has signed on to do the “Poker Brat Radio” show on ESPN once a week on FM 100.5 in Madison, Wisconsin, replacing the show his friend Mark “PokerHo” Kroon used to do.
The show only airs live on the actual radio in Madison, not nationwide, but you can still stream it live online here.
The first edition aired last week and the early reviews from 2+2 users are, well, 2+2ish:
"I'm listening now, i'm not that impressed so far," said TrailerParkBoy. “That guy loves to drop names,” said Daniel Ocean.
“He needs a vocal coach,” said synth_floyd.
Some fans are into it though: “Love Phil,” said OJsBludyNife.
Always the voice of reason, BludyNife. Still, great for Phil fans who can check in on how much Phil’s new BMW Alpina cost ($44,500) and who he had dinner with in Palo Alto recently.
If you’re in Madison, tune in to FM 100.5 on Tuesdays at 8 pm EST. Follow PokerBratRadio on Twitter here.
Former Oakland A’s Bash Brother and current Major League Baseball steroid pariah Jose Canseco has been slowly inching his way into the poker world over the last few years.
Now living in Vegas, we’re guessing we’re only going to see more of him and we truly hope to see him do well.
In particular we hope to catch up with him after he wins a bracelet at the 2012 WSOP, but until then this amazing piece on Sportsnet.ca by Kristina Rutherford will have to suffice.
It's not pretty, and the talk of poker is marginal (“Canseco may live in Vegas, but he doesn’t live the Vegas life. If it’s not working out, baseball, golf, poker or eating, he’s not interested.”), but the story itself is astounding and definitely worth a read.
Other, better parts:
“Canseco is full of surprises and contradictions. He isn’t stupid or crazy, despite what his misspelled rants suggest. At the heart of it, Canseco is honest, he’s endearing, he’s likeable, even kind. He’s also sad and lonely.”
“He plots a Twitter death and decides he’ll tweet that he was found dead in a bathtub with 14 penguins, then reconsiders. ‘That’s too many. Two penguins is more realistic.’”
Again, check the full piece here.
We use the Internet for essentially four things:
Playing poker Making comments on YouTube videos Researching B+Bs for our next vacation and Digging around for hilarious animated gifs of babies, pets, celebrities and nut shots.Given those predilections, the life with face cards tumblr that’s been bouncing around Twitter feeds for the last couple of days is virtually perfect.
Much, much win is to be found including gems like:
"When I misclick call and flop the world"
by Ashley Adams
I wrote my last column, “Driven to Distraction,” to show how occasional poker players have specific challenges that aren’t encountered by card room regulars. I divided these into three groups: The Lure of Action, Free Stuff, and Other Gambling Opportunities. In this column, I’ll let you know my thoughts on how to keep those distractions from hurting your best poker game.
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May 20, 2012 04:23 PM
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