Archive for July, 2009
The online show is called Inside ESPN Deal
On Monday and we anticipate that ESPN preparing a show about online poker. However, it was today when we read the page from our friends Wicked Chops Poker to ESPN has already confirmed the news and announced that the program will be called “Inside Deal” .
In addition, among other news, apparently Inside Deal is finally submitted by the newcomer to poker, Laura Lane , the player that has exploited its 13 th in a main event Bernard Lee , and Andrew Feldman .
Laura Lane, the future anchor of Inside Deal
Laura has been reported in journals known as FHM and MAXIM , and his career appears to have been a reporter for the ESPN Magazine, OK! And MTV News .
Program Inside Deal begin its first session in the 3 months August 4 , and will last until the end of the November’s Nine the WSOP . We are eager to see the program content and presenters as they develop their .
¡Requiem for the Sapphire Pool at Rio in Las Vegas!
Sad news is that we have read in Pokerati . One of the most exciting places to visit the All-Suite Hotel
Pitbull Poker scandal
Another bad news for the online poker . When it appeared that the echoes of the incident Absolute Poker stopped already heard, we woke up with a series of quite serious charges based on the room .
Pitbull Poker
In addition, not only is that evidence of root accounts (such as AP ), as in this thread has 2 2, as it seems Sustrai money from the stacks of the players in the middle the hands, as confirmed in this thread on PocketFives.
Yes, you heard right. According to that thread, five players have been investigating the room after an incident in which one of them realized how a hand in which two players were all in, suddenly one of them is $ 25 missing.
Thinking that this was surely a mistake or that their senses have deceived him, he gave more importance. Until the same thing happened to him in another boat share, which bit him $ 10.
Of course, contacted seeking their history, asking if this was a normal practice and asking to be reimbursed the amount stolen. The manager of the hall replied the player. Apparently, this was a bug in the software of Omaha and said that in the next sentence and also arrange the money refunded to those affected.
But it seems that the latter has not happened and that history of conflict with their hands have been deleted. And, of course, denying everything now. I guess it would say that was the dog of your logo …
Pitbull Poker is a small room on the network The Flash Poker Network . Half their traffic is only 40 players. This case smells really bad. The truth is that neither of us miss those sites as small stories. The best advice we can give is to care where you have put your money. Well, at least the manager must recognize honesty in putting the name of the room .
How do promotions poker room?
This week, our old acquaintance Bill Rini wrote a most interesting article on the marketing of poker rooms to keep players (and at the same time, if possible, to increase the number of hands that usually play). It states that there are basically three types of promotions are possible:
- Based on the fate
- Based on performance
- Hybrid
The first is aimed at a casual type of player you are looking for an immediate reward. The latter are aimed at the usual, ie, workers in the mine (and indirectly bots), but many of them are so complex that not just attract these players. The third is not well-Target because most are not usually suitable for either type of player the first or the second.
It is a curious aspect of capital importance for the overall health of a room and, most importantly, for your final results, are many promotions that are directly a disaster for its unattractive bid.
Not used to staying interested and recreational players to have the usual incentive to increase its number of hands (or at least not changing room).
The author advises to perform several different promotions each targeted to a specific type of player, and rewards that are attractive. In addition, a constant evaluation of the impact achieved and solutions for improvement. Best places are always innovating and trying new ideas, the rest often try to imitate without knowing very well what is the reason for their success.
The most important as a manager of Poker Room is to know your clients and what interests them or what they can to attract attention. Surely, for gambiteros a cool name like “In Search of the Golden” and striking graphics on the issue of promotion along with images of flying pigs could be sufficient, but for the player is just a lot of noise and .
Profiles of November’s Nine: Kevin Schaffel
From Coral Springs (Florida) Kevin Schaffel is the oldest of the players who have come to the end of this edition of the WSOP , with its 51 years . Your 12,390,000 chips you do have the sixth best of the stack November Nine’s , slightly above one of the most admired players, .
Phil Ivey
The player will be hosted by PokerStars in the Main Event final table WSOP . Although not well known by fans of poker, Schaffel has several major events such as boxes in your 42 º post in the main event of the WSOP of 2004 Another box events editing 2008 A 87 th the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure belonging to the circuit European Poker Tour 2008 ‘to’ and two events World Poker Tour ( WPT ).
Kevin Schaffel
There are a total
$ 1.4 million won in the poker tables, in addition to improving their position in the bank according to the final end of November.
Divorced and the father of two sons,
Schaffel started to go more to poker tournaments to see their businesses as direct mail and printing their incomes were falling significantly.
The things that have helped him to reach this important final, the players says that the words of the tricampeona Wimbledon, the tennis
Serena Williams , it had served as a stimulus. Serena commented that every time you sit in a very tense moment ago that the calm and patience to help you overcome these harsh circumstances.
Schaffel applies these words of tennis to poker, by helping you to be totally quiet in the game and they have proved effective in letting the final table. Hoped that this tactic will help you on your way to hold the next world champion in November .
Summary of the best books of Blackjack 21
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Pokerstars Announces Americas Cup of Poker
The world famous poker room PokerStars , has announced to be held Americas Cup of Poker 2009 , an event bringing together players from 13 countries different American continent. This is a competition, in which 16 teams , for the win $ 100,000 to be awarded to the winning team.
Players in USA Australia India Ecuador Colombia Brazil Costa Rica , Venezuela Canada Uruguay Chile Peru and Paraguay form teams representing their respective countries with 3 computers Wildcards “ players with no American nationalities.
This alternating poker tournament live online poker. The qualifiers will be online, while the final coming to the
8 best teams will be held on Bariloche (Argentina) . The beautiful landscape of the Patagonian Andes serve as attractive incentive for players who reach the final to play Argentina, which PokerStars stands out as a unique opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful countries in South America.
The amount of awards will reach
$ 250,000 . The groups are made up of four teams are:
- Group A: USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Team “wildcard” 1.
- Group B: Canada, Colombia, Uruguay, Team “wildcard” 2.
- Group C: Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica.
- Group D: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Team “wildcard” 3.
During the next three weeks, players can compete in fighting
face to face or a link . May participate in freerolls tournaments $ 0.20 buy-in or tournaments $ 0.50 buy-in a day. The winners of the freerolls win 600 , while those tournaments $ 0.20 buy-in will give the winner 1500 points and the $ 0.50 buy -in top score player 3000 points .
The three rounds will take place from
July 27 to August 2 of 3 to August 9 and 10 to August 16 . The top two teams from each group move to the end of argentina. In it, these teams were joined by a member of the Team PokerStars Pro , known as the Maridu Mayrinck or Humberto Brenes . The final event in Bariloche is expected to be 4 to September 6 and will have television coverage.
The players who claim to belong to multiple countries will be allocated to the nation to appear in your account
PokerStars . Begin the 27 July and can be found by visiting the daily tournaments lobby “Tournaments” en PokerStars and click on “regional “.
First half of 2009 in Full Tilt Poker, Antonius, trex313 and Ziigmund big winners
This year is flying, and spent the day makes it ecuador almost without realizing it, and thanks to the guys from High Stakes Poker we have a summary of how this has been first half of the year at the tables of higher limits of Full Tilt Poker .
In the Winners have above the rest with a difference Patrik Antonius . The Finnish player best known and one of the most popular poker faces international is having a tremendous 2009. Your winnings are close in the first half of the year five million dollars . Since then the track to eight digits in a year, a record that would be beastly.
Sharing site on the podium with Antonius There are two young players. There is Hac Dang ‘ trex313 ‘, carrying more than three million dollars this year, while the third is for most other Finnish Sahami Ilari’ Ziigmund ‘, with almost two and a half million dollars earned in spite of all its ups and downs.
A special place deserves Tom Dwan ‘ durrrr ‘, that despite having started the year losing four million dollars is already in a positive and a half million cattle, something really silly. This recovery is due almost certainly to have been the player who has played with over 137,403 hands through 87304 of Antonius .
Moving on to the losers, we still the country with the Scandinavian players, as Sami Kelopuro ‘ LarsLuzak ‘ is the big loser so far this year with three million in losses. Not that it has been very lucky this year, which is absolutely critical given the low number of hands that are played at these levels.
Here you leave the list of winners / losers in the first half of the year:
Winners
Patrik Antonius $ 4,731,281
Dang Hac ‘trex313′ $ 3,003,226
Sahami Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ $ 2,229,891
Mark Vos $ 1,889,981
Tom Dwan “durrrr” $ 1,499,868
Luke Schwartz ‘FullFlush1_’ $ 1,011,667
Phil Ivey $ 854,013
Erik Sagström ‘DIN_FRU’ $ 723,620
Aleksander Kostritsin ‘PostflopAction’ $ 533,008
Mike Watson ‘SirWatts’ $ 490,911
Losers
Sami Kelopuro ‘LarsLuzak’ -3,129,598 $
potato ninja -1,245,031 $
Brian Hastings -1,060,871 $
Guy Laliberté ‘ahtata “-971744 $
HarrisMP -865,907 $
David Benyamina ‘MR SON U 2 B’ $ -731,128
John Hennigan ‘world1969 “-674313 $
Chau Giang $ -624,043
Howard Lederer $ -457,476
NEKOTYAN -449,360 $
Tomorrow starts the EMOP Barcelona
After more than a month of qualifying comes to living the great quote from European Masters Of Poker : stop Barcelona . Tomorrow starts a tournament with almost 300000 € and a prize of about 250 players , which have many acquaintances poker face daly2001 shark1386 Fozzay oriol84 alco74 Burzumito rigu10 adrianovak themoment chupy , Quacmire IMayolas Polaroid83 and HUEVOFRITO . Since Póquer-Red will give information on the developments of the event.
At the opening qualifiers for Malta
Without giving respite and parallel to the dispute Barcelona stop, next
August 3 start the qualifiers for the final event of the circuit: Malta . Between the 20 and September 23 will host the event in greater buy-in: 1650 € . The qualifying week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday split 12 packs of 2500 € each ( 1650 for the post 850 in terms of expenditure).
18 packs extra € 2500
The
12 packs are added weekly qualifiers in August 18 packs extra that can be obtained in three different ways: VIP tournaments , winners of tournaments El Gran Golpe , and winners of the three levels (low, medium and high) of the Sit
Moscow suspended the EFA. Changing the seat to Kiev, Ukraine
You already a few days ago we mentioned that things are not painted too well for poker Russia in general and for the EFA Moscow in particular. And of course we did not have to be a lynx to reach this conclusion after the abolition of the appointment of poker as a sport in the country.
As expected the EFA Moscow has been canceled. The tournament will be held at the same time Kiev Ukraine in place.
The beautiful city of Kiev, new home of EFA.
For this report, PokerStars , the organizer of the European Poker Tour sent the following press release to the media:
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT) is pleased to announce an alternate location for their event in August, now held in Kiev, the largest city and capital of Ukraine, at the Palace of Sports in Kiev from 18 to 23 August 2009. The EFA Kiev Sports Poker Championship “will be under the regulatory authority and the Ministry of Youth, Family and Sports of Ukraine, in partnership with the Ukrainian Federation of Poker. It is hoped that this event will be the largest poker tournament ever held in Ukraine.
The event replaces the Kiev tournament poker Russian Open 2009 which was scheduled to take place at Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya in Moscow from 18 to 23 August 2009. This event has been canceled due to the possibility of the event was compromised due to the recent closure of all casinos in Russia.
Euro Poker Tour Ltd. sincerely apologizes to all the players that they had intended to attend the tournament in Moscow, but unfortunately the circumstances are beyond our control. We encourage players to consider attending the event instead of Ukraine, and to participate in the opening of the third season of the EPT.
PokerStars warned his players to be ranked for the event online from Moscow that their packages (including registration and hotel costs) will be converted into packets of EFA Kiev, in any event may also choose to have a credit for future events or the equivalent value in money as real alternatives.
Registration Main Event “EFA Kiev Sports Poker Championship” will be 5,000 € (4,700 € 300 €).
We informed the players that Ukraine does not require visas for citizens of the European Union, Canada or United States (among many others) when he travels to Ukraine for less than 90 days. Players from other countries should consult the local embassy or http://www.mfa.gov.ua/uk/en/2322.htm for more information.
We appreciate the opportunity to take the EPT at the beautiful and historic Kiev, and we want to explore the sights, sounds and tastes of the rich Ukrainian culture .
