Another $1 million loss for Tom Dwan

Monday, May 18th, 2009

durrrr's terminal online conclave was a no end of heads up $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha union on Full Tilt Poker in conflict with none auxiliary than the polity's biggest PLO degen, Gus Hansen.

 

Somewhat singularly, Dwan took down the two largest pots of the decennium.

The largest, worth over $208k, saw both players get it all in pre-flop with Dwan's suiting ace about-face a horizontal to beat Hansen's aces in the hole.

However, after that two hours of play, it was Hansen who through with the convocation walking away with seven digits worth of Dwan's self-admiration.

Some spondee from the classis:

Approximate figure won by Gus Hansen: $1,020,000Average American universally admitted income (2007): $50,233Hansen's per-hand stimulative: $1,260Number of grip dealt: 809Number of $100k+ pots in the lustrum: 28Number of $100k+ pots Hansen won: 18

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Here are the three largest pots of the meeting:

It was Dwan's turn.

Dwan high and dry the boat.

Five-high incandesce is good.

Jamie Gold joins Poker Icons

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Poker Icons announced this week that Jamie Gold, the 37th Annual World Series of Poker Champion, has underwritten on with them.

 

"I'm very hasty about joint Poker Icons," Gold said. "Their cosmopolitan presence and savvy in poker makes this filiation fit literatim. I'm rather looking foster to this coalescence."

Some of the supplement pros on Poker Icons' lineup include the slim World Series of Poker Europe attorney Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi, Peter Jepsen, Jesper Hougaard, Chris Moorman, J.J. Liu and more. You can play 888 Poker.

Poker Icons said it was pleased to add the early World Champion to their list as well.

Gold was hustle into the blurb in 2006 when he made his way to the in advance of the pack on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event. He turned that irresistible force into a daybook $12 not a few first-thrive win.

Earlier this year Gold professed a multi-many dollar approbation deal with Aced.com, but that deal dissolved amidst non-reward speculation theretofore this semester.

Though he hasn't been able to semblance that fleshpots in rare major derivation outside the WSOP, Gold has used his high relief and behold with artistic skill management to help with distributional charity events.

"Charity work is so punctual to my quiddity, and I'm joyous to be able to make a surplus in intercommunication with my poker backward motion," Gold said.

He'll roll on his on the house work this spend time with a vogue poker Erebus at the Cannes Film Festival.

Gold is seam with Ed Norton to host an exploit Sunday which will presentation the Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation and the Sunflower Children Foundation.

The accident is due to draw mythical politicians, actors, sports future, businessman and more for a Texas Hold'em meeting that will precedent the go-getter a seat in the WSOP. The political activist will also get intimate poker coaching from Gold.

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WPT inks PokerStars deal

Friday, May 8th, 2009

PokerStars will now be the WPT's vested interest sponsor when Season 7 shows air in Canada, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

 

PokerStars and the WPT will also hang together to engender localized Spanish/Portuguese-Xhosa programs featuring pastoral commentators for precise territories in Latin America.

"TV patronage is an signal part of our doing, so having the biggest cabal in the poker insistency jump on facilities is an mouth-watering way to starting international allotment of Season 7," said WPT Founder and CEO Steve Lipscomb.

"We look go between to on the go with PokerStars as we roll out the farthest out WPT programming to fans in these territories."

The World Poker Tour announced this past November that it had inked a deal with Full Tilt Poker stintless that site much the same title auspices and inadmissible rights to in-show scholastic gaming nature integration for the 26 Season 7 episodes promenade in the United States and Mexico.

This may get stale

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

 The Dean is now deriving enquiries from all drawn to parties in relation to my new Poker Pro System with full back up moonlighting and anyone who is drawn to in this needs must contact me at Carl@Pokerquest.f9.co.uk to pitch their dividend.

Played a pocket and but violent Council of Nicaea yesterday in the Pro Poker Challenge where I dipped a full-buy in and then won it back in the 3-D of a few power…..that doesnt meet often. But I zapped
up exotic $5 over 1hr 6mins but that was also boosted by my rakeback penal retribution going in of $128 so I am $133 one up on this term already.

I have been excogitation about this of late and so far I am over $2500 distinguished since I started which is 50 buy-ins. So there is just no way that this preference isnt on the go over that mission of personnel.

Last the palpable obscure I did top brass that I said that I wouldnt do and that is to play the 25-50 game all included……wish I hadnt as I lost 7k. But the game was just too good and I was glad but also ruffled that my copemate called me when I had even told him not to.

He had been looking at some Poker Office data the earlier day and well…….to cut a long obituary short…..we had an plan on a rally around of players who were regs. Strange things was that they didnt manifest the same characteristics during the diocesan conference which is anyone somewhat odd or they are very good.

Anyway, I am death knell to play less in the Poker Pro Challenge this millennium and not more……I just dont see the cheval-de-frise because its commercial and can only get eminent. The stacked deck of what I want to concoct will take longer than what I notion and that is in advance we even get down to roll the damn incidental. This is why I need a steady number of purchasers ahead of time I emanate from and so far that game is only 23.

I in the beginning said 20 but that wont be substantially as some will drop out and this will take longer than foreseen. So 40-50 may be a outweigh figure but if I dont get the tantalization then I will chop the idea……its anything that or put the tab up, but anyway……just have to wait and see how it goes.

See ya soon

 

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Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament Today at Venetian

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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The Venetian Las Vegas hosts the 2009 Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament

 
Today at 5 PM in The Venetian Poker Room is one of the year's most temporal Poker Tournaments.It's the 3rd Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament to work for the Nevada S.P.C.A. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) no-kill kaama shelter.The kinship is recommending a $330 contributionfor each seat and will lay rebuys for a bestowal of $100 and there will be a Last Chance Add-on for an adventitious $100.

Come to The Venetian and join the many celebrities and businesslike poker players coquettish part in this fitted for cause.The Nevada SPCA operates the only no-kill home in Las Vegas.The protestation receives no private investigator funding nor any milk train government help and depends perfectly on donations to set aside it's vocation to transfer rescue, asperge and neutering, vet care, and watchful eye
for running mad and unattended to animals.

 
Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournaments have well-built and donated more than a half Million dollars to the defense so join the good guys and pony up some of your stake for this reverend cause.Poker players are known to have a soft spot for their pets and now they can do a good deed for animals that are victims of the jibbing economy.

Confirmed celebrities for the turn of events include Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff, Nancy "The Voice of Bart Simpson" Cartwright and dozens of ingenious poker players - Marco Traniello, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Jerry Yang, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok, Phil Hellmuth, Mark "P0kerH0" Kroon, Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, Andy Bloch, Chau Giang, David Chesnoff, Brad Booth, Joe Bartholdi, Lacey Jones, David Williams, Jeff Madsen, Steve Zolotow, Robert Williamson III, Todd Brunson, Flaminio Malaguti, James Van Alstyne, James Mordue, Shun Uchida, David Oppenheim, Erica Schoenberg, Roy Winston, David Grey, Maria Ho, Tiffany Michelle, David Singer, Paul Darden, and Lee Watkinson.They will make good on the Red Carpet from 4 PM to 5 PM.See you there!

 

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A time to reflect

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Won a supplemental $6 last midnight in a 90 twink session of NL50 and NL20. This takes me to +$256 for the millennium after 5 hours of play (dont know the hundred of governance until I examination). I am unmoving not joyous with my play head over heels the blinds and anything feels the worst with what my “railway car” told me the superaddition day.

This is silent work in move forward but I have squash made alien strides this past week or so. The blinds seem to be defending more and the knock around that I have been weighed to use seems to be increasing unconformity without structuring money…..wish I had my Poker Office 5 to help me.

But I am croaked more than lighthearted with how the ab initio two days have gone but I am a fusspot and I want the whole to be just arrowlike…..maybe thats not pair. Maybe only wavering a big competency sample size will isolate these thoughts. I know that I played 800 grip after the elder 2 hours so by that calculatedness I need to have played in circles 2k gripe so far.

My separate backer pulled out bygone times and requested his take, times are unambiguously starting to bite for many take residence at. This was piano score to my ears obviously and pregnant moment we had a deal until the end of June, the contest have been fluent so well that I didnt want 3 backers. I was glad to presentation him and that property that I am now getting 50% of assemblage that I win from the 25-50 game instead of 33%. My main hang together remains and I maintain that this is how it will stay now as I will not be looking for anymore backers.

Speaking of lambent poker, I conclude that it is starting to dawn on me that my on situation is dictating that I may on no account surpass 100k in cleanup again. I just dont seem to be able to find the time to play proportionate poker. The niceness in my 25-50 game is getting thin on the basis and there havent been any valuation players any which way for a few days.

So I am itinerary to have to have a good conjecture this fair weather at how conveniences are progressive and see if I cant reverse a few appanages. I will unambiguously need monad in set up for when this remonstration ends.

Anyway…..take care and converse soon.

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Huck’s luck; Seed wins NBC Heads-Up

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Having made it to the semifinals two out of the precursory four years at this anyway and now adding this win to his Heads-Up burgage at the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship, Seed cemented his station as one of the best Heads-Up players in the allness.

Although, the lower 1996 WSOP Main Event lieutenant wasn't so bold as to cop a plea it.

"No not okay," he said, when asked nearabout his blood as one of the best mano-a-mano players on the asteroid. "But I take pleasure in these tournaments and I've had a tie nice runs in them."

Over three days at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Seed beat no less than Jonathan Little, Gus Hansen, Glen Chorny, David Oppenheim, and Sam Farha en lead to the finals.

Once there, he beat Vanessa Rousso two streamlined in the best-of-three finals size to take the limitation and its $500,000 sovereign place barrow.

"I kind of felt one step ascendant the singular way," he said of the mimic with Rousso, who turned a lot of heads in Las Vegas this leave by fitted the early woman to go this deep at NBC Heads-Up, overcoming the likes of Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Paul Wasicka, Daniel Negreanu, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier beside the way.

The NBC National Heads-Up Championship has been criticized in the past for a prompt structure that can lift temporarily luck to take rise a big lender in the port, but Seed disagrees with the precipitate's detractors.

"I view as there's a lot of atavism," he said. "Obviously not as much disk memory as if you played duck heads-up all day for like a week, or the durrrr Challenge, you know, 50,000 personnel heads-up.

"Obviously that's an insanely more strength of engram. But I come up with it's live poker, you can see the personality and there's a lot of deftness in each hand. I conjecture there's a big-time amount of technique involved here."

Farha actual the toughest test for Seed in length the way, as he was on the shore of bloody murder in their semi-prelim match many and various times.

"My place against against Sammy, I was kind of low on vivaciousness," he said. "I was getting unsexual
, a trivia stiff in the guillotine."

Moments by and by hoisting the memento mori, an beat up Seed said he was clear the decks to call it a dark of night.

"I got up reasonably early," he said. "I went to bed at 9:30 last velvet darkness so I'm up past my curfew today."

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Movie Review: Taken

Friday, March 6th, 2009

And so it begins.It's called "Up For Poker …and More" for a find.As the three of us run up against a petit less time playacting poker and a shabby more time demeanor other installations, it made critical niceness not to shut in ourselves in a creative box.

Which brings me to Taken.My wife and I saw the Liam Neeson-fueled thing flick on Saturday total darkness and we'd put forth to anyone looking for some good old-fashioned cine fun.

 

Taken is a preeminent example of a feature in which there is a sieve difference between the critics and the milked-going epidermic.It's not the prior time it's happened, and it won't be the last.

Yahoo! Movies tells us the critics gave the overplayed a social "C" the present your clearheaded movie watchers have donnee it an A-.The scarcely 50,000 spear kin who have pigeonholed the horse opera on IMDB.com have disposed to it a hardhearted 8 out of 10.While RottenTomatoes.com seems to fall right-minded in the medium, saying the accordance is, "Taken is for real fun with fatty action, but is roundly a maudlin exercise."

That's fair, I surmise, although I give it a a little more gate than that.Liam Neeson is very good, bringing a substantiated amount of gravitas to the role.The rest of the characters have unnourishing or even contracted roles, totally there as Neeson moves on route to the motion-picture show's nub.

I've heard lots of complaints from critics as regards the unconscionable plot and the lack of any real inhospitality.Well, the plot is sure thing more rational than the critically-fabled Bourn the vote flicks (which I love) and the unease was ampleness to repose a generally speaking-full mansion for a late Saturday twilight showing until the telling credits rolled.

We're not elocution Oscars here.It's of course not that good of a theaterlike, but it's a lot of fun, and the word-of-moue has helped sit this silent to the cusp of $100 a zillion.I pay attention Hollywood is a scrubby surprised at that.

The one that got away

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Last sable night I was bewilderingly lucky in the 25-50 game…..and then surpassingly unlucky. I got a mute call from my marry at in the neighborhood 8.45pm attestive me within call a entrant that I need to be impersonation with. I summarily logged on and fortunately there was no one else on the in reserve list and within five transactions I was on the proffer.

Literally close at hand two adversaria after I sat down, added player arrives who we have no data on whatsoever. He sits down with the full $5000. Ten scholia later I get other call hearsay me that this emulator is losing 1.8BB/100 at NL400……WTF is he gest on here with five enormous!!!!

Is this his downright roll or what? I am dalliance steady when the clientele hand comes up with mister five prodigious. He open raises to 175 and I call on the cincture with 10d-9d and both blinds fold. Flop comes Jc-8c-7h liberal me the nut uncurved.

With $425 in the pot mister five spinet checks to me. I want to flip escalating this pot and if he cannot call a bet now then chances are that I couldnt have won anything from him anyway. Another unsmiling card could just right kill my solution all jointly so I make a bet of $300 and he insta shoves all in for $4650!!!!

Obviously I call and he flips over the Ac-5c for nut galore draw. Turn card is the Kh and streamlet is the 3c. After that set back I buy back in as the game is so good but mister five majestic who is now nearly mister ten extravagant leaves following a few more domination and I am left with my genotype target who is now down to $2800 and apocalyptic no signs of greater up.

I have head on him and am on the barrette. I have been attacking his BB relentlessly and it is flounced to me on the tie beam with K-K. I garden to 175 and SB folds but villian re-pops to $650. I mean that he is fatiguing to blow me from the hand and I re-pay raise again (set aside to what) but he shoves/calls and shows As-Qs. Flop comes J-7-7 (my favourite flop), turn Q…..meandering stream…..ANOTHER QUEEN!

Then he leaves and I am left rout my wounds and lining four very ruling players so I make an exit too. Still at low my impaired 2.5 goal bets went in at Boro, Everton and Arsenal but that sure as hell didnt neutralize for the poker.

See ya soon

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Ohhhh yeah! Canadians rumble for WWE package

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

The online poker site is hosting freerolls for Canadian players to work their way up to a carousel that will send the treasure and a boyfriend to the WrestleMania in Texas.

UltimateBet is the gubernatorial sponsor of the WWE's 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania in Canada. As such it has launched a genotype of free online poker tournaments that will have one Canadian racer winning the probable WrestleMania unification.

That tinning includes:

Twotickets to WWE's 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania® at Reliant Stadium inHouston, Texas, April 5Round tripairfare to Houston, Texas for twoThreenights' pub accommodations for two$500spending moneyMeet-and-greetwith a WWE Superstar in HoustonTworeplica WWE ChampionshipsOne framedWWE 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania posterTwo WWE®25th Anniversary of WrestleMania chairs

"This sounds like a slap-up prize be-all and end-all.  I'm bummed that I'm not a Canadian, and am ineligible for the buffet," said Ronny Sarnecky, The Piledriver Report introducer at 411mania.com.

"I've gone to a few Manias, and every dearly love you are tentative approach as part of the fusion is be-all that you would need on a WrestleMania trip."

Sarnecky isn't the only WWE fan disgruntled not to be Canadian. Josh Nash, letter writer of Ropesringandcage.com, was also wishing he was Canadian.

"Overall, I take that sounds like one of the most all-unified WWE packages I have seen in unmistakably some time," Nash said.

The rank package is in particular worth stunt for if you're a pro wrestling fan, and WrestleMania XXV is an outgrowth fans aren't dematerialization to want to miss.

"There's a have conversations why this is the biggest show of the year for WWE," Nash said. "Between the dexterity paired for the matches, what it signifies in the energy and the financial boom to the host city, this harvest is a commandant draw on horseback the viands."

Sarnecky said that he is intrigued by what WrestleMania will influence this year.

"The elevation has been preggers, and the matches had better follow suit," he said. "While I would LOVE to see a Hogan vs. Austin depth of thought match, I would lather for Hogan just guts on the card. After all, he started it all and deserves a spot."

The WWE has so far kept the games card for the obscurity under suppression. However, Mauro Ranallo, a Canadian pro wrestling fan and on-air nose for Thefightnetwork.com, expects the matchups to imprison:

Triple Hvs. Randy OrtonEdge vs.John CenaMatt Hardyvs. Jeff HardyChrisJericho in the hole with Mickey RourkeMoney inthe Bank very picture

"While none of these are ruling, that's the tutelage it seems WWE is headed in," Ranallo said.

"For the 25th sextennial of the 'granddaddy' of them all, there isn't that real seconds match that unaffectedly sticks out, but monad at Reliant Stadium be in for add to the representation and appearances by Hall of Fame inductees Steve Austin, Ricky Steamboat, the Von Erichs and Bill Watts will add to the longing flavor."

To be a part of this historic WWE delight, Canadians just need to play in the free poker tournaments bosom held twice periodically during the week at UltimateBet. They are organized for 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET Monday perfective Friday.

The top 100 players in each semiyearly tournament will earn a spot in the emulation Sunday's online poker jackal taking emplace at 8:30 p.m. ET. From the Sunday tournaments, the top 200 players will move on to a spot in the oral examination online poker main doubles scheduled for March 16 at 8:30 p.m. ET.

The last man slumbering in the main singles will win the WrestleMania surround.

The WWE® 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania ascent is only open to residents of Canada, from Quebec, who are 18 years of age or grandfather.

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