On November 20th, we wrote about a Danish web designer who was leading Sunday Million for about 3 hours until he lost his Internet connection and eventually finished in 281th place for $583 (click here to read the full story). Now we have another, even more sick, bad beat story to tell...
On Wednesday, Barry "the Robin Hood of poker" Greenstein posted a blog on traveling to find the best games in poker. Barry wrote that he hasn't been traveling much as of late and as a result of that he has missed out on many good games.
"One of the things that I haven't done recently as much as I should have is travel to play in good games. When I was younger and single, if there was a good poker situation I found out where it was and went there, because I was free to travel. I just hopped on a plane, had some contacts, and got in the game.
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In case you missed it, the World Poker Tour Montreal main event saw a record field of 1,173 entries - the biggest tournament with a buy-in of $1k or more in Canadian history. While the event was played, some of the well-known players took part in the WPT Montreal Playground Poker Hockey Challenge.
It ended up being Jonathan Roy who won the biggest ever WPT event held in Canada (and one of the biggest in WPT history): the 2012 WPT Montreal main event. Roy outlasted a massive field of 1,173 players and defeated Pascal Lefrancois heads-up for the title and the first place prize of $779,710 ($3,387,930 prize pool).
According to a recent article in The Telegraph, photographers from the Assembly's press balcony caught several, including ministers, playing poker, ordering clothes, reading adult cartoons etc on their tablets and mobiles in the chamber sessions instead of lawmaking. Below are parts from The Telegraph's article.
Danièle Hoffmann, Socialist MP for Paris admitted to reading the papers via her tablet. "It's very practical. We're totally up to date and will soon receive amendments directly online, which will be progress," she told Le Parisien (a French newspaper).
Ladies and gentlemen, the record field (1,173) at the 2012 World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event has now been narrowed down to only 6 players and a final table. The action will start at 4:00pm ET today and there is about 23 minutes left in Level 31, with blinds at 60k-120k and a 20k ante.
After 99 amazing events, the MicroMillions III series came to an end yesterday with the $1 million guaranteed Main Event. PokerStars guaranteed that the winner would get at least $150,000, but that number was broken as 61,072 players entered the tournament and created a $1,221,400 prize pool with the winner set to pocket a massive $165,789.31!
Not less than 7,920 players received a piece of the prize pool and the final three players agreed to a deal (axel397 120k, numeromis $125k & Senter268 $105k) that left $20k, and the title, to play for.
It's essential in live poker not to give away any tells. Hats, caps, hoodies and sunglasses are items that many poker players use to prevent their opponents from seeing facial expressions. However, there might not be any need for these stuff in the future...
A total field of 1,173 players signed up for the 2012 World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event, which destroyed the old Canadian WPT record of 504 players. Day 1a, Day 1b and Day 2 are now in the books and there are only 45 players left when Day 3 kicks off tonight. The chip leader is Jeff Gross with 2,422,000 chips. Gross held over 2 million chips when he played one of the biggest pots of Day 2 to eliminate Josh Kimmel and get a stranglehold on the chip lead.
Notables such as Michael Mcdonald (1.59 million, 2nd place), Gavin Smith (1.2 million), Ashton Griffin (455k) and Dan Smith (306k) will join Gross at the tables today. All the remaining players are guarateed at least $12,535 each. The winner will take home $779,710 and become a part of Canadian WPT history.
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The World Poker Tour has landed in Montreal, Quebec for the 2012 WPT Montreal. Day 1A kicks off at 11:00 EST today. The buy-in for the Main Event is $3,000 + $300 (CAD) and a large field of players are expected to turn up. It's a re-entry tournament featuring two Day 1, so there will for sure be a nice prize pool.
PokerStars' Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Auckland Main Event kicked off 3 days ago. A total 207-runners turned up for the three starting days and 76 survivors will return to the tables tonight for Day 2.
XiaDong Xia leads the pack with 180,600 chips, and his closest opponent, Monica Eastick, has about 40k less. Unfortunately there aren't many well-known faces among the remaining squad of players, but it doesn't necessary mean that the rest of the tournament will be boring to follow. The money bubble will burst when 24 players remain (NZ$3,726), the winner will take home the NZ$107,640 first prize and the title!
Three years have passed since Joseph "Joe" Cada became the youngest player ever to win the Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker ($8.5 million). Cada wrote in his most recent blog post that he played a lot of poker after the title but that things changed a lot on Black Friday.
"Before Black Friday, I used to play online poker all the time. Some weeks I'd play for 80 hours. I'd just wake up and play poker and that's really all I did. Then once Black Friday happened, I haven't played online since. It's a whole different life I've been living since Black Friday."
An entire neighbourhood policing team has been dismissed after they were disocoverd playing poker during working hours. The group, from Bromley in south-east London, were discover after an undercover operation in 2010 by the Metropolitan Police Service's Directorate of Professional Standards.
The Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu is back with another rant! This time he talks about integrity in the poker world, when he owed money as a teenager and was forced to win it back at the poker tables, adding a shot clock in live poker, and more.
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, the winner of the 2004 WSOP Main event, has had an incredible winnings streak at the 2012 Heartland Poker Tour. On Monday, he won the year-end HPT Championship Open at Belterra Casino Resort in Indian for $106,030. This was his fourth title of the year and now he's HPT's all-time money leader with $371,967. He was also named the 2012 HPT Player of the Year after the victory last Monday.
It's high time to open up the PokerStars software and start grinding as hand 90 Billion is set to be dealt soon! PokerStars is on the Road to 100 Billion and they are celebrating every 5 billionth hand dealt with a milestone hand promotion. There's up to $1,000,000 in cash to play for, and all you have to do is to play cash game tables and be dealt into a millionth hand from 89,700,000,000 - 90,000,000,000. If you are lucky, you can win thousands of dollars. If you win the ninety billionth hand, you are guaranteed to receive at least $20,000!
The Danish web designer and poker amateur Kristian Kofoed was leading PokerStars Sunday Million last Sunday and had a fantastic chance of reaching the final table where a first-place prize of $206,343 was up for grabs. But that was until the Internet connection suddenly gave up on him...
Tony G recently provided poker lessons to six players of the Manchester United soccer team (Refael da Silva, Phil Jonas, Tom Cleverley, Darren Fletcher, Jonny Evans and Danny Welbeck) for a charity tournament arranged by the club and filmed for MUTV. Tony G didn't take part in the tournament but he provided commentary for the broadcast. Evans, who plays as defender for his club, eventually took down the title after defeating Fletcher heads-up to retain the title he won last year.
A group of cash game grinders, led by Las Vegas pro Nick DiVella, are doing everything in their power to get former Full Tilt Poker owner Howard Lederer, who made a public return to poker last month, banned from the Aria poker room in Las Vegas.
After 5 days of poker Emil Olsson was crowned the champion of the 2012 WPT Copenhagen Main Event. The Swedish youngster bested a field of 229 players and defeated Morten Klein from Norway heads-up to become the latest WPT Champions Club member. He received 1,200,000 DKK ($229,938) and a $25k seat in the WPT Championship at the Bellagio.
Final table results: 1 Emil Olsson $229,938 2 Morten Klein $145,164 3 Philip Jacobsen $93,080 4 Steve Barshak $68,316 5 Robin Ylitalo $51,237 6 Jan Djerberg $40,989
On November 14, WSOP revealed on its website that the 44th running of the World Series of Poker will begin on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at the Rio-All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The series will run for 49 consecutive days, concluding the final nine players of the Main Event on Tuesday, July 16, 2013.
Tournament buy-ins start as low as $75 and cash games will run around the clock starting May 29 throughout the seven-week tournament series. About 500 poker tables will be set up across more than 100,000 squares-feet of ballroom space to make sure that there is plenty of space for the thousands of players from around the world who attend the 2013 WSOP.
In case you missed it: PokeStars MicroMillions III kicked off yesterday and will run for another 9 days. A total of 100 events will played during this time with a total guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000! If you never had the chance to play the MicroMillions yet, we would like to inform you that it's an amazing concept where you can buy-in to events for as little as 11 cents with the chance of winning thousands of dollars!
The final table of the 2012 WPT Copenhagen Main Event is not far away now as only 18 players remain. Stanislav Barshak (picture), from the U.S., is the current chip leader with 830,000 chips and Frei Dilling Kjaer, the Day 3 chip leader, is ranked 3rd with 691,000 chips. Barshak and Kjaer will be joined by the likes of Peter Jepson and WPT National Series Denmark winner Steve O'Dwyer.
On November 20th, we wrote about a Danish web designer who was leading Sunday Million for about 3 hours until he lost his Internet connection and eventually finished in 281th place for $583 (
Three years have passed since Joseph "Joe" Cada became the youngest player ever to win the Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker ($8.5 million). Cada wrote in his most recent blog post that he played a lot of poker after the title but that things changed a lot on Black Friday.
