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New class action lawsuit against Full Tilt - This time from Canada
Two Canadian players have brought a class action lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker. Zayn Jetha and Donald Whelan name three Full Tilt individuals in their lawsuit: Ray Bitar, Nelson Burtnick and Howard Lederer.
The Canadians are also naming some Full Tilt associated companies: Full Tilt Poker Ltd, Orinic, Oxalic, Tiltware and Vantage.
The summons were issued to the persons and companies on August 9th.
Full Tilt has already potponed their hearing gathering in July and the new date has been set on September 15th.
Source: Pokerista.net, eGamingReview
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New class action lawsuit against Full Tilt - This time from Canada
Lock Poker taking José “Girah” Macedo to court
Lock Poker, who sacked José “Girah” Macedo straight after “Girah” got caught of cheating is taking him to court now as well. José Macedo was a Lock Poker sponsored pro.
Lock Poker’s poker manager Eric Lynch told CardPlayer that their silence is because they’re pursuing legal action against Macedo.
The company tries to exercise their legal rights in the most severe degree. Macedo’s future doesn’t seem that bright.
Source: Pokerista.net, CardPlayer
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Lock Poker taking José “Girah” Macedo to court
WSOP is back! Watch the first episodes of WSOP 2011
The first episodes of Word Series of Poker 2011 are here! The ESPN hosted series will start with the $25K Heads-Up and $50K Poker Players Championship tournaments.
The winner of the $25K Heads-Up tournament won $851,192 and $50K Championship winner got $1,720,328.
You can watch the tournaments from these links:
WSOP 2011 $50K Championship 1/2
WSOP 2011 $50K Championship 1/2
Source: Pokerista.net
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WSOP is back! Watch the first episodes of WSOP 2011
Gabe Kaplan going to pay half of the money he won from the “Hollywood ring game”
An illegal “Hollywood poker ring” was exposed in the end of June. There were some A-list actors playing in this high stakes ring. Also Gabe Kaplan was part of it and made a little profit, but now he needs to pay half of it back.
Gabe Kaplan
Kaplan won about $62,000 from the games and has now agreed to a settlement that he pays $27,900 back.
Also Tobey “Spider-Man” Maguire was part of the illegal ring. He is heading to the court on January 30th. If plead guilty, he needs to pay over $300,000.
Source: Pokerista.net, Poker-king.com
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Gabe Kaplan going to pay half of the money he won from the “Hollywood ring game”
“Poker Refugees” service helps players to move to another country
PocketFives.com has introducted their new service called Poker Refugees. Their mission is to help poker players to move to a new country where they can continue their online poker careers.
The service was founded by Kristin Wilson who is a former professional surfer and lives in Costa Rica. She is currently renting apartments in many countries.
You can join the service by paying 1,000 dollars. If you want more people than you, you will need to pay $750 from each new person. Relocating a whole family will cost $1,500.
The target countries at the moment are: Costa Rica, Panama and Canada. The whole package includes information about how to open a foreign bank account, they will help you open a new poker account and the teaching of the basic knowledge of their new country.
Source: Pokerista.net, PocketFives
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“Poker Refugees” service helps players to move to another country
Read the latest Card Player Europe for free
The new issue of Card Player Europe has been released and the latest issue can be read for free. November Nine member Eoghan O’dea is this month’s cover “boy”.
Also Phil Hellmuth, Irish Open winner Niall Smyth and WSOP bracelet winner Matt Matros have their spots in the magazine.
You can read the whole issue here.
Source: Pokerista.net
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The worst hand in Poker After Dark history?
The latest Poker After Dark episodes haven’t got that good reviews from the viewers. People have been writing that the new episodes are just plain boring to watch.
There’s one particular hand between Mike Matusow and Phil Hellmuth that really broke the camel’s back - so to speak.
Matusow and Hellmuth get all-in preflop for $183,200, but eventualyl they cut the stack to 21,600 dollars.
Matusow has pair of jacks while Hellmuth holds suited A-K. Matusow hits his set and takes the pot. In the end they just shake their hands really pleased.
You can watch the play here.
And here are all the other PAD episodes.
Source: Pokerista.net
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The worst hand in Poker After Dark history?
Haseeb Qureshi and Daniel Cates dumped chips to José Macedo - Qureshi quits poker
Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi gave a fresh interview to Bluff Magazine. They’re talking about the José “Girah” Macedo scam case pretty deeply.
Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi
In the interview Haseeb Qureshi confesses that he dumped chips worth of 100,000 dollars to José Macedo on Merge Network.
“So, I made the account “samchauhan” and put $100k on there, but I wasn’t able to transfer substantial funds to him. Jose told us that the best way to do this quickly (we had been taking a while to get him money as the stake had already been agreed on for over a month but we were slow and lazy to get it organized) was to just chip dump. I said ‘alright, fine,’ and although I knew that getting seen winning $100k from some random account would make girah look good,” Qureshi tells about the chip dumping.
The chip dumping happened at the same time when Bluff Poker Challenge was running from where Macedo got disqualified afterwards. Qureshi insists that it was just a coincidence that the chip dumping happened at the same time (Macedo did indeed win the Challenge).
It is also certain that Macedo had many different accounts on 2+2 forums: at least “Girah” and “LookingforProdigy”. He tried to make the scam look more believable by using different accounts.
Macedo has also faked his PokerTracker results with a really hard hand, they showed him winning millions, but the truth is not as good.
Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates doesn’t bring anything new onto the table. Looks like Cates wasn’t as close to Macedo as Qureshi was.
Qureshi has now confirmed that he is quitting poker altogether. He wrote quite a long blog post on CardRunners about the whole incident.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do now, but it won’t be poker. I have been playing for 5 years. I started with a free $50 bonus when I was 16 years old, and have since made well over a million dollars playing poker,” Qureshi says.
You can read the Qureshi interview here and Cates interview here.
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Haseeb Qureshi and Daniel Cates dumped chips to José Macedo - Qureshi quits poker
Daniel “jungleman12? Cates: “Should be playing online within a week or so”
Looks like Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates has worked out everything in his life and is able to do an online comeback soon! Which is actually nice as the online games have been in hiatus for a while now.
Cates was supposed to move to Portugal to José “Girah” Macedo’s place with Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi, but after “Girah’s” scam came into public knowledge, it would have been quite stupid move to go to Portugal.
Cates has now written to his Twitter: “should be playing online within a week or so”
It is not yet certain where to Cates is moving, but it looks like he went to Britain.
Mike Matusow also started a rumor about Cates some time ago. Matusow says that Cates has over 6 million dollars stuck on Full Tilt Poker.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates: “Should be playing online within a week or so”
CardRunners kicks Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi
José “Girah” Macedo’s scamminc case keeps getting more and more interesting. The latest turn in the case seems to be that Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Quresh got kicked out from the CardRunners team.
Haseeb Qureshi
Qureshi admited that he and Macedo had played from each other’s accounts and because of that CardRunners kicked Qureshi out from their team.
You can read the CardRunners announcement here.
Seems like we haven’t heard everything from the case yet. You can follow the case on 2+2 forums.
Source: Pokerista.net
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CardRunners kicks Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi
José “Girah” Macedo’s sponsors vanished - Qureshi released a long post about the incident
José “Girah” Macedo was caught cheating few days ago and there’s now loads of new information about the incident on 2+2 forums. Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Qureshi has now issued a statement in his CardRunners blog.
José “Girah” Macedo
Qureshi is denying his and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates’ involvement in the case and is telling his personal history with “Girah”.
Also Macedo’s employer LockPoker informed that they’ve cut Macedo off from their pro roster. Macedo was kicked out from PokerStrategy’s coaching team as well.
2+2 forums have a great summary about the incident, so you might want to read it through.
Source: Pokerista.net
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José “Girah” Macedo’s sponsors vanished - Qureshi released a long post about the incident
Spiderman Maguire heads to court in January 2012
Actor Tobey Maguire will be facing the court in January 2012. Maguire is facing charges because he was part of a private high stakes cash game ring.
Maguire’s trial date is set for 30th of January 2012. Bradley Ruderman sued Maguire for over $300,000 in earnings he made in the poker ring.
Maguire is the only celebrity who got sued. There was at least Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon playing in the ring as well. It has been rumored that the games were huge, tens of milliond of dollars were in the play.
Source: Pokerista.net, Radaronline.com
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Spiderman Maguire heads to court in January 2012
Tom “durrrr” Dwan back in Macau
It seems like Tom “durrrr” Dwan headed back to Macau. It’s most likely that all the big cash games ran dry after WSOP so Dwan needed some big action elsewhere.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan
Dwan was Tweating some hours ago:
“Playing the 100k hk (~13k usd) highroller at pokerkingclub (starworld, macau). Tomorrow’s their 10k hong kong$ main event.”
Dwan and some other pros were grinding the Macau nosebleed games with some Chinese businessmen last year. Let’s see how the games go this time.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Tom “durrrr” Dwan back in Macau
Did Huck Seed win $671,000 from video poker?
Huck Seed posted an interesting picture to his Twitter account earlier today. You can see that someone had gotten royal flush and won $670,665.60.
Huch Seed added an interesting tag to the photo: “Internet poker is down in the US, but I’m still pressing buttons!”
It is not that certain if Huck really won the pot, but many people believe that on 2+2 forums.
Huck Seed won the 1996 WSOP Main Event and a million dollars. He has won over seven million dollars from live tournaments and is a regular at the big Vegas cash games.
You can follow Huck’s life from his Twitter.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Did Huck Seed win $671,000 from video poker?
Daniel “jungleman12? Cates heading to Portugal with Haseeb Quresh
We just wrote about Daniel Cates a few days ago as he got deported from Canada. Well, after his quick visit to Canada he’s now speaking about moving to Europe.
Cates has decided to move to Portugal and with Haseeb “INTERNETPOKERS” Quresh. They’re going to stay with Jose “Girah” Macedo, who lives there.
“I’m sure many of you have heard by now that Jungle was denied access to Canada. It’s a bit silly, but long story short, our plans to relocate to Vancouver have sort of been canned overnight. It’s unfortunate, as I was really looking forward to experiencing Vancouver and hanging out with Galfond and company.”
“Now our plans have reverted back to going to Portugal after all - most likely Lisbon. Jungle and I will be living with Jose “Girah” Macedo and will be flying out there sometime in the coming week.”
You can read the full Quresh’s blog here.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates heading to Portugal with Haseeb Quresh
Steve Zolotow wants his diamonds back
According to Toronto Sun, the Canadian customs confiscated $900,000 worth of diamonds from Full Tilt Pro Steve Zolotow in April 2000.
Steve Zolotow has won ove r2 million dollars from live tournaments
Back then in 2000, Zolotow had been coming back to New York after spending a day in Toronto. Zolotow didn’t declare the diamonds in customs and eventually the customs officials confiscated them.
Zolotow didn’t appeal the case in time, so the Canadian officials got the rights to sell them. They onyl got $250,000 from the precious jewels.
According to Toronto Sun, Zolotow has been trying to get the diamonds back since then, or even get some compensation without any luck.
Zolotow hasn’t commented about the diamond delivery at all.
Source: Pokerista.net, Toronto Sun
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Steve Zolotow wants his diamonds back
Poker After Dark has an interesting NLHE cash game with $100K buy-in
Fresh Poker After Dark week started yesterday. There a really interesting NLHE cash game this week. The buy-in for the game is 100,000 dollars.
These episodes were filmed in November 2010 and there’s some interesting players at the table: Mike Matusow, Jean-Robert Bellande, Peter Jetten, Brandon Adams, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth and Michael Mizrachi.
Everyone bought in for $100K and the blinds are $200/$400 with a $50 ante.
There’s going to be some interesting hands and cool action, according to NBC. One particular hand involves Matusow and Hellmuth, probably some blowups happening.
The first table setup has Mike Matusow, Jean-Robert Bellande, Peter Jetten, Brandon Adams, Chris Ferguson and Michael Mizrachi.
Phil Hellmuth will join the table a bit later on.
Watch the first episode from here.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Poker After Dark has an interesting NLHE cash game with $100K buy-in
Matusow commenting about Full Tilt in the QuadJacks interview
Mike Matusow was answering some questions surrounding Full Tilt Poker few days ago. QuadJacks.com interviewed him, Daniel Negreanu and Tony G.
Matusow revealed some insider information as well as some of his thoughts about the whole incident around Full Tilt. Poker-King.com has gathered some of the highlights from the interview:
Person who leaked information to Subject: Poker has it in for Ivey, David Benyamine and FTP
- Info leaked from somebody “inside”
- “Definitely a disgruntled employee”
- Ivey lawsuit was a “big crock of shit”
- “Nobody (from Full Tilt Poker) will call me back”
- Matusow wants to know “anything” about what is going on at Full Tilt
- Leaker hurt chances of FTP players getting their $ back
- “If it weren’t for greed, sale of the company would have been done a long time ago”
- Somebody offered to buy a piece of FTP right away after “Black Friday” for “good money”, was turned down
- “Now they’re struggling to get shit for it”
- Ivey went berserk when that deal fell through
- Higher-ups at Full Tilt rebuffed the buyer, claiming that they had another deal lined up
- “I believe that Ray (Bitar) fucked everything up”
- Bitar’s ego was so big.. he never listened to anything
- Full Tilt Poker could have paid off 90% of US players after “Black Friday”
- Matusow has a quarter million dollars on Full Tilt
- Tom Dwan has a million dollars on Full Tilt
- Daniel Cates has six million on Full Tilt
- FTP was spending “something like $15 million a month” in marketing to compete with Pokerstars
- Annie Duke: “Howard is sitting at home, depressed over the whole situation”
- Hard for Howard to talk to anybody because he is so depressed
- Howard’s only fault was putting the wrong guy in charge
- Ivey didn’t think when he sued the company
- Ivey working around the clock to try and fix things.. so is Howard
- Matusow: I got a pretty good offer from a site in Europe
- “I think that people are going to get paid back”
- Full Tilt Poker opened up with no money in the accounts
- “There is no way that Howard Lederer took anybody’s money”
- “I believe by next Friday that something will come out”
- “Full Tilt Poker ain’t closing shop”
- “They are not the type of people that are going to run”
Those are only some of the interesting bits of the interview, you can listen the whole show from here.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Matusow commenting about Full Tilt in the QuadJacks interview
Daniel “jungleman12? Cates deported from Canada - Some visa problems
A couple of days ago Phil Galfond moved to Canada to be able to continue his online career and just yesterday Daniel Cates told that he’s moving to Canada as well. Or not. Cates has now been deported from Canada and he’s thinking about his options.
Daniel Cates needs to wait a bit longer to be able to play online.
Cates is going to get a new working permit and visa to Canada, because without it, you can’t be a poker professional in Canada.
Source: Pokerista.net, Daniel Cates Twitter
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Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates deported from Canada - Some visa problems
Full Tilt Poker’s future: Hearing moved to September 15
PokerNews was present in yesterday’s hearing for Full Tilt Poker in London and they were kind enough to update their Twitter live.
Full Tilt Poker attorneys wanted to move the hearing in the future and eventually Alderney agreed this. The new date for the hearing is September 15th.
Full Tilt justified the move because it would be best for the intrest of their players. Full Tilt can now continue to talk with some investors.
Other interesting bits from the hearing:
The only really new piece of information that came to light so far is that Full Tilt owes the AGCC around £250,000 in licensing fees.
Professional poker player Harry Demetriou, who was in attendance, stood up and stormed out, shouting “What about the interests of the players? Why you are protecting this corrupt company?”
So, the players still have to wait for the conclusion until September 15th.
Source: Pokerista.net, PokerNews
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Full Tilt Poker’s future: Hearing moved to September 15
WSOP Main Event - November Nine is set!
It has been a long and tiresome job for the nine Main Event finalists to grind their way to the final table. It’s Martin Staszko (Czech) who holds the chiplead when the final is being played.
Martin Staszko
John Hewitt was this year’s bubbelboy. Although he earned $607,882 from the 10th place, it still might be a bit harsh to realize how close he was to get into the November Nine. Hewitt lost the last hand in a coinflip with 3-3 while O’Dea held K-J and O’Dea cought a broadway straight.
Also Ben Lamb is in the November Nine. Lamd is currently leading the WSOP Player of the Year competition.
Here are all the finalists and their chips:
Seat 1: Matt Giannetti, USA (24,750,000)
Seat 2: Badih Bounahra, Belize (19,700,000)
Seat 3: Eoghan O’Dea, Irlanti (33,925,000)
Seat 4: Phil Collins, USA (23,875,000)
Seat 5: Anton Makiievskyi, Ukraina (13,825,000)
Seat 6: Samuel Holden, Englanti (12,375,000)
Seat 7: Pius Heinz, Saksa (16,425,000)
Seat 8: Ben Lamb, USA (20,875,000)
Seat 9: Martin Staszko, Tsekki (40,175,000)
Final table prizepool:
1. $8,711,956
2. $5,430,928
3. $4,019,635
4. $3,011,661
5. $2,268,909
6. $1,720,396
7. $1,313,851
8. $1,009,910
9. $782,115
Source: Pokerista.net, WSOP
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WSOP Main Event - November Nine is set!
Poker Players Alliance instucts how to get money out from Full Tilt, UB.com and Absolute Poker
Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has created a synopsis about the means and methods about how to get your money back from Full Tilt Poker, UB.com and Absolute Poker.
The aforementioned poker sites have not yet paid back the money they owe to their players after the “Poker Black Friday”. The only site which has managed to come clean after it, is PokerStars.
PPA tells that they have no sensible means to go in the court as an organization, but there’s no obstacles for players to sue the companies behind those aforementioned poker sites. We suggest all US players to read through the synopsis, which can be found here, and think about a lawsuit.
Source: Pokerista.net, Theppa.org
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Poker Players Alliance instucts how to get money out from Full Tilt, UB.com and Absolute Poker
UK going to tighten up their gaming terms: Gambling sites need to have UK license
John Penrose, UK Minister responsible for gambling policy and regulation, has announced that UK will demand all gambling sites to have a UK Gambling License (UK Gambling Commission) in the future.
At the moment every site can offer games to UK citizens if they have their licenses effective and legitimate in the territories they’re working on.
It is no surprise that the tightened laws are the result of the “Poker Black Friday”, the closure of Full Tilt Poker and the suspected license offences (Alderney license).
It is believed that the tightened laws will come into effect around 1013-1014.
Read more about the case from here.
Source: Pokerista.net, eGamingReview
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UK going to tighten up their gaming terms: Gambling sites need to have UK license
FBI hits the casinos in tribal resort
FBI has raided the tribal resort casinos in Mississippi; Silver Star Hotel & Casino and Golden Moon Hotel & Casino, which both belong to Pearl River Resort. The raids were part of a criminal investigation to gather evidence against them.
Former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones comments the case: “there was probable cause to believe that a federal felony crime was committed and that there was evidence of that crime at those facilities.”
It is the first time when FBI hits tribal resort targets.
It is believed that FBI seized at least the harddisks from the Casinos.
FBI haven’t commented the case yet, but the investigation is part of a federal investigation which might be connected to the “Poker Black Friday”.
Source: Pokerista.net, ClarionLedger.com
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FBI hits the casinos in tribal resort
CelebPoker: 50% less rake, 100% bigger first deposit bonus!
You can now play cheaper on CelebPoker. CelebPoker is offering you a great way to earn some Summer cash after the “Poker Black Friday” and the shutdown of Full Tilt Poker. Cash games are now 50% cheaper and the first deposit bonus is 100% bigger!
Rake discounts:
1) NLHE casm games upto $.05/$.10 have 50% less rake
2) All Fixed Limit games have 50% less rake
3) All cash games from $25/$50 have no rake at all!
These discounts are on $USD tables only.
There’s also our great private races this month, check them out!
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Tobey Maguire shows evidence that he lost in the high stakes games as well
Tobey Maguire, who was part of the illegal poker ring has now presented evidence that he also lost in the ring. Brad Ruderman, a convicted pyramid/ponzi scammer tries to sue the “Spiderman” because Ruderman lost lots of money to Maguire and some other familiar TV faces.
Maguire and several other poker players were sued by Brad Ruderman and the convicted felon tries to get his losses back via court.
TMZ.com has now recieved some evidence from Maguire that he has also lost to Ruderman. Maguire has paid the felon 168,500 dollars from 2007 to 2009. You can check out the parcels from here.
Maguire seems like a devout poker player as he has a seperate bankroll for poker.
You can read more about the case here.
Source: Pokerista.net
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Tobey Maguire shows evidence that he lost in the high stakes games as well
WSOP 2011 broke the player entry record
WSOP 2011 broke the player entry record with 3.7 percent from last year. There was 75,672 entries this year, while WSOP 2010 saw 72,966 player entries.
Also the prize pool record was broken. There was almost 192 million dollars prize pool shared this year.
It was the 7th consecutive year when the prize pool has surpassed 100 million dollars.
This was the 42nd WSOP and in total the prestigious tournament has awarded more than 1.4 billion dollars in prize money.
6,865 players bought in to the Main Event this year, that made the 2011 Main Event the third biggest in the history of WSOP. There’s a 64,5 million dollar prize pool in the Main Event and the winner takes $8,7 million.
Source: Pokerista.net, WSOP
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WSOP 2011 broke the player entry record
WSOP Main Event starts today - How many players will there be?
World Series of Poker will end after the Main Event which starts today. There’s four starting days in the $10,000 “World Championship” NLHE tournament.
The tournament will be played from July 7th to 19th and the actual final table, the “November Nine”, will be played from November 5th to 7th.
There was 7,319 players in the Main Event last year, which made it the second biggest Event in the history of WSOP. The biggest Main Event was in 2006 when 8,773 players played the tournament.
There has been small decline in the player numbers after 2006 as UIGEA hit USA and this year the “Poker Black Friday” affected all the US players on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars.
What does the players and organizers think about the player numbers?
Tournament organizer Robbie Thompson believes that the happenings in USA will not affect the numbers in Main Event.
Annie Duke thinks that the numbers will be drastically lower than in last year because there hasn’t been that many online satellites to the Main Event.
Nolan Dolla, WSOP Media Executive didn’t want to comment the question as they don’t want to mke any predictions.
Michael Mizrachi on the other hand is willing to bet about the numbers. He believes there’s going to be less than 4,964 players.
Source: Pokerista.net, Pokerlistings
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WSOP Main Event starts today - How many players will there be?
Doyle Brunson skips 2011 WSOP Main Event - Stops playing tournaments altogether?
The godfather of poker, Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson let all his fans know that he won’t be chasing his 11th WSOP bracelet this year anymore. He hasn’t made it to the cash for two years now and thinks that he isn’t in a good shape to grind tournaments at all.
Before the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship Brunson told that it might be his last tournament if it doesn’t go as planned. “Texas Dolly” was eliminated on the second day and vented out his frustration on Twitter:
“Busted… Total nightmare… Goodbye WSOP”
Quickly after his Twitter update he told he is going to skip the Main Event as well. One of the reason is the “Poker Black Friday”. Brunson tells that he has lost his passion to poker after the “Black Friday” and he has also faced lots of personal problems in the last eight months.
78 years old Brunson has made his last WSOP cash two years ago: June 18th 2009.
Source: Pokerista.net, PokerNewsDaily
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Doyle Brunson skips 2011 WSOP Main Event - Stops playing tournaments altogether?
Register your Poker Hall of Fame nomination vote now!
There’s 40 players inducted to the Poker Hall of Fame at the moment and 18 of them are still alive. Only one or two players are inducted to the Poker Hall of Fame yearly and you can make an impact. We, the poker fans and players have been able to vote our favorite players for few years; so go on and register your vote now.
You can vote until August 14 and the nominated player will be introduced in November, during the finale of 2011 WSOP Main Event.
Register your vote right now. Follow this link and choose your favorite player.
Top 10 nominations will be reviewed by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. This list will be revealed in September and then there’s the official vote by the Council. The Council contains the living members of the Poker Hall of Fame, some other poker personas and poker media people.
The main criteria for the Poker Hall of Fame are as follows:
- A player must have played poker against acknowledged top competition
- Played for high stakes
- Be a minimum of 40 years old at time of nomination
- Played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers
- Stood the test of time
- Or, for non-players, contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results.
Poker Hall of Fame
1979 Nick “The Greek” Dandolos
James Butler “Wild Bill Hickok”
Edmond Hoyle
Felton “Corky” McCorquodale
Johnny Moss
Red Winn
Sid Wyman
1980 T “Blondie” Forbes
1981 Bill Boyd
1982 Tom Abdo
1983 Joe Bernstein
1984 Murph Harrold
1985 Red Hodges
1986 Henry Green
1987 Walter Clyde “Puggy” Pearson
1988 Doyle Brunson/Jack “Treetop” Strauss
1989 Fed “Sarge” Ferris
1990 Benny Binion
1991 David “Chip” Reese
1992 Thomas Austin “Amarillo Slim” Preston
1993 Jack Keller
1996 Julius Oral “Little Man” Popwell
1997 Roger Moore
2001 Stu “The Kid” Ungar
2002 Lyle Berman/Johnny Chan
2003 Bobby Baldwin
2004 Berry Johnson
2005 Crandall Addington/Jack Binion
2006 Billy Baxter/T.J. Cloutier
2007 Barbara Enright/Phil Hellmuth
2008 Henry Orenstein/Duane “Dewey” Tomko
2009 Mike Sexton
2010 Dan Harrington/Erik Seidel
Source: Pokerista.net, WSOP.com
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