3 Online Greats at same table - Watch this video
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008
LILHOLDEM954 - THEDONATOR - BRYNKENNY - WATCH THEIR STYLES
Dave Cain Will Attempt to Break Poker Endurance Record in September
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008
Courtesy of Lincolnshire Echo
Starting September 14th, Dave Cain will be attempting to break the world record for longest-ever poker session.
The official (according to Guinness World Records) record is currently 72 hours and 2 minutes, and is held by Larry Olmsted of the United States. Larry spent three full days at a table at Foxwoods, taking 15 minute breaks every eight hours so that he could change his clothes and brush his teeth. He started with $100 at a low-limit table, and by the time he had finished, possessed a stack of just under $1,000. At one point he was too tired to read the cards that he was being dealt, but pressed on anyways as he wanted to secure the record.
Cain will be looking to smash the previous record - he states that he hopes to play 100 hours straight, possibly more.
Dave Cain will not only be attempting to break the record, but he'll also be doing it playing heads-up, deep-stacked poker. This will be considerably more mentally taxing than just playing a full-ring game for 100 hours. Opponents will be substituted in on a continuing basis so that Cain can play "as many opponents as possible".
The venue will be the Library Bar in Lincoln, UK, and the event itself will take place between September 14th - September 18th.
100 hours? Playing heads-up poker? Sounds just about impossible to me. Best of luck to Cain though, as he will be using the attempt to raise money for local charities.
Source: Poker Playing Marathon
Yuval "yuvee04" Bronshtein Wins Two FTOPS Titles in the Same Day
Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2008
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August 13th, 2008 - There have been some incredible one-day performances in the history of online poker tournaments. However, "yuvee04" may have one-upped everyone by taking down two FTOPS titles in the same day.
There were two FTOPS events scheduled on Full Tilt Poker yesterday (August 12th) - the $500 + $35 HORSE event (300k Guaranteed), and the $200 + $16 NL Hold'em Turbo event (500k Guaranteed).
The HORSE event drew 655 entrants, and the No Limit Hold'em Turbo event drew 3,472.
When the smoke had cleared, "yuvee04" had navigated his way through both fields, taking down both events. He received $70,412.50 for his HORSE win, and an additional $101,975.00 for his NLHE Turbo victory.
This is Bronshtein's third lifetime FTOPS victory - he also won the $100 + $9 Stud H/L event in the sixth edition of the FTOPS for just over $17k.
To win two major tournaments in one day is impressive enough. To win two major tournaments, one of which is a TURBO No Limit Hold'em event with over 3,400 participants, is outrageous. Not to downplay Bronshtein's skill, but there is also a lot of luck involved in taking down a turbo tournament of that size.
Bronshtein has also had some success in "live" tournament poker as well, having made the final table of the $2k Pot Limit Hold'em event at the 2007 WSOP (he cashed for over $100k).
Clearly "yuvee04" is an enormously skilled, well-rounded poker player who is a name to watch. This was a one-day performance that will be nearly impossible to top.
ANTE UP MAGAZINE
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
September: Florida certainly made its presence known at this year's World Series of Poker. We dedicate 10 full pages to how Floridians performed at the WSOP, plus we offer tons of local news and photos, including a look at the new rooms in Daytona Beach and Ocala.
Hello Ante Up Nation!
I'm dropping you a line to let you know that our debut issue is up on our Web site at www.anteupmagazine.com. We have a cool program that lets you view the magazine exactly how it will be distributed in all of our Florida card rooms and bar leagues. But you can also download it to your desktop in case there's something you'd like to print.
Some highlights from this month's issue: Ex-FBI agent and Tampa resident Joe Navarro discusses nonverbal tells that come with age, poker pro Kenna James reflects on how he got hooked on this great game of poker and poker pro and fellow Ante Up National Lee Childs advises you to find YOUR game and then implement it. Plus we have a review of Gus Hansen's new book Every Hand Revealed, and interview with poker pro Evelyn Ng and tons of local coverage as well.
I hope you enjoy our premiere issue and drop me a line to let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Christopher Cosenza, Publisher
Ante Up, Florida's Poker Magazine
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Cake Poker Increases its Guaranteed Prize Pool for Sunday Tourney
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
A New Monthy $250,000-Gurantee is Also Introduced This Month
U.S.-friendly poker room CakePoker continues to grow, and this month, Cake has increased its weekly Sunday guarantees by $25,000. The staple Sunday tournament is now a $100,000-guaranteed event and at a more convenient 5 p.m. ET timeslot. In addition, on the last Sunday of every month, Cake will more than double that guarantee and host a $250,000-guaranteed tournament, with the first one scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 31 at 5 p.m. ET.
Cake has also announced a greatly expanded freeroll schedule to reward its loyal player-base and allow new players to try out the site. The Freeroll into Millions schedule offers players a chance at tournament tickets for the Sunday guaranteed tournament or the opportunity to stockpile Gold Chips which are part of Cake Poker’s loyalty program. Freerolls are listed under the “Freeroll Tournament” tab and are scheduled daily for 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 12:30 a.m. ET timeslots.
BY: KRISTY ARNETT | kristy.arnett@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Tuesday Aug 12, 2008 03:54 PM
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MotionX Poker for iPhone
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
Mix Yahtzee and Poker on the iPhone and what do you get? MotionX Poker, a clever and beguilingly addicting dice game for the iPhone and iPod touch that will only set you back $5.
It’s All in the Wrist: Roll your way to a full house with MotionX Poker.
In MotionX Poker, you play against the house (a computer-controlled opponent) as you try to “roll” the best poker hand you can using five specially painted dice. The six-sided dice each have a nine, ten, jack, queen, king and ace engraved on them, and you have three shakes of the dice to figure out your hand. You can hold any or all of the dice in between each roll—so if you come up with three aces on your first roll, you can hold them and then try to get five of a kind with your last two throws.
Poker rules have been modified, obviously, as you’re only dealing with six possible “card” combinations. But it’s challenging, regardless, and you have to keep some of the realities of “dice poker” in mind. In classic card poker, for example, a full house (a hand that contains three of a kind, plus a pair) beats a straight (five cards in sequence). But because the probability of getting a straight is lower in dice poker, a straight beats a full house. A tutorial mode at the beginning of game play will show you the ropes.
The accelerometer of the iPhone (or the iPod touch, if that’s your mobile device of choice) is taken into account here, too. A flick of the wrist is all you need to get your dice rolling. And if you’re using an iPhone, specifically, you’ll feel the device buzz and vibrate as if the dice were rattling around inside. (You can turn this option off, if you don’t want to waste your battery, but where’s the fun in that?)
As you get better and better you’ll get rewards, including new sets of dice and gems. As your winnings increase you’ll also get to unlock high rollers’ tables, where the stakes are much higher—as are the rewards.
MotionX Poker is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.0 software update.
[Peter Cohen is Macworld’s Game Room columnist.]
Ben bfineman Fineman Wins FTOPS Event #12
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
On Monday night, Day 6 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX featured two events. To say that FTOPS IX has been a rousing success for the online poker room wouldn’t even begin to describe the popularity of the tournament series. The first event attracted 5,779 players, among the largest FTOPS tournaments ever played. There have been a total of 21,833 registrations so far and we’re not even half way through. On Monday night, PocketFiver Ben bfineman Fineman (pictured) took down Event #12 of FTOPS IX, a $1,060 buy-in no limit hold’em six-max tournament, picking up $300,000. Members of the online poker community also dominated Event #11 on Monday night, which was a $200 Limit Holdem event.
FTOPS IX Event #1 VIDEO REPLAY
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
The final table of each FTOPS event always provides some great drama and action. Now you can view video highlights from selected FTOPS IX final tables with commentary by Poker After Dark announcer Ali Nejad.
Commentary by Ali Nejad
Online Poker: Harlindo wins FTOPS Event #10
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Author: Lance Bradley
Right smack dab in the middle of the schedule for Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX was a Sunday full of three big events. The biggest was Event #10 ($300 + $22 No Limit Hold’em) with a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million which replaced the usual $750,000 Guaranteed tournament. The bigger buy-in and prestige of FTOPS attracted a field full of the top online poker players but is still fell 15 players short of meeting the guaranteed prize pool.
"Harlindo" came out on top of the event defeating recent UltimateBet Star Player James “P0KERPR0” Campbell heads-up for the $259,440 payday. Here’s how the final table went down:
Chip counts when the final table began:
Seat 1: P0KERPR0 (1,795,000)
Seat 2: paigowpro (3,204,604)
Seat 3: SKILLAN (1,559,227)
Seat 4: Tazmaniapwnsyou (1,055,340)
Seat 5: Mr Mack Bust (911,319)
Seat 6: Harlindo (2,707,655)
Seat 7: Kasy1 (587,860)
Seat 8: IwanaClay (1,814,826)
Seat 9: doubledave22 (1,319,169)
Eliminated in 9th place: Kasy1
With blinds at 25K/50K (6K antes) SKILLAN opened for 125,000 and Kasy1 moved all-in for 471,860 from the button and SKILLAN snap-called.
SKILLAN: As Ac
Kasy1: 2c 2s
Flop: Ts Tc Qh
Turn: 4h
River: 6c
Up against a monster Kasy1 wasn’t able to hit his two-outer and his run at the FTOPS title was gone while SKILLAN increased his total chip stack to over 2 million.
Eliminated in 8th place: IwanaClay
On the button Harlindo raised to 240,000 and IwanaClay reraised all-in to 728,497, and is all in; Harlindo called.
IwanaClay: Qd Ah
Harlindo: Kd Ac
Flop: 8h 6d Kc
Turn: Qh
River: 4c
Finding his hand dominated before the flop, seeing the Kc on the flop didn’t put IwanaClay at ease. Even after catching a queen on the turn he was unable to make trips on the river and was eliminated from the tournament.
Eliminated in 7th place: Tazmaniapwnsyou
Eliminated in 6th place: paigowpro
The next two eliminations came on the same hand and helped propel P0KERPR0 to his runner-up finish. Tazmaniapwnsyou moved all-in from UTG+1 for 438,671, P0KERPR0 called from the small blind and paigowpro raised to 1,400,000 from the big blind. P0KERPR0 then reraised all-in to 4,240,000 and sent piagowpro into the tank, where he utilized nearly all of his time bank before finally calling, putting himself all-in in the process.
P0KERPR0:Ts Tc
paigowpro: 9h 9s
Tazmaniapwnsyou: Qs Ac
Flop: 5s 6h Jd
Turn: 5h
River: 2s
Tazmaniapwnsyou was unable to hit either of his overcards and paigowpro’s two-outer was nowhere to be seen and P0KERPR0 won the hand, eliminated both players, and built his stack up to over 7.8 million nearly 5 million ahead of Harlindo, his nearest competitor.
Eliminated in 5th place: Mr Mack Bust
From the cutoff SKILLAN moved all-in for his last 1,639,087 and Mr Mack Bust called from the button with his last 443,128.
SKILLAN: 8s 8c
Mr Mack Bust: Kh Qh
Flop: 3d 5d 9c
Turn: 4s
River: 6c
When the cards were turned over Mr Mack Bust must have been pleased to find he had two suited overcards. But when the board ran out with no kings, queens or hearts his FTOPS event was over with a fifth place finish.
Eliminated in 4th place: SKILLAN
Despite claiming the last elimination the night didn’t last much longer for SKILLAN. From the P0KERPR0 raised to 272,977 and SKILLAN took some time before reraising to 675,000. P0KERPR0 followed suit by tanking before making the call to see the flop.
Flop: 6s Jc 5d
Using as much of his allotted time as possible before betting, SKILLAN bet 1,120,000, P0KERPR0 requested time and eventually made the call.
Turn: 3c
Both players again took full advantage of the allotted time to act. SKILLAN moved all-in for 2,639,430 and P0KERPR0 called.
SKILLAN: Kh Kc
P0KERPR0: Ad Ah
River: Qc
Despite two huge hands the players waited until the turn to get all the money in. When the river didn’t deliver one of the two remaining kings it mean that SKILLAN’s run was at an end. P0KERPR0 took down the 9 million chip pot and appeared to be in complete control.
Eliminated in 3rd place: doubledave22
After a short break the three players returned just in time to see P0KERPR0 collect another victim. Avoiding the preflop all-in eliminations that tend to dominate final tables P0KERPR0 and doubledave22 played the following hand. After Harlindo folded the button doubledave22 completed from the small blind and P0KERPR0 checked his option.
Flop: 3s 2s 9h
Doubledave22 opened the post-flop betting for 267,500 before P0KERPR0 raised to 800,000. Doubledave22 then moved all-in for 4,179,583 and P0KERPR0 requested time before finally making the call.
doubledave22: 2h 8h
P0KERPR0: Qs 9d
Turn: Kc
River: 3h
Unable to improve upon bottom pair doubledave22 became P0KERPR0’s final victim and ended up with a third place finish.
Harlindo wins FTOPS IX Event #10
When heads-up play began P0KERPR0 had nearly 66% of the chips thanks to his elimination of five of the previous seven player. Harlindo wasn’t fazed though and found himself with a 4-3 chip lead before the final hand of the night. Harlindo called from the small blind and P0KERPR0 raised to 480,000. Harlindo came back over the top with an all-in raise and P0KERPR0 called off the rest of his 5.7 million.
Harlindo: Ad Kc
P0KERPR0: Qd Td
Flop: 9c 2c 5d
Turn: 3d
River: 4h
Big slick was good enough for Harlindo to win the final hand of the night and capture the FTOPS title and the $259,440 first place prize money. For a complete listing of payouts from this or other FTOPS IX event check the Sunday Report.
Scott “Dorinvandy” Dorin Takes Second in FTOPS Event 1
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008
The ninth Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicked off on Wednesday night with Event #1, a $216 buy-in no limit event with a $1 million guarantee. PocketFivers started the popular tournament series off with a bang, claiming seven out of the top 20 spots and taking home more than $200,000 in total. Scott Dorinvandy Dorin led the way for members of the site in Event #1, finishing second and winning a healthy $120,781. Others at the final table included Mr_Bond222 and fdel15, who plays on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name acedel15. The pair finished sixth and seventh, respectively. Let’s take a look at how PocketFivers fared in the first of 25 tournaments that comprise FTOPS IX.
Scott Dorinvandy Dorin banked $120,781 for his runner up finish in Event #1. The Medina, New York native has piled up several big scores online, including a win in the PokerStars Second Chance in December for $51,084. More recently, he’s notched two cashes (in February and May) in $2,620 buy-in tournaments on Full Tilt Poker for a combined payday of $30,000. Offline, he has three cashes to his name in the World Series of Poker. The largest came in last year’s $2,000 no limit event; he pocketed $10,000.
Bankroll - How much should I buy In With?
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008
The Serious Advantage of Big Buy-Ins
Most poker resources suggest that you sit down at a given table with at
least 20x the big blind (bb).
Example: $3/$6 no limit table. BB is $3, so you should sit with a bare
minimum of 20 x $3, or $60.
Better suggestion is sitting down with anywhere from 50x - 100x the bb for a
couple of reasons. Sitting down with a 100x the bb ($300 in our above
example) will generally make you one of the big stacks at the table.
People won't be as quick to mess around with someone demonstrating a
willingness to gamble. More important than the intimidation factor is the
"nuts" factor.
Imagine picking up the "nuts" and only having enough money left to
double the bb. This happens all the time and is incredibly frustrating.
Don't let it happen to you. When you have the "nuts," you want to be
involved with the betting from start to finish. This way you can maximize
your winnings.
lilholdem cash game $25/$50
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008
9 minutes of action for a quick run from $2000 to $3400
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