Victory Poker Leaving Cake Poker Network for Cereus?
Cake Poker announced on Thursday that they had entered a
"strategic partnership" with PokerListings. com. The
translation for those of you that don't speak poker business
speak is that the Cake Poker Network was sold to
PokerListings. VictoryPoker.
Categories:
Absolute Poker,
Andrew Robl,
Antonio Esfandiari,
AP,
Cake Poker,
Cake Poker Network,
Cereus Poker Network,
Joe Sebok,
UB,
Victory Poker
Could Poker Tournament Screening Change Due to Online Poker Turf Wars?
On Thursday, PokerStars announced the EPT Tournament of
Champions, and that will run up against the first ever Onyx
Cup event in May. This is just another example of the online
turf wars that have spilled out into the live arena. Can you imagine what would happen if more online sites
started to participate in the turf wars? Just imagine the
screener questionnaires that would accompany tournament
registration. Of course, I have put some thought into it and here is what
you may encounter.
Categories:
Full Tilt,
Live Poker Tournaments,
Online Poker turf wars,
PokerStars
Train With Phil Ivey and Rule the Land of Pokerz
If there is one person in the poker world whom you would
want to learn poker from who would it be? We all know who my
choice is in the matter. Today, I almost wet myself when I
saw the following site:
www. philivey. com[http://www.
Categories:
Full Tilt Poker,
Online poker,
Phil Ivey,
Super System
Isildur1 Gives RealKidPoker a Spanking
In case you missed it this past Sunday, Daniel Negreanu took
on Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 in the latest
Pokerstars[http://www. pokerjunkie. com/poker/poker-stars/]Superstar
Showdown Challenge. More accurately, Daniel tried to take
him on.
Categories:
Daniel Negreanu,
Isildur1,
PokerStars,
Pokerstars Superstar Showdown Challenge,
Realkidpoker,
Viktor Blom
Season 7 High Stakes Poker Thoughts
While I didn't think I would do so, I have watched every
episode this season of High Stakes
Poker[http://tv. gsn. com/shows/highstakespoker/] on GSN. Â
Here are a few of my thoughts on the season so far.
Categories:
Barry Greenstein,
Bruce Ruffin,
Daniel Negreanu,
Doyle Brunson,
High Stakes Poker,
High Stakes Poker Season 7,
Norm MacDonald
Mike Sexton Replaced as WPT Host
Mike Sexton had to give up his final table announcing duties
at the Bay 101 World Poker Tour event on Friday. The reason
was that he actually made the final table. He wound up
finishing in 6th place. Mike Matusow also made the final table and ultimately
finished in 3rd place.
Categories:
Bay 101,
Mike Matusow,
Mike Sexton,
World Poker Tour,
WPT
Poker Sites Exist to Make Money - Not Perform Community Service
Often we see poker media or poker pros talk about doing
things that are in the "best interest of the game" or in the
"best interest of the poker community. "I was just reading a
blog talking about the Onyx Series that Full Tilt is going
to put on this year. They were talking about how that poker
site rivalries are spilling over into the live arena due to
the fact that poker sites are telling their pros not to play
at other sites' live events. The comment was made that the people in charge of the sites
should do what is in the best interest of the poker
community.
Categories:
best interest of poker,
Full Tilt Poker,
Money and Poker,
Online poker
Redhead of the Month - Baseball Redhead
I was looking for a picture for a redhead in a sexy baseball
uniform, but I ran across the one below instead. Ok, I
realize that she isn't wearing a baseball uniform, so just
pretend she is associated with the "Cincinnati Reds. "Â
She can be my bat girl anytime. Or maybe we can play strip baseball poker.
Categories:
Baseball,
Baseball Poker,
Cincinnati Reds,
Hot redheads,
redheads
The All-Time Money List - Sponsored by Full Tilt Poker
Yesterday Full Tilt Poker announced the creation of the Onyx
Cup. It is a series of live high. stakes tournaments with
buy-ins from $100,000 to $300,000. In a nutshell, the top 3
players in each event get points toward the Onyx Cup.
Categories:
All-Time Money List,
Doyle Brunson,
Erik Seidel,
Full Tilt,
Full Tilt Poker,
Onyx Cup,
Onyx Cup Poker Series,
Phil Ivey
Who Had Easiest Path to Finals in NBC Heads-Up Championship?
The folks on another "poker news" website posted an article
debating who had the tougher road to the NBC National
Heads-Up Final. For those of you that don't know or don't
care, Erik Seidel faced Chris Moneymaker in the finals. I
figured I would give my opinions on who had the tougher
route to the finals. These were Moneymaker's opponents:
Round 1 - John Racener
Round 2 - Daniel Cates
Round 3 - Doyle Brunson
Quarters - David Oppenheim
Semis -Â Jonathan Duhamel
These were Seidel's opponents:
Round 1 - Allen Cunningham
Round 2 - Jen Harman
Round 3 - Phil Gordon
Quarters - Vanessa Selbst
Semis - Andrew Robl
Let's look at Seidel's opponents first.
Categories:
Chris Moneymaker,
Erik Seidel