The Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge - Do You Care?
It was supposed to be the ultimate in heads-up poker
challenges. Tom "durrrr" Dwan was to take on all comers
(except Phil Galfond) for the Million Dollar Durrrr
Challenge. Nine months later.
Categories:
Durrrr,
Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge,
Patrik Antonius,
Tom Dwan
Online Poker May be a States Rights Issue
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals basically upheld the
UIGEA on Tuesday and dismissed the iMEGA's claim that law
was too vague. However, the judges made the following
statement in the filing:
âIt bears repeating that the Act itself does not make
any gambling activity illegal. Whether the transactionâ¦
constitutes unlawful internet gambling turns on how the law
of the state from which the bettor initiates the bet would
treat that bet, i. e.
Categories:
iMEGA,
Online poker,
States Rights,
UIGEA
Top 10 Badly Dressed Poker Players
Fashion Nightmares on the Poker Circuit
The eminent fashion blogger Ãlan from Fashion
Houston[http://www. fashionhouston. com/] has helped us rate
and comment the fashion crimes on the poker circuit. With a
long experience from the catwalk, she holds the fashion axe
in a firm grip and is not afraid to slay the ones without
style.
Categories:
poker clothes,
poker fashion
The 2010 WSOP is Just Around the Corner
Well, looks like that the 2010 WSOP schedule is on the
horizon according to Seth Palansky, the Communications
Director for the WSOP. The following are some things you can
expect for next year:
1. NO $40k buy-in event. This has had mixed reactions.
Categories:
Seth Palansky,
Tom McEvoy,
World Series of Poker,
WSOP
Big Names Taking a Step Back
Recently, both Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond and Brian
Townsend have both expressed or stated their intent to leave
high stakes online games due to variance. Brian Townsend is
moving on to trying to master mixed games where Galfond
outright states that the thought of losing all that we won
over a year in a big downswing bothers him. Townsend also made a statement that I have held to for years
in that if you move down a couple of levels from the highest
stakes, you will make the most money. The main reason is
that there are many more fish at these levels and also, the
massive downswings will not hurt your bankroll as bad.
Categories:
Brian Townsend,
OMGClayAiken,
Phil Galfond
Gus Hansen Giving Away Money Again
Lately, I have been "covering" some online high stakes poker
games online. (Covering meaning I let them run in the
background and I go back and pull the interesting hands from
hand history. ) I almost feel bad for Gus Hansen in a way, or
at least I did this past week. Most of the time that I was
looking over hand histories, he was losing buy-in after
buy-in.
Categories:
Gus Hansen,
High Stakes Poker,
Poker
Prahlad Friedman is no Longer Karma's Bitch
It looks like karma has finally decided to get off Prahlad
Friedman's back. After going 0 for everything since the 2006
WSOP Main Event, Friedman made his first cash in over 2 1/2
years at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. He has now won the
Legends of Poker Main Event for $1 Million. Don't get me wrong, Friedman is a great player, but I never
have had any respect for him since what he pulled with Jeff
Lisandro.
Categories:
Kevin Schaffel,
Legends of Poker,
Prahlad Friedman,
Thang Luu
World Poker Tour Sold to PartyGaming
The World Poker Tour is now owned by PartyGaming. On Monday,
Peerless Media, a subsidiary of PartyGaming, purchased the
rights to the World Poker Tour for $12. 3 Million and 5%
participation and gaming revenues generated by the assets. This deal is better than the original $9 Million deal
offered by Gamynia Limited earlier in the month.
Categories:
PartyGaming,
PartyPoker,
World Poker Tour,
WPT
A Collusion Story
I happened to run across Hollywood Dave Stann's blog
recently. I don't normally pay much attention to his blog
due to not having a general interest in him, but his topic
was of great interest. He was talking about how he
experienced collusion in a game at the Wynn. Essentially,
two guys at the table raised him out of a pot and then
chopped the pot.
Categories:
Collusion,
Collusion in Poker,
Hollywood Dave Stann,
Los Angeles
Tip the Dealers
Someone recently told me that they do not tip dealers. When
asking the player why, he told me that it cut too much into
his profit. He then proceeded to tell me about how that at
the stakes he played at, paying $1 a pot was costing him
about 15 to 30 bucks a day. My first thought was "Wow, you are winning 15 to 30 pots a
day?" Then I had the prescience of mind to ask what stakes
he played.
Categories:
Poker Dealers,
Tipping Dealers