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Pokerstars Puts Professional into Lower Staked Sit and Go’s

Bertrand Grospellier, 3rd place finisher at the recently finished WPT Championship 2009 announced that he was going to make a bid to play a record number of sit and go’s within one hour.

Grospellier decided that he would play $6.50 sit and go tournaments, multi tabling as many as he could within one hour.

The decision to take this challenge meant that players with a smaller bankroll could place themselves up against one of the leading names in the poker industry at the moment, with Grospellier cashing a career total of more than $5.7 million.

With the increased standard within the tournaments that the pro will be playing, Pokerstars the site behind the professional, has revealed that all players who buy into the sit and go tournaments alongside the professional will be offered entry into a $1,000 freeroll tournament.

The players bid to make the record books shouldn’t be too hard due to no record been held for the task to date, so no matter how he does he will make history.

Although there is no record set for this task i have recently read about a player who played at Pokerstars and laid out a bet that he could make $100 into $10,000 purely by playing as many sit and go tournaments as he needed within the  hour time scale he set himself.

The amatuer player took  bets against him to succeed in his task but in front of the eyes of all who watched his webcam feed, he succeeded.

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California Considers Move Towards Legalisation of Online Poker

With the huge legal battle surrounding the legalisation of online poker very much in full action it seems that the first state that is considering passing a legalisation bill is California.

Within the bill there was an report looking into the popularity of the pass time, revealing that billions of dollars was been spent on online poker websites but the sites were off shore and unregulated by the US government.

The state currently allows its patrons to play live poker tournaments within the state but has been holding off on allowing those players to do exactly the same while playing online.

This has raised questions about the government that is currently in place as many members of the public are seeing that as a ‘double standard’, allowing players to gamble at live tournaments but not allowing the online poker players to wager money.

The draft legal bill issues a statement that says:

It is in the best interest of the state and its citizens to authorize, implement and create a licensing and regulatory structure and system to allow licensed gambling establishments to operate government-regulated Internet poker wagering Web sites.

The bill pointed out that the state felt that is should allow online gambling but only if they could offer better online protection for its players with the aid of the ‘gambling establishments that function online’.

The bill would mean that existing gambling establishments that are already licenced by the state would be granted the licencing conditions allowing online gambling but new sites will not be granted a licence.

The Bureau of Gambling will be in charge of creating an agreement between the two parties, California State and Online poker rooms, that will remain within the guidelines that have been set out in the UIGEA that was created in 2006.

With this news becomng public, the state have also moved to say that the granting of the licences to such online gambling sites will spark new security measures with underage gambling been one of the main concerns.

We think that this a a positive move that is been considered by the Californian governement and hope to see this bill made offical sooner rather than later.

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Timoshenko Takes 2009 WPT Championship

With the  2009 World Poker Tour Championship now at a close, we can reveal that  21 year old Yevgeniy Timoshenko won the tournament.

In a game that took over 8 hours and thousands of hands to complete, Timoshenko made his statement within the live poker scene, claiming his third live tournament victory in a short period of time.

Timoshenko also has winner titles within the Irish Poker Open and the APT Macau Main Event, both of which have been won within the last  months.

Seated at a table with some of the biggest names on the poker scene, with Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Bertrand Grospellier, Christian Harder and Ran Azor joining him at the final table.

With previous wins ensuring that the 21 year old was taking home six figure prize winnings this tournament sent his cashes into orbit, taking home $2,149,960 in winnings.

This win makes his other victorys seem like they were won in a friendly, home played game with friends in comparison to this, winning a life changing amount.

Runner up fell to Ran Azor, who also upped his game to ensure that he was within the heads up section of the tournament.

But Timoshenko wasn’t the only winner on the day,  Bertrand Grospellier’s 3rd place finish meant that he secured the World Poker Tour Player of the Year award, beating out bookies favourite Scotty Nguyen.

The biggest shock of the day had to be that of Scotty Nguyen, the bookies favourite to take the victory, been knocked out in 6th place by Christian Harder in a hand that will surely have left a bitter taste in the confident players mouth, watching his set of aces beaten out by a higher kicker.

Nguyen’s 6th place finish meant that he didn’t make history as had he taken the first place in the tournament he would have been poker’s all time highest cash winner.

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Scotty Nguyen Has Shot at Making History at World Poker Tour Championship

This years WPT championship winners place could be a whole lot more special for one player.

Scotty Nguyen would make history if he was to take down the tournament in first place, winning $2,149,960 at the tournament which is been held at the Bellagio.

The win would mean that Nguyen would become the player that had won the highest amount of cash in poker of all time, taking his winnings to $12.6 million.

The current title is held by 2006 winner Jamie Gold who has a total cashing at $12.1 million to date.

The prospect of becoming the new all time poker player who won the most cash playing poker is some thing Nguyen is willing to play for, saying:

That’s my goal. That’s what I promise the poker world and the fans.

The player is definately one that has alot of confidence in his own ability, stating earlier in the year at the Poker Classics that if he didn’t make $4 million by the end of 2009 World Series of Poker, he would quit poker.

Nguyen is so sure that his ability will lead him to exceed that figure that he has wagered a bet with Mike Matusow, another professional poker player, that he would succeed in his goal, getting 3 to 1 odds.

Nguyen said:

He’s dead, Count on it baby, he’s dead.

Although he enters the final 10 without the chip lead, Nguyen isn’t panicing about that saying:

I’m just going to play Scotty Nguyen style, baby, fearless, baby, fearless and confident.

Confidence is high with Nguyen and he was quick to say:

Think about it, how many people do you know who will look straight at the camera and say ‘I will win four million dollars this year’? None. I’m the only one. That’s why they have people betting on me five to one, four to one, three to one, you know, baby? I take it all. “Whoever wants to bet against me, I take it all. I told you, this is my year.

On thing is for sure, this is action that all poker fans will be watching very closely.

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Team PKR Pro Member Karl Fenton Takes First Title

Karl ‘discomonkey’ Fenton, a member of the newly formed ‘Team PKR Pro‘, this week took down his first title as a pro team player winning PKR Live II.

The tournament which was hosted at London’s Loose Cannon Club over the last weekend, with 150 players qualifying via PKR’s 3d poker room.

The tournament boasted a $75,000 prize pool with Fenton taking home $20,000 as his winning share of the money.

This is Fenton’s first win as a PKR pro after been selected while playing on the PKR online poker room.

The future is looking very bright for Team PKR Pro too, they were placed into action also, playing 4 games to try to make a clean sweep for the tournament day.

The team came close, winning 3 titles out of the 4 on offer, with Andrew Teng just missing out on the final table after his pocket A’s were cracked.

Overall this was a great showing for the recently created professional team, and its looking like the members are going to cause a big splash in upcoming tournaments, we hope to see more of you guys!

If you would like to try to join Team PKR Pro why not sign up to PKR using the PKR Bonus Code and make yourself known?

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World Series of Poker Final Table Delayed - Again!

Harrah’s Entertainment, the company who own the licencing of World Series of Poker (WSOP) has annonuced that the fianl table for this years event is to be delayed.

Harrahs’s must have liked their decision to delay the final table last year so much that they are going to repeat it again, leaving players who reach the table to have to wait until November to play out the tournament.

This years World Series of Poker is a special tournament, celebrating its 40th birthday.

To make the year a special one, organisers have placed a $40,000 no limit buy in on the tournament, opening up the tournament to a huge prize pool.

The decision to delay the final table hasn’t been revealed at the moment but it will mean that the tournament, which starts May 27th will have a 3 month gap between when the final 9 are decided and them actually taking to the felt.

The participation figures for the tournament are expected to exceed those of last year, with the extra bonus of been the 40th anniversary winner sure to prolong the length of the winners reputation.

We now await the tournament and are definately looking forward to watching some of the action.

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EPT San Remo Breaks Player Record

The European Poker Tour currently been held in San Remo broke the record for hosting the most players ever.

The first day of the tournament 1A hosted under 500 players who joined professionals alike at the felts, with the second starter day 1B offering a massive 600 player boost to the numbers.

The participation figures for day 1B took the final number of players to 1,178 players, breaking the previous record for participation numbers for the European based tournament.

With such a large turn out for the live tournament, the prize pool grew to a staggering 5.7 million euros, with first place taking 1.5 million euros home.

The tournament featured a huge array of players with poker greats, professionals and bracelet holders gracing the felts.

With such a mixed ability level taking their seat at the felts, there was bound to be some shocks and exciting action for the spectators to see.

One of these shocks was watching Dario Minieri moving all in with A/Q only to come up against A/A.

As the hand played through Minieri found himself behind as the flop fell, hitting a Q, little did he know that the hand was covered at this point, with the hand ending with his opponent taking the pot due to an ace high flush, narrowly missing out on an ace high straight flush.

As with many of the live tournaments, events happen that are unforeseen, with Minieri been hottly tipped to build on his final table finish last year.

One thing is for sure, watching this tournament will give all poker fans and fanatics a racing heart, watching the game unfold.

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World Poker Tour World Championship Day 1 Part A

The WPT World Championship is often thought to be one of the biggest tournaments of the poker tournament calender.

This year featured the same breakdown as the original tournament featured, breaking the starting day into 2 days, part A and part B.

Part A started today, featuring a disappointing 126 players entering the tournaments buy in. It is thought that part B will feature more players than its earlier part, but still participation numbers are expected to be well below last years turn out.

Although there was a disappointing number of players who turned out, the deck dealt out some hands that made the excitement surrounding the felts alot more intense.

There was a straight flush and a set over set dealt out today, with crushing blows been dealt to players all day.

The straight flush fell to Andy Bloch, taking down a huge 185,000 chip pot,with his final re-raise of a ‘all in ‘ call left his opponent so sure that he was beaten that he folded leaving him with only 17,000 chips.

On the ‘fold’ call Andy Bloch let his opponent know that he had done the right thing, turning over 2/3 diamonds, which sat into the community cards offering Bloch one of the best hands possible.

Many others saw their treasured hands fall to better hands with a number of pocket aces been over turned by its lower counterparts and sets been beaten by stronger sets.

The might have been a small turn out for the tournament but the drama was not to have been missed!

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PKR Introduce First Pro PKR Poker Team

PKR have this week annouced that they have signed 6 players to their professional poker playing team.

The 3d poker room has revealed that they have chosen 6 of their top players to represent the site, sponsoring them to travel to major live tournaments.

The six chosen players all have a reputation within the poker industry, with main event finishes to their name, making them an easy choice for the PKR team.

The players who have been chosen to represent the new generation poker room are :

Ashley Hames

Andrew Teng

Kai Danilo Paulsen

Raymond O’Mahoney

James Sudworth

Henrik Eklund

The chosen players won’t only represent the poker room at live events, they will also be placed into online tournaments and into games that will be covered on PKRtv.

This will enable the PKR owners to create new tournaments within their schedule, adding the likes of Bounty Tournaments and giving members of the site the opportunity to play real money ring games against the chosen few.

Marketing Director, Simon Prodger tells how the site have been considering making the move into a professional team for a while:

We’ve been following our initial ‘Team PKR Pro’ members for some time and are convinced that they all have the game and personality required to be genuinely world class poker players. They are also among the most recognized and respected players within the PKR community so are guaranteed to have over two and a half million people cheering them on every time they play.

The move to create the Team PKR Pro will be one that can only improve the name and reputation of the site, with many of the other leading poker rooms having professional teams, but featuring some of the biggest names in poker.

Special thanks to PKRcode.net for this post.

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Harrah’s Entertainment Looking To Become Internet Client

Harrah’s Entertainment, the company that holds the licencing of the brand World Series of Poker have revealed that they are interested in joining the massive online poker market.

On the news that the casino giants will be making a step into the online poker client market, they stepped forward to reveal that they will not be accepting US based players until the ongoing leagal case surrounding the legalisation of online gambling in the USA reaches a conclusion.

A Harrah’s source revealed:

Harrah’s will not be developing its own in-house poker software. They will be looking for an already established Internet poker network, one that’s based out of Europe.

Its thought that there is a shortlist of networks been forwarded to officials with what is thought to have PartyGaming on.

Its thought that PartyGaming are on the shortlist due to , former PartyGaming boss, joining Harrah’s to head up web operations.

Recent news that PartyGaming have also reached an agreement with the US government surrounding the acceptance of US based players has been agrred with the company due to pay $105 million to compensate.

Harrah’s have not agreed any deal with anyone at this present moment but many sources are hinting that PartyGaming could soon be the new home of Harrah’s Entertainment.
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