‘He’s been following me pretty closely and knows what I’ve been doing.’Someone has been impersonating Patrik Antonius on Twitter and the Finnish poker pro is clearly concerned. It’s unknown who is behind the Twitter account (#patrik_antonius), but Antonius released a media alert through Coinflip.com that claimed he is also worried the impersonator may be stalking him. The surprisingly tech-savvy Doyle Brunson first alerted Antonius to the Tweets. “He’s been following me pretty closely and knows what I’ve been doing, so one might think they are actually written by me,” Antonius said.”Doyle was offended because he thought I had written something like, ‘I played with Doyle last night and beat him easily.’” The most troubling part of the situation is that the impersonator seems to know when Antonius comes and goes from places like Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio.
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A super Sunday, indeed. Sure, millions of dollars were at stake, but the biggest crowd in quite some time showed up for the PokerStars Sunday Million, wherein the short stack during a five-way deal at the final table came back to capture the title. Numerous big names in online poker, like apestyles, JBlaze20, THAY3R, and gboro780 made appearances at final tables on August 30, and many players walked away with substantial prizes that boosted their bankrolls and gave many their first big online poker titles. Let’s get to the details…PokerStars Sunday Warm-UpThe PokerStars Sunday Warm-up kicked off with 4,100 players in the $750K guarantee tournament, which boosted the prize pool to 820K. Onl
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‘May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters.’The dates for the PartyPoker.com World Open V have been released. The event will take place from Sunday Oct. 11 to Thursday Oct. 15 at the Palm Beach Casino in London, England and some of the best players in the game will be on hand competing for a piece of a $480,000 prize pool.Those already confirmed for the 48-person field include PartyPoker’s own Mike Sexton, Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, Luke ‘Fullflush’ Schwartz, November Niner James Akenhead, J.C. Tran, Steve Sung, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Scott Fischman, Marty Smyth, Andy Black, and Neil Channing. PartyPoker’s newly sponsored grassroots players Remy Biechel, Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos, Ian Frazer and Bodo Sbrzesny are also expected to play.
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Extracting maximum value is earning as much money as possible from hands where you have a positive expectation. Whenever you win a hand and fail to get the maximum reward possible, you are theoretically losing money.
Of course, this is not a precise science, so we have to judge how much money we can squeeze out of our opponent when we have the best hand without chasing him away or conversely, making it too cheap for him to continue, therefore losing value.
A very basic example is flopping top set on a 5-8-J rainbow flop. We could bet the minimum on every street and would very often get three streets of value, but would rarely win a decent pot with a very strong hand unless our opponent raised.
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Five years ago the world’s richest cash game was spoken in almost mystical terms. The Big Game at the Bellagio was an exclusive game, designed to protect the identities of the rich fish and preserve the edge of the big name pros. Its multiple limit games, and hushed private club atmosphere made it the stuff of legend for the average poker player.
But walk into the Bellagio, anytime other than during the major festvials during 2009, and Bobby’s Room is likely to be empty. Instead, inside the gated communities around the outskirts of Las Vegas the high-stakes pros can be found playing online in games where pots of $500,000 are rapidly becoming commonplace.
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The start of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe is only weeks away, and that means the first ever Caesars Cup is also on the horizon. And as the Europe vs. the Americas competition nears, the teams are taking shape, most recently with picks like Phil Hellmuth and Bertrand Grospellier chosen to participate.The inaugural Caesars Cup will consist of the two teams in no-limit hold’em competitions that will ultimately award its first title to the European team or the Americas team, the latter of which includes North, South, and Central America. E
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With the ESPN coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker in full broadcast swing on the network, it seemed like as good a time as any to come to an agreement on a long-term deal. A relationship that began in 2003 has now been solidified for seven years – on top of the two years already under contract – to carry the ESPN and Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, Inc. through April 2018.The contract was announced on August 18, 2009, and it bonds the WSOP and ESPN for seven years. ESPN agreed to televise a minimum of 32 hours of WSOP coverage from each Series in Las Vegas, which must include more than one gold bracelet event as well as the Main Event, which comes with the November Nine final table. T
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If David Steicke owns High Rollers Events, then James “Andy McLEOD” Obst is the lord of the major online tournament. Obst reaffirmed his status as one of Australia’s top online poker players on Monday by running deep in the FTOPS XIII Main Event. Playing under his Full Tilt Poker screen name “TheFatFISH”, Obst rode the wave all the way through to 5th place in the 5,306 player tournament, which was good for a US$127,211 payday. In addition, many consider Obst pretty unlucky to be eliminated, after his opponent made a fairly light call to bust him from the tournament. On Obst’s final hand, his opponent “Poligraph” opened to 256,123 from under the gun, and Obst three bet him to 772,550.
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The Thursday Jamie Gold Charity Poker Tournament was a sold out success. The event, well advertised in advance and held during London’s Poker in the Park, was hosted by both Jamie Gold, the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champ, and his contemporary and current WSOP champ Peter Eastgate, the youngest champ of all time. Poker players from around the world came to the Charity Poker Tournament held at the Shadow Lounge at the Casino at the Empire, including many celebrities. PokerStars donated a £5,200 EPT seat as one of the prizes.
The smart money at Bodog is on Phil Ivey to outlast chip leader Darvin Moon at the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table.Despite the fact he currently sits seventh in chips, it appears Bodog sportsbook bettors believe Phil Ivey will outlast chip leader Darvin Moon at the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table this November. “To win overall and also on head to head, the early money is one the name recognition of Phil Ivey,” Bodog.com Sportsbook Manager Richard Gardner said.”People really believe he will be able to last longer than Darvin Moon, which has moved the line down on Phil Ivey from +350 to +300.” Bodog sets lines for the November Nine on everything from who will win the tournament to who will be the first player eliminated, head-to-head last longers and the suit of the river card in the final hand.
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