Category: Poker
Want to spend a weekend with the poker? Then you are right, you just need to, print thefollowing schedule, place a comfortable chair in front of the TV with popcorn and a drink!
Enjoy the show!
Saturday, March 10
at 19:00 Event: World Poker Tour 4 (Ep.15) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 20:00 Event: World Series of Poker 2004 (Ep.13) Channel: PokerItalia24
hours 20:10 Event: The Big Game Channel: GXT (Sky Channel 146)
at 20:45 Event: European Poker Tour 7 (Ep.17) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 21:30 Event: Charity Heads Up by SNAI (Ep.6) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 22:30 Event: The Big Game (Ep.19) Channel: PokerItalia24
Event hours 23:20: SNAI Poker Cup (Ep.5-6) Channel: PokerItalia24
00:30 am Event: WPT Series 8 Channel: Sky Sports 2
hours 00:50 Event: Poker Grand Prix 2010 (Ep.3) Channel: PokerItalia24
Event hours 01:05: Poker1Mania Channel: Italy A
at 01:40 Event: European Poker Tour 7 (Ep.18) Channel: PokerItalia24
Sunday, March 11
at 19:00 Event: World Poker Tour 4 (Ep.16) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 20:00 Event: World Series of Poker 2004 (Ep.14) Channel: PokerItalia24
hours 20:10 Event: The Big Game Channel: GXT (Sky Channel 146)
at 20:45 Event: European Poker Tour 7 (Ep.18) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 21:30 Event: The Best Of Poker Club Race (Ep.10) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 22:30 Event: Premier League III (Ep.9) Channel: PokerItalia24
hours 23:20 Event: Poker Grand Prix 2010 (Ep.4) Channel: PokerItalia24
at 00:00 Event: WPT Series 8 Channel: Sky Sports 2
hours 00:05 Event: World Series of Poker 2010 (Ep.18) Channel: PokerItalia24
Event hours 00:50: Premier League IV (Ep.3) Channel: PokerItalia24
Event hours 01:35: Poker1Mania Channel: Italy A
at 01:40 Event: Premier League IV (Ep.4) Channel: PokerItalia24
Those of you who do not know the famous story of the former poker room FTP? Today, the Executive Director, Ray Bitar, for the first time, he apologized to the entire poker community after the disaster of Black Friday.
Ray Biter, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson are held responsible for the collapse of known poker room, Bitar is at pains to apologize for everything that has happened up until today after 1 year, makes the following statement:
“Because of my passion and love of poker was hard not to express myself in all this time, I could not talk because there is an ongoing negotiation with investors and because the legal process is not yet all this time I noticed terminato.Durante a lot of anger towards me on various sites, blogs and social networks, my primary goal is to repay all the players to shine, and return Full Tilt Poker, working day and night to do it. i’m sorry for the players affected by this each other but I would point out that my silence is not a reason to hide or ignore the problem “
What do you think of the words of Ray Bitar? We invite you to release your own suggestions, comment away.
In an apparent effort to spice up the event, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced Monday that up to 100 more players, including many name pros, will be participating in the 2012 WSOP National Championship. Last year, just 100 players were eligible in total; now as many as 200 will compete for a share of the ,000,000 prize pool.
Like last year, 100 players will qualify based on their performance during the 2011-2012 WSOP Circuit season. There will be 34 automatic qualifiers: 17 WSOP Circuit Main Event winners and 17 casino champions (the players who earn the most points across all events at a single tour stop). The remaining 66 spots will go to the players who earn the most points on the WSOP Circuit during the entire season. These 100 players will get to play for free in the ,000,000 guaranteed prize pool WSOP National Championship, which will start July 6th.
While the idea of rewarding the best WSOP Circuit players with a lucrative freeroll which is also a real WSOP bracelet event is a solid one, last year’s Championship did not attract much attention from the poker community. It looks like the attempt at a remedy to this situation is to include bigger name players, those who do not participate frequently in the lower buy-in Circuit events. As such, the top 100 points earners at the 2010 WSOP, 2010 WSOP Europe, 2011 WSOP, and 2011 WSOP Europe will all be eligible to compete in the 2012 WSOP National Championship. These players, however, will be required to buy-in for ,000. This entry fee will be added on top of the ,000,000 already in the prize pool.
In a press release, WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart expressed his pride in the new format, saying, “This marks the first time we will take the best of the best from all our events to compete against one another to determine a true WSOP National Champion.”
The top ten points qualifiers from the last two years of the WSOP and WSOP Europe are Michael Mizrachi, Ben Lamb, Shawn Buchanan, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda, Chris Moorman, Jonathan Duhamel, John Racener, David “Bakes” Baker, and Frank Kassela. The rest of the top 100 is littered with recognizable names such as Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand Grospelier, 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion Pius Heinz, Jason Mercier, Men “The Master” Nguyen, 2011 WSOP Main Event runner-up Martin Staszko, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Gavin Smith, Sammy Farha, and many more.
Last year, 97 of the 100 qualifying WSOP Circuit players participated in the National Championship. Sam Barnhart not only earned his first WSOP gold bracelet by winning the event, but also his first ever WSOP cash. At 0,000, it was quite a nice debut in the money for Barnhart. He then went from relative no-name to a familiar face on the ESPN telecasts, making a tremendously deep run in the Main Event before eventually bowing out in 17th place. That finish bettered his National Championship cash by almost ,000.
The second annual WSOP National Championship will begin July 6th at the Rio in Las Vegas and will continue on July 7th until the final table of nine players remain. Those nine will return on July 11th to play for the crown in front of the ESPN cameras.
Month as disappointing or negative for the best Cash Game Poker, we’re talking about February 2012, today we have come to the results obtained from the online poker market that you can see yourself in the picture shown above.
After growing took place in January with a collection amounting to 883.5 million euros, poker cash game loses about 10% falling below the 800 million total, a figure still other despite the decline. What is the fault of the economic crisis currently affecting several areas in recent times?
Currently about 770 million were awarded to players as winnings with a real expenditure of 30 million euros. As it turned Pokerstars is the king of the market which came with a share of 205 million euros due to be freewheel Microgame that closed the month of February with 170 million.
If combined, the 2 operators represent about 50% of the market, as regards the poker room with the lowest value found with 95 million Poker Club Lottomatica, Sisal Poker Poker Snai 38 million and 35 million. Speaking of tournaments than in the month of February were played 120 million euros. Agicos also refers to a payout of 105 million with only 15 million of expenditure.
The moral is that the winnings are higher costs.
The appointment with the Cash Game Poker Festival after the Champion of Italy took place in January 2012. Again there is a partnership between the Casino and Pagan Events.
The event will be staged March 10 to 20, 2012, from 14:00 to 03:00 in the morning with the ability to select multiple tables of players available cash.A there are different levels of play: 1-2/2-4 / until you get to 5-5 and 20-40 with 5-10/10-20 buyin about € 0.83
The organization will consist of sessions of Pop Limit Omaha with a range of different levels and discounts for guests who will reside at the hotel and casino for players who spend at least 7 hours every day at the cash tables with limits from 5 to 10. At the conclusion of the Festival will be held on Grand Final of Season March 22 to 26 and follow the EPT Champion 26 to 31 March 2012.
When we have got more information about this event we will share it with us. Apparently the month of March is a month full of events regarding the live cash games. We pokerprofblog follow the various events and inform you about all the changes and new to this, please follow us and release your own suggestions via comment, after all, your opinion is very important not only for us but also the entire community
The longest story of the century with regard to the poker world seems to end in short, we are talking about the situation of known poker room Full Tilt Poker.
The Tapie Group today said that Full Tilt Poker is being acquired, to confirm the news we thought the lawyer Behnam Daynim Tapie Group has issued the following statement:
In recent months we have focused on the number of problems arising from the deal, such as the financial situation today at Full Tilt Poker being still in great debt to not only the players but also the Pro ignoring the fact that some of them are very Full Tilt Poker. We are very close to closing the agreement and we would conclude no later than next week.
We have made much progress compared to previous months and although the process is still underway, there are good expectations to conclude the matter as quickly as possible. I therefore call on the pros Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren and David Benyamine to name someone to settle its debt to the poker room. We have many players and investors which could revive the fortunes of FTP in a short time after the acquisition.
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with the 22-year old Dane Mickey Petersen taking the crown to the tune of 2,515,000 kroner or 4,595. Petersen bested the 70+ year-old Pierre Neuville during the heads-up portion of the final table. Neuville, nicknamed “Serial EPT Qualifier,” as this was his 23rd straight EPT event for which he qualified online, received 1,600,000 kroner (2,843) and jumped to 4th on the all-time EPT points leaderboard.
Going into heads-up play, the chip counts were pretty close to even. Because of his elimination of 3rd place finisher Bjarke Hansen, Mickey Petersen had the lead, 4.7 million to 4.27 million. According to reports, Neuville was open to discussing a deal at the point, but Petersen would have nothing of it.
From there, it was a long one-on-one match. Neuville quickly took the lead by about a million chips, but it was short lived, as Petersen did not take long to flip the tables once more. The lead continued to switch hands over the next couple hours, with Neuville actually grabbing a more than 2-to-1 edge. Petersen didn’t give up though (obviously), grinding back to even and then taking a 2-to-1 edge himself within a couple hours.
Neuville made one more run, commandeering the lead one more time, but after the dinner break, it was all Petersen. Over the course of just a few hands, all of which Petersen one, the young Dane rocketed to a 7 million to 1.9 million chip lead. That lead grew some more before Neuville made what was essentially a fruitless double-up, only cutting his deficit to 4 million chips. But because he was in for 190,000 every orbit (every two-handed orbit), Neuville had to do something and do it quickly.
Thus, he moved all-in pre-flop with A-4, as all but the tightest of nits would. Against most hands, he’d be in good shape, but against Petersen’s A-5, he was not. The saving grace here was that with kickers that low, a chop was actually fairly likely. The flop of 6-K-J made that chop just one card greater than 5 away, but the 3 on the turn was not one of those cards. Still, Neuville had a lot of outs to split the pot and stay alive and three outs to double-up. To Neuville’s dismay, though, the river was a 5, pairing Petersen’s kicker and giving him the European Poker Tour Copenhagen title.
This was Mickey Petersen’s first win on the live tournament circuit and second EPT cash, to go along with three World Series of Poker cashes, all of which came last year. The win almost tripled his lifetime live earnings, taking him from just over a quarter million dollars to just under 0,000.
European Poker Tour Copenhagen – Final Table Standings (winnings in Danish kroner)
1. Mickey Petersen – 2,515,000
2. Pierre Neuville – 1,600,000
3. Bjarke Hansen – 1,000,000
4. Aage Ravn – 740,000
5. Jacob Rasmussen – 490,000
6. Niels van Alphen – 390,000
7. Steve O’Dwyer – 290,000
8. Spencer Hudson – 191,400
Announced recently, the new service offered by Pokerstars Poker called zoom is at the door, is currently undergoing testing and is only available in vesion.com site.
The Quick Fold Fast Fold has become, even the gameplay has been changed from the previous version, with the closing of Full Tilt Poker there was no longer able to play poker rush, or at least until now. Thanks to PokerStars players will return to play using the fast fold.
The arrival on the domain. It is expected shortly, subject to delays or other problems. If you are a U.S. or want to try the service for a preview you just have to go on dominio.com. Whereas the situation of FTP is still stalled and will not be resolved in no time, PokerStars has decided to roll up their sleeves to offer its customers and users this great opportunity.
As the Godfather an offer you can not refuse especially if you are avid poker players and spend whole days playing online, after all the PokerStars brand stands for quality in the game not only online but also real. What do you think of this new service?
To you comments.
The European Poker Tour’s stop in Copenhagen, Denmark is entering into the homestretch, with a well-respected Belgian at the top of the leaderboard.
72 players came back on Thursday to whittle the field down to the final 24 contenders. Heading the field at the start of the day was Team LockPro Elite member Melanie Weisner, but she faced significant challengers to her perch. The defending champion of this event, Michael Tureniec, was in pursuit as well as Juha Helppi, Kevin Iacofano and Per Linde. With only 48 players taking down cash in this tournament, there were 24 players who would be walking out of the Casino Copenhagen with nothing to show for their efforts.
Weisner got off to a good start for the day, eliminating Andrey Gulyy within moments of the start of action to push her stack to 383K. Another player making moves at the same time was 2011 World Series of Poker Championship Event runner-up Martin Staszko, who started the day with a miniscule stack. After winning a pot against Maksim Semisoshenko, Staszko would begin a charge towards the top of the pack.
It took over four hours for the pack to work its way down to the bubble. After Iacofano was defeated by Magnus Hansen in a hand which Hansen took with quad fives, the players took almost 45 minutes to find the unfortunate “bubble boy.” That player would be Mikita Badziakouski, who fell at the hands of Anthony Hnatow when Hnatow’s pocket Kings held up against Badziakouski’s suited A-7.
By this time, Weisner had built her stack to 595K in chips, but her run at the title would end soon after the players reached the money. She doubled up Steve O’Dwyer to drop under the 500K mark and handed a few more chips to Hansen. O’Dwyer would double again through Weisner, his pocket Aces holding over her A-Q, to drop Weisner into the danger zone. The end would come for Weisner when she picked up A-Q again and put her chips to the center against Stig Christensen, only to see him turn up A-K. Once the board brought no surprises, Weisner had fallen from the chip lead to out in 28th place.
The player who would eventually end up leading Day Three, Belgium’s Pierre Neuville, began his run at the championship once the money was reached. In what would prove to be a game changing moment, Neuville would raise a hand under the gun and Tureniec simply called on the button. After a 3-Q-2 flop, he checked to Tureniec, who pushed out a 21K bet. Neuville check-raised to 100,000 and was called by Tureniec.
The King on the turn opened up the floodgates. Neuville pushed out a 100K bet once again but this time Tureniec pushed his remaining stack to the center. Neuville made the call and turned up K-Q for a turned two pair. Tureniec, for his part, had been sitting on pocket Aces that were run down with the King on the turn. Once the board failed to pair on the river or provide another Ace, Neuville shot to the top of the pack and Tureniec fell to the basement.
When play started Friday afternoon (Copenhagen time), here’s how the Top Ten lined up:
1. Pierre Neuville, 780,000
2. Alexander Manson, 730,000
3. Aage Floenes Ravn, 691,000
4. Alejandro Sanchez Fernandez, 620,500
5. Keld Volquardsen, 523,500
Spencer Hudson, 523,500
7. Bjarke Hansen, 460,000
8. Mickey Petersen, 451,500
9. Martin Staszko, 432,500
10. Steve O’Dwyer, 423,500
While Staszko’s performance was truly noteworthy (he started the day with only 28K in chips), Neuville’s play was also strong. A retired businessman, the 69-year old Neuville, who played poker socially throughout his life, picked up the game seriously in 2006. Since then, the Team PokerStars Pro member has become quite notable for his abilities to use PokerStars satellite tournaments to win his seat into EPT events. He qualified for 23 consecutive EPT events through these satellites (a record) and has earned over million in his tournament poker career.
Action has already begun today to determine the final eight handed table for the EPT Copenhagen, which will take place tomorrow. At stake for those remaining in the event is a first place prize of 2,515,000 Danish Krone, which converts to just under 4,500 U. S.
As its tenth season drives towards the final few tournaments of its schedule, poker players from around the world are descending on the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles for the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic Main Event, one of the most highly prized jewels of the WPT schedule.
The stop at the Commerce has been a part of the WPT schedule since the inception of the tour back in 2002. In the inaugural event, Gus Hansen secured his spot in WPT lore by winning the tournament over such notable names as Andy Bloch, David “The Dragon” Pham and the late Bob Stupak. That victory by Hansen would be his second of the inaugural season and put Hansen on the map as one of the top professionals in the game.
In fact, the list of players who have captured the WPT L. A. Poker Classic crown reflect some of the biggest names in the game. Such players as Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Alan Goehring, Cornell Cimpan, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Ivey have taken home the championship, while David Benyamine, Ted Forrest, Erick Lindgren, J. C. Tran, Chau Giang, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Montgomery, Vivek Rajkumar and Carlos Mortensen have all made a final table. The ,000 buy in tournament is expected to once again have such star power when its final table plays out on Wednesday (February 29).
In action prior to the beginning of the WPT event today, two top professionals have already earned some money. In the 00 No Limit Hold’em preliminary event, Vanessa Selbst defeated Jonathan Duhamel to take home the championship. In winning the event, Selbst pocketed a 0,294 payday (making her efforts in the WPT event a freeroll), while Duhamel (who has been on a tear in 2012) took down 1,115.
With a good run in the WPT L. A. Poker Classic, Selbst can potentially challenge current WPT Player of the Year frontrunner Will Failla for the crown as the season runs down. Failla currently sits at 1650 points in the POY race, with Vitor Coelho (1500) and Bobby Oboodi (1400) just behind him. Selbst currently sits back in a tie for sixth place with 1200 points; if she is able to make the final table of the L. A. Poker Classic and finish fourth or better, Selbst would pass Failla for the POY lead (provided, of course, that Failla doesn’t join her at the final table!).
Several of the players who will be participating in the WPT L. A. Poker Classic are already on the ground in Los Angeles and champing at the bit to get the tournament underway. “Got 11 hours of sleep that I badly needed,” Jason Somerville Tweeted to his followers early this morning. “Excited to play the K WPT event today!”
Hellmuth seems to be ready to go as well after a good day of cash game action. “I won 00 playing Chinese poker,” he Tweeted. “Now resting in my room…LAPC WPT Day One at noon on Friday.”
WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage reports that early registration has players from around the world scheduled to be a part of the festivities. He also expects that the first place prize for the tournament will once again exceed million, something that the tournament has done in each of its previous ten tournaments.
The L. A. Poker Classic will be taped for broadcast as part of the Season X presentation of the WPT on Fox Sports Network, which started its Season X broadcasts last weekend. The announcers for the WPT, longtime hosts Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, will be joined by guest anchor Marianela Pereyra (sitting in for the soon to be new mom Kimberly Lansing) and the Royal Flush Girls for the entirety of the tournament. Additionally, “The Raw Deal” host Tony “Bond_18” Dunst will start off playing the tournament; if he unfortunately busts from the event, he will provide the online streaming coverage of the final table on Wednesday afternoon.