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Join the Hunt for Gold Coins
Posted by Bradley, May 9, 2012 Gold Coins have become a valuable virtual currency at Titan Poker, where players have been building up their balances and trading them for Treasure Tickets since the launch of the Titan Treasures promotion earlier this month. Now players have a chance to reap a huge Gold Coin windfall without having to record a long list of poker achievements as determined by Titan Treasures. All players are eligible to play the 500,000 Coins Treasure Hunt tournament on May 30th and vie for a chance of winning a share of the 500,000 Gold Coins that comprise the prize pool of this special event. The 500,000 Coins Treasure Hunt action starts on May 30th at 20:00 GMT+1 but late registration is available through level 3. Entries are just 50 Points and re-buys and an add-on are available. Thats a very small investment considering the possibility of winning so many Gold Coins. Special Cash Tables Offer: Players can get 1 Gold Coin for every Point they earn while playing during May at the special Treasure cash tables, listed in the software under World Tables – > Treasure Tables. Gold Coins will be issued to players on June 1st. Players can also purchase 10,000 Gold Coins for 2,000 Points in the Club Titan Store. However, by playing the 500,000 Coins Treasure Hunt they have an opportunity to win a huge amount of Gold Coins while at the same time enjoy a fun freeroll tournament.

Strategy with Kristy: Terrence Chan
April 26 2012, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy: David “Doc” Sands Strategy with Kristy: Jonathan Little Discusses His Poker Strategy Book Strategy with Kristy: Randal Flowers Discusses Bluffing Preflop Share It Tags Online Poker, Poker events, Poker Strategy, PokerNews Podcast, PokerNews Strategy, Tournament Strategy Print Terrence Chan, two-time winner of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, is the latest guest on the Strategy with Kristy podcast. In 2009, Chan became the first player to win two SCOOP events in one day. He took down the medium and high buy-in ($530 and $5,200 respectively) for Event #20, a six-max limit hold’em tournament. Chan spoke with host Kristy Arnett about helpful strategies when playing an extended online tournament series. Here is a snippet from the interview: When you are looking to play a long online tournament series such as SCOOP, do you think it’s important to map out a tentative schedule? Yeah, and I think the key word there is tentative. I don’t think you should be super strict about it. For example, for the World Series of Poker schedule, I basically look at every tournament and put it in a spreadsheet. I put a number, on a scale of one-to-five, of how much I want to play in the tournament. Some events, I just know I’m not going to play. If they aren’t my game or out of my buy-in range, or if I feel like I’d be really bored playing it, I’ll put down a one or a two. And then for a events that I know I definitely want to play, it will be a five. I think it’s important to be flexible about this because maybe you just wake up one morning, and you just feel burned out. Maybe the night before you went deep in a tournament and you were the stone bubble. As tempting as it is to get back on that horse, you should think about whether you’re in the right state of mind to play. Don’t force yourself to play. If you are an absolute professional and can forget about the past, then that’s great. You should play. But, you have to look at yourself and be honest. Ask yourself, “Am I in a good emotional state? Do I feel like playing? Am I prepared to play 16 hours?” You have to ask yourself that because some of these SCOOP events are really long. The worst thing that can happen is that you play for seven or eight hours, you play great, and then you just say, “F*** it. I’m done with it. I’m just going to ship it in. I don’t really care anymore.” I mean, we’ve all done that. Everyone does that in a tournament from time to time, but it’s a really terrible thing to do. You’re better off just not playing in the first place. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every week for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Kristy Arnett on Comments No comments yet. Be the first to post one!

Interview with Vanessa Rousso
by Steve Marzolf As a lawyer, poker pro and self-described “huge dork,” Vanessa Rousso has made a name for herself in tournament poker, earning more than $3.7 million since 2006. Lately, she’s been repping for PokerStars and running poker “boot camps” to raise up the next crop of winning players. We called Vanessa up to talk about her tactics for surviving – and thriving – in the high-pressure world of large-buy-in tournaments. So you’re primarily a tournament player? I would say I’m only a tournament player. I can play a cash game or two. But to be honest with you, I play so many tournaments as it is, that if I play cash games too, it’s just too much poker. I like to have balance in my life, and there just aren’t enough hours in the day to play tournaments, cash games and do all the other things I like to do. Mike Matusow was complaining to us that high-buy-in tourneys have gotten too risky to profit on – what do you think of that statement? My results are skewed toward high buy-ins. I find that in the smaller buy-ins, I don’t do as well. The higher the buy-in, the more pressure and the better I play. I guess my own particular strategies are more suited to high-buy-in events against better players. So, for me, I’d rather play fewer events that are higher buy-in. What do you think it is about your style that matches up so well with those events? I think it’s probably rooted in logical ability. Basically, the higher the buy-in, the deeper the chip stacks, right? So, there’s more opportunity for telling stories with your bets and raises, and there’s more opportunity for tricking and trapping your opponents. In smaller buy-ins, you have to play more ABC optimally and just exploit the mistakes your opponents are making. At the higher levels, you’re not really waiting for your opponents to make errors – you’re more trying to trick and trap them. So it’s a little bit more of a mind game. I guess I don’t have the patience to play the ABC right way that I should in the smaller buy-ins, and then in the bigger buy-ins, tricking other thinking opponents is enough of a challenge that I give it my A-plus effort every time. But you cut your teeth playing sit-n-go’s, right? Well, I started off playing on the internet for free when I was in college, and then when I turned 21, I started playing live – that was when I was in law school in Miami. The first casino I played at was the Seminole Hard Rock down there, which had sit-n-go’s. I’d play on the weekends, and that’s how I built up my first bankroll. Why did sit-n-go’s work for you? They really had a definable, optimal strategy. Once you figure them out, there are only so many dynamics that can come up in one 10-person, set-blind-structure, $150-buy-in game. There’s just not that many ways it can go down. It took me a couple weeks to figure it out, but once I did, it was a formula that I could apply to that situation. And it was pretty consistent at making money. For beginners who want to follow in your footsteps, what sit-n-go advice do you have for them? I’m really big into reading the books and preparing for poker the same way you would for any money-making opportunity. People don’t just jump into investment banking without any schooling about it. I read like 30 books in a couple months before I started. Also, you need to be a lot more patient than people think you need to be. People come in to play, and they try to take advantage of the low blind levels to play hands that are a little more speculative. But really, the chips are worth next to nothing when the table is still 9- or 10-handed. For instance, many people may find that they double up or even triple up early on in a match, but then don’t even make the top three. Because that early on, those chips just aren’t worth anything. Therefore risking chips to accumulate those early chips isn’t worth it. It’s profitable to play much, much tighter than you think in the early stages. Once your career got moving, was there a moment when things really came together for you? I think it was when I came in 7th in the $25,000 buy-in WPT main event back in 2006. It was the first time I’d taken a shot on the pro circuit, and it worked out. I won a quarter-million dollars, and that pretty much launched my career. It gave me the confidence to continue playing the circuit. Then later that year I won another 400-some thousand in various events. So 2006 was really the big year for me. Can you describe the processes running in your mind when you’re at a game like that and trying to get a read on your opponents? Getting a read all boils down to two categories – are they comfortable or uncomfortable? Because, if they have a good hand and they’re an experienced player, that’s a situation where they’re going to be super-comfortable. Good players have had aces a million times, so their hands aren’t trembling at aces anymore – it’s just something that makes them feel confident. Whereas even a good player can get nervous when they’re in on a big bluff, because that’s a situation that’s less in their control. On the flip side, inexperienced players will be a lot more uncomfortable with good hands because they’re not used to getting aces, kings, queens. The adrenaline’s been released. And since beginners tend to think poker is a lot more about bluffing, they can actually look pretty comfortable holding nothing. Good players, though, know how easy it is to get caught bluffing. So, if you can put your opponent into the comfortable/uncomfortable category, and then determine whether or not they’re an experienced player, it can really help you decide whether they have a hand. Is this the kind of stuff you get into during your poker boot camps? Yeah. I break down tournament strategy into a logical formula and give people guidelines to follow. Rather than vague principles, I give them specific strategies to follow. Mostly, I try to simplify the extremely complex game of tournament poker. Some of the things they can expect to learn are how to use “M” in hand selection; I cover some advanced reading techniques; I cover some game theory and poker stuff, as well. If anyone’s interested, they can get more info at www.bigslickbootcamp.com.

Second Wave of Indictments
by Adam Marshall | May 24th, 2011 The first wave of federal indictments that took PokerStars, FullTilt, and Absolute Poker out of the U.S. market was called Black Friday. This second wave targeting sites like Doyle’s Room and TruePoker is now being called Blue Monday. The indictments came from Maryland early yesterday targeting the following sites… DoylesRoom.com TruePoker.com BookMaker.com 2Betsdi.com Funtimebingo.com GoldenArchCasino.com BetMaker.com BetGrandeSports.com Betehorse.com Beted.com Doyle Brunson formally announced his separation from Doyle’s Room earlier this month due to the current legal turmoil surrounding online poker. Obviously, a hallmark of a great player is knowing exactly when to cash in your chips. The indictments were the result of undercover work done by the Department of Homeland Security. An undercover payment processing business was created called Linwood Payment Solutions, which connected agents with executives inside those gaming operations. The covert processor made around 300,000 transactions in the meantime while tracking financial data. Of note is the fact that some of these sites operated outside the legally murky arena of online poker and in the much-more-illegal field of sports betting. Charges included money laundering and conducting an illegal gambling business but not the previous accusations of bank fraud or violations of the UIGEA. Although this attack pales in comparison to the Black Friday indictments, to some they still represent a push against poker as a whole. Others believe these to be the initial parts of the staging phase that ultimately leads to the long overdue regulation of online poker. Copyright 2012 Ace Nine, LLC Legal | Contact Us | Site Map

The Online Railbird Report: Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies Up Nearly $1 Million in Two Weeks
April 06 2012, Chad Holloway Related Articles Viktor Blom Defeats Isaac Haxton in $1 Million SuperStar Showdown PokerStars SuperStar Showdown: Haxton Makes Comeback to Edge Out Blom PokerStars SuperStar Showdown: Viktor Blom Up Nearly $100,000 Before Match Postponed Related Players Share It Tags Isaac Haxton, Isildur1, PokerStars, Railbird Report, SuperStar Showdown, Viktor Blom, Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies Print In last weeks Online Railbird Report, we delved into the upswing of Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies, who erased half of his 2012 losses. This week, Sahamies continued to thrive and banked $350,347 in 3,592 hands spread across 32 sessions, making him the biggest winner for two weeks in a row with a combined profit of nearly $1 million. Another man who got things back on track was this year’s current leader, Jens Jeans89 Kyllnen, who won $262,118 (27 sessions/1,014 hands); likewise, both Viktor Isildur1 Blom ($201,631 in 38 sessions/6,198 hands) and EireAbu ($165,335 in 111 sessions/10,841 hands) had decent weeks, rounding out the top four winners. Isaac philivey 2694 Haxton was the weeks biggest loser after dropping $500,000 to Blom in the $1 Million SuperStar Showdown, and RaiseOnce, rumored to be Phil Ivey, was next on the loser’s list after dropping $323,400 (12 sessions/950 hands). Graham Takes__An__Hit on Thursday On Thursday, March 29, Australian pro Jarred Try__An__Hit Graham took a beating, dropping $262,000 in approximately 2,150 hands. That made him far and away the days biggest loser, which included losing the days biggest pot. It happened at a heads-up $200/$400 pot-limit Omaha table against Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies ($117,626) when Graham ($139,725.01) opened for $800 on the button and Sahamies three-bet to $2,560. Graham made the call and then called a bet of $5,278 from Sahamies on the flop. When the turned, Sahamies led out for $15,834, Graham raised to $63,336 and Sahamies moved all in for $109,788 total. Graham made the call and suddenly there was a $235,250 pot on the line! Showdown Graham held top pair with both straight and flush draws but still needed to improve against Sahamies’ top two pair. Unfortunately for Graham, the blanked on the river and he watched his opponent rake in the monster pot. Sahamies and Graham battled for just 90 hands, and at the end of the day, Sahamies profited $80,000. The rest of Grahams losses had come earlier in the day when he played $100/$200 PLO against Ben Sauce123 Sulsky and Ben Ben86 Tollerene, with the former winning $136,000 on the day and the later dropping $88,000, becoming the biggest winner and second biggest loser respectively. In one notable hand, action was three-handed when Sulsky ($92,025.67) opened for $400 on the button, Tollerene ($91,613.11) three-bet to $1,400 from the small blind, and Graham ($18,044) folded the big. With action back on Sulsky, he four-bet to $4,800, Tollerene five-bet to $13,400, Sulsky six-bet to $45,200, and Tollerene called, leading to the flop. Tollerene immediately moved all in for over $46,000 and Sulsky called off for about the same. Showdown Suslky was ahead with pocket aces but needed to dodge Tollerene’s straight draw. Dodge he did when the appeared on the turn followed by the river. Sulsky raked in the $183,421 pot. In another hand, action was heads-up between Graham ($102,960) and Sulsky ($62,038) when the former opened for $600. Sulsky responded with a reraise to $1,880, Graham four-bet to $5,720, Sulsky five-bet to $17,240, Graham called, and the flop came out . From there, Sulsky led out for $34,558, Graham min-raised to $69,116, and Sulsky called off his remaining $34,558. Showdown Graham had flopped sevens and fives with a flush draw, but was behind the aces and fives of Sulsky. Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Graham watched the $124,074 pot pushed to Sulsky. Kyllnen Wins $258,000 in 542 Hands on Monday The new week proved kind to Jens Jeans89 Kyllnen, who won $258,000 in just 542 hands no doubt a relief after having dropped $600,000 in March. Kyllnen also won the day’s largest pot, which turned out to be quite the doozy. It happened at a five-handed $100/$200 PLO table when Viktor Isildur1 Blom ($116,506.69) opened for $900 under the gun and Kyllnen ($119,038.65) three-bet to $3,200 from the button. Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies ($47,200) called from the small blind, and Ronny 1-ronnyr3 Kaiser ($17,222.50) exercised his option in the big with a four-bet to $13,900. At that point, Blom called, Kyllnen five-bet to $62,000, and Sahamies called off. Kaiser called off, as well, and Blom came along for the ride. The flop came out and Blom and Kyllnen got the rest of the money in, creating a pot worth $297,471. Showdown Kaiser Sahamies Blom Kyllnen Both Sahamies and Blom had flopped flushes, while Kaiser and Kyllnen each held two pair. The turn wasnt that exciting, but the river was, because it paired the board and gave Kyllnen a full house, which was good enough to scoop the massive pot. Kyllnen was the days biggest winner; meanwhile, Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies ended up the second-biggest loser after dropping $213,000 in 538 hands, behind only Isaac philivey2694 Haxton, who dropped $218,000 in his loss to Blom in the $1 Million SuperStar Showdown. Kaiser and Blom Hit Hard on Tuesday The $100/$200 PLO games were going strong on Tuesday, and though there were no six-figure winners, there were a couple of big losers in Ronny 1-ronnyr3 Kaiser and Viktor Isildur1 Blom who lost $181,000 and $156,000 respectively. In the biggest pot of the day, action was four-handed when Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies ($106,565) opened for $860 under the gun and Kaiser ($87,539.25) three-bet to $2,940 from the small blind after the button had folded. After the big blind got out of the way, Sahamies made the call and then turned around and called Kaisers bet of $5,400 on the flop. When the peeled off on the turn, Kaiser check-called a bet of $17,035, and proceeded to check-call a bet of $51,105 on the river. Kaiser mucked after Sahamies revealed for sixes full, which was good for the $153,160 pot. Sahamies went on to win $72,000 on the day, making him the third biggest winner behind Ben Sauce123 Sulsky (+$96,000) and Ben Ben86 Tollerene (+$92,000). In another hand, Sulsky ($118,482.86) opened for $400 and was met with a three-bet to $1,280 by Blom ($53,134). Sulsky opted for a four-bet to $3,920, Blom called, and the flop came down . From there, Blom checked, Sulsky bet $5,111, and Blom check-raised to $23,251. Not to be outdone, Sulsky three-bet and Blom called off his remaining $25,963. Showdown Blom had flopped top pair with the nut-flush draw but needed to improve against Sulskys flopped set of queens. The turn was a blank for Blom, as was the river. Sulsky’s improving to queens full of sixes was good enough to win the $106,228 pot. Biggest Weekly PokerStars Winners/Losers Weeks biggest winners (3/23-3/29): Ilari Ilari FIN Sahamies (+$350,347), Jens Jeans89 Kyllnen (+$262,118), Viktor Isildur1 Blom (+$201,631), EireAbu (+$165,335) Weeks biggest losers: Isaac philivey 2694 Haxton (-$500,000), RaiseOnce (-$323,400), doncarignano (-$151,934), Ronny 1-ronnyr3 Kaiser (-$116,294) blodders03 (-$315,614), Ben milkybarkid Grundy (-$191,046), Gavin gavz101 Cochrane (-$164,774), Phil takechip DAuteuil (-$163,563), Justin ZeeJustin Bonomo (-$152,504), Fake Love888 (-$134,773) Year-to-date winners: Jens Jeans89 Kyllnen (+$1,509,917), bernard-bb (+$1,054,075), Ben Sauce123 Sulsky (+$878,355), Phil MrSweets Galfond (+$862,455), EireAbu (+$767,417), patpatman (+$685,623) Year-to-date losers: Zypherin (-$620,497), long90110 (-$557,059), julia753 (-$512,746), Fake Love888 (-$472,875), 1Il|1Il|1il| (-$468,450) Data and hands obtained from HighStakesDB.com Stay up to date on all the latest news by following us on Twitter and liking us on Facebook. 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CarbonPoker Exclusive $25,000 Freeroll
Home>Latest Promotions>Poker Promotions An exclusive event that will get 2012 off to a great start with a lot of free real cash! Starting this Sunday, January 29th CarbonPoker will run qualifiers to their exclusive $25,000 poker freeroll to be held on Sunday February 26th at 14:00. FREEROLL Qualifiers From January 29th – February 25th inclusive there will be 3 freeroll qualifiers running each and everyday. Every qualifier will be FREE to enter and will award a seat into the 25,000 Bankroll Booster Freeroll to the top 10 finishers.Freeroll Qualifier Schedule: Daily at 13:30, 17:30 and 21:30.Format: Turbo, 5 minute blinds, 1k starting stack, top 10 advance. Please click here to visit Carbon Poker Promotion Date: 30 January 2012

BackBet at CelebPoker
BackBet at CelebPoker CelebPoker launched the newest feature that the poker world has to offer. Increase your action with BackBets side games while playing poker at our CelebPoker tables. Look for the NL Holdem BackBet tables in the CelebPoker software. Back Bets are side bets on possible occurrences (prop best), e.g. betting on a specific Formula1 driver to win a race, a football team scoring the first goal, or in the case of poker, predicting your next pocket cards. Read more about our BackBet now. Publish Date : 06/10/2011 Print Article Send To Friend

Titan Time
There is $20,000 up for grabs in the Titan Time promotion being staged this month at Titan Poker and players can race to their share of the prizes, no matter if their preference is cash games or tournaments. Titan Time consists of two 3-day races every week, ranking players by the number of Points they earn at Titan Poker. The Monday through Wednesday races rank players by the Points they generate at cash tables, while the Friday through Sunday races rank players by the Points they generate at tournaments. Players who enjoy both cash games and tournaments will find it easy to compete in all the competitions, as the race dates dont overlap. Titan Times leaderboards are updated automatically, making it easy for players to see where they stand and ensure that theyll earn enough Points to finish at the top of the rankings and win a cash prize. Lasting three days at a time, players will be sure to make extra spurts of activity to finish in the money. To be eligible for the prizes in the Titan Time promotion, players must remember to opt-in on the Titan Poker website. Prize money will be distributed to winning players throughout the month, soon after the conclusion of each of the races. Please click here to visit Titan Poker Promotion Date: 10 November 2011

Titans Again Dominate $200,000 Guaranteed
Posted by Steven, March 5, 2012 Last week, Titan Pokers players captured the top three places in the $200,000 Guaranteed. Last night, Titan Poker players continued their domination of the event, taking the top two spots. A total of 1,166 players started the Sunday night tournament, the biggest guaranteed prize tournament on Titan Pokers weekly schedule. The large starting field drove up the prize pool to $233,200 and the action lasted 11 hours. Four Titan Poker players finished in the top ten. Czech player azaque47 was eliminated in tenth place for a $2005.52 payout and Swedish player stentaxxiAA finished in eighth place for a $4,547.40 prize. Going into heads-up play, Canadian player DosPerros was slightly ahead of Spanish player KLAUSS88 in chips. But four hands later, the Canadian pushed pre-flop with pocket fives and KLAUSS88 was glad to respond by going all-in with his pocket tens. A ten on the flop, accompanied by an ace, and another ace on the turn, completed the full house for the Spanish player and he took the lead in the one-on-one battle. On the final hand of the tournament, KLAUSS88 was ahead by a 9-1 factor, but his A 6 was slightly behind the A T of the DosPerros. However, the A J 6 on the flop gave him the two pairs to knock out the Canadian from the tournament. For his first place finish, KLAUSS88 received $39,644. Second place was worth $29,150 for DosPerros.

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Online Poker, Poker February 25th, 2012 Ole Kristian Nergard Image Ole Kristian Nergard Bio Little is known of this young gun poker pro Ole Kristian Nergard. What is known is that hes 19 years old at the moment, Norwegian, and err to a vast 160 million dollar fishing fleet and factories. Others say he inherited 30 million and websites show that the fishing company has made over 120 million Euros / year. Read More About Ole Nergard here:Ole Kristian Nergard Bio Play Online Poker Poker Blog Copyright 2008 Just add chips LLCSubscribe to PokerBloggs.com

The Nightly Turbo: Senate to Hold Online Poker Hearing, WPT Returns to TV, and More
January 25 2012, Brett Collson Related Articles The Nightly Turbo: World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship Final Table, PokerStars Adds Big Blind Cap Tables, and More The Nightly Turbo: Royal Flush Girls Photo Shoot, Playtech Eyes U.S. Market, and More The Nightly Turbo: Tony G Helps Jungleman Find Action, Toby Lewis Wins TCOOP, and More Related Tournaments Related Players Share It Tags Aussie Millions, Online Poker, WPT, PokerStars, Turbo Championship of Online Poker, Annette Obrestad Print While all eyes are on Phil Ivey at the Aussie Millions Main Event, the Nightly Turbo is here to bring you some of the other big stories in the world of poker. In this edition, we’ll cover the upcoming online poker hearing being held on Capitol Hill, the announcement of the World Poker Tour television schedule, and more. In Case You Missed It Phil Ivey was second in chips after Day 2 of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event. Find out who he’s trailing in our daily Aussie Millions recap. 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Watch the World Poker Tour on FSN Season X of the World Poker Tour is still going strong in the U.S. and across Europe, but the action is already set to hit television screens beginning next month. On Wednesday, the WPT announced that all-new episodes will air on Fox Sports Net beginning on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time. Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten will be back in the booth for the tenth year providing commentary for all 37 episodes of Season X. They will be joined by WPT anchor Kimberly Lansing, Raw Deal analyst Tony Dunst, and the Royal Flush Girls from the sidelines. WPT Season IX redefined poker programming and the response was overwhelmingly positive. Season X will see more new elements that we expect the audience will love and will further enhance the timeless appeal of our show, said WPT CEO Steve Heller. World Poker Tours sustainability is not only a testament to continual innovation, but also to co-hosts Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, who have been the best in the business for an incredible ten years. Read more at PokerNews.com. More TCOOP Winners The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker passed the halfway point on Tuesday as winners were determined in events 24 through 27. Only 23 tournaments remained going into Wednesday, which featured four more events on the slate. Here’s a look at the results from Tuesday: Event #24: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo($50K Guaranteed) Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+9 1,321 $132,100 A large turnout for Event #24 resulted in a prize pool that almost tripled its guarantee. The UK’s “Mongy,” who won TCOOP Event #4 last week, reached another final table on Tuesday. However, the cards did not fall in the Brit’s favor as he hit the rail in eighth place. Switzerland’s “Sir_Don_John,” who final tabled TCOOP Event #14, went on to win this one for $22,127. Event #25: No Limit Hold’em ($500K Guaranteed) Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 3,589 $717,800 One of the largest events on the TCOOP schedule attracted more than 3,500 players, leaving $717,800 in prize money up for grabs. A four-way deal at the final table saw all four players walk away with at least $63,600. Mexico’s “wcsquad3″ claimed victory and the top prize of $85,653. Event #26: Stud ($25K Guaranteed) Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $20+2 3,037 $60,740 Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen weaved his way through a field of more than 3,000 players, but the online poker legend fell short of his first TCOOP title, finishing sixth. Canada’s “Poker Own U” claimed victory and a prize of $10,327. Event #27: No Limit Hold’em 2x Turbo w/ Rebuys ($300K Guaranteed) Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $20+2 7,818 $542,780 Nearly 8,000 players combined to generate a prize pool of $542,780 after the rebuys and add-ons were settled. Brazil’s “Mcolombo” cruised through the final table to collect $82,562 and the commemorative 24k gold-played card protector. For more details on each event, check out the PokerStars Blog. A Gift From Tony G. We reported last week that Shane Warne was having problems with cyclists on the road in Melbourne. As a solution, Tony G. presented a special gift to the legendary cricketer during the Aussie Millions Main Event on Wednesday. Follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. 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Another Freeroll Ahead
Posted by Bradley, January 4, 2012 Titan Pokers players love freerolls, there is no doubt about it. Two huge freeroll tournaments were staged during the last week, and both of them attracted 3,500 entries, the maximum number of players. Croatian player lujopunks took down the $1,500 Facebook Freeroll on December 29th and Canadian TTR144023732 won the 2012 $10,000 Freeroll on January 2nd. Another huge guaranteed prize freeroll tournament has been scheduled for the beginning of February, and all Titan Poker players are eligible to qualify. Players can secure their seat in the $5K Titans Skrill Depositors Freeroll on February 2nd by making a deposit with Moneybookers/Skrill during the month of January. A total of $5,000 in guaranteed prizes will be distributed to the winning players of this freeroll tournament. Moneybookers/Skrill, one of Europes largest online payments providers with over 20 million account owners globally, is a simple tool allowing players to safely make online payments. Originally known solely as Moneybookers, this alternative payment method re-branded as Skrill in the beginning of 2011, and Skrill is being marketed as the future of Moneybookers. Moneybookers/Skrill is one of the many payment options available to Titan Pokers players.

Strategy with Kristy: Jared Tendler on the Mental Game of Poker Part 2
December 22 2011, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy: Jared Tendler on the Mental Game of Poker Pt 1 Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Seidman Discusses His Book, Easy Game Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Robl Discusses Televised Cash Game Hands Share It Tags Poker Players, Poker Strategy, PokerNews Podcast, Psychology of Poker Print Jared Tendler is the author of The Mental Game of Poker and has coached more than 200 players from around the world. Equipped with a masters degree in psychology and years of experience as a performance coach, Tendler has become one of poker’s most respected teachers of the mental side of poker, which includes tilt, emotional control, confidence, motivation, and fear. Last week on Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point, Tendler came on the show and discussed how to approach improving your mental game, the Adult Learning Model, and more. This week, host Kristy Arnett put into practice a few tips she learned from Tendler and discusses her experience. Here is a snippet from the interview: Personally, I feel like my confidence changes so much. Sometimes I feel unstoppable and other times I feel like I can’t do anything right. Can you talk a little bit about confidence and the importance of finding middle ground with it? Confidence is huge. The key thing to keep in mind with confidence is that we’re looking for it to be stable, meaning that it doesn’t swing too high or too low. Those times when you feel unstoppable are almost not as real as the times when you feel like nothing can go right. Neither one is accurate. When you feel unstoppable, some players feel like they can beat anybody like the Iveys or the Durrrrs of the world, but that’s not true. It’s an illusion, but it feels that way. In that moment, being carried away by that emotion can be very destructive on the high side. And the same thing on the other side. When a skilled player like yourself, who’s a proven winning player, feels like they can’t doing anything right, that’s as much of an illusion as feeling like you can beat anyone and you’re unstoppable. What we’re trying to do is move you more toward the middle, and the middle is not being numb. This is key because like I said last week, emotion is not the problem. Being neutral and being robotic is not what we’re looking for. We’re looking for your confidence to be much more focused around the things that you control because in the short run in poker, you can very easily have your results fueled by variance in one way or the other. If your emotions and confidence goes along with it, it will be a roller coaster of emotion along with the roller coaster of your results. That means your confidence is perfectly tied to results. What we’re trying to do is create it much more around your skill. Focus your evaluation of your game, not around how much money you won or lost in a single day, but instead on your skill. You have to be able to recognize how well you played or how poorly you played, specifically what mistakes were made, specifically what difficult spots you got yourself into that you made good decisions for. Being able to see the subtle nuances in your game and the subtle nuances in your opponent’s game, allow you to kind of tease out the results in a slightly different way than just money. That’s important to maintain that stability because if you’re able to know definitively, on a day when you lost five or six buy-ins, that you played as well as you could and that none of your C-game or B-game mistakes showed up, then you can walk away feeling pretty good. I’m not saying you feel good losing money, but you can walk away knowing that on a very difficult day, you were able to withstand those beats, withstand all those difficult hands and spots, and played as well as you could. That’s something that creates a lot more stability for confidence in the long run. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every week for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Kristy Arnett on Twitter @KristyArnett Comments

Strategy with Kristy: Mike Watson Discusses Playing Big Stacks
December 09 2011, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy: Randal Flowers Discusses Bluffing Preflop Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Amanda Musumeci Discusses WSOP Main Event Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Ben Wilinofsky Discusses Short-Stack Strategy Related Players Share It Tags Tournament Strategy, South Point, PokerNews Podcast, Mike Watson, Poker Player Interviews Print Mike Watson, also known as “SirWatts,” has accumulated more than $4 million in tournament winnings and is also one of the most respected high-stakes no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha players online. For this edition of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point, Watson discusses the strategy behind playing a big stack in a no-limit hold’em tournament. Here is a snippet from the interview: If you’re at a table with a player who’s good and has a big stack, how do you combat them? I mean, it’s a very difficult situation obviously. That’s the nightmare scenario in a tournament. Ideally you have position on them, but if you’re out of position, sometimes you have to tighten up a little bit. You might open-fold some of the speculative hands you’d usually try to pick up some chips with. If they’re going to give you trouble and three-bet you a lot, there’s not much you can do. All you can do is come up with a balanced strategy against them. You’re going to have to four-bet as a bluff sometimes. If they’re really over-aggressive, you might be looking to four-bet light for value hoping to induce them to spew. Sometimes, you can even take flops against them even though you’re out of position and try to outplay them postflop. They might be less comfortable in a postflop game. Players have to learn how to adapt, and for those who came up when no one was really playing that aggressive preflop, learning to four-bet as a bluff can be scary. I think it’s hard for players to integrate these types of plays into their game. Yeah definitely. I used to always be a very tight player, I think most people would say. That’s definitely stuff I used to be uncomfortable putting into my own game. Once you look at the game and break it down to a more theoretical level, you realize you just have to do stuff like that. These are plays that just have to be in your arsenal because it’s the only way to effectively combat the increased aggression of other players. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every week for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Kristy Arnett on Twitter @KristyArnett Comments

Global Poker Index: Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Back On Top
December 08 2011, Mickey Doft Related Articles Global Poker Index: Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Closes The Gap Global Poker Index: Sam Trickett Enters the Top 10 Global Poker Index: Failla Cracks Top 10; Seidel’s Reign May Soon End Related Players Share It Tags Federated Sports + Gaming, GPI Rankings, Global Poker Index, Poker Rankings, Erik Seidel, Bertrand Grospellier Print Bertrand ElkY Grospellier is back at top of the Global Poker Index this week. For a look at the just-released entire list of top 300 tournament poker player, visit the official GPI website. The list is compiled using a formula that takes a player’s results over six half-year periods. The Top 10 as of December 5, 2011 Rank Player Total Score Change in Rank from Last Week 1 Bertrand ElkY Grospellier 2,534.45 +1 2 Erik Seidel 2,526.35 -1 3 Jason Mercier 2,415.32 0 4 Eugene Katchalov 2,405.03 0 5 Sam Stein 2,317.85 +1 6 Shawn Buchanan 2,219.40 -1 7 Sam Trickett 2,164.90 0 8 Chris Moorman 2,051.57 +10 9 Fabrice Soulier 2,019.80 0 10 Matt Waxman 2,014.06 0 Having last been No. 1 in August, Bertrand ElkY Grospellier returned to the top of the GPI this week. His total points remained the same, but Erik Seidel’s did not. For as good as Seidel’s run was at the beginning of 2011 (at the moment, his Period 2 results) his second-half of 2010 (at the moment, his Period 3 results) were not all that impressive. Seidel’s score dropped because a 14th-place finish in the $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball event at the 2010 WSOP aged into Period 4, leaving Seidel with only two Period 3 results. As a result, Seidel slipped down to No. 2. New to the top 10 this week is Chris Moorman. With aging 2011 WSOP and 2010 WSOP scores now counting toward Period 2 and Period 4, Moorman gained enough points to make his debut in the top 10. He replaced Sorel Mizzi, now in the No. 14 spot after his ninth-place finish at the 2010 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic slipped to Period 3. Welcome to the GPI Thirteen players are new to this week’s GPI. Entering with the best rank is Fabian Quoss, thanks to his victory in the 2011 Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event. New Additions Player Total GPI Score GPI Rank Fabian Quoss 1,275.88 157th David Steicke 1,269.58 160th Scott Clements 1,233.63 178th John Monnette 1,098.79 248th Richard Lyndaker 1,081.51 257th Greg Dyer 1,075.38 265th Keven Stammen 1,060.30 278th Kristijonas Andrulis 1,056.80 279th Justin Smith 1,049.86 283rd Brock Parker 1,047.44 287th Kevin Vandersmissen 1,034.97 292nd Seth Fischer 1,028.98 294th Dan Smith 1,020.73 300th Those who fell from the GPI this week: David Chiu, Farzad Bonyadi, Jonathan Karamalikis, Justin Schwartz, Lars Bonding, Luca Pagano, Matt Affleck, Men Nguyen, Nicolas Levi, Nikolay Evdakov, Robert Mizrachi, Sergey Rybachenko, and Vladimir Shchemelev. Ups and Downs The biggest rise of the week belonged to Jean-Philippe Rohr after his 20th-place showing at WPT Marrakech at the end of November. Jonathan Duhamel, who made the final table there and finished seventh, also leaped up the GPI and now sits in the No. 26 spot. Biggest Gains Rank Player Total Score Change in Rank From Last Week 26th Jonathan Duhamel 1,795.71 +36 78th Noah Schwartz 1,509.00 +47 108th James Mitchell 1,395.80 +49 113th Nenad Medic 1,378.82 +46 154th Michael Benvenuti 1,279.04 +69 158th Matt Giannetti 1,272.07 +47 173rd Jean-Philippe Rohr 1,237.31 +87 187th Bernard Lee 1,207.13 +63 195th Tom McCormick 1,193.62 +41 198th Matt Matros 1,192.03 +47 210th Josh Arieh 1,169.21 +36 Several of this week’s biggest falls were due to the 2010 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic dropping from Period 2 to Period 3. John Racener (fourth), Andrew Lichtenberger (eighth), Amit Makhija (13th), and Andy Frankenberger (16th) each fell significantly. Biggest Drops Rank Player Total Score Change in Rank From Last Week 104th John Racener 1,409.63 -52 114th Thorsten Schafer 1,378.52 -54 130th Andy Frankenberger 1,326.95 -52 179th Amit Makhija 1,228.78 -75 207th Andrew Lichtenberger 1,173.85 -67 212th Will Molson 1,168.76 -75 232nd Yevgeniy Timoshenko 1,132.84 -62 233rd Jonathan Jaffe 1,131.83 -51 290th John Duthie 1,041.37 -66 293rd Tom Dwan 1,034.13 -71 What’s In Store? In addition to more WSOP scores aging, several new tournament results will come into play. The 2011 WPT Prague recently ended with Andrey Pateychuk claiming victory, and the 2011 EPT Prague and the 2011 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic wrap up this weekend, so there are sure to be big waves across the GPI next week. To look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website. While you’re at it, follow the GPI on Twitter and its Facebook page. To stay on top of the GPI and other happenings in the poker world, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Follow Mickey Doft on Twitter @mrdoft Recent Articles World Poker Tour Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2011 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day 2: Scott Clements Among Leaders DeepStacks Poker Tour Hits North America in 2012; PokerNews Named Official Media Partner Beef Up Your Stack in the $5,000 PKR WPT Dublin Brawl Promotion Win a Seat in the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million Most Popular This Week 22 Players Confirmed for $1 Million Buy-In Tournament at 2012 World Series Of Poker Big Game in Macau: Antonius Welcome, Hall Speaks, & Trickett Up $1.8 Million The Nightly Turbo: Jungleman Challenge Cancelled, PokerStars Guinness Record, & More The Weekly Turbo: Facebook Considers Online Gambling, Barney Frank to Retire, and More The Online Railbird Report: Sahamies Becomes Biggest PokerStars Winner of 2011 Comments With the announcement of another poker tour (DeepStacks Poker Tour) the Epic League will have to up its game to do well. The exclusive nature of Epic is ill-suited to the democratic nature of poker tournaments driven by large numbers of players that will *never* be on the Epic index. Those players are where the money is and large tournaments are more attractive to advertisers. In any case, time will tell because if High Stakes Poker can be cancelled, Epic cannot be far behind IMHO. Good reporting on the microscopic yet boring changes at the top of the Epic list and the inevitable “Epic List of the Doomed” for those players that Epic’s 300 only list ensures that they at tossed to the rail. I still maintain that having that 300 cutoff is Epic’s greatest weakness because every week Epic it goes out of its way to brand a few dozen players as losers. They should wake up and smell the coffee … Expand the list to 2,000. You would gain 1,700 winners just by doing that and Poker News would have enough data to report on MOVEMENT on the list rather than the bodies Epic toss into the river because they “dared” to be under the arbitrary 300 cap.

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Pius Heinz wins 2011 WSOP
The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event title has finally been claimed. Pius Heinz, a 22-year-old professional poker player from Cologne, Germany, took the title holding Ace-King against Martin Staszko’s Ten-Seven. Neither hand improved and Heinz took home $8.7 million with ace-high. Not only was Heinz the first German to win the Main, he was the first to sit at the final table. Over 6800 players from 85 different nations started the event over 13 days, with a prize pool of $64,540,858. The top 693 cashed and the tournament broke, as usual, over a period of five months between the body of the event and the final table, the “November Nine.” Notably, third-place finisher Ben Lamb was looking to culminate a sick, sick run at the WSOP. He place in five consecutive tournaments, making the final table of four of them, and winning one of them. This unheard-of streak locked him up solidly for the WSOP Player of the Year title. For the first time, the Main Event was broadcast (almost) live. There was a delay of several minutes to limit the ability of players to exploit the private pocket card cameras. Although this could potentially allow players to learn about very recent hands during breaks, creating a unique angle on the most important final table of the year. The continuing high turnout of the WSOP is taken as proof that the allure of poker continues throughout the world despite a federal crackdown against online poker. # Player Earnings Country 1 Pius Heinz $8,715,638 Germany 2 Martin Staszko $5,433,086 Czech Republic 3 Ben Lamb $4,021,138 United States 4 Matt Giannetti $3,012,700 United States 5 Phil Collins $2,269,599 United States 6 Eoghan O’Dea $1,720,831 Ireland 7 Bob Bounahra $1,314,097 Belize 8 Anton Makiieveskyi $1,010,015 Ukraine 9 Sam Holden $782,115 United Kingdom Copyright 2011 Ace Nine, LLC Legal | Contact Us | Site Map

What Are You Thankful For?
November 24 2011, PokerNews Staff Happy Thanksgiving! Before you gather around the dinner table and stuff your face with turkey, take a look at what some of your favorite pros are thankful for. What are you thankful for? Happy Thanksgiving to you from all of us here at PokerNews! Follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Recent Articles Daniel Negreanu and Other Pros Lend Helping Hands During the Holidays Global Poker Index: Sam Trickett Enters the Top 10 2011 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Day 1b: Bryan Huang Prospering Win A Share Of $15,000 This Christmas With Poker770 The Nightly Turbo: Barry Tanenbaum Passes Away, New PokerStars Online Pro, and More Most Popular This Week Groupe Bernard Tapie Signs Deal with DOJ to Acquire Full Tilt Poker for $80 Million Phil Ivey Returns to Poker at 2011 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau The Nightly Turbo: JP Kelly Out at PokerStars, Winner at Premier League, & More The Nightly Turbo: Tony G on the Jungleman Challenge, Poker Featured on CNN, and More The Nightly Turbo: Veldhuis Knocks Out ElkY, Matt Glantz Discusses Lederer, & More Related Articles Seat Open with Andr Akkari Part 1 Seat Open with Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Part 2 PokerNews Weekly: November 4, 2011 Tags Comments

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What Are You Doing You Dafty Old Cow?
published on 04/15/11 at 6:25 am Today marks the one year anniversary of the passing of a PokerPlasm Legend, Handsome Eddie LeFrancois. Known for his crude, unrelenting, and derogatory poker playing style, he was a breath of fresh air in a poker world filled with donkeys, self-appointed experts, and Euro trash. He was always there to listen and give his opinion. If you needed a freeroll to enter to get your mind off the day, he would find one. And his gambling exploits were always good for a laugh. To honor his memory, Eddies good friend, RudyRudeth, plans on enjoying a game of late night poker. Hopefully hell be watching over me and Ill kick arse but its more likely hell be watching and yelling what the f#$* are you doing you dafty old cow! Ahhh, the memory of Eddie lives on! Here is to you, our good friend! Related posts: Remembering A True Gentleman In The Game Of Life

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Player to Dealer and Management Ethics in Poker Tournaments
Player to Dealer and Management Ethics in Poker Tournaments If you are required to respect the other poker players in the poker tournaments, be it a minor or major poker tournament, you are also required to respect the dealer and the management. The Poker Players and the Dealers Because the dealers treat the poker players [...]

Is Jack Binion buying partnership in Full Tilt Poker?
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Poker Pros Understand Fold Equity
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Back to Court for poker Skill vs. Luck Argument


The argument regarding poker being a game of skill or a game of luck is continuing in South Carolina
with a court date coming later this year. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/PokerNews/ns_08072010_599.html

2008 WCOOP breaks online prize-pool record


PokerStars broke the online poker prize pool record on Sunday with the 2008 WCOOP Main Event. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/PokerNews/ns_02102008_50.html

Wishing everyone a great 2011

I hope 2011 starts on a positive note for everyone and the future is filled with great health and happiness throughout the world. I’m looking forward to new projects and enjoying everything I have with family and friends. And I’m looking forward to many
many more poker competitions. I have one coming [...]

Poker Pros Understand Fold Equity
A level of online poker aggression that rarely gets discussed
but yet is quite prevalent and a large part of Texas Holdem poker games is fold equity. Fold equity is an advantage that the poker pro creates for himself by betting and raising
rather than just calling
with the intent of making his opponents fold their hands.

Poker Pros Play Live and Online
Poker played at online poker sites is the way that many professional poker players are playing poker today but it is not the only way. Professional poker players still choose to play at regular land based casinos for their poker action. Some players even do both. Is the game played the same online as it is in local cardrooms?