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WORLD POKER CHAMP ROUGHED UP BY BURGLARS
2011-12-22
Thankfully, no serious injury for Duhamel...but not a pleasant experience
The media in Montreal is reported that Jonathan Duhamel, the 2010 World Series of Poker main event champion who earned himself $8.9 million by winning last year, was the victim of a burglary at his home in which he was manhandled and roughed up by two criminals who are currently being sought by the police.
Two men forced their way into Duhamel's Boucherville borough home and assaulted him in the course of the burglary, necessitating hospital treatment for his fortunately minor injuries.
The reports are not clear on what the burglars were after, but once they had decamped Duhamel called the police.
SOME TIPS TO PLAY ONLINE POKER FREE
2011-02-08
The simplest ways to play poker online is by joining the free poker rooms and play the tournaments. These “Freeroll” tournaments can be joined for free and lots of prizes can be won. Also, these games have numerous participants and prizes of very low amount. The prize money in the regular rooms is not more than $200. Many websites in which users plays online poker free come out with private tournaments. Players who are registered with such websites can take part in these tournaments and earn loads of money. Here the prizes amount to $2000 without any entry fee. Some of these poker games involve real money, which can be deposited with the site one is using, and play whenever and wherever.
Most websites also provides a beginners bonus that helps in starting the account and start playing. Some websites offer up to $1000 free poker chips which can be claimed in their poker rooms.
There are few online guides that provide all the information on how to play online poker free. Information regarding the best sites for poker, how to make a deposit on the website, etc is available on these online guides. They also provide information on how to win poker games online and other tips and strategies. There are hundreds of poker sites that offer free poker but as a player our duty is choose the correct, authorized and legal website to play. Sports book poker is the most trusted website which offers loads of entertainment. Many players profit from this website as it is a sports book. The web address for this website is www.sportsbook.com/poker the fastest growing poker room for USA players.
As we know the numbers of gamblers who love betting on poker are addicted to it. Thus if any website offers new and latest features these gamblers grab the opportunity as soon as possible. Poker online has been popular since the last decade and thus competition among the online poker websites is cut throat. Some users are so used some particular websites that they do not venture to look for other better online portals.
Any beginner who wants to play online poker must first learn all the tips and techniques from an online guide and then try his/her luck in a poker room. Once all the strategies have been learned the fun is set to begin. The beginner will realize that the learning of as many techniques as possible before hand will give them an edge over the other players who not as experienced.
Most users who are very much interested in poker like to play online poker free as it does not involve real money and can be used to brush up on skills and strategies before a virtual poker game. Head over the Sporstsbook.com today and get into the poker action!
SWEDE TAKES EPT BARCELONA TITLE
2010-11-29
Final table saw representatives hailed from eight different nations
The European Poker Tour Barcelona was decided over the weekend, with Kent Lundmark (22) of Sweden taking the honours and the Euro 825,000 first prize after a heads up against Jesus Cortes Lizano of Spain.
When the heads up started Lundmark held a 2 million chip advantage, and he managed to largely hold on to his lead and dominate the action. Cortes took home Euro 525,000.
The multi-national final table comprised Lundmark of Sweden and Cortes of Spain, along with Russian ace Konstantin Puchkov; Shander De Vries from Holland; Germany's Giuseppe Pantaleo; Thor Stang of Norway; Greek player Georgios Skotadis; and Italy's Francesco Notaro. The six-figure payouts extended down to sixth place.
The win was the biggest yet in live tourneys for Lundmark, who is an accomplished online poker player. His previous best live performance was in January this year at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, where he won $66,000.
A DAY 8 TO REMEMBER AT WSOP (Update)
2010-07-20
It took nearly 18 hours to arrive at this main event final table
When InfoPowa left Day 8 of the main event at the World Series of Poker in the early hours of Sunday morning the remaining 10 players were playing to see who would be axed in tenth position to decide the final table - the November Nine as it has come to be called.
It took just on six more hours for the final table bubble boy to bust out at level 36 in the early morning hours Sunday, and it was Brandon Steven, who had been short-stacked for most of the day but valiantly tried to improve his position.
Steven was finally eliminated by Matthew Jarvis, setting up a final table comprised of:
1 Jonathan Duhamel 65,975,000
2 John Dolan 46,250,000
3 Joseph Cheong 23,525,000
4 John Racener 19,050,000
5 Matthew Jarvis 16,700,000
6 Filippo Candio 16,400,000
7 Michael Mizrachi 14,450,000
8 Soi Nguyen 9,650,000
9 Jason Senti 7,625,000
With average chip stacks at 24,396,667.
It had been a tough, 18 hour day for all involved.
The November Nine will draw their final table ninth position payouts this weekend and over the next few months prepare for the decider in November, when the table reconvenes to play down to a winner.
Ninth place pays each remaining player $811,823; higher finishers will win at least $1,045,738 and be paid the difference from ninth place money in November.
Here's a snapshot of the November Nine for the 2010 WSOP Main Event:
Jason Senti of St. Louis Park, Minnesota is 25 years old and a pro player with ten series cashes that have earned him $157,528, and four circuit cashes worth $543,637
Joseph Cheong is a 24 year old UC San Diego psychology graduate from La Mirada, California who also plays professionally and can claim cashes for 2 series of $31,064 and four circuit cvashes worth $20,890.
John Dolan (24) hails from Bonita Springs, Florida and is a pro player with five series cashes for $105,340 and two circuit cashes of $3,333.
Jonathan Duhamel of Boucherville, Quebec in Canada is a 22 year old poker pro who has two cashes worth $43,000 under his belt.
Michael Mizrachi (29) aka 'The Grinder' is a well known poker pro from Miami, Florida who has a WSOP bracelet to his credit, along with 23 series cashes worth $2.27 million and six circuit cashes for $323,258.
Matthew Jarvis is a 25 year old Canadian business student and amateur player from Surrey in British Columbia.
John Racener (24) is a poker pro from Port Richey in Florida.
Filippo Candio (26) is a poker pro based in Cagliari, Italy. He has one ca sh for $3,460 to his credit.
Cuong "Soi" Nguyen (37) is from Santa Ana, California, where he works for a medical supply company when not playing poker as an amateur.
POKERSTARS EXEC JOINS LIVE DEALER PROVIDER
2010-06-11
Visionary iGaming hires Steve Obia
The Costa Rica-based live dealer provider Visionary iGaming has announced the appointment of Steve Obia (43) as chief operating officer, responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the company’s 24/7 live casino studio, IT operations, customer service and relationships, and support.
Obia joins the company after three years at the world’s largest internet gaming site, PokerStars, where he served as director of support operations, a role in which he was instrumental in building and managing the giant’s Deposit Assistance and Customer Service organisation, handling millions of active monthly players.
Prior to Pokerstars, he spent 17 years in a range of international executive, management, and operational positions at Hewlett Packard. In Obia’s preceding executive role with HP he was responsible for building and managing the company’s Software Support Group in its Costa Rican Customer Support Center, an operation that ultimately employed over 500 staff.
“I am tremendously excited to have such a high profile executive join Visionary iGaming’s management team, where we will benefit immensely from his industry experience at PokerStars, proven record of success in large operations and passion for technology,” said Martin Reiner, CEO of Visionary iGaming.
Obia said, “Visionary iGaming is one of the fastest growing companies in the internet gaming industry because of its innovative approach to producing high quality live online casino games. All large gaming brands are evaluating the addition of live dealer casino to their product offering and Visionary iGaming is at the forefront with an exceptional product.”
FINNISH FIRMS TO OFFER ONLINE POKER AND CASINO ACTION
2010-02-09
RAY gets the Finnish government’s green light
The Finnish Slot Machine Association (RAY) and its lottery counterpart Veikkaus have been given the government green light to push ahead with legal online gambling ventures that include online poker and casino action (for RAY) and online bingo and similar number-based games (for Veikkaus)
RAY intends to introduce a variety of internet poker and casino games, which it believes will create an income of around Euros 25 million annually.
Finnish media sources report that the new government licenses come into force on March 1 2010, and that RAY hopes to start real money operations before August this year.
The government has apparently insisted that strict regulatory measures concerning problem and underage gamblers and responsible gambling must be observed.