09 3rd, 2010
Patrik Antonius took on Phil Galfond for around an hour at $300/$600 heads-up PLO last night and lost $192,000. Despite this, he was still the biggest winner of the day after a great Limit Hold ‘em session that saw him take home over seventy-five big bets… at $2,000/$4,000.
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The International Poker Players Association (IPPA) will present a championship event later this year with the biggest buy-in the world has ever seen. The Monte Carlo IPPA Championship, scheduled for Nov. 29-Dec. 2, will be a $250,000 buy-in No Limit Hold-em Shootout featuring a prize pool of $12 million, with the winner taking home $5 million. Players participating in the televised event will be referred to as the “Elite 48″.
“This is the player’s championship, the pièce de résistance,” said IPPA President and CEO Yosh Nakano.
Thirteen of the biggest names in poker have already registered for the highly anticipated event: , Freddy Deeb, Tony G, Bruno Fitoussi, , , , , John Hennigan, , , , and 2010 November Niner Micheal Mizrachi. The field is also expected to consist of three sponsor’s exemptions and two qualifiers, including one from Los Angeles’ Bicycle Casino.
Players will have the opportunity to qualify for the high-roller event in a new satellite format called the Equity Rebuy Shootout. The first round of the shootout is played 10-handed, with the winners getting their $1,000 buy-in back and moving on to the second round. Players that busted out then have the option to rebuy for the value of a second-round seat.
“For as little as $1,000 — less if you win a satellite — a player can play in a qualifier and have an opportunity to win the $5 million first-place prize at the Monte Carlo IPPA Championship,” said Nakano, who worked several years as the poker manager at the Bicycle Casino.
The inaugural $250,000 IPPA Championship was supposed to take place last year but ended up being canceled. The 2009 version featured H.O.R.S.E. and two rounds of No Limit Hold’ em but, in order to gain more interest from players and television viewers, this year’s tournament will be No Limit Hold’ em only.
According to Nanoko, the goal is to create a tournament with a deep structure that will allow the cream to rise to the top. “We wanted to produce a high-end poker tournament that offered a big buy-in event with quality play. We felt that we could do a good job at putting an event together that would provide the best all-around player in the world.”
Should the event happen this year, it will be the largest buy-in poker tournament by a long shot. The current leader took place in January 2010 at the Aussie Millions $100,000 challenge, where 24 players participated to create a prize pool of $2.4 million. Dan Shak bested Phil Ivey heads up to win a prize of $1.2 million. Ivey took home $600,000, while Billy Jordanou ($300,000), Tony Bloom ($200,000) and Tony G ($100,000) also cashed.
Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for further news on the Monte Carlo IPPA Championship.
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09 2nd, 2010
Antonius, who is looking to rebound from an awful August that saw him lose over $800k on the online tables, played 413 hands of $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold’em against deprimiert.
There was some luck involved, however. In one of the key hands Antonius managed to river trip sixes with A-6 in the hole to scoop a $56,000 pot.
With the win, Antonius is now the biggest winner in the very early stages of September. There’s a good chance we’ll see that position change frequently as the month continues.
As for deprimiert, it was the second straight day that he’s accrued massive losses. Yesterday Phil Ivey had his way with deprimiert in the high stakes Limit games and drained him of $327k. Over the last two days deprimiert has lost over $600k.
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond was the night’s second biggest winner with $213,863 in profit.
Most of Galfond’s winnings came from Dan “jungleman12” Cates in a mixture of $100/$200 No-Limit Hold’em and PLO. Perhaps Galfond should have issued a challenge of his own.
The durrrr Challenge tables were silent for a second straight day. Tom Dwan is perhaps still stinging from the fact he’s down nearly $700k to jungleman12 and trying to develop a new strategy.
Here’s a couple of the biggest pots from the Patrik Antonius/deprimiert session last night. Be sure to check out our for more information.
A beastly trip sixes for Patrik Antonius.
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08 23rd, 2010
The celebrated Team Full Tilt Pro was up $1.6 million in August, prior to this weekend, and decided to get involved in some huge games against Clockwyze, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Sam “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer, Cole South and Hac “trex313″ Dang.
It didn’t matter whether Ivey was playing $200/$400 Cap Six-Max, Heads-up or $500/$1,000 Cap No-Limit Hold’em he was losing.
After 2,832 hands over two days, Ivey found himself down a stunning $785k. The online tables will be watched closely this week to see if Ivey attempts to recoup his losses or takes a break.
Meanwhile Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies recorded his first big win of the month by destroying his competition in Cap PLO for a weekend haul of $365,051.
Sahamies wasn’t the biggest winner over the past few days, however, as online player O Fortuna PLS cruised to a $483,809 score. Essentially all of O Fortuna PLS’s profits came from Tom “durrrr” Dwan in $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold’em.
Incredibly durrrr still finished the weekend about even thanks to his success in other games.
Below are some of the biggest pots on Full Tilt from this weekend. For more hand replays head to our .
The Sniper No-Limit Hold’em tournament with $20 bounty, the fourth event of the Ultimate Bet Online Poker Championship Series 5, took place Friday night and lasted into the early morning hours of Saturday. The event was hosted by none other than…
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The Ultimate Bet Online Poker Championship Series 5 continued Thursday with Event #3 No-Limit Hold’em 4-Max, hosted simultaneously as it’s Mini-UBOC version. To the winner would go the title, a nice payday and a UB championship watch. Making…
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08 20th, 2010
The Ultimate Bet Online Poker Championship Series 5 continued Thursday with Event #3 No-Limit Hold’em 4-Max, hosted simultaneously as it’s Mini-UBOC version. To the winner would go the title, a nice payday and a UB championship watch. Making…
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08 19th, 2010
Day 1a of the tournament saw 168 players enter the
08 19th, 2010
On today’s Daily Deal, the next installment of the Challenge may start this week, MMA Week debuts on NBC’s “Poker After Dark,” and CardRunners signs one of the most successful tournament players around.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily.
Even though Tom “durrrr” Dwan and seem to be at a standstill in the first Durrrr Challenge, the next installment might only be a few days away. CardRunners instructor Daniel “JungleMan12” Cates has agreed to step up to the plate and face Dwan. In fact, the two could begin their 50,000 hand match as early as this week.
Dwan and Cates were seen discussing the details of their impending bout in a chat box on Monday. JungleMan12 told Dwan that he had shipped the challenge’s $500,000 buy-in to , who will act as its escrow. Poker, which hosts the Durrrr Challenge tables, has remained completely quiet on JungleMan12’s involvement. Meanwhile, Dwan and Antonius have been playing for nineteen months.
On Monday, MMA Week debuted on NBC’s “Poker After Dark.” The show, which airs at 2 a.m. Eastern Time nightly for one hour, pitted three staples of the MMA world against three poker pros. Representing the world of Mixed Martial Arts were UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer, former UFC champion Randy Couture, and “Ultimate Fighter” coach Dan Henderson.
Representing the world of poker were , , and . Watch new episodes of “Poker After Dark” every night this week on NBC. On Saturday following “Saturday Night Live,” catch a special recap episode featuring interviews with all of the players involved.
The popular poker training site CardRunners has inked two-time Full Tilt Online Poker Series event winner Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen. The new arrival owns the top spot in the Bluff Online Poker Player of the Year leaderboard and is the fifth ranked player on PocketFives.com.
Petersen is fresh off a win in a two-hundred sixteen dollar No Limit Hold’em Rush tournament held during FTOPS Seventeen. He banked thirty-seven thousand dollars in the process and outlasted a field of nearly eight-hundred entrants. In the previous FTOPS, which played out just before the start of the , Petersen took down a two-hundred sixteen dollar No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event for eighty-six thousand dollars. Two FTOPS jerseys later, he finds himself in elite company.
Petersen joins a talented team at CardRunners that includes Durrrr Challenge participant “JungleMan12” and John “Jimmy Legs” Wray, who produces the popular “Brian Fail” series. Wray, who authored a popular strategy article for Poker News Daily entitled “Poker and the Endowment Effect,” released the eighth installment of “Brain Fail” on Monday. This week’s edition focuses on why certain players like PhilIvey have managed to keep a low profile despite record winnings.
Well, thanks for joining us for another edition of The Daily Deal and be sure to come back every weekday for a new episode. Be sure to check out our twitter page at twitter dot com slash poker news daily. I’m Sean Gibson and I’ll see you tomorrow!
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08 18th, 2010
This Friday, August 20th, marks the start of the Main Event of the () Legends of Poker at the famed Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California. The $5,000 ($4,800 + $200) No-Limit Hold’em Championship is slated to run through August 25th, with Day 1 split into two flights.
This is the first year since 2005 that the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event buy-in will be less than $10,000, a change that needed to be made to boost attendance at WPT events. At 279 players, last year’s Legends of Poker field was 25 percent smaller than in 2008. Despite the precipitous drop, though, first place still paid just over one million dollars and the top five finishers all made at least six figures.
Poker pro won the 2009 WPT Legends of Poker, besting 2009 November Nine member heads-up. All things considered, it was not that long of a final table, lasting just 127 hands (keep in mind that World Poker Tour “final tables” are six-handed). Friedman was the third largest stack going into final table play, in fairly comfortable shape with 1,476,000 chips. He sat behind Schaffel and Todd Terry who were in a virtual dead heat with 2,234,000 chips and 2,219,000 chips, respectively. But Friedman knocked out Mike Krescanko, Toto Leonidas, and Terry over the course of final table to enter the heads-up portion of the competition with a sizeable 7-to-2 chip advantage. Schaffel battled his way back to even, but Friedman eventually ruled the day, eliminating Schaffel with A-Q versus K-J. For his runner-up finish, Kevin Schaffel won $471,670.
The WPT Legends of Poker is more than just the No-Limit Championship. There have already been 22 preliminary events with buy-ins ranging from $225 to $545. Most events have featured No-Limit Hold’em, but there have also been Limit Hold’em, HORSE, Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or better, Limit Omaha 8 or better, half Stud half Omaha Hi-Lo, and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo tournaments, as well as Shootout, Deepstack, and Re-entry formats. After the Main Event, there will be three more events before the entire poker festival wraps up on August 29th.
For those in the Los Angeles area, there will be satellites held on Wednesday and Thursday at the “Bike” for the No-Limit Hold’em Championship. Super Satellites will cost $120 to enter, while Mega Super Satellites will run $535. Players must register in person, as online registration is now closed.
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