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A total of 196 players took to the felts in San Jose, California for Day 1B of the ’s () Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament. Eugene Katchalov came out on top after the second starting day, earning a $10,000 cash bonus.
Katchalov finished with 131,500 chips, which will be the third largest stack after the survivors of Day 1A and Day 1B are combined for Day 2. When the cards hit the air today in the West Coast casino, 126 players will be seated. Overall, the tournament drew 333 entrants, down 15% from last year’s tally of 391. In 2009, took second to Steve Brecher and heading into Day 2, another female leads the way, Vanna Tea.
Shooting Stars, who have $5,000 bounties on their heads, doubled up left and right to close play on Tuesday at Bay 101. Poker front man was all-in with A-J of diamonds and up against pocket kings, but flopped one jack and turned trips to advance to Day 2. Lederer will have a stack of 20,600 chips when play resumes, the 109th largest tally.
Also doubling up late in the day was 2007 () Main Event champion Jerry Yang, whose 74,300 chips make up the 27th largest stack. Yang is fresh off an Elite Eight appearance in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, where he fell to eventual champion .
Not as fortunate was 2008 WSOP Europe Main Event winner , whose pocket fours could not hold up against the A-K of Tyler Cornell. When the smoke cleared, Cornell made a Broadway straight to collect Juanda’s $5,000 bounty and autographed Shooting Star shirt.
Also falling short on Day 1B was Victory Poker pro , who was all-in pre-flop with a wired pair of nines against the pocket kings of Betfair pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi and the A-3 of another player. The board ran out J-8-8-5-3, ultimately giving Mizzi a king-high flush, and Esfandiari was relegated to the rails. “The Magician” had tripled up earlier in the day with pocket kings against A-K and pocket nines. Meanwhile, Mizzi busted two players in the hand and owns the ninth largest chip stack entering Day 2.
UB.com pro and 11-time bracelet winner was all-in on a flop of J-5-3 with two spades holding A-Q of spades for the nut flush draw and two overcards. His opponent held 4-5 for a pair. The turn came a queen, saving the day for “The Poker Brat,” and a harmless nine fell on the river. Hellmuth ended the day with a stack of 62,800 chips, the 42nd largest tally in the WPT tournament. His talented company at Table 22 on Wednesday will include , Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, and Corwin “mig.com” Mackey. Talk about a tough draw.
Here are the top 10 chip stacks in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event as play enters Day 2:
1. Vanna Tea – 143,900
2. Greg “FBT” Mueller – 132,800
3. Eugene Katchalov – 131,500
4. Timothy McDermott – 118,100
5. Grantland Hillman – 115,100
6. David Sands – 106,900
7. Oddie Dardon – 105,500
8. – 99,900
9. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi – 97,600
10. Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko – 97,600
The winner of the event will take home an $878,000 grand prize, with the top 36 players finishing in the money. Here are the payouts for the six-handed feature table:
1st Place: $878,500
2nd Place: $521,200
3rd Place: $292,800
4th Place: $234,300
5th Place: $175,700
6th Place: $117,000
Other notable names appearing in the top 50 after two starting days include:
13. – 93,100
15. Hasan Habib – 89,700
16. Nick Schulman – 88,100
18. – 84,800
19. Chris “Fox” Wallace – 84,100
26. “Miami” John Cernuto – 76,700
27. Jerry Yang – 74,300
30. Phil Laak – 72,700
35. Chau Giang – 68,500
41. Steve “gboro780” Gross – 64,200
42. Phil Hellmuth – 62,800
45. Matt “All In At 420” Stout – 61,000
47. Brandon Cantu – 58,100
The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament will crown a champion on Friday. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT results.
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03 7th, 2010
As reported yesterday, up to six armed gunmen robbed the Grand Hyatt Hotel’s casino during the European Poker Tour (EPT) stop at Berlin. While nobody was seriously hurt, the incident caused havoc, as the thieves made away with a portion of the EPT High-Roller tournament prize money.
PokerStars, the official sponsor of the EPT, released an update about the incident on Sunday: “Yesterday at approximately 2:15pm (local time), an armed robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. Four armed men were involved in the robbery, which targeted the tournament registration desk outside the tournament area.”
The poker site added, “No shots were fired and the suspects quickly fled after a security guard intervened. The police investigation so far has shown that the suspects had a handgun and a machete. Contrary to tabloid reports, no Kalashnikov assault rifles or hand grenades were used. The suspects did not enter the tournament area and the money taken was substantially less than what has been reported.”
After the terror on the scene settled, players were asked to continue play only a few hours later, including the 20 remaining players in the EPT Berlin Main Event. One of the competitors was American pro Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee, who commented about the incident on PocketFives.com. “I honestly thought we should have stopped play,” said MacPhee, who eventually reached the final table as the chip leader of the Main Event. “It was a pretty freaky thing to have happen, especially considering the poor planning of the tournament area… no exits, lots of panic, stampeding, screaming, crying.
“The EPTLive.com people shut down because of it, but we somehow where expected to play on,” MacPhee continued. “I thought was a little unfair to put that upon the players after something like that happens, especially without any player input on how to handle the situation.”
EPTLive was broadcasting the Main Event as the hotel was robbed and caught footage of the panic in the tournament area. Mickey Dinsen Peterson, a professional poker player known as “mement mori” online, was among the dozens of people in the poker room when the break-in occurred. “I sat at one of the outer tables, and all of a sudden 10 people came storming into the poker room with more following all heading for the exit screaming something about robbery and bombs,” explained Peterson on the TwoPlusTwo forum. “At this point there is an absolute panic where everyone is pushing you towards the exit, and even though we can’t see any robbers they could enter the room at any second for all we know.”
The robbery not only terrified those playing the EPT event in Berlin. News broke quickly across the world and players were eager to share their thoughts and prayers via Twitter and other social networks. Here’s a sample of the reaction:
Shaun Deeb: “Wow EPT Berlin got robbed by 6 armed gunman they got close to a mil in euros glad I didn’t go to this one.”
pro : “OMG!! ARMED ROBBERY at EPT Berlin, 6 gunmen take off with $1M in highroller buyins.”
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg: “Wish I was at EPT during the heist!!! Woulda been a great experience! Glad nobody got hurt.”
Jeff “YellowSub” Williams: “Ept Berlin raided by armed robbers, hope everyone is ok.”
Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest updates on the robbery at EPT Berlin.
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03 4th, 2010
“It feels excellent,” Koroknai said through an interpreter. “I’m going to spend the money. All of it.”
Koroknai started with the lead and although he gave it up midway through the final six, by the time heads up rolled around, he was clearly in charge.
Short stack Michael Kamran was happy to be through to his first WPT Final table after making seventh at WPT Bay 101 last year.
However, the L.A. local’s time did not last long as he ran T♦ 7♦ into Koroknai’s ace-jack in the early going.
Despite flopping an open-ended straight draw and turning a pair, Kamran was done in by an ace on the river railing him sixth.
J.C. Moussa took fifth when he shoved ace-nine into Tri Huynh’s ace-queen and failed to improve and fourth belonged to George Kasabyan, who called Huynh’s shove with a pair of aces only to find Huynh with aces-up.
Three-handed play was a relatively tight affair until Raymond Dolan and Koroknai got in a major battle.
Both paired their ace on an A♣ Q♦ 2♦ flop and after the money went in, Koroknai’s jack kicker played over Dolan’s six to give the Hungarian a commanding chip lead.
That lead got even bigger when Koroknai busted Huynh in a classic race with ace-king beating jacks after a king on the flop.
Heads up started with Koroknai holding 13.4 million chips to Dolan’s 1.4 million and it was over fast.
On the first hand, Koroknai shoved with Q♥ 8♥ and Dolan called with Q♣ 4♥.
A four in the window made it look like Dolan would double, but Korknai picked up an open ender to go with a flush draw on the turn and when the K♥ fell on the river giving him the flush, the L.A. Poker Classic title and almost $1.8 million was his.
03 4th, 2010
The Microgaming Poker Network announced the addition of long-time sports book, GoldBet, on Wednesday, bringing its roster of poker rooms to almost 50. GoldBet, founded in 2000 in Innsbruck, is one of Europe’s leading online bookmakers, and had not had a poker offering until now.
In a press release, GoldBet Casino and Poker Manager Luigi Amadio said, “We are delighted to be entering into this new partnership with Microgaming and we have found that its Poker product offering more than lives up to its reputation as best in market. With simplicity, usability and security being key parts of our mission statement, Microgaming software delivers in every respect. CSR is also a key component of the way we operate as a business, and we were delighted to find that our values in this respect were reflected in Microgaming’s own socially responsible programmes and activities.”
Online sports books are attractive partners for poker networks, as the poker players that come over from the sports betting side are typically considered “fish.” These players are frequently sports bettors first, poker players second. With the focus in the industry quickly shifting to the recreational player, casual players who are simply experimenting with poker using sports betting winnings are very attractive to both the networks and more serious players.
As such, it should come as no surprise that Microgaming’s CEO, Roger Raatgever, is excited about GoldBet. “We are proud to welcome yet another established and respected sportsbook operator to the Microgaming Poker Network,” he said. “We are working closely with GoldBet to ensure that our product is completely tailored in order to ensure smooth integration with their existing platform. We are looking forward to playing our part in making GoldBet the complete one stop shop in gaming entertainment.”
Earlier this year, Microgaming announced that it was changing its rake calculation policies to discourage ultra-tight players and the more serious grinders who are only after . The rake calculation method switched from the “contributed” method, in which each player who puts money in the pot is credited with an equal split of the pot’s rake to a “weighted contributed” method, where each player who puts money in the pot is credited with an amount of rake proportional to how much money he contributed. For example, if one player put in half the money in the pot and two other players contributed one-quarter of the pot each and the rake was one dollar, 50 cents would be attributed to the first player and 25 cents would be attributed to the other two.
While Microgaming used to be one of the dominant poker networks in the industry, its standing fell quickly after it stopped accepting American customers when the was passed in 2006. According to PokerScout.com, the network now ranks ninth in average cash game traffic, just behind and just ahead of the Network.
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03 4th, 2010
Including the session with Benefield, Isildur1 booked 4,700 hands yesterday on limits ranging from $25/$50 to $100/$200.
Although almost all of his hands came from Pot-Limit Omaha, 99 of them went down at a couple of tables of $50/$100 Cap No-Limit Hold’em.
Isildur1’s match with Benefield began at $50/$100 PLO where he earned $21,795 over 1,323 hands, the largest pot of the match coming in at just $31k.
After almost two hours, Isildur1 and Benefield agreed to double the stakes, moving their action up to $100/$200 PLO. It was here where Benefield finally got the upper hand, making over $50k in the two and a half hour, 1,767-hand, session.
The largest pot of day on came during this second session after Benefield spiked a flush on the river to beat Isildur1’s turned nut straight. The two players had their money all-in on the turn with Benefield pulling in the $101,392 pot.
By the end of the day, Isildur1 finished with a total profit of $76,577, bringing him up to almost $200k profit on the year so far.
Benefield, who only played 11 hands of $200/$400 Cap PLO before starting his first session with Isildur1, finished the day up just over $32k.
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Day 3 of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic Main Event began with 186 players, and by the time it ended, 72 remained and all the players were in the money.
The chip leader going into the fourth day of play is Mark Newhouse. If Newhouse…
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Online poker player Taylor “tramp$d0pray” Paur and Team Pro member lead the ’s () L.A. Poker Classic after two days of play. The $10,000 buy-in tournament wraps up on Thursday.
Negreanu committed his chips with 3-4 of clubs in a major hand after a flop of 5-3-2 with two clubs. William Jesse James, who won his seat to the L.A. Poker Classic Main Event through the WPT’s subscription-based online poker site ClubWPT, held 3-8 in the hand for a better kicker, but a four on the turn improved Negreanu to two pair. The river was a king, crippling James and sending Negreanu barreling up the chip counts. In the waning moments of Saturday’s action, Negreanu scooped a pot at the expense of Benjamin Zamani with quad eights to move to 319,000 in chips.
Paur ended Day 2 with a mountain of 318,400 chips, while Negreanu was hot on his heels at 316,500. They are the only players in the WPT event to have crossed the 280,000-chip plateau. Paur’s company at Table 44 on Sunday will include Shawn Buchanan, Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire, and Victory Poker pro Paul Wasicka. A total of 186 players remain and the field will likely burst the money bubble at 72 sometime during play on Sunday. The event’s six-handed finale will be filmed for television and air on Fox Sports Net as part of Season 8 of the WPT.
Sitting in fifth on the leaderboard entering Day 3 is another PokerStars sponsored big gun, . The GoDaddy Girl owns a stack of 221,700 and crossed the 200,000-chip threshold late in the day despite being seated a talented table alongside UB.com poker pro and two-time () bracelet winner . Of the 186 players left in the hunt for the $1.8 million top prize, 14 are women.
2005 WSOP Main Event champ was sent packing during Saturday’s action, as was Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, who is fresh off a final table appearance in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s (NAPT) $25,000 High-Roller Bounty Shootout. Jaka came out on the losing end of a race with pocket sevens against Q-J of spades when a jack hit on the flop. Fellow online poker pro Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers was eliminated after running 10-8 of diamonds into pocket kings. His girlfriend, Lauren Kling, remains in the hunt and holds the 51st largest stack in the room.
pro , who finished second in chips after Day 1, currently owns the 10th spot in the chip counts. The Day 1 leader, Masa Kagawa, is right behind Seif in 11th place. Here’s a look at the top 10 on the leaderboard entering Day 3 of the L.A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles:
1. Taylor Paur - 318,400
2. Daniel Negreanu - 316,500
3. Eugene Katchalov - 279,000
4. Michael Woo - 250,000
5. Vanessa Rousso - 221,700
6. Danny Fuhs - 218,300
7. Paul Niemela - 216,000
8. John Cautela - 198,500
9. Gevork Kasabyan - 197,400
10. Mark Seif - 187,000
Other notable names in the top 50 include:
19. Steve Sung - 155,800
24. Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar - 137,400
26. - 128,700
35. Shawn Buchanan - 116,300
36. - 113,800
37. Lisa Hamilton - 107,400
38. Erica Schoenberg - 107,000
39. Steve Zolotow - 106,500
42. Surinder Sunar - 105,500
43. Robert Mizrachi - 104,600
All players who reach the money will take home at least $18,000 and the top nine players will collect a six-figure payday. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT coverage.
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02 27th, 2010
In fact, as a crew of barely legal pros turned on to the game by Chris Moneymaker’s 2003 World Series win when they were just teens dominate poker tournaments across the globe, you are more likely to hear a player at the L.A. Poker Classic this week complaining about the difficulty of his table draw if it includes half a dozen 21 to 23-year-old online pros than a stable of veteran gamblers.
“I think even I would fear the youngsters more, to be perfectly honest with you,” said Hoyt Corkins, a 50-year-old veteran of the game who just won his second WPT title at the Southern Poker Championships in Biloxi last month.
“I mean, I just made a final table and everyone was in their 20’s and here I am 50 years old. I think these kids are going to dominate in the years to come.
“It’s a different style. The kids are tough. Their technique is good.”
At just 23-years-old, Jason Mercier already has more than $4 million in live tournament earnings.
But the South Florida native says his success has very little to do with youthful exuberance.
For a young man who watched Moneymaker win the World Series of Poker Main Event when he was just 16 and has dedicated his life to the game ever since, it’s all about the valuable experience of an adolescence spent grinding online.
“That kind of experience you will never get live,” the Team Pro said. “You just can’t play millions of hands live. I think that definitely contributed to my success. In 2007, I played over two million hands online. You just can’t do that live.”
But is the experience gained playing online poker the same as playing live? Corkin’s doesn’t think so.
“You can’t discount 32 years of watching people’s faces and watching the way they put their money in the pot,” said the Alabama born Corkins. “When you’ve played that much online you may be more experienced as far as the technical side goes, but poker is more than just that. It’s got a human element to it.”
Mercier sees his point.
“Of course experience helps and playing tons and tons of hands online helps,” he said. “But the more you play live, the more you pick up on as well. That’s why so many of these big online guys have yet to have a big score live. A lot of it has to do with variance, but a lot of them also haven’t grasped how live poker is played.
“There’s just so much more to it. It’s so much more complex. There’s only so many things that you can learn online and there are so many more things you get live that you don’t get playing online.”
At just 21-years old, Yevgeniy Timoshenko won the WPT Championship last season. Like Mercier, he is another baby of the Moneymaker boom.
However, the Ukranian-born Timoshenko says what makes a table full of young online players something to fear isn’t just youth, or the number of hands they’ve played online.
It’s the studious approach to the game taken by a group of players who seem to have grown up treating poker like another subject in high school as much as a form of entertainment.
“I don’t think being young necessarily makes you good at poker,” he said. “And I think even though you play more hands online it doesn’t necessarily give you the same amount of experience as you would get playing in a casino.
“But for me, it’s not just about hands. What’s more important is reviewing your sessions. If you don’t do that, it doesn’t matter if you play a million hands. If you don’t study and try to improve, you are not necessarily going to get a lot of experience out of those million hands.”
According to Timoshenko, a player that takes the right approach and studies the game as much as he plays online can gain experience about four times as fast as one playing strictly live.
“It’s hard to quantify,” he said. “The biggest factor is how many tables you play and how many hours a day that you play. But you can get better at poker online in like one fourth of the time it would take you strictly playing live. It’s like a factor of three or four I would say.”
Considering those numbers, it’s no wonder fresh faced young players born from the Moneymaker boom are having so much success.
They have almost the same experience as 30-year pros like Corkins.
“I mean, I definitely don’t feel like a guy who has been sitting here for 20 years,” Timoshenko said. “But I feel comfortable enough.”
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pro and online gamer Ben “xthesteinx” Zamani are among the leaders after one day of play in the ’s () L.A. Poker Classic. Day 2 takes place today at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.
A total of 745 players entered the $10,000 buy-in tournament, up a solid 7% from last year’s count of 696. A tent was set up outside the casino to accommodate the extra demand in a scene that was likely reminiscent of the 2006 () Main Event. The top 72 players will finish in the money when the final cards are dealt on Thursday and first place will pocket $1.8 million. The minimum payout is over $18,000.
A field of 477 players will assemble on Saturday in Los Angeles. Defending champion Cornel Andrew Cimpan was one of the casualties of Friday’s action. Taking his place at a table featuring Poker pro was none other than 11-time WSOP bracelet winner . Upon the UB.com pro arriving at his new digs, Matusow welcomed him with the following line: “Welcome to the table. You’re now the worst player at the worst table in the room.”
The Commerce Casino spent the day buzzing about the now-infamous prop bet with , “Poker2Nite” host Joe Sebok, and . The trio agreed on a creative last longer bet in which the first player to bust from the L.A. Poker Classic had to adorn tattoos of the other two players’ faces. The second player to bust had to ink a tattoo of the remaining player’s face. Sebok saw his aces cracked during Level 3 play and was the first musketeer eliminated. Then, it was Madsen’s turn to go. Accordingly, Smith came out on top of one of the wildest prop bets ever conducted. Whether a buyout of the bet will occur remains to be seen.
Heading into Day 2, Masa Kagawa paces the field with a stack of 124,000 chips. He’ll head to Table 4 on Saturday and will be keeping a watchful eye out for Seif, who holds 122,000 chips. Seif, a sponsored pro of the CEREUS Network site Absolute Poker, is a two-time bracelet winner whose last piece of hardware came in 2005 in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. Seif’s company will include Victory Poker pro Keith Gipson, European Poker Tour (EPT) founder John Duthie, Nick Binger, and 2009 WSOP Europe bracelet winner J.P. Kelly.
Team Pro front man , fresh off helping promote the site’s first ever North American Poker Tour (NAPT) stop on U.S. soil at the Venetian, doubled up with pocket kings at the Commerce Casino on Day 1. His cowboys held against an opponent’s pocket jacks to move him to 40,000 in chips. Negreanu finished the day with a stack of 29,075, good for 223rd in the room. He appears on the leaderboard in elite company, however, as also holding around 29,000 chips are , Gavin Griffin, Matt Glantz, Tuan Le, and NAPT High-Roller Bounty Shootout third place finisher Joe Cassidy.
Here are the top 10 chip stacks in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic heading into Day 2:
1. Masa Kagawa - 124,575
2. Mark Seif - 122,025
3. Charles Dolan - 120,500
4. Benjamin “xthesteinx” Zamani - 115,000
5. Naoya Kihara - 104,100
6. Chansung Choi - 100,350
7. Shawn Buchanan - 100,225
8. Hieu Luu - 98,250
9. Cary Katz - 97,475
10. Eugene Katchalov - 95,675
Notable names that appear in the top 50 include:
21. David Singer - 73,525
24. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 72,125
31. Robert Mizrachi - 68,575
32. - 68,275
39. Peter “Belabacsi” Traply - 64,200
40. Chau Giang - 63,250
41. Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 63,075
44. Keith Gipson - 61,175
45. - 60,900
46. David “WhooooKidd” Baker - 60,725
Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest L.A. Poker Classic coverage.
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The winner of the Online Poker Series (FTOPS) Main Event, JackQKA, has denied being 16 years-old and having a backer, according to a thread on the popular forum TwoPlusTwo. JackQKA remains atop the FTOPS XV Main Event leaderboard.
In a thread posted on Tuesday afternoon on TwoPlusTwo, JMaverick, who had joined on the same day, lashed out at the FTOPS XV Main Event winner. He explained that last December, he noticed JackQKA playing on ESPN’s poker site. JMaverick decided to let his new pet project have a go at a few MTTs and the student racked up $1,000 in just three events. JMaverick promptly staked JackQKA until the latter had built his own bankroll and then the two parted ways.
In October, JackQKA requested additional backing and JMaverick purportedly transferred $2,500. He wrote, “I had 50% of him on all of his tournaments though until he paid me back.” JackQKA took home $237,000 for winning the FTOPS XV Main Event and JMaverick demanded $115,000, or roughly 50% of the haul. JackQKA allegedly said no, which prompted the following rant from JMaverick: “JackQKA first of all is only 16 Years Old, his parents have no clue he plays online poker… Jack I am telling you I will personally call them and tell them there gonna need legal representation because if I dont see $115,000 in my account by 12AM this will turn into a legal issue!”
On Wednesday, JackQKA responded on TwoPlusTwo, claiming that he’s 24 years-old and has never been backed during his poker career. The winner, whose real name is Jack, added, “I have been playing poker seriously for about 2 and a half years, mainly on pstars under sn jackellwood but also on ftp as jackqka and on absolute as ellwoodinho. For most of this time ive been a low-mid stakes mtt grinder with reasonable success. On Sunday I had by a long way the best results ive ever had and for some reason someone has decided to post a load of bs about me.”
About an hour after his original post, the accuser seemed to rescind his desire to seek legal recourse. After talking to his lawyer, JMaverick confessed, “I made a mistake outing him and there was no official legal agreement in place. This is now a private matter. I made a mistake posting on here! I may have screwed myself out of getting my money and if I do not get it I know the time will come when I will ship one of these.” JackQKA goes by the name “Ellwoodinho” on TwoPlusTwo and claimed that instead of arguing whether or not he owed JMaverick $115,000, he was out partying to celebrate his FTOPS Main Event win.
Meanwhile, JMaverick continues his search for $115,000. Yesterday around 4:00pm ET, he wrote, “I will try to talk to the kid when they come on either myspace or facebook tonight,” but JMaverick has not provided any further update as of 1:30pm ET on Thursday. The tournament had a $535 prize pool and was the largest FTOPS Main Event ever held, weighing in at 5,645 players.
Some posters cleverly responded with clips from “Bad Boys,” while TwoPlusTwo posters tried to squash rumors that JMaverick had actually played in the FTOPS Main Event and was merely seeking to move up the pay ladder as a result of a disqualification. TwoPlusTwo poster “zeppy” explained, “The original poster JMaverick of this thread is one of the higher place finishers in the FTOPS and started this thread to try to get FullTilt to escalate its normal procedures into an investigation and subsequent disqualification of JackQKA in order to move up one place in the payout award for the FTOPS tournament.” No user named JMaverick appears on the FTOPS XV leaderboard and zeppy later retracted his claims.
A source close to Full Tilt told Poker News Daily that following the FTOPS XV Main Event, site officials checked for multi-accounting and verified JackQKA’s ID. He passed with flying colors.
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