Yesterday was Memorial Day, so we decided to take a bit of a break. Hope you didn’t miss us too much. We’re back at it today, though, bringing you all the news you wanted to read and then some. First, we’ll tell you how to get perma-banned from…
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In case you were traveling this week or soaking up the sun and missed any of the news, we’ve neatly packaged a week’s worth of news all in one place for you. You’ll be happy to know that GSN has added new poker shows to their programming schedule…
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It looks like Absolute Poker is going to have to find another female poker pro to sponsor after the news we have below. And if you’re looking for something to do other than sit around in your pajamas and play online poker, Wall Street is…
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05 26th, 2010
He may not have had quite the impact of Isildur1 on the poker world but fellow Swede Joel Nordqvist aka Odonkor1 has certainly caused a stir in the high stakes online games. The young Swede’s profile is set to get even higher with the news that he has joined Antonio Esfandiari’s stable of professionals at Team Victory.
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This past weekend in online poker was relatively tame; sandwiched between the conclusion of ’ Spring Championship of Online Poker and the kick-off of the 2010 , many players decided to recharge their batteries instead of playing all day. Luckily for them, one of the most anticipated TV episodes in recent memory – ABC’s LOST Season Finale – aired yesterday and made for some interesting banter on the Twittervine.
Prior to the event, there was fervent anticipation about how the show, which has been running for six years, would come to an end. Scott Ian tweeted, “LOST ends today. Between watching the show and talking about it, [the end is] gonna free up 6 hours a week. Scrap-booking!!”
At the conclusion of the two-part episode, was first to tweet about it, saying, “Just saw the end of LOST and, um, ya, I’m a bit lost to say the least. Time for bed soon.” Apparently and disagreed, however, as the former complained, “Just finished watching LOST finale. WTF? I feel like I just lost 6 years of my life,” while the latter commented, “Agreed. I’ve just been watching dead people this whole time?!” Tiffany needs to re-evaluate the events of the finale, because nobody was dead the whole time.
While he didn’t elaborate, Joseph Reitman sided with the ladies, posting, “[Re:LOST] I feel like I was in a relationship for 6 yrs, knew it was ending tonight, & instead of having 1 last great night I was kicked in the balls.” Scott Ian was also disappointed: “Feeling beaten up emotionally from the LOST finale. Did someone slip gay juice in my coffee?”
As a casual fan of the show, I tend to agree with Alex Outhred and . Alex mused, “Sorta surprised at the LOST reactions. It honestly makes perfect sense, and they truly honored the relationships,” and Evelyn gushed, “The LOST finale was fantastic and extremely satisfying – anyone who was ever a fan would have to have loved it 
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In other news, was all over Matt Savage prior to game 4 of the Western Conference Finals between the San Jose Sharks and his Chicago Blackhawks: “Big day for your sharkies today, sir. Win or it’s bye bye time. You ain’t the Flyers and we ain’t the Bruins.” Following a 4-2 Sharks loss, Savage conceded: “Yes, I am upset the Sharks got swept but this way it seems easier to take. Also a week’s worth of golf helps take my mind of it.”
Despite the lack of online poker related chatter, there was some talk about the Saturday night’s launch of the new high stakes ‘Ivey Room’ at the Aria CityCenter Casino. tweeted, “Played the Ivey invitational at Aria in Vegas today. Out on first hand to a rivered set w/ AQ on Q high board, sux but least I can enjoy the weekend!”
The event in question was a $1,000,000 Invitation-Only Freeroll, which featured a $100K bounty for knocking out Ivey. let the cat out of the bag when she posted, “Chino can literally be called ‘Money Bags’ right now after picking up Phil’s bounty.” It really must be nice to be David ‘Chino’ Reem right about now.
The tweet of the weekend goes to , the millionairess who needs her mother to do her dirty work: “Omg huge spider just scared the shit outta me.. mom had to kill it. God those things are creepy!”
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05 24th, 2010
On today’s Daily Deal, the Network strikes a strategic partnership, the Asia Tour crowns a new Macau champion, World Team Poker prepares another clash of nations, and Facebook users will continue to get their poker fix for some time to come.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily.
The Cake Poker Network has partnered with European-based online casino software provider CTXM. CTXM offers online casinos a broad range of table and card games, video poker, and more as part of its XCasino brand. The partnership with the Cake Network means that the companies will now share the online poker sites PowerPoker.com, AdamEvePoker.com, and the soon-to-be-launched Comeon.com. The Cake Poker Network also announced an updated poker software called Cake two point oh, with improved visuals and new features including a calendar and tournament notifications.
Macau is truly one of the hottest new poker destinations, and the APPT Macau was proof of this. The Main Event of the -sponsored tournament attracted three hundred and forty-two players from forty countries. Victory belonged to a relative local: Victorino Torres from the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory. Torres took home a hefty prize of three point two million Hong Kong dollars, or four hundred and sixteen thousand American dollars.
World Team Poker is set on world domination. After the success of its first event in Las Vegas, won by Team China, World Team Poker is now plotting a 32-country World Championship Event, which will likely take place within the next 90 days. WTP Vice President Charity Perry told Poker News Daily, “We’re not entirely sure where it will be, but we’re keeping the tour within the U.S. in the first year. After the first year, we plan on going abroad, probably somewhere in Europe.” Fox Sports Net will air the kickoff tournament over thirteen weeks beginning in July.
Facebook and the Zynga Game Network came to a five-year agreement this week to keep Zynga’s games on the popular social networking site. Zynga is the game developer responsible for the incredibly annoying Farmville and Mafia Wars. The company also produces Texas Hold’em Poker, which has over twenty eight million users. Rumor has it that Zynga and Facebook were on the verge of splitting up due to extremely high commission charges, but they have found a way to patch their differences. This means you can continue to felt your old college roommate and steal the blinds from that classmate you never really liked in high school.
That does it for today’s Daily Deal, thanks for joining me.Be sure to visit PokerNewsDaily.com all day long for the latest in poker news and be sure to follow us at Twitter.com/PokerNewsDaily. This is Sean Gibson, wishing you the best of luck at the tables this week!
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Former “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Brad Garrett will attend the upcoming charity poker tournament hosted by pro benefiting After School All-Stars. The $250 buy-in, $100 rebuy event will play out on May 20th from the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.
A bevy of superstars will attend, including Poker pro and Ante Up for Africa co-founder Don Cheadle. The actor, who can currently be seen in the blockbuster hit “Iron Man 2,” lends his name to very few charities outside of Ante Up for Africa, making his presence at the After School All-Stars event unique. Newly announced is Garrett, who is a regular in the () Main Event in Las Vegas.
pro and former “Real World: Las Vegas” bad girl will also be in attendance. Fellow CEREUS Network site UB.com will be giving away a $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat to the tournament’s winner. Also doled out will be a Segway personal transporter and everyone who makes the final table will take home a pair of headphones, a subscription to Poker Pro Magazine, and personal training. A total of $35,000 in prizes will be up for grabs at the final table.
Duke told Poker News Daily why After School All-Stars is a charity that’s near and dear to her heart: “There are certain things that are disastrous in this country. One of these is that you put kids in school and then send them home, where your best hope is that they’re watching TV. This program allows them to see what their alternatives are. After School All-Stars shows them that there are alternatives to what they think.” The organization services 78,000 kids in 13 cities.
In recent weeks, charity poker tournaments have been held en masse. Duke explained how she balances her time and energy in various fundraising endeavors: “I’m very selective about who I ask. I try to pick things that either would be important to my friends or me. I feel like I want to do a good job with this one. What After School All-Stars does is incredibly important.”
Other celebrities and poker pros who will make their way to the Commerce Casino for the tournament’s 7:30pm start time are “Poker After Dark” host , Bravo personality Brian Peeler, UB.com pro Adam “Roothlus” Levy, pro wrestler Stacy Keibler, poker pro , Beverly Hills mayor Jimmy Delshad, World Team Poker founder Robert Turner, and “Dexter” actor David Zayas. The tournament’s sponsors include UB.com and the (PPA).
In other news out of Duke’s camp, the runner-up in the second cycle of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” was invited to the finale of its third season. Duke emphatically told NBC producers no. She admitted, “On second thought, though, if [show host] Donald Trump makes a donation to Ante Up for Africa, I’d do it. I don’t feel any need to go on that show. I don’t think it went well for me in the end and didn’t feel like I needed to go and sit next to Joan Rivers. However, I think there needs to be a make-right with Ante Up for Africa. Had I won, they would have gotten a big donation.”
At the time of writing, NBC had not yet responded to Duke’s request for a charity donation in exchange for her presence at the finale, which will air on May 23rd. Five “Celebrity Apprentice” candidates currently remain: Curtis Stone, Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, and Maria Kanellis. Rivers, who defeated Duke in the finale, will appear on tomorrow’s episode interviewing the final five.
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Maybe you were too deep in a SCOOP event to the news this week, well, that’s why you have us. Here’s your chance to catch up on everything you missed, including where the WPT is headed and Daniel Negreanu’s take on sunglasses at the poker table.
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05 8th, 2010
On today’s Daily Deal, Harrah’s announces how the final two seats to the Tournament of Champions will be assigned, poker stars tweet about the high life, Joe Sebok organizes a charity tournament, and threatens to run naked down the street.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to you by PokerSource.com.
The WSOP Tournament of Champions is the most prestigious poker tournament on Earth, and the world’s top poker stars are begging for votes to get a seat. However, the final two seats will be allotted to mere mortals like you and me. One seat will be available to U.K. residents through WSOP.com, where daily one dollar satellites are being held right now. Not much detail has been given about the other seat, but PND found out it will be awarded to a resident of North America and be given out through the voting process. The Tournament of Champions kicks off on June twenty seventh from the Rio in Las Vegas.
This week’s poker Tweets brought us pleasure and pain. Bad news first: WSOP Circuit event champion Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire sustained a sports related injury, and he tweeted nonstop until the paramedics came: “In the back of an ambulance, just got morphine, headed to sienna.” Fellow pro Adam “Roothlus” Levy voiced everybody’s thoughts: “Did you tweet before calling the paramedics?? Either way, feel better.”
On the other hand, was having a blast filming a music video: “In Vegas on set of Ludacris video shoot for his song ‘Sex Room’ right now.” Fellow pro tweeted what was in the mind of many: “My man @phil_hellmuth on Ludacris set, finally getting props for being a rap pioneer. He spit about bling, limos, + Dom b4 anyone.”
When we return, we’ll find out who inspired Andrew Robl and Joe Sebok to host a fundraiser, and avert our eyes as Mike Matusow threatens to wear his birthday suit on the Strip.
will host a two-hundred plus one-hundred dollar charity tournament to raise funds for Thuy Doan, a cancer survivor who now requires a prosthetic leg. Full Tilt will donate the entire rake to Doan. Victory Poker pro Andrew “good2cu” Robl and UB.com’s Joe Sebok were two of the organizers of the fundraiser. Robl told Poker News Daily, “We’re hoping to raise $15,000, and that means we’ll need one hundred and fifty people to play.” The tourney will play out on Sunday, May sixteenth at five o’clock p.m. ET on Full Tilt Poker.
On the lighter side of the news, Mike Matusow may have made a claim we’ll ALL end up regretting on the last episode of Poker2Nite. Seeing that many female poker players have been on fire this year, WSOP Vice President Ty Stewart predicted that women would take home three bracelets at the two thousand and ten WSOP. Matusow disagreed, going as far as to declare: “If three women win a bracelet at the WSOP, I will run naked down the Strip with a camera behind me.” I’m going out on a limb here, but I doubt that anyone will want that on their facebook profile or their poker room avatar!
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What might have been a slow weekend in the poker world through Twitter exploded on Saturday with the news of Annette “” Obrestad’s surprising move to Poker. Soon after the announcement, players burst with congratulations and a few challenges.
Obrestad, who is recognized as one of the top young players, both online and live, was excited about her new home. “So, as I’m sure some of u have seen already, My name is Finally in red on ftp! Sooo excited to be part of my favorite online site,” Obrestad Tweeted on Saturday after the announcement. Tournament director Matt Savage was one of the first to offer his congratulations to the Norwegian superstar: “@Annette_15 signs with Full Tilt, Congratulations on the new deal!.” “High Stakes Poker” hostess chimed in, “Congratulations @Annette_15 – You are phenomenal! Can’t wait to see what you do this year!”
Other players took the opportunity to offer their congratulations, along with a bit of a challenge for the inaugural () Europe Main Event champion. “@Annette_15 congrats!,” Tweeted Brunson 10 member Amit “amak316″ Makhija, before adding, “Can’t wait to get my first t-shirt for busting your ass!! (JK I’m sure that will be an elusive shirt to get).” New teammate was also pleased that Obrestad had joined the team because it gave him a new excuse at the tables: “Welcome to the FTP family, Annette! Next time I lose my chips to u, I can at least try2 claim 2 be team player!”
Twitter was also abuzz over the weekend over what some call the best weekend of poker on the internet. With the finale of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) and the beginning of Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) occurring on Sunday, top pros warmed their computers up for a day of action. For many in the poker playing world, there wasn’t much rejoicing, however.
Presenting an interesting thought for his followers, Makhija fired off a Tweet early Sunday that said, “At the gym gearing up for easily the biggest tournament weekend in online poker history. Ready to run like and ’s lovechild!” By the end of the day, however, he was less than enthused to report, “Day fell apart. 2 mincashes in 7 tournaments. Only left in the ftops main, super sigh. At least only lost a little on this mammoth Sunday.” There were several top players that felt Makhija’s pain.
“Horrible 1st day of SCOOP,” Tweeted Jon “PearlJammer” Turner. “Literally cashed 1 tourney all day (scoop $200) for $400. Had good stack in 2k, ran KK into AA, lost 14k on day.” Former Player of the Year Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little had a similar day, “Got it in good in almost all the tournaments I played. Lost all of them. Yay for another -$5000 day.” Joe Sebok noted the carnage when he Tweeted, “Always such change in player’s bravado between the pre-poker sunday mornings & the post-poker sunday nights. Online poker claims souls.”
One of the best exchanges of the week went to pro and Savage. After Lieu tweeted about her workouts in London (“An afternoon jog through hyde park … passing by the royal guards”), Savage asked “The Poker Diva,” “Why all the exercise… are you trying to get down to 70 pounds?” Lieu cheerfully tweeted back to Savage, “It’s called staying fit, keeping healthy, and clearing the mind… something we all need. Ha!”
There are several contenders for the best Tweets of the weekend. let his followers know through Twitter, “Honored to be in top 20 for the WSOP Tournament of Champions so far. 100% of any money I win in TOC will go to charity.” On Saturday, ’s partner Joe Reitman came up with the jewel, “What sucks is I know what ppl in their 20s do on a Saturday nite in LA… but what the hell R u supposed 2 do if u R ovr 40?”
On tour in New York, sponsored pro and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian informed his followers, “Do u like black mold? Do u like bugs in your bed? Then the Rodeway Inn Kingston NY is for u!” Finally, Jean-Robert Bellande responded to last week’s Tweet by chirping, “Some of my fans/haters aren’t familiar with @TexDolly sense of humor and believed the joke about the hooker and the head-ache. LMAO. Wow!”
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