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GPI’s Top Players to Become Bay 101 Shooting Stars
Elite players will receive VIP treatment and other perks.
- Five of the players will be selected from this year’s Player of the Year leaderboard with another five coming from the GPI 300 Rankings.
- The “elite” players will receive VIP treatment throughout the 2015 event such as a private jet transfer from either Las Vegas or Los Angeles and the ability to earn appearance fees.
Inaugural Charity Series of Poker Event Kicks-Off July 6
CSOP Event #1 will take place at Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas.
- The Charity Series of Poker will hold its first event on Sunday, July 6 at 5:00pm, as part of the Planet Hollywood Phamous Poker Series in Las Vegas.
- Founder Matt Stout hopes to eventually host three to four events in the US by 2016 with the possibility of holding tournaments in Europe and Australia.
Doug Polk Takes the WSOP $1k Turbo Bracelet, Nitsche Wins His Third
Dominik Nitsche breaks Phil Ivey’s record to become the youngest player to win three WSOP bracelets.
- Highlights of the day’s action at the WSOP.
PartyPoker Goes Heads Up with WSOP Main Event in Vegas
Preliminary events will also compete with the Daily Deep Stack events at the Rio.
- The “partypoker presents: WPT500 at ARIA Resort & Casino” has been rescheduled for July 4 to July 9, which puts its head to head with the first few days of the WSOP Main Event.
- The $565 buy in event guarantees $1m in prize money, and should be attractive to players who have stayed in Las Vegas to watch the later stages of the WSOP.
- From June 11 until the WPT500, the Aria is running a series of lower buy-in events that will compete with the Daily Deep Stack (non-bracelet) events at the Rio.
Picks from F5 Poker:
Jeff Gross Turns A Royal and Gets Real Paid
Professional best friend and poker pro, Jeff Gross, talks to PokerNews about what it’s like to flop the nuts and turn a royal while raking in chips in the process. If things had worked out optimally it would have been his 2nd royal flush of the World Series of Poker!
Phil Ivey Keeps His Bracelets So Fresh And So Clean
Unlike Hellmuth, Ivey keeps all of his bracelets With the 2014 World Series of Poker over a third of the way finished, if Phil Ivey plans on adding any more bracelets to his jewelry cleaning bill he’d better spend less time shining his past achievements and more time dusting others on the felt.
Cliff’s Notes – Nitsche, Wallace and Polk Strike Gold At WSOP
Everything you need to know in 60 seconds. Wanna get caught up on the WSOP but don’t need every detail to do so? We got you. Here’s what you need to know in 300 words (or less).
Phil Ivey – Classiest of Gamblers, Life of The Party
Old school pros tell tales of Ivey Good news for both PokerNews and their viewers, Remko Rinkema has arrived at the World Series of Poker to save the PNews video team.
World Poker Tour And Global Poker Index Guarantee Select Few Shooting Star Status
GPI leaders get a price put on their heads in San Jose. The World Poker Tour and Global Poker Index hopped in the sack this week as they announced that in 2015, 10 elite players will be automatically granted the status of bounties at the WPT Shooting Stars tournament in San Jose, CA.
Doug Polk – Cocktail Drinking, Chart Sharing Champion
“WCGRider” binks his first bracelet. If there’s one guy who looks like he’s having a good time at the World Series of Poker it’s Doug Polk. The high-stakes online grinder, who goes by the name “WCGRider”, won his first gold bracelet in the $1K Turbo event yesterday, not only taking home over $250K but declaring victory in an unspecified 5:1 bracelet bet.
Christopher Wallace Had The Most Fun Ever
WSOP $10K H.O.R.S.E. Champion finds his stride. “Amazing, this is great – that’s it.”
Dominik Nitsche – 3 Bracelets In 2 Years, Sets His Sights On Hellmuth
German pro youngest player in WSOP history to win 3 bracelets. “All I Do is win win win no matter what/got money on mind I can never get enough”
Jason Somerville – From Creative Training To Mass Entertaining
Somerville carving a niche out for himself in poker popularity. One of Ultimate Poker’s biggest assets right now isn’t it’s software or customer service, it’s their team of pros who are bringing awareness to their brand of legalized online poker in the states of Nevada and New Jersey. And while Antonio Esfandiari may be the biggest name on their roster, it’s bracelet winner Jason Somerville that the hardcore grinders are drawn to.
Justin “Boosted J” Smith – I’m Not Dan Bilzerian, I Just Roll Like Him
BoostedJ is building a “big house” of chips. With the “home confinement” portion of his sentence behind him from his arrest in association with the illegal New York Russian organized crime gambling syndicate, Justin Smith (aka BoostedJ) is enjoying his freedom back at the tables in Las Vegas.
Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:
The One Graph that Highlights the Problem With Segregated Online Poker Markets
France and Italy have a clear message for the nascant US markets. If there is one graph that shows the difficulty facing the US states aiming to operate thriving online poker rooms, it is this one.
Full Tilt Hands Out $500K in Summer Freerolls
MTT, Sit and Go and cash game tickets are awarded according to whether the freeroll format is turbo, super turbo or flipout. Over the first half of the Summer, Full Tilt is giving away $500k worth of tournament tickets in daily freerolls.
Seals With Clubs: After the Frenzy
The price of Bitcoin has almost halved in six months—SwC traffic has returned to an elevated, but more stable trajectory. Bitcoin-only site Seals With Clubs (SwC) has a dramatic last year, as the virtual currency shot up to a price of over $1100—and then dropped dramatically down to sub-$500 prices.
Regulation in Review: Europe and Beyond
A weekly review of the latest developments in gaming regulation outside the US. This week: Malta, Spain, UK, France, Italy, and Sweden.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: The Bernard Lee Poker Show 06-10-14 with Guests Alex Bolotin & Eric Raskin Bernard Lee Poker Show
Bernard Lee is joined by recent WSOP Bracelet winner Alex Bolotin and Editor In Chief of All In Magazine, Eric Raskin.
Podcast: Druff & Friends – 06/10/2014 – Blame It On Rio Poker Fraud Alert
Jayjami co-hosts. European player badly beaten, robbed in Rio parking lot. But is there more to the story? Rio employee in charge of single table satellites shakes down players for money in order to start game. Negreanu/Ivey bracelt bet update. Yet another two aces of spades in a deck found in a Rio cash game. Ari Engel confronts Cardplayer owner Barry Shulman about Lock during WSOP. Chris Ferguson latest to be removed from WSOP Amazon room banners. Did Chino Rheem really miss a $15k freeroll to go to a Choice Center seminar? More information is uncovered about Dutch Boyd’s twoplustwopoker.com cybersquatting case. Venetian is not letting Pokernews cover events there, due to their support of online poker. PPA article claims 95% of poker players support Pokerstars coming to legalized California market. Annie Duke gives business advice in Forbes article. Editorial: Think critically before reacting to poker players’ claims of violence & theft. Main content of the show begins at 23:45 mark.
Training Video: Live Play With Hidden Cards Drag The Bar
In this video I will play 4 9man SNGs with hidden hole cards. This handicap will force me to rely on my positional advantage and to use hand reading skills in order to win pots. This video is not as packed with information as my usual ones so feel free to watch it even if you happen to be a bit tired.
Training Video: Ask threads13: NLHE Concepts: Improving Your Bet Sizes Deuces Cracked
In this video, threads13 looks at another common leak found by players at the microstakes: not adapting your bet sizes properly. This episode focuses on changing your bet sizes against TAGs in the microstakes.
