Daily Poker News Review: Friday, June 27, 2014

Main Headlines

New Software Improvements for Ultimate Poker Players

Geolocation upgrades, Hand Histories and Waitlists highlight the newly added features.

• For Ultimate’s players in New Jersey, geolocation no longer requires a mobile phone to verify one’s physical location—the process now depends on Wi-Fi. The same goes for Nevada, provided a Wi-Fi connection is already established.
• Hand Histories, Player Notes, Time Banks and Automatic Bonus Calculation have also been added in both states.

Aced Poker to Close, Player Base to be Migrated to CarbonPoker

Aced Poker closure will become effective July 1.

• The entire existing player database will be moved over to CarbonPoker.ag where players will be able to use their existing credentials in order to continue playing.
• The Aced Poker poker client will be updated to CarbonPoker when players next attempt to log in.

John Hennigan Wins the $50k WSOP Poker Players Championship

Tyler Patterson wins his first bracelet after four WSOP final tables.

• Highlights of the day’s action at the WSOP.

888 Terminates Sponsorship with Luis Suárez

Incident in Uruguay vs Italy match prompts online poker room to end contract after just six weeks.

• “Regrettably, following his actions during Uruguay’s World Cup match against Italy on Tuesday, 888poker has decided to terminate its relationship with Luis Suarez with immediate effect.”
• Suárez, one of the best strikers in the game, signed up as a brand ambassador for 888poker in May ahead of the World Cup.
• His primary sponsor Adidas is also considering dropping the player.

Picks from F5 Poker:

World Series of Poker – The Monster Stack Is The Mini-Main Event

Players descend on the Rio in record numbers. Meet the mini-Main Event.

Johnny World Goes On A Rush, Wins $50K PPC

John Hennigan captures $1.5M and his 3rd WSOP bracelet. After five long days we finally have a winner in the high-rolling mixed game bonanza that is the $50K Poker Players Championship. John “Johnny World” Hennigan bags his 3rd World Series of Poker bracelet and a cool $1.5+ milly to go along with it pushing his career earnings well overt he $6M mark.

Table Talk – Mix Up Your Poker Vocab

Everyone is trying to teach you how to talk like a pro. As Event #50, the 8-Game Mix, steamrolls to a final table, PokerNews’s Sarah Grant gets chatty with David “ODB” Baker, the original mixed game gangster.

Ultimate Poker’s Jeremy Ausmus – Is The Monster Stack Too Much of a Good Thing?

Get a professionals take on the Mini-Main Event. The Monster Stack (aka the “Mini Main”) is an undisputed success – so should the World Series of Poker load up the 2015 schedule with a ton of deepstack bracelet events? Not so fast says Ultimate Poker pro Jeremy Ausmus, the Monster Stack may just be too good to do with any regularity.

Greg Merson Registers For 2014 One Drop In Style

JRB isn’t the only one who puts his cash on the line. The 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Champ, Greg Merson is looking to add more money and titles to his resume.

Liv Boeree Gets Intense, Taking Shots At One Drop

The only plan is to win a bracelet. Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree is not having the best summer at the World Series of Poker so far. Going ofer in nine events, she’s upbeat and still intent on winning a bracelet.

Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:

Terrence Chan to Part Ways with Ultimate Poker

Longtime poker professional, poker industry representative and MMA fighter Terrence Chan will part ways with Ultimate Poker, a source close to the company told pokerfuse PRO.

Volume is Back in Fashion at partypoker with Two New Missions

250,000 FastForward hands in two months or 2,500 sit and go tournaments earn the top payouts. The newest missions at partypoker provide substantial rewards for high volume players.

Traffic Watch

Pokerfuse PRO’s exclusive review of the online poker market across international, US and regulated European markets. The deleterious impact of an early hot Summer, the WSOP and the World Cup has abated this week as the global cash game market takes a break from its recent declines. Traffic is down only 0.3%.

Cash Game Global Rankings: iPoker Pushes 888poker Out of Number Two Spot

iPoker cash game changes boost traffic 9%. A recent growth spurt at iPoker has moved it into the number two position for cash game traffic, pushing 888poker to third place.

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:

Podcast: Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM #39 – 6/25/14 The Mark Hoke Show

It’s the Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM Las Vegas!  Guests include 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker, Kenna James and Grindette Katie Stone!