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Players Seek Answers, Funds from GoalGaming
LGA responds as affected players seek solutions.
- The LGA is contacting players that have filed complaints against GoalGaming.
- GoalGaming, despite the license revocation, is still operating Goalwin on the Ongame Network as well as PokerMambo and Poker d’Assi on the Revolution Gaming Network.
Negreanu Second Again as Daniel Colman Wins the WSOP Big One for One Drop
The biggest tournament prize of the year, $15.3 million goes to the 23 year old internet pro.
- Daniel “mrgr33n13” Colman has won the second ever $1 million buy in Big One for One Drop.
- The 23 year old internet pro has taken home $15.3 million.
- This is his first WSOP bracelet and his third cash of the 2014 series—he picked up $111k for third place in Event #40: $10k Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em.
- Colman defeated Daniel Negreanu heads up for the title. This was Negreanu’s second time as runner up for a bracelet in this World Series.
Chad Brown Loses Battle with Cancer
Highly regarded poker pro and actor passes at age 52.
- Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown passed away early Wednesday morning.
- Brown’s battle with liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer, took a turn for the worse a few days ago and he was in Hospice care during his last days.
Internet Phenoms Triumph: Mike Kachan Takes the $1k, Dan Colman Takes the $1 Million One Drop
After turning 90, legend Henry Orenstein shows that the old guard can still compete.
- Highlights of the day’s action at the WSOP.
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Bad Beat Diaries – Getting Bounced From WSOP By The 1%
Hands like this don’t come along everyday. For every tale of victory at the World Series of Poker, there’s any number of bad beats. But lest you think all bad beats are equal check out this entry into the Bad Beat Diaries from the $1500 NLHE WSOP event.
Haralabos Voulgaris Thinks It’s Silly To Think One Drop Can Continue As Is
Last year’s participant is this year’s spectator. Sports betting guru in basketball and one-time poker pro Haralabos (Haralabob) Voulgaris talks pretty candidly with PokerNews about why he thinks the Big One For One Drop $1M buy-in tournament didn’t sell out this year.
Layne Flack Turns Around A Brutal WSOP With Deep Run
All-In Magazine follows their Team Pro to the cash cage. All-In Magazine heads to the Rio to follow Team All-In Pro Layne “Back-to-Back” Flack in his final table run in World Series of Poker Event #39.
Jean-Robert Bellande Arrested In Las Vegas
Handcuffed and hauled off. Professional poker player Jean-Robert Bellande was reportedly pulled over and arrested on the Las Vegas strip, in front of the Bellagio, early this morning.
“Downtown” Chad Brown Passes Away
Poker mainstay remembered as an amazing man of integrity. Chad Brown, who was recently honored by the World Series of Poker with an honorary bracelet for both his work and demeanor in the game of poker, has passed away, ending his hard-fought battle with a rare form of cancer at age 52.
Bad Beat Diaries – The Bad Beat For One Drop
$25K Satty winner Connor Drinan gets flushed out. Sometimes a somewhat standard bad beat takes on epic proportions depending on the spot that said beat comes in. For Connor Drinan, winner of the $25K satellite to the Big One For One Drop, his bad beat of a lifetime came on the biggest stage of the year – the $1M buy-in One Drop.
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888poker Bounces back to Second Place
iPoker drops back to the number three slot in the global cash game rankings. 888poker briefly lost its number two spot in the global cash game rankings, but is now back as the leading operator behind PokerStars.
Optimal Payments Continues US Expansion with Meritus Acquisition
NETELLER owner buys California payment processor. Optimal Payments Plc, best known for its NETELLER brand, is buying California based payment processor, TK Global Partners LP. TK Global operates the Meritus brand.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: Thinking Poker Podcast Episode #84: Alex “Assassinato” Fitzgerald PokerNews Podcast
Alex “Assassinato” Fitzgerald joins Nate and Andrew on the Thinking Poker Podcast to talk about growing up in Alaska, struggling with drugs, coming up in poker, and making and disseminating training material.
Podcast: Druff & Friends – 07/01/2014 – Drexel University of Omaha Poker Fraud Alert
Former PFA Radio co-host Brandon “Drexel” Gerson is running deep at the WSOP $3k Omaha Hi-Lo event. Druff discusses his own (so far) disappointing WSOP. The WSOP Monster Stack had far more entries than expected, but the real fail occurred on Day 2 due to Caesar’s greed and mismanagement. Ivey wins a bracelet and breaks our hearts. The One Drop tournament completes during our show with Daniel Negreanu getting heads up. Why didn’t Phil Hellmuth play the One Drop, and how did Rick Salomon get in? Druff feels Erick Lindgren should have sold his One Drop lammers. Chad Brown receives an honorary bracelet shortly before his passing. We call legendary 2+2 degenerate “WarmDeck” and he tells a few stories. Drexel calls in while on a break. Kevmath gives Druff a small gift as an act of contrition. Michael Borovetz (PSUMike1999) comes clean about his scamming, but for selfish reasons? Johannes Strassmann found dead in Slovenia by a river. Sean Drake’s WSOP rail wears offensive “rape” shirts, forced to change. Jose Canseco played a $330 satellite at Stratosphere, and showed up wearing his own jersey. Showboat Atlantic City to close. Ultimate Poker trumpets laughable “new features” in new software. Dutch Boyd apologizes to Mason Malmuth. Some nasty rumors are swirling about Daniel Colman. badguy23 calls in with a cryptic message that he will “get our $7500 back” that we lost to Negreanu, leaving the show in a cliffhanger.
Podcast: PokerNews Podcast Episode #232: One Drop Reaction feat. David Williams PokerNews Podcast
David Williams joins the PokerNews Podcast before the start of Day 3 of Event #59 to discuss Daniel Colman winning the BIG ONE for ONE DROP, his disregard for the media, and more. Jason, Donnie, and Rich continue the discussion in the second half of the show, and also talk about the “dispute” that lead to the Macau-based players skipping the $1 million tournament.
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Training Video: Crushing the Micros (2014 Edition) Part 7 Drag The Bar
In this series I will return to live play and rise up the micro stakes in 2014. I want to show the viewer the strategies and tools that are effective for maximum success at these stakes in today’s games. I will be covering both full ring and 6max at both regular and Zoom tables on Pokerstars.
Training Video: Mentor: threads13 – 4-tabling $25 Review – Part 2 Deuces Cracked
threads13 continues with the second part of a 3-part member review, 4-tabling $25NL. Featuring discussion of finding situations to loosen up a bit preflop and making adjustments against bad players when they’re in the blinds.
Looking for situations to edge your VPIP upward a bit? Check out this video.
