Daily Poker News Review: Friday, August 08, 2014 Daily Poker News Review: Friday, August 08, 2014

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Last Call to Claim Full Tilt Poker Money

Former US players that lost money when Full Tilt Poker closed down in 2011 have until Wednesday September 3, 2014 to request reimbursement from the US government.

  • Former US players that lost money when Full Tilt Poker closed down in 2011 have until Wednesday September 3, 2014 to request reimbursement from the US government.
  • Those that believe they are owed money but have yet to file a claim, should do so before the deadline to avoid being shut out of the remissions process.

PokerStars Commits to Canada With All-in Shootout Promotion

A country restricted promotion gives Canadian players who make deposits free tickets to random payout tournaments.

  • Canadian players who deposit on PokerStars are being offered a country specific incentive.
  • Every deposit less than $50 until October 8 will earn a ticket to a weekly Canada All-in Shootout tournament.
  • The Canada All-in Shootout promotion both celebrates the fact that the Rational Group’s new owners are Canadian, and in encouraging new Canadian sign ups, sets out a commitment to continue operating in the country.

Garden State Super Series $1 Million Guaranteed Draft Schedule Released

BorgataPoker.com and nj.partypoker.com series will wrap around Borgata Poker Open

  • A draft schedule of the upcoming Garden State Super Series was released on the Two Plus Two forums last week in an effort to receive feedback from the community.
  • The GSSS is currently scheduled to run from September 7-21 which would sandwich the WPT Borgata Poker Open which is scheduled from September 14 – 19.

PokerStars First to Go Live with Licensed Online Poker Room in Bulgaria

PokerStars.BG will feed Bulgarian players into the main PokerStars.com player pool.

  • Eight months after submitting its license application, PokerStars has become the first operator to launch nationally regulated online poker in Bulgaria.
  • PokerStars actually received its license in February, having applied when the new license fees were being debated but had not yet been approved.
  • PokerStars.BG now joins the range of locally licensed domains which PokerStars uses to feed players into its larger dot-com player pool.

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World Poker Tour POY Award to be Powered by the Global Poker Index

The World Series of Poker is the only major poker tournament series yet to adopt GPI as its official ranking system.

  • The World Poker Tour announced today that its Player of the Year award for the upcoming Season XIII will be calculated by poker ranking website, the Global Poker Index.
  • This season, the WPT Player of the Year award will not only include results from the events on the Main Tour, but will also take into account the new WPT500 and WPTDeepStacks as well as WPT National and Regional events.
  • In addition to calculating the WPT leaderboard, the World Poker Tour is integrating GPI’s Fantasy Poker Manager into WPT.com, helping fans of fantasy poker engage directly with the WPT.

Picks from F5 Poker:

Profit Sharing – The Depth Of The Backers Percentage

Backing, and being backed is, perhaps, an unspoken, yet integral, part to the grind of tournament poker. Backers putting up money to buy pieces of players’ (horses) buy-ins in exchange for a percentage of any winnings won.


Poker Is Life – Career Lessons Learned From The Felt

Apply your poker prowess to your business. You work in a cubicle during the week and on your poker game on the weekend. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to apply your on-the-felt skills to your real world grind.


J.C Tran – Unlike Other Pros, He Loves His Family

Sacramento legend is one of the kings of poker. When you see all of J.C. Tran’s accomplishments basically just rattled off in a visual resume of his career it’s even more impressive than looking at the number on a page. A 2-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a 2-time World Poker Tour Champion, a WCOOP champion and a former November Niner, Tran has racked up over $11M in lifetime earnings.


Results Oriented – Massive Buy-Ins Made The All-Time Money List Cheap

Plenty of times, as an identifier of success, the media (us included) will reference a poker player’s place on the sometimes-coveted All-Time Money List to let you know just how successful someone has been on the felt. Many of the games biggest names – Negreanu, Esfandiari, Ivey – sit somewhere up top that, with the big cash numbers, seems to make it worth mentioning from time to time.


Annette Obrestad – Reflections Of A No-Look Hold’em Champion

Annette_15 remembers her legendary online victory. One-time poker phenom turned World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion, Annette Obrestad chats with Pokerlistings about the tournament that really made her career.

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Latvia’s First Blacklist Includes All Top Poker Operators

Pokerstars, Full Tilt, 888, Unibet, Bwin, Bet365, William Hill and Betsson are all listed. Latvia has published its first blacklist after a new Electronic Communications law came into force on August 1.


Traffic Watch

Pokerfuse PRO’s exclusive review of the online poker market across international, US and regulated European markets. This week’s 2.8% increase in cash game traffic puts the global market up over 5% in the last three weeks.

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:

Podcast: PokerNews GPI Update #21: The Return PokerNews Podcast

After a long hiatus, the PokerNews GPI Update returns to talk about the new leader in the Player of the Year race, a familiar face on top of the GPI 300, and a Mizrachi record that may be broken. 


Podcast: Mark Hoke Show on KLAV #45 – 8/6/14 The Mark Hoke Show

It’s the Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM Las Vegas!  Guests include Melissa Burr plus Katie Stone of the Grindettes, Joe Pane and Nate Dowland!  Thanks for
listening.


Training Video: zZzTILT vs jungleman12 Part IV HUSNG


We now bring you part four of this series of two-table hypers by zZzTILT played against Daniel “w00ki3z./jungleman12” Cates. Here also are parts one, two and three.


Training Video: Rivermen123 Early/Midstages Live Sweat Tournament Poker Edge

Rivermen123 is back with a live sweat featuring deep runs. This is the early/midstage portion. This is a 5 part series.


Training Video: DDBeast’s SCOOP Final Table Replays Review Bluefire Poker

Dustin continues his review of the play at both the SCOOP Main Event Medium and High Final Tables.


Training Video: Ghost: DJ Sensei (#49) Bovada Action Deuces Cracked

DJ Sensei brings us 4 tables of 1/2 PLO on Bovada. Watch as DJ navigates the multiway potted web that is the Bovada network!