Daily Poker News Review: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Daily Poker News Review: Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Main Headlines

Final Garden State Super Series Schedule Released

Community feedback results in minor changes on New Jersey online poker series.

  • Partypoker New Jersey released its finalized schedule for the upcoming Garden State Super Series (GSSS) which will feature a $1 million guaranteed overall prize pool.
  • A representatives of partypoker previously released a draft schedule on the Two Plus Two forums} soliciting feedback from players within The Garden State.

888 Signs November Niner Bruno Politano as Sponsored Pro

Brazilian will enter table ninth in chips when play resumes in November.

  • 888 Poker announced Monday that it has signed World Series of Poker November Nine final table participant Bruno Politano of Brazil as its latest Sponsored Pro.
  • Politano, whose official title with the site is “Ambassador,” will compete for a $10,000,000 first place prize once WSOP Main Event action resumes in less than three months.

Hellmuth, Esfandiari Take ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Charitable act catching on among poker personalities.

  • Over the weekend, both 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and 2012 Big One for One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari poured buckets of ice-cold water over their heads to benefit those who are afflicted with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
  • With the challenges being issued at a fast and furious pace, Olympic champion Michael Phelps, and professional poker player Jeff Gross could be next in line for a cold shower on behalf of ALS research.

Live Tournament Poker Boom Continues: More Records Set at EPT Barcelona

The fourth record turn out in the fourth country in less than two months—and they say poker is dead.

  • In just under two months, the live poker tournament world has seen four new records set in four different countries.
  • Big numbers are also increasingly being set as guarantees for events.
  • Flying to an exotic location to play poker has been made much more enjoyable by the organizers’ improved ability to maximize players’ enjoyment away from the tables.

Picks from F5 Poker:

World Poker Tour President Adam Pliska’s Superior Choice In Buckets Of Ice

It’s another ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video. Are you tired of these yet? It’s another ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video but this time it comes from the top of the World Poker Tour.


Vanessa Selbst Doesn’t Remember Running An Online Poker Site

Bloomberg Reporter fed bad info. Vanessa Selbst has accomplished a lot in poker including earning more than $10 million in live poker tournament winnings in her career,  but one thing she has not done is run an online poker site, but that was news to Bloomberg TV reporter Trish Regan host of “Street Smart.”


EPT 100 – November Niners Gets Reps In €50k Super High Roller

These Nov 9ers are calm, cool and collected. As the European Poker Tour’s 100th event in Barcelona gets underway, the biggest and brightest poker stars in the poker galaxy have ponied up €50k to participate in the Super High Roller event. That includes a pair of guys looking forward to taking their turn in the WSOP spotlight and a shot at $10M in cash at the Final Table of the Main Event in November.


Horrible Audio, Ridiculous Banter – Jeff And Mike Talk About Stuff 1

Mike from pokerfuse and Jeff from F5 decide to try out recording a short form program where the audio is bad, the opinions are worse and they generally waste everyone’s time.


EPT Barcelona 2014 – €50k Super High Roller Day 2 Live Stream


Phil Ivey – The Dr. Doolittle of Poker

Ivey’s journey through the animal kingdom. Some people take photos of their food. Others take selfies of their feet. The general consensus number one poker player on the planet Ryan Rie…we mean Phil Ivey… has recently taken to snapping photos of himself hanging with various animals, and we don’t mean his fellow poker pros.


Dan Shak Wants To Play Poker, Not Just Gamble

Shak abandons his SHR boycott. PokerNews’ Remko Rinkema nabs Dan Shak for a quick minute to ask him what exactly is he doing playing the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller.


WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart Orders Ice Water With His Burger

The ALS Ice Water Bucket Challenge has just about run its course through the world of poker. We’ve seen Antonio Esfandiari, Adam Pliska and even Phil Hellmuth dump buckets of ice water on their heads while donating money to ALS research.


Unspoken Rules – Poker’s Not A Game Where You Savor The Flavor

The fact is that some, like Joan Rivers, might say that poker tends to attract an unsavory kind of person to the table.

Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:

Software Snapshots

A weekly review of the latest platform updates in the online poker industry, including PKR, Full Tilt, PokerStars, Merge Gaming and more. PKR


Europoker Players Migrate to French iPoker Network

partypoker France’s decision to consolidate skins on its new client may result in the end of Ongame France. French regulated poker room Europoker.fr has decided to move off the Ongame France network and across to iPoker France.


The GBGA Files Legal Challenge to Overturn the UK Gambling Act

Despite a request for an expedited process the legal dispute could take years to resolve. The Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA) has filed a challenge to new UK gaming laws in the British courts.

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:


Training Video: Sunday Special Hand History Review/Live Sweat with Matthew “theginger45″ Hunt Tournament Poker Edge

In this series theginger45 does a review of his deep run in the Sunday Special. Over the first three parts he digs up the hand history review and for the remainder of the series he recorded the action live for in game live sweat footage. This is a six-part series


Training Video: Tournament Play: The Pre-Ante Game Deuces Cracked

What do you consider the early phases of a tournament? Buffyslayer1 talks about the importance of the pre-ante phases of a tournament.