Daily Poker News Review: Monday, August 25, 2014 Daily Poker News Review: Monday, August 25, 2014

Main Headlines

PokerStars Experiments with New “Double Bubble” Tournament Payout Structure

Half the money will go to half the field at the 2015 PCA Double Bubble events.

  • The schedule for the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure released last week included two new “Double Bubble” events.
  • After half of the field has busted out, the remaining players are all guaranteed an equal share of half the prize money.
  • The rest will be awarded under a “normal” payout structure to the top 8%.

High Stakes Online Cash Report: Patrik Antonius Tops All Winners for the Week

Alex Luneau and Isaac Haxton round out top three winners of the week at the nosebleed stakes.

  • Patrik Antonius* mowed over the high stakes online cash game tables at Full Tilt last week to walk away with nearly $432,000 in profits.
  • The seven-day bankroll boost catapults the 33-year-old Finnish poker pro to second on the all-time online cash game money list, with a total profit of $11,315,500.
  • Full Tilt sponsored pro Gus Hansen was the biggest loser over the week, dropping slightly more than $1 million at the online cash game tables.

Delaware Online Poker Revenues Improve in July

A 23% month-over-month increase still ranks as the second lowest revenue-generating month for poker.

  • The seasonal decline in online poker revenues for the state of Delaware seem to have bottomed out and are heading upward.
  • According to figures reported by the Delaware state lottery, online poker revenues rose 22.61% in the month of July.
  • Overall igaming net revenues saw a decline as the state operators recorded $173,096.40 in total revenues for the month of July down 7.6% from the $187,332.18 recorded in June.

Picks from F5 Poker:

A Guy’s Guide – How To Be On Your Best Behavior

Girls just want to have fun. There’s been a lot of chatter about how to expand the game of poker and specifically how to bring more women to the table in the male dominated game of poker. Online grinder turned live game participant Elena “The Groupie” Stover has spent a ton of time battling the big boys in every possible poker situation and here she outlines a basic guide, aimed at macho men, on how not to be a disgusting douche and treat a lady at the table the same way you would anyone else.


Angel Guillen – Poker In Mexico Is Going “Insane” But It’s Not Yet 100% Legal

Much like how Nacho Barbero broke down the state of poker play in Argentina, former PokerStars sponsored pro talks with PokerNews about the growth of poker in Mexico.


EPT Barcelona 2014 – Main Event Day 4 Live Stream


Napa 6.0 Earthquake Actually Stops People From Playing Poker

It took an act of god for these grinders to stop. There’s nothing funny about the destruction, displacement and cost of this weekend’s 6.0 earthquake in Northern California and as F5poker has ties to the Bay Area we wish those injured and set back a very speedy recovery.


EPT 100 – Bubble Bursts In Rare Fashion In Barcelona

A boy band’s worth of bubblers get paid on a single hand. The money bubble at EPT Barcelona proved to be an interesting one and not without a little controversy. As Head of Live Poker Operations for PokerStars Europe Neil Johnson talks with PokerNews about the previously nearly un-encountered situation that arose when no fewer than 5 people when bust on the same hand over 4 different tables…and how to you pay that out when you were hand-for-hand on the stone bubble.


Big Time Prop Bet – PLO Grinder YaAaRnY’s $300K 31 Day Challenge

Getting 2:1, YaAaRnY needs to make 100 buy ins at 2/5+ PLO PLO is a swingy game and so when online PLO player Bren “YaAaRnY” Lenton took to the Two Plus Two forums to try and line up a prop bet that has him winning 100 buy-ins in 31 days with a minimum of 70K hands…the money poured in against him. Now he’s six figures deep in the biggest prop bet of 2014.


Borgata Poker Unloads Extra Cash on Milestone Hands

Major and minor milestones rewarded with bankroll boosts. Officials at Borgata Poker have been celebrating milestone hands all month over at BorgataPoker.com and spreading the wealth to their loyal players who have helped them deal out over 50,000,000 hands. Sure, we’ve all seen PokerStars celebrating billions upon billion of hands dealt, but New Jersey online poker is in its infancy and so reaching the 50M hand mark is pretty cool…and they want to give you some of that rake back in the form of bonuses – both big and small.


Stapes Remembers Shitfaced Hangout With Ivey, Negreanu

The poker pros get slap happy in Monte Carlo. Remko Rinkema over at PokerNews has uncovered a number of interesting Ivey Stories but perhaps all previous pale in comparison to the one that EPT Live announcer Joe “Stapes” Stapleton recalled on camera about the night that Ivey, Daniel and he downed 2 bottles of tequila and it ended up with one of them getting slapped in the face…twice and one of them in a wheelchair.

Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:

Cash Game Promotions A Dollar at a Time at Real Gaming

Real Gaming’s soft launch phase continues with an ultra low cost social media promotion. Nevada’s third regulated site, Real Gaming, is paying players who win its Quadzilla and High Hand promotions a dollar to post the fact on social media.


Ultimate Poker Closes Back in on WSOP Nevada

As WSOP online poker traffic in Nevada traffic falls, its competitor has been gaining traction. In Nevada, the fuss of the WSOP tournament series has died down, and the two leading online poker rooms have returned to cash game traffic levels last seen in March.

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:

Podcast: Top Pair Episode 217, August 23, 2014 Top Pair Poker Podcast

A Listener Tells Us How He Plays A Cashless Home Game
Still Time To Win A Set-Up Of J Design Cards For Your Bad Beat Story
Welcome Chad Holloway, Senior Editor For PokerNews.com
What’s It Like To Win Your First WSOP Bracelet – Chad Gives Us Insight
The Home Game Poker Scene In Wisconsin
 
It Sounded Wise – Until You Really Listened!


Training Video: Bankroll Building: Micro NL Heads Up SNGs – 5 Deuces Cracked

Watch Chuck play a HUSNG live! In this match he finds himself against a passive opponent who takes the game to the later stages.


Training Video: 180-man MTTs with bigdogpckt5s Tournament Poker Edge

The bigdog is back and this time he tackles the 180-man MTT format. This is a 4 part series.


Training Video: Ghost: BalugaWhale – Party Network Shortstacks and Regs Deuces Cracked

BalugaWhale is back with more mid-stakes Ghost action. He talks about dealing with aggressive regulars, short stacks, and why keeping the pot small can work to your advantage.