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PPA Launches “Fight Back” Campaign During Congressional Recess
The Poker Players Alliance is asking poker players to fight back against efforts to ban online poker in the US.
- The PPA is encouraging poker players to reach out to their federal representatives while Congress is in recess. This presents an opportunity to meet with members of Congress in their districts.
- As part of this campaign, the PPA is providing tools to make it easier for players’ voices to be heard. A new section of the PPA website provides a step-by-step guide to schedule an appointment with your Representatives and Senators.
WSOP and Ultimate Poker Adopt NETELLER Payment Processing Solution
Sightline cards provided via NETELLER are already in use by New Jersey operators.
- Both Ultimate Poker and WSOP Nevada have announced that they will be offering payment cards to help solve problems players have in depositing and withdrawing from US state regulated sites.
- The US version of NETELLER’s Net+ is a pre-paid Discover card that players can use to make deposits and withdrawals, with access to cash via ATM machines.
- Once WSOP and Ultimate Poker have their branded cards in place, all the major operators in Nevada and New Jersey will have adopted the NETELLER solution.
Partypoker Shoots for $500k Sunday Major
Players who buy in directly will get an extra $500 clearable bonus if they cash in the event.
- On May 11, partypoker will run a special edition of its $200 buy in Sunday Major. The tournament guarantee has been increased from the regular $200k to $500k for the occasion.
- Players who buy in directly for the full $200 will receive a special $500 bonus if they cash in the event. The bonus must be cleared over 30 days.
- If traffic grows as partypoker bosses hope, the return of the partypoker $1m guarantee will not be far behind.
Picks from F5 Poker:
Phil Hellmuth Gives It Away Now, Gifts WSOP Bracelet #13
The Poker Brat plays nice, shares the wealth. The worldwide leader in World Series of Poker bracelets, Mr. Phil Hellmuth Jr., has gone on record in the past about not keeping all of his victory jewelry for himself. With an eye on earning a record-continuing 14th bracelet at the 2014 WSOP, Hellmuth has again gifted one of his trophies.
Phil Galfond Gets It All Back, Up $1.1 Million in 4 Days
A rush at the nosebleed mixed game send Galfond in the right direction. That didn’t take long at all. It was a mere 3 weeks ago that online poker superhero Phil Galfond was literally cracking jokes on Twitter about dropping $1.4 million at the nosebleeds. The pain, that caused from his lowest point of the year, must be substantially subsided tonight as Galfond closed the books on another monster upswing session, propelling him to accumulating a small fortune in just a matter of days.
JCarver and dmoongirl #DrinkItUp On Live Stream
Danielle Andersen (and Captain Morgan) guest star on #RunItUp An extended live session on Ultimate Poker finds sponsored pro Jason Somerville listening to some jazz tunes, unloading knowledge and chatting with the “wombats” on a mere two minute delay while sitting in a very profitable $2/$4 game.
Borgata 2014 Spring Open Crushes $1 Million Guarantee In Event One
Over 500 return for Day 2 to try and make the money. With a pair of starting flights commencing on the final opening day of Event 1 of the 2014 Borgata Spring Open the question wasn’t “if” the Borgata poker room would beat their $1 million guarantee it was “by how much.” Players arrived in droves to empty their $560 money clips into starting flights 1c and 1d in an effort to make it to day 2 with a shot at making the money.
GPI’s Alex Dreyfus Climbs To #1 On The Global Love Index
Uses GPI Matchmaker app, announces engagement. Due to a the falling off of Kevin MacPhee’s aging score, there’s a new #1 sitting atop poker’s prestigious Global Love Index (as published on F5). It’s none other than Alex Dreyfus! Dreyfus took to social media to shout to the world today that cupid’s arrow has found a home and it’s in Alex’s own heart.
World Poker Tour #SHRPO – Young, D’Angelo Get Paid, Day 1b Underway
Cash prizes were rained upon the top two in chips at the 2014 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and it was a couple of well-known pros who bagged the big money. Justin Young ended the night with 313k in chips (from a starting stack of 30k) to nab the big 5k first place prize while Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo pocketed 2.5k for his 271k stack.
Sweat It Out — Martin Finger v. Tobias Reinkemeier In EPT Outtake
Grab a sandwich and enjoy. Not every hand can make it to air. Here’s an outtake from the recent broadcast of the EPT London Season 10 £50,000 Super High Roller.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: LLPR Episode 58: State of iPoker, sorta. Low Limit Poker Radio
So we kindo of broke the news down state by state. Going from NV, DE, and NJ. We added a dash of CA, NY, and PA for flavor. Honestly the smoke alarm went off twice during this podcast because it was soooo hot (muy caliente). Next week we’ll cover the 10 states in depth with what’s going on. By the way NJ is the key, at least we agree.
Podcast: Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM #28 – 4/9/14 The Mark Hoke Show
Guests include “Poker Samahdi” author Danielle Striker, Nevada Poker League’s Joe Pane and Nate Dowland!
Training Video: TPE Theory: Evaluating Bluffs with Andrew Brokos Tournament Poker Edge
Andrew picks up where he left off on the subject of bluffing by reviewing a hand history from a 4-handed WCOOP event. Learn to evaluate your own bluffs, and to conduct valuable post-game analysis more generally, in this seven-part series.
Training Video: Pot of Gold: SSPLO Review with DJ Sensei and 2fouroffsuit: Episode One Deuces Cracked
DJ reviews a 4-tabling session from $100PLO on Bovada played by 2fouroffsuit, reviewing many common leaks that players moving from NLHE to PLO have.
Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:
Checking Around
Industry-focused picks from the discussion forums this week. WSOP “Won’t Endorse, Won’t Ban” Use of HUDs in New Jersey
Build Your Bonus Returns to Full Tilt
Industry watchers can expect to see another substantial boost to cash game traffic for the period of the promotion. First launched in August last year, Full Tilt is running its “Build Your Bonus” promotion for the third time.
Traffic Watch
Pokerfuse PRO’s exclusive review of the online poker market across international, US and regulated European markets. An unseasonal 3% rise in cash game traffic over the last seven days helped four of the top five global sites to record gains. While it remains a close run thing, iPoker has regained third place in the global traffic rankings from partypoker, but the gap between the two is just 12 seats.
