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Technical Error Results in $260k Overlay for PokerStars Sunday Warm Up
A quarter of a million dollars of expected value was unexpectedly handed out after no late registration was enabled in the $500,000 guaranteed event.
- The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up suffered a technical problem which prevented late registration.
- The result was a $260k overlay and a substantial loss for PokerStars.
- A PokerStars rep told pokerfuse that even though the problem was technical, the $500k guarantee would be honored.
High Stakes Online Poker Report: Triple Draw Tables Again the Center of Nosebleed Action
Full Tilt’s Professionals duo bottoms the charts thanks to big losses in Deuce to Seven Triple Draw games.
- Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker found his form this week—grinding out 5,955 hands across 39 sessions of Deuce to Seven Triple Draw and making over $1 million in profit for the week.
- Gus Hansen dropped a staggering $1,029,238 this week, with $973,361 of those losses coming from 28 sessions and 3,107 hands of Triple Draw.
The Global Poker Index Newsmakers: Schemion Tops GPI and EPT POY Races
Schemion Back On Top
- A summary of the recent accomplishments of players ranked on the Global Poker Index.
PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst Takes on Rafa Nadal in Monaco
Number 3 on the GPI this year, Vanessa will be pleased the match will be poker rather than clay court tennis.
- Top earning female poker player and PokerStars Team Pro Vanessa Selbst will go heads up against PokerStars sporting ambassador Rafa Nadal in Monaco.
- The match has been organized for April 11 to take advantage of Rafa’s presence at the ATP Monte Carlo Masters where he is hoping for his ninth victory.
- Selbst is currently looking for backing to play in the WSOP Bog One for One Drop which has a $1m buy in.
This Week in Poker Podcasts: Mike McDonald, Mike Caro and April Fools
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Spider-Man Places Bets Any Size, Catches Bluffs Just Like Flies
Even superheroes need to relax. Clearly when Joe Hachem posed as Captain America this past week, the Amazing Spider-Man decided he wanted to show that Cap wasn’t the only Marvel character who could make a super hero call.
USA Today Warns Poker Players To Wear Protection
5 Tips to keep your online bankroll safe. As poker slowly works it’s way back into the United States the coverage of its return slowly seeps back into mainstream media. This weekend, the USA Today, the same publication that runs the GPI 300 each week, wrote up a 5 tips guide for post-Black Friday security for those players returning to the digital felt after a long hiatus.
Hellmuth, Doyle, Negreanu and more… Hit Rock Bottom, Cause Stone Cold Says So
Poker pros re-imagined as WWE Superstars Last night, the yearly pinnacle of professional wrestling took place as Wrestlemania 30 found grown men cheering and chugging to buff dudes in short shorts.
PokerStars Loses Small Fortune In Tournament Technical Snafu
Someone forgot to tick the “late entry” box. There was an unexpected surprise for PokerStars players who jumped into the $200+$15 Sunday Warm-Up yesterday – $260k worth of overlay. Apparently a “technical issue” kept players from being able to late register and, according to the esteemed Joss Wood over at our sister site pokerfuse, once PokerStars closes and event, that ish stays closed.
Former WSOP Novermber Niner Sam Holden “Semi-Retires” From Poker, Leaves 888
Focusing on philosophy degree. With his shock of curly red locks and boyish looks, poker player Sam Holden stormed onto the international poker stage with his 9th place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event (the one that Pius Heinz won). He followed that up with a super deep run the following year, finishing 55th in the Main Event, helping him secure a position as a full time 888poker sponsored pro. This weekend, Holden announced, via his blog on the 888poker website, that he had “lost a lot of drive to play poker” and was stepping away from the game in “semi-retirement” to focus on a philosophy degree from the University of Kent.
Phil Ivey Is Dealing With Downswings
Massive online losses and his ex-wife remarries in the same week. While sometimes Phil Ivey seems superhuman, he is, of course, merely mortal. This week, the People’s Champ navigated what many would call rough waters, both professionally and personally.
Gus Hansen— “At Some Point I Have To Quit”
Hansen gets candid about his high stakes online beating It’s no secret that Gus Hansen has taken a brutal beating in the high stakes online game. In this latest interview with PokerStrategy Gus is confronted with his online poker record and forced to take a look as to why he’s getting crushed.
Winamax Looks To Work Hard, Play Hard
Take a look behind-the-scenes at the French online site. French online poker site, Winamax recently participated in the Paris Startup Job Fair and in doing so, opened up their Paris office to the the aptly named French blog Rude Bagette for a look inside the growing enterprise’s facilities.
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Low stakes hypers players seeking coaching should check out jk1f2's coaching page.
Training Video: Beating Live SSNL: Exploitative Plays Deuces Cracked
“Exploitative play is the key to crushing live small stakes no limit” is something you may have heard. What most people don’t do is take time to get a firm grasp on what that means. This video takes you through why playing exploitatively is important and profitable.
Training Video: February Live Grind with Ben “KidCardiff6″ Warrington Tournament Poker Edge
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Training Video: Anything Can Happen: $15 180-Man Review Part One Drag The Bar
In the first part of this two part series, Katie looks at the early hands leading up to the final table of this $15 180-man. Key concepts discussed include: shoving ranges, calling ranges, making non all-in all-ins versus open shoving, looking out for traps, playing a short stack, and taking negative edges.
Training Video: Ghost: BalugaWhale – 2014 MSNL Live Play – Part 10 Deuces Cracked
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French Research Shows: Online Poker No Threat to Land-Based Casinos
Since the introduction of legislation, online gambling has grown “sluggishly” to take only 7% of the market, concludes report. A research report by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Research (INSEE) has produced evidence that brick and mortar casino revenues have been little affected by the introduction of regulated online gaming.
PokerStars Tries for 100k Players for 3rd Anniversary Sunday Storm
Free tickets to the $1m gtd Sunday Storm are on offer for the latest Mission Week. The $11 buy-in Sunday Storm will celebrate its third anniversary on April 13, and PokerStars is looking for a 100,000 player field in order to meet the special edition’s $1m guarantee.