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PokerPro Invades

I am not one to knock advancements in poker or technology but then again I am not one to turn on tradition either. I'll give you the facts and let you decide. A software design company, PokerTek, has developed and starting distributing a computerized poker table to land based casinos. What this table does is control the game without the use of a dealer, cards, or chips. You still have your seats and play against only the other players at your table but the elements associated with land based ring games is gone.

To its credit, PokerPro does eliminate some problems. The occurrence of misdeals and mistakes at the table are eliminated. The speed at which the game is played is increased because you don't have to wait for the shuffle or the raking of the pot. It is automated funding with a card that is swiped so that saves you time as well. You don't have to look for a seat; PokerPro will find it for you or tell you when you're up on a waiting list. And for some, and do only mean some, the biggest plus is that players can't tip the dealer. This is thought to be a money saver.

Some parts that are a bit on the downside are that it takes away part of the casino feel. Without a live dealer, the game just has a different air about it. You lose the touch of the cards and chips on your fingers. Not that either way is better than the other it is a preference thing. Everything is electronic. A card and a computer chip control the game in almost every aspect.

What this table does is bring together large groups of people to play on line poker while they sit at the same live table. Not that it is a bad thing, like I said it is a preference. Do you think that the final table of the WSOP or any major tournament will be played on a computerized table? Well not for a long time but this piece of equipment does offer a solution to a growing problem for major tournaments. The amount of time to play the entire WSOP has grown every year because the number of players grows. This table does move the game along at a faster pace and could be used in early rounds to keep the tournaments going. On a personal note, if I am paying 10 grand as a buy in, I want to look at the hands and eyes of the person that deals my cards to me. That is my preference.

As a ring game table, it might not be so bad and can offer something to land based casinos that they have had trouble trying to give players before. Speed Poker is growing and Turbo Tables and Tournaments are the fastest growing part of on line poker. At a land based casino, these where just too hard to control but the table has been tried and tested in 6 casinos and seems to handle this pretty well.

I still prefer live tables with live people and as a side note have never minded tipping a dealer (and you don't have to if you don't want to). As an option I can see a future for PokerPro but as far as the game of poker goes I do not see PokerPro as it's future. So I rekon I am saying welcome to the game PokerPro, but remember your place.

Another Account Spyware Detected

�� Another spy program has been found hidden in a poker tool download. Inside a rake calculator ( RBCalc.exc) that was offered by Checkraise.com was a Trojan program that captured the users log in information. This program sent username and password information back to the programs designer. It managed to hide from most filters and anti virus programs including Norton. It was discovered by F Secure, a top online security services. The original program was designed to calculate hand rakes and stored hand history for the user. It was offered as a free download. FullTiltPoker.com, EmpirePoker.com, Ultimatebet.com, AbsolutePoker.com, PartyPoker.com and PokerStars.com are among the top sites it was capable of being used on.

�� This is the second spy virus detected this year that reports private information from poker users back to an outside source. With the poker boom on the internet still growing, many players are looking for anything that they feel will give them an edge. While the current virus was inside of a rake calculator, earlier this year, an odds calculator was found to have a similar program masked inside. Both of these programs were detected by on line security but the full extent of their reach may not ever be known. When they send log in and account information back to the program designer, it is like giving your credit card or check book to a thief.

�� Everyone is looking for an edge and calculators and offers for rake backs are growing tools and systems being used by players. When downloading any poker tool, especially if it is offered for free, players should be aware of what they are downloading and beware of spyware. On line poker is money and players need to not only look out for sharks at the table but the cons that are waiting to get into your hard drive. If enough players are using the programs, thieves can drain their victims a little at the time and not be noticed.

�� Every time you log on to a site, before you begin play, check your account. You can view account transfers and balances in a matter of 2 minutes or less. Make sure that there are no account transfers that you did not authorize. Keep a non computer record of your balance when you log on and off. It is your money, it is your account, treat it like you do your bank.� If you discover any thing suspicious, contact the sites customer support and immediately change your log in information.

�� It becomes too much like a video game for some and they tend to forget that it is REAL money they are playing with. Poker is a game but it can be very expensive if you are not prepared. The Cons are out there looking for new ways to get into your accounts and they will offer anything that they feel you will want. Rake and odds calculators are just two offers that you should be aware of. Any program that offers you a way to cheat, and there are many of them, is obviously a program written by someone without morals. Not that any of you would look for a way to cheat your fellow players but if the program says it will cheat, I'm betting the user will be the first target. �

For more information on the RBCal, go to www.f-secure.com/v-descs/small_la.shtml .�

4 New biographies in the poker player section

4 New biographies on former winners of the WSOP has been added to the poker player section. To read about previous WSOP champions check out our poker player section. If you would like to go and take a shot at the World Series of Poker yourself, check out our extensive list of WSOP satellites.

Mansour Matloubi and Johnny Chan added

A Mansour Matloubi and a Johnny Chan biography has been added to the to the famous poker players section. Drop by to read about these great players who have won the WSOP. Johnny Chan is without question one of the greatest poker legends of all time.

Biography on Brad Daugherty added.

We have just added a new biography on Brad Daugherty. Brad Daugherty won the WSOP in 1991 and was the first to win $1.000.000 in the World Series of Poker. It can be found in the poker player setion amongst other great poker professionals.

Party Poker and Poker Academy Works Together

Party Poker and Poker Academy works together Just stumbled upon this press release and thought it might be interesting for players who want to improve their game.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- Poker Academy, the leading Texas Holdem poker software developer, today announced an agreement with PartyPoker.com , the world's largest poker room, to help train its players to improve their game at all levels.

As part of the agreement, PartyPoker.com launched a brand new "Poker Trainer," powered by Poker Academy's world renowned poker trainer software. A free poker training tool for PartyPoker.com players, users can play and hone their skills against computer opponents in real-time on a dedicated play money trainer table. The revolutionary software was based on work done by a team of researchers at the University of Alberta.

"We're thrilled to be selected by PartyPoker.com to help train their players through this brand new Poker Trainer tool," said Kurt Lange, president and chief executive of Poker Academy Software. "Now they can learn the ropes in real-time, improve their game play, and then apply their learnings right away. It's like studying a foreign language by living in the country of origin; this approach is truly the best and fastest way to improve your Texas Hold'em game without taking any risk."

"If you're new to poker, the ins and outs of the game can sometimes seem overwhelming," said Warren Lush of PartyPoker.com. "What's more, trying to psyche out your opponents while calculating the odds in a split second is a tall order - even for seasoned pros. That's why a new Poker Trainer was added to PartyPoker.com's free software package, powered by the most advanced poker training software on the market. Using our Poker Trainer, players will soon have the skills and confidence to stay on top of Texas Hold'em, the most popular version of poker played online."

Additional Poker Trainer features include:

. Three levels - beginner, intermediate and experienced
. Choose how many virtual players you want to compete against
. The 'Hand Evaluator' advises you as you play a hand, telling you its value, your chance of winning (percentage), and the pot odds
. An 'Advisor' function complements the Hand Evaluator and guides you on the best moves for each hand (fold, bet, call, or raise)
. 'Session Stats' show you how you performed on the trainer (hands, hands played, hands won, and win rate are all available)
. Part of the free PartyPoker.com software download The Poker Trainer isn't just for beginners. Even if you already know how to play, the program is a great way to hone your skills ahead of a big game or tournament.

Zee Justin: Sorry for Cheating

I just found this post on Justins own website. I am not going to comment on everything in the huge post. Justin has obviously spent a lot of time typing this post and he is aware that what he did was wrong. Personally I think Justin was just hit by a "I am King of the World" complex - honestly wouldn't you if you were 19 years old and making millions of dollars playing online poker ??? I know I would..

I think this guy thought he was king of the world and untouchable.he could do whatever he wanted and get away with it...sadly reality had to strike him very hard before he realized that the "real world" and the "online world" is actually the same. People will ALWAYS look back and say: Justin Justin Bonomo - oh yeah..thats the guy who was cought cheating at Party Poker.

Anyway playing poker at the level that Justin does is no picnic. When some time has passed I am sure that Justin will return to poker and be an even greater player than he was before. I think that Justin will be able to use this episode constructively and hopefully we can look back in 3-5 years and say that this episode made rich gifted boy into a Man.

I have copyed his entire post below - feel free to read it and form your own opinion.

I screwed up, on a practical, maturity and most importantly, ethical level. I've let everyone down including myself and for that I am very sorry.

The past month has been the hardest month of my life. I've never gone through anything like this before. In all facets of life, I've worked hard to develop a good honest reputation. But now that I've severely messed up, I have undone all that hard work.

For those of you that aren't aware of the situation, I recently got caught by PartyPoker and PokerStars using multiple accounts in tournaments. There were six different PartyPoker accounts that I used. For big tournaments, I would often use these accounts to enter a single tournament with four entries. (I used all six once or twice, but generally used four) I did this by exploiting a bug which let you open multiple PartyPoker clients on your computer simply by clicking on the icon rapidly. On PokerStars, I had a single extra account which was mostly used by people other than me, but occasionally I did use it to double enter large PokerStars tournaments.

At that time, I unfortunately did not realize that what I was doing was unethical. For starters, many of the poker players that I have learned from were using the same practice. This obviously doesn't make it ok, but I wasn't questioning it at the time. Until recently; this wasn't a well hidden fact. People seemed to accept it as ok and talked about it in the open.

Also, the idea was NOT to collude or chip dump with myself in any way. I only multi accounted in tournaments with thousands of players where it would be very unlikely for me to ever end up at the same table as myself. If the goal was collusion, I would have multi-entered smaller tournaments like sit'n'gos. This is something that I have never done.

For months and months, this practice was going on. It wasn't until February 12th that the issue became public. ABlackCar won the $200 tournament on PartyPoker for $140,000, and it was discovered that JJProdigy was playing this account, even though JJProdigy had entered the same tournament on his own name as well. Despite a story about his grandmother playing the account until Josh (JJProdigy) took over, PartyPoker determined that both accounts were being played not only from the same IP address, but from the same unique computer identification number. As a result, Party confiscated $140,000 from ABlackCar and distributed it amongst the players in the tournament by effectively moving them up one place in the pay scale. Also, the $40,000 remaining in JJProdigy's account was taken, and both accounts were permanently closed.

On February 23rd, I received an email from PartyPoker saying that all six accounts that I had used had been closed, and all the money in them had been confiscated. The total money confiscated was around $100,000 and included my PPM Cruise Package. On February 26th, PokerStars also came to the conclusion that I was multi-accounting tournaments. They close my accounts as well. They then conducted an investigation and determined that $3445.75 was won using this practice. They confiscated that amount of money, and returned the rest before closing my two accounts permanently.

I don't think Party handled the situation as well as they could have. The money taken from me was won legitimately, almost entirely from sit'n'gos. None of the other accounts I used had any big tournament scores; in fact, they lost money overall in the few tournaments that they entered. Party has a zero tolerance policy which in my opinion is unfair. If I had only double entered a single $10 tournament, by the same policy, that would be grounds for them to confiscate $100,000 from me which seems unreasonable. The punishment was arbitrary, and no investigation was done to determine a reasonable adjustment. I feel like the amount of my punishment has been determined by what was in my account, rather than by what a thorough investigation would have determined.

Some players have begun to question my two recent tournament wins. Lee Jones publicly stated the following, "His big tournament win on PokerStars was legitimate (we checked it carefully)." PartyPoker has not made any similar statements, but my second place finish in the million guaranteed was legitimate as well. I have the hand histories to prove this, and if the good people at www.twoplustwo.com are willing to have me back, I will gladly post the hand history as proof. I will be taking some time away from 2+2 as well as poker in general to allow time for forgiveness, but I hope that people will eventually be able to welcome me back.

In the past month, I have come to many realizations. Once the shit hit the fan with Josh, I did some thinking and determined that it was indeed wrong to enter tournaments on multiple accounts. I have not done it since the JJProdigy incident, and I will never do it again.

I have many friends that have multi-accounted tournaments in the past. To my knowledge, they have all stopped, but I want to encourage them to talk to me if they still do it. I will explain to them exactly why it is wrong on both an ethical and practical level.

For starters, it is against the spirit of the game. In poker, there should be no situation where you have knowledge of more than one hand. Even the chance of this occurring is against the spirit of the game. It doesn't matter if there's a 9/10 chance or a 1/10,000 chance of ending up at the same table as yourself; that chance existing is against the spirit of the game.

It also leads to many gray areas in terms of ethics that should not exist at all. How many accounts is it ok to play with? Is two any better than fifty? What number of players in the tournament makes it ok? It's obviously wrong in a 10 player tournament, but what about 100, 1,000 or 10,000? There is no one number at which you can draw a line and say, with 673 players or more it's ok. Also, if you do happen to wind up at the same table as yourself, what is proper protocol? Should you try to play normal? Should you sit one account out? What if there are 5 people at your table each with two accounts making up ten players? Is there any way that game can be on the level? The answer to these questions isn't important. What's important is that you should never have to ask these questions in poker. There should be no gray area.

I've also been doing a lot of thinking about the perception of poker. It's a shame that poker has always had such a negative connotation because of cheaters. Just take a look at movies like Rounders and TV shows like Tilt. That's not poker. I've always felt that players need to work hard to get rid of these false perceptions, because they hurt the future of poker. I can't express with words how ashamed I am that I've completely gone against this and I'm now part of the problem rather than the solution. A few people have expressed their fear of playing at online poker sites because they don't have proper detection methods against "people like me". I obviously never wanted to be seen in this way, but I'm reaping what I've sown and will do everything I can to change this.

Most importantly, I've been thinking a lot about my character. In general, I'm a nice guy. I always try to be respectful of other people, and I've never stolen anything in my life. I've always wanted to be viewed as an ethical citizen, and up until recently, I believe I've deserved that view. Because of my actions, that's no longer the case. My reputation has always been extremely important to me, but now I've compromised that. I've been getting a lot of heat lately, and I deserve it. I've been a huge hypocrite, and I didn't realize it until recently. There is now a cloud over my poker accomplishments, and I vow to be the person I need to be to earn back trust in the poker community.

To those that have supported me, I want to say thank you. I have received a ton of emails mostly saying the same thing. They affirm that what I did was wrong, but what I do now will determine who I will be as a person. For the most part, they have been very encouraging. I'm extremely grateful there are so many people out there willing to express their faith in me after what I have done. It is times like these when a person finds out who his true friends are. I can't tell you how important those of you that have stuck by me have been. This experience has been bleak, but it would have been unbearable without you.

As for what the future holds, I'm not entirely sure. No matter what, I will return to poker. Poker has been my passion, and I can't picture myself doing anything else. I hope that I can one day reclaim my reputation. Obviously this will take years and not days, and I accept this.

Finally, to my readers I want to apologize again. I screwed up, and now I'm paying the price. My judgment was horrendous, and I hope that you guys will one day forgive me.

- Justin Bonomo

Pepsi and Negreanu Unite

Poker pros continue to make their way into the spotlight and Pepsi just hired a three of the most successful poker professionals Daniel Negreanu, Scott Nguyen and Phil Hellmuth. As a part of a new and innovative marketing plan these three players are going to play a sweating cola can in order to promote Diet Pepsi.

This is just the most recent event which underlines that poker is no longer a game played only by gangsters and criminals. Poker has become incredibly popular and some of the world's largest Brands are now trying to become associated with this booming mind-sport.

Bluff Magazine Expands to Europe

Bluff Magazine a very popular poker magazine who distributes more than 250.000 monthly for the American poker players have just launched a European version of the magazine. The European edition is called Bluff Europe and is now available in card rooms and bookstores throughout England, Scandinavia and mainland Europe.
According to Michael Caselli, the editor of Bluff Europe testing of the European market potential has been going on for 6 months, and it will surely be interesting to see if Bluff Europe will be able to live up to the high standards set by Bluff Magazine.

Bluff Magazine is well-known and respected for their unique insight into the poker world and many famous poker professionals contribute to the magazine with strategy articles and guides. Amongst others are Annie, Duke, Phil Gordon and Antonio Esfandiari (The Magician)

U.S.Approved Bill Against Online Gambling

Mar 15, 2006 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee on Wednesday approved a bill aimed at stamping out the $12 billion Internet gambling industry by stopping businesses from accepting credit cards and other forms of payment.

The bill, cleared by voice vote in the House Financial Services Committee, would prohibit a gambling business from accepting credit cards, checks, wire transfers and electronic funds transfers in illegal gambling transactions.

Unlawful gambling, under the legislation, would include placing bets on online poker sites, for example, and any other online wager made or received in a place where such a bet is illegal under federal or state law.

By making it illegal to accept payments from people who live where federal or state law prohibits wagering, the legislation would impact offshore gambling Web sites used by many Americans to place bets.

The legislation carves out some exceptions, including wagering on horse races, governed under another U.S. law, and fantasy sports.

The bill now moves to the House floor for consideration.

Major professional sports organizations supported the legislation, including the National Football League and Major League Baseball, saying in a joint statement that sports betting "threatens the integrity of our respective sports."

But Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, the top Democrat on the House committee, opposed the bill. He said Congress should not seek to control how adults spend their money just because some lawmakers oppose gambling.

"Adults are entitled to do with their money what they want to do," he said.

A group called the Poker Players Alliance opposed the legislation as well.

"It is disingenuous to oppose Internet gambling and then write a bill that makes select forms of online gambling legal," said Michael Bolcerek, president of the group.

U.S. efforts to outlaw Internet gambling also have been opposed by the Caribbean state of Antigua, which has been trying to build up its Internet gambling industry as a way to make up for sharply declining tourism revenue.

Copyright 2006 Reuters News Service.

Banning online poker in the US ?

Recent actions in the US capitol clearly indicates, that there is a chance that online poker will be illegal in the US. If you live in the US and would like to continue to play online poker legally please sign the form on this site poker players alliance - hopefully they will never pass this bill!

First Update On Our SnG Match

The first update of the SnG battle is ready for publishing.

First of all let me summarize the rules. This is the first update of a friendly SnG match between two inexperienced Sit-and-Go poker players. The battle is between MrX and EKarma from the TournamentMonitor team.
The rules are quite simple. Each player must complete $100 SnG's before the end of March at their own pace. The SnG's must have a buy-in between $25-$45 and each player must keep track of their own performance.

Our regular readers already knows who EKarma is so the only mystery man is MrX. MrX is a business consultant from Europe. He made his way through school playing online poker and is quite an experienced no-limit player.

So far only a few handfuls of SnG's have taken place and the results are far from complete, however to keep you guys posted we decided to make a post.

EKarma has so far only played 2 SnG's (Both of them $33 SnG's. So far he has a 1st and a 4th placement.

MrX on the other hand has been more active. He has played 15 SnG's on Inter Poker and have reached the following placements: 34711135545212

That gives MrX a very nice lead over EKarma, however lets all hope that EKarma is able to play more SnG's in the weeks to come so we can follow the progress from both players.

SnG battle

A very exciting and unique event is going to be reported on TournamentMonitor.com. The SnG battle is a low buy-in SnG battle between EKarma and MrX, two experienced online poker players.

EKarma - from the TournamentMonitor team - has just challenged one of his friends to a friendly online poker competition. EKarma is a regular fixed limit player while his opponent MrX plays no-limit texas holdem. None of them has much experience with SnG's and it is going to be interesting to see the results of this match.

We don't have all the details just yet but we will post them as soon as we hear from EKarma.

All we know so far is that the battle will be fought on multiple poker rooms (each player can play wherever he desires) and the buy-in must be between $25-$45. Each player must play in 100 SnG's and the winner is the one with the biggest profit! Therefore both of the players will have to keep track of their game throughout the competition.

We have arranged that both players provide us with ongoing stats so we can measure the progress during the competition. We will post more details once we get a hold of EKarma (That man has a serious telephone disease. He only has a mobile phone and seems to think it is never to be answered. It can take days to get a hold of him)

Who is behind TournamentMonitor ?

A brand new page with information on who is behind the TournamentMonitor online poker tournament schedules has just been implemented. Check out the TournamentMonitor Team page for more information.

Richard Segal Leaves Party Gaming

PartyGaming Plc ("the Company"), the world's leading online gaming company, announces today that Richard Segal, Chief Executive Officer, will be leaving the Company by mutual consent on or before 1 June 2006.

At the time of last year's IPO, Richard agreed to commute each week to PartyGaming's headquarters in Gibraltar. Given the rapid growth of the Company, he and the Board agree that the CEO now needs to be located in Gibraltar along with all the other executive Directors. Following discussions with his family, Richard has declined a request by the Board to move to Gibraltar and will therefore be leaving the Company.

Richard Segal, Chief Executive, said:
"My time at PartyGaming has been one of enormous challenge and great excitement and we have achieved a huge amount in a very short space of time. The decision to leave has been very difficult given the success already achieved and the exciting prospects ahead."
"This is a very fast moving and dynamic industry and I am incredibly proud of everything that everyone at PartyGaming has achieved to further our progress and prepare the ground for even greater things to come."

Guess it will be interesting to follow who is going to be the next "big man" in the online poker world.

Party Poker ceases account.

Zee Justin a young online poker professional recently had 6 different accounts closed by Party Poker. Justin has created the 6 accounts to be able to fool his opponents and pay for multiple entries into the big multi-table tournaments. He played from all different accounts from the same IP address and Party Poker was able to detect this behavior which is against their terms and conditions.

Party Poker locked Justins accounts and ceased more than $100.000 from the accounts.

This news has caused a massive discussion in the online poker community, since the use of different accounts is a widely used practice by many of the successful tournament players. Some players feel that this approach is acceptable while others claim it is cheating.

Andy Beal Done With Poker!

I just found this a few minutes ago at the Bluff Magazine forum. Michael Craig posts updates, and he just posted this:

Again, and for the last time, I apologize for the delay. Here are the highlights:

1. They played $50,000-$100,000. Ivey wanted the higher limit and, of course, Beal wanted it. Ivey convinced the pros, who I think were very divided about it. And even though Andy lost $10 million today, he made a point of thanking Phil at the end and saying, completely sincerely, "Thanks for getting the stakes raised to fifty and one hundred." Not sarcastically, but honestly.

2. Andy was ahead by $1-2 million for the first half of the match. Like the first two days, Phil controlled the action by always raising, always betting, but Andy had him timed very well for picking him off.

3. In a space of 3 hands, Phil made back most of that deficit. Big pots, concealed strength, wicked rivers, etc. etc. etc. (See the May issue of BLUFF for the details.) But Phil took over the lead and just ACCELERATED.

4. He made the $10 million in about 4 hours. (I'll check my notes after returning home and get you and "exact" or you'll read it in my May story, but Andy had the lead for half and Phil had the lead for half. But Phil had it for the better half, and the bigger half.)

5. The game became wild, reckless, and unrelentlessly aggressive. The timing Andy had in picking Phil off had failed. Andy got some river suck-outs but, now behind, probably became dispirited when he was the victim. (Phil, in contrast, was not affected in the least when Andy sucked out. So I can't tell you if Andy took more bad beats or just got affected by it more.) But with constant reraising and nobody folding, the river will decide a lot of hands. Phil won more of those, which made the game just that much more out of control.

6. It finished up about 45 minutes before my first post. Andy said he's done with poker for ever. One of the pros said he would bet me that Andy will be back within six months. It's not a matter I'll speculate about. (I will tell you, though, that Andy Beal gave me his pocket watch at the end. Say what you will but he BELIEVES that he's done.)

7. Andy was a total gentleman, and so was Phil Ivey, and so were the several pros in the room, who came because they were concerned about how their investment was doing but kept discretely hidden so not to appear to be gloating over the result.

I'm heading for home and may try to post something late, late, late tonight, or maybe tomorrow. But you're going to be looking at one helluva story for the April issue of BLUFF, about Andy's first two trips to Vegas this month, and a very interesting conclusion which I think BLUFF will run in May.

I consider myself lucky to know Andy Beal and to have gotten to see all this from this vantage point. I saw a lot of remarkable play by the pros, but I have to admit that sitting across a table from Phil Ivey for three days was MIND BLOWING. I don't think anyone has ever tried to show that or describe that. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

Michael Craig

A very impressive comeback from The Corporation. I know the variance in texas holdem heads up is extreme, however loosing $16.000.000 in two days playing poker is quite a beat.

Party Poker Software Upgrade

Ok, be warned - this is going to be a long post. Party Poker has just launched a new software package. I have just downloaded the new application and can see loads of improvements. Please note that the new software package just went live and errors might occur in the weeks to come.

Changes announced on the Party Poker website:

Tournament changes
Our PartyPoker.com tournaments are now even better! We've added new blind structures, and you'll start with more chips. Plus, we're paying out more places, our 1-Table Sit & Gos are now time-based, and we've simplified our tournament buy-ins.

Lobby and Game Enhancements
We've updated the PartyPoker.com Lobby to streamline your gaming experience. Major changes include an expanded Lobby navigation system, a new login facility, and filters to help you control the information you see. Now you can customize the PartyPoker.com Lobby to suit the way you play!

Table Resizing
You can customize your playing experience even further with our new 'table resizing' functionality. Resize, tile or cascade your tables to create a playing screen that suits your game.

Deal Making
Check out the improvements to our deal making feature! Now you have two choices for deal payouts, based on either the current chip count or a custom set of pay outs.You can make a deal for all the money and end the tournament, or you can leave a portion of the prize pool to play for. As before, no deal is completed until all of the players confirm the deal. Selecting 'Yes' on the final table commits you to discussing a deal, but not necessarily making one. Deal making is available for most real money multi-table tournaments with a cash-only prize pool.

More Game Choices
We are in the process of adding several new Cash Games and Sit & Gos. More Limits at Hold'em, more buy-in levels in Sit and Gos and Speed, 1-on-1 and 6 Handed games!

Party Account
With the new PartyAccount, each and every one of you can play PartyPoker.com and PartyCasino.com with one username and one password! The more games we build in the future, the more games you have access to. Plus you can play several games simultaneously! The PartyAccount is also designed to help you manage your real and play money, keep track of any bonuses or PartyPoints you have collected, or check where you stand in tournaments and other competitions. All your money, all your bonuses, all your PartyPoints, all in one place - what could be simpler? NOTE: all existing accounts have become PartyAccounts. Use your normal username and password to log in.

If you have special interest in the new tournament structures on Party Poker, these are the new rules.
Tournament changes
At PartyPoker.com, you can always find a tournament to suit your game. There are tournaments happening 24/7, so you'll never have to wait long to join the action.

Of course, there's always room for improvement! That's why we've taken advantage of our new software release to upgrade our tournaments. We think these changes will make playing in our tournaments more exciting – we hope you agree!

Here's what's new:
Blind structures

We have completely redone all of the blind structures for our tournaments, including Sit & Gos, Multi-Table and Shootout tournaments.

In addition, all No-Limit Tournament structures will now include antes.

Starting chips
Starting chips have been increased and vary depending on the type of tournament in which you're playing. Check the chart below:
Tournament type Number of starting chips
Sit & Gos (1-Table and Multi-Table) 2,000
Multi-Table Tournaments 3,000
Tournament Events ($500K, $750K, etc.) 5,000

The number of starting chips will vary for special tournaments (or at PartyGaming's discretion). 1-Table Sit & Go levels

These will now use a time-based structure for betting rounds instead of a hand-based structure. Also, levels will automatically increase after 10 minutes. Tournament buy-ins and entry fees

We've combined the tournament buy-in and entry fee into a single amount. The entry fee will be removed from the listed amount.

Entry fees will vary between tournaments and will be posted on either the buy-in screen or in the Lobby. View entry fee guidelines

New games and limit are also available after the Party Poker software upgrade. The list below is also taken from the Party Poker website. Stakes/Blinds Bet Type Game Max Seats Special
$30/60 Limit 7 Stud Hi-Lo 8
$20/40 Limit 7 Stud Hi-Lo 8
'$15/30 Limit 7 Stud Hi-Lo 8
$30/60 Limit 7 Card Stud 8
$15/30 Limit 7 Card Stud 8
$30/60 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 10
$.50/1 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 6
$30/60 Limit Omaha 10
$20/40 Limit Omaha 10
$.50/1 Limit Omaha 6
$10/20 No-Limit Hold'em 6
$100/200 Limit Hold'em 6
$50/100 Limit Hold'em 6
$30/60 Limit Hold'em 6
$20/40 Limit Hold'em 6
$2/4 Limit Hold'em 6
$3/6 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$2/4 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$1/2 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$.50/1 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$.25/.50 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$.10/.25 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Jackpot
$3/6 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$2/4 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$1/2 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$.50/1 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$.25/.50 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$.10/.25 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$15/30 Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$10/20 Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$5/10 Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$3/6 Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$2/4 Limit Hold'em 6 Jackpot
$.10.20 Limit Hold'em 10 Beginners
$.05/.10 Limit Hold'em 10 Beginners
$.25/.50 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Beginners
$.10/.25 No-Limit Hold'em 10 Beginners

The Corporation strikes back!

The biggest poker game of all times between Andy Beal a Texas billionaire and The Corporation (a unknown list of poker professionals) is running again. The game is fixed limit texas hold'em at the Wynn Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

Just a few days ago Andy Beal took down The Corporation and depleted their entire bankroll of $10.000.000 playing $100.000/$200.000 heads-up. The Corporation has started a new bankroll and Phil Ivey is now representing The Corporation in the biggest poker game of all times. The Corporation has lowered the stakes to $30.000/$60.000 to avoid going broke.but I am sure they would wish they hadn't..

The game has been running for two days now. The first day Ivey won two million dollars form Beal. The second day Ivey took home another $4.600.000 from the poker crazy billionaire. A very exiting development in The Corporation vs. mathematical genius Andy Beal.

I bet the game is far from over and will post updates as soon as the news hits my inbox. Stay tuned.

6 more WSOP Winners featured

Once again we have added more WSOP winners for our listings. We now have information on the majority of the World Series of Poker main event winners. The newly added personalities are: Dan Harrington, Huck Seed, Hamid Dastmalchi, Jim Bechtel, Russel Hamilton and Stu Ungar - you can find more information in our Poker Player section.

PartyPoker buys Empire Poker

One of the greatest news in the online poker history has recently been released by PartyGaming the company behind PartyPoker.

PartyGaming, the world's leading online gaming company, announces today that it has reached agreement with Empire Online Limited ("EOL") to acquire the EmpirePoker.com skin ("EmpirePoker") and other associated white label and affiliate agreements relating to AceClub.com and StarluckCasino.com, together with the withdrawal of all legal claims by EOL against the Group, for a total cash consideration of $250 million. The agreement is conditional upon the approval of EOL shareholders and PartyGaming has received irrevocable powers of attorney from EOL shareholders to the effect that their votes will be cast in favour of the necessary resolution in respect of a total of 163,999,358 EOL ordinary shares, representing approximately 56 per cent. of the issued share capital of EO.

Richard Segal, Chief Executive of PartyGaming, said today: "This acquisition brings our skins strategy to a close and consolidates our leading position in online poker ahead of the launch of the fully-integrated, Party-branded platform. The introduction of Blackjack last October marked the beginning of our cross-selling strategy; the integrated platform will enable PartyGaming to take the cross-selling of games to a new level."

Source Partygaming.com

View our party poker review if you want to know more about Party Poker and their poker platform.

New World Poker Tour front figure

When the previous WPT hostess Shana Hiatt decided it was time for her to quit the poker community began to wonder who would replace this beautiful WPT front figure.

The new host is Courtney Friel also known from the E! Entertainment and the Oxygen programs. We sure are going to miss Shana Hiatt but we are sure the beautiful Courtney Friel will do whatever she can to replace her.

How did you get involved with the World Poker Tour?
Courtney Friel : It was a longer process than any other job I've gotten. It started with an audition, callback and then 4 more meetings. Then I find out that I'm replacing the beautiful Shana Hiatt, whom everyone adores, so I know I have big shoes to fill. I feel very blessed to have been chosen out of so many women who were vying for this role.

A few facts on Courtney Friel:

Birthday: April 22nd 1980
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Hobbies: Skydiving, Sushi Chef, Surfing and Traveling
Education & Bios: Courtney grew up in suburbs of Philly. She always held an interest in print and broadcast journalism. High school gave her the first opportunity to explore this outlet. She continued to pursue her interest in college at San Diego State University where she received a BA in Political Science and a Minor in Broadcast Journalism. Courtney has hosted on a variety of programs including E! Entertainment, Nickelodeon and Oxygen. Now Courtney is traveling the world as the new host on the World Poker Tour.
We wish Courtney the best of luck. If you want to qualify for the WPT try our satellite poker tournaments

Andy Beal is playing The Corporation again!

Andy Beal a mathematical theorist from Texas has once again decided to challenge The Corporation (a list of notorious poker professionals - the actual list of sponsors is unknown).
The latest battle between the billionaire Andy Beal and the Corporation took place at the Wynn Hotel Casino just a few days ago and Andy Beal took home $10.000.000 playing texas holdem limit $100.000/$200.000 heads-up against different opponents. The opponents were Jennifer Harman (one of the best limit heads-up specialists in the world), Todd Brunson (son of the legendary Doyle Brunson who authored Super System I/II), David Grey and Ted Forrest.

The battle began on February 2nd and lasted until the 5th, where Andy Beal lost $3 million to The Corporation in two days. That evening, Beal boarded a plane back to Texas. He returned on February 12th and made a stunning recovery. He won $5.000.000 on the first day and during the next 5 days he ripped The Corporation apart. He depleted their entire bankroll of $10.000.000 playing one-on-one limit poker against the different opponents.

Rumors has it that Andy Beal is battling The Corporation again during these days.this time playing $30.000/$60.000. When we find more news we will keep you posted. It will be interesting to find out if Andy Beal will be able to break some of the world's best poker players one by one.

More WSOP Winners

We are warming up for the launch of a brand new WSOP section and have added more information on WSOP winners throughout the years. Information on WSOP Winner:
Carlos Mortensen
Chris Ferguson
Noel Furlong
Robert Varkonyj
Scott Nguyen

Has been added to our famous poker player section

The History of Gigabet

I cannot remember a time where I didn't know how to play the game. I think I was taught by my stepdad, but I am not sure, I was very young. I remember when I was very young, my mother and my stepdad religously went to a restaurant for breakfast every single morning, almost without exception. I can remember sitting in the restaurant, probably 7 or 8 years old, playing 5 card draw with my brothers and my stepdad while my mother finished the paper, coffee, whatever it was grownups did when I was 8 years old.

We would play with pennies, I don't think I understood the concept of money yet, but I remember enjoying it when I got to keep the pennies. Most mornings I would go with them to breakfast, if I wasn't in school, that is. Every morning we would play 5 card draw, some weird variation of blackjack that i cannot remember how it went, and gin rummy. Or solitaire, if my stepdad wanted to read the paper and david or doug(my brothers) didn't come with. I went with them to breakfast every morning until I was high school age.

In high school, I remember getting kicked out of biology class at least once a week for playing poker during class. Me and a friend would play $1-$3 stud(alot of money for a kid just starting high school) and crazy games with wild cards. I never got in real trouble for getting kicked out, cause my brother was good friends with the vice principal, so I just went to his office everytime she sent me out, and took a nap on his couch in his office.

David and Mr. Blau was his name, both were incredibly idiotic baseball freaks. Apparently 30 years in age difference is small potatoes for a cubs fan. Being tortured for almost 100 years takes away all concept of age.

While in high school, I got a job at a hotel as a desk clerk, and one of my long time friends also worked there, and my uncle worked there(who is my age, and more like a very good friend than a relative.)

After working there for a few weeks, I discovered that the owners of the hotel didn't care what we did while we worked. Hell, no one ever came and checked in, so I guess, why would they care, as long as they could keep paying minimum wage. The hotel has like 100 rooms, and 95% of the year, it would be less than 10% occupied.

Anyway, once I discovered the owners didn't care what I did while I worked, I started inviting friends over while I was working. There is an apartment in the backroom, so it isn't like they were all hanging out in the lobby, but eventually we decided to play sick gambling games(in between the sheets, man or mouse....omg, I think I still owe a friend of mine 7 or 8 thousand from back then, when I never had more than 200 in possession in one time). Eventually we stopped those games, cause someone always went broke, no matter how much they brought, it is the nature of the game to bust someone, just sick.

So we all started playing poker, I played poker in that hotel, every single night, with the same 3 people, various others came and went every night, but David(my brother), Danny(my uncle), Jeremy(my friend) and myself(me)were seriously in that back apartment of that hotel every single night for 2 years straight. We played 7stud, 5card draw, some lowball games, and a couple goofy games for, what was to us, relatively high stakes. We could win or lose 2 or 3k in a single night.

I was 16 when I started working there, and I guess you could say that was my first real taste of a poker game. Everything else I had played was for pretty low stakes, and always on the fly, and short handed. I think I won my first session there, and I remember consistently going over a week without having a losing session. I almost never lost. None of the 4 regulars lost very often, but even when it was just us 4, and no one else, we always would play games with a ton of wild cards, or lowball, cause I never would lose to them.

After playing in the hotel for about a year, we started going to this casino that was about 45 minutes from us. I got myself a fake id, I was only 17, but i don't really look much different then than now. Anyway, this was before the poker boom, in fact, this was the poker depression, all the casinos were predicting that all the pokerrooms were going to be shut down because of lack of business.

Holdem wasn't very widespread at that point in time, in the midwest you couldn't even find a holdem game on the weekends. It was all 7stud, and omaha had just gotten started too. But at the casino I went to, no one ever played the omaha game, except on saturday where a $5 blind single blind plo game would go off. It played like a 10/25 game though. These people were insane, avg pot on the turn card was 500.

I was stuck with 7stud, which I played regurlarly until holdem started getting spread again. Which was like 5 years later. Fast forward to me being 24 years old.

When I was 17, I got very interested in pool, and began playing that everyday. By the time I was 24, I was able to compete with everyone in the midwest, except for the players that were known professionals. So I started to travel around to play pool. Eventually, it got to the point where I couldn't really make any money in it. The only people who would gamble with me, were people who could beat me. My name had become fairly well known in the pool world, so players who actually stood a fair chance to beat me, wouldn't play me, cause they knew that I was a name player. It was a very frustrating time for me. Fortunately, there was usually a poker game in whatever pool hall i happened to be in, although small stakes. Occasionally, I would get some rich farmer, or a local bookie to play hu with me at higher limit. I remember once, I was in Sterling, Ill. for a pool tournament, and there was a card game going on during the tournament. It was like a 2/4 omaha 8/b game. Anyway, one of the guys in the game asked if anyone wanted to raise the limit. I was the only one who said yes. So it didn't happen. But the guy offers me a HU game, I say sure, what stakes. He said 500/1000....I said ok(I had maybe 2500 with me, 500/1000 was wayyyyyyyy over my head at that point in time.) Fortunately, I had friends who saw me win every time I played, so i was able to get 50k from 3 different people. Lol, i have 50bb for this game, not Big Bets, big blinds.....how ridiculous is this bankroll for this game. Fortunately, the people putting the money up had no idea that 50k was not even in the realm of reality in the world of 500/1000 limit holdem.

We get to his room, and he offers the cut, and he deals out 4 cards....?

I look confused, he says, I thought we agreed we were going to play limit omaha all high. What?

I didn't want to lose the game, so I said whatever. But, I had never played all high omaha before, i had seen it played, but that was plo, not limit. I'll figure it out, I say to myself.

Immediately I see that I have no chance at not losing this 50k, unless I just call call call and get lucky. I have absolutely no clue as to what would constitute a good showdown hand in that game.

For the first 3 hours we played, I nevere bet, or raised, unless I had the pure nuts. I did get lucky, i had a string where I won 12 consecutive hands. (most hands went ck ck ck)

I eventually got to the point where I felt I had a handle on the relative showdown value of certain holdings based on the texture of the board. Long story short, I ended getting stuck 43k, then being up 400k, and then being stuck again. It was unreal. We quit after playing for 14 hours, and we dead even, down to the last 100 dollars, it was unreal.

Fast forward, online pokerrooms just became public knowledge, and I get an account at pp. here comes Gigabet.

Play low limit for awhile, never spend enough time at home to really play, always on the road, it seemed. Didn't really get into it, the site basically sucked, it kept freezing up, all the time, it would freeze up for no apparent reason, and then not come back online for a day or so. This was partypoker, i remember once looking at the application, and seeing that there were 1700 players online playing, and thinking to myself that the site would crash cause they usually are only getting 1200. And, they crashed.

Every night party crashed, for a long time. I still dealt with it, and played there a little. I didn't set anything structured to play, I would just hop into whatevere, usually limit holdem or a relatively low buy in mtt. Like 20, or 30. I think my peak online bankroll was around $150 at this time.

Anyway, they eventually, starting getting more and more players, and more and more servers. Finally, when their peak hour player number avged about 17,000 during the week, their servers caught up to the constant influx of new players. This was when I started playing alot online.

I lived with a very good friend of mine, and his wife, probably still my two best friends, if you can exclude my brothers(my brothers, are without a doubt, my two best friends). We shared a pretty decent sized house, and I basically moved out of my room into the office, lol, so i could play the second I woke up.

I obviously have a psychotic case of obsessive compulsive disorder. I started playing stts, the highest limit was 100 at that time, but i wasn't playing those often. I was playing the 33s and the 55s, but only the limit stts, not the NL, I had never played NL holdem up to that point, and i didn't feel comfortable playing them. At that time, the limit stts, filled only slightly slower than the nl stts, so it wasn't a that big of a deal.

I started as a winner on party, and I continued to win, but i didn't work, and pool wasn't making me money, so i always had to withdraw money to pay bills, eat, whatever. Eventually, I had built my account up to around 600 or 700, and I decided to try the 109 tourneys. Of course, the 109s back then only had NL, they didn't even offer 109 limit stts at that time.

I already decided to play a higher limit, so I wasn't going to back off now, just cause I had to play a game I was completely unfamiliar with. Poker is poker, right? Wrong, first time I can remember, in my entire life, that I was completely drawing dead in this game. I just didn't even know where to begin. Someone would come in for a raise, i would call with 99 or something. Board would come 7 high, they would bet the pot, I would call, thinking, it isn't that much, and I probably have the best hand anyway. Now the turn card brings a 2, or some disconnected offsuit card like that. I still like my hand, but I don't feel the need to be real aggressive with it. Of course, the guy bets a little over half the pot now. I incorrectly guessed that meant that he wanted me to fold(cause the bet was so high, in my limit world, in NL, I should have been able to see that it was a bet designed to get called.) I knew poker very well, and I knew that when I thought someone wants me to fold, I try to get as much money in as possible. So I minraise, which obviously commits me all the way to the hand. Of course, he is going to read that bet as a big hand, where I thought I was being cleverly deceptive in hiding the fact that I liked my hand(cause I thought he hated his). So he shoves the rest of his chips in, and I happily call. We all know what happened next.

After that, I studied NL holdem nonstop. I read everything that was written about the game, including everything on the internet. I started playing NL exclusively, and it took me all of 2 days to get to a point where it was obvious to me that the 109 players were basically the same as the 33 and 55 dollars players, just a little less lost.

Anyway, Doug hits a couple big mtt scores, and he offers to start a regular bankroll for me and like 5 other people who live in our town. With the idea that once we get to 40,000, we finish the stake and he gets 20,000. Party had started offering 215s by this time.

We all start playing off of dougs stake, and doug was very good stt player by this time, so every day and every night one of us, and usually 3 or 4 of us would be at his house so he could make certain that we were playing the best way to beat the party stts. Not really play poker, play party poker. Doug was probably the best stt player at party at that time, and no one knew it, including him. I know it now, because some of things I remember him saying to me, while I would be playing, still aren't posted on 2+2 or any other site for that matter.

It took me 2 weeks of pretty solid play to get to a point where I could keep my account over the break even point.

Once I stayed over the even mark for a week. Hovering just over even, I won 7600 in a span of one 24 hour period. That was amazing for me. Took me another couple days to get over 10k, and then I guess whatever clicked, stayed clicked, cause I was making money faster than I knew how to withdraw it from my account.

So I get it up to 40k, and everyone else in the original starting group is still hovering around even, and they are still playing everyday. I am getting ready to give doug the 20k and he only takes 10k(which, if i remember, i had to force him to take). He feels guilty that everyone else is working so hard and not getting rewarded, so he tells them that they don't have to pay him the 20k, hoping that will ease whatever mental block was keeping them from becoming as successful as I was.

It didn't though, they continued to play for months, and I continued to win at a similar pace that I was before. Now, our friends were coming to my house, when doug wasn't home, so i could help them. Everyday, someone would come over and play, and watch me play, and listen to me, and play more, but they still just couldn't get over the hump.

I still hadn't stopped studying NL, but it came to a point where new ideas, and new material ran out. So I was forced to really think about the game on my own. All day, everyday, I was playing, I was writing my thoughts about different situations, I was teaching my friends, and i was playing again. I was absolutely consumed by poker, I was making an amount of money that was absolutely ridiculous to my standards before this rush.

Finally, I got to the point where I realized that the reason alot of the concepts that I came up with weren't working in the stts, because there aren't enough chips in play. I'd have this revelation, about something relative to poker, and I would try it out, and it wouldn't work. I couldn't figure it out. The ideas made perfect sense in my head, I just didn't get it. Finally, I figured out that the edges I was thinking about required that there be more to "go after."

So I started playing multi table events. I was still playing the 215s, but I would take a few games off what I was usually playing at that time, and play a mtt instead. I started playing the party weeknight specials. I found out immediately, that the concepts I had come up with, worked, and they worked very well.

I was making a final table 2 or 3 times a day, that was when they ran 109 mtts every other hour starting at 7:00am est. 7am,9am,11am,1pm(limit),3pm,5pm,7:10pm,(no 9pm) 11pm, and 3am.

The name Gigabet became originally known from the stts, but the name became famous after the sickest weekend I have heard about or seen since.

The prelude to the "weekend" was actually the week before. The friday special had changed from limit to NL for that week. Well, I played it and won, I got HU with EL_Tahur, who now calls himself Tera_Bet.

A week later, the friday special is back to limit holdem(wed and fri used to always be limit holdem). I win the friday special again, albeit for about a 3rd of the prize money from the week before. The following day, Party was offering a tournament that was 345 buyin, rather than the normal 250k guaranteed(I think it was actually 150k guaranteed at that time though). They advertised it well, so it had a boat load of people. I can't remember how many, but I know first was 140k. At any rate, I am the chipleader with 13 players, with a 3 to 1 chip lead over the next person closest to my stack.....except for one guy. Who I had covered by only by around a few thousand, 3bbs I think. Anyway, of course we are on the same table, I am in the small blind and get dealt KK, he is utg, and he just pushes.....which was a huge overbet, but still an understandable bet, since everyone in the field was in push fold mode, except for the two of us, and a couple others on the other table(the other two who weren't in push fold mode, we had a 3 to 1 lead on, to give you an idea of how many chips we had). So of course, I call with KK, and he opens AQ, and the flop comes QQx, lol, he didn't even hit the ace. In retrospect, I prolly should have folded. Anyway, I play the 11:00pm 109mtt and win that, can't remember the number of players, but it was 13k, so you figure it out.

On Sunday am, I play the 6am limit 109, and win that. I got HU with Danny Alaei, if anyone knows him. Good friend of mine. Then I play the big sunday event, and get 4th in that, can't remember how many were in that field, but first was around 80k. I am including monday in my weekend also, so no one gets confused. Monday, I play the party special, and win that, but even more impressive I think is that I made the final table of every single 109 mtt that ran that day starting with the 11am and finishing with the 11pm one. And I won 3 of those. I was playing as SwiftSteal in the 109 mtts, and Gigabet in the special.

After that, I was sure online poker was rigged....but who cares, since it was obviously rigged for me.

Then the Steps come....Party just can't be satisfied until I have 849704509768905760295 billion dollars.

I absolutely crushed the step tournaments when they first came out as two table events , and I played every single one of them that ran in december. I was winning every other one of them, it seemed. Party was still rigged in my favor, yes! There was one night, I had 4 two table step 5s running, and a cash game at UB. Danny Alaei and I chatted everyday(he thinks about poker the same way that I do)and in this particular session, he was watching me play the step 5s, and asking for my hole cards through aim, cause he wanted to start playing them, but he didn't feel comfortable enough at the time. Danny is chipdaddy37 on party, if anyone remembers that name.

So we are talking about how the hands are being played out, and going over my thoughts as i play through a hand, when he tells me that prahlad(spiritrock) just lost a 70k pot on the prima network. Prahlad is in my game at ub, we are playing 25/50, and we both have around 40k behind us. I am in the big blind, and prahlad has the button, and just like clockwork he raises. I have JJ(perfect timing for a hand, though i would have played anything, thinking he may be on tilt.) Long story short, I stack him, he bluffs his entire stack with absolutely nothing, and I flop top set. Meanwhile, I win all four step 5 two tables I am in. This is when Danny and I decide to go to vegas, and just stay through the world series.

My next big win was win the 15k stt tourneys, most of that info has been posted, but I played as evenkeal, played two, and won them both. they paid 100k to win.

thats about it online, now i am playing live, and that has all been posted before as well.

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