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WORLD POKER TOUR ON A ROLL
2011-04-05
$100 000 buy-in Super High Roller event for the Bellagio
Party Poker has been extensively overhauling the World Poker Tour since taking it over late 2009 (see previous InfoPowa reports), introducing bigger and better events and slick organisation, but the latest announcement sets a new benchmark in the company’s tournament history - a $100 000 buy-in event.
Crowning the striking enhancements and whirlwind changes of the past eighteen months, the World Poker Tour will now deliver a finale worthy of a successful live tourney season with its debut Super High Roller Event during the upcoming WPT World Championship series at Bellagio.
This exclusive tournament runs from May 18-19, features a $100 000 buy-in, and will be televised within the WPT World Championship episodes on FSN.
World Poker Tour champion and eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erik Seidel, Daniel Shak and Justin “BoostedJ” Smith have already confirmed they will play.
“Hosting a hundred thousand dollar buy-in event within the WPT World Championship series means the world’s elite players have a chance to show their mettle as they battle for one of the year’s most coveted titles and one of the highest buy-in titles, all within a single week,” said Steve Heller, CEO of the World Poker Tour, this week.
With the game’s top professionals already competing at Bellagio for the WPT World Championship May 14-20, this new addition is sure to attract premier players and generate a robust prize pool.
RESPECTED ONLINE POKER SITE FOR SALE
2010-11-10
Troubled Devilfish Gaming has plans to sell off Devil Fish Poker Limited.
Devilfish Gaming, the listed company co-founded by international poker star Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot has announced that it has inked a Heads of Agreement with an unidentified but unrelated third party to sell off the entire issued share capital and undertakings of wholly owned subsidiary and respected online gambling company Devil Fish Poker Limited.
A company statement revealed that the consideration for the sale will be around GBP330 000, such consideration to be satisfied by the payment of GBP40 000 in cash and the balance as issue of new ordinary shares in the acquiring company which is listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.
A company spokesman stressed that the sale has not yet been completed and is subject to due diligence and legal process.
MORE FINAL TABLES REACHED AT WSOP (Update)
2010-06-09
Jennifer Harman doing well in $10 000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud event
It's all happening at the 41st World Series of Poker with a number of key events running concurrently and keeping the railbirds running from venue to venue Tuesday night.
Event 13 – the $1 000 buy-in NLHE – had played down to a final table of nine when InfoPowa went to press at 11pm Tuesday Vegas time, after a slew of late night eliminations brought the remains of an original 3 042 field down to just 9 survivors.
The day began with 56 players returning for Day 3, which plenty of eliminations that included names like Ylon Schwartz and Andy Black.
When Daniel Duong was sent packing in the number 10 spot, picking up $27 323 for his trouble, the final table was set and looked like this:
1 David Baker 2,553,000
2 Matthew Vance 1,731,000
3 Steven Gee 1,540,000
4 Nicholas Heather 993,000
5 Kyung Han 613,000
6 Daniel Thomas 602,000
7 Jared Hamby 423,000
8 Mats Gavatin 393,000
9 Jeffrey Gross 281,000
The winner will collect a $472 000 reward and the kudos of a WSOP bracelet when play resumes.
Yan Chen won his first WSOP bracelet in event 14 - $1 500 buy-in 2-7 Draw Lowball No-Limit competition after a tough heads up against Mike Wattel just before midnight.
The event attracted a starting field 250 players, and Chen received a first prize worth $92,817.
Jennifer Harman on 1.3 million chips leads the final table of event 15 – a $10 000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Championship which attracted many of the game’s biggest stars, initially including Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Eli Elezra and Erik Seidel.
Of the 170 players who registered for the competition only 18 survived to see Day 3 with Frank Kasella in the lead. Notable casualties included Richard Ashby, Mike Sexton, Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Erick Seidel and Eli Elezra.
On what could prove to be the final day, by 10.30pm Vegas time the final table of six had been decided when Allen Kessler eliminated the two low-stack players, sending Dario Minieri and Vladimir Schmelev to the cashier for $52 366 and $63 457 paychecks respectively.
This is the final table:
Kirill Rabtsov
Jennifer Harman (chip leader on 1.3 million as InfoPowa went to press)
Frank Kassela
John Juanda
Steve Zolotow
Allen Kessler
Event 16 - the $1 500 buy-in Six-Handed NLHE contest showcased a very high attrition rate on Day 1 which saw the cash bubble burst as a field of 1 663 was reduced to only 146 survivors in hectic action.
And this was despite a rather late start at some of the tables!
One of the highlights of the event is the participation of the modest former WSOP Main Event 2007 champ Jerry Yang, playing with characteristic discipline and courtesy. Other big names seen at the tables were Eric Buchman and Mark Seif.
POKER NOW A SPORT IN LITHUANIA
2010-03-22
Official decree passed by government's sports ministry.
It's official....poker in now a sport in the Baltic state of Lithuania, which is also making progressive moves toward the regulation of Internet gambling.
On March 20, the government's Department of Physical Education and Sports issued an official decree recognising the Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation as an official sports federation.
“This is extremely important step in our work,” Andrius Tapinas, president of the Lithuanian Sport Poker Federation, said. “We are receiving congratulations from many of our colleagues abroad and I know that we are breaking thick ice with our progress for similar international initiatives.”
Tapinas revealed that the LSPF will soon present its official tournament schedule to the Lithuanian sports media. Along with his presidency of the LSPF, Tapinas, is the presenter of the of the most popular Lithuanian business TV show. His cashes in WSOP and Unibet Open tournaments were also covered on the front pages of biggest Lithuanian daily.
The Inaugural LSPF tournament will take place from April 24 through 26 in Vilnius. Tapinas expects this might be the biggest poker tournament in any Baltic country yet.
POKER FOR CAMBODIA
2010-01-04
Canadian player donates portion of winnings to charity
Not long ago InfoPowa highlighted the good works of American professional online poker pro Dusty 'Leatherass' Schmidt, who has riased subtantial funds playing poker for the Transition Project - a charity in Portland. Schmidt is one of a growing number of pokerheads with big hearts who raise money for the less fortunate; Don Cheadle and Annie Duke with their Ante Up for Africa campaign is another great example of what the game can achieve in helping others.
This week we focus on a talented woman player from Toronto who donates a portion of her winnings in major tournaments to charity.
Elizabeth Bennett-Martin's latest project is to play in the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, winning enough to donate a significant amount to the Cambodian Legal Education for Women project started by the Toronto law firm Bennett Gastle P.C in which she is a partner.
The focus of the charity is to provide educational assistance and living expenses to help young women in Cambodia attend law school, and escape a life of poverty. The charity helps women who live in extremely deprived, cramped conditions, sleeping on mats on a bare floor, and will assist in improving dormitory conditions - the accommodation has no furniture or cooking facilities, other than hot plates.
The project aims to improve the possibilities for these woman by helping them to become lawyers in a country where legal help is extremely rare (in 2009 there were only 538 lawyers for a population of over 14 million people).
Last year Bennett-Martin was one of only 14 women in the entire PCA tournament and one of a mere seven female online qualifiers. She won a $24 satellite to compete against a field of 1 347 players.... and picked up $40 000 for a 25th place finish. This year she plans to improve on her performance and raise more cash, and has again secured a place through an online satellite.
In addition to earmarking a portion of any winnings in the PCA main event for charity, Bennett-Martin intends to compete in the inaugural PCA Ladies Event, and will donate all winnings to the charity if she is successful.
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