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Sunday Guaranteed Poker Tournaments

Top online poker sites pay out large prize pools

December 2, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — The major online poker websites PokerStars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com continued to attract large numbers to Sunday tournaments this week, generating impressive prize pools and high value prizes to the winners.
 
At PokerStars, Peter “twirlpro” Turmezy took down the top prize of almost $200,000, with his heads up opponent ‘fratzl‘ also taking home a six-figure paycheck worth some $132,176. The Sunday Millions tourney in which they competed attracted an entry field of 8,001 players, up 246 from the week prior, and generated a prize pool of $1.6 million.
 
Full Tilt’s $750,000 Guaranteed event also recorded increased entries with 3,668 sign-ups, but this still did not make the guarantee and FT had to put up the $16,400 balance. David “Doc Sands” Sands faced ‘andressoprano’ in the heads up, winning the event to claim the $132,787 first-place prize. His opponent collected a check for $80,250 for his second placing.

JC Tran Wins PartyPoker Premier League III

Poker pro beats five top Internet and land players to take home $300,000

December 1, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — Poker pros JC Tran and TonyG battled it out in the heads up of the five-day-long third edition of the PartyPoker Premier League, which culminated over the weekend. The tournament saw twelve of the world’s top Internet and land players pitted against each other in a series of heats leading to the final table.
 
Selected to compete was a stellar international roster composed of JC Tran, Tony G, Juha Helppi, Annette Obrestad, Vicky Coren, Tom Dwan, Andy Black, current WSOP MS Champ Peter Eastgate, Roland de Wolfe, David Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, and Nenad Medic.
 
U.S. player JC Tran entered the final of the PartyPoker Premier League III with the lead over the final table six, comprising Tom Dwan (U.S.A.), Juha Helppi (Finland), TonyG (Australia), Roland De Wolfe (U.K.) and Peter Eastgate.
 
Tran lost the lead during the heads up, but staged a great comeback to beat TonyG and take home the main prize of $300,000, leaving his opponent with a second place check for $150,000.

Online Poker Pro Takes Down FTOPS X Event

Cliff Josephy, better known to his high-stakes online peers as JohnnyBax, took down a tough field of 1,025 to win the Omaha Eight-or-Better event and his share of a $205,000 prize pool. A difficult final table included British pro and WSOP bracelet-winner Ram Vaswani.

In other events, the No-Limit Hold ‘em 6-max event created a $1.13m prize pool between the 1,032 players who signed up. David Pham took a hefty slice of that by finishing in third place, while other cashing pros included Chip Jett and Clonie Gowen.

The winners from Tuesday were losebigpots in Event 12, the $200$16 HA; LaTanyaWilliams in Event 13, $500$35 H.O.R.S.E.; and imabigkidnow in Event 14, $200$26 No-Limit Hold ‘em Turbo.

Eastgate Becomes Youngest WSOP Champ Yet

November 11, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — The 22-year-old Danish player Peter Eastgate has survived a field of thousands, a competitive final table, and a tough heads up with the formidable Russian player Ivan Demidov to emerge as the winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Starting the heads up last night at the Rio in Las Vegas, Eastgate was seriously short — to the tune of 21,775,000 — of Demidov’s massive 79,500,000 chip count, but he lived up to his reputation of cool, collected play and disciplined aggression to end the evening with around 120,550,000 in chips to his opponent’s 16,350,000!

The final drama was played out under bright television lights following a 2008 WSOP Player of the Year presentation to veteran Erick Lindgren, who looked pleased with his prize of a cool-looking Harley Davidson motor cycle. After that, it was the respected poker announcer Michael Buffer who was given the honor of making the “Shuffle Up and Deal” call, and the action was on.

104 hands later, at hand 274 the young Danish accountant-turned-poker-pro eliminated the hard-fighting Russian to become the first Dane to hold the title, and the youngest player ever to win poker’s biggest tournament, breaking a record held over the last 19 years by Phil Hellmuth. He joins an elite list that includes Brunson, Moss, Ungar, Chan, Ferguson, Hellmuth, Yang, Gold, Hachem, Raymer, Moneymaker, Nguyen and a host of other top players going back to 1970.

Demidov’s second place finish carries a significant consolation — a check for $5,809,595, and he has earned respect for his performance in reaching the final tables at both the Vegas and London editions of the WSOP.

Flanked by Vegas showgirls, Eastgate lived up to his reputation as a calm and even subdued personality, politely thanking his opponent and the sponsors and expressing quiet pride in his achievment. But a smile eventually appeared as he hefted a couple of currency bundles from the suitcase full of cash that was on display.

The 2008 WSOP final table will probably enter the records as one of the longest ever, taking over 16 hours to reach a conclusion. It will also be famous for big blinds reaching the million chip level, where some 32 hands were slugged out.

Poker Pro Wins One Million Dollars in One Day at Full Tilt

October 30, 2008 (InfoPowa News)

One of the world’s top poker pros, 34-year-old Monaco-based Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen,has been causing havoc in the big money online poker action at Full Tilt.com, earning a million dollars in a single day at one stage, reports the HighStakesDb.com poker information site. And playing against some of the best players around on Full Tilt, his October 2008 earnings thus far have reached $3.2 million.

On Monday night alone, Hansen won more than $589,000 at Hold ‘em, $145,000 in PLO, $152,000 in Omaha Hi/Lo, and $97,000 in a HORSEgame, demonstrating a mastery of the diverse poker styles and rules.

Originally from Copenhagen in Denmark, Hansen is famous for his loose and aggressive style of play, and started playing poker as a professional in 1997. Before that he was a world-class backgammon player who tried to make a living at the game in New York and abroad but found the pickings too slim.

In his outstanding poker career The Great Dane can boast a long record of wins in significant tournaments. He has won a record three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. His official career winnings recently topped $5,837,633, and he describes his approach to the game as: “I play the players, not the cards.”

PokerStars.com Opens Italian Website

PokerStars.com Opens Italian Website
AAMS license acquired by the Internet’s largest poker site

October 20, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — Only days after achieving licenced status with the Italian regulator Amministrazione Autonome dej Monopoli di Stato (AAMS), the giant online poker website PokerStars.com has launched its Italian offering at PokerStars.it.
 
Fabio Angeli Bufalini, PokerStars Italian manager, invited his fellow Italians to try the new website out for themselves, joining the thousands of Internet poker players around the world who use the site on a daily basis. He commented: “PokerStars is proud to be entering a flourishing market with this new product. This is a groundbreaking time for the online poker industry, and it’s very exciting that the Italian market is pioneering this move.
 
“This is the start of a global template which could potentially be adopted in other markets internationally in the next few years.”
 
Italian players will have access to the full range of services and tournaments offered by PokerStars, said Dario Minieri, an internationally respected land and online Italian pro and member of Team PokerStars. “Players on PokerStars.it will have the opportunity to win their entry into famous international poker events — like the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas,” he said.
 
“These competitions require players to have the right mix of skill, training, concentration, and luck.”
 
Luca Pagano, Max Pescatori, Jeff Lisandro, Dario Alioto, and Marco Traniello are all successful Italian players who form a powerful nucleus of role models for their countrymen interested in playing poker for real money. 

PokerStars market research estimates that during this first year of online poker being legalized in the country, up to 500,000 new player accounts will be opened throughout the Italian online poker industry, creating an estimated €400 million market.

New North American Poker Champ Crowned

Retired Real Estate Man Is the New North American Poker Champ
67-year-old outlasts a field of 454 entrants

October 20, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — A 67-year-old retired real estate broker took home the honors and a $1.2 million main prize at the Fallsview Casino at Niagara Falls this week when he won the North American Poker Championship.
 
Glen Witmer survived a field of 454 entrants, which was whittled away over seven tough days, competing in only his second major buy-in poker tournament. Witmer and fellow amateur player Jim Trenholm (41) of Toronto were the only two amateur players to make it to the final table, where they faced four experienced professionals across the felt.
 
Unfortunately, Trenholm — a firefighter by profession — didn’t last long and was the first of the final table eliminations. He was followed by Ottawa poker pro Marc Karam, who headed for the rail in fifth place and a paycheck of $171,175. Next to go was another Canadian professional and Internet player, Ryan Fisler, who pocketed $228,234 for his fourth placing.
 
Respected U.S. player Kathy Leibert headed for the exit in third place with a $277,684 paycheck, clearing the way for the heads up between Witmer and the high-profile tournament pro Gavin Smith, who lives in Las Vegas.
 
In the final denouement, the players went all-in with Smith holding a pair of pocket fives to Witmer’s ace-king. The cards fell Smith’s way, until an ace on the river sent Smith home with $532,545 and gave the championship and the huge payday to Witmer.
 
It was an outstanding return for very little investment by the ex-real estate broker — he satellited into the event for just $170, and did considerably better than his showing last year when he was eliminated just six hours into the tournament.
 
Asked about his plans for the poker bonanza, Witmer revealed that he had celebrated his 47th wedding anniversary during the championship and would be taking his wife on an extended vacation with his winnings.

Party Poker Experiencing Big Increases in Traffic

Looks like the new software upgrades that Party Poker recently put into place has been paying big dividends. In September traffic to PartyPoker rose 3% and even more impressive, so far in October traffic to Party Poker has jumped 21%!

As discussed in an earlier blog post, the changes to Party Poker included:

• easier to find a table with their new-look Lobby views
• Quick Search feature
• all-new Quick Seat feature
• improved multi-tabling with ability to open new tables directly from the one you’re playing at
• improved tiling and cascading features
• added an alert system that lets you know when you’re holding a big hand or a big pot is up for grabs
• increased sign up bonus to 100% up to $500

No doubt, all of these great upgrades and more have really given a nice boost to Party Poker.

Bodog Loses Domain Confiscation Appeal (Update)

Bodog Loses Domain Confiscation Appeal (Update)
U.S. default judgment is now a massive $50 million

October 9, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — The acrimonious patents dispute between 1st Technology LLC and the online gambling group Bodog has entered a new phase following the failure of a Bodog appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week.
 
The matter has its roots in a patents infringement claim launched in June 2007 in a Nevada court by 1st Technology, which Bodog failed to attend amid arguments regarding the proper service of process. In the case, 1st Tech obtained a default judgement for $46,597,849 and the confiscation of Bodog domains, which forced a rebranding exercise. A subsequent case in Washington State likewise did not go well for the online gambling group.
 
Bodog apparently appealed the hefty default judgment in an effort to overturn the District Court of Nevada judge’s ruling, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has now supported the lower court’s ruling.
 
The amount due to 1st Technology from Bodog now exceeds $50 million, says 1st Tech CEO Dr. Scott Lewis.
 
“We cannot be more pleased,” Lewis says of the failure of the appeal. “Bodog has consistently tried to circumvent the United States justice system, and disregarded the legitimacy of our claims against it. We now have the certainty we need to accelerate our seizure of any and all global assets to satisfy the judgment, and bring fairness and respect back to Bodog’s commercial dealings.”
 
Flachsbart & Greenspoon LLC, a Chicago law firm, won the appeal for 1st Technology in Appeal No. 2008-1132.
 
The failure of Bodog’s appeal follows a victory for 1st Tech in the District of Western Washington last week, where a court granted significant parts of a preliminary injunction to halt any transactions or transfers of Bodog’s trademarks.
 
The co-pending lawsuit in Washington seeks (among other claims) to undo conveyances among defendants Bodog Entertainment Group S.A., Bodog IP Holdings Ltd., and GK World Link Telecom S.A. Both Flachsbart & Greenspoon and Venkat Balasubramani represent 1st Technology in Case No. 08-CV-872 in the Western District of Washington.

State of Kentucky attempts to seize online gambling domains

The State of Kentucky recently attempted to sieze 141 online gambling domains. Their intent is to shut down these gambling sites. The domains that they are attempting to seize are some of the biggest online poker rooms and casinos in the industry including such giants as Poker Stars and Absolute Poker.

This is an interesting development that bears watching. While many of us who gamble online may say that Kentucky will not be successful, the truth is, once the case is in the courts their is no telling what might happen.

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