Tom McEvoy wins WSOP Champions Invitational
June 2, 2009
Team PokerStars member Tom McEvoy managed to outlast 19 other WSOP Main Event champions in the 2009 WSOP Champions Invitational and is now truly the Champion of the Champions. At the final table he had to battle it out against other previous Main Event Champs such as Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Peter Eastgate and Amarillo Slim.
Before this event started we announced that it was likely that Russ Hamilton would participate even though he currently has a whole poker nation against him. At the start of the tournament Mr. Hamilton was nowhere to be found. If that means he is guilty to the charges or not we do not want to speculate in.
In the final heads-up match McEvoy was facing the 2002 Main Event Champion Robert Varkonyi. This heads-up match only lasted for about 30 minutes before McEvoy managed to take the last few chips from Varkonyi.
Since this tournament was a freeroll there was no cash prize to be collected but McEvoy did get a restored 1973 Chevrolet for his efforts. And obviously he gets the bragging rights that comes with beating 19 other Main Event Champions.
Russ Hamilton Might Be Coming to the World Series of Poker
June 2, 2009
The latest addition to the 2009 World Series of Poker event “Table of Champions” is Russ Hamilton, the one time World Series of Poker champion.
Hamilton was reportedly involved in a highly publicized online poker cheating scandal which he also tries to avoid mentioning. Recently, some angry poker players had reported him to the IRS. As recommended by his lawyer of trust, Hamilton refuses to discuss the allegations made against him.
According to Poker legend Doyle Brunson, this grapevine talk will not stop Hamilton from showing up at the WSOP. He comments, “Russ Hamilton is caught between a rock and a hard place. Russ is accused of being the mastermind behind the cheating scandal at UB. The evidence looks like Russ is guilty but I’ve learned to wait for the verdict to be handed down. If Russ shows up, he is going to take lots of abuse from angry poker players, and if he doesn’t show, every will say, “See there, he is admitting he is guilty.” My guess is he will be there.”
The poker pro is reportedly going to take part in this event, making him one of the two controversial participants set to take part in that event. The other interesting and poker big is Amarillo Slim. The last we heard of Amarillo was when he was accused of having engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor / child molestation but Preston always denied this.
Both Amarillo and Hamilton are set to centre of attention and will draw plenty of scrutiny, especially on Slim due to his media news.
Harrah’s online gambling update
June 1, 2009
The biggest gambling group within the States, Harrah’s Entertainment has just set up a new internal division within their firm, named Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment. According to this week’s reports issued in the Montreal Gazette, this division was set with the goal of holding their upcoming online gambling enterprises with its headquarters will be outside the United States in Montreal.
Harrah’s newly appointed CEO is the former PartyGaming head Mitch Garber, originally from the Quebec province city in Canada. In an interview he told the named Gazette that positioning Harrah’s latest business in Montreal, outside the USA will give them a greater move of flexibility and freedom. It will gear them up to face the international businesses and marketing fronts. At the moment it is said that 10 employees are already working to set up the needed infrastructure for the new operational centre.
Harrah’s will also work on an interactive division project to include the government licensed operations in the UK market and the online lottery through the state and national governments around the world. This is an area that Garber himself is very familiar with due to his days at PartyGaming.
Garber’s futuristic plan is to see Harrah’s further develop their existing and strong World Series of Poker brand. “There is a hunger for World Series of Poker events, like PGA Golf, with events taking place everywhere, whether it is Moscow, Montreal or Rome. Our intent is to deal with government and licensing authorities in every jurisdiction to grow the World Series of Poker” were quotes from his latest statement.
World Series of Poker free Streaming by PKR.com
June 1, 2009
As many poker enthusiasts already know, the PKR online poker website will be the sole exclusive online broadcaster for this year’s World Series of Poker.
Poker fans will be able to watch all the live final table action straight up from the 24 bracelet events currently held in Las Vegas, Nevada. These24 events which are scheduled for broadcasting will include the final tables from the $50K HORSE Championship as well as the other five $10K World Championship events. Everything is geared up for Poker’s annual amazing event!
Ziigmund takes down huge pot against Durrrr
June 1, 2009
Over the last couple of weeks it has been Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies that have been the biggest attraction to watch at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. The two players have been playing a lot against eachother lately and they have been playing some really huge pots. They have mainly been playing at the Pot Limit Omaha tables which is where the biggest pots are usually played out. They are obviously playing at the highest possible stakes which is $500/$1000 but sometimes these blinds are too small for these players so they added a new stipulation which was a non optinal three bet pre flop which means the blinds end up being $3000/$9000. This new way of playing have obviously contributed towards the huge pots that they have played lately.
A couple of days ago when they were playing with this exact stipulations “Ziigmund” managed to take down a huge pot of $702.000. This pot is the second largest pot ever played at any online poker room. The only pot that is bigger is the $723.938 pot that was won by Urindanger when he played against durrrr.
Hopefully for durrrr he will soon be on the other side of these huge pots, it can’t feel very good to have lost the 2 biggest pots ever played in online poker history.
Mike Matusow Auto-biography released
June 1, 2009
Mike Matusow is probably one of the best poker players in the world when he is playing his best, but too many times he is having his “Matusow Meltdowns” which have made him famous. Matusow has now written an auto-biography in which he tells his life story called “Check-Raising the Devil“. This book will surely make for some interesting reading.
Mike holds 3 WSOP bracelets and throughout his career he have won over $7 Million in poker tournaments.
He starts the book by telling the readers; “I suppose that if things were only a little bit different, I wouldn’t be writing this book”.
Even though Mike has been very successful at the poker tables his life has been all but great at the side of the poker life. His drug abuse almost took the best of him at one point and later on he went on to get addicted to online poker where he has been losing millions of dollars on the cash game tables. In this book you will learn all about Mike’s deepest secrets as he tells it all as it is.
If you want to learn more about Mike we recommend reading our Mike Matusow biography.
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