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Big Weekend Guarantees on Tap at Global Poker
Big Weekend Guarantees on Tap at Global Poker November 17, 2018 Valerie Cross With the cold of winter setting in across the U.S., it's the perfect time to settle in by the fireplace and spark up some Global Poker tournaments on the computer over the weekend. There's plenty of deepstack action over the weekend, and the two biggest guarantees of the week take place on Sunday.
The Bernard Lee Poker Show 11-10: 2018 WSOPE Champ, Jack Sinclair
0:00 Welcome to The Bernard Lee Poker Show as Bernard Lee announces that he hs a two-part exclusive interview with the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event champion, Jack Sinclair. 1:52 Bernard discusses the latest WSOP Circuit Main Event, held at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. Scott Sanders outlasted a field of 442 entries to capture the Main Event title and $147,314. 3:51 RunGood Gear Ad 4:33 Bernard introduces Jack Sinclair, the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event champion. 5:19 Jack Sinclair joins the show.
PokerStars Launches High-Roller Club Online Tournament Schedule
PokerStars has revamped its high stakes poker tournament offering with the creation of what it is billing as the High-Roller Club, leading up to the 2019 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) to take place in the Bahamas in just over two months. Buy-ins for the new High-Roller Club start at $530 and increase up to $2,100, so are certain to attract the attention of online poker’s elite grinders who are looking to end 2018 with a bang and a massive boost to their bankroll.
Sunday Briefing: Nemeth and Astedt Win Two Sunday Majors
Hungarian superstars Andras “probirs” Nemeth (lead photo) triumphed in not one but two Sunday majors on Nov. 4, taking down high roller events held online at partpoker and PokerStars for a combined score of almost $105,000! Nemeth now has online winnings in excess of $9.2 million as a result. Not to be outshone, Niklas Astedt also banked two victories, one at partypoker and the other across at 888poker! Let’s find out more.
Sunday Briefing: Double Victory for Romanovsky
Three players walked away with six-figure additions to their bankrolls on Sep. 30 after the PokerStars Sunday Million ended in a three-handed chop. Who walked away with the lion’s share of the prize pool? Let’s find out. A field of 5,779 took to the PokerStars virtual felt for this week’s edition of the $215 Sunday Million. They created a prize pool of $1,155,800 that was shared among the top 1,052 finishers, with a min-cash weighing in at $332 and $156,053 reserved for the champion.
A Royal Flush Draw That Doesn't Get There: Bluff River or Give Up?
This week I want to share an example of me looking back on a tournament hand where in retrospect I feel I might have played it differently — and if I had I might have won the hand rather than lost it. With a stack about 33 big blinds deep, I picked up in middle position and open-raised 2.67x to 800, and only the big blind called. The flop brought both good news and bad news, coming to give me an open-ended straight draw and flush draw — and a royal flush draw! — although the board was also paired.
WPT, partypoker Announce Four-Year Deal for Europe and Canada Events
The World Poker Tour and partypoker are back in lockstep, as the two industry titans will team up over the next four years to bring poker players great live events in Canada and Europe. The partnership will see up to seven events spread across the four-year span, with each sporting prize pools up to €3 million. "The World Poker Tour is proud to partner with partypoker LIVE on this new, four-year global initiative,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska in a press release.
Global Poker Player Spotlight: GP Players Represent in Las Vegas
Many online players like to take shots in live events around this time of year, and Global Poker’s players across the country are no exception. Several Global Poker regulars decided to visit Las Vegas recently to hop into some events both in the prestigious World Series of Poker and in other series in town, while others stayed away from the sweltering Vegas heat to fire GP events from the comfort of their homes.
Justin Bonomo on Pace to Surpass Fedor Holz’s Breakout Year
Two years ago, the poker world was abuzz about a German wunderkind named Fedor Holz, who racked up 24 cashes, 15 final table appearances, six titles, and $16,093,402 in winnings. It’s only halfway through 2018, and Justin Bonomo’s heater has him on pace to blow Holz's out of the water. Bonomo’s recent win in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $5 million brought his yearly stats up to 16 cashes for $13,907,138, 14 final tables, and six titles.
Win Your Way to MPN Poker Tour Sunny Beach From Only €0.55
The Platinum Casino at Wela Hotel Sunny Beach in beautiful Bulgaria is the venue for the 2018 MPN Poker Tour Sunny Beach festival and you could be heading there for as little as €0.55 thanks to RedKings Poker. MPN Poker Tour Sunny Beach takes place on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast from July 5-9 so expect the weather to be hot and perfect to lounge around on the sandy beach.
Las Vegas Poker Calendar: The Best Value Tournaments of 2018
Looking to play some poker this summer? There's no better place than Las Vegas as there are hundreds of poker tournaments to choose from. But, how do you make up your mind on which poker tournament to play? The majority of the tournament festivals have released their poker schedules. We published most of them right here on PokerNews with the 2018 World Series of Poker schedule as the most prominent one.
Polk, Holz, Tony G, and More Get 2018 Super High Roller Bowl Seats
The 2018 Super High Roller Bowl will attract many of the biggest names in poker with its lofty $300,000 rake-free buy-in and a prize pool expected to exceed $14 million with the winner expected to win an estimated $5 million. The fourth edition of the event at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas takes place on May 27-30 and is capped at 48 players.
Jonathan Little Plays a Draw Passively From Out of Position
Today's hand comes from a $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament, the Bellagio Cup, and finds me in a blind-versus-blind situation playing a draw passively from out of position. With the blinds 1,000/2,000 and a 300 ante, action folded around to me in the small blind where I had about 50,000 chips (25 big blinds) to start and had been dealt . I chose to limp, my loose-aggressive opponent who had me outchipped checked from the big blind, and the flop came .
Harris Smith Wins RunGood Tunica Main Event for $52,648
RunGood's second trip to Tunica was another rousing success and the weekend wrapped up with Harris Smith standing in the winner's circle. The Tennessee native overcame a tough field of 472 entrants to take home first-place in an ICM deal with Chris Conrad and Michael Pelt. Mostly an online player, Smith decided to enter the RunGood Main Event citing the would only need six hours to make it through Day 1. Smith indeed made it through and bagged 44,000 coming into Day 2.
Alex Hendriks Wins Inaugural MPN Poker Tour Bratislava Main Event for €27,000
The MPN Poker Tour’s first visit to Bratislava has come to an end, after a whirlwind four days combining deep-stacked tournament poker, turbo jackpot sit-and-go action with Fish Party, outings with the parallel-running Cash Game Festival, and side events to suit all palates at Banco Casino. Two tables returned for Day 3, with the consolidated chips of 329 players in the hands of just 13.
Sunday Briefing: WATnlos Adds High Roller Title to Sunday Million Win
“WATnlos” of Austria added the PokerStars Sunday High Roller title to their long list of online poker accomplishments, which include winning the Sunday Million. WATnlos was one of a 73 unique entrants field, with an additional 25 re-entries between them, in the Apr. 8 edition of the PokerStars Sunday High Roller. Only 13 of these 98 entrants were paid, so spare a thought for “TonyYayo5” who busted in 14th place to burst the bubble and did so after firing two $2,100 bullets.
Blockchain-Powered Virtue Poker Announces Token Sale
Virtue Poker, an online poker site powered by smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, announced on Tuesday the launch of a token sale beginning April 25, 2018 to coincide with an alpha release of the platform. Those who reside in the U.S. will be unable to participate in the token sale. At the forefront of innovative online gaming, Virtue Poker was incubated at global blockchain technology development studio ConsenSys.
Longtime Gambling Editor Explains Why F.O.L.M. Is Bad For Your Games
You want to play casino games but you don’t want to lose your money. If I had a cent for every time I have been told this by a player, I would be living in a mansion in Malibu by now. Do you know what is the one feeling all gamblers share: it’s the fear of losing money. It’s the fear of not having enough money to play until we win or until we recover our losses. I know this feeling very well. Do you know what I think about the F.O.L.M.?
CoinPoker Responds to Allegations of Poker Bots, Security Issues
CoinPoker, the cryptocurrency online poker room who's recent ICO was heavily promoted on PokerNews, appears to have an issue with bots who're exploiting a leaderboard race, according to industry insider Alex Weldon. On March 20, CoinPoker released a statement regarding the situation on their Medium.com blog.
Throwback Thursday: Bryn Kenney Aims for GPI #1 Ranking
Bryn Kenney continues to be an unstoppable force in the poker community. Last Thursday, Kenney took home the GPI American Player of the Year award at the American Poker Awards. The award was presented to Kenney for scoring the most Global Poker Index (GPI) points among American players from January 1 to December 31, 2017. In this week's Throwback Thursday, Remko Rinkema catches Kenney on Day 1 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2015 High Roller.
Dominik Nitsche Analyzes Heads-Up River Value Bet From WSOPE One Drop
888Poker Ambassador Dominik Nitsche is on a nice roll of late, especially in the Czech Republic where over recent months he's made multiple final tables and earned a couple of titles. Highlighting the run was Nitsche's victory last November in the €111,111 buy-in 2018 World Series of Poker Europe High Roller for One Drop in Rozvadov. Nitsche topped a 132-entry field to win €3,487,463 and his fourth career WSOP bracelet.
KO Series Running Now at partypoker with $10 Million in Guaranteed Prizes
The inaugural KO Series has just begun at partypoker with 164 action-packed tournaments and $10 million in guaranteed prize pools from Feb. 25 to March 4. As the title of the poker festival suggests, all of the tournaments feature a progressive knockout format. This means every time a player eliminates an opponent, they collect a bounty while their own personal bounty also increases.
Sunday Briefing: Graftekkel Wins PokerStars Sunday High Roller
Jans “Grafftekkel” Arends of the Netherlands added the $2,100 Sunday High Roller title to his already impressive list of poker-related accomplishments after he topped a star-studded field of 173 entries in what is one of online poker’s toughest tournaments. The $2,100 Sunday High Roller attracts some of the best poker players in the world to the PokerStars tables every week and Feb. 25 was no different.
Unibet Open Kicks Off Season 11 in London This Week
Get ready for the 11th season of the Unibet Open, which returns to London for the third year in a row for the kickoff. The Poker Room at Grosvenor Victoria Casino, better known as the fabled "The Vic", will once again set the stage for five days of poker action. The first festival of 2018 caters to pros and recreational players alike with a diverse schedule. The four-day £990 Main Event kicks off on Thu., Feb. 22.
Win a Share of €45,000 in Cash Prizes in the bet365 Premium Steptacular
The bet365 Premier Steptacular runs until Feb. 25 and guarantees that at least €45,000 will be distributed to bet365 players during the promotion. Every bet365 player is automatically opted into each weekly mission, but they must press the Start button before each daily mission. A weekly mission comprises of any three daily missions and all rewards are credited instantly upon their completion.
Club Poker Still Under Scrutiny in Texas
The flagship poker game the world over may have gotten its start in Texas — supposedly in Robstown but nobody can really be sure — but the state hasn't been known to be exactly friendly toward players of Texas hold'em, or indeed any other sort of poker. Gambling has been illegal for years in Texas, last in the open decades ago in Galveston.
Mike Gorodinsky Wins US Poker Open Pot-Limit Omaha Title
At the 2018 US Poker Open #02 - Pot-Limit Omaha final table, Mike Gorodinsky put on a performance for the ages. Gorodinsky eliminated all five of his opponents as he steamrolled his way to the title and a top prize of $179,200. "You feel pretty good about having a mountain of chips," Gorodinsky said after the match.
Groundhog Day! Reliving Newhouse, Moore, and Le's Déjà Vus
Is this still a thing? The fact that Sky Cinema in the UK has the 1993 classic on repeat all day, proves to us that it is. If you have ever seen the film Groundhog Day, you have heard the catchphrase over and over again, "It's Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray starring as weatherman Phil Connors living the same day over and over again.
Playing Ace-King Versus a Three-Bet
DECISION POINT: In a $2/$5 no-limit hold'em cash game, the under-the-gun player raises and gets four callers, then the player on the button reraises. You are in the small blind with . PRO ANSWER: Ace-king is generally an extremely strong hand. By default we can play aggressively preflop with ace-king because we are rarely behind an opponent's range. Also, if we create fold equity by playing aggressively, we can add extra value to the hand. However, let's look closer at this situation.
Figure Out Whether Negreanu and De Melo are Bluffing Or Not, Win $31,000
Figuring out if someone is bluffing or not, is an integral part of the game of poker. Usually, you try to determine if someone's bluffing or value betting by studying their betting patterns, see how comfortable they look at the table, and search for Oreo cookie tells. But, for the new PokerStars promotion 'Truth or Bluff,' you'll have to do with just a couple of seconds of speech and some facial tells. Fortunately, entering is free, so even if you have no idea, it's not going to cost you much.
888poker XL Blizzard: Jans 'Graftekkel' Arends Denied Second Title
On the eighth day of the XL Blizzard Series on 888poker, players enjoyed a nice day of poker. In total, three tournaments started with the XL Blizzard #22 - $80,000 Quarterback as the highlight of the day. The $55 buy-in Mini edition and a $215 buy-in Late edition started as well. Let's take a look at the results. At 20:00 GMT, the $80,000 Quarterback started with players receiving a starting stack of 10,000 for a $215 buy-in.
888poker XL Blizzard: Bernardo "bsdias" Dias Misses Out On 8-Max Title
On the sixth day of the 888poker XL Blizzard Series, three new tournaments were on the schedule. Most money was up for grabs in the $40,000 8-Max, where the winner could take home a five-figure score. At 8 p.m. GMT, the XL Blizzard #19 - $40,000 8-Max started with each player receiving a massive 15,000 starting stack. After the late registration closed, there were 619 players.
Throwback Thursday: Andy Frankenberger Defeats Phil Ivey Heads Up
Andy Frankenberger is a two time World Series Of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour Season 9 Player of the Year. This week, Frankenberger came this close to his second World Poker Tour title and a $511,604 first place prize. Frankenberger walked away with a 3rd place finish at the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
The 2018 Playground Winter Festival is Underway
The action is heating up in the 2018 Edition of the Playground Winter Festival, on now at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, just outside of Montreal. With 17 events over 18 days, this year’s festival is certain to warm things up with a total of over $1,000,000 in prize pool Guarantees between January 14th and 31st. The kickoff event - a $135 + $25 NL Hold’em Next-Day Re-entry event - is on now and boasts an impressive $100,000 Guarantee.
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