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Lee Davy wants to help others kick addiction: The Long Con
Long-time readers of Calvinayre.com will be familiar with Lee Davy, who wrote for the site for years, providing great coverage of the Poker world. He’s come back to speak with our Becky Liggero Fontana on this week’s episode of The Long Con about his new project, 1000 Days Sober, and how everyone can live a better life by embracing sobriety. Davy talks about his introduction to addiction through smoking, and how he gradually developed a drinking problem too.
What are the Best Poker Books in History?
Download How to Play Deposit & Cashout Special Offers Tournaments eMagazine 2 Super/System: A Course in Power Poker Doyle Brunson 3 Every Hand Revealed Gus Hansen 4 The Mathematics of Poker Bill Chen & Jerrod Ankenman 5 The Mental Game of Poker Jared Tendler & Barry Carter 6 The Theory of Poker David Sklansky 7 Let There Be Range! Cole South & Tri Nguyen 8 Power Hold'em Strategy Daniel Negreanu 9 Super/System: A Course in Power Poker II Doyle Brunson 10 Applications Of No-Limit Hold’em...
5 Ideas for Poker Collectibles Gifts
In my former life, I worked in the rail industry, and one year I was holed up in a derelict office where I led a small project team. One of the members was named Andy, and he made a nice side living selling railway memorabilia (or crap as I preferred to call it) on eBay. I had an old Trainload Coal tie pin, and he wanted to buy it off me. It had been given to me when I joined as a sweet 16-year old. Other than holding my tie in place it had about as much use to me as rescinded currency.
Dave Lappin talks Season 10 of the Chip Race, wanky speeches, and more
Unibet Ambassador, Dave Lappin, talks to CalvinAyre about the forthcoming 10th Season of The Chip Race, wanky speeches, and more. In draft one, I wrote a lengthy introduction on Mickey Mouse treating Oswald the Lucky Rabbit like a vivisected frog as he road Steamboat Willie into a horizon reserved for icons. I likened the award-winning Chip Race podcast to Mickey Mouse and the also-rans to the role of Oswald. What an own goal that would have been.
Rainer Kempe on his ambassadorial role with GreySnowPoker
Lee Davy sits down with Rainer Kempe to talk about his ambassadorial role with GreySnowPoker. Spot the odd one out. Option #1: Fish and chips. Option #2: Chicken and mint sauce. Option #3: Rainer Kempe and GreySnowPoker. [Image credit: WPT flickr] When Rainer Kempe signed to be the first ambassador of GreySnowPoker (GSP), it seemed odder than Oliver Twist becoming one of Fagin’s pickpockets.
“The Chase For Platinum Starts Now” PokerStars announces PSPC Barcelona
PokerStars has announced a second PokerStars Poker Players’ Championship with Barcelona the newest site for the €22,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event. Egyptians built the great pyramids in Giza between 2550-2490 B.C. How they made them remains a mystery. On the one hand, you can think that machineless people created them in an incredible feat of human ingenuity.
EPT Barcelona: Markku Koplimaa wins record-breaking EPT National
The European Poker Tour in Barcelona starts like a Kipling’s cake with Markku Koplimaa winning a record-breaking National. The European Poker Tournament (EPT) stop in Barcelona has begun like an Amazon rainforest on fire. Two years ago, Pedro Cairat topped a 4,557-entrant field in the €1,100 EPT National Barcelona. That was a record. That was then. This is now.
GGPoker prepares to launch ‘Smart Betting’; sick ambassadorial hierarchy
The GGPoker Network prepares to launch ‘Smart Betting; an automated betting system for mobile, and we take a look at the burgeoning network’s ambassadorial hierarchy. The GGPoker Network continues to gouge at the eyes of its competitors with another technological innovation waking from its deep slumber. A few flip-flop footsteps ago, Jean-Christophe Antoine and his team announced the contemporary ‘Early Bird Bubble Protection’ to their masses.
GGPoker go from a draft to a hurricane with the $50m GTD GG Series 3
GGPoker is pulling out all the stops with a $50m Guaranteed Good Game Series 3 schedule to run in parallel with PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker. Imagine you’re the wind. Not a big wind, but a little wind that lives in say, Walsall. After reading some self-help books, you decide to set a goal – not a common goal, but a stretch goal. A stretch goal has to challenge the pants off you, while at the same time being attainable. If you’re the Walsall wind, you might choose to become a gale.
2019 WCOOP set to be a record-breaker with $75m GTD, UFC events and more
PokerStars release the finer details of the 2019 World Championship of Online Poker, and it promises to be another record-breaker with $75m in guaranteed prize money, UFC branded events, and more. It’s not only Earth, Wind and Fire that love the month of September. PokerStars has a penchant for the ninth month of the year. Between September 5 and 25, the world’s largest online poker room plans to host the most magnificent World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) in the tour’s 17-year history.
Champions League review: Ajax inch closer to group stages after Cyprus draw
Last year’s surprise package, Ajax, move closer to the UEFA Champions League group stages after a goalless draw in their first leg qualifying round match against APOEL Nicosia. We will remember the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League for many things, one of which will be the incredible run of Ajax. The Dutch Eredivisie Champions reached the semi-finals and were 3-0 up with 35-minutes remaining until Lucas Moura scored an incredible hat-trick to send the boys from Amsterdam into full-on Bambi mode.
Jordan ‘JWPRODIGY’ Westmorland wins the Melbourne Championships
Online crackerjack, Jordan ‘JWPRODIGY’ Westmorland, takes down the Melbourne Championships at the Crown Casino, beating Michael Egan, heads-up. When Jordan Westmorland goes to war, he does so from a cockpit designed to take out the most talented online poker players on this psycho planet of ours. Not this week. This week, ‘JWPRODIGY’, grabbed his I.D and headed to the Crown Casino in Melbourne to dabble in a spot of live poker. It worked out rather nicely.
EPL wk2 review: Lampard still winless; the Blades still undefeated
Another round-up from Week 2 of the English Premier League with Leicester City taking a point at a vibrant Stamford Bridge and Sheffield United continue their unbeaten run with a win at home to Crystal Palace. Frank Lampard played for Chelsea 429 times, scoring 147 goals. The fans, who call him a legend, shower him with adoration, and he will need that love if he is to create symmetry in his managerial career.
Virtual Rail: 888Poker prepare for XL Eclipse; Canadians win big on GGPoker
A round-up of news from the online realm with 888Poker outlining their plans for their next XL Eclipse and Canadians bring home more than bacon with a successful weekend in the GGPoker high rollers. The year began with a spectacular lunar eclipse, and it will end with an equally stunning solar eclipse. Unfortunately, amateur astrologers will have to be in Australia or specific parts of Asia to witness the phenomenon.
Players boycott Adda52 Sunday majors over outdated TDS policy
A group of 3.7k strong poker players in India have successfully boycotted Adda52’s Sunday majors in a show of discontent over outdated taxation policies. Growing up in a household where the only interest in the budget was how much the Chancellor of the Exchequer would raise the price on cigarettes and alcohol, tax policy in India is an unfamiliar topic. In the summer, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitheraman delivered her first budget since taking power.
Orpen Kisacikoglu wins the €100k Triton High Roller at MILLIONS Europe
Turkey’s All-Time Money leader, Orpen Kisacikoglu, has won his first-ever seven-figure score after taking down the €100,000 Triton High Roller at the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Europe. Berlin, Germany. The year is 2011, and Orpen Kisacikoglu finishes eighth in a 248-entrant €2k No-Limit Hold’em event during the European Poker Tour (EPT). It would take Kisacikoglu another six years before he finally won a live tournament, taking down a 28-entrant $10k event at the PokerStars Championship in Panama.
Cashwell does precisely that after winning the WSOPC Main Event in Cherokee
Billy Cashwell wins the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in Harrah’s Cherokee, and with it, a seat in the 2019/20 Global Casino Championships. Goiânia is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. In 2013, the retired police chief of Goiânia, died after cancer had metastasised throughout his body. The police chief’s name was Hitler Mussolini de Moura Pacheco.
EPL w1 review: United hammer Chelsea; Arsenal beat Newcastle
The first weekend of the English Premier League ends with Manchester United giving Frank Lampard a headache, and Arsenal turning over Newcastle at St James’ Park. The last time Manchester United and Chelsea were 30/1 shots for the title, cave dwellers were still battling Sabre Tooth Tigers for a hind of Mammoth. It’s for this reason (and the utter supremacy of Manchester City & Liverpool) that United fans won’t get carried away despite the 4-0 spanking handed out on Sunday afternoon.
Jason Mercier takes time out from fatherhood to win a $50k in Florida
Jason Mercier takes a break from reading baby books, jumps into a $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, and wins it. The sun yawns in the sky as the best tournament and cash game players in the world tumble out of the Les Ambassadeurs Casino, saying goodnight to the bouncers on the door. The iconic gambling den was the venue for the Beatles film ‘A Hard Days Night,’ and judging by the bleary-eyes, some of them have had one.
Ryan Eriquezzo wins his second WSOPC Global Casino Championships
Ryan Eriquezzo wins his second World Series of Poker Circuit Global Casino Championships, beating a final table containing Eric Salazar, Joshua Turner and Maurice Hawkins. The snake tracks leading to the home of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet are challenging to see if you don’t understand the terrain. When it comes to the contours of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC), few are as familiar with it as Ryan Eriquezzo.
Triton Million London: Railing Bryn Kenney with his mum
Lee Davy shares his experience of railing Bryn Kenney with Bryn’s Mum during the Triton Million London. “I’m not sure about that one,” says my son as the whorls of an oily finger murk Bryn Kenney’s head as it sits amongst the other noise on my desktop. “He’s a top boy, you’ll love him if you got to know him,” I tell him.
EPL week 1 review: Liverpool & Spurs welcome new boys; Chelsea travel to Utd
A lookahead at the opening weekend of the English Premier League with Liverpool and Spurs entertaining Norwich and Aston Villa, and new boys Chelsea facing a formidable challenge at Old Trafford. Pandora’s Box has the words ‘English Premier League (EPL) tattooed on the side, and on Friday night, Liverpool and Norwich City are going to open the lid.
Hamish Crawshaw wins The Star Sydney Championships Main Event
Hamish Crawshaw eliminates the final four-players to win the AUD 3,000 Star Sydney Championships Main Event, banking a career-high $244,348 in the process. Inside the bog-standard hairdryer, you’ll find a heating element made from nichrome wire. The wire acts as a resistor, creating heat energy from the electric power flying in from the plug socket coupled with the air that circulates from the room, and hey presto, a heater.
Poker’s Richard ‘nutsinho’ Lyndaker dies aged 33
The former online legend, Richard ‘nutsinho’ Lyndaker, has died of an alleged accidental overdose at a San Diego apartment according to reports on 2+2. Richard ‘nutsinho’ Lyndaker has died in his San Diego apartment. He was 33-years of age. Someone posting as a ‘close friend’ of Lyndaker, wrote on 2+2 that Lyndaker had died sometime between Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30. The cause of death is alleged to have been an accidental overdose.
Triton Million London: Zang takes Million title; Kenney breaking records
A round-up of the final table of the Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity, including an unlikely victory for Aaron Zang, and Bryn Kenney breaks a hoard of records. There’s a thought that it’s never been more challenging for the human mind to deal with the problem of ‘perfection.’ A two-minute scroll through Instagram while going through your morning routine is enough to make anybody feel inadequate.
Natural8 create Bird Bubble system; Soyza makes Triton Million cast
GGPoker Network’s prize asset, Natural8, is offering a new ‘Bubble Protection’ system for players who take their seats early, and Natural8 ambassador, Michael Soyza, gets a seat in the Triton Million. We all live in a bubble, but there is one bubble none of us wants to live in. I am, of course, talking about poker’s dreaded money bubble. You know the score.
PokerStars implement ‘All-In Cash Out’ feature on .NET play money site
PokerStars has rolled out a new feature called ‘All-In Cash Out’ and this article tells you all about it. PokerStars continues to show courage and bravery after rolling out another change, this time on their .NET play money site. As first reported on Pokerfuse, PokerStars has created a feature called ‘All-In Cash Out,’ so let’s see what all the fuss is about. The new feature allows players to choose to cash out their equity when all in after the flop, minus a 1% administration fee taken by Stars.
Rafael ‘TheBigKid' Moraes wins a Milly in America’s Cardroom’s $5m GTD 'Venom'
America’s Cardroom breaks new ground with a highly successful $5m GTD Venom event. The Mini Online Super Series ends with a bang, the Online Super Series begins well, and the Bigger Online Super Series is yet to come. Venom might have been a terrible movie, but we can’t say the same of the online poker series carrying the same name. The $5m GTD Venom was America’s Cardroom’s (ACR) biggest event to date, and the players didn’t let them down with 2,553-entrants creating a $6,382,500 prize pool.
WPT expand in Asia with NagaWorld partnership and WPT Cambodia
The World Poker Tour will expand their reach in Asia after partnering with NagaWorld Resorts, with the first fruits of that relationship blooming into WPT Cambodia. Mancunians have a saying ‘Mad Fer It.’ It’s a slang term created in the 90s during the Britpop era to represent someone who loved a particular band. In Asia, Britpop was a big thing. When Liam Gallagher recently did some solo gigs in the region, there was uproar: screaming, crying, people begging for him to sign their bums and boobies.
Champions League news: Gillette sign deal; Pochettino’s reaction to loss
Champions League news including a new sponsorship deal with Gillette, and Mauricio Pochettino sharing the impact of last year’s defeat. UEFA has reacted to their blunt Champions League final by signing a sponsorship deal with a company that creates razors. Gillette signed a five-year global licensing deal that ends after the 2023/24 season.
3 Barrels: Triton Poker at MILLIONS Europe; Ensan party; POWERFEST begins
3: Barrels with a hint of partypoker including Triton branded high rollers at MILLIONS Europe, a celebration party for Hossein Ensan, and POWERFEST begins. Building a brand is as arduous as a lumberjack chopping through a sequoia. You can diminish the effort through collaboration, an understanding that sticks to partypoker and Triton Poker like the sticky toffee covering your fairground apple.
Poker loses one of the best as ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson passes away
Poker loses a star as ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson passes away after a long battle with cancer. Google ‘Marty Wilson’ and ‘Poker’, a synopsis from his Wikipedia page, screams to life. ‘Nickname: Mad.’ Assuming Wilson didn’t earn his nickname after spending time in Wolverhampton Insane Asylum, consider that he received it for being a cracking laugh. On Friday night, ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson, lost his six-month battle against cancer. His wife Katherine was with him when he died.
Kevin “Racks” Roster succumbs to sarcoma after incredible WSOP experience
Kevin ‘Racks’ Roster, who stole the hearts of the poker community during his incredible run at the 50th World Series of Poker despite only having a mere few weeks to live, passes away in California. If you knew that every day was your last, how would you spend it? It’s a question that we may answer if during a deep and meaningful conversation with your ‘significant other’, but one that few have to contemplate in actuality at the age of 36.
Marc Goschel wins WPTDeepStacks Germany; Sasa Lalos wins High Roller
The World Poker Tour DeepStacks Main Event in Germany created a final table of six different nationalities, with the German, Marc Goschel coming out on top. The World Poker Tour (WPT) put on two shows this week. The WPT Gardens Poker Festival in Los Angeles, and WPTDeepStacks Germany in the King’s Resort, Rozvadov. The Gardens Poker Festival is drawing to a close. WPTDeepStacks is nothing but a memory, so that’s where we will focus our attention for the next five minutes.
A record prize pool for Dota 2’s International; Luckbox expands, GTA V casino
Three stories from the world of video gaming and esports including a world-record Dota 2: The International prize pool, eight new games for fans of Luckbox, and Rockstar build a casino for Grand Theft Auto V. During the height of its power, the sun generates an average of 100,000 lux. When the sun is feeling ‘average,’ it spouts out 10,000 lux. Most artificial light sources range between 100 – 500 lux. If you’re ever in my nephew’s bedroom, you’re lucky if you get 50 lux.
Phil Ivey and the baccarat blues: has poker lost an icon?
After Flushdraw’s Haley Hintze points out that the Borgata’s legal team were waiting to pinch Phil Ivey’s World Series of Poker winnings we eulogise over an icon now almost certainly lost to our industry. In 1991, a Challenger tank controlled by the good guys destroyed an Iraqi tank after firing an armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarded-sabot round from 2.9 miles away. The Challenger has a deadly accurate 120mm gun and Chobham armour that makes Iron Man’s feel like glass.
Rob Yong wants real names in cash games, 67% agree; trial in August
partypoker plan to trial the use of real names in online high stakes cash games after 67% of people polled on Twitter agreed to the concept. We’re taught from a young age to never talk to strangers. We sit down with our children and test them.
WSOP review: four final thoughts: Strebkov, Negreanu, security and ME success
CalvinAyre.com’s coverage of the 50th Anniversary World Series of Poker ends with four thoughts including Denis Strebkov traversing from online to live glory, a mixed series for Daniel Negreanu, security flaws, and a fantastic Main Event. Fifty years ago, our species veered from the path of least resistance, lost the slippers, donned some big arsed boots and climbed into a rocket heading for the Moon.
MuchBetter, Stars utilise the home game platform for EPT & Lex Live qualifiers
PokerStars and the online payment processor, MuchBetter, intend to use PokerStars’ home game platform and Twitch stars to send online qualifiers to European Poker Tour Barcelona and Lex Live. The last thing you expect when two companies join forces in a sponsorship deal in the world of poker is for them to do more than slap the brand somewhere on the tin. Poker’s paragon and MuchBetter are taking off from a different airfield.
Poker Central brings Super High Roller Bowl and British Poker Open to London
Poker Central has secured deals with Aspers Casino, Stratford and partypoker, to showcase the first-ever Super High Roller Bowl London and the British Poker Open. It’s all kicking off in London. The price of a detached house has dropped by £50,000, 50 water fountains have been installed throughout the capital to reduce the amount of plastic, and Poker Central are bringing their unique high-class style of poker to town.
Poker Hall of Fame 2019: Chris Moneymaker & David Oppenheim are in
Chris Moneymaker and David Oppenheim join the likes of Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey in the Poker Hall of Fame. Garry Gates’ run in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event turns on your mind’s porch light. It takes a shotgun to your beliefs and a machete to your limitations. You can hurtle down the street, window rolled down, shouting—anything is possible.
Patrik Antonius loses $500,000 in Vegas, shares rare emotional insight
After losing $500,000 playing high stakes cash games in Bellagio’s Bobby’s Room, Patrik Antonius shares a rare insight into his emotional state in an Instagram video. ‘Muggles.’ [Image credit: Wikimedia Commons] J.K. Rowling created the word to describe the mere mortals blissfully unaware that a Wizarding World exists hidden behind a magical portal in King’s Cross Station.
WSOP review: Ensan finds ‘cards, luck and good run’ to win Main Event
Hossein Ensan wins the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event, after a final day that saw all three of the finalists each hold the chip lead at various points. Luck is the reason the bullet lodges between your ribs, never piercing your heart. Luck is the reason you dodge crappy noodles on Ramen Street. Luck is the reason your baby is born with two arms. Luck is the reason you get the promotion. Luck is the reason the world doesn’t call you names.
WSOP review: Ensan commands Main Event final table; Gates & Sammartino involved
The $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event reaches the final scene with European Poker Tour Main Event winner, Hossein Ensan, in charge, and the likes of Garry Gates, Dario Sammartino and Milos Skrbic playing catch-up. The final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,00 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event is the equivalent of extra time in the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic 100m sprint, or the final few fences in the Aintree Grand National (if one of those horses has your name on it).
3 Barrels: EPT Prague confirmed; MicroMillions begins; Boeree science series
3: Barrels from the world’s largest online poker room including confirmation of European Poker Tour Prague in December, the beginning of MicroMillions 15, and a new YouTube Channel for the nerds created by Liv Boeree. Four years ago, on a night of stalactite snot, Hossein Ensan held onto his chips longer than his 1,043 competitors, handcuffing himself to the PokerStars’ European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event trophy.
Online poker is dead: Pluribus conquers 6-max No-Limit Hold’em
It’s official, online poker is dead after artificial intelligence, from the bright minds working at Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI Labs, defeats humans and algorithms alike in No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed. Rob Yong said he wouldn’t play online poker anywhere other than partypoker’s Trickett’s Room. Henrik Hecklen told me that he couldn’t trust online poker any longer.
Marle Cordeiro: stumbling in the arena under the watchful eye of the critic
Lee Davy sits down with Marle Cordeiro to talk about the challenges faced in a collection of jobs, careers and vocations including modelling, vlogging and poker. The first time I saw Marle Cordeiro interview, someone was during the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Montenegro. It was a short, uncomfortable exchange with Linus Loeliger. I peeled her like an apple, leaving her standing naked on the range, firing golf balls filled with judgment.
WSOP Review: Timothy Su leads the final 106 in the Main Event
We are reviewing Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event with Sam Greenwood, Antonio Esfandiari and Alex Foxen all with a shout of winning the $10m first prize. Day 5 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has concluded, and the sight of Sam Greenwood sitting second in chips will be as welcoming as a double-glazing salesman. Greenwood has won $2m+ playing live tournaments annually since 2015, and $5m+ last year, and this.
WSOP Review: Finnish stalwart Juha Helppi wins a bracelet
Finland’s Juha Helppi has been travelling the poker circuit for so long you could call him an ‘antique’, but he’s never won a World Series of Poker bracelet—until now. A World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is a thing of beauty, but it’s also a curse, maddening the heart if one tries too hard to secure the feeling against one’s wrist. Juha Helppi is mad no more. The Finnish stalwart is a true champion of poker, having turned the spit for decades when most would have burnt their offering to ash.
Poker Central create Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas; ink MILLIONS deal
Poker Central will stream partypoker MILLIONS live content after securing exclusive rights that include a Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas during MILLIONS World. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is not only the place where people flock to play the game relegated to the shadows in countries that fear gamblers will unite and run amok throughout the streets. It’s also a place where the giants of the poker world meet to do business – like Poker Central and partypoker. The pieces are coming together.
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