PokerWorld.com to refund Bad Beat Jackpot share
Awhile back, PokerWorld.com removed their Bad Beat Jackpot from all of their poker tables (even though their website still says "Coming soon!").
A reason was not given, but PokerWorld is no longer contributing a share on the Gold Chip Network.
Where does that money go?
If you're Harrah's Las Vegas (which this month got rid of their property-wide bad beat jackpot that essentially copied Station Casinos'), you put the money back into each property and let that casino hold their own promotions.
Online is still somewhat the Wild Wild West, with not much ramification if the money just ends up evaporating into someone's Swiss bank account.
As for PokerWorld, they're doing the right thing. Because they're able to track the exact jackpot drop players contributed, they will soon be giving refunds.
A nice little unexpected rakeback.
PokerWorld will email players individually once the refund has been deposited.
U.S. Poker Players: Action Alert
The federal elections in the United States are less than 45 days away. This is the time, once every four years, when elected officials actually listen to voters. If you are a poker player and you want the right to play poker online, then you need to take two minutes to go to the Poker Player Alliance website and fill out this form, which will be sent to your Congress person and both of your Senators. This is a new legislative notice, if you have written in the past, please do it again today. Might I suggest that you add a line or two at the beginning of the pre-packaged message. Here is what I wrote:
"This year, I am a single issue voter. You either fully support my right to play poker online or you are against me. No half-ass political double-speak. If you fully support the right of all Americans to do with their money and time whatever they see fit, then you have my vote. If you don't, then your opponent gets my vote. I wanted to keep it simply, so you understand. You are for us or against us and my vote will reflect your position. If I do not hear from you before the election or if you send some non-committal bullshit about further studies, I am voting for the other guy. I hope we are clear on this issue."
Tonight WSOP Main Event Poker on ESPN
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Mika Hilaire McGriff
Another two hours of original programming from the ESPN crew from the Rio Resort in Las Vegas. The almost record field of 6,844 players is getting down to a manageable number as players bust out at a rapid pace. The growing chip stacks have become formidable weapons of mass elimination wielded by the lucky holders. Short stacked players are typically faced with an all-in when aggressively pursuing a pot. By the end of Day 2B 842 players will remain to join the 466 that survived Day 2A for a total of 1308 players returning to play Day 3.
Grab a seat, stack up the snacks, open a cool one and sit back for tonight's offering on ESPN2. The show starts at 8:00 pm EST but you'll want to check local listings for exact times in your area and of course, it's in ESPN Hi-Def so you'll have the best seat in the house.
More Flipchip photos captured during Day 2B of the 2008 WSOP Main Event after the jump.
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Johnny Chan owns ten bracelets including back-to-back main event wins
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Evelyn Ng
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Anjela Brunson
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Carmel Petresco pays Eric Morris after losing prop bet
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Nikolai Evdokov
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Men 'Master' Nguyen
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Bryan Mikon
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Chip Jett
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Paul McKinney, oldest bracelet winner
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Chad Layne
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Davood Mehrmand
South Point to expand poker room
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South Point Las Vegas Poker Room
With poker profits down (heck, with all casino profits down), we wouldn't be surprised if we began seeing more poker room closings in Las Vegas (such as Las Vegas Hilton's). Or conversions to e-tables (Excalibur, which if it's a success, will mean more at MGM Mirage casinos and elsewhere).
Fortunately, no more of that is in the near horizon.
So when we hear of new poker rooms (e.g., Hard Rock's Poker Lounge), our poker heart gets all a-flutter.
At long last, what was promised when they opened will soon be coming true, perhaps as soon as early 2010: South Point is getting a poker room!
'Course, they've always had one since they opened in December 2005 (under the name South Coast), if you count the empty area downstairs from the movie theater. Nothing much has been done with the 11 tables, other than moving the floor desk around, adding plasmas, cordoning off tables, and offering up new tournaments and freerolls that cater to locals.
The spot was good for people watching, but let us tell you, people watching locals isn't the most fun way to pass the time. We do enjoy playing there a couple times a month, particularly because the cocktail service is fast, and they don't blink an eye when we order back-to-back Patron shots.
Ever since launch, South Point had been promising an actual room, and with South Point's next phase of renovations will also be a brand new 25-table poker room.
Like the number of hotel rooms (2,163 to be exact), this will make the poker room the largest room catering to locals.
European Poker Tour Adds Tournaments
The European Poker Tour has added two events to its previously announced 2008-2009 tournament schedule. The Hungarian Open in Budapest is a new event. EPT has also put the Caribbean Adventure back on its official schedule after some talk of moving that tournament to the North American Poker Tour. The Caribbean event will again be held at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino.
Here is the current EPT 2008-2009 schedule:
Barcelona Open (Casino Barcelona) - Sept 10-14, 2008 - €8,000
London (Victoria Casino) - October 1-5, 2008 - £5,200
ADDED: Hungarian Open (Budapest) - Oct 28-Nov 1 - €4,000
Polish Open (Hyatt Regency, Warsaw) - November 15-19, 2008 - 20,000 PLN
Prague (Hilton Hotel) - December 9-13, 2008 - €5,000
ADDED: Caribbean Adventure - Bahamas - January 1-5, 2009 - $8,000
Deauville (Barrière Casino) - January 20-24, 2009 - €5,000
Scandinavian Open (Casino Copenhagen) - February 17-21, 2009 - 50,000 DKR
German Open (Casino Hohensyburg) - March 10 - 14, 2009 - €5,000
San Remo (San Remo) - April 18-23, 2009 - €5,000
Grand Final (Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort) - April 28 - May 3, 2009 - €10,000
Michael Phelps a Poker Star?
Last week there were a lot of pictures and stories about ninety-two time gold medalist Michael Phelps joining up with Doyle's Room. Yes, Mr. Limpet was in Las Vegas and he did ask to meet Doyle Brunson and there were lots of photos with Michael and Doyle and Todd and all the rest of the Doyle's room gang. Not sure if they had time to get Shannon Elizabeth into a merry widow in time to lure Michael to the cowboy side of online poker.
However, no announcement has been made and for a damn good reason. The fish boy is the hottest commercial commodity out there right now; a veritable Michael Jordan of the waves. He is commanding huge amounts of blue-green for appearances and commercials and quite frankly, Doyle's Room can't afford him. Sure he might make take a lowball deal to be associated with Doyle, but I think his financial advisers are way too smart for that.
What online room has a tennis player, a soccer player, a couple of cricketeers... Need I go on?
You heard it here first (or second if you are reading all the poker forums): Michael Phelps gets the water out of his ears and the cash in his wallet and signs a sponsorship deal to be a Poker Star.
Was that too cryptic?
2008 WSOP Main Event Poker Faces III
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David Rheem
Another selection of Flipchip Poker Face photos from the 2008 WSOP Main Event. All of these poker players were captured on day 2A. All had survived their Day 1 and were back for the second go-around. Most of them are not household names and you'll probably never see them on the TV poker shows; but, they are all poker players and they are playing in the most famous poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker Main Event. The $10,000 buy-in grand daddy of all poker tournaments has grown from the few poker crazies that showed up in 1970 to the almost seven thousand that crowded the Rio Resort Pavilion this past summer.
Only one of today's poker faces survived all of the rounds to make the final table. David Rheems will return in November to play the coveted final table that offers the winner incredible riches, fame, immortality and the most important prize of all, the WSOP World Poker Championship Bracelet.
More photos after the jump.
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Mickey Appleman
Steve Zolotow
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Chau Giang
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Brandon Adams
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Tino Lechich
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Johansson Simon
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Cristion Drandomir
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Mark Vos
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William Soffin
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Jeremiah Smith
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Greg Debora
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Nielson Remus
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Farhad Sinaei
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Eric Crain
More 2008 WSOP Main Event Photos
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Finland Rock Musician Voitto Rintala
Another batch of Flipchip photos from the 2008 WSOP held at the Rio resort in Las Vegas this past summer. Today's offering features group photos from Day 2A. Some of the surviving players are beginning to amass large stacks of chips and many of the "poker faces" are starting to show the fatigue of long hours at the tables over the past five weeks.
Day two is a pivotal point that gives the survivors confidence and hope of making the money list. The fall out rate accelerates as the larger chip stacks come into play, especially late in the day when most of these photos were taken. Stop by over the weekend for more of Flipchip's poker faces from the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
More photos after the jump.
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Shane Warne, Aussie cricket legend
Brian Schaedlich, Day 2A chip leader
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Billy Baxter
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Blind player Hal Lubarsky
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Patrik Antonius
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Noah Boeken
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Billy 'Crok' Argyros
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Alex Kravchenko
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Hendon Mobster Barney Boatman
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Christiane Klecz late into Day 2A
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Chips stacks are becoming quite large late into Day 2A
Party Poker Launches New Table
You may have heard the rumours swirling around cyberpokerspace that PartyPoker is about to launch a ground-breaking new table, complete with stunning features. Well, here it is.
The slick design is a huge improvement on the previous table, which despite serving players so well over the years, had become a little dated. Players who can’t bear to part with the old design will still have an option to continue with it if they wish.
But everyone else will love to play on the slickest, most eye-catching and ergonomically-pleasing table available anywhere.
The new look is part of a major overhaul of PartyPoker.com will go live next week. There are loads of changes and new features.
Here’s just some of the improvements:
* Fine new design that makes playing easier and more user-friendly
* Now you can select your own player photo - either an image from our new, extensive library, or you can upload your own photograph
* All your action buttons are in a more logical position, and they are easier to use
* The bet slider is simpler and more responsive
* You’ve now got access to pre-set bet buttons: Min, 1/2 Pot, 3/4 Pot, Pot and Max (all-in).
* There’s an improved note-taking facility
* The chat area will be easier to read and manage
More details on the big changes will be revealed here over the next week.
Orwellian Logic Alive in the U.K.
In a bureaucratic ruling worthy of only the paranoid dreams of Big Brother, the government paid for and appointed "save-us-from-ourselves" UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned a television advertisement by PKR which "glamorised the risks involved in gambling and implied it was possible to win against the odds".
The ad showed a computer-generated image of a poker room with a number of players seated around a poker table. The main "too glamorous" character makes a huge all in bet while the ad's voice-over states:
"I've come in over the top of pot-sized raises with middle pair. Bluffed under the gun with four runners behind me. Folded pocket kings on a hunch. I've survived bad beats, sick draws and cold decks. And I've played through fields of thousands to make the final table. Here I come."
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To justify its censorship, the ASA said that the ad gave the impression that it was acceptable to take risks 'on a hunch' and implied that poker could be played in a reckless way. The ASA also specifically noted that the main character at the virtual table is shown laughing as he made his all in bet, and therefore the ASA concluded that the ad could be seen to glamorise the risks involved with gambling.
PKR has been told not to broadcast the ad again in its current form and in the future all representations of real or virtual individuals engaged in gambling activities should depict sad and angry demeanors.
"People playing poker should not be seen to be enjoying themselves."
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