Zynga slots free coins cheat android.Makakuha ng libreng 700pho sa bawat deposito https://www.desertdrama.com/news/tournaments/ Latest Casino and Gaming News Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:40:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-corg-favicon-512-1-32x32.png Online & Offline Casino & Poker Tournament News - Casino.org https://www.desertdrama.com/news/tournaments/ 32 32 Poker Pro Jonathan Tamayo Wins WSOP Main Event in Vegas https://www.desertdrama.com/news/jonathan-tamayo-wins-wsop-main-event-in-vegas/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/jonathan-tamayo-wins-wsop-main-event-in-vegas/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:06:18 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=325524 Jonathan Tamayo won the World Series of Poker��s (WSOP) Main Event on Wednesday, along with its $10 million cash prize, gold bracelet, and a lifetime of bragging rights. The 38-year-old poker pro from Humble, Texas bested Jordan Griff — a 30-year-old amateur from Scottsdale, Ariz. — after more than three hours of heads-up play at […]

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Jonathan Tamayo won the World Series of Poker��s (WSOP) Main Event on Wednesday, along with its $10 million cash prize, gold bracelet, and a lifetime of bragging rights.

Jonathan Tamayo gets shown the money and his gold bracelet Wednesday night in Las Vegas. (Image: pokergo.com)

The 38-year-old poker pro from Humble, Texas bested Jordan Griff — a 30-year-old amateur from Scottsdale, Ariz. — after more than three hours of heads-up play at the Horseshoe Las Vegas.

Griff began the day as the chip leader but the final hand of 65 saw all the money go in as Tamayo flopped two pair against Griff’s top pair, snatching a Chris Moneymaker-level dream win from the data and analytics supply chain manager.

But $6 million for second place isn��t too shabby.

Before his win, Tamayo had accumulated $2.3 million in live tournament cashes and just over $1 million from online tournaments. The closest he previously came to winning the Main Event was in 2009, when he was eliminated in 21st place for a payday of $352,832.

Sweden��s Niklas Astedt — the online poker pro known as Lena900 — came into Day 10 with the tallest stack and the shortest odds of winning. Yet, owing to the unpredictable nature of the game, he was eliminated in less than an hour, holding top pair and a straight draw against a set of nines held by Griff.

He walked away with $4 million.

The $10K WSOP Main Event attracted a record 10,112 contenders, surpassing the previous record of 10,043 set last year.

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Patrik Antonius Makes 2024 Poker Hall of Fame https://www.desertdrama.com/news/patrik-antonius-makes-2024-poker-hall-of-fame/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/patrik-antonius-makes-2024-poker-hall-of-fame/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:35:47 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=325274 Finland��s finest, Patrik Antonius, has been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Antonius faded competition from poker legends like Mike ��The Mouth�� Matusow, Ted Forrest, and Barny Boatman — all fellow nominees this year — to win the only spot available in 2024. Antonius has booked almost $23 million in gross live tournament wins, […]

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Finland��s finest, Patrik Antonius, has been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Antonius faded competition from poker legends like Mike ��The Mouth�� Matusow, Ted Forrest, and Barny Boatman — all fellow nominees this year — to win the only spot available in 2024.

Patrik Antonius, above, was part of a new wave of players who changed the way the game was played in the mid-2000s. It��s crazy to think that these players are now hitting 40, therefore qualifying as ��legends.�� (Image: )

Antonius has booked almost $23 million in gross live tournament wins, according to the Hendon Mob database. But the bulk of his winnings have surely come from online cash games, which are less easily quantifiable.

“In the modern era of poker, few have been as bold and fearless as Patrik Antonius,” said Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the World Series of Poker. “A force both online and live, we��re thrilled to see Patrik��s high-stakes career acknowledged by legends who have added the first international player to the Poker Hall of Fame in a number of years.”

New Wave

Antonius was part of the first wave of online players who demanded to be taken seriously.

Chris Moneymaker won the World Series in 2003 after qualifying via an online satellite. Subsequent fields were swollen by online qualifiers who believed they could emulate Moneymaker��s feat.

This new injection of liquidity pumped the prize pools to dizzying heights, which in turn attracted more players, kickstarting the poker boom of the mid-2000s.

However, ��online player�� was still a dirty word among the seasoned live pros, who understood — rightly — that Moneymaker was a stroke of luck, and — wrongly — that internet players were a flash in the pan.

Internet players like Antonius, Noah Boeken, Andrew Robl, David Benefield, Phil Galfond, Tom Dwan, and others, not only made names for themselves, but began to change the very dynamics of the live game, three-betting and four-betting with far greater regularity.

Antonius — a promising tennis player until his career was cut short by injury — was arguably the leader of the pack, and his nosebleed online cash-game battles with the likes of Phil Ivey, Dwan, Viktor ��Isildur�� Blom, and Ilari ��Ziigmund�� Sahamies were the stuff of legend in the late 2000s.

Antonius remains the winner of the largest online pot of all time. He scooped $1,356,947 in a hand against Blom in 2009.

Life Begins at 40

It��s incredible to think that this new wave of young players are all now pushing 40. Antonius is 43. It��s a condition that Hall of Fame nominees must be over 40, so expect more of their ilk to be inducted in the next few years.

Another condition for prospective inductees is that they must have stood the test of time, continuously playing at the highest level while maintaining the respect of their peers.

Antonius continues to be a dominant force in live high-roller tournaments and in high-stakes games online.

“This is a very big honor to become a new Hall of Famer,” Antonius said in a statement. “The last 24-25 years with poker went pretty fast. I think I’m going to stick around for a long time.”

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WSOP Poker Player Suffers Heart Attack, Continues in Main Event https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-poker-player-suffers-heart-attack-continues-in-main-event/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-poker-player-suffers-heart-attack-continues-in-main-event/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:13:11 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=325122 Even a heart attack isn��t serious enough to keep a poker pro out of the World Series of Poker Main Event, which opened July 3 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Adam Rude of Clarksville, Tenn. told the Poker News website he was briefly hospitalized on Thursday, before Day 5, which he ended up […]

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Even a heart attack isn��t serious enough to keep a poker pro out of the World Series of Poker Main Event, which opened July 3 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Adam Rude suffered a mild heart attack the morning of the same day he competed in Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. (Image: Twitter/X/@realadamrude

Adam Rude of Clarksville, Tenn. told the Poker News website he was briefly hospitalized on Thursday, before Day 5, which he ended up arriving in time to play in.

Rude Awakening

On Thursday, the 40-year-old said, he woke up shivering and took a shower ?to warm up. That��s where he collapsed as the alarm in his implanted defibrillator went off.

The instrument was surgically implanted due to a heart condition plaguing Rude since he contracted a virus similar to COVID-19 in 2014, he told Poker News.

��I went to the hospital and it was registering as a heart attack,�� Rude said. ��So, I mean, they didn��t see any damage, they did what they could do. They got my vitals, everything, looking good. And they gave me some strong medicines to get me through (Thursday).��

Is that dedication or ridiculousness? We can��t decide.

��I am getting a little negative feedback at the table,�� Rude admitted. ��One guy is a little outspoken that I shouldn��t be here. The reason I��m here — the only reason I��m here — is because I have two boys, and I want to give them $10 million.��

Unfortunately, Rude was robbed of what could have been the most remarkable story in the history of Main Event wins. He was sent to the rail in 194th place for $60,000.

Which should just about cover that hospital bill.

As of Friday, 160 players remain in the Main Event from a record field of 10,112. The final table is scheduled to start July 16.

 

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WSOP Main Event Opens With Two First-Hand Busts https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-main-event-opens-with-two-first-hand-busts/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-main-event-opens-with-two-first-hand-busts/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:21:32 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=324380 The Main Event at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) opened on Wednesday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at a few minutes after noon. And for two players, the dream of winning poker’s most prestigious tournament ended a few minutes after that. Daniel Weinman of Atlanta, who claimed last year��s $12 million […]

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The Main Event at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) opened on Wednesday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at a few minutes after noon. And for two players, the dream of winning poker’s most prestigious tournament ended a few minutes after that.

Harlan Karnofsky became an early winner by making a loser out of one of only two players to bust out on Day 1A of the 2024 WSOP Main Event. (Image: Harlan Karnofsky)

Daniel Weinman of Atlanta, who claimed last year��s $12 million Main Event first prize, barely finished his welcome speech when amateur Harlan Karnofsky of Sacramento, Calif. busted out Craig Issod of San Francisco.

Karnofsky bet 1,200 chips on a flop of jack-six-10 with two diamonds. Issod raised to 7,000, chasing everyone from the hand but Karnofsky, who called Issod��s next bet of 15,000. The river, ace of clubs, gave Karnofsky a straight to Issod��s set of sixes. After Issod bet 37,000, Karnofsky went all-in and doubled his 60,000-chip starting stack, becoming tournament leader.

Online poker pro Trip Darroch was also sent to the rails in the first hand by his opponent, amateur David Williamson, who joined Karnofsky at the top of the early leaderboard by placing a sizeable bet on quads that was met by Darroch, who had a full house.

It’s typical for one player to bust out on opening day of the Main Event, but two is a relative rarity.

Day 1A assembled a group of 1,300 poker notables including 2012 Main Event champ Greg Merson, 2016 champ Qui Nguyen, Michael Mizrachi and Freddy Deeb.

“This is the greatest poker tournament in the world,” Weinman told the players before the action started. “I see myself playing this tournament for the rest of my life. I’m just excited to see who gets their banner up on the wall next to me, if I don’t do it again.”

There��s no July 4th holiday for WSOP players, as Day 1B begins at 12 p.m. PT Thursday.

The final table is scheduled for July 16.

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Caesars Palace Las Vegas to Fold Poker Room for 2-3 Months https://www.desertdrama.com/news/caesars-palace-las-vegas-to-fold-its-poker-room-for-2-3-months/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/caesars-palace-las-vegas-to-fold-its-poker-room-for-2-3-months/#respond Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:03:42 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=323476 Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its poker room for a renovation expected to take two or three months. That��s according to a company memo emailed to employees and intercepted by Poker News. Unfortunately for the 18-table poker room, it won��t emerge renovated after the renovation. That��s because the remodel is being […]

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Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its poker room for a renovation expected to take two or three months. That��s according to a company memo emailed to employees and intercepted by Poker News.

The Caesars Palace poker room?will close on or around July 17 for 60-90 days. (Image: Scott Roeben/Vital Vegas)

Unfortunately for the 18-table poker room, it won��t emerge renovated after the renovation. That��s because the remodel is being done to the property��s high-limit slot area.

Casinos can do without poker revenue more readily than they can without the much greater revenue from high-limit slots. So the poker room will serve as the temporary high-limit slot room during the remodel.

The poker room will deal its last hand on or around July 17, though “nothing has been decided or set in stone,” according to the memo.

July 17 is also the date of the final table at the World Series of Poker, currently being held at sister Caesars Entertainment properties the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. So perhaps Caesars figures that poker players won��t notice the inconvenience as much on that date. It��s also the last day of operations for The Mirage before it undergoes a three-year transformation into the next Hard Rock Las Vegas.

According to the Caesars Palace memo, Caesars Entertainment is searching for a place to open a temporary Caesars Palace poker room during the remodel. However, none has been found yet, and there��s no guarantee that one will be.

The current poker room at Caesars Palace opened 10 years ago, near the sportsbook and Mesa Grill, just before the property��s former poker room was encroached upon by an expansion of the former Pure nightclub.

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Brit Aristocrat Who Advertised Money Laundering ‘Drops $20M Playing Poker’ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/brit-aristocrat-who-advertised-money-laundering-drops-20m-playing-poker/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/brit-aristocrat-who-advertised-money-laundering-drops-20m-playing-poker/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 23:37:21 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=320416 A British aristocrat who was once convicted of wire fraud in the US lost $20 million in a high-stakes cash game last week, according to sources who spoke to The Daily Mail. George Cottrell, 30, was reportedly playing in a private game at the Maestral Casino in Budva, Montenegro, which involved ��Chinese billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, […]

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A British aristocrat who was once convicted of wire fraud in the US lost $20 million in a high-stakes cash game last week, according to sources who spoke to The Daily Mail.

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George Cottrell, above, served time in a federal prison in 2016 after offering money-laundering services on the dark web and then attempting to blackmail two FBI agents posing as drug dealers. (Image: The Telegraph)

George Cottrell, 30, was reportedly playing in a private game at the Maestral Casino in Budva, Montenegro, which involved ��Chinese billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and some of the world��s best high roller poker stars,�� according to the Mail.

The Maestral Casino is currently hosting the Triton Poker Series, a festival for elite players established by former junket operator Paul Phua, who has also had his fair share of legal troubles in the US and elsewhere.

British poker player and businessman Rob Yong, who was in town to play the Triton events, wrote in a now-deleted tweet on X that the cash games were ��wild.��

“The big game way too big 4 me here, $200k + just to see the flop,” Yong marveled.

The Daily Mail source claimed Cottrell didn’t appear to be phased by his eyewatering losses.

��Despite George losing so much money, he appeared to be enjoying himself and didn’t step away from the table until 7 a.m. By that point he was $20 million down,�� the source claimed.

Who is George Cottrell?

Cottrell��s mother is Fiona Watson, a former model who once dated King Charles. She’s the daughter of Rupert Watson, the third Baron Manton.

Born into a life of privilege, Cottrell became a banker and dated reality TV show celebrities. Later, he was an advisor to Nigel Farage, who led the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union.

Cottrell played a key role in the Brexit campaign, which achieved its goal following the EU referendum of June 2016.

Little did Cottrell know at the time, but the drug dealers he had attempted to blackmail in Las Vegas two years earlier were undercover FBI agents.

Flushed with the success of the referendum, in July 2016, he accompanied Farage to the Republican National Convention to watch Donald Trump accept the party��s presidential nomination.

As Cottrell attempted to return to the UK, he was arrested by federal authorities at Chicago��s O��Hare International Airport.

21 Felonies

Cottrell had been advertising himself on the dark web as an offshore investment expert who could launder money in and out of the US. When two FBI agents posing as drug dealers reached out for his services, Cottrell agreed to meet them in Las Vegas to flesh out a deal.

He later admitted in his plea agreement that his plan was to keep the money for himself rather than launder it. Shortly after the Las Vegas meeting, he demanded around $80K in Bitcoin from the undercover agents in return for keeping quiet about the deal.

Cottrell was initially charged with 21 felonies, including conspiracy to commit?money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail, and extortion. He eventually agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and was released after serving eight months in prison.

In June last year, Montenegrin authorities raided a bar in the coastal town of Tivat that hosted gambling machines and a ��cryptomat,�� used for buying and trading digital currencies. Cottrell has denied having a connection to the venue or the crypto industry via his lawyer.

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Poker Legend Crandell Addington Dies, Age 85 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-crandell-addington-dies-age-85/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-crandell-addington-dies-age-85/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:40:27 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=317823 ��Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you’re shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.” So said former Texas road gambler and Poker Hall of Famer Crandell Addington, who died last week at age 85. And he should know �C until he […]

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��Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you’re shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.”

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Crandell Addington (center in suit, Stetson) competes with the late, great Doyle Brunson to his right in an early World Series of Poker event. (Image: Ulvis Alberts)

So said former Texas road gambler and Poker Hall of Famer Crandell Addington, who died last week at age 85. And he should know �C until he retired from poker in the 1980s to devote his time to the oil and biotech industries, Addington was considered to be one of the best No-Limit Hold’ em players in the world.

Known as ��the Dandy�� because of his love of well-tailored suits (he sometimes changed clothes three times a day), Addington was one of the founders of the World Series of Poker.

First WSOP

In 1969, Addington won the Texas Gamblers Convention tournament in Reno, Nev., which was the forerunner of the World Series. The following year, the event was reincarnated at Binion��s Horseshoe in Las Vegas and given the name we know it by today.

Addington made the final table of the WSOP Main Event almost every year from 1972 to 1979. To this day, he holds the record for the most final table appearances �C seven �C although it must be said that the fields were somewhat smaller in Addington��s heyday.

Road Gambler

Previously, he had been a Texas road gambler, traveling the sometimes perilous underground poker circuit of his home state.

We did have weapons,�� he said when he was invited to address students at Harvard University in 2007. ��It was not really to use on each other. What we really wanted to be able to do was, if we won, we wanted to be able to get back to the car with the money. And so, not only did we have to beat a lot of really good players, but we had to dodge the hijackers and often times the sheriff of the county.”

Addington applied some of the strategies he learned at the poker table to business, when, in the 1980s he went looking for black gold in Texas. He built a successful oil business and later branched out into biotech, co-founding Phoenix Biotechnology in 2003, which develops plant-based medicines for treating human and animal diseases.

Addington was chairman and CEO of Phoenix until he was forced to retire because of ill health.

He supported many good causes in his life, animal charities in particular. He requested that his ashes be scattered among those of the many pets he had outlived, including his beloved black lab, Miss Joey, according to an obituary posted on Legacy.com.

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Watauga Poker Club Owner to Plead Guilty to ��Organized Crime�� in Texas https://www.desertdrama.com/news/watauga-poker-club-owner-to-plead-guilty-to-organized-crime/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/watauga-poker-club-owner-to-plead-guilty-to-organized-crime/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:09:02 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=314375 The owner of the Watauga Social Lounge Poker Club in Fort Worth, Texas will plead guilty to one count of engaging in organized criminal activity and another of gambling promotion, PokerNews reports. A third charge against Joe Vongkaysone — keeping a gambling place — has been dropped as part of his plea deal. The club […]

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The owner of the Watauga Social Lounge Poker Club in Fort Worth, Texas will plead guilty to one count of engaging in organized criminal activity and another of gambling promotion, PokerNews reports. A third charge against Joe Vongkaysone — keeping a gambling place — has been dropped as part of his plea deal.

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An image taken during the October 2022 police raid on the Watauga poker club in Fort Worth, Texas, in the middle of a tournament. Forty-nine players were charged with illegal gambling, although the charges were later dropped. (Image: PokerNews)

The club was the largest and most popular in Texas until it was raided by police in mid-tournament in October 2022. Dozens of employees were arrested, and 49 players were charged with the offense of ��gambling �� cards, dice, balls,�� although most of the player charges were later dropped.

��Inequitable�� Plea Deal

Vongkaysone will avoid jail thanks to the deal, but has agreed to forfeit $170K in penalties, plus interest. Authorities seized around $205K during the raid. This included the roughly $132K prize pool for the top finishers in the club��s Fall Classic Poker $100K GTD Main Event, which was in full swing at the time of the raid.

Vongkaysone said in a statement he had intended to fight the charges, but ran out of money after spending $195K on legal fees defending himself and eight staff members.

Making the tough choice to accept an inequitable plea bargain, surrender the forfeitures, and bear inflated attorney fees was far from easy,�� Vongkaysone said. ���� My heart goes out to every individual who got entangled in this unfair situation – the players, employees, and all my investors. Truly, it’s a regrettable predicament for everyone involved.”

It��s not immediately clear why Vongkaysone��s club was targeted while others in the Dallas area have been left unmolested.

Legal Loophole

In Texas, as elsewhere, all gambling is illegal unless specifically authorized by the legislature. But the state��s poker clubs argue they operate legally via a loophole in the law.

Chapter 47 of the Texas Penal Code states: ��It is a defense to prosecution [for gambling]�� if ��the actor engaged in gambling [is] in a private place; no person received any economic benefit other than personal winnings; [and] except for the advantage of skill or luck, the risks of losing and the chances of winning were the same for all.��

The clubs claim they are ��private�� businesses that do not take a rake from games. Instead, they charge customers an hourly rate to be at the venue.

Detractors say the ��private�� carveout was intended for private home games, and the clubs are not private places because they can attract hundreds of players daily.

The City of Dallas is currently locked in a legal battle with several local card clubs. In December 2022, a Dallas County district judge ruled that the clubs could stay open until the matter of their legality is finally resolved in the State Supreme Court.

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Barstool Sports�� ‘Mintzy’ Skips Work for Deep Poker Run, Portnoy Mad https://www.desertdrama.com/news/barstool-sports-mintzy-skips-work-for-poker-deep-run-portnoy-seething/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/barstool-sports-mintzy-skips-work-for-poker-deep-run-portnoy-seething/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:16:48 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=312073 ��Mintzy Just Bagged chip lead with 14 left and $120k up top by rivering quads in a CRAZY Hand!�� So tweeted Ben ��Mintzy�� Mintz just hours ago. The colorful Barstool Sports media personality had found himself as the chip leader in the $2.5K Moneymaker Tour Main Event at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida […]

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��Mintzy Just Bagged chip lead with 14 left and $120k up top by rivering quads in a CRAZY Hand!�� So tweeted Ben ��Mintzy�� Mintz just hours ago.

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Ben Mintz, left, with Dave Portnoy in happier times. Minzty incurred his boss�� wrath Monday after skipping an important work engagement when he ran deep in a tournament. But who wouldn��t? (Image: X/DestroyerMintzy)

The colorful Barstool Sports media personality had found himself as the chip leader in the $2.5K Moneymaker Tour Main Event at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida on Monday. He had? the chance to win $120K.

Happy days! Except when Mintzy was rivering those quads, he was supposed to be at the Barstool Combine, an annual frattish carnival of amateur sports and professional partying currently taking place 1,300 miles away in Chicago.

It seems Mintz didn��t expect to go quite as deep in the tournament as he did, which left him with a difficult decision.

Unfortunately for Mintz, Barstool��s brash founder Dave Portnoy wasn’t feeling the vibes and objected to his choice of poker glory over his regular job.

��BREAKING: Every cent Mintzy makes in this tournament will be deducted from his salary for him choosing poker over a mandatory corporate event,�� he tweeted quickly in response to Mintzy��s post.

Portnoy��s Complaint ?

Later, Portnoy posted a video of a telephone conversation with Mintz in which the Moneymaker Tour chip leader offered a stuttering apology for skipping the event.

��So, if you win, do I not have to pay your salary anymore, since that��s why we pay you a salary �C for these events that you��re just skipping?�� spat Portnoy.

If you��re a professional poker player, go do that �� We have a major sponsored event that you have a jersey for, that you��re supposed to be a part of, and you��re just skipping it because you��re doing well in a poker tournament,” Portnoy added. “Well, great! Go make your money playing poker then.��

In a previous life, Mintz was a professional poker player with gross tournament earnings of more than $600K, according to the Hendon Mob Database. He’s currently heading toward the biggest score of his career as we write. His best score is for just over 90K for a 75th-place finish at the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

Many on social media had sympathy for Mintz and questioned why his boss would shame him publicly on Instagram �C a move that has presumably frazzled his brain as he chases that big score.

Not Mintzing Words

This isn’t the first time Mintz has been in trouble with his employer. In fact, he was fired by Barstool in May last year after rapping the song “1st of Tha Month” by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, including the N-word, during a live stream.

Mintz apologized, calling it ��an unforgivable mistake.�� But then-Barstool owner, the casino operator Penn Entertainment, insisted on his termination because the incident could jeopardize its casino licenses across the country.

On that occasion, Portnoy supported Mintz and disagreed with the decision. In August 2023, Penn concluded that Barstool and Portnoy were dangerous liabilities, and sold the company back to Portnoy for $1, having acquired it for around $550 million six months prior. That left Portnoy very, very rich and free to rehire Mintz.

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BREAKING: Just as we were about to publish, Mintz busted the tournament in eighth place for $14,600.

��I ain��t happy,�� he tweeted, adding that he was getting straight on a plane to Chicago.

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Venetian Las Vegas to Relocate Poker Room https://www.desertdrama.com/news/venetian-las-vegas-to-relocate-poker-room/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/venetian-las-vegas-to-relocate-poker-room/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:11:24 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=311548 The Venetian Resort Las Vegas plans to relocate its poker room sometime this summer from the casino floor to Level 2 of the Grand Canal Shoppes. Pending Nevada regulatory approval, the new poker room will feature 50 tables spread across 14,000 square feet. The expansion of the poker room is a significant milestone in our […]

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The Venetian Resort Las Vegas plans to relocate its poker room sometime this summer from the casino floor to Level 2 of the Grand Canal Shoppes.

The current poker room at the Venetian
The current poker room at the Venetian is ante-ing up. (Image: lasvegastoppicks.com)

Pending Nevada regulatory approval, the new poker room will feature 50 tables spread across 14,000 square feet.

The expansion of the poker room is a significant milestone in our ongoing efforts of reimagining the gaming experience at the Venetian Resort,” said Danny Ruiz, the property��s chief gaming officer, in the release. “The room was designed to provide an elevated playing experience and everything from design details to enhancements were made with the players in mind.��

Additional amenities in the new space, based on years of player feedback, will include dedicated bathrooms, USB charging ports at every seat, and a self-serve Coca-Cola fountain. Guests will also be able to order food online and have it delivered by the Grand Lux Caf��. The room will also feature kiosks for both the resort��s loyalty program, Venetian Rewards, and William Hill sports betting.

The new poker room will continue to provide cash games and the DeepStack poker tournament series. It will also introduce a dedicated streaming room, allowing players to coordinate vlogging sessions and to live-stream tournament final tables and cash games.

The Venetian��s original poker room opened in 2006 and will remain open until the new one is completed. No completion date has been specified.

The resort didn’t reveal what it plans to do with the space occupied by the current poker room, nor did it specify the cost of its relocation. However, it announced last year that a $188 million renovation of its convention center was part of a $1 billion capital investment project scheduled by Vici Properties, which owns the Strip resort, and New York-based Apollo Global Management, which operates it.

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WSOP ��Champions Reunion�� Event to Kickstart 2024 Schedule https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-champions-reunion-event-to-kickstart-2014-schedule/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-champions-reunion-event-to-kickstart-2014-schedule/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:55:52 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=311166 The 55th annual World Series of Poker will kick off on May 28 at Paris Las Vegas with an all-new Champions Reunion Event, organizer Caesars Entertainment has announced. The $5K No Limit Hold��em freezeout will be free-to-enter for all living former WSOP Main Event champions. Any regular player who knocks out an ex-world champ will […]

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The 55th annual World Series of Poker will kick off on May 28 at Paris Las Vegas with an all-new Champions Reunion Event, organizer Caesars Entertainment has announced.

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Daniel Weinman bested a record field to take home the $12.1 million first prize last year. It was the biggest Main Event first-prize payout in WSOP history. Weinman will return to play in Event #1, the all-new Champions Reunion Event, on May 28. . (Image: PokerNews)

The $5K No Limit Hold��em freezeout will be free-to-enter for all living former WSOP Main Event champions. Any regular player who knocks out an ex-world champ will win automatic entry to the main event.

Among the star-studded field will be reigning champion Daniel Weinman. He bested a record 10,043 field last year to take home $12.1 million, the largest Main Event first-prize payout in series history.

The Main Event

Organizers are hoping this year��s Main Event will be bigger still. The game��s most prestigious tournament will run from July 3 with four starting flights. Late registration will be available on July 7-8 through Level 7, or around 4:40 p.m. on Day 2 of each day.

As it was last year, the Main Event final table will return to the Horseshoe Las Vegas, the namesake of its spiritual home, Binion��s Horseshoe, on Fremont Street. The WSOP was conceived at Binion��s Horseshoe (now Binion��s Gambling Hall) by Benny Binion and his two sons, Jack and Ted, in 1970. The final was last held at Binion��s back in 2004.

This year��s final table will play out from July 16-17.

‘Bomb Pot’

Other notable events on this year��s calendar include a first-of-its kind, Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/ Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot event on June 15, where juicy pots and crazy action will be guaranteed. The eight-handed, three-day event will have a $1,500 buy-in, with a starting stack of 25,000.

In ��bomb pot�� events, every player at the table posts an ante to build the pot pre-flop. In a double-board format, the dealer deals two separate flops, turns, and rivers. Make the best hand on both boards to win the entire pot. If you win one board, but another player wins the other, you chop.

Meanwhile, lower stakes players can buy themselves an affordable piece of WSOP action via the PokerNews Deep Stack Championship. This $600 buy-in event will kick off on June 25.

And if you want to take an even cheaper route to WSOP glory, a host of online satellites will be available on GGPoker and WSOP.com, with buy-ins starting from just $1.

��We��re proud to be Las Vegas��s original Main Event,�� said?Ty Stewart, SVP & Executive Director of the WSOP, in an official statement. ��Records are made to be broken, so our motto this year is bigger and better.

��With our best schedule ever and more than 100 additional poker tables, we look forward to welcoming legends, first-timers, and everyone in between. If you��re a poker player, there is simply no experience on earth like the World Series of Poker,�� Stewart added.

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Poker Champ Who Claims Kidnap Sent Coded Message While Missing https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-champ-who-claims-kidnap-sent-coded-message-while-missing/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-champ-who-claims-kidnap-sent-coded-message-while-missing/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:23:10 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=305696 Incredible new details have emerged in the case of Michigan poker player George Janssen, who claims he was kidnapped and held captive in a basement for 35 days. Janssen, who had been reported missing by his family on November 13 last year, was found zip-tied and covered in blood on a rural road outside of […]

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Incredible new details have emerged in the case of Michigan poker player George Janssen, who claims he was kidnapped and held captive in a basement for 35 days.

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George Janssen, pictured at a Heartland Poker Tour event in 2019, claims he was terrorized and extorted by a criminal gang for two years before his alleged kidnap, according to a missing person��s report. (Image: HPT)

Janssen, who had been reported missing by his family on November 13 last year, was found zip-tied and covered in blood on a rural road outside of the city of Bad Axe, Mich., on December 16. He flagged down a passerby and told them he had managed to escape his captors.

According to a missing person��s report obtained by PokerNews, Janssen told a friend that before his disappearance, he had been terrorized and extorted by a criminal gang for approximately two years.

Extorted then Kidnapped?

The four-time?World Series of Poker (WSOP)?Circuit Ring winner claimed his ordeal started when a masked man held a gun to his head as he got into his car in the parking garage of a Detroit casino, according to the report. The man demanded $2 million, which Janssen said he did not have.

Janssen was told to drive down the street to meet other gang members who handed him a burner phone, the report states. The poker player claimed the gang would contact him on the phone to demand payments periodically over the next two years, and threatened to harm his family if he didn’t comply.

He was directed to drop-off points, where he was instructed to leave the cash in boxes provided by the criminals. Sometimes a new cell phone would be waiting for him in the box, and he was told to leave the old one with the cash, according to the document.

On the day of his disappearance, Jannsen��s car was found abandoned, with several $50 bills strewn on the floor.

Coded Message

On December 15, just over a month after he went missing, a family member received a handwritten letter from Jannsen, according to the report.

In it, Janssen inquired about the health of certain friends and relatives. But the letter included the names of six family members who did not exist: Kirby, Iggy, Daisey Noah, Anthony, and Parker.

The inclusion of the fake names appears to be a cipher, since the first letters of the names spell out K-I-D-N-A-P.

Jannsen��s finances were also scrutinized in the report. He had been a successful poker player, with $440,763 in gross tournament earnings, according to the Hendon Mob database. It was also claimed in the report he had been taking out loans on vehicles to sell through his car dealership that he could not repay. At the time of his disappearance, he was $2 million in debt to his bank, the report alleged.

The FBI is investigating the case.

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Poker Legend Daniel Negreanu Reveals Why He Lost $2M in 2023 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-negreanu-reveals-why-he-lost-2m-in-2023/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-negreanu-reveals-why-he-lost-2m-in-2023/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:02:16 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=305449 Not all poker legends release a profit/loss statement every year to the public, as well as to the IRS. In fact, there��s only one we can think of. And Daniel Negreanu was refreshingly transparent about what a lousy 2023 he had. In addition to tweeting out his yearly numbers as usual, the six-time World Series […]

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Not all poker legends release a profit/loss statement every year to the public, as well as to the IRS. In fact, there��s only one we can think of. And Daniel Negreanu was refreshingly transparent about what a lousy 2023 he had.

Daniel Negreanu
On his YouTube channel, poker champ Daniel Negreanu analyzes his past 10 years of poker wins and losses following the losing-est year he��s ever had. (Image: YouTube/Daniel Negreanu).

In addition to tweeting out his yearly numbers as usual, the six-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner also posted a YouTube video titled, How I Lost Over 2 Million Dollars in a Year.

��This is going to be my worst year that I’ve had,�� Negreanu said in the 23-minute clip. ��So what I do at the end of a year like that is, you know, I start to break down what exactly actually happened.��

Winner’s Tilt

According to Negreanu��s self-analysis, he suffered from ��winner��s tilt�� coming into 2023 after killing 2022 with $1.6M in wins.

I came into the year �� feeling too good, probably, about where I sit and what that led to was me �� being nonchalant, not caring about rebuying too much �� When you’re losing, you tilt. Sometimes when you’ve won or you’re winning too much, you start to play poorly as a result �� just gambling too much and being goofy and not caring enough, because the money isn’t life-changing.

��And when you start off the year being loosey-goosey, playing sloppy … you can dig yourself a big hole that you don’t necessarily get to just get out of by winning the Super High Roller Bowl at the end of the year.��

Too Many Games

Also, according to the 2004 and 2013 WSOP Player of the Year, he entered far too many tournaments with this reckless attitude.

��I played in �� 145 events compared to 107 the year before, and less and less before that, all the way down to 60 events in 2018,�� Negreanu said. ��That’s the most events I’ve played in a single year �� since I was much younger.

When I play too many tournaments, it leads to — well listen, I’m older, so it leads to some fatigue for sure, which leads to some weaker plays �� some sloppiness where you just don’t care enough about each bullet (pair of aces) as much as you should.”

A third reason Negreanu offered up was ��bad luck in the wrong spots,�� which cost him nearly $1.9 million at the WSOP alone over the past two years.

��You don’t get to choose when you’re lucky and when you’re not,�� Negreanu said. ��And �� because players are so much better, your edge is much smaller, which means luck is going to play a much bigger role.��

New Year��s Resolutions

So how does Negreanu intend to turn it around?

��First of all, I��m going to run better, that��s already been decided,�� he joked while mock-praying to the poker gods.

In all seriousness, Negreanu declared that he will no longer chase the WSOP Player of the Year title, since it forces players to enter dozens of events each summer to rack up as many points as possible.

��All this stuff just to chase this title that is for no money,�� he said. ��Everybody��s burning money equity to win this picture-on-your-wall type thing. But you’re forced to play the online events while you’re playing live. I can’t do it �� Dividing my focus like that does not bode well.��

Instead, Negreanu said, he will pass over many of WSOP��s online bracelet tournaments and focus mostly on high-stakes events.

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GGPoker Embarrassed by ��Superuser�� Cheating Scandal https://www.desertdrama.com/news/ggpoker-embarrassed-by-superuser-cheating-scandal/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/ggpoker-embarrassed-by-superuser-cheating-scandal/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:47:46 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=305324 GGPoker has apologized to its players after a ��superuser�� was able to exploit a weakness in the online poker giant��s software to cheat opponents out of thousands of dollars. In a statement last Friday, GGPoker said a player with the username ��MoneyTaker69�� had been banned from the site, and the ��unfair winnings,�� equating to $29,795, […]

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GGPoker has apologized to its players after a ��superuser�� was able to exploit a weakness in the online poker giant��s software to cheat opponents out of thousands of dollars.

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A screenshot from the GGPoker website that doesn’t show MoneyTaker69��s cheating antics that relieved cash game players of almost $30K, plus more in tournament winnings. (Image: GGPoker/PLO Mastermind)

In a statement last Friday, GGPoker said a player with the username ��MoneyTaker69�� had been banned from the site, and the ��unfair winnings,�� equating to $29,795, would be redistributed to players who had been cheated.

The operator said MoneyTaker69 hadn’t been able to see his opponents�� hole cards, but had been able to ��deduce all-in equity by exploiting a client-side data leak vector.�� In layman��s terms, this suggests he found a way of gaining an idea of the percentage probability of winning each hand, even though he didn’t know the precise hole cards of other players. The company has since patched up the vulnerability, it said.

“We sincerely apologize for the incident, which has caused many poker players to worry about the game��s integrity and shaken their trust in GGPoker to provide the best poker experience. We take this incident very seriously and continue to work hard not to disappoint poker players.��

Player Power

The operator claimed that its security team had ��spotted unusual game patterns,�� leading them to investigate the player. But the first to go public about MoneyTaker69 was a poster on the TwoPlusTwo internet poker forums.

Calling himself ��GGPoker Superuser,�� the poster noted that MoneyTaker69 had won 90 big blinds per 100 hands over 8,900 hands while playing at? a rate of 53% VPIP (voluntary put in pot). In layman��s terms, that means MoneyTaker69 had been on a winning streak over a large enough sample size of hands to make it almost impossible. And he did this while demonstrating a suboptimal preflop strategy, to say the least.

GGPoker Superuser also noted that MoneyTaker69 won a multi-table tournament for $47,586 ��while playing an extremely volatile strategy, which aroused a lot of suspicion.��

GGPoker said it would also reconcile the payout for the impacted tournaments, along with the cash game victims. The site also praised the poker community and ��the poker players�� hive minds,�� adding that ��constructive community feedback gave us great confidence in resolving the issue.��

Link to Hacking Group?

Curiously, ��MoneyTaker�� is also the name of a hacking collective that has orchestrated at least 20 attacks on banks and financial services companies in the U.S., UK, and Russia. However, there’s no indication MoneyTaker69 had links to the group. The moniker is likely to be a simple play on the name of 2003 World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker — one that proved to be equally apt.

The incident recalls another ��superuser�� cheating scandal where an account playing on AbsolutePoker in 2007, ��Potripper,�� was exposed, again by players on the TwoPlusTwo forums. The site later admitted players had been cheated over a period of 40 days and promised to refund $1.6 million. On this occasion, the superuser could see his opponents�� cards.

A similar incident occurred at around the same time on AbsolutePoker��s sister site, UltimateBet. This time, UltimateBet shareholder and former WSOP Main Event champion, Russ Hamilton, turned out to be the main perpetrator.

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Poker Champ Claims He Was Kidnapped by Gang in Extortion Plot https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-champ-claims-he-was-kidnapped-by-gang-in-extortion-plot/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-champ-claims-he-was-kidnapped-by-gang-in-extortion-plot/#respond Sun, 24 Dec 2023 17:50:56 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=304646 The FBI is reportedly investigating claims made by the family of mid-stakes poker champ George Janssen that he was kidnapped and held captive for more than a month. According to?WJRT-TV/Flint, the 41-year-old Michigan father was discovered zip-tied and bloodied at the side of a rural road in Bad Axe, Mich. on Dec. 16. He told […]

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The FBI is reportedly investigating claims made by the family of mid-stakes poker champ George Janssen that he was kidnapped and held captive for more than a month.

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George Janssen wins the Mid-States Poker Tour $1,600 Main Event at the Venetian in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2023, two months before his reported disappearance. (Image: msptpoker.com)

According to?WJRT-TV/Flint, the 41-year-old Michigan father was discovered zip-tied and bloodied at the side of a rural road in Bad Axe, Mich. on Dec. 16. He told the passer-by he flagged down that he managed to escape his captors.

Police released this photo of Janssen��s abandoned car, inside of which they found two $50 bills on the floor. (Image: Monroe County Sheriff��s Department)

A member of Janssen��s family, which reported him missing on Nov. 13, told WJRT that he was abducted and driven by two or three people to the Toledo area, where he was tied up for 35 days in the basement of a home.

On Dec. 16, the news station reported, Janssen appears to have been driven back to Michigan.

“From what we gathered, he was being brought up here to recover some money that was hidden to give to these two assailants,” Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson told WJRT.

Janssen, the former owner of a Michigan car dealership, has four championship rings from the World Series of Poker Circuit, a series of casino poker tournaments held annually since 2005 as a build-up to the World Series of Poker.

Janssen’s family said that he had complained about repeated extortion attempts for at least two years. That��s when his cash wins, which date back to 2015, really started ramping up. Online and in person, his winnings now total just north of $200K — including his two career-best cashes, $83K and $80K, from Mid-States Poker Tour wins within 90 days of his disappearance.

Hanson told the news station: “We can’t substantiate whether it did happen or it didn’t happen. But there are a lot of things that need to be looked into.��

All reports from the Huron County Sheriff��s Department, Bad Axe Police, and the Monroe County Sheriff��s Department have been turned over to the FBI, according to WJRT.

 

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Accused Poker Cheater Denies All Allegations https://www.desertdrama.com/news/accused-poker-cheater-denies-all-allegations/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/accused-poker-cheater-denies-all-allegations/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:17:21 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=301828 Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. The charges were leveled by fellow poker pros Nikhil ��Nik Airball�� Arcot and Wesley ��Wes Side�� Fei on X/Twitter this weekend. According to the ��Hustler Casino Live�� stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck to […]

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Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. The charges were leveled by fellow poker pros Nikhil ��Nik Airball�� Arcot and Wesley ��Wes Side�� Fei on X/Twitter this weekend.

Ye Shen, aka Tony Mars, has issued a statement declaring that he has never cheated in a poker game. (Image: Top Poker Streamers)

According to the ��Hustler Casino Live�� stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck to a recreational private game in Yorba Linda, Calif. for about a year. Shen��s deck supposedly allowed him to see through the cards, presumably with the help of special contact lenses,

“I’m writing this statement to set the record straight on some false accusations that personally damaged my reputation,” Shen wrote in a statement to Poker News. “I have won and lost huge amounts numerous times in my poker career, but I have never cheated in a game, and I have always paid when I lost.”

Marked Difference of Opinion

��After a game, we found a cheating deck,�� Fei told Poker News, stating his belief that Shen and two of his associates had brought it. ��The deck is a very good cheating deck that you can’t find. But we went to a very dark room and we used a blue light and then you can see the numbers on the back of the deck.”

In his statement to?PokerNews, Shen wrote: “I didn’t bring any cards anywhere.�� To back his claim, he wrote that ��since we are playing at Yorba, there was no need for me to bring cards because they have multiple decks there at the game.��

Shen continued: ��When I arrived at the game, there was 6-7 people already sitting at the table. So there is no way that I could have switched or brought cards since everyone was there.��

Wild Card

More to the point, Shen claimed that the real cheater came forward to him three weeks after the game.

One of the players who went back to China confessed to me on the phone and said he was sorry for all of the players blaming me,�� Shen wrote. ��He went on to tell me he switched the cards because he was losing so much recently.��

The cheat��s name is Sun, according to Shen, who said that after he received the confession, ��I went directly to the owner of the house and explained everything.�� Shen added that ��two other people other than me can confirm this.��

Harboring bad blood about being accused, Shen added that believes Fei accused him because he ��is broke, desperate, and tries to not pay the money he owes me.��

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Poker Pro Accused of Cheating to Win $3M https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-pro-accused-of-cheating-to-win-3m/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-pro-accused-of-cheating-to-win-3m/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:58:36 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=301604 Ye ��Tony Mars�� Shen has been accused of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of millions. Fellow poker pros Nikhil ��Nik Airball�� Arcot and Wesley ��Wes Side�� Fei made their allegations on X/Twitter this weekend. According to the ��Hustler Casino Live�� stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck to a recreational private […]

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Ye ��Tony Mars�� Shen has been accused of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of millions. Fellow poker pros Nikhil ��Nik Airball�� Arcot and Wesley ��Wes Side�� Fei made their allegations on X/Twitter this weekend.

Ye ��Tony Mars�� Shen plays during a recent ��Hustler Casino Live�� stream. (Image: pokerstrategy.com)

According to the ��Hustler Casino Live�� stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck to a recreational private game in Yorba Linda, Calif., where Arcot, Fei, and other friends played with blinds of $25/$50 and $50/$100.

Shen��s deck supposedly allowed him to see through the cards, presumably with the help of special contact lenses, according to the unsubstantiated allegations. For about a year, Shen supposedly won just over $3 million using this deck.

After a game, we found a cheating deck,�� Wesley told Poker News, which broke the story. ��The deck is a very good cheating deck that you can’t find. But we went to a very dark room and we used a blue light and then you can see the numbers on the back of the deck.”

Shen himself won about $1.6M, according to Wesley. However, along with his deck, he also brought to the games two co-conspirators whose winnings totaled $1.5M.

Wesley told Poker News that he has lost a total of $1M in the twice-weekly game, which he last attended in October. On X/Twitter, Arcot posted that he too was cheated out of $1M by ��someone who I thought was a close friend of mine.��

��All details and what not will be released soon in more digestible format,�� Arcot posted on Sunday.

Shen Denies Cheating

According to Wesley, after being confronted with the evidence, Shen admitted that the deck was marked. However, he denied cheating with it.

It’s a special deck and he admitted the deck has a problem,�� Wesley said. Wesley said Shen told him he didn��t know who brought the deck to the game.

“Mars said, ‘Maybe you’re losing and you don’t want to pay, so you’re changing the deck,'” Wesley told Poker News. “If we are cheating, how can we lose?”

These allegations have nothing to do with ��Hustler Casino Live,�� which is still smarting over its own poker cheating scandal last year.

Shen has yet to acknowledge the allegations via his X/Twitter account, @Marsback2earth.

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Pro Poker Player Banned for Cheating in the Brazilian Series of Poker https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pro-poker-player-banned-for-cheating-in-the-brazilian-series-of-poker/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pro-poker-player-banned-for-cheating-in-the-brazilian-series-of-poker/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:55:06 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=300248 While it’s possible to argue that a novice poker player may make a mistake at the table, that argument doesn’t hold up if it involves an experienced poker pro. That was the excuse Brazilian poker player Rafael Caiaffa made during a recent tournament, but his antics have cost him an indefinite ban from the game. […]

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While it’s possible to argue that a novice poker player may make a mistake at the table, that argument doesn’t hold up if it involves an experienced poker pro. That was the excuse Brazilian poker player Rafael Caiaffa made during a recent tournament, but his antics have cost him an indefinite ban from the game.

Brazilian poker player Rafael Caiaffa during a tournament
Brazilian poker player Rafael Caiaffa during a tournament. He has received a suspension from BSOP tournaments for cheating. (Image: SuperPoker)

Online poker media outlet Mundo Poker reported that Caiaffa violated a tournament rule during the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT), leading to a suspension from all Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) tournaments on Monday. The incident occurred early on Day 2 of the LAPT Mystery KO event, which had a buy-in of BRL5,000 (US$1,019).

During a table change where alternate players were being seated, a new table was set up with starting stacks already in the dealer’s possession. Caiaffa was given a seat at the table and inadvertently received an extra starting stack on top of the stack he brought to the table. At this point, it wasn’t too late to turn back.

Stashing the Stack

Realizing the error, Caiaffa stashed 100,000 in chips, equivalent to the starting stack, in his backpack. Later, during a table change and experiencing losses from his initial stack, he reintroduced the saved 100,000 chips.

However, all of his movements were caught on camera and by other players. They approached tournament officials and told them what happened, leading to Caiaffa’s prompt suspension.

Caiaffa has an established history of playing live and online poker. He appears as far back as 2008 in the World Series of Poker annals, and has also played on GGPoker. On the latter, he won a bracelet last year in the $2,500 NLHE Championship.

During an interview with Marcelo Souza, the editor of Card Player Brasil, Caiaffa admitted that he cheated when he kept the chips. He said he realized immediately that there had been a mistake and, according to his account of the story, told a friend that he would return the stack.

Caiaffa eventually rationalized his way out of coming clean. He told himself that the tournament dealer had made the mistake, which justified his subsequent decision to keep and play the chips.

Following his disqualification from the LAPT event and suspension from the BSOP festival, Caiaffa admitted to the extra stack addition and conceded that the suspension was warranted. While the suspension covers the current BSOP events, it could become a more permanent ban.

Devanir Campos, BSOP’s Director of Tournaments, said that BSOP officials will get together after the series wraps up to discuss what needs to happen. That could mean a lifetime ban.

BSOP Becomes Huge Draw

The BSOP Millions has established itself as the pinnacle of live poker in Brazil, currently underway in S?o Paulo. Sponsored by PokerStars, this series began on November 15 and runs through November 29 at the WTC Sheraton Golden Hall, marking the largest poker festival in the country.

With 100 tournaments spanning 15 days, the series guarantees BRL40 million (USD$8.2 million) in cash, a substantial increase from the previous year. Renowned players, such as Sam Greenwood, Jose Ignacio Barbero, Fedor Holz, and Philipe Pizzari Pinto, have graced the event in the past.

The Main Event, already drawing over 2,315 participants, promises an enticing BRL10 million (US$2.03 million) guarantee, solidifying BSOP Millions as a must-attend spectacle for poker aficionados and top-tier players alike.

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Meth-Dealing Kiwi Poker Champ Gets Add-On for Smuggling Prison Drugs https://www.desertdrama.com/news/meth-dealing-kiwi-poker-champ-gets-add-on-for-smuggling-drugs/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/meth-dealing-kiwi-poker-champ-gets-add-on-for-smuggling-drugs/#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:35:50 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=298274 A poker player from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, imprisoned in 2018 for drug smuggling, saw his sentenced increased this week �C because of more drug smuggling. Shane Thompson, also known as Shane Tamihana, enjoyed success at the poker tables in the mid-2010s. The highlight was winning the main event at the Sky City Casino��s Festival […]

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A poker player from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, imprisoned in 2018 for drug smuggling, saw his sentenced increased this week �C because of more drug smuggling.

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Shane Thompson, above, won the Sky City Festival of Poker main event in 2016. In 2018, a judge described him as ��the most comprehensive methamphetamine dealer Hawke��s Bay has ever seen.��(Image: New Zealand Herald)

Shane Thompson, also known as Shane Tamihana, enjoyed success at the poker tables in the mid-2010s. The highlight was winning the main event at the Sky City Casino��s Festival of Poker in 2016 for US$36,555. It was probably the only ��honest�� money he made that year.

Thompson was reportedly an aggressive poker player who liked to call out the phrase ��Later Bo�� as he knocked an opponent out of a tournament in an unpleasant breach of poker etiquette.

But his luck ran out in 2017 when he was nailed for dealing meth. When police raided his home, they found 2.6kg of the drug and more than NZ$170K (US$100K) in cash. In 2018, a judge described Thompson as ��the most comprehensive methamphetamine dealer Hawke��s Bay has ever seen�� before sentencing him to 13 years in prison.

Thompson made it 15 years Friday after he was found guilty of organizing a small quantity of methamphetamine to be smuggled in for another prisoner in January this year, The New Zealand Herald reports.

Illegal Cellphone

Judge Bridget Mackintosh at Napier District Court sentenced Thompson to 23 months, which will be added to the term he is already serving. That��s for supplying methamphetamine, smuggling, and unauthorized possession of a cell phone.

Thompson used the illegal cellphone to contact an unknown person to provide the drugs, which were handed to a woman who was due to visit another inmate.

Johnson��s lawyer, Eric Forster, argued that Thompson had done this ��simply [as] a favor�� to the inmate and not for any personal gain. But Mackintosh said Thompson��s behavior ��undermine[d] any rehabilitation programs in prison and undermine[d] prison discipline.��

Meth Empire?

Prosecutors accused Thompson of being the head of a sprawling criminal network that flooded $4.2 million worth of meth into the Hawke��s Bay region over 11 months in 2016 and 2017.

In 2018, New Zealand��s Police Asset Recovery Unit seized five vehicles and NZ$130K in cash from Thompson and his second-in-command, Petera Gamlen. In 2022, authorities were granted court orders to seize Thompson��s home, an additional vehicle, and bank deposits totaling more than NZ$90K, despite his attempt to hide these assets by registering them under aliases.

In May 2023, Thompson attempted to have his sentence reduced in New Zealand��s Supreme Court. He argued that the no-parole period of six and a half years attached to his sentence undermined the established legal standard of granting discounts for guilty pleas. The bid was unsuccessful.

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Soccer Star and Blaze Ambassador Neymar Runs Deep in $5,200 Poker Tournament https://www.desertdrama.com/news/soccer-star-and-blaze-ambassador-neymar-runs-deep-in-5200-poker-tournament/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/soccer-star-and-blaze-ambassador-neymar-runs-deep-in-5200-poker-tournament/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:19:14 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=296432 Neymar da Silva Santos J��nior, whom most soccer fans know as Neymar J��nior, continues to make a name for himself at the poker tables. The Brazilian soccer player and ambassador for the online casino Blaze has a lot more time to play and recently came close to securing his first tournament win before settling for […]

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Neymar da Silva Santos J��nior, whom most soccer fans know as Neymar J��nior, continues to make a name for himself at the poker tables. The Brazilian soccer player and ambassador for the online casino Blaze has a lot more time to play and recently came close to securing his first tournament win before settling for second place.

Brazilian soccer player Neymar down on the field with an injury
Brazilian soccer player Neymar down on the field with an injury. He’s reportedly spending more time at the poker tables while out of the game. (Image: Getty Images)

Neymar, who allegedly once lost $1 million gambling online, came very close to winning the $5,200 Titans Event on PokerStars a little over a week ago. Although he received $66,056 as runner-up, he was probably disappointed that he couldn’t win the title.

A $5,200 buy-in doesn’t seem like much for a player who recently signed a two-year, $219-million contract. However, being as competitive on the feet as he is on the field, his only goal is to win.

In the final heads-up battle, Neymar faced Lithuanian player Domynikas “Mikensonas” Mikolaitis. Both players guaranteed themselves at least $66,35, but the champion received the title and an additional $25,600. Lithuania has never beaten Brazil on the soccer field, but the Lithuanian player was stronger at the poker table.

Mykolaitis now has a story about defeating a soccer icon and the $91,663 he added to his bankroll. He doesn’t have a profile on Hendon Mob, but he has accumulated more than $350K in poker victories over the past seven years.

Not the First Time

This isn’t the first time Neymar, who transferred from French side Paris St. Germain to Saudi side Al-Hilal for $95.5 million in the summer, has spent time at online poker tables. In January of last year, during the PokerStars Winter Series, he finished third in the $1,050 Turbo event and won $23,884. Another third place in the $10,300 high roller earned him $125,678.

Six months later, he made his WSOP debut. He didn’t cash in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship. But in the $1,000 Super Turbo tournament, he finished 49th for $3,959.

He was injured in a World Cup qualifier against Uruguay and now faces a lengthy rehabilitation. Medical tests confirmed a meniscus tear in his knee and a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture.

Titans Events Continue to Draw Crowds

The PokerStars Titans Event is an online poker tournament that attracts some of the biggest names in the game. It’s the largest buy-in weekly tournament at PokerStars, with a standard buy-in of $5,200.

The event typically sees many players, creating a significant prize pool. For instance, one event saw 69 players create a $345K prize pool. The top finishers win a slice, with the champion taking home the lion’s share.

Rodrigo “seijistar” Seiji Sirichuk from Brazil won $93,118 in one event, and the recent win by Mikolaitis was also one of the biggest. The event is known for its intense competition and high stakes, with some players calling it the ��temporary high-stakes championship.��

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Former Felt Foes Unite to Expose Poker Scam https://www.desertdrama.com/news/former-felt-foes-unite-to-expose-poker-scam/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/former-felt-foes-unite-to-expose-poker-scam/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:38:21 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=293583 Two bitter poker rivals have united to expose a social engineering scam that exploited their mutual animosity. Benjamin ��Blank Check Ben�� Lee and ��Wes Side�� Wesley Fei, both regulars on the Hustler Casino Live livestream, were also both victimized by a fraudster, according to PokerNews, though only Lee lost money. On September 4, a WordPress […]

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Two bitter poker rivals have united to expose a social engineering scam that exploited their mutual animosity. Benjamin ��Blank Check Ben�� Lee and ��Wes Side�� Wesley Fei, both regulars on the Hustler Casino Live livestream, were also both victimized by a fraudster, according to PokerNews, though only Lee lost money.

Benjamin ��Blank Check Ben�� Lee and ��Wes Side�� Wesley Fei face each other in October 2022. Lee��s hand gesture epitomizes the pair��s relationship at the time. (Image: WPT Global)

On September 4, a WordPress website titled ��Uncovering Wesley�� claimed to be published by someone Wesley cheated out of $250K in a 2022 cryptocurrency scam. The blog also accused Wesley of sending ��thugs�� to burglarize his house.

The accuser then messaged Lee, Wesley��s well-known enemy, via Instagram. He said he planned to go public with Wesley��s misdeeds but needed financial help to do so. Initially, Lee trusted his gut and refused the invitation.

Always Stick With Your Gut

A few months later, however, Lee changed his mind when the accuser told him that Wesley had offered him $35K to expose Lee as the ��originator of this campaign of character assassination.��

Fearing for his reputation, Lee wired the accuser $1,000. It was at this point that he learned that the payee identified himself as a London-based financial recruiter named Russell Thamer. He also wired Thamer, if that was his real name, another $1,500 before Thamer offered to sell Lee evidence that Wesley had committed immigration fraud. All it would cost was $100K.

Once again, Lee turned him down and then changed his mind.

He reconsidered this time because Thamer told Lee he now faced threats, possibly from Wesley��s associates. Fearing for his safety, Lee hired security for his LA home and sent Thamer $28K in crypto to see the alleged immigration fraud evidence.

The evidence, of course, was phony.

Lee and Wesley both discussed the problem with Hustler Casino Live co-owner Ryan Feldman, who arranged a powwow. Comparing notes, the two players realized they had been played against each other.

Thamer had simultaneously attempted similar mind games on Wesley, however, he didn’t fall for any.

I provided funding and assistance to the author because I sincerely believed he was an innocent victim who had been defrauded of his life savings,�� Lee said in a statement. ��However, I have since discovered that the author is a professional fraudster who has attempted to scam, defraud, and extort both Wesley and myself.”

Lee said he apologized twice to Wesley for his part in the scam.

��His reputation has suffered for no reason other than that I was gullible enough to be manipulated by a fraudster,�� he said. ��I am now repeating my apology to him in public. I accept full accountability for my mistakes, and I should have done better.��

Because of their shared ordeal, according to PokerNews, Lee and Wesley have since buried the hatchet and become friends.

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PokerStars Offering Players North American Poker Tour Prize Packages https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pokerstars-offering-players-north-american-poker-tour-prize-packages/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pokerstars-offering-players-north-american-poker-tour-prize-packages/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:59:41 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=291828 The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is reemerging in Las Vegas this November, and PokerStars has revealed a series of chances for poker enthusiasts to secure an all-expenses-paid trip to the poker party. It��s been over a decade since the NAPT was held, but the changes in gambling legislation across the U.S. are paying off. […]

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The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is reemerging in Las Vegas this November, and PokerStars has revealed a series of chances for poker enthusiasts to secure an all-expenses-paid trip to the poker party. It��s been over a decade since the NAPT was held, but the changes in gambling legislation across the U.S. are paying off.

Poker players participate in a packed tournament
Poker players participate in a packed tournament. PokerStars is bringing back its North American Poker Tour later this year. (Image: PokerGO Tour)

Thanks to the still-controversial decision by the federal government to block online poker in 2011, the NAPT came to a grinding halt after just two years. With Pennsylvania, Michigan, and other states now legalizing online poker within their jurisdictions, the game is quickly making up for lost time and reversing what became known as Poker Black Friday 12 years ago.

The NAPT will be held from November 4-12, just ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix on November 19. Poker players from beginners to pros have a shot at winning a seat in the NAPT Las Vegas High Roller event through the ongoing PokerStars promos.

Events For All Players

Resorts World Las Vegas will host the NAPT, which features nonstop action daily with 32 events in total. Buy-ins start at $250, and among the likely top candidates for players are:

Event Date Buy-In
NAPT Main Event ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 6�C11 ? ? ? ? ? $1,650
NAPT NLH Super High Roller ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 5-6 ? ? ? ? ? $10,300
NAPT NLH Cup ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 9-12 ? ? ? ? ? $550
NAPT NLH High Roller ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 10-12 ? ? ? ? ? $5,300
NAPT NLH Mystery Bounty ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 11-12 ? ? ? ? ? $1,100

To give the NAPT a boost, PokerStars is offering a number of special ��Vegas Gold Passes�� ahead of the event. These packages are worth $20K, and players in Italy, Spain, France, and in legal U.S. online gaming markets have a chance to pick one up.

The package includes a spot in the Las Vegas High Roller, a $5,300 buy-in event. It also includes a three-day pass for two to attend the Oracle Red Bull Racing Fan Experience on November 16-18. That event will showcase Red Bull��s Formula 1 team, of which PokerStars is a partner.

There��s also a 10-day hotel stay for two, as well as $3,653 to help cover flights and expenses. The hotel package is good for November 9-19.

Going for the Gold

PokerStars players who use the ��.com�� site and those in Italy can enter the platform��s Power Path program for a chance at winning a Gold Pass. It��s free to enter and awards a step ticket to players who participate in real money games. Accumulating tickets can lead the player to win a Gold Pass, which can be used as an entry for an all-expense paid trip, or to play an online tournament.

Starting this Monday and running through October 26, PokerStars is taking the Gold Pass scheme to a new level. There will be 10 Vegas Gold Passes that include the NAPT package available for .com players, and two for Italy players.

Players in Spain got a head start. PokerStars rolled out its Vegas Gold Pass Grind in the country on September 25, and will keep it going until October 25. It offers three Vegas Gold Passes through a ��Rake Race,�� which will see the top three finalists with the highest rake at the end of the contest each win one of the packages.

France, Ontario, and legal online poker markets in the U.S. will join Spain in offering Vegas Gold Passes through different freeroll tournaments. All players who win any of the Vegas Gold Passes available must be at least 18 years old to collect the packages and play in Las Vegas.

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Poker Player Bluffed Terminal Cancer to Get WSOP Buy-In https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-player-bluffed-terminal-cancer-to-get-wsop-buy-in/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-player-bluffed-terminal-cancer-to-get-wsop-buy-in/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:29:53 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=290696 A Vallejo, California man has admitted that he lied about having terminal colon cancer to raise the $10K buy-in to the World Series of Poker Main Event. Poker player Rob Mercer, 37, made $12,500 from a GoFundMe page and is believed to have received an additional $18K from private donations. And in an extraordinary interview […]

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A Vallejo, California man has admitted that he lied about having terminal colon cancer to raise the $10K buy-in to the World Series of Poker Main Event.

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Rob Mercer, at the WSOP above, is a feel-good story turned sour as he admitted to lying about having a terminal condition Wednesday. (Image: LVRJ)

Poker player Rob Mercer, 37, made $12,500 from a GoFundMe page and is believed to have received an additional $18K from private donations. And in an extraordinary interview with The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday, Mercer says he isn��t going to give any of it back.

The Review-Journal contacted Mercer Wednesday because it originally ran a feel-good piece about his experiences at the WSOP. But since that piece was published in July, some of those who donated to the cause became suspicious and turned against Mercer.

“I did lie about having colon cancer. I don��t have colon cancer. I used that to cover my situation,�� Mercer told the newspaper. ��What I did was wrong. I shouldn��t have told people I have colon cancer. I did that just as a spur-of-the-moment thing when someone asked me what kind of cancer I had.”

��Dying�� Wish

In his GoFundMe page, Mercer described himself as a semi-professional player who had never had the bankroll to buy into the Main Event outright and wondered if he would ever fulfill his dream.

I found myself going back and forth wondering if I was ever going to do this [fundraiser] because my pride means a lot to me and I never like asking people for help,�� Mercer wrote on GoFundMe. ��But my dream has always been to play the World Series of Poker Main Event.��

He claimed he was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in August 2022 and had been given between six to 18 months to live, and suddenly, the need to fulfill his dream had become more pressing.

��Vindictive Villain��

Mercer told the Review-Journal that he lied because he believes he has breast cancer, although he admitted this hasn’t been diagnosed. He claimed he had colon cancer because he believed this was the least ��embarrassing�� of the two conditions.

Mercer added there was no need to repay the money since it had been given to him because he was ill, which he claims he is.

Among those who donated was Cody Daniels, a poker player who actually does have a terminal illness. ?

��They��re making me out to be some kind of monster, like this vindictive villain who planned this months in advance,�� Mercer told the Review-Journal. ��It��s just crazy. But I understand. I get it.��

Mercer was eliminated from the World Series Main Event within a few hours.

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World Poker Tour World Championship Looks To Set New Pot Record https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-poker-tour-world-championship-looks-to-set-new-pot-record/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-poker-tour-world-championship-looks-to-set-new-pot-record/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:46:01 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=287807 The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event this past summer saw 10,043 entries and set new records for the monumental competition. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is gambling on a significantly larger pot to raise the stakes even higher as it prepares for its World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas series later this year. […]

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event this past summer saw 10,043 entries and set new records for the monumental competition. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is gambling on a significantly larger pot to raise the stakes even higher as it prepares for its World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas series later this year.

Eliot Hudon celebrates his win at the WPT World Championship in 2022
Eliot Hudon celebrates his win at the WPT World Championship in 2022. The event returns this year with a record-setting $40M guarantee. (Image: Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The WPT World Championship attracted 2,960 entries last year when it wrapped up in Las Vegas. It carried a $15-million guarantee that eventually swelled to over $29 million because of the participation.

This year, the WPT, which is headed to Liechtenstein this month, believes it can do even better and is warning the Wynn casino to get ready to be inundated with players. It will put up $40 million in guaranteed cash for the event.

The WPT World Championship festival begins on November 29 and runs through December 23. Buy-ins range from as low as $600 for an NLHE tourney to as much as $1 million for the Big One for One Drop. Many events have guaranteed prize pools, although several, like the Big One for One Drop, will depend on the number of entries.

Dates & Buy-ins

The big Championship Event runs from December 12-21, beginning with four starting flights, and has a buy-in of $10,400. Most of the buy-in, $9,800, goes into the prize pool. That means at least 4,082 entries are needed for the WPT to avoid an overlay.

Since the 2022 event, attendance pushed the prize pool to $29 million.

Another big event will likely be the WPT Prime Championship. It first landed on the Las Vegas poker felt last year and attracted 5,430 entries in the battle for a piece of the $5.2-million prize pool. This year��s event will run December 7-12, with a $5-million guarantee. Stephen Song won it last year, pocketing more than $712,000.

More Championships on the Horizon

The WPT World Championship festival is just one of several big poker events still to come in Las Vegas this year. Among the upcoming options is a tournament hosted by the Vegas Golden Knights Alumni Association (VGK), and another PokerStars is putting together.

The VGK will show off their favorite NHL team in a tournament on October 13. Palms Casino Resort will host the event, which the organization puts together every year to raise money for charitable causes.

Among those poker players who will have a chance to face are former NHL players, Deryk Engelland, now the VGK��s president, and Shane Hnidy, its VP. Daniel Negreanu is a huge Vegas Golden Knights fan, so maybe the six-time WSOP bracelet winner will make a surprise visit.

The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is returning after a 12-year involuntary vacation. It will make its first stop at Resorts World Las Vegas beginning November 4.

The NAPT debuted in 2010 as poker began to grab hold in the U.S. However, the arrival of the game��s ��Black Friday�� a year later, which saw the U.S. government controversially target online gaming, it was shut down.

There��s a $5,300 buy-in high roller event on the schedule for the upcoming series and a $1,650 main event. PokerStars is still finalizing the full details and schedule.

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World Poker Tour Set To Descend on Grand Casino Liechtenstein https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-poker-tour-set-to-descend-on-grand-casino-liechtenstein/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-poker-tour-set-to-descend-on-grand-casino-liechtenstein/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:31:42 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=285396 The World Poker Tour (WPT) is helping show the anti-gambling segment in Liechtenstein that it has no place. The WPT is once again demonstrating its global reach and reputation by hosting a poker tournament series at the Grand Casino Liechtenstein beginning at the end of the month. The European principality, nestled between Switzerland and Austria, […]

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The World Poker Tour (WPT) is helping show the anti-gambling segment in Liechtenstein that it has no place. The WPT is once again demonstrating its global reach and reputation by hosting a poker tournament series at the Grand Casino Liechtenstein beginning at the end of the month.

The entrance to the Grand Casino Liechtenstein
The entrance to the Grand Casino Liechtenstein, which will host a World Poker Tour tournament series starting later this month. (Image: Hochge Pokert)

The European principality, nestled between Switzerland and Austria, and the casino will play host to a gathering of poker enthusiasts and professional players. They are converging for a chance to showcase their skills and luck on the felt. The WPT Prime Lichtenstein begins on August 30 and runs through September 11.

At the beginning of the year, a group of anti-gambling pundits, known as IG VolksMeinung, tried to ban casinos in Liechtenstein. It attempted to drum up public support for the initiative, but failed miserably.

A Million Reasons to Visit Liechtenstein

In typical poker tournament fashion, the Main Event will likely be the biggest attraction. With a CHF1 million (US$1.13 million) guarantee on the table against a CHF1,100 (US$1,251) buy-in, it��s easy to see why.

The Main Event begins on September 6 with six starting flights. Day 2 will start on September 10, followed by the final table on September 11.

For players who want to warm up for the Main Event or simply want cheaper options, there are plenty to choose from. Among them are:

Event Date Buy-in Prize
Opener? Aug. 30 CHF300 (US$341) CHF30,000 (US$34,150) GTD
Main Event Satellite Aug. 30 CHF200 (US$227) 5 Main Event seats
Deepstack Aug. 31-Sept. 3 CHF200 CHF100,000 (US$113,830)
Pot-Limit Omaha Sept. 2? CHF300 No guarantee
Ladies Event?????? Sept. 3 CHF200 No guarantee
Seniors Event Sept. 4? CHF200 No guarantee
20/20/20 Sept. 5? CHF200 CHF20,000 (US$227,660)
Main Event Satellite Sept. 7? CHF200 10 Main Event seats
High Roller Sept. 11? CHF1,980 (US$2,253) No guarantee

In addition to the on-location satellites, players can also compete for a chance to win a tournament seat online. WPT Global is offering a variety of satellite events through which the winners can participate in a live event of their choosing.

These online satellite events, Passport Qualifiers, have a buy-in of just $110 and are held every Saturday and Sunday. The winners receive a buy-in package worth up to $1,500, depending on the event and the location.

Hop to the Bahamas

For those U.S. players who can��t make it to Liechtenstein, or who don��t want to, there��s something closer to home later this year. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced its WSOP Paradise schedule in the Bahamas.

The series, the first in what the WSOP hopes will become a regular fixture, takes place at Atlantis Paradise Island from December 3-14. There will be 15 bracelet events and more than $50 million in guaranteed cash up for grabs.

Event buy-ins start as low as $800 for the Flip & Go, with no set prize pool, and go as high as $100K for the Ultra High Roller event. The latter has a guarantee of $5 million.

The Main Event is a $5,000 buy-in tournament with a guarantee of $15 million. The WSOP is hoping the weather holds up to avoid an overlay. There��s also a $10M guarantee for the $25K High Rollers Championship, and several events with guarantees of $1M and $2M.

The WSOP is running the series in collaboration with GGPoker, which will be giving away Main Event packages through its online poker portal. There will be 1,000 available, all of which offer accommodations for 11 nights, meal passes, and the $5,000 Main Event buy-in.

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‘Largest Poker Event in South America’ Coming to Brazil https://www.desertdrama.com/news/largest-poker-event-in-south-america-coming-to-brazil/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/largest-poker-event-in-south-america-coming-to-brazil/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:10:29 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=284723 The poker ecosystem in Latin America will raise the bar on live tournament events if everything goes according to plan. In January of next year, the Kings Series of Poker (KSOP) GGPoker South America will take place in Brazil, and is being billed as the largest poker event ever seen in the region. A total […]

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The poker ecosystem in Latin America will raise the bar on live tournament events if everything goes according to plan. In January of next year, the Kings Series of Poker (KSOP) GGPoker South America will take place in Brazil, and is being billed as the largest poker event ever seen in the region. A total of BRL35 million (US$7.1 million) in guaranteed prize money will be on the table.

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The sun sets behind Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The city will play host next January to what will reportedly be the largest poker tournament in South America. (Image: Pinterest)

The event, which will last 15 days, will take place in Rio de Janeiro at the beachside town of Barra da Tijuca. Players will have a chance to participate in more than 70 events, including a BRL$100,000 (US$20,000) Super High Roller.

There’s also a BRL5,000 (US$1,000) Main Event, with a guaranteed prize pool of BRL10 million (US$2 million). The winner will automatically pocket BRL2 million (US$408,000) on top of his or her winnings.

Raising the Poker Bar In South America

The tournament series promises to “shake up the poker community like never before in Brazil,” according to a KSOP press release. It added that the Super High Roller will be the “most glamorous event” and will feature “Brazilian stars and international poker stars.”

Felipe “Mojave” Ramos, fourth on the Brazilian all-time poker money list and a GGPoker ambassador, tweeted about the event on X, the newest iteration of Twitter. He said the tournament will be an excellent opportunity for players, especially since there would be no direct taxes on winnings. In addition, there will be events for all budgets, making them accessible to a wide range of players.

Online poker platform GGPoker will start running satellite events for possible entry into the main event on November 5. At the same time, it will launch tourneys and other chances to win packages that include the tournament entry and lodging at the event’s host, the Sheraton Grand Rio.

The upcoming series is a continuation of a partnership between GGPoker and KSOP that began at the beginning of the year. The first series took place in Rio de Janeiro from February 8 to 14, part of a planned schedule of seven stages throughout the year in different Latin American countries. Five of these are live events, while the other two are online.

Poker Calendar Filling Up

Despite a reduction in participation in certain events, the recent World Series of Poker (WSOP) series in Las Vegas, which reportedly set new attendance records, shows that there’s no shortage of interest. As a result, the global poker calendar is becoming increasingly packed with events.

The Maryland State Poker Championship is currently underway, and the WSOP Europe is coming this October. The WSOP Europe Main Event might not be ready to award the winner the $12 million the WSOP Vegas Main Event did. But it’s getting there.

The tournament, returning to the Czech Republic, offers a guaranteed prize pool of �5 million ($5.51 million). Last year’s WSOP Europe Main Event topped the guarantee by $2.3 million.

In addition, PokerStars and Casino Barcelona in Spain will turn the city into the central point of international poker this month. Casino Barcelona is also going to host the Spanish Poker Championship from August 11 to 21. Then, the Estrellas Poker Tour will run from August 21 and 28.

The PokerStars Live European Poker Tour (EPT), which has already completed stops in France and Monte Carlo, will also descend on Barcelona from August 21 to September 3. It then moves to Cyprus in October and Prague in December.

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Daniel Weinman Wins Largest WSOP Main Event Prize Ever https://www.desertdrama.com/news/daniel-weinman-wins-wsop-main-event/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/daniel-weinman-wins-wsop-main-event/#respond Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:12:22 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=281445 A 35-year-old poker pro from Atlanta is on top of the poker world. Daniel Weinman won $12.1 million, the biggest prize in World Series of Poker (WSOP) history, and his second bracelet on Monday afternoon. Weinman outlasted a record-breaking field of 10,043 entrants who generated a massive $94 million prize pool for the Horseshoe Las […]

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A 35-year-old poker pro from Atlanta is on top of the poker world. Daniel Weinman won $12.1 million, the biggest prize in World Series of Poker (WSOP) history, and his second bracelet on Monday afternoon. Weinman outlasted a record-breaking field of 10,043 entrants who generated a massive $94 million prize pool for the Horseshoe Las Vegas tournament.

Daniel Weinman poses with his $12.1 million on Monday evening after winning the WSOP Main Event at Horseshoe Las Vegas. (Image: Poker News)

Weinman beat Steven Jones, a 35-year-old real estate broker from Scottsdale, Ariz., in a battle of top pair (J-J-8) vs. top pair with a better kicker (J-J-K). When the ace of hearts hit the river, Weinman turned to his ecstatic rail to celebrate.

Jones still won $6.5 million, his first cash in a $10K event, and an extraordinary showing for an amateur player.

The final table restarted a little more than two hours earlier, with Weinman and Jones facing Las Vegas poker pro Adam Walton. Jones had been in first place with 40% of the chips with Weinman trailing and Walton, who had been the final table chip leader, in command of a short stack that wasn��t all that short. He held 83 big blinds to Jones�� 119.

Steven Jones and Daniel Weinman during the last hand of this year’s Main Event. (Image: PokerGo screen shot)

Aggressive play sent Walton to the rail within an hour of the game��s restart. He finished the day $4 million richer than when he started when his pocket 8s failed to improve against Weinman��s pocket aces. This gave Weinman 74% of the chips in play, a lead he never relinquished to Jones.

With more than $3.7 million in career earnings, Weinman previously won the 2015 WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event. His previous best WSOP Main Event finish was 173rd place.

Weinman��s win ends the longest WSOP streak without an American Main Event champion: four years.

On Sunday night, during the first day of final-table play, Jones won a sizable pot from Germany��s Jan-Peter Jachtmann during four-handed play to vault into the lead for a few hands before Walton finally sent Jachtmann to the rail.

That ended the chances of a potential champ from Germany for the third time in the last five years.

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World Series of Poker Main Event Sets Entries Record, as WSOP Returns to Horseshoe https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-series-of-poker-main-event-sets-entry-record/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/world-series-of-poker-main-event-sets-entry-record/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:54:06 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=280447 The 2023 World Series of Main Event has set a record for the number of $10,000 entries.

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP), the 54th running of the months-long tournament series, has set a new entry record for the Main Event.

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The World Series of Poker Main Event’s previous entry record of 8,773 buy-ins has been smashed at the 2023 tournament. WSOP organizers say more than 9,300 entries for the Main Event have been accepted, with each paying the $10,000 fare. (Image: WSOP)

Organizers of the 2023 WSOP announced Thursday that the Main Event, officially the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship, eclipsed the previous record for the number of entries. The former record of 8,773 buy-ins set in 2006 when Jamie Gold prevailed for the $12 million first-place prize was eclipsed Thursday afternoon.

Good afternoon players. I wanted to inform you that a few minutes ago, we officially set the mark of 8,774 players,” Ty Stewart, senior vice president and executive director of the World Series of Poker, told Main Event players. “This is the biggest Main Event of all-time, and the richest live poker tournament of all-time.”

Calling it a “historic day for poker,” Stewart later said in a statement that he hopes the record is short-lived.

“This is a colossal day not only in the history of the WSOP, but for poker itself,” Stewart said. “We’re hoping this record is short-lived and we’ll be ready for another monster turnout next summer.”

Horseshoe a Ringer So Far

The 54th edition of the WSOP marked the return of the iconic tournament to the Horseshoe. Benny Binion founded the World Series of Poker in 1970 and the annual no-limit showdown was held at his Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas until 2004.

Harrah’s Entertainment, today Caesars Entertainment, acquired the WSOP in 2004 and relocated the tournament series to the company’s off-Strip Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Following widespread criticism of the Rio’s deteriorating conditions and its security, paired with Caesars renaming Bally’s Las Vegas the Horseshoe following its sale of the Bally’s brand last year, Caesars decided to relocate the WSOP to the Horseshoe for 2023.

The tournament’s return to the Horseshoe brand has so far been a roaring success. As of Friday afternoon, the WSOP Main Event has counted more than 9,300 entries for the $10K Main Event.

“It’s particularly special to make history in our first year at the new Horseshoe Las Vegas. I think today is a huge testament to the passion of the entire poker community who rallies around this event every year,” Stewart added.

Poker is Back

It was only a decade or so ago when some in the gaming community wondered whether poker, especially No-Limit Texas hold’em, was losing popularity. The game’s boom was sparked in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker, an accountant by day who gained entry into the $10K Main Event by qualifying online, beat 838 other entries to claim the $2.5 million first-place prize.

Dubbed the “Moneymaker effect,” the WSOP Main Event saw its field increase rapidly to more than 2,500 entries the following year and to more than 5,600 entries for the 2005 tournament. The field ballooned to 8,773 entries in 2006.

Entries for the 2007 Main Event dropped below 6,400. The field eclipsed 7,000 entries just once between 2007 through 2016.

2017 sparked yet another poker boom, as the field totaled 7,221. The Main Event topped 8,500 entries in 2019 before the pandemic.

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Poker Legend Phil Hellmuth Wins 17th WSOP Bracelet https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-phil-hellmuth-wins-17th-wsop-bracelet/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-phil-hellmuth-wins-17th-wsop-bracelet/#respond Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:12:09 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=279810 In one of the top moments of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) so far, poker legend Phil Hellmuth on Sunday won his 17th tournament bracelet, placing even more distance between himself and his closest rivals on the all-time bracelet list. (Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and the late Doyle Brunson each have 10.) Hellmuth […]

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In one of the top moments of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) so far, poker legend Phil Hellmuth on Sunday won his 17th tournament bracelet, placing even more distance between himself and his closest rivals on the all-time bracelet list. (Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and the late Doyle Brunson each have 10.)

Phil Hellmuth reacts following his 17th World Series of Poker bracelet. (Image: Kay Miller/Poker News)

Hellmuth cut a swath through the 642-entrant field, which was the largest $10K Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold ��em event by 53%, but found himself in the middle of the pack at the final table. There, he chased after Chris Savage, the LA player who commanded 40% of the chips in play after leaving Lawrence Brandt in 10th place. At one point in the roller-coaster action, Hellmuth was down to two big blinds ($60K at the 15K/30K blind level).

Hellmuth turned things around when his pocket aces left Ivey in 6th place with king-10 and a $133,461 payday. L.A. player Rick Savage��s time came next, followed by Brazilian player Kelvin Kerber and German player Tom Kunze.

This left Justin Zaki to battle it out with helmet for the $803,818 first prize and bracelet. Hellmuth felled his Floridian opponent after just one hand of head-up play, in which Hellmuth flopped two pair and called Zaki��s all-in bet, building a full house on the turn. Zaki walked away with $496,801.

Hellmuth has won a WSOP bracelet in five different decades since winning his first Main Event in 1989. His last was in 2021.

��This is the first year of my career that all the great players called me great or the greatest,�� he told Poker News. ��Shaun Deeb is one of the greatest players in the world. He finally understands and was giving me compliments like, ��You��re the best player in the tournament.����

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Moldova, Poland Take Home First Live WSOP Bracelets from Las Vegas https://www.desertdrama.com/news/moldova-poland-win-first-ever-live-wsop-bracelets-in-vegas/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/moldova-poland-win-first-ever-live-wsop-bracelets-in-vegas/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:56:56 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=279459 The US may be the country with the most World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, but it can��t claim all of them. The list of winning countries just grew a little longer this week, adding Moldova and Poland with their first two live-poker tournament wins. The US tops the WSOP bracelet list with 1,453, according […]

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The US may be the country with the most World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, but it can��t claim all of them. The list of winning countries just grew a little longer this week, adding Moldova and Poland with their first two live-poker tournament wins.

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Poker players participate in a WSOP tournament. Players from Moldova and Poland have given their countries their first live WSOP tournament bracelets. (Image: Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The US tops the WSOP bracelet list with 1,453, according to The Hendon Mob, with Canada (78) and England (60) in second and third. Even Morocco and Kosovo have been on the list for a couple of years.

Thanks to strong performances that included beating several high-profile players, Moldova and Poland now appear on the list for live tournament wins. With more poker ahead in the ongoing series, there��s still a chance for these two countries to add more hardware to their collections.

Poland Earns WSOP Bracelet Through Horecki

The WSOP $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Eight-or-Better event attracted 566 entries, including tournament regulars like Brian Rast and Sergio Braga. Another long-time regular was there, as well, still looking for his first WSOP title 17 years after his first live cash.

It finally happened, and it couldn��t have been more colorful. Poland��s Marcin Horecki emerged with the bracelet after taking down four-time WSOP bracelet winner Mike ��The Mouth�� Matusow.

Horecki overcame considerable odds to get to the final table, and subsequently, take home the win. He was near the bottom of the standings when the last day of action began, but played smart to move up the pay ladder.

That included surpassing Rast, a six-time WSOP bracelet winner and three-time Poker Players Championship winner, who exited in seventh place. It also meant having to face Matusow in the final heads-up battle.

As players continued to fall and the field shrunk to just two, Horecki and Matusow locked horns. Horecki started off with a massive chip lead. But Matusow, a 2023 Poker Hall of Fame finalist, repeatedly clawed his way back to life.

Eventually, the end was in sight. Matusow was on the ropes with a chip stack that was dwindling quickly. An all-in shove and an answered plea to the poker gods didn��t deliver the right cards. He had to settle for second place and $95,957.

Horecki broke his dry spell in spectacular fashion, pushing his lifetime live poker winnings to almost $1.6 million. His last first-place win came six years ago when he won the �330 Seven-Card Stud tournament in the WSOP Circuit series in Rozvadov, Czech Republic.

Poland already had a WSOP bracelet, but through an online tourney. Dominik Panka won it in the $2,100 No-Limit Hold’em – Bounty Championship online event in 2021.

Moldova in the Books

Moldova never had a WSOP bracelet winner until Pavel Plesuv, although plenty of his compatriots have tried. Dragos Trofimov is probably the most recognizable, having spent a long time close to the top of the country��s all-time moneymakers.

When Plesuv sat down for the WSOP $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold’em event, he probably didn��t expect to emerge as the winner. He��s Moldova��s leading poker player and had around $5 million in winnings before the game. However, he’s never managed to find a WSOP bracelet event title.

After five days spent navigating through a field of 10,430, that all changed. Plesuv began to realize what was in the cards when he made it to the final table, and the potential outcome became clearer on one massive hand.

In a massive coup, Plesuv scored a straight holding A-2 when the board gave him the runners he needed. He was heads-up against Andreas Kniep, who had baited him into going all-in and began to gloat.

The German poker pro��s reaction turned solemn as the cards were revealed. He realized his pocket Aces were dead and was about to leave in fourth place.

That gave Plesuv a huge boost, which he used as a springboard to keep control of the board. He eventually met France��s? Florian Ribouchon in the final heads-up battle for the title.

Only a few short hands later, Plesuv hoisted the bracelet as he celebrated with his friends and family, $1.2 million richer. Ribouchon would take $1 million for his second-place finish.

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WSOP Player Apparently Won Bracelet While Awaiting Trial for Intent to Murder Wife https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-player-won-bracelet-while-awaiting-trial-for-intent-to-murder-wife/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/wsop-player-won-bracelet-while-awaiting-trial-for-intent-to-murder-wife/#respond Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:39:59 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=279121 According to Poker News, a man awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to murder his wife is believed to have won a World Series of Poker bracelet in an online game in Michigan last week. According to the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Rudy Gavaldon, a 36-year-old electrician from Traverse City, was arraigned on Aug. 1, 2022, on […]

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According to Poker News, a man awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to murder his wife is believed to have won a World Series of Poker bracelet in an online game in Michigan last week.

Rudy Gavaldon is featured in a photo uploaded to his Facebook page. (Image: Facebook)

According to the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Rudy Gavaldon, a 36-year-old electrician from Traverse City, was arraigned on Aug. 1, 2022, on the charge of assault with intent to commit murder.

So, either Gavaldon or someone using his screen name (��Flyheim86��) won $20K and an online bracelet for taking first place in the WSOP Event #3: $500 No-Limit Hold��em Turbo 6-Max tournament on June 18, 2023.

Six days earlier, Gavaldon��s account also won $2,858 for finishing third in WSOP Online Circuit Series Event #12. And on June 4, his account won $1,242 for a 10th-place WSOP online bracelet event finish.

The Alleged Attack

On July 29, 2022, according to the Record-Eagle, neighbors phoned police after Gavaldon knocked on doors after midnight, carrying his 9-month-old child and telling people he was dying.

The responding sheriff��s deputies found Gavaldon and his child walking in the road. He told them his wife was dying and needed medical help at their house up the road.

The officers took custody of the infant, who was later returned to its mother. They found Lara Gavaldon at the house with life-threatening injuries. She was transported to a nearby hospital and eventually medevaced to Grand Rapids Hospital.

Galvadon was arrested and arraigned for the alleged assault, according to Poker News, as well as for being a habitual offender. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to larceny in a building and third-degree home invasion, for which he was sentenced to 11 months in jail and 36 months of probation.

The victim was treated and eventually recovered, though apparently without her right eye. According to a post on Lara Gavaldon��s Instagram account, she is being fitted for a prosthetic. The post also claimed her now ex-husband was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of the alleged attack.

WSOP.com doesn’t release personal information about event winners beyond their names and places of residence. However, multiple public records searches confirm that no one else by the name Rudy Gavaldon resides in Traverse City, Mich.

Poker News reported contacting the Grand Traverse Correctional Facility, which verified that Gavaldon wasn’t in custody during any of the previously mentioned tournaments because he has been free, awaiting trial, since August 2022.

Gavaldon pleaded not guilty at a pretrial hearing in the 13th District Court in Grand Traverse County on June 23.

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Bracelet & a Ring: Poker Champ Proposes to Girlfriend After WSOP Win https://www.desertdrama.com/news/bracelet-a-ring-poker-champ-proposes-to-girlfriend-after-wsop-win/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/bracelet-a-ring-poker-champ-proposes-to-girlfriend-after-wsop-win/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2023 16:31:22 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=278993 For poker pro AP Louis Garza, the $1.3 million he won in Event #50 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas on Saturday night just wasn��t life-changing enough. So the San Antonino resident dropped to both knees and changed it more. He proposed to his girlfriend immediately following the $10K Pot-Limit Omaha […]

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For poker pro AP Louis Garza, the $1.3 million he won in Event #50 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas on Saturday night just wasn��t life-changing enough.

So the San Antonino resident dropped to both knees and changed it more. He proposed to his girlfriend immediately following the $10K Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

AP Louis Garza gains a bracelet and loses a ring on Saturday at Horseshoe Las Vegas. (Image: Poker News)

“Don’t think any other time would be right besides now, because I don’t think I would even be right here without her,” Garza interrupted the winner photo session to announce, as a dozen of his friends captured video from the rails.

Garza dressed for the occasion in an unbuttoned sleeveless denim jacket, Christian Dior shades, and plenty of jewelry of his own.

“Man, that’s just me all day, any day, Monday, Tuesday, Jesus’ birthday, your birthday,” Garza told Poker News before his win or proposal.

It was Garza’s first career bracelet after several Top 20 WSOP finishes and a circuit ring he won in January 2018. His career earnings now total $1.8 million, according to Poker News.

A gleeful AP Louis Garza poses with his lovely, though unidentified, fianc�� on Saturday night. (Image: Spenser Sembrat/WSOP.com)

Rally at (the Former) Bally’s

For a while, Garza no doubt thought, his proposal would have to wait for a better time.

Garza was dead last in a field of four when the four-day tournament opened its final day on Saturday. But a series of good plays turned his fortunes around. Garza faced fellow Texan Arthur Morris of Plano in a heads-up duel that caused several chants of ��Let��s go Texas!�� to erupt from the rails.

That action lasted only a few minutes, though — until Garza caught a third four on the river.

Morris, with six Top 10 WSOP finishes and his own circuit ring to his name, took home $809K.

The tournament began last Wednesday with 731 players competing for a $6.8 million prize pool — including poker heavies Stanislav Halatenko, who finished third; Sam Soverel, who finished sixth; and Kosei Ichinose, who finished seventh.

 

 

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Tom Dwan Wins Biggest Pot in Broadcast Poker History https://www.desertdrama.com/news/tom-dwan-wins-biggest-pot-in-broadcast-poker-history/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/tom-dwan-wins-biggest-pot-in-broadcast-poker-history/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:24:43 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=275758 Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. The 36-year-old, who worked for McDonald��s prior to becoming a professional poker player, raked in $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live��s Million Dollar Game early Wednesday morning. Dwan scored the record pot with pocket queens against self-proclaimed cryptocurrency […]

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Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. The 36-year-old, who worked for McDonald��s prior to becoming a professional poker player, raked in $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live��s Million Dollar Game early Wednesday morning.

Tom Dwan makes a call against Wesley Fei to win the biggest pot in broadcast poker history at Hustler Casino Live in LA. (Image: HCL)

Dwan scored the record pot with pocket queens against self-proclaimed cryptocurrency millionaire Wesley Fei, 31, who was bluffing.

The hand occurred in a No-Limit Texas Hold ’em cash game with a $1 million minimum buy-in, so the pot size wasn��t a shocker. But the record-breaking hand generated lots of head-scratching at the table.

Fei was sitting with $2.8 million when the hand began compared to Dwan��s $1.5 million. They were playing with $500 and $1,000 blinds plus an escalating big-blind ante that had grown to $3,000. Dwan also contributed a voluntary $2,000 third blind called a straddle. So $6,500 was in the pot before any of the eight players saw their hands.

I See You

Doug Polk, seated to Wei��s left, complicated matters. The three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner declared that he saw Fei��s cards. Fei was the last player to act preflop. A newcomer named LSG Hank raised ahead of Fei to $7,000, but when Fei looked down to see Ace-King offsuit, one of the strongest preflop hands in poker, he three-bet to $30K, despite Polk supposedly knowing his cards.

At this point, Polk folded. Dwan, whose pair of queens weren’t picked up by the card reader, re-raised to $100K, causing LSG Hank to fold. Fei then raised again to $275K, and Dwan called. With $562K in the middle, the pair saw a flop — the 3 of diamonds, 8 of spades, and 8 of diamonds — that helped no one.

Dwan checked, prompting Fei to bet $125K, escalating the pot to $812K and rendering the previously chatty table silent. Dwan called. The turn again helped neither player, and Dwan checked.

River Deep, Mountain of Chips High

��Wesley��s hands are shaking,�� announcer David Tuchman said. ��He is loading up for another bet.��

That bet was for $350K and Dwan, without much hesitation, called it. The river didn��t help either player and Dwan checked again, leading Fei to move all in.

This time, Dwan hesitated. He stood up, grabbed a bottle of water, and began going over the hand out loud as he faced a bet for his entire stack of $786K.

So Doug saw his hand,�� he said. ��This is a weird f***ing hand. Doug saw his hand, tried to talk him out of three-betting, he three-bet anyway,�� Dwan said while staring at Polk. ��I mean, I guessed he flopped an eight, but it seems very hard to fold.��

After nearly four minutes, Dwan threw a stack of chips in the pot to make the call that won him the biggest pot in broadcast poker history.

��Ohh,�� Fei said as more than $1.5 million of his chips changed ownership. ��Can��t bluff Tom.��

Game Not Over

The record-shattering hand was only one of several big pots in the game that started at 3 p.m. PT Tuesday and went until nearly 4 a.m. Wednesday. Eventually, Fei won a big chunk of his money back on what turned out to be the second-largest hand in broadcast poker history, good for $2.25 million, which he won by turning three-of-a-kind to beat LSG Hank��s pair of queens.

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Poker��s $1M Buy-in Big One for One Drop to Make Wynn Las Vegas Comeback https://www.desertdrama.com/news/big-one-for-one-drop-to-make-wynn-las-vegas-comeback/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/big-one-for-one-drop-to-make-wynn-las-vegas-comeback/#respond Mon, 29 May 2023 15:26:53 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=275167 Poker��s richest tournament is returning to Las Vegas. But the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop will no longer be a World Series of Poker event. The tournament will make its return from December 18 to 20 as part of the World Poker Tour��s World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas. The Big […]

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Poker��s richest tournament is returning to Las Vegas. But the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop will no longer be a World Series of Poker event. The tournament will make its return from December 18 to 20 as part of the World Poker Tour��s World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas.

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The inaugural Big One for One Drop in 2014, which offered the biggest first prize in the history of tournament poker, $18.3 million, won by Antonio Esfandiari. (Image: PokerNews)

The Big One for One Drop has not been held in Las Vegas since 2016, and not all since 2018.

The competition hopes to raise money for the One Drop Foundation. The organization is dedicated to ensuring sustainable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene for communities worldwide.

The Big One for One Drop is such an iconic tournament in the world of poker. We are honored to put on this incredible event in conjunction with the One Drop Foundation and Wynn Las Vegas,�� WPT CEO Adam Pliska said in a statement. ��The $1 million buy-in is a testament to the heights this industry can reach and the continuous evolution of the World Poker Tour.��

Six percent of each buy-in, or $60,000, will go directly to the charity, lower than the $111,111 donated from each buy-in in years past.

Biggest Prize in History

First staged in 2012, the Big One for One Drop was the brainchild of the Cirque de Soleil founder and high-stakes poker player Guy Laliberte, who also established the One Drop Foundation. Antonio Esfandiari won the inaugural event, beating a field of 48 to win an eye-watering $18.3 million, more than tripling his lifetime tournament winnings in one sitting.

The event was next won by Daniel Colman in 2014. He took down a $15.3 million first prize in 2014, defeating Daniel Negreanu heads-up.

Next, the event moved to Monte Carlo, known as the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza, an invitation-only event closed to professional players. The then-unknown Chinese-Canadian player, Elton Tsang, topped the field of wealthy amateurs, taking home �11,111,111 (then US$12.2 million).

A less exclusive iteration of the tournament returned to the WSOP in Las Vegas in 2018, where Justin Bonomo bested a 27-player field to take home $10 million.

��Incredible Feeling��

This year��s event is expected to attract the usual mix of unbelievably wealthy amateurs and the world��s top high-stakes tournament players, most of whom will have sold large chunks of their action to afford the buy-in and mitigate personal financial risk.

��It is an incredible feeling to be able to have the support of WPT and Wynn to run our fifth edition of the Big One. �� The magnitude of the buy-in, of the prize pool, but also of the funds that are directed to the crucial cause of access to safe water makes the Big One the event of all superlatives,�� said a statement from Alexandre Meunier, One Drop Foundation��s? chief marketing and events officer.

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Triton Poker Series Goes Well for Jason Koon, but Not for Pixbet Sportsbook Boss https://www.desertdrama.com/news/triton-poker-series-goes-well-for-jason-koon-but-not-for-pixbet-sportsbook-boss/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/triton-poker-series-goes-well-for-jason-koon-but-not-for-pixbet-sportsbook-boss/#respond Wed, 24 May 2023 12:10:51 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=274666 Jason Koon may be the unofficial king of the Triton Poker Series. The American poker pro scored another Triton victory this week, bringing to seven the number of titles the GGPoker ambassador has collected as he bounces from event to event. Koon has three first-place finishes in Triton tournaments in just the past two months, […]

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Jason Koon may be the unofficial king of the Triton Poker Series. The American poker pro scored another Triton victory this week, bringing to seven the number of titles the GGPoker ambassador has collected as he bounces from event to event.

Jason Koon (right) shakes hands with Daniel Negreanu as he's announced as a new GGPoker ambassador.
Jason Koon (right) shakes hands with Daniel Negreanu as he’s announced as a new GGPoker ambassador. Koon won another Triton Poker Main Event as he extends his lead. (Image: Poker Industry Pro)

Koon has three first-place finishes in Triton tournaments in just the past two months, according to Hendon Mob. When he took down the Super High Roller Series in Cyprus this week, he scored $2.45 million. With 32 Triton cashes, he has picked up $21.79 million of his $47.38 million total.

While he was busy celebrating his big win, the CEO of sports betting operator Pixbet, Ernildo Santos, was giving it a go at the Triton $200K No-Limit Hold’em Luxon Invitational. Things didn’t go as he expected, though, as he hit the rail before reaching the money.

Koon Strikes Again

At the Triton Poker SHR Series in Cyprus on Monday, the last nine survivors of the $100K Main Event gathered around the table. They were all that remained of the initial 101 registrations who sought a piece of the action.

The first to fall were Vlacheslav Buldygin, Stephen Chidwick, and Michael Watson in ninth, eighth, and seventh place, respectively. Next to go were Sean Winter, Dan Smith, and Henrik Hecklen.

Hecklen had gone into the final battle leading the pack, but ultimately couldn’t get past fourth. It was a different story for Koon. He went from being the second-shortest stack when the cards began to fly to winning the tournament and taking a new seven-figure prize.

After Hecklen bowed out, only Koon, Sam Greenwood, and Steve O’Dwyer remained in the battle. It didn’t take long for O’Dwyer to run into trouble. He fell after Koon picked up a straight, taking home $1.17 million in the process.

This left the final heads-up between Koon and Greenwood, but they cut a deal that left $84K on the table. Even that ended up in Koon’s pocket after an all-in final hand paired his Q-10 against Greenwood’s failed A-K. Greenwood picked up $1.92 million as runner-up.

Koon is now almost ready to take over the top spot in the all-time poker money list. That spot still belongs to Stephen Chidwick, but maybe not for much longer. Koon is just $900K down, and 2023 isn’t even half over yet.

Grinding Halt for Santos at Invitational

Ernildo Santos started well in the Invitational, making it past the first day. The only Brazilian in the event, the Pixbet CEO continued his run alongside 53 other players.

As the field continued to shrink, Santos maintained his momentum. However, with just 28 players left, things took a turn for the worse.

Protecting his stack of 16 big blinds, Santos opened strong while holding A-K. Russian pro Arthur Martirosian, with 100 big blinds, and Turkey’s Orpen Kisacikoglu, protecting just eight big blinds, stayed in the hand.

The 2-3-8 didn’t seem to be trouble for Santos, and after Kisacikoglu checked, he went all-in. Martirosian exited, but Kisacikoglu, a WSOP bracelet winner with more than $14.5 million in live winnings, decided to ride it out.

Given the fact that he was holding 4-3 in the big blind, it was a risk worth taking. The turn revealed a 4 and the river brought an 8, and Santos missed finding a connector. With one hand, he went from a middle stack to a short stack.

That set up his exit a few hands later. Down to eight big blinds, he went up against Kisacikoglu once more, only to miss once again with a desperate play with J-9. Santos hit the rail with no cash while his conqueror bowed out in 10th place with $369,500. Azerbaijan’s Ramin Hajiyev ultimately won the event, taking home $4.12 million.

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Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Passes Away at 89 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-doyle-brunson-passes-away-at-89/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/poker-legend-doyle-brunson-passes-away-at-89/#respond Mon, 15 May 2023 03:07:11 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=273452 The poker world is reeling from the loss of one of its biggest stars. Doyle Brunson, considered the godfather of poker, died Sunday in Las Vegas. He was 89. His cause of death has yet to be announced. ��It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our father, Doyle Brunson,” Brian Balsbaugh, […]

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The poker world is reeling from the loss of one of its biggest stars. Doyle Brunson, considered the godfather of poker, died Sunday in Las Vegas. He was 89. His cause of death has yet to be announced.

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Doyle Brunson, who died Sunday at age 89, is remembered by his fans and fellow competitors not only as a brilliant poker player but as a true Texas gentleman. (Image: Twitter)

��It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our father, Doyle Brunson,” Brian Balsbaugh, his agent, tweeted on behalf of the Brunson family at 6:12 p.m. Sunday. “He was a beloved Christian man, husband, father, and grandfather. We��ll have more to say over the coming days as we honor his legacy. Please keep Doyle and our family in your prayers. May he rest in peace.��

��Texas Dolly,�� as he was nicknamed, won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments, including the Main Event in 1976 and 1977. That��s second to only Phil Hellmuth��s 16 WSOP wins.

Brunson��s 1978 book, ��Super System,�� which revealed strategies known only to professionals before its publishing, is widely regarded as the bible of poker.

There will never be another Doyle Brunson,�� tweeted six-time WSOP champ Daniel Negreanu, one of hundreds of modern-day poker stars inspired by Brunson to dedicate their lives to the game, on Sunday evening.

��Can��t believe this day has come,�� five-time WSOP champ Scotty Nguyen added. ��You will always be held high in our hearts, the man, the myth, the legend & THE GODFATHER of poker����

First Bad Beat

Born in 1933 in Longworth, Texas, Brunson was a star athlete who played basketball for Hardin-Simmons University. A bad knee injury crushed his dream of making the NBA, but not his spirit. In the early 1950s, Brunson discovered poker and was good enough at the game for it to fund his education and medical expenses.

Brunson and his wife, Louise, whom he married in 1962, resettled in Las Vegas in the 1970s. Here, Brunson became the world poker champion, earning millions while beating some of the best players in the world in cash games. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.

Brunson won his last WSOP bracelet in 2005. His last Main Event cash was in 2013.

��Rest in Peace to the Biggest Legend of Them All,�� commented the World Series of Poker’s Twitter feed. ��Thank you for being the consummate player and gentleman. No one will ever fill your seat.��

����Legend�� feels inadequate,�� three-time WSOP champ Phil Galfond added, crystalizing the feelings of many in the poker world. ��We don��t have a word for what Doyle Brunson is to poker.��

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Canada’s Mike Watson Takes Down EPT Monte Carlo Main Event https://www.desertdrama.com/news/canadas-mike-watson-takes-down-ept-monte-carlo-main-event/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/canadas-mike-watson-takes-down-ept-monte-carlo-main-event/#respond Mon, 08 May 2023 12:34:20 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=272402 The European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event has come to a close, with a longtime Canadian player taking the pot. Mike Watson was the top finisher after cutting a deal with Germany’s Leonard Maue to add �749,425 (US$749,425) to his poker bankroll. The Main Event attracted 1,098 entries, setting a new record and pushing the […]

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The European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event has come to a close, with a longtime Canadian player taking the pot. Mike Watson was the top finisher after cutting a deal with Germany’s Leonard Maue to add �749,425 (US$749,425) to his poker bankroll.

Mike Watson at a poker table during a tournament
Mike Watson at a poker table during a tournament. The Canadian poker pro won his second EPT Main Event title in Monte Carlo. (Image: World Poker Tour)

The Main Event attracted 1,098 entries, setting a new record and pushing the prize pool to �5,325,300 (US$5.87 million). Although Watson ultimately emerged at the top of the stack, he didn’t have an easy road to get there.

On Day 4 of the tourney, the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) winner faced elimination. Only one card separated him from a long plane ride back home, but he found it and stayed alive. It was almost smooth sailing from there.

The Monte Carlo Main Event had a buy-in of �5,300 (US$5,847) and 323 players doubled down to stay alive. By the time Jason Wheeler bubbled in seventh place, all were on the rail or heading home.

Experience Pays Off

Watson has proven himself on the virtual and online felt. He has amassed well more than $19 million in lifetime earnings since his first live cash in 2006, and has 10 Championship of Online Poker titles to his credit.

That experience allowed Watson to keep his cool as he fought back from what should have been an elimination to rule the table on Day 6. Watson now joins an exclusive group of four players to have won at least two EPT Main Event titles. He shares that space with Vicky Coren-Mitchell, Mikalai Pobal, and Swedish player “WhatIfGod,” who won two EPT Online Main Events.

Heading into the final table, Watson was second in chips, only slightly behind Leo Worthington-Leese. The cards continued to fall in Watson’s favor, although the same can’t be said for Worthington-Leese. Players were able to chip away at his stack until they finally pushed him out in third place for �397,450 (US$438,506).

That left only Watson and Maue to face off in the final heads-up battle. The eventual winner was ahead in chips, but they decided to cut a deal instead of playing out the fight.

The deal gave Watson �716,085 and Maue �697,175 (US$790,056 and $769,193, respectively). The only thing left was to play for the title and the �33,340 (US$36,784) that was still on the table.

Maue continued to give up his remaining chips to Watson before trying a last-ditch effort to bluff while holding nothing. Probably feeling confident with his run, Watson called with a boarded two pair to take the game. The runner-up had tried to hit a straight and missed, and Watson didn’t fall for the trap.

Badziakouski Bounce Back

Last year, Belarusian poker pro Mikita Badziakouski fell to Adrian Mateos in the $100K EPT Monte Carlo High Roller event. He failed to fool Spain’s top player in a bluff, but found a little bit of redemption this year.

In the �25K (US$27,582) High Roller, Badziakouski found himself going up against England’s Ben Heath. They fought for the title before deciding to chop the tournament, with one final hand cementing the eventual winner’s place.

Badziakouski held 3-2, while Heath had 5-4, and a 3 on the flop gave the leading Belarus player a pair. Heath didn’t find any help on the turn or river, giving Badziakouski the game and �938,042 (US$1.03 million). Heath took home �801,068 (US$883,818).

Mateos was in the game as well, which probably brought back bad memories for Badziakouski. He had a deep run, but only made it to 12th place before being eliminated.

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PENN Entertainment Fires Ben Mintz from Poker Podcast for Racial Slur https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pokers-ben-mintz-fired-from-penn-podcast-for-racial-slur/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/pokers-ben-mintz-fired-from-penn-podcast-for-racial-slur/#respond Thu, 04 May 2023 20:11:52 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=271957 Poker player Ben ��Mintzy�� Mintz was fired Wednesday from ��Cracking Aces,�� the poker podcast he frequently co-hosts on the Barstool Sports network, after he rapped along to a Bone Thugz-N-Harmony song during a live broadcast on Monday, May 1. The lyrics to ��1st of Tha Month�� include the n-word. Mintz immediately and profusely apologized on […]

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Poker player Ben ��Mintzy�� Mintz was fired Wednesday from ��Cracking Aces,�� the poker podcast he frequently co-hosts on the Barstool Sports network, after he rapped along to a Bone Thugz-N-Harmony song during a live broadcast on Monday, May 1. The lyrics to ��1st of Tha Month�� include the n-word.

Ben Mintz, seen above, has more than $620K in live tournament wins and no current podcasting job. (Image: Poker News)

Mintz immediately and profusely apologized on Twitter, saying he ��made an unforgivable mistake�� and “never felt worse about anything.” He received support from Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who denounced what he called the company’s ��wrong decision�� in a Twitter video.

I think anybody who watched the clip was like, ��There��s no way he meant to do that,���� Portnoy said in the video. ��He��s just not the brightest bulb to ever come down the pipe. And he just screwed up. And he knew he screwed up. And there was no hatred behind it. No nothing.”

Portnoy, who, according to the New York Post, has courted controversy by dropping his own n-bombs during podcasts, admitted he has no authority to reverse the decision since his sale of the remainder of Barstool to PENN Entertainment closed earlier this year.

No Words Mintzed

Portnoy has faced his own criticism for the sale. In a separate Twitter video, he responded emotionally to critics: “I sold out. You��re just figuring that out? �� ?Made hundreds of millions, made millions for everybody �� Yeah, we sold the f*** out. And that��s what you do when you��re an entrepreneur.”

Mintz. a popular and skilled poker player with over $620K in live tournament wins, joined Barstool in 2020.

After his firing, he tweeted that he was ��in good spirits�� and that he is ��def an idiot, but I am also a resilient one.��

The call to fire Mintz was reportedly made by Penn CEO Jay Snowden himself.

PENN’s Takeover

Portnoy originally sold 36% of Barstool to PENN in 2020 for $163 million, then the rest in February for $388 million.

In addition to owning Barstool Sports, PENN operates 43 brick-and-mortar casinos in 20 states under the brands Ameristar, Boomtown, and Hollywood Casino. Its relationships with the regulators who control its state operating licenses are its paramount concern.

Therefore, instances of perceived racism, intentional or unintentional, cannot be tolerated.

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Florida Man Wins Women’s Event at Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown https://www.desertdrama.com/news/florida-man-wins-womens-event-at-seminole-hard-rock-poker-showdown/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/florida-man-wins-womens-event-at-seminole-hard-rock-poker-showdown/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 19:26:05 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=271720 A 70-year-old Florida man won a poker event over the weekend that was supposed to be reserved for women. David Hughes of Deltona, Fla., took advantage of a little-known state law that bars casinos and card clubs from preventing men from entering poker tournaments advertised as ladies’ events. Hughes decided to participate in the $250 […]

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A 70-year-old Florida man won a poker event over the weekend that was supposed to be reserved for women.

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Poker aficionado David Hughes is a man who still managed to win a ladies’ poker event. Hughes’ first-place finish at the $250 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Deep Stack at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown won him $5,555. (Image: Twitter)

David Hughes of Deltona, Fla., took advantage of a little-known state law that bars casinos and card clubs from preventing men from entering poker tournaments advertised as ladies’ events. Hughes decided to participate in the $250 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Deep Stack event on Saturday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. The resort was hosting its annual Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

After busting two times, Hughes bought in for a third time. It turned out to be a winning wager, as he eventually outlasted the 80 other entries to claim the event’s top prize of $5,555.

Florida’s anti-discrimination laws mandate that gaming establishments not separate events by gender, race, religion, national origin, or familial status. However, Hughes’ participation stirred much controversy in the Seminole poker room on Saturday night.

Poker pro Ebony Kenney, who herself was playing in the tournament, placed a $300 bounty on Hughes to entice players to target his pots. But the bounty perhaps helped Hughes, as others played aggressively against the poker amateur who has played live tournaments for years.

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Hughes Outlasts the Ladies

Many of his female competitors didn’t take too kindly to Hughes’ participation. Along with Keeney issuing a $300 bounty, players scolded Hughes at the felt and regularly made gestures toward him, such as a thumbs down directed his way.

Kenney tweeted that Hughes, at one point, responded to his female critics, saying he “could pretend to identify as a woman because they allow anything these days.”

Hughes has cashed out 38 other times over the past decade, according to The Hendon Mob, an online poker database that tracks tournament results.

Hughes’ best result was a third-place finish at the 2021 Great American Poker Tournament’s $100,000 Summer Event at the Daytona Beach Racing & Card Club, winning $17,080. He also won $11,565 after placing second at a 2022 Winter Series Open event in Jacksonville.

Most of Hughes’ other cash wins have been small payouts of less than $1,000. His $5,555 victory at the ladies’ event marked his third-best live cash performance.

National Issue

Hughes’ poker win is just the latest controversy in the ongoing debate about transgender people participating in sports and/or competitions with genders that they might not have been aligned with at birth.

Competitive sports have long been sex-segregated. Supporters of such segregation say biological differences between males and females can make competitions unfair should a person born as a male later identify as a female and seek to participate in women’s sports.

Florida lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in 2021 banned transgender females from participating in public school teams intended only for student-athletes born female.

“In Florida, girls are going to play girls’ sports and boys are going to play boys’ sports,” DeSantis said after signing the bill.

The public schooling athletics law doesn’t cover poker events. That’s because Florida doesn’t consider the casino game a sport. As such, businesses hosting such poker games cannot discriminate based on gender.

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Poker World Adds New Events in Andorra, Asia, and on the High Seas https://www.desertdrama.com/news/the-poker-world-adds-new-events-in-andorra-and-asia-and-on-the-high-seas/ https://www.desertdrama.com/news/the-poker-world-adds-new-events-in-andorra-and-asia-and-on-the-high-seas/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:07:12 +0000 https://www.desertdrama.com/news/?p=270521 Live poker events took a break because of COVID-19’s impact on consumerism and travel, but things are finally returning to normal. The arrival of new poker tournaments in Europe and Asia, as well as on the high seas, will help the recovery continue. In 2020, COVID-19 forced the cancellation or delay of numerous poker events […]

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Live poker events took a break because of COVID-19’s impact on consumerism and travel, but things are finally returning to normal. The arrival of new poker tournaments in Europe and Asia, as well as on the high seas, will help the recovery continue.

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The entrance to the WPT at Sea poker room on Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady cruise ship. It’s one of several new additions coming to the poker ecosystem this year. (Image: Scarlet Lady via Facebook)

In 2020, COVID-19 forced the cancellation or delay of numerous poker events and the transition of some to an online format. While the latter option was a viable alternative for some, the inability to properly read opponents kept some players away.

From Vegas to the Czech Republic and Singapore, poker events were off the table. They’re back now, and players are getting more live options than ever.

Poker Comes to Andorra

Andorra, the microstate that borders Spain, recently opened a new casino that can host international poker tournaments with up to 800 players. Now, the Unnic Integral Leisure Center will test those capabilities by hosting the first Gran Casino d’Andorra Poker Tournament this weekend.

The event has a buy-in of �200 (US$220) and participants will receive 50K chips at the start of the Day 1 flights. These flights will be held on Friday and Saturday from 6:00 p.m. Day 2, the day of the final table, will begin Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

Players who scratch can rebuy to continue participating in the tournament up to level 10. After that, they’ll only be able to catch the action from the rail. Registration begins Friday afternoon, although the casino has left out one element that might entice more people to play. As the casino confirmed with Casino.org, there doesn’t appear to be a guarantee, which means the prize pool may be small if the turnout isn’t that great.

This is just the first of many events the casino has planned. The goal is to organize them in the low season to boost tourism when traffic is typically slower.

WPT Takes to the High Seas

The World Poker Tour (WPT) already knows how to navigate at-sea poker tournaments thanks to its WPT Cruise events, and is now adding new options for players who like to travel. Virgin Voyages is set to launch a new WPT experience on its Scarlet Lady cruises.

Departing from Miami on four- and five-night sails, the vessel will offer a permanent WPT at Sea Poker Room, boasting eight poker tables manned by expert dealers and offering various activities for poker enthusiasts, such as training, bonus games, and satellites. There will also be WPT tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from $80 to $320. A WPT at Sea main event with a $320 buy-in will take place during every cruise.

There will be a WPT Prize Package valued at $5,000 in the main event, which can be used for any WPT event or a Virgin cruise. However, there’s a catch �C the package won’t be available unless the event draws enough participants. A press release on the launch didn’t specify the minimum required.

Southeast Asia Gets New Events

PokerStars took its Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) to Cambodia for the first time last year, where the series proved to be highly successful. Competing for players is the long-standing Asian Poker Tour (APT), which announced new stops this year as it continues to enjoy success in the region as well.

The APT, which will hold its Taipei series beginning this weekend, announced three new stops this year, giving it six on the schedule. The new stops include two in Vietnam — the APT Summer Series Hanoi at Grand Loyal Poker Club from May 26 to June 4, and the APT Summer Series Da Nang at Furama Resort. The latter runs from July 21-30.

Joining these will be a stop in South Korea at the Paradise City resort. The APT Incheon event will take place from August 25 to September 3.

Vietnam proved to be a success for the APT last year, and the tour hopes to build on its previous experience.

The APT said new additions to its schedule will replace the APT Ho Chi Minh 2023 event. The organization said it had to postpone that series “until there is greater clarity on the regulatory climate,” but didn’t provide clarification.

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