Greg Raymer is going to have a busy Saturday next weekend.
The 2004 WSOP main-event champ is scheduled to appear at two charity poker tournaments in Southern California on May 9, one to benefit domestic violence victims and another to help out with the implementation of a program to end dog fighting in the area.
1736 Family Crisis Center’s Third-Annual Tournament
The first charity tournament, which will take place at 2 p.m. at Hollywood Park, will welcome a plethora of celebrities and professional poker players.
Jason Alexander, better known as George in Seinfeld, will host the event, which will benefit the 1736 Family Crisis Center.
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Each new month brings with it a new list of Titan Poker winners from all over the world. And according to the news for March and April of 2009, the story hasn’t changed! Just check out what some of these most recent winners have had to say about their playing and winning experiences at Titan Poker! And by the way – congratulations to them all, for walking away from the tables as Titan Poker’s latest winners!
In March, the Italians seemed to have scooped up all the wins beginning with Italian player Giovanna Miceli. Nicknamed "aibort," she made history, by becoming the first woman ever to qualify for EC Poker Tour Salzburg to represent Titan Poker. G Read full
A friend of mine was recalling an online no-limit poker game he had been playing in earlier this week to me over dinner recently and told me about how his table during that session had two absolute fish sitting next to each other. They would call off bets on every turn with middle pair or worse, and just had a bad overall understanding of the game. My friend felt so bad for these two that he decided to never try and trap those players when in hands against them, instead opting to just make smallish bets and take down average pots. He asked me what I thought about that and I told him the truth…..he’s insane.
Maybe something has changed in the past few years, but to me playing poker is about winning money. Su
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The latest champ on the World Series of Poker Circuit that took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is Juan Jaramillo, who played his cards right and had a little luck to take down a field of 231 players. His prize was a $10,083 first place victory, the lion’s share of a $67,221 prize pool. The two day event wound up with a final table that did not even last an hour and a half, giving the 32 year old Jaramillo a quick victory at the WSOPC.
Speculation has been rampant through poker industry circles for some time that Harrah’s Entertainment, specifically with regard to the World Series of Poker, had an interest in legal online poker in the United States. Participating in the online gaming business with a name like the WSOP to back it up might be a smart move. So when news down the wire of Mitch Garber, the former chief executive of PartyGaming, taking a position with Harrah’s to run its new internet division, the pieces of the puzzle seemed to come together. But the absence of confirmation by Harrah’s has kept many further assumptions at bay.
It came across the news wires in mid-April that Harrah’s Entertainment hired Garber to head up its new subsidiary company that would focus on online operations. The Read full
Next month the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey will be putting on a $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool Poker Tournament. The event, a follow up to March’s Deep Stack Tournament, will have two starting days, the first being May 17th. Qualifiers will kick off a week in advance, giving players the chance to win a seat for as little as $165. The buy in to the event is going to cost $1,650, with each player getting $30k in starting chips.
It took awhile, but 21-year-old online phenom Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko won the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship late Saturday night. The feat took eight days and thousands of hands, but in the end, the young gun got it done, besting a stacked final table that included Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Christian Harder and eventual runner-up, Ran Azor.
This was Timoshenko’s third live victory of his very short career, after claiming wins at the Irish Poker Open and at the APT Macau main event.
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It was definitely a down week for the majority of the sites in the wake of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Every site’s major Sunday tournament failed to meet its guarantee except for Cake. Despite the decrease in traffic, there were still some major tournament victories from some of the game’s best players.
Over at PokerStars, Scott "SCTrojans" Freeman made a run at the Sunday Million, falling just short with a runner-up finish for $124,950. Freeman lost a big pot heads up to master zulle to put his tournament in jeopardy, and then he finally went out when his pocket jacks were cracked on the river.
Online Player of the Year leader Shaun Deeb continued to dominate on his day off from the WPT Championship at Bellagio.
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Vadim Trincher is one of the leaders after the first day of play at the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. While he ended the day with more than 300k in chips he can’t rest easy, not with players like two time WSOP champ Johnny Chan sitting in the second seat. Another massive WSOP champ, Phil Hellmuth, did not make it to the end of the first day, being sent to the rail early on, partially because he arrive three hours late to play. He only lasted twenty minutes in the game.
One of the largest hotel chains in the world has announced a “Play for Points Poker!” game that will run now through November, 15, 2009. The game will give players the chance to win prizes such as one of two Harley-Davidson motorcycles and up to 10,000 bonus Rewards points, redeemable through the Best Western Rewards program. Players can play in one “Play for Points Poker!” game each night they stay at one of the 435 Best Western hotels in the following states: California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
