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Titan Poker Players Compete in Irish Open

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:18:10 +0000

Titan Poker Players Compete in Irish Open
Posted by Bradley, April 11, 2012 Titan Poker sent a delegation of nine online qualifiers to compete in the Irish Open 2012 Main Event, staged last weekend at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Although the team members did not cash in the Main Event, two of them finished in the money in the side events. ** Dan Murariu from Romania was 16th in the 500 6-handed Hold’em for 950. ** Stefan Kolossow from Germany was 2nd in the same event for 13,200. A total of 502 players paid the 3,200 entry to the Irish Open 2012 Main Event, creating a prizepool of 1,606,400 and a first place prize of 420,000. When the tournament ended, it was Kevin Vandersmissen from Belgium who emerged victorious, after he came from being the final tables short stack to beat chip leader Thomas Beer from Germany in heads-up battle. Beer had to settle for the second place prize of 225,000. On Day 1 of the tournament, Titan Pokers Dutch player, Robin van den Heuvel, winner of the recently staged iPOPS Live Main Event in Prague, knocked out Team Titans Marvin Rettenmaier. Van den Heuvel and compatriot Leon Piso were the only two Titan Poker qualifiers to advance to Day 2 of the tournament. Pictured below is Leon Piso at the featured table:

Ole Kristian Nergard bio

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:36:25 +0000

Ole Kristian Nergard bio
Online Poker, Poker February 25th, 2012 Ole Kristian Nergard Image Ole Kristian Nergard Bio Little is known of this young gun poker pro Ole Kristian Nergard. What is known is that hes 19 years old at the moment, Norwegian, and err to a vast 160 million dollar fishing fleet and factories. Others say he inherited 30 million and websites show that the fishing company has made over 120 million Euros / year. Read More About Ole Nergard here:Ole Kristian Nergard Bio Play Online Poker Poker Blog Copyright 2008 Just add chips LLCSubscribe to PokerBloggs.com

WSOP Has a $1 Million Buy-In Tournament

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:54:31 +0000

WSOP Has a $1 Million Buy-In Tournament
The World Series of Poker may not have its schedule announced yet, but one huge new tournament has been announced, and will be taking place as part of the WSOP 2012 tournament. The new tournament will be known as the Big One for One Drop, and the buy-in is a whopping $1 million per player. In order to make any new WSOP tournament an official bracelet event, there needs to be a minimum number of players that sign up for the tournament. The Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in poker tournament has already received the necessary 22 player minimum in order to be considered an official WSOP tournament. While this poker tournament is likely to have the biggest first prize ever found in a poker tournament, the tournament is not only about winning, it is about giving charity too. Not only is $111,111 of each entry fee to be donated to ONE DROP, a charitable organization that focuses on bringing fresh water to all, it will also raise awareness of this important cause. Players, such as Jonathan Duhamel, are very pleased to be able to take part in this important poker tournament. He said: I am absolutely thrilled to participate in the biggest poker event ever organized. One million dollars is a lot of money but my participation comes naturally, being a spokesperson for ONE DROP and because of my attachment to such a great cause. Life starts with water and because of its uneven distribution, a person dies every 20 seconds. The Big One for One Drop will raise $111,111 per participant, which will definitely prove the poker community attachment to ONE DROP. The 2010 Main Event champion, Duhamel, has also pledged a percentage of any winnings he may accumulate: As for me, I personally commit to give 5% of my winnings from this tournament to ONE DROP. Related Posts Win Place to Irish Open with William Hill Poker Winter Edition Promo from Titan Poker Mobile Poker from PokerStars Available in Italy Marrakech is Next Stop of WPT PKR Adds Jake Cody to Their Team Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…

Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Kane “Nascar_1949″ Kalas

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:18:06 +0000

Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Kane “Nascar_1949″ Kalas
December 01 2011, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Robl Discusses Televised Cash Game Hands Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Seidman Discusses His Book, Easy Game Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Olivier Busquet Discusses Tough Spots Share It Tags PokerNews Podcast, PokerNews Strategy, Cash Poker, Texas Holdem Print Kane “Nascar_1949″ Kalas, 22, is a video instructor on the Poker Phenom training website. In the first two months of playing poker professionally, Kalas went from playing $0.50/$1 to $25/$50 no-limit hold’em. He continues to play high-stakes cash games online and recently moved from Miami, Florida, to Costa Rica. For this edition of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point, Kalas talks in depth about playing small pocket pairs in six-max no-limit hold’em cash games, demonstrated by hand histories in a $25/$50 game. Here is a snippet from the interview: Let’s talk about the first hand. You open to $128 from under the gun with pocket sixes. An opponent named, “Flufferd” reraises to $400 from the big blind. What are your thoughts on when you can flat a hand like this in position? First of all, “Flufferd’s” raise size was pretty small. He made it $400, and I’d expect most people to make it $450 or in the high $400s. That definitely gave me a little incentive to call. Also, the fact that he three-bet out of the blinds is pertinent in this situation. I probably would very rarely be calling with pocket pairs 100 big blinds deep out of position versus a regular player. I haven’t played too much with “Flufferd,” but I think based on his play, he was competent. When you get 200 or 300 big blinds deep, it becomes much more lucrative when you’re out of position. In this case, though, I was in position and getting a good price to call. I do think that “Flufferd” has a tight range since I opened under the gun, however, if he’s running a HUD [heads-up display], he probably knows I open more than most players under the gun. That could make his three-bet a little bit lighter, but nonetheless, I expect him to have a pretty tight range here. I’m looking to flop a set or a board where I can continue. Of course, there are a lot of boards I’m giving up on, but I’m just getting such a good price in position, especially to play for stacks on a good flop against a relatively tight range. And the flop is . He checks to you. Tell me about why you decided betting is better than slow-playing. I really like a bet here as part of my entire range. I think that checking back a set here may be lucrative in a vacuum, but for my range, I actually want to be betting here quite a lot. This is a board where my opponent is likely to be check-folding a decent amount of hands. It’s very unlikely he’s three-betting pocket sixes, sevens, nines or eight-ten out of the blinds. It’s much more likely that I have those hands defending the three-bet. My range hits this board a whole lot harder than his, so when he checks here, I want to be betting with my pocket sixes or with whatever hands I could have here on a bluff. In this spot, he ended up check-folding. I imagine he had something like ace-king or ace-queen that he was just taking a check-folding line with. I would expect him to check-call with an overpair sometimes. Although, I would expect him to bet that on the flop. Just in terms overall, I think I should be betting this board with my sets and all my air. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every Thursday for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. *Photo courtesy of Zimbio.com Follow Kristy Arnett on Twitter @KristyArnett Comments I’m sorry that I’m so late to posting the comments.I really disliked your guest’s defending his ideas by stating that “game theory says…”, “the math says…”, without ever explaining what he was doing and then contradicting himself quite a lot. For example, in the hand where he arrives on a river with a full house and he decides to overbet it because of opponent’s capped range, I would really love to see an indifference equation that requires overbetting. You say game theory dictates it, so either work it out or point me a link where you read it (watched it in a video). In fact, I counter with Mathematics of Poker Chapter 15 – Appendix, the NL AKQ game. Which is exactly the situation we are facing. We have the Ace (nuttish type hand), the opponent’s range is capped (he has either the K – bluffcatcher or the Q – nut lows). When having a perceived polarized range by opponent the strategy is mixed – you check sometimes to let opponent bluff off and when you bet, you bet about 30% of the pot, never overbet. If he wants to show me some equations that prove me different without invoking exploitative play, I would be most welcome, but at a certain point the overbet IS NOT dictated by game theory, but by opponent exploitation (meta). Then he started contradicting himself, first saying we have a polarized range (value bets and bluffes) and a few minutes later he says we should bet 100% of our range. Well, which one is it? Like would you overbet a pocket pair here that doesn’t set you, i.e. would you overbet a bluffcatcher to merge your range? Again, I mostly agreed with his lines (not all) and I’m sure he beats up high stakes all good, but his reasoning seemed really poor and cloaked with difficult words.

Interview with Mike Matusow

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:54:21 +0000

Interview with Mike Matusow
by Steve Marzolf Mike Matusow, a card-carrying member of team Full Tilt, has been around the pro poker circuit long enough to earn his nickname as “The Mouth” a few times over. Most recently, he took third in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event, pulling in just under $370k…and talking some serious smack in the process. But when we caught up with him, he had an ironic message for players out there: “Calm down.” You almost took it all at Bay 101 – what was that like? I’ve only played three WPTs in two years – one last year and two this year. I went down there and played really hard. I went down there hungry and wanting to win, and I played really well. But I wish I would have caught some cards against the lunatics, the ones who were raising and re-raising every hand. Tell us about that three-bet that took you out. I mean, he was just raising at every button, and I thought I had a pretty good read on him. I’d been re-raising and shoving on him left and right. I shoved on him with 2-9. He didn’t have to call me with K-Q. It was still 25 percent of his stack, even if he’s ahead. Most of the time, I’m going to have a pair or an ace there. I didn’t really mind the call, cause once it got down to three-handed, they were playing really carefully against me. They knew that if they opened too much, I’d just keep shipping on them. So they started folding a little bit and limping, and it looked like there was going to be no way I could get chips – especially as card-dead as I was. So I didn’t mind just shipping on him every time he opened the button. I was looking at his face and how he reacted to his cards. I shipped on him six times before, and he insta-folded all six. So I thought I had a tell on him. Maybe that time I just rushed it. You’ve consistently had good showings at WPT games. Yeah. I don’t play many. I don’t chase the tournament circuit anymore. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a losing proposition. It’s $750,000 a year to play on the tournament circuit, and you’ve gotta finish at least second in one tournament to make any money. You’ve been in the game a long time – what are the biggest changes you’ve seen? I mean, these kids play pretty good, but when it’s a deep-stack tournament, they’ve gotta know when to slow down. We were playing 100 big blinds deep, and they’re going raise, re-raise, re-raise, trying to outplay each other, playing four-handed. I was just hoping to pick up 8-8 or anything, but I didn’t even see a playable hand. I think the best hand I saw was K-10 offsuit. If I’d picked up any hand behind them, I’d have gotten all the chips. It was the greatest spot in the world – I was like in heaven – but then I was looking at 2-7 offsuit for like eight hours. What spurs that aggressive play? They’re all used to playing online where you have to 3-bet and 4-bet all the time to stay alive when the blinds get up there. When you’re playing deep-stacked, you’re supposed to just play solid and pick your spots. But these guys were ridiculous. They were so hyper-aggressive it was a joke. It fit perfect into my style. I had two playable hands in 154 hands, and I finished 3rd. If I’d won the hand I went out on, then I’d have 30 percent of the chips and who knows what happens? Where do you think the game is going long-term? I don’t know – there’s just so many good players. I think if they just want to keep running $100,000 buy-in tournaments, they’ll have everybody broke within a year. I’m not a big fan of those tournaments. Then, I was saying the same thing four years ago about the $10,000 buy-in tournaments. Everybody would have gone broke on those too, if they hadn’t been satelliting so many people in. You’ve been at this a long time – what are the biggest lessons you’ve learned? Everybody glorifies these people who play heads-up and win millions of dollars, but they’re going to lose it, too. Ain’t nobody who’s better than anybody else playing heads-up poker. Poker’s about playing and beating bad players. There’s definitely less bad players now – and there’s a lot of good players. It’s tough to win now; it’s a lot harder to make a living. Lucky for me, I don’t have to depend on it anymore. I wouldn’t be happy if I had to grind and make a living online or even live nowadays. It sure wouldn’t be easy. Have cash games in Vegas gotten tougher, too? The mixed games are still good, but the no-limit games are all dried up, unless you get invited to a house game. Poker has become a showdown contest. That’s all it is. It’s just because everybody tries to outplay each other. When I came up, it wasn’t like that. It was about making correct decisions, playing solid, attacking blinds and weakness…just playing good and solid. Now it’s all about three-betting, four-betting, five…Come on man. Tell me about your nickname – how often do you hit your opponents with the trash talk? Not much anymore. Though I did it down in Bay 101. Because I just got hot and started making hands. When people play bad against me, I talk a lot of shit. I catch some cards, I’ll rub it in their face. At the WPT, I had a hand where the guy raises under the gun, and three people call so I call in the big blind with Qd-4d. Flop comes 2-4-Q. I lead out the pot, and the guy who raised under the gun calls. The two who came in behind fold. The turn card is 7d, and I have queens and fours on the flush draw. I bet $4800, he makes it $11,000 so I move all in. He calls and shows me three sevens. And I said, “You gotta be kidding me.” Then it’s a 3d on the river, and I start screaming: “That’ll teach you to play bad against me, motherfucker. You get what you deserve. You’re an idiot.” Then I start berating him something fierce. I lead out into four people with a Q-4-2 rainbow. What do you think I’m leading out with, complete air? Like two sevens are any good there. What have you been playing lately? I don’t play. I went to Australia and won about a quarter million. Then I went to L.A. and played the cash games there for a couple weeks and won another $250,000 there. Then I went down to Bay 101 and cashed $370k there. So it’s been a good year.

Grand Theft Auto V

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:36:19 +0000

Grand Theft Auto V
Gossip October 25th, 2011 In USA and bored of waiting for poker? Well RockStar Games has announced the release of Grand Theft Auto V on their website! People on Twitter are wishing for features from San Andreas. Some are speculating that it may take place in Las Vegas because of the foreshadowing using the V money symbol: Play Online Poker Poker Blog Copyright 2008 Just add chips LLCSubscribe to PokerBloggs.com

Reflections on the Full Tilt Poker Smear Campaign

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:18:07 +0000

Reflections on the Full Tilt Poker Smear Campaign
published on 09/21/11 at 4:18 pm With all the news coming out about Full Tilt Poker and a so-called Ponzi scheme, I felt the need to say something. First, let me start by saying that Full Tilt Poker is a class organization that has treated this organization and overseas bank accounts fairly throughout the years. Howard Lederer and Jesus Ferguson are honest, trust worthy individuals. Not to mention, Rafe Furst, although he did move to Mexico, I can only say his work with charities and the Bad Beat on Cancer have garnered the utmost respect from me. Second, it is a shame to see the U.S. government stick their noses into something that was good for the poker industry, the nations economy, and an individuals self esteem. The majority of players online are terrible and just give money to the lucky few. But these players kept depositing funds into their accounts, helping my lifestyle with a variety of extravagant needs. So what a player did not know about the inner processes of Full Tilt, did not hurt them. They would never have withdrawn funds in the first place. Third, all these dopes posting about a 400 million dollar hole in Full Tilt Pokers finances, do not know one thing about international finance. 99% of their money is in overseas accounts. To get their money into U.S. accredited bank accounts takes several months, due to the Patriot Act. I believe Mr. Lederer and Mr. Ferguson are just waiting for the funds to go through the proper channels and everyone will be promptly paid. So let us stop slinging the proverbial mud at Full Tilt Poker. We need to let this show trial run its course and in the end, you shall all see that they are innocent of all charges. About PokerPlasm, Inc.PokerPlasm, Inc., is privately held so no financial statements are made public. Forward-looking statements in no way relate to, among other things, expectations of the business environment in which the Company operates, projections of future performance, potential future performance, perceived opportunities in the market, and statements regarding the Companys mission and vision. The Companys actual results, performance, and achievements differ materially from the results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to a wide range of factors. Mr. Sonny Partrude is Acting CEO until the board elects one to a full-term. Related posts: PokerPlasm Executives Discuss Options for Increasing Profits Cracking the Full Tilt Poker Code Full Tilt Magazine Press Release Are Online Players Cheating at Full Tilt Poker? Full Tilt Poker Pro, Cuzzinlaw, Spends Quality Time With Street3

Team Titan and Sorel Mizzi on a Roll

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:00:10 +0000

Team Titan and Sorel Mizzi on a Roll
Submitted on Fri, 2010-05-21 05:25 Sorel Mizzi, who made his name as a monster online poker player and signed with Team Titan at Titan Poker one month ago, has been burning up the poker tables in Europe. Mizzi finished in the money twice recently. European Poker Tour On the European Poker Tour (EPT), Mizzi captured sixth ($190,000) at the Grand Final High Roller event. As we noted in a recent article, the European Poker Tour is considered to be the richest poker tour around, with over a dozen events across the continent and one tourney in the Bahamas. Back in April, Mizzi was signed as the guru of Team Titan. Titan Poker has made it a priority to find new players online and mentor them into champs. When they signed Mizzi last month, he was already considered to be a top player and became the designated captain of the team. World Poker Tour His latest finish in the money was last week at the World Poker Tour Rendez-Vous a Paris. He finished second winning $159,000 in a 25-player, $20,000 buy in. Freddy Deeb took the main prize in the event. Thus far this year Mizzi has won $1,266,960. Watch out if you’re sitting across the green felt from him. Team Titan at Titan Poker has found a winner.

Feds Indict Online Poker

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:36:12 +0000

Feds Indict Online Poker
by Carson Cashman | April 15, 2011 Federal authorities unsealed an indictment against eleven people today, including the founders of Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker. The charges range from bank laundering to wire fraud to violations of the UIGEA. US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement that the defendants “concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits.” Federal prosecutors are also seeking $3 billion (with a b) in civil money laundering penalties. Prosecutors claim that online poker rooms were deliberately miscoding prohibited online poker transactions as other legal types of transactions, such as jewelry and flower purchases. In addition to the indictments, several domain names were seized as well as an estimated 75 bank accounts associated with the tainted transactions. Prosecutors also allege the defendants established bank accounts under false pretenses with the intention of processing online poker transactions. News of the indictments is spreading fast. Wynn Resorts, who had recently announced a partnership with PokerStars just last month, immediately canceled said arrangement. Poker players are asking questions about their deposits and no one seems to know what’s happening. We’ve reached a new stage in the history of online poker. It’s uncertain how far-reaching this crackdown will be. Also unclear are the ramifications for future regulation of the industry. Is this the dawn of the terminal decline of online poker? History would say no. Prohibition of ubiquitous activities tends to fail (alcohol prohibition, anyone?). Perhaps this latest action by the government is the first step to a legitimate federal regulation of online Texas Hold’em poker. These prosecutions will certainly galvanize the millions of people in the U.S. who are affected by poker prohibition. Perhaps more important is the political environment as we approach the 2012 presidential election. Politicians on the right will have a hard time convincing their libertarian base that the government needs to monitor their banking transactions just as politicians on the left cannot reject the billions in additional revenue online poker regulation could bring. We will continue to follow this story closely as news develops. Copyright 2011 Ace Nine, LLC Legal | Contact Us | Site Map

Top 5 Poker TV Shows

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:18:39 +0000

Top 5 Poker TV Shows
published on 03/04/11 at 9:00 am Looking to catch some great poker action on your television set this week? Then, this is the article that clues you in about where all the poker action is. So, read on to find out which TV channels you have to set your dial to for watching shows packed with poker glitz!! #1 Poker TV Show: GSNs High Stakes PokerThis show was launched in 2006 and was one-of-a-kind among all existing poker shows because one could sit alongside the top poker professionals from all corners of the globe, such as Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu of PokerStars, and Jen Harman as opposed to the tournament format of other shows. Thus, this show allowed viewers to watch the poker biggies gamble with their personal cash (tons of it, really considering each player had to buy-in using USD 100,000 with variations of deals one doesnt normally get to see anywhere else. #2 Poker TV show: ESPNs World Series of PokerThis show has got to be the biggest ever in televised poker event history since nowhere else can viewers tune in to such a tremendous variety of poker games. You have Texas Holdem, 7-card Stud andOmaha played high with the Main Event being the real crowd puller because it is here that the nail-biting finish table action has everyone betting on who will walk away with the No Limit Holdem tournaments multi-million dollar first prize! #3 Poker TV show: World Poker TourThis show definitely has all the poker nuts tuning in to the WPT and also dragging along family and friends to watch the action after it launched with much fanfare in 2003. It rapidly climbed up the TRP charts and became the Travel Channels top rated program because of great poker tournament coverage from across the countrys best casinos. Each hand that is relayed on the TV screen causes hearts of poker fans to beat faster with the pace of the action speeding up across all the different channels the show airs on: from Fox Sports to Travel Channel to GSN, which is sponsored by PokerStars.net, viewers have a choice of which channel they want to change the dial for in order to be part of the poker claim to fame just like the pros featured on this show! #4 Poker TV show: Bravos Celebrity Poker ShowdownThis show really built up the games popularity, much like the shows listed above because it brought in a niche audience to watch their favorite stars vying for great poker prize pools amid light-hearted bantering and some fabulous on-screen chemistry between the hosts: Phil Gordon of FullTilt and Dave Foley who came across as naturals when it came to informative commentary of the shows action. Lots of poker fun, cool prizes, celebrity flavors and the rumors of poker veteran Phil Hellmuth taking to the hosting keep this TV show on the hot list of many card game enthusiasts. #5 Poker TV show: GSNs Poker RoyaleThis TV show about poker is unique because it combines two opposing groups that come together to duke it out at the poker table, across different segments like Girls versus Boys or Celebrities versus Professionals. Three players from each group face each other at the No Limit Holdem tournament and compete for the host of prizes and of course, fan favor! Related posts: Online Poker Affiliate Shows Us How Its Done! The Most Undeserving Player Wins Twitter Poker Tour Europe Event