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Card Player Publisher Barry Shulman kicked off the inaugural CPPT Choctaw $1,080 no-limit hold’em main event. With two starting days, the tournament is expected to blow away its $500,000 guarantee. The sizable prizepool has attracted a number of notables early on day 1A, including A.P. Phahurat, who won the Chad Brown Poker Challenge $2k main event at Choctaw in the spring. Card Player TV caught up with him to learn more.
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888 Poker, the fourth highest trafficked online poker website in the world according to PokerScout, appears to be working feverishly to attract new players into the game.
888 Poker recently launched its Mobile product, which allows players from across the globe to compete on 888 via their iPads and Android devices, with iPhone compatibility coming soon. iPad compatibility is brand new.
This is a major step for a poker site that has at times more than 3,000 cash game players competing, as many in the industry believe the mobile market is one that will soon occupy a significant portion of overall play online due to the popularity and convenience of smart phones with small screen displays.
The new 888 application for iPad is basically a cut-and-dry method of playing poker online without displaying the main lobby and other graphically cumbersome features. For the Android and iPad applications, players can only compete at one table for the time being, although this could be extended in the future depending on demand.
Being able to play in sit and gos from a mobile device is a huge plus for many beginning poker players looking to pay a one-time fee for a set number of chips in hopes of placing in the money at the conclusion of a tournament. The SNGs, as all current online players know, generally can be played in a few minutes and do not require any additional commitment beyond the original buy-in and rake unless the SNG is a rebuy.
Read More: 888 Poker Releases iPad Application, Adds Support for SNGs
888 Poker recently launched its Mobile product, which allows players from across the globe to compete on 888 via their iPads and Android devices, with iPhone compatibility coming soon. iPad compatibility is brand new.
This is a major step for a poker site that has at times more than 3,000 cash game players competing, as many in the industry believe the mobile market is one that will soon occupy a significant portion of overall play online due to the popularity and convenience of smart phones with small screen displays.
The new 888 application for iPad is basically a cut-and-dry method of playing poker online without displaying the main lobby and other graphically cumbersome features. For the Android and iPad applications, players can only compete at one table for the time being, although this could be extended in the future depending on demand.
Being able to play in sit and gos from a mobile device is a huge plus for many beginning poker players looking to pay a one-time fee for a set number of chips in hopes of placing in the money at the conclusion of a tournament. The SNGs, as all current online players know, generally can be played in a few minutes and do not require any additional commitment beyond the original buy-in and rake unless the SNG is a rebuy.
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Five years ago, Andrew Badecker dropped out of college and although he had a job, he spent much of his time playing online poker. After a particularly good night — he'd won $7,000 — he told his parents he was quitting his job too.
Not long afterward, Badecker was kicked out of his childhood home in Vernon.
Today, on the cusp of his 25th birthday Badecker is a millionaire and has won four six-figure professional poker tournaments, including one in which he took home $388,657. He won a third-place prize of $224,029 on May 28 in Las Vegas and sees no end in sight to his poker career although thoughts about a different future do cross his mind.
"Eventually I'll want to [settle down]," Badecker said. "It's not on the agenda any time soon. We're just having fun."
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Not long afterward, Badecker was kicked out of his childhood home in Vernon.
Today, on the cusp of his 25th birthday Badecker is a millionaire and has won four six-figure professional poker tournaments, including one in which he took home $388,657. He won a third-place prize of $224,029 on May 28 in Las Vegas and sees no end in sight to his poker career although thoughts about a different future do cross his mind.
"Eventually I'll want to [settle down]," Badecker said. "It's not on the agenda any time soon. We're just having fun."
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Each time Congress promises to consider online poker, the subject ends up getting pushed back into yet another overcrowded, end-of-the-year, lame-duck session. And each time that happens, Nevada's gaming industry becomes increasingly nervous.
“There has to be some action,” said Tom Breitling, chairman of Ultimate Gaming, an online gaming company launched by the owners of Station Casinos. “The debate is not about the legalizing of Internet poker. It's about the survival of the industry that is the foundation of our economy.”
There still are months to go on the congressional calendar, but the gaming industry is starting to make the sort of last-ditch pitches usually reserved for the waning weeks of December in the hopes of drumming up some attention before the 2012 elections.
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Card Player Publisher Barry Shulman kicked off the inaugural CPPT Choctaw $1,080 no-limit hold’em main event. With two starting days, the tournament is expected to blow away its $500,000 guarantee. The sizable prizepool has attracted a number of notables early on day 1A, including A.P. Phahurat, who won the Chad Brown Poker Challenge $2k main event at Choctaw in the spring. Card Player TV caught up with him to learn more.
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The man who won the United Kingdom and Ireland's only bracelet at the 2012 World Series of Poker, Craig McCorkell, has continued his fine run of form by taking down a Sunday Major.
McCorkell, playing under the moniker JAKE CODY, entered the $190+$10 buy-in ChampionChip $150,000 on the Ongame network along with 848 other hopefuls, and after almost 17 hours at the virtual felt McCorkell had won each and every single of the 4,245,000 chips in play; including those of his fellow Brit and sixth place finisher Mathew “get thereeee” Frankland and seventh places Gavin “gavb31_x” Ball.
This latest win – worth $28,661.24 – takes McCorkell's lifetime online tournament winnings past $1,350,000 and cements his places as one of the best poker talents this country has to offer. He is currently ranked 18th in the UK and 144th in the world for online poker tournaments but here at UK & Ireland PokerNews we expect that to change drastically in the coming weeks.
Read more: Craig McCorkell Win Ongame $150,000 Champion Chip | PokerNews
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Since he dropped out of Seattle Central Community College, Alex Fitzgerald said, he's found the good life: winning more than $2.5 million as a professional online-poker player and quickly becoming one of the hottest young gamblers in the world.
Poker, he said, is his passion and his profession, and he studies it every morning.
But he's doing it in Costa Rica.
He said he must play on foreign soil because online poker is illegal in the United States, after the Justice Department shut down the three largest sites on April 15, 2011, a day known among gamblers as Black Friday. "I can never live in my country of birth again without giving up the only job that has consistently fed me since I was a teenager," said Fitzgerald, who's 24.
One thing might change that: Congress could legalize online gaming, allowing at least 150 U.S. poker players who've fled the country to return.
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The online high-stakes cash games at PokerStars have certainly picked up lately. Last week, “Phisherman36” lost a staggering $775K, while Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies won a healthy $492K. Phisherman36 was nowhere to be found late in the week, and Sahamies likely wishes he’d stayed away because he lost almost all his hard-earned winnings.
It took Sahamies just 1,724 hands spread across 39 sessions to lose $445,365, enough to make him the week’s biggest loser. Close behind was “kaju85,” who played 6,061 hands across 57 sessions and dropped $428,034, most of which went to the week’s biggest winner, “longerpig.”
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen anyone win more than $700,000, but that’s exactly what “longerpig” did this week, banking $710,798 in 14,109 hands across 126 sessions. That was quite a bit more than next biggest winner, Terje “Terken89” Augdal, who won $280,097 in 8,192 hands.
Here’s a look at some of the more interesting hands and story lines from the past week of online action:
Read more: The Online Railbird Report: "longerpig" Wins $710K, Sahamies Drops $445K | PokerNews
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In the wake of the Full Tilt Poker scandal, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission has made various changes, most notably how online poker companies handle customer accounts. It also looks like there will be more emphasis placed on being able to refund 100% of their deposits at any time.
…the AGCC now state that in order to have hold an operating license with them, clients have to hold all customer deposits (and therefore balances) in a segregated account that is separate from the business' operating or current account.
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Settlement deals reached between federal prosecutors and three Internet poker companies call for more than a half billion dollars to be paid to the government, enabling U.S. poker players to recover more than $160 million lost when the companies shut down U.S. operations last year, authorities said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand approved settlement agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. A separate agreement between the government and a third company, Absolute Poker, had not yet been approved by the court.
PokerStars said in a release that its deal with the U.S. Department of Justice calls for it to pay the government $547 million over three years with the money being used in part to reimburse former U.S. customers of Full Tilt Poker.
The company also said that $184 million representing outstanding balances owed to non-U.S. customers of Full Tilt Poker will be made available in a segregated bank account that can be accessed with no restrictions on withdrawals. PokerStars said it has acquired the assets of Full Tilt Poker.
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Famed 2+2 poster “ElevenGrover” has released a new teaser trailer about the infamous UB scandal that rocked the online poker world several years ago. The film will be named “UltimateBeat – Too Much to Lose” and is currently in production. The producers of the documentary hope to have it released by the end of the year.
The film itself will center around the insider trading and fraud that was going on behind the scenes at Ultimate Bet, a once-popular online poker site that gained unwanted fame because of revelations that executives had cheated their own players out of millions of dollars at high-stakes cash games.
There will be numerous interviews with not only the players that were cheated but also the very people who discovered the cheating was happening. It provides detailed facts, dates and other open information that UB attempted to hide for years while they bled players dry.
The documentary will also feature backgrounds on all the major players involved, including former WSOP Main Event champion Russ Hamilton, who was said to have profited the most from the fraud that had been going on while he led Ultimate Bet in its early years as an online poker site.
Read More: Documentary About UB Insider Trading Scandal to be Released
The film itself will center around the insider trading and fraud that was going on behind the scenes at Ultimate Bet, a once-popular online poker site that gained unwanted fame because of revelations that executives had cheated their own players out of millions of dollars at high-stakes cash games.
There will be numerous interviews with not only the players that were cheated but also the very people who discovered the cheating was happening. It provides detailed facts, dates and other open information that UB attempted to hide for years while they bled players dry.
The documentary will also feature backgrounds on all the major players involved, including former WSOP Main Event champion Russ Hamilton, who was said to have profited the most from the fraud that had been going on while he led Ultimate Bet in its early years as an online poker site.
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Perhaps nobody knows the struggle of poker’s modern day ups and downs better than Mohsin Charania, who has run the through gauntlet of variance during his five-year career.
The 2012 EPT Grand Final champion is now riding high on poker, having increased his lifetime earnings to nearly $5 million. But the road hasn’t been easy, and there were times when he considered walking away from the game for good.
This is his story.
Read More: A Poker Life -- Mohsin Charania - Poker News
The 2012 EPT Grand Final champion is now riding high on poker, having increased his lifetime earnings to nearly $5 million. But the road hasn’t been easy, and there were times when he considered walking away from the game for good.
This is his story.
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With an agreement in hand that admits no wrongdoing and allows for re-entry into the U.S. online poker market, PokerStars will undoubtedly apply for a license.
The agreement brokered between PokerStars, Full Tilt and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) in which PokerStars has acquired the assets of Full Tilt allows the world’s top poker site to re-enter the U.S. online poker marketplace as long as they are granted a license under either a state or federal framework. The agreement specifically states, "PokerStars is prohibited from offering online poker in the U.S. for real money unless and until it is legal to do so under U.S. law." This was a crucial element to the agreement that in all likelihood would not have been finalized without its inclusion.
Read More: PokerStars Eyes U.S. Online Poker Market
The agreement brokered between PokerStars, Full Tilt and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) in which PokerStars has acquired the assets of Full Tilt allows the world’s top poker site to re-enter the U.S. online poker marketplace as long as they are granted a license under either a state or federal framework. The agreement specifically states, "PokerStars is prohibited from offering online poker in the U.S. for real money unless and until it is legal to do so under U.S. law." This was a crucial element to the agreement that in all likelihood would not have been finalized without its inclusion.
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California legislation to legalize and license online poker faces long odds as lawmakers hurry to finish their work before an Aug. 31 deadline, the Senate’s top Democrat said today.
“It’s possible, but I don’t see it in the last four weeks,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, told reporters.
Steinberg is the co-author of the online poker bill, which was introduced by state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Los Angeles. The pro tem’s office has helped lead negotiations am0ng tribes with casinos, card clubs, horse tracks and other entities that have a stake in the potentially lucrative venture.
The bill, though, has not moved since its February introduction. Monday, Steinberg pointed to divisions among gaming tribes — some tribes support the proposal, others oppose the Wright-Steinberg bill but support the concept, and other tribes object to the whole idea of legalizing online poker.
Read More: ONLINE POKER: Pro Tem doesn’t expect bill to pass by deadline : Political Empire
“It’s possible, but I don’t see it in the last four weeks,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, told reporters.
Steinberg is the co-author of the online poker bill, which was introduced by state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Los Angeles. The pro tem’s office has helped lead negotiations am0ng tribes with casinos, card clubs, horse tracks and other entities that have a stake in the potentially lucrative venture.
The bill, though, has not moved since its February introduction. Monday, Steinberg pointed to divisions among gaming tribes — some tribes support the proposal, others oppose the Wright-Steinberg bill but support the concept, and other tribes object to the whole idea of legalizing online poker.
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The British poker community is bridging the gap between online and live play thanks to PKR. The 3D poker site has pushed its entire stack into promoting both sides of the game - utilising YouTube in the process.
PKR took a gamble back in 2006 when the site introduced 3D graphics to online poker. The aim was to bring the virtual game as close to live play as possible. Six years later, PKR is well established as one of the coolest gambling sites out there - and is still striving to improve the realism of poker online.
Using 3D software was to become the hallmark of PKR but over the years, the innovative brand has continued to link the virtual generation to live play using its very own Stacked magazine, the sponsored 'PKR Pros' and a dedicated PKR YouTube channel - the latter of which is home to a series of videos that have the potential to go viral:
In June 2012, PKR uploaded three videos, featuring poker fan Ashley Hames keeping a straight face as he is slapped, soaked with water and attacked with various ingredients from a full English breakfast. The videos are humorously promoting the age-old skill of keeping a poker face under pressure.
Read More: PKR YouTube Channel Brings Poker Players Closer to the Game - MarketWatch
PKR took a gamble back in 2006 when the site introduced 3D graphics to online poker. The aim was to bring the virtual game as close to live play as possible. Six years later, PKR is well established as one of the coolest gambling sites out there - and is still striving to improve the realism of poker online.
Using 3D software was to become the hallmark of PKR but over the years, the innovative brand has continued to link the virtual generation to live play using its very own Stacked magazine, the sponsored 'PKR Pros' and a dedicated PKR YouTube channel - the latter of which is home to a series of videos that have the potential to go viral:
In June 2012, PKR uploaded three videos, featuring poker fan Ashley Hames keeping a straight face as he is slapped, soaked with water and attacked with various ingredients from a full English breakfast. The videos are humorously promoting the age-old skill of keeping a poker face under pressure.
Read More: PKR YouTube Channel Brings Poker Players Closer to the Game - MarketWatch
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Earlier last week, Forbes posted an article which stated that certain members of the Department of Justice are not comfortable with paying online poker players the monies they earned while playing poker at Full Tilt. The DOJ is considering only paying players their initial deposits instead of monies they earned with their deposited cash.
The Poker Players Alliance is trying to educate the DOJ on why they should pay players their full balances from Full Tilt Poker, and John Pappas, the executive director of the PPA, spoke with PocketFives just two days after the Forbes article posted to comment on why players deserve their full payment.
Forbes stated in the article the argument as to why United States poker players should be paid their deposits back minus their winnings. The statement read: “The Department of Justice has consistently taken the position that online poker violates U.S. law. This position is what led to [Preet] Bharara’s crackdown on the online poker industry in 2011, the shutdown of the U.S.-facing websites of PokerStars and Full Tilt, the indictment of 11 individuals, and a $3 billion civil forfeiture lawsuit.”
Read More: PPA Trying to Get Full Tilt Players Their Winnings; Not Just Deposits
The Poker Players Alliance is trying to educate the DOJ on why they should pay players their full balances from Full Tilt Poker, and John Pappas, the executive director of the PPA, spoke with PocketFives just two days after the Forbes article posted to comment on why players deserve their full payment.
Forbes stated in the article the argument as to why United States poker players should be paid their deposits back minus their winnings. The statement read: “The Department of Justice has consistently taken the position that online poker violates U.S. law. This position is what led to [Preet] Bharara’s crackdown on the online poker industry in 2011, the shutdown of the U.S.-facing websites of PokerStars and Full Tilt, the indictment of 11 individuals, and a $3 billion civil forfeiture lawsuit.”
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According to eGR Bodog Poker will cease to process transactions from Serbia, Bulgaria and Estonia among other 20 Eastern European and Asian affected jurisdictions and as of right now players are being encouraged to withdraw their balances.
It is uncertain if their casino or sportsbook will be affected by the decision just yet, a spokesperson for Bodog released the following to the online gambling magazine stating, “We feel it is better to concentrate on our strengths & where we can offer the best product. The Bodog brand is known for its high level of customer service & spreading ourselves too thinly to try and cover a huge amount of smaller markets was proving logistically difficult. Bodog.co.uk will concentrate on growing existing markets.”
Read More: Bodog Poker Leaving a Trail of Online Gambling Jurisdictions Behind | Casino Scam Report
It is uncertain if their casino or sportsbook will be affected by the decision just yet, a spokesperson for Bodog released the following to the online gambling magazine stating, “We feel it is better to concentrate on our strengths & where we can offer the best product. The Bodog brand is known for its high level of customer service & spreading ourselves too thinly to try and cover a huge amount of smaller markets was proving logistically difficult. Bodog.co.uk will concentrate on growing existing markets.”
Read More: Bodog Poker Leaving a Trail of Online Gambling Jurisdictions Behind | Casino Scam Report
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In the wake of the Full Tilt Poker scandal, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission has made various changes, most notably how online poker companies handle customer accounts. It also looks like there will be more emphasis placed on being able to refund 100% of their deposits at any time.
…the AGCC now state that in order to have hold an operating license with them, clients have to hold all customer deposits (and therefore balances) in a segregated account that is separate from the business' operating or current account.
Read More: AGCC tries to create safer environment for online poker players
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Bodog is an online gambling firm with a reputation for customer service and safety. It has been in the business of offering poker as well as other wagering products for almost as long as online gambling has been around. Bodog withdrew its services in the USA a long time ago and re-established itself in the United Kingdom with a license from the U.K. Gambling Commission.
Now, effective August 30th of 2012 Bodog.co.uk will withdraw its online poker offering from twenty countries in Eastern Europe as well as areas of Asia. This has led to speculation that there may be trouble brewing within the firm’s structure. Bodog is solid and just being careful most critics suggest. The list of nations Bodog is leaving includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Read More: Twenty Jurisdictions Rejected By Bodog Online Gambling Firm
Now, effective August 30th of 2012 Bodog.co.uk will withdraw its online poker offering from twenty countries in Eastern Europe as well as areas of Asia. This has led to speculation that there may be trouble brewing within the firm’s structure. Bodog is solid and just being careful most critics suggest. The list of nations Bodog is leaving includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
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After that, he earned a WSOP bracelet, took down a legends of poker side event and was a runner up in the Wynn Classic main event. This year, he went deep in the WSOP Main Event, finishing in 350th place overall. Over the course of his six-year career, Young had racked up over $1.6 million in live tournament earnings.
Despite the competitive nature of poker, the death of any professional player hits the scene hard. The outspoken Daniel Negreanu tweeted "Really sad news: Poker Pro Ryan Young passed away today. RIP Ryan," followed up by "A real loss for the poker world. Ryan Young was interesting, charismatic, a talker, aggressive, and exciting to watch."
Chris Moore, the player who defeated Young heads-up at the 2008 Wynn Classic, Tweeted, "Very saddened to hear of the passing of poker player Ryan Young. Always thought of him as a great player, and an even better guy 😔 #rip"
"This is such a shock," David Benefield posted on Young’s Facebook wall. "You were a great friend, an awesome person and a damn good poker player. I have known you for as long as I have known almost anyone in the poker world and I will miss you dearly."
We here at the Gambling Beat offer our condolences to Young's family and friends during this difficult time, even as we note that it's always amazing how the poker community sets aside their rivalries foot celebrate the life of a fellow competitor.
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