Poker Condoms

PokerListings players will benefit from a stack of new freerolls during the third week of August.

This week players will want to note of the monthly bwin $2,000 freeroll which goes off today.

The tournament offers $2,000 in free cash and is open to any PokerListings players who signed up or generated 50 player points this month.

UB Poker’s monthly $5,000 freeroll for PokerListings players who played at least 100 raked hands in the previous month will also be going down on Sunday.

The following freerolls are open to all PokerListings.com players.

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Mike “The Mouth” Matusow took down the 2010 Florida State Poker Championships in Pompano Beach this week.

The $1,100 buy-in event drew more than 400 players, outpacing the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Matusow was in town to host a DeepStacks Live clinic at the Isle Casino and Racing in Pompano and decided to stick around to play the event.

He wasn’t the only big name to get in on the action, as 2010 November Niner Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi turned up, as did 2008 November Niner David “Chino” Rheem.

However, Matusow outlasted the entire field to claim the $103,000 first-place prize.

“Early on in the day 1 there were a lot of weak players but as the day moved on and the field dwindled and the players got better and I had to play my A game to beat a lot of good players,” Matusow told the local Sun-Sentinel Newspaper.

“I would say on a scale from 1-10 I played 9.5.

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The ninth annual PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is set to begin Sept. 5 with $50 million in guaranteed cash.

Easily the richest online poker tournament series in the world, WCOOP’s $50 million in guaranteed prize pools marks the most that PokerStars has ever guaranteed for an online tournament series.

The series will consist of 62 events in every poker discipline imaginable, running over 23 days from September 5-27.

Things will kick off with a $215 6-Max No-Limit Hold’em tournament, culminate with a $10,300 High Roller 8-Game event and conclude with the traditional two-day $5,200 buy-in $10 Million guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em main event, starting Sept.

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We may be in the last few weeks of summer but the exclusive freerolls are just starting heat up on PokerListings.com.

This week players will want to check out the new PartyPoker $5+$1 tournaments for players who sign up for the site through PokerListings.

Although not completely free, the low buy-in tournaments will offer $500 in added cash for PL.com players. In addition the top 20 players in each event will qualify for a $10+$2 with $1,500 added cash on Aug. 29.

Also worth checking out this week are the monthly 888poker $1,000 freeroll that kicks off on Sunday.

The following freerolls are open to all PokerListings.com players.

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The Macau Millions kicked off in the Chinese gaming Mecca Wednesday.

Hosted by PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa, the first of five opening flights saw 112 players kick in the HKD $2,200 buy-in.

With its HKD $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, organizers are expecting The Macau Millions will set a new field size record for an Asia-based tournament. The previous record is 679 players.

The tournament, running Aug.

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The biggest cash games online have been relegated to the cap games on Full Tilt for the past few weeks. Many players, including Phil Galfond and Patrik Antonius, have complained that the cap pot-limit Omaha games are not ideal, but unfortunately, that’s where all of the action has been.

“I really dislike cap PLO,” Galfond wrote in his blog. “I think it’s a boring game with few complexities, and those complexities are more about math and running hand scenarios through calculators off the table than they are about psychology, leveling, and adjusting to opponents and game flow.

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Ted Forrest talks about how prop bets are paid on the honor system on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV.

Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV and you can get an inside look at one of the prop bets that the poker world was buzzing about all summer long.

The group also revisits Forrest’s opponent in the cash game with the highest stakes of all time, Andy Beal. Forrest recalls him as a hyper-aggressive player who preceded the aggression that is often seen online. The interview then turns to Forrest analyzing an interesting hand he played against notorious high-stakes gambler Archie Karas in a heads-up match. T

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888poker introduced one of its most dramatic upgrades ever this week with its new Poker 6 software.

The software is almost a complete overhaul of the former user experience with over 100 new features including improved search functions, layout, 3D table graphics and an always visible cashier.

Catering to both beginners and advanced players the new 3D lobby is separated into a simple easy-to-navigate section or an advanced layout with customizable features like favorites.

Tournament players will be happy to know 888poker has added late registration and several time bank options.

888poker also introduced its new online store where players can spend their reward points on poker merchandise, iPods, trips, cars and clothes.

To celebrate the new software, 888poker is launching a series of new micro buy-in tournaments where entry is just eight cents.

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We all know that Cake Poker has some super sweet deals and now, they have just introduced the new Match and Win Gold Card promotion that offers you the chance to cash in big! You don’t have to do anything special or extraordinary to do to get your piece of the cash cake either, all you have to do is match Gold Cards from your collection to the Cake Poker Match and Win game board to reap your winnings!

For the entire month of July you can Match and Win with any and all Gold Cards earned between July 1st through July 31st. Just by playing poker online at Cake Poker, you will receive Gold Cards – those sweet collectible rewards that are issued randomly to players in real money ring games at any stake or level! A (Read the full post about ‘Match Gold Cards to Win Over $30,000 at Cake Poker’…)

Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson and Chris Ferguson were among the players to bust on Day 2b of the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

A total of 2,734 players started the day but only a little over 1,400 will see the light of Day 3.

Ricardo Fasanaro, Gabriel Walls, Vanessa Selbst, Bryn Kenney and Alex Kostritsyn were among the chip leaders as the tournament clock was finally paused at the completion of the day.

Ivey and Brunson were definitely not the only people to bust as over 1,000 players were sent to the rail throughout the day.

There numerous celebrities in the field to start the day but Shannon Elizabeth, Trishelle Cannatella and Sam Simon were all among the players to bust.

Perhaps most disappointing elimination of the day was Ivey who last year fought his way through 6,488 runners before finally busting at the 2009 final table in seventh place.

Ivey ran pocket queens into pocket kings and despite hitting a queen on the turn was eliminated when his opponent made trip kings on the river.

The single biggest controversy of the day occurred when Prahlad Friedman was accused of making a call just as the time on a called clock had expired.

The dealer hadn’t heard the call and mucked Friedman’s hand.

Ted Bort was furious as he would have busted Friedman if he had called.

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