Poker Condoms

There was so much going on at the 2010 World Series of Poker on Friday, June 11, that it became tough to focus. By concentrating on one tournament for awhile, the other five got out of hand. Two starting events, two second days, and two final tables brought players and fans to the Rio in droves and worked the tournament staff and media to a maximum capacity.

The tournament that received the most attention was the $1K ladies-only championship. There was controversy from the noon start, as several men registered for the event – some in drag, others in men’s clothing – and the majority of the field of women was not happy. T (Read the full post about ‘WSOP Day 15: Ladies Led the Charge on Busy Friday’…)

The Poker Players Alliance have announced an Apple iPhone App. The new tool is aimed at passing important information to members. The PPA is a grassroots organization aimed at protecting the rights of poker players in the US. The app provides tournament updates and news and updates from the Poker Players Alliance. It also provides a member location service to help Poker Players Alliance members network. It also provides something called the Click to Call Congress feature, which members can use to communicate with elected representatives in Washington, D.C. to discuss poker.

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Online poker room UB has re signed poker pro Brian Cantu for another year. The poker pro will wear the UB logo during his run at the WSOP. The 2010 World Series of Poker is a time of high visibility for poker players and poker rooms alike, and the sponsored pros are likely to go deep and get plenty of camera time, all the while wearing the logo of their sponsoring room. Cantu signed with UB last year and will be on board for another year. Last year he won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker and cashed in a total of ten events, four of which were final tables.

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Day 14 of the World Series of Poker was yet another spectacle of action, with just one bracelet handed out to Jason Dewitt in the $5k NLHE but five other gripping tournaments played out as well.

The day brought many twists and turns and without further ado – here they are.

Event #17 – $5k NLHE

Mooted as perhaps the toughest WSOP No-Limit Hold’em field in the series so far, the $5k was back in effect with 18 players still in the hunt for the bracelet.

Jeff Williams, David Benefield and Antonio Esfandiari were amongst the big stars returning to play to the bracelet but ultimately it was Jason DeWitt who saw off the heavily-supported Englishman Sam Trickett heads-up to win the bracelet and $818,959 first prize.

“It was the toughest final table I’ve played in,” said DeWitt following his epic win.

Event #18 – $2k Limit

144 Limit aficionados returned for day 2 of the $2k Limit and after a tough day of playing through the streets, the numbers had been whittled neatly down to the ten players who remain in contention to win the bracelet on the final table.

The ten that will return tomorrow include Eric Buchman, who narrowly missed out on a WSOP Limit bracelet in 2006 but will have the chance to rectify that near-miss when they resume at 3 p.m.

(Read the full post about ‘Jason The Dream : WSOP Day 14 Re-cap’…)

In case you haven’t noticed, the WSOP Main Event is fast approaching and opportunities to win a seat in the Big Dance are disappearing. But you still have one last chance to get to Las Vegas in style as part of the Bodog Poker WSOP team. Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 13 at 4:35PM—that’s when the competition for the final ten Main Event prize packages begins, and it’s going to be a spectacular event.

Each prize package is valued at $12,000 and includes your $10,000 buy-in to the Main Event along with $2,000 for travel expenses and spending money. But that’s not all; Bodog Poker has added lots of other goodies. As a memb (Read the full post about ‘June 13—Last Chance to Win a WSOP Main Event Seat at Bodog Poker’…)

PokerStars have just announced a brand new area of their site dedicated to one of their biggest stars, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu.

The new portion of the lobby area will contain exclusive high-stakes cash game tables designed and endorsed by poker legend Daniel Negreanu.

The new tables will offer players the opportunity to mix it with the man himself and furthermore, any player who impresses Negreanu may be invited to take part in a future PokerStars T.V.

(Read the full post about ‘PokerStars Open Daniel’s Room Tables With $25k Freeroll’…)

GSN announced on November 5th, 2009 that a 6th season of High Stakes Poker (HSP) was coming to the network and for the first time ever in HSP’s history, Gabe Kaplan will be joined by a female co-host.

(Read the full post about ‘Kara Scott to Co-Host the 6th Season of the High Stakes Poker Tournament’…)

So, I found this article pretty interesting:

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/09/where-is-the-gamesmanship-a-controversial-hand-7196.htm

The article basically says that Tobias Reinkemeier is a bad sportsman because Roland De Wolfe (shown right) of Full Tilt Poker mucked his winning hand rather than showing both his cards. The opinion of the article is that Reinkemeier was angle shooting, but I certainly don’t agree with it.

(Read the full post about ‘Show it or muck it’…)

No one really knew what to think about Kevin Schaffel when he secured himself a spot in the November Nine.

Phil Ivey was already, of course, a known commodity. Jeff Shulman, Eric Buchman, and James Akenhead had previously established themselves in the poker world with some recognizable success. Joe Cada and Antoine Saout seemed like your stereotpypical solid Internet-age players, while Darvin Moon had his common man mystique and Steven Begleiter carried with him his Bear Stearns past.

But Schaffel was initially a mystery to most poker fans. In his early 50s, he is the oldest player at this year’s final table. B (Read the full post about ‘World Series of Poker November Nine Profile — Kevin Schaffel’…)

The Shark is waiting for you at LAPT Playa Conchal.PokerStars released the official schedule for the third season of the Latin American Poker Tour this week and it includes a plan to bring the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure under the LAPT banner.

This season the tour will offer five stops including Costa Rica, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and the Bahamas.

Easily the biggest poker tour in Latin American, the LAPT has steadily grown since its inception in May of 2008.

Season three of the tour will begin with LAPT Playa Conchal in Costa Rica, which will run Nov. 19-22, 2009.

“In just two seasons, the Latin American Poker Tour has become the biggest poker tour in the region,” said Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes. (Read the full post about ‘PokerStars introduces LAPT Season 3 schedule’…)