Sunday Scoop: Black Friday Birthday Party
No less than six six-figure scores were recorded in the week’s biggest online poker tournaments with plenty of big names getting a piece of the cash. In total over $3.92 million was awarded across Sunday’s four biggest events, and we’ve got the details below.
Poker’s In and Out List: Timberlake Stars, Police Raid Scars
Today’s In List features a new movie about online gambling from the writers of Rounders starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, the first Two Plus Two post ever plus another lucrative spring for Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky. On the Out List we find a police raid in Chattanooga that resulted in a shooting as well as a confusing fold from Dan “Jungleman” Cates on the Party Poker Big Game. Poker’s In List: April 9-15, 2012 Affleck, Timberlake in New Movie by Rounders Writers: IN Headlining this week’s In List, and piquing our interest in poker movies for the first time since Burt Reynolds in Deal , is a new project from Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
Poker’s In and Out List: Timberlake Stars, Police Raid Scars
Today’s In List features a new movie about online gambling from the writers of Rounders starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, the first Two Plus Two post ever plus another lucrative spring for Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky. On the Out List we find a police raid in Chattanooga that resulted in a shooting as well as a confusing fold from Dan “Jungleman” Cates on the Party Poker Big Game. Poker’s In List: April 9-15, 2012 Affleck, Timberlake in New Movie by Rounders Writers: IN Headlining this week’s In List, and piquing our interest in poker movies for the first time since Burt Reynolds in Deal , is a new project from Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
Ben86 Hits $631k: Weekly Top 10 Online Winners/Losers
Tollerene has always flown somewhat under the radar in the high-games on PokerStars but he’s turning into a veritable monster this year. Meanwhile some of even bigger name online pros like Ilari Sahamies and Patrik Antonius continue to plummet in the games on PokerStars
Tournament Tracker: Vandersmissen & Lemke Big Winner’s This Week
Lemke now has over $1.1 million in career tournament earnings Saint Patrick’s Day was nearly a month ago, but this week it felt like the holidays all over again as Twitter was populated with mentions of Ireland. The poker population flocked to Dublin this week for the PaddyPowerPoker Irish Open
POY: Freddy Deeb Makes His Presence Known
Deeb already has two WSOPC Main Event final tables this year The tournament circuit in the US may be in the middle of a lull, but with a ton of action across the pond in Europe, the 2012 BLUFF Player of the Year race has several new faces in the top twenty this week. Some
Flying Finns: Weekly Top 10 Online Winners/Losers
Sahamies and fellow Finn Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen were the two biggest movers this week as they dominated the PLO games on PokerStars . Plenty of big name players made waves, however, as Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Isaac Haxton completed their $1 Million SuperStar Showdown and the alleged Phil Ivey account – RaiseOnce – took a world-class beating.
The Week That Was: Campione, Campos, and Online Poker
Busquet came close to an EPT title on Saturday The anniversary of Black Friday is right around the corner and this past week we’ve seen a lot of news coming from the courtroom in relation to the April 15th indictments. The plea deals of Chad Elie and John Campos dominated the poker headlines this week,
Daily 3-Bet: Rousso Baller, FTP Deal Closer, Mizzi Curse
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Vanessa Rousso double dipping in luxury cars, Full Tilt Poker and the Bernard Tapie Group inching closer to a deal and Sorel Mizzi explaining what a poker career all means, man
Judge Refuses Plea Deal in Campos Case
There is a new wrinkle in the Black Friday case of John Campos. The Vice Chair of SunFirst Bank in Utah reached a plea agreement for a single misdemeanor conspiracy charge earlier this week, but now the judge presiding over the case is refusing to immediately accept the plea