Wednesday, 24 March 2010
After a huge pot between Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey, the table was shuffled around and new faces were introduced to High Stakes Poker.
Dwan, Ivey and Negreanu join us from the first line-up while regulars Barry Greenstein and Patrik Antonius sit down too. New faces there are PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis, Andrew “good2cu” Robl and WSOP November Niner Dennis Phillips.Andrew Robl is hardly a shock – though he’s not a presence in the nosebleed online games so much any longer he still has a commanding poker game and the money to sit there. How he will do is anyone’s guess – he folded Kh-Jh out of position getting over 3-1 which I was surprised at. That’s not a very Internet Player thing to do, Andrew.Lex Veldhuis has only been in the action really with a failed bluff against Patrik Antonius. I wasn’t too familiar with him before this, knowing only that he was online player RaSzi. The Dutchman plays high stakes online and does well, so he should hold his own here.He pointed out that Negreanu, as a live player, plays too few hands, that he has never had a Royal Flush. It shocked me, too – over a 20-year career playing cards how can you never have a Royal? I’ve probably played less than 250,000 hands in my life and I’ve had two or three.Now, Dennis Phillips – what are you doing here, mate? I hope PokerStars are backing you for this because you’re a bit out of your depth. I won’t say you might as well put Darvin Moon there because Phillips actually has some poker fundamentals but still, he’s going to get destroyed.Bluff Europe readers, I will offer 4/1 odds that Phillips will not make a six-figure bluff or semi-bluff over the next five episodes. Any takers post in the High Stakes Poker thread.Now, that’s done – I’m off to enjoy this rare good weather with a nice ride down some country roads. If I don’t post on Friday it’s because I’ve been smeared into the asphalt.
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Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
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