April 18, 2008
Embattled poker player Brandi Hawbaker committed suicide earlier this week at just 26 years old, as reported by PokerOwnge.com. Brandi’s personal life was apart of much public scrutiny, and it never seemed like the young poker prospect would ever be able to rebound from her own media-spun scandal. For more, visit the following link.
Poker Player Brandi Hawbaker Commits Suicide at Age 26
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April 12, 2008
ePassporte will be reportedly shutting it’s doors to U.S. Online Poker players according to a recent 2+2 thread that appeared today. An unconfirmed source has made mention that as of 1:00 PM PDT, ePassporte will no longer be available to U.S. citizens.
Read the entire Poker News article about this here.
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April 10, 2008
From PokerOwnage.com:
Erik Seidel, one of the most feared tournament poker players in the world - and owner of a handful of WSOP bracelets, can FINALLY add a World Poker Tour title to his impressive resume.
Seidel entered the television final table with a decent chip lead ($3.2m in chips) over heavy favorite and high stakes pro Ted Forrest (who had $2.3m in chips himself), and was hoping to use his stack to push around his other competitors. However, it would be Forrest who would actually be the first to get knocked out, with his pocket Jacks falling to amateur Robert Richardson’s pocket Aces!
Going out soon after that would be Adam Katz and Frank Cieri, who would earn $151k and $200k, respectively, for their hard work. After those eliminations, the WPT would entertain the longest 3-handed battle in the tour’s history.
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March 18, 2008
Famed online poker player -Sheets- took down the 2008 WSOP Circuit Event at Caesars Atlantic City this past weekend.
-Sheets-, who’s real name is Eric Haber, battled out 277 other people en route to the victory and $431k. The $5k buyin tournament generated over a million dollars in the prize pool, and of course a stellar field as well.
He battled out Dan Hicks heads-up and eventually won the big prize, as well as a WSOP Circuit gold ring, and an entry into the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
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March 17, 2008
The former e-wallet, once the best option for online poker players and their deposit needs, just posted huge losses for the fiscal year in 2007. How much to be exact?
Well, try $185.7 million.
Yikes! The payment processor’s executives blamed the large decline primarily on their withdrawal from the U.S. market. However, they also spent nearly $40 million on restructure efforts that included moving their base operations from Canada to the Isle of Man.
In January 2007, Neteller seized millions of dollars of United States’ citizens’ cash after the national government investigated the company and their involvement with helping poker players fund their accounts on their favorite poker sites. It is unclear whether Neteller will rebound from such huge losses….
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March 4, 2008
The schedule for the 2008 Arizona State Poker Championship was announced a few weeks ago by its official host, Casino Arizona (at Talking Stick). The tournament will have a $650,000 Guaranteed prize pool, with an additional $50,000 already added. Mind you, that prize pool is based on the assumption that all 600 seats will sell out. This will probably not be an issue considering the event has sold out weeks in advance in the past.
The $1,000+$50 buy-in tournament will no doubt attract Arizona’s top players, as well as many traveling poker pros looking to claim the title of Arizona’s Official Poker Champion. 1st place alone will nab a little over $190,000! Below is the official starting days of the event, as well as information on satellites that will be played a few month prior to the opening deal.
300 players 9:00.am. August 16th play down to 30
300 players 9:00.am. August 17th play down to 30
60 Players 11:00a.m. August 18th for Championship
For more detailed information on the event, as well as chip allocations and blind levels, please visit Casino Arizona Poker.
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March 3, 2008
In a post written by user ‘that_pope’ on Casino Arizona Forums, it looks as though Casino Arizona will be building special player boxes for its higher limit players. The boxes, similar to those used at many popular casinos like the Bellagio in Las Vegas, will allow players to store their chips and extra cash after each session at C.A., as well as be able to pick them up or cash them out whenever they please. The boxes should be available within the next few months, and you can start putting your name onto the waiting list now.
“This is a very welcome change, since walking to your car, driving home usually at dark, and going to your house regularly with $5000+ is not all that safe. Now there will be boxes we can store chips and cash and not have to stop at the cashier every night, just store purple chips and maybe a rack or two of browns in there to be ready.
This is very positive, and should improve the safety of high limit players,” says ‘that_pope,’ who is a frequent high-limit cash player at Casino Arizona.
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March 2, 2008
One of my other sites that I’ve been neglecting over the months is finally ready to be open to the public for a little test run. My high stakes poker blog site is now officially public and ready for Google to crawl, and I’m pretty excited about its potential. I just wanted to make a quick little post on it so everyone visiting AZGambler can check out reports on high stakes games or to jut get their daily Gambling News fix. Thanks for taking the time to read this…hope you enjoy the new site - it will be under construction over the next few weeks, but for now it’ll at least provide some decent content for those taking the time to read it.
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February 29, 2008
Phil Ivey finally got World Poker Tour redemption - FINALLY!
The player that most people in the gambling arena regard as the greatest living poker player in the world won his first-ever WPT event, taking down the 2008 L.A. Poker Classic Thursday evening.
It only took 8 final tables before Ivey way able to secure the one thing that was missing in his impressive resume - a World Poker Tour title. He battled his way through the final 5 opponents, eventually taking out 3 consecutive players in the last 4 hands to win the tournament and a cool $1.6 million.
Phil Ivey battled Quinn Do for a whopping 2 hands, before Phil mowed over Quinn’s two pair with a made full house on the turn - making it one of the quickest heads-up showdowns in major poker tournament history.
Other notable players at the televised final table were Phil Hellmuth and Nam Le, both of which have had great success in both the WSOP and WPT. It is not yet known when this event will be aired on television.
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February 22, 2008
NBC has released the list of names of players who will be competing on the 2008 season of the National Heads Up Poker Championships. The list is compiled of players who have confirmed that they will be participating in the event.
All of the former champions of NBC’s Heads-Up will be returning including Phil Hellmuth and Paul Wasicka. A few young new faces will be showing up for this season to try their luck. Scott Clements, Tom Dwan, Brian Townsend and Daniel Schreiber will be taking a break from their online games to compete in live play. This has become a new trend as successful online players are moving toward live play. More and more young players are coming out of the woodwork and winning or placing high in live events. They seem to be making more of a name for themselves when they move to live play because you get more recognition.
Many celebrities will also be in attendance. I must admit I really like watching the celebrities play. As normal people we tend to view them as their “characters” and when we see them in real surroundings it can be very entertaining. A few celebrities set to attend this year are: Jason Alexander, Jennifer Tilly, Don Cheadle, Shannon Elizabeth and Gabe Kaplan.
Jerry Yang, 2007 WSOP Main Event Winner, will also be playing in this year’s event. He has not been active in playing much since his win so it will be interesting to see how he does. The 2008 NHPC will start on February 28th and will continue for three days. This year Shana Hiatt, who normally does the sideline reporting for NBC, will be replaced by Leeann Tweeden. Hiatt is pregnant and will unable to perform her duty.
Complete List of Participants:
Alexander, Jason
Antonius, Patrik
Bellande, Jean-Robert
Benyamine, David
Brown, Chad
Brunson, Doyle
Brunson, Todd
Chan, Johnny
Cheadle, Don
Clements, Scott
Cloutier, T.J.
Cunningham, Allen
Deeb, Freddy
Duke, Annie
Dwan, Tom
Edler, Bill
Elezra, Eli
Elizabeth, Shannon
Esfandiari, Antonio
Farha, Sam
Ferguson, Chris
Fischman, Scott
Forrest, Ted
Gold, Jamie
Gowen, Clonie
Greenstein, Barry
Grizzle, Sam
Hachem, Joe
Hansen, Gus
Harman, Jennifer
Hellmuth, Phil
Hershiser, Orel
Ivey, Phil
Juanda, John
Kaplan, Gabe
Laak, Phil
Lederer, Howard
Lindgren, Erick
Little, Jonathan
Matusow, Mike
Moneymaker, Chris
Mizrachi, Michael
Negreanu, Daniel
Nguyen, Scotty
Pham, David
Raymer, Greg
Rousso, Vanessa
Schneider, Tom
Schreiber, Daniel
Seed, Huck
Seidel, Erik
Singer, David
Smith, Gavin
Tilly, Jennifer
Townsend, Brian
Tran, J.C.
Tran, Kenny
Wasicka, Paul
Williams, David
Yang, Jerry
Thomas Kelly (Caesars Palace Qualifier 1)
Hooman Nikzad (Caesars Palace Qualifier 2)
TBD (Online Qualifier)
TBD (additional player)
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