Seriously, compared with the action that came before, the second round of the Clubs/Spades bracket was not especially exciting. All but one of the matches were over in 70 minutes and the all-in-fest that started 30 minutes in usually featured...
Rally against Massachusetts anti-online gaming bill set for March 18th
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) is co-organizing a rally to be held on Tuesday, March 18th across from the MA statehouse. GPSTS is an organization headed up by Harvard professor Charles Nesson that seeks to promote the use of poker as an ��...full article
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) is co-organizing a rally to be held on Tuesday, March 18th across from the MA statehouse.
GPSTS is an organization headed up by Harvard professor Charles Nesson that seeks to promote the use of poker as an educational tool.
Excerpt from the GPSTS announcement of the rally:
#372 - Chris Ferguson has won the NBC Heads-Up Championship
Details to follow immediately, 9 44 PM....
High stakes no limit drama - MezmerizePLZ and ADZ124
There’s a bit of a buzz building over at 2+2 regarding the unfolding confrontation between two fairly well-known high stakes online players, MezmerizePLZ and ADZ124. At the center of the controversy is a 32k debt MezmerizePLZ says he’s owed - but more disturbing to ��...full article
There’s a bit of a buzz building over at 2+2 regarding the unfolding confrontation between two fairly well-known high stakes online players, MezmerizePLZ and ADZ124. At the center of the controversy is a 32k debt MezmerizePLZ says he’s owed - but more disturbing to many is the admission of what amounts to potential implicit collusion between the players.
Here’s an excerpt from MezmerizePLZ’s post explaining the situation:
Late December I started becoming decent ‘poker buddies’ with ADZ124 (Matthew Mara). We talked over aim a fair amount and I began to trust him. Late one night, ADZ124 and JDredd were sitting at 100/200, ADZ was sitting out. I sat down not particularly wanting to play heads-up, I had no idea who JDredd was (usually a sign I should play in the game). Before I made a decision to play JDredd heads-up or not, ADZ messaged me over aim that he will play if we swap 50%. I had never swapped with ADZ before, but did not particularly want to play a heads-up match so I accepted the 50% swap. I have never done this before, haven’t done it since and will never do again. I acknowledge it is unethical to swap with a player in the same game.
We played 3 handed for a little, I was down and ADZ was even. After getting a feel for JDredd, I felt confident that I would do well in a heads-up match against him. I told ADZ over aim that I think I have a better edge heads-up, but that he could still keep 50% of the action if he sat out and let me play JDredd alone. He accepted, sat out, and left his computer. I then lost more during the heads up match. The losses from 3 handed and heads up totaled 72k.
This was over 3 months ago, and ADZ seems to have no intentions of paying his debt ($32k). He has shown a “What are you going to do about it” attitude. He claimed I tilted and/or I was colluding with JDredd, and therefore he is relieved of his debts.
NVG thread here.
Full Tilt allows more than one account for CardRunners players
Full Tilt Poker recently announced a deal with the Web site CardRunners.com that will have many of its top young poker players join the online poker site to play. The biggest news to come out of this, beyond the signing itself, has been a change ��...full article
Full Tilt Poker recently announced a deal with the Web site CardRunners.com that will have many of its top young poker players join the online poker site to play. The biggest news to come out of this, beyond the signing itself, has been a change to FTP policy to allow CardRunners players to have more than one account.
From pokerkingblog.com:
Full Tilt have announced that they will be making an exception to their “one account per player” policy. They will basically be allowing Cardrunner pros to use “alternate” accounts while they are filming their instructional videos. These “alternate” accounts would be used to disguise the true identities of the person behind the account, presumably so as not to influence the play of the other people at the table while the filming is taking place.
Also, Full Tilt goes on to say that at the end of the recorded session, all of the other players at the table will be notified by email as to what happened, and they will be rewarded with a “small token of appreciation” for their participation.
Lastly, Full Tilt states that anyone who loses money to the pro will be given “additional compensation”, but doesn’t say exactly what that would be. FTP points? A hat? Reimbursement of their lost funds? One can only assume that the player will not be getting their money back.
The possible problems are many, from FTP making exceptions to its own rules for pros, to regular players possibly feeling cheated because of playing against a “hidden” pro.
There has been quite a buzz on many poker forums about this issue, and a lot of questions about this policy change remain unanswered. Look for more as this story develops.
#365 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #15 – Load Up on Guns and Bring Your Friends
This was a wild day of poker at the Heads-Up Championship. We’re down to eight players and what a concentration of world-class talents we have. Here’s the line-up for the Sunday quarterfinals:...
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