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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
2009 Aussie Millions High Stakes Gam
Many Internet sites are reporting about million dollar buy-in poker game on Sunday in Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The game started as head-up match between Patrik Antonius and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan with $ 1,000/ 2,000 blinds and alternation between no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Sound like Tom Dwan had a first taste of what his ongoing challenge to the world might look like. Patrik Antonius was quickly up 500,000 dollars which only confirms Phil Ivey words that before it is all over somebody might lose a number of millions.
Some more high stakes players joined the game and blinds were scaled back to to $500/$1,000 with $200 ante. It is amazing that one of the hands between Phil Laak and Niki Jedlicka went down in exactly the same way as a typical hand on $0.25/ 0.50 online table would go. Having a full buy-in of $ 200,000 Phil Laak raised with AK offsuit and Niki Jedlicka re-raised to $20,500. At this point with AK it would be a standard play to call and see the flop, putting in only 10% of your original buy-in. After all, top professionals are aware of many difficult situation you can get yourself in by playing AK too hard in cash games.
Phil Laak decided to push harder with his hand and re-raised again to $103,000 and Jedlicka moved all in. I think at this point it is pretty much clear that you are against AA or KK which means that you are “dead” or close to it. Phil Laak called and indeed was against AA.There was no sick suck out and Laak lost $200,000 on a pretty simple hand against a solid player. It could be that some unknown factors played a role in Phil Laak decision but it is hard to imagine that Niki Jedlicka was playing super aggressively with Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius at the table. So an old saying is right again: ” Small pots for small hands..”. And AK is not , by any means, a big hand preflop against competent opposition.
