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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
Joe Hachem to Continue Playing in Major Poker Tournaments
Joe Hachem has announced that he will continue participating in major poker tournaments. This dispels the belief many held that he will limit his tournament activity and focus on developing the Asian Poker Tour and AsianLogic Group, now that he is on board as their new ambassador.
Hachem, who briefly held the record for the all-time biggest tournament prize when he won $7.5 million at the 2005 World Series of Poker, has said that most of the tournaments he’ll participate … Read the rest
Pre-Day 7 Notes About the Main Event
It looks like ESPN is starting to show that they are trying to step their coverage up this year. Just a few minutes ago I saw a few interviews on ESPN2 with Mike Matusow and Phil Hellmuth, also an update from Ali Nejad. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ali doing the main event commentary in the years to come. Congrats to Ali for landing a job with ESPN!
In the past years the network would have to do these updates at the risk of spoiling their own TV ratings when they finally aired the event. Now that the final table is going to be delayed significantly, this sort of coverage in news clips may actually help to increase ratings…hopefully bringing more money into poker for everyone.
I also just realized that I had neglected to discuss something else in my previous blog…the women of the WSOP. There is 1 woman left in the field; Tiffany Michelle. Entering day 7 Tiffany has just over 9 million in chips and is among the chip leaders. It certainly couldn’t hurt to have a descent looking woman at the final table. Even though the number of entrants in the main event has increased by a few hundred players since last year, the number of women entered into the event has decreased. However, for better or for worse, the women that are still playing seem to be looking a little bit more attractive.
