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Cirque du Soleil company owner and billionaire Guy Laliberté has lost millions of dollars in online poker over the years and has been considered by many the biggest high stakes fish ever. Poker pro Mike Matusow now, however, claims that due to an agreement among the high stakes regulars, he has never had a real chance to win.
David ’Chino’ Rheem has amassed a huge debt in the past few years but at last he started to pay it back, following his victory at the Epic Poker League for $1 million.
Chino Rheem has won the million-dollar first prize at the Epic Poker League. He defeated Erik Seidel heads-up. The question is: will he use this sum to pay off his debts or will he continue scamming the poker community?
Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates admitted in an interview made by Subject: Poker that he had played the ‘SamChauhan’, ‘Toshisan’ and ‘Girah’ accounts and participated in ghosting in cooperation with José Macedo.
Bluff Magazine has interviewed the two high stakes players who seem to have the most suspicious relationship with the scammer José ‘Girah’ Macedo. Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates and Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi were asked a couple of more or less pressing questions and here are some of their answers.
It would seem that Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi is gradually becoming the top suspect to be behind the Macedo (Girah) Scandal as forum members and known poker celebrities assume that he is deeply involved in the case. At the very least, he used the Portuguese midstakes pro’s account for multi-accounting.
The 18 years old Jose Macedo, the Portuguese Poker Prodigy as he is much better known, confessed that he cheated his coached students during a teamviewer session. He won over $30,000 from them, which he promised to pay back, plus he would give a $30,000 compensation per player. Lock Poker has cut his sponsorship, and he is also out of PokerStrategy's coach team.
On 2nd August Season 8 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour kicked off in Tallinn, Estonia. Main Event Days 1A and 1B are now over, and here is a report on the players, survivors and chipcounts.
Online betting exchange Betfair, in a wave of thorough revision of their sport sponsorship activities, has ended its sponsorship contract with UEFA Champions League 2010/11 winner FC Barcelona and signed four sport stars for brand ambassadors. Marketing magazine reports.
The 9-hour-long Friday Night Podcast of Quadjacks saw Daniel Negreanu, Matt Savage, Mike Matusow and, for a short time, Tony G talk about the current issues in poker.
New Purple Lounge private race at Rakerace.com in August! As part of the Microgaming network, Purple Lounge is holding a rake race with $2,000 up for grabs. Only registered Rakerace.com members can take part in the promotion. Moreover, all players are eligible for the 30% loyalty and the first deposit bonus.
Betfair and Rakerace.com continue their $3,000 cash race this August as well. Only players registering to Betfair via Rakerace.com are eligible to participate. In addition to the $1,400 Betfair Live package first prize and the other winnings worth a total of $3,000, Betfair also offers a first deposit bonus and its own central races.
For fans of the Boss network, Rakerace.com and InterPoker continue to offer their exclusive rake race with a prize pool of €5,000! The rake race is available to those who registered to InterPoker via our site's link. The promotion runs between August 1-31. Besides the race, you are also eligible for the €1,000 first deposit bonus and the 30% rakeback.
Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond, one of the most popular online poker players and instructors, cash game specialist thought it was time to get back to his beloved online poker; according to his recent tweet, he moved to Canada to be able to play.
The Big Game is back with the fourth week in a row, and after a week with Jared Huggins (who was totalled by Cassavetes) it's an international week at PokerStars. Two Italian, a French and threee american players face each other at the state-of-the-art poker table.
In the footage below, we can see players having a fierce quarrel at Bobby's Room in the Bellagio. Michael Mizrachi appears and calms the gentlemen down. Nobody got hurt, but judging from the amount of swearwords heard in the 36-second video, there easily could have been a couple of punches, hadn't Mizrachi saved the day.
The third week of the PokerStars Big Game has been released to PokerStars.tv. This week's loose cannon is the highly anticipated Jared Huggins, the homeless poker player, who was helped by Daniel Negreanu and the whole poker community to be on the show. But can he change his life?
The PokerStars Road to 100 Billion promotion is soon to hit its next milestone. Celebrating the 65 billionth hand dealt, about $1 million is expected to be given to the lucky players.
The 2011 WSOP Main Event enters Day 7 on Monday, 18th July with 57 players remaining in the contest for the ultimate poker title, the WSOP Main Event Champion’s. Yesterday, Event Day 6 brought about a major set of eliminations.
Full Tilt Poker was entirely shut down on June 29th, when the AGCC (Alderney Gambling Control Commission) suspended its operating license. Players had to find a new place to play, this is shown by the latest traffic reports: PartyPoker's traffic increased by 35%, Cake Poker's by 40%.
The unluckiest man at this year's WSOP, the 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth almost overslept his second day at the Main Event. He didn't realize that he was scheduled to play for the day. However, a friend is always on guard.
The Swedish programmer Hasan Alexander Anter took down the WSOP Event #56 ( in style: he defeated his opponent with a royal flush. The Event #57 bracelet ($5,000 Omaha H/L) went to Nick Banger.
According to recent information, the European investors who are planning to buy into Full Tilt Poker are almost ready to sign the deal, which could be "on the table by the end of next week."
As we reported yesterday, Phil Hellmuth finished second after Brian Rast at the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. This has been his 3rd WSOP heads-up this year, where he lost. However, he still has the chance to become the best player of the WSOP.
Max Lykov had the lead throughout the final table of WSOP Event #54 $1,000 NLHE, eventually defeating Dror Michaelo heads-up. In the famous $50,000 Poker Players Championship (WSOP Event #55), Phil Hellmuth lost his third HU battle in WSOP 2011, this time against Brian Rast.