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CLEARING THE DECKS FOR WSOP MAIN EVENT (update)
IMPORANT CHANGES AT MICROGAMING POKER 2009-07-03 Euro will be the currency going forward, and a new approach to tournament action The Microgaming Poker Network has announced important new changes that include the use of the Euro as the sole currency for its poker tournaments, and a fresh approach to poker tournament action. The network is taking a fresh approach to tournament poker this summer with the launch of Survivor Tournaments, a new and exciting format for tournament poker play; it is also introducing two additional daily poker tournaments this month, called Breakfast and Bedtime Bounty. A company spokesman said this week that the moves are designed to deliver more playability. The new Survivor Tournaments are fast paced with nail biting finishes. Players must battle against each other and keep one eye on the clock, as a percentage of players with the lowest chip stacks are eliminated from the tournament at each level. Players are provided with a survivor status indicator on the table, stating the crucial information that they need to know to survive the next round of elimination. Players can see their status - SAFE, WARNING or DANGER – as well as the target needed to avoid elimination, the time left in the elimination level, and the number of players to be eliminated. All the information needed to make those quick decisions is available at a glance. All tournaments offer equal payouts to all survivors. To get a share of the winnings, all the player need do is survive. Mark Pinan, Microgaming’s Poker Network Channel Lead says: “The Microgaming Poker Network is proud of this new and unique tournament offering which is designed to provide the most entertaining network poker competitions available. We predict that July is going to be a big month for tournament poker.” Also introduced this (July) month is the Breakfast and Bedtime Bounty Tournaments. In both games, half of the player’s buy-in is paid into the prize pool, while the other half forms the bounty on their head. Every time a player is eliminated from the tournament the personal bounty is awarded to the player with the winning hand. Bounties can make a significant boost to the prize money but also means that players are rewarded for eliminating their competitors, even if they don’t win the pot. Along with the new games, the network has introduced the Euro as the sole currency for its poker tournaments, giving more guarantees, more variety in game play, more chips and longer blinds. The move from US Dollars to Euros will be applied to all network guaranteed tournaments, freerolls, satellites and regular Multi-Table Tournaments. This move will bring more of the network’s software features into play, including the ‘double buy-in’ option which will be available in all re-buy and second chance tournaments, along with an auto re-buying and topping-up feature. The option to end tournaments early when all remaining prizes are the same will also be available – starting with satellites to the new weekly Euro100 000 GTD tournament. ASIA PACIFIC POKER TOUR SCHEDULE RELEASED 2009-06-24 PokerStars.com has advised dates and venues for the third season The popular PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) will soon start it's third season, with a five venue program that includes stops in Macau, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines and Australia. Poker players aiming to participate in the popular tour are advised that the program includes the following: Macau : Grand Lisboa Casino Macau August 24-30, 2009 Buy-in: HKD $40 000 (US $5 160) Event restricted to 700 entries. Seoul : Venue: 7-Luck Casino, Seoul, South Korea September 17-20, 2009 Buy-in: US $3 000 Maximum entry field 250 Auckland : Venue: SkyCity Casino, Auckland, New Zealand October 14-18, 2009 Buy-in: TBA Maximum entry field of 350 Philippines : Venue: Shangri-la Mactan Resort, Cebu November 12-15, 2009 Buy-in: PHP 100 000 (US $2 150) Restricted to 300 entries Sydney : Venue: StarCity Casino, Sydney, Australia December 1-6 Buy-in AUD 6 300 (US $4 920) Maximum field of 700 players. Full details of the tour, and supporting online qualifiers, can be found at the PokerStars.com website. TOUGH VICTORY FOR GRAHAM IN WSOP 40 (Update) 2009-06-24 New Orleans pro denies Russian a third bracelet Event 40 - the $10 000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship at the World Series of Poker saw an American and a Russian across the table from each other in a thriller of a heads up atter they had survived an entry field of 295 players and a final table with plenty of talented pros looking for the biggest share of the $2 773 000 prize pool. By day 3 the field was down to 25, many of them acknowledged to be among the finest PLO players in the game today, but only nine could make the final table. Final tablers were New Orleans Internet and live tourney pro Matt Graham in the chip lead on 1.4 million, followed by Ferit Gabriellson (1.2 million), Josh Arieh (1.050 million), Richard Austin (1.030 million), Robin Keston (1 million), Stefan Mattsson and Vitaly Lunkin on 850 000 apiece, Van Marcus (500 000) and Barry Greenstein (780 000). By 2.30am the heads up stage had been reached, pitting Matt Graham (25), a New Orleans native now resident in Houston, Texas against the respected Moscow pro Vitaly Lunkin (37). The duo were almost evenly matched in chip stacks, but Graham ran into trouble ninety minutes in and was almost crippled, executing a remarkable comeback through a series of double-ups that eroded Lunkin's at one point massive 13 to 1 chip lead. By 4.30am it was all over - two hours of exciting heads up action had culminated in Graham prevailing to take home the $679 379 main prize and the bracelet - his second from WSOP and his biggest prize in 16 career cashes to date. The win brings Graham's career earnings since he started playing poker online three years ago to $1 183 775. Lunkin's runner-up prize was $419 832 - his second big-prize win this year after earlier taking down Event 2 - the 40th Anniversary $40 000 buy-in No-Limit Holdem contest, where he picked up $1 891 012 and his second WSOP bracelet. FLORIDA TO STUDY LEGALISED INTRASTATE ONLINE POKER 2009-06-24 Sunshine state joins California in taking a close look at poker possibilities Positive news from the state of Florida is that Governor Charles Grist has signed off on a bill passed by the state legislature in May this year which authorised a detailed study of the possible impact of Internet poker on an intrastate basis. A positive report would provide powerful leverage for the many politicians who see the regulation and licensing of online poker in the state as a strong possibility, placating poker players and providing additional tax revenues. The bill's objective is to consider what measures may be required to protect state residents from gambling offered by offshore Internet poker sites, measures to protect the vulnerable and underaged and what impact legalised intrastate poker might have on the state's existing terrestrial poker venues. It provides for the results of the study to be ready for consideration by the state Senate as early as December 2009. There could also be synergy with similar moves to legalise intrastate Internet poker in the state of California. Two closely related lobbying organisations, American Poker Ventures and the Poker Voters of America have been involved in lobbying for change and have drafted the content of Bill HB225 that deals with the study in Florida.
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