Two Events Planned for Atlantic City

Harrahs recently created the Harrahs Atlantic City Poker Tournament. Its all No Limit and has no championship event. I really don't understand what they are thinking. The main purpose of it is to generate satellites for the WSOP main event in Las Vegas. They should just bill it as such and make every tournament a feeder for a bracelet event.

I call bullshit, but they could turn it around if they followed my advice. Add some Pot Limit Omaha and smaller qualifiers to bracelet events that include hotel and air to Vegas.

Borgata is back at it with a $500,000 guarantee tourney that will happen the end of May and be a precursor to the Summer Open. These guarantee events always have nice turnouts and soft fields. A good place for people to get their poker legs before heading of the WSOP in Las Vegas.

Brecher Wins Bay 101 Liebert Screwed

Steve Brecher who is an old time poker player bested Kathy Liebert at the final table of the Bay 101 in San Jose California. Chris Moore top ranked online poker player finished 3rd.

I must admit I think Steve is an awesome guy and deserves this his first big win. I am conflicted because Kathy really got fucked here. She had a few shots to capture the tourney but just couldn't get there. She would have been the first female to win an open WPT event. This is like her 5th or 6th WPT final table. She did get over 500k for her efforts. Kathy has cemented herself as the most accomplished female tournament poker player of all-time.

Borgata's 500k guarantee was this weekend. A I write they are down to 18 players.They started with 919 players make it nearly 1.5 million in the prize pool. First place will get $319,536.

Good luck to team 3some at the dream team poker event Liz Lieu. Mario Ho and Matt Stout.

NBC Heads Up and More

The MBC Heads Up Tourney took place last week in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. 64 players entered including the biggest names in poker like; Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Phil Helmuth, Daniel Nagreanu and more. The entry was $20,000 with $500,000 going to the winner.

The highlights of the event included a rematch of last years much talked about Tom Dwan Phil Helmuth match. This very Phil prevailed and was all to happy to gloat. Another big match was Scotty Ngyuen and Daniel. The funny part was Daniel dressed up as Scotty fake mullet and all. In the end it was the sexy Vanessa Russo against former World Champion Huck Seed. Huck took it down making him the 3rd WSOP ME champ to win it along with Helmuth and Jesus.

In other news:
some stupid Canadian took down the WSOPC event at Caesars, First place was $322k not bad for 3 days work. Chris Kolondicki, Matt Brady, Frank Vizza and Jason Young also made the final table.

Bay 101 and Wynn Classic Start this week. Bogata's 500k guarantee is this weekend. So there is plenty pf action out there.

Krusty

Caesars Under Way and Holy High Stakes

Yesterday Durrr won 900k, Phil Ivey won 1.2 MILLION and the big loser was Ziigmund NEGATIVE 2 MILIION.

The World Series of Poker Circuit has returned to Atlantic City at Caesars.

Wed, Mar 4th12:00 PM2-Day Event
$340
Thu, Mar 5th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
Event #2 - No Limit Hold'em $560

Fri, Mar 6th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
$340

Sat, Mar 7th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
$560

Sun, Mar 8th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
$340

Mon, Mar 9th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
$560

Tue, Mar 10th 12:00 PM2-Day Event
$1,080

Wed, Mar 11th 12:00 PM1-Day Event
$230

Thu, Mar 12th 12:00 PM3-Day Event
$5,150

Durrr All Day Long

High Stakes Poker made a triumphant return to the Game Show Network tonight. Playing in the game were a mix of online and live players. Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Eli Elezera, Peter Eastgate, Zigmund, David Benyamine and Tom Dwan (Durrr).

In my opinion HSP is the best poker show on TV. They play for big money and you get to see great play. Durrr lost a big hand to WSOP 08 champ Peter Eastgate, but other than that the pots were small compared to the action ebing seen on Full Tilt these days.

In reponse to all of the big action being on Full Tilt these days Daniel and Barry Greenstein played HU on poker stars on an 8 game mix table. It wasn't close to the action on FTP and it wreaked of a publicity stunt. Many rumors have Barry being broke or at least in some economic turmoil.

Also like to send out my thoughts and prayers to Daniel's mother who has been ill for a few weeks now. Daniel is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet and like all of us he loves his mother.

Krusty

Durrrr Loses 1.3 Million in One Day

Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have started their epic battle on Full Tilt. They have 4 200/400 tables set up for them. As I have previously stated they are playing 50,000 hands. If Durr wins Patrik owes him 500k and if Durrrr loses he owes 1.5 million. This is of course on top of what you win and lose in the match.

So far they have played about 4,000 hands and Dwan is up $150k. However this all seems to be taking a backseat to other big games online. Yesterday Durrrr played Phil Ivey Heads up at the $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha Table. Ivey nearly won $1 MILLION in this session alone. Counting Durrrs other loses yesterday he nearly got 1.3 million down. These are tournament chips folks this is real money.

By far this is the biggest cash game ever witnessed by the general public. Its like having GSN's high stakes poker on your computer every night. It has got me wondering whether one of the PokerStars pros will challenge Durrr. All 3 players so far wear the red and black of Full Tilt. This challenge also seems to be capturing the imagination of the poker public. you would think that PokerStars would consider backing someone to play Dwan. I know Barry Greenstein has already said he would be drawing dead againt Durrr.

If you want to keep up to date on the challenge check out this link:

http://www.highstakesdb.com/challenge/durrrr-vs-antonius.aspx

Till then,

Krusty

Borgata Brings Back $500,000 Tourney

I have to admit I doubted the guys at Borgata for their guarantee tournaments but it worked so dam well in January. They are back at it again with a $500,000 GUARANTEED PRIZE POOL POKER TOURNAMENT starting on March 21. The structure is a deep stack one and the buy in will be for $1,650 ($1,500 buy-in event plus $150 entry).

The deep stack tournament starts with 30,000 in chips and will be held in Borgata’s 85-table poker room. Unlike the Fall and Winter events which they house in the Events center.

The four qualifying events for the $1,650 tournament will take place:
Friday, March 6 at 11AM ($165 + $35)
Sunday, March 8 at 11AM ($165 + $35)
Sunday, March 15 at 11AM ($330 + $50)
Friday, March 20 at 4PM ($330 + $50)

Get them while they are hot.

Krusty