Neil Channing wins the Irish Poker Open of 2008. 667 players joined in this €4500 buy-in tournament. This ment 72 players ended up in the money.
Channing was able to beat well known professionals like Doyle Brunson, Andy Black and Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott in this 3 million guaranteed tournament.
By winning this tournament Channing earned €801.400!
Full Tilt noticed that Mr. Little was online almost 24/7 the last few months, and decided to take a further look into this case. They found out the account was used from multiple IP addresses. Jonathan Little was fired by Full Tilt Poker.
Since the pros playing at Full Tilt get paid per hour, it is very profitable to be online as much as possible. But also the pros need to read and follow the Terms and Conditions! Account sharing is just not allowed! Due to this violation by Jonathan Little Full Tilt Poker saw no other options then disabling Jonathan’s account and ‘fire’ him.
I think this is really well done by Full Tilt, showing no regret, neither to their own affiliated professionals. What do you think?
Between an impressing field of contesters of the best poker professionals of the world, Chris Ferguson managed to win the NBC Nationals Heads-Up Championship of 2008!
After finishing in the second place the last 2 years, he finally succeeded to win this great tournament.
The complete final results:
Chris Ferguson
1 Chris Ferguson $500,000
2 Andy Bloch $250,000
3 Huck Seed $125,000
. Phil Ivey $125,000
5 Gus Hansen $75,000
. Jonathan Little $75,000
. Orel Hershiser $75,000
. David Benyamine $75,000
9 Mike Matusow $25,000
. Phil Laak $25,000
. Greg Raymer $25,000
. J.C. Tran $25,000
. Doyle Brunson $25,000
. Scott Fischman $25,000
. Freddy Deeb $25,000
. Michael Mizrachi $25,000
In the best of three final Chris Ferguson was able to defeat Andy Bloch. After Andy winning the first match, Chris was able to win the second and third match with showing the best of his HU game. The second match won by Chris by calling going all-in with QcQd against a short Andy Bloch showing Kc3d.
Eventually the third match was not as exiting as the first two, finally finished by a coinflip (yes a real coinflip) made by Andy. Calling with a pair of Tens, with Ferguson showing JJ. With no help on the turn and river, it was Chris Ferguson winning the NBC National Heads-Up Championship of 2008.
Andy Bloch
As most online poker players probably noticed the last days, many poker sites had connection problems (either very slow or no connection at all). Rumors are going around that they suffered from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack.
This attack is used by computer hackers to bring websites down and are placed by computers all around the world, sending billions of so called ping packages to one server. If this server does not have a good protection against these attacks, it can cause downtime. As happened to Full Tilt Poker, Party Casino, Titan Poker, Virgin Games, CD Poker and Europa Casino. Also some big Russian Poker sites were attacked like PokerListing.
This finnaly shows the reason of the embarrassing outage of Full Tilt Poker during the FTOPS Main Event, when almost every player lost his connection.
These connection losses are not very good for Full Tilt’s reputation, since a lot of players are wondering if their losses will be refunded. What do you expect from Full Tilt?
Can you imagine loosing billions on online poker and casino games?
The US Government can! A study of accountantsfirm Price Waterhouse Coopers, in name of the UC-Group, gives an insight of the income losses for the US Government for the upcomming 10 years! If they regulate online poker and casino , they will earn a little of 16 billion (16,000,000,000!!!!).
In this calculation sportsbetting is not even included, it’s all about casino games and poker!
Individual taxes would generate 56% of the total amount. The amount could rise up to 42 billion if other sport betting was included and all states where gambling is prohibited..
Am i the only one wondering how long Online Poker will be forbidden in the USA?
Finally a new Strategy Article was added to our website. The Article contains all information you need about Heads Up Poker Strategy.
Credits go to Mila of Pokerroomsonline.nl
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Danish Champion ‘Soren Kongsgaard‘ has faced every online poker player nightmare. Loosing your internet connection while playing heads-up in the $1 million guaranteed on Full Tilt.
Kongsgaard was playing the $500 buy-in tournament from Barcelona, where he lives most of the year. After loosing connection he tried everything to get connection again, but he could not help getting blinded away by the lucky winner BluffMagCV.
Kongsgaar tells: “I wasn’t able to get my connection back, and since I only had around 50 times the big blind and the antes were high, it didn’t take long before I had lost my chips.”
Eventhough it was a real nightmare he really stayed quite down-to-earth about what happened to him: “That’s just the way it is, there is nothing you can do about it.”.
The $1 million guaranteed final results were as following:
1. BluffMagCV — $197,984
2. Kongsgaard — $121,588
3. tmfd001 — $79,624
4. RGAR18 — $63,484
5. colenel decker — $48,420
6. DutchVinny — $34,647.20
7. JaeMills — $25,286
8. imgrinding — $19,906
9. Gettin Daize — $15,064
At the end, BluffMagCV earned $200k and Songsgaard just less then $125k. Even with this dissapointment Songsgaard should be satisfied about this year, he is on a real winning flow. One of the youngsters getting to the top in Europe.
He won the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen, placed 3rd in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and won the Danish Champion in september. All the best of luck to Soren Kongsgaard, with your career and with finding a better internet provider in Barcelona.
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Julian Thew, a well known professional player from Notthingham, wins the 2007 EPT in Baden (Austria).
With 282 players joining this €8,000 NL Holdem Tournamen, a few less then last year, the EPT Classic in Baden had a total pricepool of €2,143,200.
On day four the final table was created with the following remaining players:
After 5 hours the Final Table was reduced to 2 players. With Julian Thew and Denes Kalo being heads-up.
Julian Thew
Denes Kalo
When heads-up against Denes Kalo, Thew took advantage of his chiplead and his experience in playing Final Tables (this was his 3rd FT at the EPT!).
After 1 hour heads-up play Kalo’s dream flew away. The following hand would be an preflop all-in for both players.
With Thew being a favorite with showing his
Against Kalo’s
With a board of:
Thew’s hand standed and eliminated Kalo who received a €375,000 with becoming runner-up. With his win he picked up an entry to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and a total of €670,800.
Check out the official EPT website to view the top 24 players and the earnings!
Congratulations to Julian for this great achievement!
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