Patrick Antonius and Tom “durrr” Dwan had a match for the weekend event as the latest session of the “durrr” Challenge. The game only lasted for nine minutes last Saturday night and Dwan wins the match over the course of 61 hands.
Tom Dwan collected a huge amount of $230,710 from his rival in the span of nine minutes. As of the moment, Dwan is already holding around $2 million with 33,303 hands in his entire poker career.
Last Saturday’s event started with Patrik leading the action as he raise $1,200 as Dwan made a three-bet to $3,600 and Antonius called this offer. Dwan was holding ace of hearts, Queen of hearts, 10 of spades and 8 of diamonds while Patrick showed up his card with Queen of spades, 9 of clubs, 6 of clubs and 2 of spades.
The flop in the match showed up King of spades, Queen of clubs and Jack of spades. The turn brought out the 7 of spades and the river of Jack of diamonds to complete the five cards. The last card made Dwan win the amount of $184,234 pot money. There are still 16,697 hands left in the challenge that gives Antonius frightening task to overcome a deficit of $1,986,418.
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A robbery had taken place during the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin and was shown on a German television which is comparable to “America’s Most Wanted”.
The police are seeking help from all poker players who somehow has an idea with regards to the robbery. The reason for airing the said robbery is for those viewers to call the local police for any information they wish to give that could help in the investigation.
The TV show in which it was shown has already been known to present unresolved mysteries like the America’s Most Wanted show. As for now, what is known is that there are four gunmen who held up the registration area of the tournament which was sponsored by PokerStars. Unfortunately, these four gunmen were able to escape bringing with them a handful amount of money.
With the incident, officials of PokerStars together with Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin are improving their security measure to avoid the incident to happen again. Kevin “ImaLuckCas” MacPhee suggested not to have tournament again but if cannot be done, provide proper security measure to the highest level for the safety of all players. Players were told to leave the area when the incident happened.
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PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour has been the talk of the town for years. Finally, the tour is taking going to happen. The power of online feeders to major events is noticeable nowadays in the continent.
The large quantity of online qualifiers was made possible by the winning of Jamie Gold in the World Series of Poker Main Event. It became the driving force for the sudden increase of the poker boom. With the opportunity to acquire seats online for tournaments at the comfort of your home, a second wave of increase is likely to be witnessed. As a consequence, wherever the NAPT will hold its tournament, it is expected to see more than 1,000 players in the field. The airing of the couple of events on ESPN will definitely create a stronger NAPT.
No competition should take place between World Poker Tour and the NAPT. Instead, it should complement each other for the benefit of both of them. With the two events taking place in the same region, poker players of the tournaments were given the opportunity to experience the action both tournaments offers. Everybody is hopeful that the trend of both NAPT and WPT can live alongside one another.
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Three Square Food Band will be benefiting from the PokerStars in its upcoming poker tournament. Numerous celebrities are expected to come at the gala. Tony Hawk, a skating legend who helped the Olympian Shaun White is one of the expected guests.
The tournament also looks forward to actors for the name of charity like Christian Slater, star in “Broken Arrow,” Untamed Heart,” and “Young Guns II,” and Brad Garrett who appeared in movies “Night at the Museum,” Ratatouille,” as well as Disney’s “ A Bug’s Life.” Joanna Krupa, hostess of North America Poker Tour as well as Team PokerStars Sports Stars Orel Hershiser will also play in the competition.
In addition to the aforementioned stars, the talk show host Montel William, Slash, former guitarist of Guns N Roses, and actors Marlon Wayans and Lou Diamond Phillips will as well appear in the tournament. Of course, poker players of PokerStars will also join in the battle.
The president and CEO of the Three Square Food Bank, Julie Murray is so delighted to PokerStars for its dedication to help those who hunger in Southern Nevada. Including the charity-minded celebrities who will join in the said tournament were appreciated. Julie Murray believed that this step would make a difference in their fight against hunger.
