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Not many people would have predicted Germany to be the team that has shown the most flair and attacking intent of the 2010 World Cup but, after already humbling England and Argentina in the knock-out stages of the tournament, they are now preparing to take on Spain for a place in the final. We’ve been speaking to Stefan Reuter, who won the tournament with Germany back in 1990.

This will be the last column, at least the last in which the Main Event is not the protagonist.

As the days go by Rio will obviously being a little calmer. It’s normal. Each day there is less cash tables while the satellites remain strong. Many people have come to play only small events, some having very clear that they caught in their little house party on July 4.

Many have come with the good hope of winning the main event at the tables of cash and most of those who have withdrawn are already in house in Oklahoma or in the swimming pool.

But there are always those who play to the end, either because they planned it well (ie, coming just days before to focus on satellites), or because they have passed the famous ‘threshold of misery’ by Mike Caro, ie the point where you say in the old Castilian! “To take the sack! I do not mind losing ten percent and hence do not get up until you click !”.

Of course this is an atrocious policy, but they are few (but minority) stories with happy endings in the beginning and poker. Moneymaker in 2003 without going any further was one of those.

Anyway … that among those who have left and those who remain, it seems that the atmosphere of the room is a bit more tense by being less and less bullets to take off the $ 10,000 Main in the tables.

Well, not all for that as everything goes by district. In the featured table has just started the final table of Tournamet of Champions. The stands are full, many tourists and even Josh McEachern and Norman Chad filmed live for ESPN.

Annie Duke, Joe Hachem, Siedel, J Chan, Negreanu, Greenstein, Huck Seed, TJ Harman. Clutia, Lederer are on the table, Negreanu is undoubtedly the favorite of the public, it is not surprising because it is also the most widely Lo Curro, taking pictures and signing letters with the public until the last second.

When correction has left many, the last TJ and of course in the press room have begun joking that will run after collecting the prize for the craps tables. Speaking of dice, it is amazing how many “infallible system” for the dice are telling me these days … LOL!

Another area where things are happier is the last ceremony of the bracelet, my first visit American anthem. In my opinion, here a little abuse of the anthem, but when you go to someone’s house you have to play with its rules.

David Gallo still alive in the 1000 event, and I also saw REBEn, Armando and Krusty on satellites. Then on to see their actions … (I just said that Gallo has been removed and satellites still no good news).

But back to my misadventures in Las Vegas, I will tell you that two days ago, after I got off the shuttle that goes to the Strip from the hotel, I saw far away a place I always wanted to go.

The mountain leopard never changes and I like to know the holes over trendy. This joint is definitely the first category. It proved to be a bar with video poker in bars and a collection of characters worthy of a Tarantino movie. Eenie past years, tattoos, hard worker in the building at lunchtime, dealers uniform finished drinking whiskey in his break.

No pictures inside because it was unnecessary. I had been beaten and had to give up their right. Nobody likes a tourist will take pictures in the bar of the bar as if the zoo. I took a couple of beers, enjoy the buxom waitresses to video poker and lost $ 10.

From there we went to Casino Royale, this casino is among the Harrah’sy the Venetian and becomes as if between a Mercedes SLK and Lexus are you parked a Ford Fiesta 85.

I came in because here is a branch of these tickets cheaper if the purchases in the day. I was going to Blue Man Group, but there was a line I started to play blackjack switch. It is a mode in which let you change the cards between two hands.

Finally, 25 minutes after I left with $ 100 less, a good tilt and without tickets. I went straight to the poker room at the Venetian and I took a seat to sit down immediately at a PLO table 200.

Just put my pair of bills on the table the player on my left offered to buy them. Its notes and 400 thousand in chips. Reviewed stacks and see that there are a couple with three boxes and the others are about $ 150/200. The game between strong with some hands preflop raises with 5 limpers. In general the players I think are acceptable / good, but certainly a bunch of ghosts, with the player on my left palm taking away.

When envy is short by 100-odd dollars, “Casper” Roll 12 100 bills to the table to call. Do not want to sound like the school bully, but the institute would have eaten in my everyday campion.

As I am warm deep breath and decided to concentrate on the game. I do not see much in my hands and a couple of bets with position to take the pot do not get any respect. I have to pull double Warren third color to receive two call and a raise all in from the Bblind.

We see the hands that teaches people and it is clear that nobody here is Gamble. All teach law or even guns and stir to pain with them. A rundown serious thing, but it’s going to be no. Casper is making mischief, and each time I drink less. Now even as calls for the food menu or a Corona without lime bothers me and I can not stop thinking about whether there will be many campion received in high school or if I give them.

Two laps later I still do not see anything and, worse, bored. I decide to get up to see what other tables are open. There is a table of HORSE 4 / 8 with a seat. Just what I need. Limit to go to all.

Pillo the seat back my chips and sit down. Compared to the other is like day and night. A good roll awesome. To my right a player online in Latvia, and my left one Asian player of California telling me as he learned to play casino Jerry Yang, the champion of Main near ghost (not been heard from him, which is not necessarily bad if you earn 8 million).

Across the table, retired players and one player who must have weighed 300 kilos, with the look of not having gone more than two steps without his cart in years. Then the majority of pensioners would be exchanged for a Mexican girl, a dealer in New Orleans and a couple of grinders online, almost all of good cheer.

Very good environment, as it must be alive … fun playing seriously, but no hard feelings. The boats are usually 100 or so. Some hands are discussed, but always with respect We had as dwarfs, inviting rounds and telling war stories. Whether that happens to me about the Blue Man Group. Fortunately, the entry had not bought.

I finished 60 down, or tell you bad beats, I do not know if I could, because in the hands of Stud’m not here to tread carefully in prcentajes. Yet there I lost a couple of huge boats, which for example (As9s) AxXs and another spade in the following letter, no nothing caught her in the following three cards and lost a double against 9×5x.

At dinner time I was really excited that I asked the players card and found that dinner, that should be $ 12, was free from accumulated fpp. For a second I felt like Ivey or a whale of those in the series Las Vegas)

Among the bells and whistles let Venetian almost 4:30 am when he broke the table. Almost eight hours
stuck there that flew! The Venetian may not work too well what the waiting lists when there are many people, but it certainly is the poker room I like, with the permission of the Wynn.

When I arrived at the casino, I wanted to bet on Germany against Argentina, but until 6 am did not open the sportbook. I’m a donkey, because surely that of the Venetian was open. I decided to wait to open playing blackjack, and even if many tragi start, not only recover what was lost before, but around 6 had recovered from the HORSE and blackjack switch. We make the bet round before falling into bed.

Miki I wake up and gives me the first joy of the day. Maradona 4-0 boy’s. Taxi to the Palazzo to watch the game in Spain. That … that I will tell you that you do not know. Was suffered but later released.

Then I went with Labandeira to record an interview. Unfortunately for me, we talk so much that the memory card filled almost half without realizing it. A shame because the interview was going pretty well. Always a pleasure to talk to him and appreciate what a true pro. This does not mean that has not had its bumps. He himself tells you that for many years its management bench was absent and that for years had many leaks. Then there is the issue that for someone who likes the history of poker, Manuel is a true veteran, and so could you talk about the old days when poker was like a fraternity of adventurers and gamblers, that online poker today or in the beginning even before the dawn Party.

Then we went to the pool at Ballys, to take the sunshine with some of the Navy. Bikinis, beer and poker talks on the couch, only altered because the bartender refused to sell beer to Grishuck taught without the card. Given the beard of Ernesto, the only explanation is that the waiter (he was Argentinian) was too rough to give beer to four guys with shirts without touching the Red a little that does not ring.

We were to dine at the Venetian, but I made one of the largest missclicks of my stay and while waiting for Miki end up in the shower I fell asleep.

Maybe the way the bed is the best way, but being asleep when the others are on a spree in Las Vegas is very weak tight.

Finally, in a while is the feast of Everest, so we will try to return the marsh of poker tracker in the Pure.

A hug from Rio

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It was not even a week since it announced its PokerStars.fr structure rake and the French players have already taken matters into the room demanding that the commission reduce the tables . Sunday was the day of “ Boycott RakerStar “, an initiative that emerged in the French forum, whose aim was ClubPoker occupy the PokerStars tables for three hours without playing a single hand .

The players sat at the table and immediately put sitting-out . The mobilization was quite successful and at one point there were over 300 tables cash game which was not subdivided by a hand.

Liberty Leading the French people against the rake in PokerStars.fr

User ‘Fragui’ on February 2 put this screenshot where there are 24 tables with all the players absent. In this another message, this time ClubPoker, more screenshots . There is also a video on YouTube that shows the magnitude of the protest.

However, things did not end there. ‘Skip’, the player fracas that organized the movement in the forum managed to talk for fifteen minutes with Isai Scheinberg , nothing less than the founder of PokerStars and one of the current senior company. A summary (in French) of what was discussed with Scheinberg is on this issue. Some things mentioned Scheinberg:

• PokerStars.fr can not absorb the tax of the players, mainly because the room lost money in France.
• In a few days made public the state of their finances in the country to test the above.
• I was surprised by the scope of the protest and is concerned that PokerStars.fr not want to lose players.
• Bothered PokerStars.fr only was the victim of the boycott and other rooms that are also operating in France.
• He promised to enter into a dialogue with Algiers to try to reduce the tax imposed.

Undoubtedly, a round of applause for the poker community in France. Given the difficult times, show that an organization and clear ideas are a start to try to change things. I am sure that neither PokerStars.fr or the other rooms as expected a quick reaction from the players .

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The quintessential charity tournament at the WSOP is, without doubt, the Ante-Up for Africa .

This year it held its fourth edition and, as usual, the Rio will be hosted poker professionals, actors and actresses, athletes and celebrities in general became a time to participate in the tournament.

Due to the Nevada gaming laws organizing the tournament can not take the money from the prize and send the charity, but are the players who have to decide how much to donate.

This time, Phil Gordon, the winner of the tournament, won 100% of their profits to the Foundation, ie $ 130,641 dollars. The actress and poker player, as well as more recent signing of Carbon Poker, Shannon Elizabeth took the second place and also donated all his prize to the Ante-Up for Africa, an organization designed to help in different ways children and youth in Africa.

The total was $ 275,000 U.S. dollars he received the Foundation with the donation of the eight finalists of the tournament. “I know that is not an official event, but the victory feels the same,” said Gordon, who was jubilant after the tournament .

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The event # 53, a $ 1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout , attracted 548 participants for a bracelet and $ 184,950 dollars the first place. Three days later, Brendan Taylor Ben Yu was imposed in the Heads-Up and won his first WSOP bracelet .

Eight players reached the final table that lasted for over nine hours. Taylor was placed in fifth place, but when there were only four players had managed to accumulate more than half the chips in the tournament . Thereafter, nothing could stop him and he dropped his last three opponents.

Ben Yu was Taylor’s opponent in heads-up. Interestingly, both are very good friends and share a house in Las Vegas. However, Yu was little he could do, especially for having a disadvantage of more than 10 to 1 in chips about Taylor .

In the last hand was Ben Yu A 9 and Brendan Taylor A 7 . The flop, however, was disastrous for Yu K 7 J and 4 the turn and

4 the river sentenced the tournament.

Results of the final table of the $ 1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout:

Brendan Taylor – $ 184,950

Ben Yu – $ 114,484

Jonathan Little – $ 73,218

Joseph McGowan – $ 48,546

Brian Tate – $ 33,276

Mike Schneider – $ 23,563

Sijbrand Maal – $ 17,215

Terrence Chan – $ 12,961

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The shorthanded is for young people, said Jairo few weeks ago, an assertion proved at the weekend when Dan ‘djk123′ Kelly was only 21 years with the title of 25K NL Hold’em 6-Max .

the WSOP

Kelly is a well known tournament player online and this year their earnings exceed $ 300,000 dollars just on PokerStars. Furthermore, although the WSOP was his first tournament in the United States already had experience in live event after playing several EFA, Bahamas, Spain and Germany, among others.

Of the 191 players who chose to participate in the tournament were 18 who went through the box and there are virtually none that has not been forged and a name on the circuit. Among the most notable are are Carlos Mortensen (17 °), Daniel Negreanu (11th), Isaac Haxton (10 °) and Eugene Katchalov (6th).

Despite the level of players at the final table, it only lasted a little over two levels, with the shorter end of the WSOP. Kelly came as a leading chip leader and never relinquished that position , removing three of his five opponents. In the last hand, Shawn Buchanan decided to play all their pieces after a war of raises before the flop with J J and Kelly paid with A 10

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The first four letters kept the front of Buchanan

6 4 3 5 but A the river improved Kelly’s hand, giving the tournament and the prestigious bracelet.

Results of the final table of the $ 25,000 NL Holdem 6-Max:

Dan Kelly – 1315.518 $

Shawn Buchanan – $ 812,941

Frank Kassel – $ 556,053

Jason Somerville – $ 386,125

Mikael Thuritz – $ 272,084

Eugene Katchalov – $ 194,559

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There were 965 players who signed up to the event # 51 of the WSOP, a NL Holdem Triple Chance for $ 3,000 dollars . In this tournament, if a participant was out of chips could use up to two stacks parts and follow in the event.

After three days of competition, Ryan Welch got the win the tournament and take $ 559,971 dollars , also his first WSOP bracelet. Welch was imposed on Jon ’sketchy1′ Eaton in the Heads-Up, which lasted more than three hours.

On the last day of the tournament turned twelve players in search of a place in the final table. Who got the goal were, among others, Tad Jurgens, Tommy VEDES and Will ‘The Thrill’ Failla . Already in the Heads-Up, Jon Eaton had 5.2 million chips to 3.4 by Ryan Welch.

However, Welch hands after reaching the chip lead thanks to a full house and arrived shortly after the last move. With the community being 9 7 6 10 K ^, Eaton 525 000 chips bet half the pot and received a all-in by Welch. After much thought and murmumar, Eaton decided to pay the bet and his opponent showed Q J , maximum ladder, more than enough to win the pot.

Results of the final table of the $ 3,000 NL Holdem Triple Chance:

1. Ryan Welch – $ 559,371
2. Jon Eaton – $ 344,830
3. Guillaume Darcourt – $ 223,459
4. Will Failla – $ 163,532
5. Craig Bradley – $ 121,451
6. Sergey Lebedev – $ 91,407
7. Tommy Vedes – $ 69,647
8. Noel Scruggs – $ 53,694
9. Tad Jurgens – $ 41,842

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