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Michael Mizrachi is the only recognized professional that is part of the November 2010 Nine .

When Brandon Steven was eliminated in tenth place, Bluff Magazine got a few comments on the final table the most important of his career and how to face the coming months.

With respect to how to develop the game in the bubble of the November Nine , Mizrachi called it very passive. “Everybody was playing tight . If I had a lot of chips, would have gone all the hands and could have won twenty or thirty million points. Unfortunately, there was a time when not a single hand I played for three rounds, a record for me. “

‘The Grinder’ confident for the final table (photo: WSOP )

Michael knows he is the most recognized player on the table, but also recognizes that there are very good players in the race: “ I feel like last year Phil Ivey . There was best known names in 2009, but this time, for example, is John Racener, which is a great player. We know in the world of poker, but now I know the whole world. “

One of the disadvantages of having a bubble so long is that the blinds I’m very big on the stacks of the players . The leader has more than one hundred big blinds, but only three players have more than forty blind.

“Anyone can win. I have confidence, there have been many times that I have been the short stack and won ‘, I assure Mizrachi. Finally, Michael said he will go to London to play the WSOPE and take the opportunity to take a vacation. Then, “I relax and get ready to get ready “.

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After that organized boycotts of two French players, we learned via PokerStars.fr Poker Club the room rake announced a reduction in cash tables. As of July 17, the commission at the tables is 6.67% , a one percent less than what was originally charged (7.7 %).

However, the most important change is the return of politics “No Flop – No Drop” , ie has been removed rake in the pots they do not get to see the flop. The percentage point decline represents 0,50 € .

In the tables where players have five or more the edge of the rake is € 3 (previously € 3.50), while between three and four heads-up players and the rake was maintained at 2.5 € and € 1.5, respectively.

From Poker Club, the forum organized resistance, said they are satisfied with these numbers, because is an assumption of more than 50% of the tax rate by PokerStars . As a result, said that for its part, organized more boycotts because they have fulfilled their purpose.

We will have to be aware of the reactions of other rooms and see if they follow the example of PokerStars. Meanwhile, although it seems little, the players have reason to be proud .

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Through Poker News Daily we learn that the autobiography of David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot , of which we spoke a few months ago, already has a date to go on sale.

On September 9 will be in bookstores and will cost £ 12.99. The book is entitled ‘ Devilfish: The Life and Times of a Poker Legend’ and over 384 Ulliot aware not only of his career as a poker player, but also of his life before entering the world of the card, which has not been free of emotions.

Ulliot is, so far, the English player has won more money in tournaments in history with around 5.9 million dollars. But before that, was devoted to horse betting and was part of a group that opened safes for a living.

Ulliot’s book will join a genre that is having enough boom in which the players themselves tell the story of his life, anecdotes and more . The most popular book is to Mike Matusow , ‘Check Raising the Devil’ but Doyle Brunson played along with ‘The God Father of Poker’ , both published last year.

Be seen if some publisher comes alive with the translation into Spanish and we can learn more about the life of eccentric ‘Devilfish’.

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This year has been a rollercoaster for Jean Robert Bellande , who has been bankrupt twice and more than one hundred thousand dollars in your pocket also on two occasions.

The WSOP was a success for Bellande, that was able to rebuild its shattered bankroll Thanks to the main event and two parallel betting profit . Bellande finished in 78th position for the main event, raising $ 94,000 dollars, but more than half of that money will end up in the hands of those in banks.

However, Bellande won $ 60,000 dollars per win two bets against Justin “Boosted J” Smith and Mike Matusow. To win the bet against Smith, Bellande had to earn more money than ‘Boosted J’ along the WSOP, which won at the last moment to raise cash in the main event.

Regarding Matusow, Bellande won the bid to have passed the case on three occasions, while Mike took only twice. “Of course, Mike only if you pay me some money left after paying Ted Forrest “, quipped Bellande.

Without doubt, the stakes are not going well this year Mike. In short, a great summer for Jean Robert Bellande, but knowing his history would not recommend to bet for their money which may be retained .

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The high stakes regular at Full Tilt Poker are gradually returning to its usual pace, proves it Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan and ‘jungleman12′ , who clashed yesterday at a meeting of NL Holdem, but the important did not occur in the tables but in the chat.

We read in High Stakes News that after having lost about $ 155,000 dollars, Dwan asked ‘jungleman12′ why not accept the ‘Durrr Challenge’ . A ‘jungleman12′ seemed to like the idea and promised to talk with Dwan to finalize some details.

Although it was assumed that the next opponent after Antonius Brian Townsend would be, Tom said he would love and could do two powers at once . In addition, he said he would like to finish before the WSOPE in September.

Then the conversation between the two players:

durrr: why not accept the challenge?

durrr: Because you never lose against me

jungleman12: probably do

jungleman12: Brian Townsend was not the next?

durrr: I can do both at once

durrr: send 500K to Ivey and can arrange the details

durrr: get my messaging user of any person

jungleman12: ok

Durrr I want to complete two challenges before London, if possible.

jungleman12: I will tell you before sending the money

Durrr: obviously we could finish it in two weeks

jungleman12: ok

durrr: ok gg

jungleman12: gl

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Two weeks ago, players began their odyssey 7319 in the WSOP Main Event. After eight days of competition, there are nine participants in the tournament and again in November to search for the top prize of $ 8.9 million.

The last day of the WSOP was back to 27 players and it took more than sixteen hours to meet the finalists representing three countries: United States, Canada and Italy .

The best-known runner, no doubt, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi , who has had a fantastic WSOP with a bracelet and several final tables to his credit. Mizrachi is located in seventh place with tabs 14.50.000.

The chip leader, besides being the youngest ever player at the table with 22 years of age, Canadian Jonathan Duhamel , with 65 mln of chips, most of them collected by a giant pot on the his pair of jacks tied a ladder against the pair of aces of his rival.

This will make the final table beginning on November 6:

• Seat 1: Jason Senti – 7.625 million
• Seat 2: Joseph Cheong – 23.525 million
• Seat 3: John Dolan – 46.25 million
• Seat 4: Jonathan Duhamel – 65.975 million
• Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi – 14.45 million
• Seat 6: Matthew Jarvis – 16.7 million
• Seat 7: John Racener – 19.05 million
• Seat 8: Filippo Candio – 16.4 million
• Seat 9: Soi Nguyen – 9.65 million

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This weekend the boys Poker Table Ratings , alerted by a topic on the forums of February 2, released the nicknames PokerStars ten accounts that were managed by bots

. In all, the bots had played 8,321,121 hands NL50, NL100 and NL200.

The user ‘malloc’ was the one who released the information. Through PTR users found three identical statistics and had receded almost simultaneously in a space of three days. Following that, PTR investigated and found ten accounts involved: 7emenov, Bakab, craizer, mvra, nakseon, kozzin, demidou, Kolda, Daergy, feidmanis.

At this time

all accounts are suspended and PokerStars has begun investigation of this case but, as usual, not many details. A security team member of the Board wrote on February 2:

We can say that these bots were in some ways quite sophisticated, both in modeling human behavior in its stealth capabilities.

The similarities between these accounts is huge:

VP $ IP between 8.88 and 9.04, PFR between 8.82 and 8.89 and between 6.58 and 7.06 3beta , for example. PTR On this news can see a more detailed analysis of the similutd between these accounts and how they differ from other NL50 and NL100 players. At the same news also account for a betting pattern identical between accounts:

When in the big blind and the pot was not raised, will flop in

all-in or make a bluff with a big bet. If someone pays or goes up, the bot will leave forever. (Example)

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With the main event final table to be, for now, only one point on the horizon, is a good time to take a look at some numbers from this year’s WSOP.

The main evidence is that which refers to the number of participants, which increased by 20% over last year . Likewise, the amount of money given up by 3.5% ($ 187,109,850 U.S. dollars) in the same number of events last year.

The bracelet winners represented a fifteen countries USA (31), England (5), Canada (5), Vietnam (2), China (2), Hungary (2), New Zealand (1) France (1), Lebanon (1), Russia (1), Mexico (1), Bangladesh (1), Norway (1), Netherlands (1) and Israel (1).

As it could not be otherwise, America is the leader in profit on these WSOP with $ 107 million. American players spent per case in 5509 times. Spain occupied the fifteenth place with $ 773,000 dollars in revenue and 33 boxes in total .

These WSOP were baptized, finally, as “professionals” . Throughout the 57 events, 39 professional players won a bracelet, while the semi-professional and took eight bracelets amateurs nine.

The only player to win two bracelets this year was Frank Kassel , who leads the Player of the Year qualifier with 290 points.

However, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi Kassel could tie only if he wins the main event . At this time, Mizrachi is in fifth place with 190 points and a win would bring him one hundred points.

Finally, the November Nine last year, the only one who managed to box in the main event was Eric Buchman, who finished the job °.

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The ninth season of the WPT could not have started better way: 353 players signed up for the inaugural event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas , bringing the prize pool to $ 3.4 million of which $ 875,000 were for for the winner.

During the final table, attention was concentrated on one man: Phil Ivey . Although the tournament was entered on the third day of play, with only twenty big blinds in your stack , Ivey managed to be one of six finalists and become the first player to reach nine final tables .

WPT

However, Ivey was in the middle of the road and was eliminated in third place at the hands of Justin “Boosted J” Smith , who stood in the heads-up with a 2-1 disadvantage with respect to rival, Moritz Kranich .

In the last hand of face to face, Kranich was all-in preflop with K 10 and Smith paid with J J , and found a good chance of doubling your stack. The flop was A Q 2 but K took a couple more to Kranich and 9 in the river closed the tournament.

Results of the final table of the WPT Bellagio Cup:

1. Moritz Kranich – $ 875,150
2. Justin Smith – $ 594,755
3. Phil Ivey – $ 363,650
4. John Charity – $ 237,902
5. Rob Akery – $ 169,930
6. Eric Afriat – $ 118,950

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A few weeks ago PokerStars announced the return of Brazil as an official stop of the Latin American Poker Tour . This time, instead of Rio de Janeiro, the venue is the Costao do Santinho Resort in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina state.

Through the official blog of the room and we learned that is armed to the official calendar which will LAPT six tournaments , including the main event registration $ 2,700 dollars. The dates for the LAPT Florianopolis are: August 4

• 14:00 pm: NLH – Super Satellite to Main Event (One Rebuy Optional) – $ 300
• 18:00: NLH – Super Satellite to Main Event (One Rebuy Optional) – $ 300

August 5

• 12:00 pm: NLH – Main Event (Day 1) – $ 2700
• 18:00: NLH – Turbo – $ 300

August 6

• 12:00 pm: NLH – Main Event (Day 2) – $ 2700
• 12:00 pm: PLO – $ 500
• 18:00: NLH – Unlimited Rebuys – $ 120

August 7

• 12:00 pm: NLH – Main Event (Day 3) – $ 2700
• 12:00 pm: NLH – Unlimited Rebuys – (Day 2) – $ 120
• 18:00: NLH – (Day 1) – $ 1100

August 8

• 12:00 pm: NLH – Main Event (Final Table) – $ 2700
• 12:00 pm: NLH – (Day 2) – $ 1100
• 12:00 pm: NLH-6Max-A optional rebuy – $ 300

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