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This weekend was played on the Casino Kursaal the ninth event of the IV Championship Poker .

Spain

Nothing less than 182 players participated in an event that was overstepped records of participation. It got so overcome in nearly 50 135 participants from the previous edition .

At the final table were several familiar faces on the circuit. Luis Rodriguez Luis Fernando Santillan ‘ Fersan ‘ and Joan Company is put between the last nine survivors, but it was the location Eneko Arnáiz who took the tournament and the Matador by taking first prize.

Eneko Arnaiz, winner of CEP San Sebastian 2009.

The list of players at the final table was as follows:

1. Eneko Arnaiz – 35,600 €
2. Jon Angulo – 17,620 €
3. Joan Company – 11.180 €
4. Luis Fernando Santillan – 8387 €
5. Andrew Naveira – 6290 €
6. Julen Daelman – 5242 €
7. Luis Rodríguez – 4193 €
8. Alexander Albéniz – 3.250 €
9. Mikel Ruiz – 2.200 €

The last stop before the final will take place next month in Mallorca .

In the past year, the American actress Jennifer Tilly had ceased to play poker regularly, to focus on his interpretive work. This temporary abandonment of the tables was mainly due to how hurt he felt by the harsh criticism he had received through various poker forums, especially in the Twoplustwo .

One of the most controversial hands and disseminated by the network was what confronted the actress with professional Full Tilt Poker , Patrik Antonius . Surely you have seen all the time in my life, but just in case you then attach to the memory refresh yourself. It check the Tilly has been criticized over and over again, constantly putting the player in question.

Tilly, captures the eyes of new tables

After this long break, Tilly has dared to back down on the poker table, end table and it did in the past World Poker Open V finishing fifth place, and that is precisely brought her boyfriend, professional gambler Phil Laak .

In addition, last week was also playing in the Casino Bellagio the WPT Festa al Lago , which shows he has recovered from his low mood, commenting on the following statements:
I became disheartened

” much, because people say all these bad things about me without knowing my game and the statistics “(…)” I liked going to these forums and laugh, until I read bad things about me and I started feeling horrible .”

We are pleased that the player has finished playing with this drought, as there may not be the best player in the world, but never bad to be playing with someone as attractive on the table.

SPT 2008

Aranjuez II. Day 1

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Players: 38

Players remaining: 35

Media: 16,286

Awards: 38,000

Confirmed the 38 players participating at the end of the second tier tournament. The list of prizes of the tournament has already been published. Five seats will be rewarded:

• 1st prize: 15,000 euros
• 2nd Position: 9500 euro
• 3rd Position: 5700 euro
• 4th Position: 4300 euro
• 5th Position: 3,500 euros

Alvaro ‘ Varices ‘ Ballesteros has managed to bend before a foreign player when his 4 4 found a A 7 a flop 7 4 7 . Turn and river were 9 6 and the Madrid wins the hand.

Marc Goodwin is a veteran English player of 49 years , which is among the 25 players with more live tournament winnings in the UK.

Many remember about this player for his runner in the EPT Barcelona of this year, where he also starred in the elimination of Simon Munoz in two days, when it lost to tens against aces and later with AQ against AK.

Marc Goodwin not welcomed players from internet

Recently, BluffEuropa I did an interview entitled ” Mr. Cool is back “, in which the player talked about his success in the EFA , his exploits, emerging poker in Italy and Spain and one of the most contentious issues in the world pokerístico, the difference in attitudes between the players live and the Internet.

However, on a British show, the British player made some pretty harsh statements, which compared the Internet with players primates subnormal . A comment that accentuates the crisis between the two positions, an ongoing debate in the forums and the poker world.

Precisely these statements were made after they were eliminated from a tournament by Lucas Schwartz _FullFlush1_ , player comes mainly from online poker. What becomes clear is that Goodwin is one of those traditional players defending tooth and nail the game mode that has practiced for over two decades, and that seems to make very good friends with the players online poker.

Hopefully one day these thoughts will change, because it is a pity that there are these dispustas by both sides that what they do, one way or another, is playing the same game: poker .

No doubt, to become a Supernova Elite in the room PokerStars , you might take a long, long time but as a million points VPP no are obtained from the overnight.

But even more valuable is what he did Dan Grolemund ‘DannyOhBoy’, in approximately only ten months has reached a figure of three million hands at the tables NL100 . A great achievement, even more if we have it has combined with his paternal duties.

24 tables simultaneously to reach 3 million hands

While the player’s father was serving as his youngest son, born this year, nursing and taking care of him while he sat in twenty games simultaneously in PokerStars , so its goal: to be a Supernova Elite .

Thanks to support your child unconscious, and his entire family (especially his wife, who has been very sympathetic to the challenge that was suggested her husband), Grolemund has managed to reach the number of hands necessary in ten months, and still believes he can maintain the state of Supernova for longer, at least as far as possible within their work and housework.

From now on, the whole family will be proud of the success achieved by the father figure, and may reap the benefits of being one of the few Supernova Elite that exist all over the world.

A worthy example of a player not only makes it to meet its goals in the game of poker, but also as alternates with their family obligations. A poker player, who like many others, is also a father and husband .

The United States wins more than half a million euros. The next WPT tournament will be held in Malta, with a new format that includes re-entry.
The carnage of the previous days forced the organization to reduce to 18 players who went to day 4 of the WPT in Paris. There was no more to cut and four levels were sufficient to discover the 6 players would face at the final table.

It was not Darcourt Guillaume, which fell to 17 ° in two almost consecutive hands. First met with kings against aces in their hands, and later played down flush with a war of blinds to be completely dominated by a higher flush.

Martin Jacobson and Hugo Lemaire was an unwavering champion of their tables. The first showing a huge flop aggression and the second going into all hands were falling and banging as community cards.

Joe Cassidy dropped 13 degrees and the last woman to be eliminated. Kourdourli Nesrine in the tenth.

The final table bubble would break after a classic flip between Hugo Lemaire, who was five, and Dori Yacoub, who was eliminated after failing to match his overcards.

It faced the final table of six players survivors:

* Seat 6: Byron Kaverman 2,079,000
    * Seat 5: Hugo Lemaire 1,962,000
    * Seat 2: Mikko Sundell 1,791,000
    * Seat 4: Frederic Magen 1,554,000
    * Seat 3: Matthew Waxman 1,423,000
    * Seat 1: Martin Jacobson 482,000

The final table lasted exactly 103 hands, and even the number twenty-seven were unable to escape the shortstack Martin Jacobson. The Finn won jacks Sundell and dodge the only three cards that could improve the AJ Jacobson, who claimed € 88,900 for his sixth.

The hand that made the final table was between Waxman and Mikko Sundell. They were still the two most active players and was a matter of time before someone will be badly hurt. In a blind war, a monochrome flop 7treb 4treb 9treb was responsible for a series of raises that ended with two nearly equal stacks in the center of the table. Sundell had adiam ktreb and Waxman had flopped straight draw color color 5treb 6treb, leaving the Finn with just four outs.

The big blind was left to Kaverman Sundell took it on the next hand. € 133,330 were paid for their efforts Sundell.

Waxman put your stack of chips to work and took hand after hand until his compatriot Kaverman did bend with AK against AQ of chipleader. This did not stop Waxman, much less, and Waxman continued to participate in 80% of hands.

It seemed clear that the passivity of the rest of the table only with a hand break and it was found. Magen Fred resisted with nine AK and Waxman did not hold. Magen bent and picked up enough chips to cover Kaverman, who tried to steal the five blind Q9o Magen got from the button. A strange theft of amateur size similar defended A7o amount of chips. Kaverman paired his queen on the flop but the turn gave Magen ladder.

The fourth prize was € 155,550.

The remaining money was divided into four hands. Magen was removed first to attempt a rerrobo with KQs and be completely dominated by Waxman AKs and then won the U.S. that lasted three hands face to face with Lemaire, who saw his top pair busted by a flush that was completed on the river.

This was the podium in Paris and the amount distributed to each player:

1. Matt Waxman € 518,750
   2. Hugo Lemaire € 311,100
   3. Frederic Magen € 211,100

The WPT is now moved to Malta, where they released new re-entry format. The players eliminated on Day 1A can buy and play day 1B. Phil Hellmuth announced his intention to play this tournament.

With about a month and a week for the imposition of the 1 December the UIGEA in the U.S., there are many who think that’s something inevitable and that the Poker Players Alliance and little can be done.

However, although some critics to be a desperate decision, the PPP submitted a request to Timothy Geithner , the Treasury secretary, asking for a postponement of the date of completion of the UIGEA .

The main support of the measure, the

PPP relies on a group of allies, who reinforce the arguments of the association, which defines the UIGEA as an unfair burden, defective and vague. Among his allies is the National Horse and Dog Racing Associations , which are saved from a law if it involves yet another game that is not based solely on chance.

John Pappas , executive director of the Poker Players Alliance issued the following statement:

” Assuming that the races are exempt from the law, is an example that the UIGEA is not well and needs to be clarified before that banks should comply “(…)” going to be very difficult to get before Dec. 1, but we are working towards .”

Although this situation is not very encouraging, the

PPP concenciar still struggling to relevant persons from the government that this is a bad decision, it will be even more damaging to the economic crisis afflicting the world.
Is now only this to become obvious before it reaches the month of December and that can help it, something very complicated but still not impossible .