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Pokerbloggs.com is going to resume coverage of high stakes poker games that take place online. The DOJ indictments of Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker put an extraordinary burden on the income of Pokerbloggs but we survived. We will try to cover as much of the high stakes games at Party and Pokerstars as we can.

In the last 24 hours, real name Diogo Veiga screen name phounderAA has won over 68k. Real Name Richard Lyndaker screen name nutsinho is up almost 50k.

Kasiiino would end up losing almost 20k to ChichaGlisha over 1000k hands on multiple screens. Kasiiino would try to small ball pre flop VS the more aggressive ChichaGlisha. This would prove to be devastating and would put a larger dent in Kasiiino’s bankroll.

If it wasn’t for this hand Kasiiino would be stuck much more for the day:
Dealer: Game #11010635416 starts.
Dealer: ** Dealing down cards **
ChichaGlisha: do you have 6 buyins now?
Dealer: ChichaGlisha will be using his time bank for this hand.
Dealer: ** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 8d, 2c ]
Dealer: ChichaGlisha will be using his time bank for this hand.
Dealer: ChichaGlisha will be using his time bank for this hand.
Dealer: ChichaGlisha will be using his time bank for this hand.
Dealer: kasiiino does not show cards.
#11010635416: kasiiino wins $24,648.63 USD

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Interview with Tom “durrrr” Dwan by Subject: Poker

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After months of buildup and anticipation, the Epic Poker League ’s first Main Event kicked off on Tuesday from the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, NV. A total of 137 players turned out for this first $20,000 buy-in rake free Main Event. This was just over half of the players qualified for Season 1. Unlike the Professional Poker Tour, the Epic Poker League is not a freeroll.

Per the league’s design, the field in this Main Event was a who’s who of poker. Among the players in the field on Day 1 of the EPL Main Event were Allen Kessler, Isaac Haxton, Eric Baldwin, Michael Mizrachi, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Robert Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Gavin Griffin, Dwyte Pilgrim, Mike Sexton, Erik Seidel, and Ben Lamb.

When registration closed for the event, the prize pool was announced for this first ever Main Event. A total of 18 players will be paid in this event with 18th getting $43,190 and the winner taking home $982,660.

At the end of the day, the leaderboard was giving players flashbacks of the 2011 WSOP. Eugene Katchalov finished Day 1 with the chip lead with 356,300. Ben Lamb continues his dominance this year and finished Day 1 with 287,200. The only multi-bracelet winner this year, Brian Rast, finished with 260,500. Antonio Esfandiari and Noah Schwartz finished the day as the only other players to move over the 200k chip mark.

Over half of the field was eliminated on Day 1, leaving 63 players returning for Day 2 action. By the dinner break, that field had been cut in half, leaving just 30 players in the field. By the dinner break, Brian Rast had moved into the chip lead with 460k, followed by Katchalov in 2nd place. Dan Fleyshman has been making a strong run in this Main Event. He won his seat in the Pro-Am Event that awards Main Event seats to the final table. Fleyshman currently sits 3rd in chips. Sam Trickett, Jason Mercier, and Noah Schwartz are all in the top 10 in chips on Day 2.

The Epic Poker League has aspirations of making itself in “The PGA of Professional Poker.” Players can only play in the Main Event if they meet the league’s qualification guidelines or final table the Pro-Am event. (Pro-Am exemptions are for a single Main Event tournament only.) Qualifications are based on live tournament play and have a strict set of guidelines for each card. Online poker stats do not count, so you will not be seeing players like Sean Deeb or Tom Dwan in the Epic Poker League anytime soon. And you won’t see any players who play free online poker on Zynga and all of a sudden buy into a professional real money poker event.

There will be four tournament series held at the Palms between now and February and players in the Main Event will be attempting to earn a seat into the League Championship on February 13th. The top 27 money winners in the Main Event tournaments will compete in the League Championship freeroll where the top 6 players will split a prize pool of $1 Million. First place will win $500,000 and the League Championship title.

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There is a lot going on inside the world of poker right now. Major poker tournaments, various real money poker games and live events are all stirring attention and action.
Major Live Tournaments:
PokerStars Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has opened for season five. This year it began in a new location for the tour. The Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia hosted the major poker event. Joe Hachem and Chris Moneymaker offered the traditional call to “shuffle up and deal” at the beginning of the event. The first stop main event was a 5 thousand dollar buy in that attracted more than 260 competitors from at least 18 separate countries. At the close of day one, Mitch Carle a local Australian poker professional led the boards.

Daniel Cates

Immigration Trouble:
Daniel Cates aka ‘Jungleman12’ made an effort to move north to the neighboring country of Canada to continue his poker career. He was stopped before he was able to make the move successfully. According to his tweets on the popular online social network, Twitter, Daniel Cates was removed from the country as an illegal alien. This does not bode well for an American attempting to immigrate to a country that will enable him to compete in the game he plays well. He was informed he required a visa in order to make the move properly. He’s indicated the desire to obtain a temporary visa until the situation is properly sorted out.
Training Video getting a lot of attention:
Jose Girah aka the Portuguese Poker Prodigy, created a new mid-stakes training video. He took great care with the instruction and creation and some are deeming it the best video of all time. In the forum, Two Plus Two a poll is indicating that the vast majority of people are deeming it simply a very good video. The thread has had many viewers who looked at the video and stated their thoughts on it directly. Some believe his approach was subpar, while others have clearly stated that his unveiling of secret approaches to the game are just going to generate more interest and less fish to pool from. The video can be found here: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/19725/ You be the judge.
Poker in India
With two country centered poker tours, India is developing their own flavor of poker professional. This year’s India Poker Championship had 59 entrants into the main event. The winner, Nikhil Jain, walked home with 2173.22 or more than 96 thousand rupees. This impressive showing for a local math wiz is leading some to begin discussing the potential for an Indian Poker boom. While real money poker is available in India online and off, much of the speculation is based around the India Poker Championship and the India Poker Series. These two tournament events are drawing a steady crowd each year. Unlike in the USA, the UK and other parts of Europe, where the most successful poker professionals resemble the hard working mentality displayed in Nikhil Jain, India’s professional market is still lacking. In time this may change as the events grow and the Indian people realize that poker is more than a game of chance.
Google Plus Circling the Pro’s
As Google unveiled Google Plus by invitation only, it has already moved the headlines. Many millions are signed up through the Beta version of the site and are circling friends, family, business associates and of course poker industry professionals. Here’s a short list of poker industry professionals already known to be on Google Plus. With Google’s current operating procedures based on real life names, looking up someone not on this short list is very easy. If you are confident you have identified a false account, submitting feedback with a link to the squatting account will rapidly rectify the situation. Enjoy the circling!
Jay Rosenkrantz (KRANTZ) – Deucescracked
Rob Cole (Entity) – DeucesCracked
Joe Tall (JoeTall) – DeucesCracked
Andrew Seidman (BalugaWhale, I’m almost sure) – DeucesCracked
Taylor Caby (GreenPlastic) – Cardrunners
Brian Hastings (Stinger88) – Cardrunners
Kirsty Arnett – PokerNews
Nat Arem – 2p2 Legend

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