The final day of the first $1,500 main event on the 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule will take place on Tuesday, August 31 and Card Player is on the scene to bring you all of the action. The live coverage from the final day of the tournament will feature live updates, chip counts, and photos. Day 2 welcomed back 75 players on Monday and when the final bell tolled well after midnight the field was still short of the final table of nine players. Thirteen players will return for the final day, including a few big names that have found success in the past at WSOP Circuit events. Dwyte Pilgrim, (pictured right) has won a WSOP Circuit main event, as well as multiple Circuit preliminaries.
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It was announced late Thursday afternoon that Blanca Games Inc. had acquired the Cereus Poker Network, which includes both the UB and Absolute Poker brands. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission approved the acquisition and a press release is due out from Tokwiro early next week. Despite new ownership, Blanca Games CEO Stuart Gordon assures that it will remain business as usual at both UB.com and AbsolutePoker.com. “We are confident that the Cereus Network has found an excellent home in Blanca Games,” Gordon said. “Over the past several years, Cereus has developed into an outstanding platform, which is poised for significant growth. This transaction will benefit Cereus players and employees alike.
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Benjamin “psychobenny” Spindler made his first career Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday final table this past spring, but fell short of a win. Spindler had another chance this past Monday, as the summer is drawing to a close.
He made the most of his second appearance at the final table of the event, winning for a solid payday of $101,250.
Joe “HOODINI10” Udine also walked away with a win this week.
Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen annihilated the competition in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker last night.
The young Norwegian pro hit the $200/$400 Cap PLO Six-Max tables and recorded over 1,329 hands. He eventually left with a $201,250 profit.
It was no cake-walk for Torbergsen who had to beat players such as Phil Galfond, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey over the course of the evening.
Torbergsen is one of the lesser-known pros in the high stakes online scene but he’s actually a full-time instructor with CardRunners.
Born in the town of Skjervøy in Norway, Torbergsen emerged on the high stakes online poker scene in Spring of this year and quickly lost nearly $200k. He
Featuring over $4 Million in Guaranteed cash and prizes and a $1 Million ‘Bubble Buster’ Bonus, online poker players have been flocking to play in UB Poker’s Online Championship series that started a few days ago!This is the fifth edition of the UBOC and with 20 guaranteed tournaments on the schedule and the return of the Bubble Buster promotion – where making it past the Bubble could be worth up to $1 Million in bonus cash, this edition of the UBOC is turning out to be bigger than ever! But not only is there a vault full of cash to be won, there are also bounties, T-Shirts and even exclusive UBOC watches waiting to decorate the wrists of the lucky winners! Bu
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Poker News Nuggets are presented on PokerWorks each week to give readers a glance at some of the big news stories in and around the poker industry. From international poker tournaments to player prop bets, from political happenings to sponsorship deals, game enthusiasts can stay informed with these weekly tidbits of information.What They’re PlayingUKIPT Edinburgh: The PokerStars-sponsored United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour hit Scotland this week with its stop in Edinburgh. The tournament drew some big names for its first two starting days, including Liv Boeree, Vicky Coren, JP Kelly, and Julian Thew. All in all, there were 401 players at the tables to start the action, which made for a prize pool of £200,500. Wh
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Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies might want to skip August after another terrible session of high stakes online poker last night.
Sahamies, who earlier in the month said he was going to wait until September to play poker again, lost $169,000 to Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and fellow Finnish pro Patrik Antonius.
First Ziigmund lost $18,000 playing heads-up $300/$600 PLO against Antonius, then he lost over $130k playing the same game three-handed against Antonius and Vaga_Lion.
Ziigmund finally added another $20k in losses to Galfond before calling it a night.
The unpredictable Finnish pro now finds himself down $759,301 in the month of August and mentioned on his blog that he might try some lower stakes in the next few weeks.
Despite his success against Sahamies, Antonius did not finish the evening in the black. I
A Queenslander took down the ANZPT Gold Coast title this weekend, defeating an all Aussie final table.
The Jupiters Hotel and Casino played host to a relatively speedy final that went from nine players to heads-up in three hours.
It was there that Nauv Kashyap defeated fellow Queenslander Ricky Kroesen after another three hours of heads-up play.
A dentist and cash game player from Brisbane, this was Kashyap’s first PokerStars ANZPT event and he walked away with the AUD$182,965 first-place prize.
Kroesen, who has played every one this season, earned AUD $116,235.
The AUD$2,500 main event drew 287 players creating an AUD$717,250 prize pool that paid 32 places.
The largest poker tournament in Estonian history was down to just 210 players heading into Day 2 Friday.
A total of 120 players made it through Day 1b at PokerStars EPT Tallin Thursday, joining the 90 survivors from Wednesday’s Day 1a.
Serbian Perica Bukara, who currently lives in Germany, pushed into the overnight chip lead with 210,600, outpacing Day 1a leader Ali Tekintamgac.
Spanish PokerStars qualifier Santiago Terrazas, who came third at EPT Barcelona last season, is close, as is Belarussian Team PokerStars Pro Vadim Markushevski.
EPT Tallin, the first event of the EPT’s seventh season, drew a record 420 entrants, creating a €1,596,000 prize pool.
Jennifer Harman is one of the latest inductees to the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. She will join with Kathy Liebert and Billie Brown. Brown will be awarded the honor posthumously as she passed away in 2004. The three women will be inducted September 3rd at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas in a special ceremony. Harman, who has won two WSOP bracelets, has made more than $2.2 million in career tournament earnings. She also co-authored the book “Super System 2”.
