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Poker Players Stunned by EPT Berlin Robbery
Mar 7th
As already reported yesterday, up six armed men robbed the casino stop in the Grand Hyatt hotels in the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) in Berlin. Although nobody was seriously injured, the incident has brought suffering, as the robbers made a part of the EFA High Roller tournament Preisgeld.PokerStars, the official sponsor of the EFA, an update on the ‘Sunday’s incident: “At approximately 2:15 Time (local time), a robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. Four gunmen were on the flight, which included the registration desk of the tournament outside the tournament area targeted. “The poker site said:” No shots were fired and the suspects fled soon after a security guard intervened. The police investigation has demonstrated that the suspects had a gun and a machete. Contrary to some popular press reports, no Kalashnikov assault rifles and hand grenades were used. Suspects not passed in the tournament, and money was taken far less than what was reported. “After the terror on the scene were asked to continue to play players after only a few hours, including the 20 remaining players in the EPT Main Event in Berlin. One competitor was pro-American Kevin” ImaLuckSac ” MacPhee who commented on the incident on PocketFives. com. “I thought we should play fairly consistently,” said MacPhee, who has finally reached the final table as chip leader of the Main Event. “It was something very strange would have happened, especially given the poor planning of the area tournament … not ended, a lot of panic, panicking, screaming and crying. “The EPTLive. Com people down because they continue, but anyway when we expect to play,” MacPhee. “I thought it was a bit unfair to put that to the players after such a thing happened, especially without reader on how to address this situation. “EPTLive radio was the main event since the hotel was robbed, and began firing in panic in the tournament. Dinse Mickey Peterson, a professional poker player:” ly mori “online known, was among dozens of people in the poker room when the invasion came. “I sat in the outer tables, and suddenly 10 people burst into the poker room, more to follow in any direction from screaming about rape and bombs, “said Peterson on TwoPlusTwo Forum.” At this stage, there is an absolute panic when all the forces out, and although we do see no predators, they could see the rooms every second for what we give. “rape is not just afraid to play the EPT event in Berlin. News soon broke out in the world and the players were eager to share their thoughts and prayers via Twitter and other social networks. Here is an example of the reaction: Shaun Deeb, ‘Wow EFA Berlin won 6 armed with rifles, they got nearly a million happy that I am not in this one stolen. Bodog Pro Evelyn Ng: “OMG! Armed Robbery at the Berlin EFA, 6 Armed men take off with $ 1M to buy high roller-ins.” Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg “I’d be in the heist EFA! Woulda been a great experience! Glad not hurt. “Jeff” YellowSub “Williams:” Ept Berlin attacked by armed robbers, hope all is well. “Stay tuned on Poker News Daily for the latest updates on the flight to Berlin EFA.
PokerStars North American Poker Tour Venetian Event Draws 872 Players
Feb 21st
The first PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) main event on American soil began on Saturday at the Venetian, drawing a field of 872 players, according to officials from PokerStars. The tournament was a ceiling of 890 Teilnehmer.Insgesamt were 89 tables at the Venetian in Las Vegas and configure a host of PokerStars sponsored pros and celebrities were in the mix. “Seinfeld” actor Jason Alexander, 17 ended in the Ante Up for Africa event during the World Series of Poker 2007 (WSOP), has been one of the players most prominent in the room . Add Alexander were pleased Orel Hershiser, Darus Suharto, Bill Chen, the reigning World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Joe Cada, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Jason Mercier, Dennis Phillips, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Tom McEvoy, and Vanessa Rousso. Scotty Nguyen has been in the house, was five-time bracelet Gewinner.Eines current issues in the debate with the main event $ 5,000 in the Venetian NAPT if pros at Full Tilt Poker prove the PokerStars-sponsored tournament. Indeed, several were discovered in the region, including Gavin Smith. It was also found on Full Tilt Poker Justin “Boosted J” Smith, whose pair of kings against pocket jacks held another player to draw a substantial pot and the day started on the right foot. However, no member of the team are present, Full Tilt appeared sein.An Day 1 was eliminated Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul, pocket kings ran into the pocket of another player “as. Home has also been sent Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, an unemployment allowance. Com Pro. Kopp flopped a boat with three pockets on a 6.6.3 board, and his opponent held 6-4 for trips. However, to allow a deduction on the turn four opponents Kopp better full house and three have not taken the river. 12 Kopp finished flush in the 2009 WSOP Main Event, and eventually abandoned in a dramatic situation through flat against the eventual runners-up Darvin Moon. Auf a board of AK-7-8-Q, called Heard “RainKhan” Khan, all in with AK in Top Two Pair. evaluation showed, however, Danny Wong sevens for a set of Khan to send the rails . Khan, sponsored PokerStars Pro, finished sixth in the 2007 WSOP Main Event and cashed $ 956,000. In this process, eingerichtet.Auch regulation was generally excessive players celebrate while waves on Saturday was the star of poker Online Andy “BKIC” Seth, who had a stack of 120,000 chips 5:15 pm PT. Seth final table of Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl in November for $ 19,000. His great claim to fame live in the world, he is second in Tournament $ 1,500 No Limit Hold’em WSOP 2009 for 372.000.Insgesamt $ 128 players will finish in the money and the prize money of just over 4 million U.S. dollars. The first place will take home 827,000 $ and the minimum payment is $ 7200th After PokerNews among those who deserve to be on the road to Grand Prize includes Wong, Nam Le, and “Miami” John Cernuto, who had 89.00, respectively 81,000 and 75,000 chips. At this meeting also, at the time of writing is quite Cada which a stack of 67,000, more than double from a total of 30,000 erworben.Es 650 players have been left for more than Level 7, choose to see a number of chips. All figures are based on the official site PokerStars: Andy “BKIC” Seth – 120000Erica Schoenberg – 90000Andreas Hoivold – 70000Christian “charder30″ Harder – Cada 61000Joe – 50000John “The Razor Phan – 48000Adam” Roothlus “Levy – 45000Darus Suharto – 45000Jimmy” gobboboy “Fricke – 42000Eric Levesque – 42000Steve Paul-Ambrose – 41500Kevin Schaffel – 41000Ein level to eight hours on Saturday will be played in its entirety. From Sunday, every blind level will be 75 minutes Run. We need cover for NAPT here on Poker News Daily.
Daniel Negreanu vs Phil Hellmuth – Just Beautiful – Nice Poker Hand !!!! Awesome players !!!
Feb 19th
FTOPS XV Kickoff Event Draws 5,646 Online Poker Players
Feb 11th
The 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) kicked off on Wednesday night tournament with a $ 216 No Limit Hold’em. The event, with 1 million dollars and drew much of 5646 visiting Spielern.Der increased 20% on the turnout at the launch event of the FTOPS XIV, 4694 saw the players take to the felt. However, the field was smaller than the 5712 players who were in favor of the first event of FTOPS XIII, one of the biggest events in Full Tilt history. Came in first was on Wednesday SolidGoldman24k who earned $ 151,000 for its investment to $ 216 a head to head hack. Taking second place was PHHSKid99, which is really more than champions of the tournament at $ 176,000. The 720 best players finished in the money in the Feld.Finishing mammoth third place in the launch event was FTOPS MiltOnTilt XV, who took $ 96,000. The New York native is a former winner of a $ 215 No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up Event on PokerStars, a tournament he had last weekend. In January MiltOnTilt reached the final table of the High-Stakes Full Tilt $ 1K Monday, earning a solid $ 26,000. According to his profile on the popular PocketFives Poker Forum. com MiltOnTilt is a former champion of the PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand.Vierter place in the $ 216 No Limit Hold’em tournament were collected SoulCollector22 kickoff, the $ 72,000. Many years of Full Tilt players reminiscent SoulCollector22 was the runner-up in case FTOPS # August 16, won $ 35,000 in $ 240 buy in tournament poker. A month later SoulCollector22 was among the winners of the Full Tilt Poker $ 40,000 to $ 11,000 garantiert.Hier is how the back nine first XV tournament FTOPS seen what the agreement of two ways: 1 SolidGoldman24k – 151 $ 6,852. PHHSKid99 – $ 175.7833. MiltOnTilt – $ 95.9824. SoulCollector22 – $ 72.2695. TheStein – $ 54.1456. uNDeFeaTaBLE1 – $ 37.2647. iq278 – $ 24.2788. lindleymise – $ 16.9389. Zerhyn – $ 11.857Wenn you missed the action on Wednesday evening, there is no reason to panic. Annex XV to the FTOPS has 27 events with a combined $ 17 million guaranteed in prize money. Take place on Thursday, two other tournaments. Clock 14:00 ET, looking for a $ 216 Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better event knockout stages with at least $ 250,000 on the track. Seven hours later, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, A $ 535 No Limit Hold’em Shootout 3X-computer with at least $ 350,000 to gewinnen.Nächstes weekend, all eyes on the $ 535 XV FTOPS Main Event, which begins Clock at 18:00 ET, Sunday, February 21 and provides at least $ 2 5 million in prize money guaranteed. Last time, Out, beat players at Full Tilt Poker zhivago2 a field of 5471 players in the FTOPS Main Event XIV and earned $ 418,000 as part of a three-way chop with ItsTime2Win (second place for $ 316,000) and Red Pro Adam Junglen (third space for $ 290,000). The best 18 players made at least $ 10,000, or about 20 times their purchase in.Full Tilt happily accepts players from the United States and is the second largest city in the world in terms of traffic Scout ring game poker. com. The poker room online has a seven-day average of 16,600 cash game players, about half the traffic at PokerStars, the world’s largest site. Full Tilt-sponsored pros fleet includes 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event in November-nine members Phil Ivey, durrrr Challenge frontman Tom “durrrr” Dwan and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel.
