2009 November 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings
It sure has been a busy week. Thankfully, it’s Friday. The Nightly Turbo will send you into the weekend with all the news you need to strike up a conversation with that cute girl or guy sitting next to you in the poker room.
It was a third day in paradise for the 153 players who started in the Day 2 field for the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Cebu, Main Event. Bright sunshine, cooling sea breezes and luscious, over-ripe mangoes were the only rewards for the…
The sixth season of the GSN franchise “High Stakes Poker” filmed this week at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. Friday marked the third of three days of filming for the $200,000 buy-in show.
If Twitter is any indication, Ultimate Bet sponsored pro Joe Sebok (@JoeSebok) is the 177th most popular guy on the internet. At least, that is the ranking Twitter tracking site Twitterholic gave to Sebok based on his number of followers, which now exceeds one million.
This week, Third Bullet Poker, a site on the popular Cake Poker Network, announced that it was merging its player base with the network’s flagship site.
This year, we’ve seen two major stories break on Poker News Daily involving small poker sites shutting down and player funds disappearing in the midst of scandals involving shady ownership groups. Pitbull Poker was shut down amid dwindling player numbers and a superuser scandal, with many players out tens of thousands of dollars. Perhaps the bigger story was the surprising shutdown and liquidation of Eurolinx Poker.
Yesterday, we brought you part one of our interview with Joe Cada. In part two, PokerNews delves into the heads up battle the new PokerStars sponsored WSOP champion waged with logger, Darvin Moon and what to expect from the champ moving forward.
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