2010 June 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The PokerStars.net Big Game premieres tonight, formerly signed with Absolute Poker, Lacey Jones is now sporting a new patch, and Cereus might be closing its Kahnawake offices. You’ll find those stories and more in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
Topics: WSOP Updates, Shaun Deeb’s statement and more.
Week 1 of the PokerStars sponsored “Big Game” kicks off tonight on Fox affiliates around the United States. The high-stakes cash game features five pros battling against a “Loose Cannon” amateur armed with $100,000 in real money. You can catch the “Big Game” between 1:00am and 2:00am in most television markets.
Originally from Vancouver, Washington, Brandon Cantu is a professional poker player who now makes his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Brian Townsend, who currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, is a professional poker player known for his dominance of Full Tilt Poker’s No Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha short-handed games. He’s been successful enough to earn TV appearances on shows like GSN’s High Stakes Poker and NBC’s Poker After Dark, on which he won $120K by defeating Doyle Brunson heads-up.
Brian Hastings, known as LucLongley and Stinger885, is an online poker prodigy. He got his start playing low-limit ring games and eventually worked his way up. Before long, Brian was a regular winner in $50/$100 and $200/$400, some of the highest staked games available. Currently, Brian is one of the most feared online players in the game, right up there with Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius.
Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Vladimir Schmelev is a former chess stalwart and banker who has been playing poker as a hobby for 15 years. He honed his skills in the Golden Ring Club in Moscow, which is widely known as the biggest underground game in Europe. After building a sufficient bankroll, Schmelev began traveling the live tournament circuit in his spare time.
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