2010 July 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Wondering what’s going on in poker today? Well we’re here to tell you. PokerStars has appointed a brand new CEO, and we’ve got your November Nine odds. Go ahead, read on, you know you want to find out more.
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has had one of the most amazing World Series runs in history and joins us moments after clinching his spot in the 2010 WSOP November Nine. He comes in as the most accomplished professional poker player who has bracelets and WPT titles to his name. So far in his career he has over $6.7 million in tournament earnings.
John Racener joins us shortly after making the November Nine and discusses what this feat means to him and what events lead up to this amazing run. Racener, who is known online as “$JMONEY$” made the 2010 WSOP November Nine thanks to some sick poker skills and of course, a little run-good. In this interview he also talks about his life as a traveling tournament pro who also plays online and talks about some of the big hands played at the final table when the players were down to just 10. Racener faced aggression early on including two pre-flop 3bets and a cold 4bet, which he laid his hand down to.
With the $100,000 High Roller Event complete, GSN’s coverage of the 2010 Aussie Millions turned its focus to the $10,000 buy-in Main Event. We picked up the action on Day 2, with 294 of the 726 starters remaining. Still in contention for the…
John Dolan joins us after making the coveted 2010 WSOP November Nine. Dolan is a young online pro from Fort Myers, Florida and paid his own way into the World Series of Poker Main Event. Dolan will enter the final table of play when it resumes in November with the second largest chip stack at 46.25 million. Dolan previously cashed in this year’s World Series with a 32nd place finish in Event 30, which was a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event which awarded him $13,541. He followed up by making a final table at Event 36, a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament which had a field of 3,102 players and finished in 6th place, good for $82,804.
We recently sat down with Tri “slowhabit” Ngy for a little chat. Ngy talked to us about poker and writing strategy books, as well as his love for food and restaurant he’d most like to visit.
In online poker, it is just a fact of life that there are going to be a few cheaters amongst the millions of players that take to the virtual tables every day. But that doesn’t mean that we or the poker rooms have to put up with it. The poker community uncovered superuser cheating and multi-accounting scandals in the past and now, once again, members of the poker community have uncovered a bot ring at PokerStars.
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