Prahlad Friedman called out a duo of online poker players over the weekend. We’ll tell you all about the drama, along with the announcement of the next World Team Poker event, and more.
World Team Poker will return for a second year with a Championship Event at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas from May 24th to 26th. The event, which will be filmed for television, will feature the world’s top players from at least 18 countries battling it out in a team-style format. Last year’s field included pros like Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Doyle Brunson, Tony G, Jeffrey Lisandro, Mike Matusow, and Chris Ferguson.
The Big Event in Los Angeles meant a big win for online poker room sponsored poker pro Victor Ramdin. Ramdin is one of the members of Team PokerStars. The Big Event was initially sponsored by PokerStars as part of the North American Poker Tour, but due to various complicatiosn the online poker room pulled its name from the event, which was renamed The Big Event. That did not stop PokerStars pro Ramdin from doing his best at the game, however, where he picked up $500,000
At online poker room Betfair Poker one player managed to turn a $30 deposit into two million dollars. The 18 year-old Portuguese player’s reputation preceded him. While his accomplishments were becoming legend for a while no one knew the player’s name. The mystery has been reveiled, and the young poker pro turned out to be José Macedo. He started playing online poker at the age of 16 and says he was inspired by Tom “Durrr” Dwan and played up to ten hours a day. He has been nicknamed the Portuguese Isildur1.
On Sunday, 68 teams were selected for the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Poker players were active on Twitter as the selections were revealed and let their Tweeps know how they felt about who was in and who was out.
March 14 - The Nevada bill, which limits online poker to state residents only, has already been met by opposition from a number of groups.
On Monday, Full Tilt Poker announced the debut of the Onyx Cup, a series of six high-stakes live tournaments starting in May in Las Vegas. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill tournaments, either. Instead, five preliminary No Limit Hold’em events will have buy-ins between $100,000 and $300,000, while the Grand Finale comes with a $250,000 price tag and will have $1 million added.
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