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• Jean Robert Bellande Survivor
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Just thought Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger would get you an update on the Survivor pursuits of Jean Robert Bellande. Earlier I posted this Story about Jean Robert on Survivor. As of the broadcast on Thursday Jean Robert is still playing the same way. He is trusting his reads on people to get him farther in the game. This episode for a period of time it seemed like it would be Jean Robert that would be voted off the island. Jean Robert made it through ‘tribal council’ by a couple votes and lives to play another day. One of the other Survivors, Courtney had some unkind words for Jean Robert during the reward part of the show. Courtney said things like, and I am paraphrasing here:

• I tried my best to be away from Jean Robert in the bathtub as I could possible be, he was at the one far end and I took the one at the other far end
• He is kind of gross, every single part of me wants to see Jean Robert go, I just don’t like him
• He’s a horrible person

It looked real bad for Jean Robert after his tribe lost the immunity challenge. Lots of his tribe members were discussing getting rid of Jean Robert. Lots of items were discussed about who to vote off here are a few snippets.

• That would require talking to him and you know I don’t do that
• I am going to vote for Jean Robert
• I hate him
• Well unless we vote for Jean Robert
• I think we should vote for Jean Robert tonight
• My gut says Jean Robert

Even Jean Robert wasn’t trusting his feel for the game. He admitted being uneasy and something didn’t feel right. At tribal council Jean Robert drew some very critical comments from two of the women of his tribe after he called himself the ‘bad boy’. Here are a few of the comments:

• Little do you know they don’t like you
• Bad Boy not quite the term I would have selected
• Bad Boy cause you play poker or something?
• Do you have a Harley we don’t know about?
• We don’t get along, we don’t like each other, he talks alot, his jokes aren’t funny, lots of judgements of other people, he has lots of self righteousness
• He is just a crappy person

But Jean Robert, once again when it seemed he was All-In, caught Runner Runner to stick around for at least another hand…..er episode. So far his plan, as published in Bluff Magazine, to be the biggest jerk possible without being voted off is working. He is at the final table so to speak with only 10 survivors remaining.

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• Absolute Poker Releases Statement

Owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which controls 100% of Absolute Poker, Joe Norton sent out a statement regarding the Hacking of Absolute Poker. Norton informs the recipients of the notice of a ‘Internal Security Breach for a limited period of time’. The breach according to Norton was committed by a high ranking trusted consultant with extraordinary access to security systems of Absolute Poker. Norton continues with the notice to AP customers by telling them that the consultant was immediately terminated.  Norton promises all players that were cheated by the hacker will be repaid for all losses that are traced to the cheating account. Payment to the AP players who lost money will be done after a complete audit by Gaming Associates and a separate audit by Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Finally the statement implies that Absolute Poker will be cooperation with any and all investigations in the future by regulatory bodies.

Reportedly Absolute Poker has already begun two activities related with the release of the xcel spreadsheet with all the players that played in the September 12th tournament IP addresses and email addresses. Absolute Poker has issued $500 payments to any watcher of the tournament that had their email in the spreadsheet. Second all players that cashed will be moved up 1 spot on the final standings and receive the additional prize money. 96 of the 98 players that participated in the tournament will receive a refund of their entry amount and fee for the tournament. Also included will be about 1% interest.  Potripper the id that won the tournament and Graycat another suspect account are not to receive refunds according to Absolute Poker.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger wonders what will happen to people like Mark Seif who has been a player for Absolute Poker for a long time. The web is full of many stories and discussions regarding the AP situation. I will keep an eye and ear open to this story and keep you posted. Here are the two previous posts I had on this event. 1. Absolute Poker is Hacked by Employee  2. Absolute Poker Hacking - More Details Surface

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• Online Poker Weekend Results

PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars had 6,524 players this weekend and a prize-pool of $1,304,800. 900 Players made the money. Hevad ‘RaiNKhAN’ Khan, who finished at the final table in the WSOP 2007 Main Event, just missed the Final Table and ended up 13th. Macknot won this weeks PokerStars Sunday Million and $187,630 in prize money. Macknot played heads up with weeminer and had a 4.5 to 1 chip advantage when play started and the match only survived a few minutes. Macknot called when weeminer went All-In and Macknot had Pocket Rockets. weeminer didn’t improve and PokerStars Sunday Million was completed. Here is how the Final Table and Payouts ended up:

1. Macknot — $187,630.24
2. weeminer — $97,729.52
3. Ghost4476 — $70,328.72
4. Dabe8Gavis — $54,801.60
5. Keano7 — $41,884.08
6. juice54 — $31,010.40
7. Cardinal7 — $21,529.20
8. kev_unlimit — $13,048.00
9. Ivey $00 — $8,089.76
 

Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Fult Tilt had 2,152 players which provided a prize pool of $1,076,000. 306 places were paid with the top prize earning $197,984. ‘BluffMagCV’ won the Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament. The Final Table and payouts looked like this:
1. Chris “BluffMagCV” Vaughn — $197,984
2. Soren “Kongsgaard” Kongsgaard — $121,588
3. tmfd001 — $79,624
4. RGAR18 — $63,484
5. colenel decker — $48,420
6. DutchVinny — $34,647.20
7. JaeMills — $25,286
8. imgrinding — $19,906
9. Gettin Daize — $15,064

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed
PartyPoker had 1,549 players and a prize pool of $306,800. First place received $61,960 and a total of 200 players made the money. The Tournament payouts were determined by a 6 player chop determined by chip counts when the player that finished 7th busted.  Here were the Final Table standings and payouts:
1. lenok07 — $40,301.44
2. LooseHope — $30,565.31
3. peter_AA100 — $27,487.14
4. Stuart “Zpace_man” Taylor — $22,241.79
5. Bayernbua — $22,157.62
6. RAMMS888 — $16,483.92
7. ihmepaisti — $8,209.70
8. Idealic69 — $5,421.50
9. StivenG — $4,128.30
10. Ota_SolGryn $2,943.10

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• WSOP H.O.R.S.E. on ESPN Starring Phil Hellmuth’s Behavior - Part Two

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger is continuing yesterday’s post regarding ‘The Poker Brats’ behavior at the WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Tournament. Today’s post details ESPN’s 2nd hour of the broadcast. If you didn’t read yesterday’s post the underlying opinion I put forth is that ESPN got off track and chose to show too much bad behavior instead of good poker. ESPN had the chance to show great poker in 5 different games but instead highlighted Hellmuth’s Tableside manner at every opportunity. Here are the behavior items ESPN edited into the one hour show:

• Just seven minutes into the broadcast ESPN analyst Norman Chad gets a little dig in on Phil while talking about Eli Elezra and Barry Greenstein being part of the ‘Big Game’ he says ‘Hellmuth is not part of the Big Game he is part of the Big Ego, the Big Game players don’t have a whole lot of respect for Phil Hellmuth’. Chad goes on to say ‘the Big Game keeps a light on for Phil anytime’.
• 13 Minutes in while playing Hold ‘Em Phil says ‘raise it up boys’. Chad once again gives the needle to Hellmuth by saying ‘it definitely bothers Phil that he hasn’t won a bracelet outside of Hold ‘Em and he doesn’t have the respect of the Big Game players. When Barry Greenstein hits a flush and beats Phil, the talking starts from Phil: ‘I haven’t won one Hold ‘Em pot just cause I checked top pair and then he hits the miracle heart again. Its just sick, nice hand Barry’.
• Then ESPN goes to a taped sit down discussion with Phil and he lets all of us know how good he is when he says things like:
  • A lot of the Great Players underestimate my H.O.R.S.E skills, they say oh Phil just plays Hold ‘Em, but
  • I can play all of the games close to perfect
  • Am I a world class stud player? sure.
  • Omaha 8 or better there’s only probably 4 or 5 that are better than me
  • Razz I just absolutely world class top of the game
  • Hold ‘Em obviously I am at the absolute top of the world
  • They can’t attack my integrity and honor cause that’s perfect
  • They can’t attack my Hold ‘Em cause thats perfect
  • There’s not much left to attack
  • Oh they can always attack my ‘Poker Brat’ behavior
• Phil is back and saying: ‘Barry has beaten me every hand in Hold ‘Em but just wait till it turns around I am going to barbecue him’ then when he loses a hand to another opponent he says ‘the best Hold ‘Em player in the world by far and the guys just beat me and beat me, I won two antes and a tiny pot it is just sick’.
• 35 minutes into the ESPN show and Hellmuth is show standing by himself and talking to nobody and saying ’such an effing joke, these are supposed to be great players? they don’t know anything about Hold ‘Em, so sick, I want to throw up when I watch these people play Hold ‘Em, supposed to be great players, they suck’.
• Forty minutes in and Hellmuth is playing Omaha 8 or better and Phil gets scooped by an opponent when Phil doesn’t have a very good hand. The opponent gets Phil to stop chattering by saying he can overcome the beat he just took. The very next hand that ESPN shows, Phil starts by saying ‘might be a little steam on this one boys’ and Phil doesn’t hit his low hand and for the only time I can remember Phil has nothing to say.
• At last the final opportunity to witness Phil Hellmuth’s Tableside manner at the WSOP this year, unless you watch the encore showings. Phil is All-In playing RAZZ and Phil is beat easily. Phil leaves the table with this parting shot for all: ’so brutal, I am the best player at that table in every game, that’s whats brutal, I got a good table draw and never won a chip’

Another item that I found ironic is: Many times Phil’s commercial for WSOP the video game was shown during the two hours of ESPN coverage. Phil is shown with a black eye and saying the some of the players are taking the ‘Beat the Brat’ theme too far. I mentioned to my sons during the broadcast with all the years that Phil has played and had his Tableside manner that he is probably fortunate nobody has popped him.

I know that it is all an act to get the other players off their game and not play their best. Also to get Phil some more TV time, but it has no place in Poker in my humble opinion. More and more players try and use the same behavior either online or at live games. Probably ESPN contributes to this with all the coverage they give to Hellmuth and others like Mike Matusow. Please stop ESPN.

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• WSOP H.O.R.S.E. on ESPN Starring Phil Hellmuth’s Behavior

ESPN aired the 1st two episodes of six last night of what they are billing as the ‘2007 Players Championship’. You know it is the 2007 WSOP $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. championship. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger posted many WSOP articles and gave extensive coverage to the H.O.R.S.E. tournament and its eventual winner Freddy Deeb. This post is just to discuss my disappointment with ESPN and the TV time they give to Phil Hellmuth and his Tableside manner. Yes ESPN talked extensively about the ‘Best All Around Player’, the ‘Pros Championship’ when discussing the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Tournament. Daniel Negreanu is shown stating ‘Without a doubt it is the most important tournament in the whole world’ and 2004 Main Event Champion Greg Raymer says ‘it is a small elite field of the greatest players in the world’. ESPN says it is time to settle all arguments about who is best and this is the Bracelet all the ‘Big Game’ players want.

But in your ‘Dead Money’ blogger’s humble opinion ESPN got off track of showing the great players playing great poker in all the disciplines. Instead ESPN seemed to focus way too much TV time on the typical Phil Hellmuth horrible Tableside manner.  Thankfully at the end of the second hour Hellmuth was knocked out of the tournament and for those of us that want to watch the rest of the ESPN H.O.R.S.E. coverage we will not have to see, the great in all the Poker Games according to Phil himself, Phil Hellmuth anymore. Here are some of the examples I saw during the first hour last night. Tomorrow I will detail some more examples that happened during the second hour.

• Just 9 minutes into the Coverage of the 1st hour ESPN cuts to Phil as he rips out his ever present ear piece and tears off his sunglasses and he says: ‘oh this idiot’ and then says ‘you are so bad Bruno you don’t even know it, this is your worse game’ then goes on to say ‘its ridiculous how bad they play’.
• 23 minutes after the beginning of the 1st hour of Coverage ESPN goes back to Hellmuth in time to hear him say: ‘Freakin idiot, so bad’ once again talking about Bruno. Phil goes on to say: ‘it is alright, he is going to blow off all the chips anyway, I just hope I am here’ then he says: ‘its so ridiculous’. Then ESPN shows Mike Matusow coming over to commiserate with Hellmuth as Phil goes on to explain how the idiot called him and then beat him. Phil goes on to say: ‘I read him so easily, he got away with one stud pot, he tried to bluff me in stud and he won’t bluff me all day again’. I do give credit to ESPN analyst Norman Chad who says: ‘Ladies and Gentleman Ugly American Hall of Famers Mike the Mouth and the Poker Brat’.
• 35 minutes in and ESPN is back to Hellmuth who starts with many expletives deleted from the broadcast and then says: ‘you people are the worse players on the planet, I swear to God’ and then ‘oh my God are you kidding me, thats four bad beats they put on me’ once again it is Bruno who did the beating.
• For the last time during the 1st episode ESPN shows Hellmuth who is saying to Barry Greenstein: ‘try and run me over now Barry’ and Mike Matusow comes back to the table and Phil tells Mike ‘they just can’t wait to race their money in against me’.

That is all the ESPN viewers could stand and ESPN did not show anymore of the great Phil Hellmuth’s Tableside manner. Check back tomorrow when I detail the even worse behavior that Phil exhibited during the 2nd hour of the broadcast.

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• Markus Lehmann Wins the WPT Spanish Championship 

Markus Lehmann wins the WPT Spanish Championship beating Ludovic Lacay in heads up play. Lehmann started the TV Final Table 5th in chips and outlasted the other 5 players to Win the WPT Spanish Championship at the Casino Barcelona. Markus takes home the WPT Spanish Championship title $786,505 in Prize Money and $25,000 buy-in for the WPT World Championship in April at the Bellagio.

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• Ludovic Lacay Eliminated in 2nd Place $418,505 

Ludovic Lacay pushes All-In after a flop of and is called by Markus Lehmann. Lacay shows  and Lehmann displays . The Turn is the and the River . Lacay is eliminated on the 74th hand of the TV Final Table.

• Christer Johansson Eliminated in 3rd Place $214,073

Christer Johansson re-raises All-In with a Board of and and is called by Markus Lehmann. Johansson shows for top pair and is ahead of Johansson’s qc pair of tens. The River brings the and Christer Johansson is eliminated on the 51st hand of the TV Final Table. Heads up play begins with Ludovic Lacay and Markus Lehmann.

• Steve Sung Eliminated in 4th Place $166,438 

Steve Sung re-raises All-In and Markus Lehmann calls and turns over and Steve shows his . Sung looks beaten when the Flop brings , but when the Turn is he has the lead and is 77% to win. Alas the River is the and Lehmann hits the back door flush and Sung is eliminated on the 41st hand of the TV Final Table.

• Gus Hansen Eliminated in 5th Place $142,621 

Gus Hansen who started the TV Final Table with the Chip Lead. After a Flop of Gus pushes All-In and Ludovic Lacay, who now has the Chip Lead calls right away. Hansen only has and is up against Lacay’s . The Turn is a and when the River brings the Hansen is eliminated in 5th Place on the 36th hand of the day.

• Vladimir Poleschchuk Eliminated in 6th Place $118,945

Vladimir Poleschchuk pushes All-In for about 120,000 and Steve Sung calls. Poleschchuk shows and Sung has . The board brings two pair for Sung and Vladimir Poleschchuk is eliminated in 6th Place on the 14th Hand of the TV Final Table.

• Start of WPT Spanish Championship TV Final Table

Here is how the TV Final Table started with Seat Assignments, Chip Counts and Payouts.

Seat 1 - Vladimir Poleschchuk - 176,000
Seat 2 - Christer Johansson - 855,000
Seat 3 - Steve Sung - 670,000
Seat 4 - Gus Hansen - 962,000
Seat 5 - Ludovic Lacay - 400,000
Seat 6 - Markus Lehmann - 329,000

1st - 554,987 euros ($786,805)
2nd - 295,200 euros ($418,505)
3rd - 151,000 euros ($214,073)
4th - 117,400 euros ($166,438)
5th - 100,600 euros ($142,621)
6th - 83,900 euros ($118,945)
Source: WPT

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 3

Day 3 of the WPT Spanish Championship Day 3 started with 39 players still alive for the WPT Championship. Play continued today until only 6 players remained consisting of the TV Final Table. The money bubble burst around 6:15 pm Barcelona Time when Andrey Zaichenko was crippled by Barny Boatman and knocked out by Gus Hansen on the next hand. Play has finished for the day and the TV Final Table to be played on Tuesday at the Casino Barcelona starting at 5:oo pm Barcelona Time. Here are the Chip Counts at the End of Day 3 with Gus Hansen as the Chip Leader going to the TV Final Table on Tuesday.

• Gus Hansen 950,000
• Christer Johansson 840,000
• Ludovic Lacay 415,000
• Steve Sung 395,000
• Markus Lehman 190,000
• Vladimir Poleshchuk 150,000

• Day 3 Finishes
  • Steven Van Zadelhoff 7th Place 95,161 euros  $135,000 US
  • Erik Seidel 8th Place 71,335 euros $101,100 US 
  • Nick Panopoulos 9th Place 47,510 euros $67,300 US 
  • Jean-Baptiste Tomi 10th Place 28,577 euros $40,500 US  
  • Juha Helppi 11th Place 28,577 euros $40,500 US 
  • Guerfi Mesbah 12th Place 20,150 euros $28,600 US  
  • Robin Larsson 13th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Pasi Heinanen 14th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Pascall Perrault 15th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Mikhail Makarov 16th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US 
  • Steve Billirakis 17th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US 
  • Melissa Hayden 18th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US  
  • Raul Mestre 19th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Kees Alblas 20th Place 10,500, euros $14,240 US 
  • Barny Boatman 21st Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Mark Teltscher 22nd Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Henrick Gwinner 23rd Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Paul Babise 24th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Lino Cunha 25th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Guillame De La Gorce 26th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Richard Da Silva 27th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Guellermo Garcia
  • Farzad Heuyati
  • Antonio Olivan
  • Santiago Torres
  • Jose Fuentes
  • Eric Hershler
  • Erik Friberg
  • Brandon K Schaefer
  • Ted Lawson
  • Patrick Bruel
  • Lauren Essex
  • Andrey Zaichenko

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 2

Day 2 begins at the WPT Spanish Championship at the Casino Barcelona with the 151 players that survived Day 1A and Day 1B on Thursday and Friday. The WPT Championship is scheduled to run through the TV Final Table on Tuesday October 16th, 2007. Play is scheduled for today to consist of 7 seventy-five minute levels. The WPT hopes to get down to 27 players remaining which is the number of players that will be paid. Play will continue on Sunday at 5:00 Barcelona time for Day 3. Some big names have made some progress during todays play. Included are Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Melissa Hayden, Steve Sung, Juha Helppi. Some big names that were busted today include, Freddy Bonyadi, Allen Cunningham, Bill Elder, Max Pescatori, John Juanda and the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion Annette Obrestad.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger posted previously about Day 1 of the WPT Spanish Championship.

• Day 2 Chip Leaders
  • Christer Johansson
  • Patrick Bruel
  • Gus Hansen
  • Lauren Essex
  • Erik Seidel
  • Steve Sung
  • Juha Helppi
  • Melissa Hayden
  • Jean Noel Thorel
  • Steve Billirakis
  • Pascal Perrault
  • Maurizio Carra
  • Peter Jepsen
  • Doug Lee
  • Erik Friberg
  • Alex Jacob
  • Ted Lawson
• Day 2 Eliminations
  • Freddy Bonyadi
  • Bill Elder
  • Alexander Kravchenko
  • Nam Le
  • Isabelle Mercier
  • Max Pescatori
  • Fabrice Soulier
  • William Thorson
  • Jim Worth
  • Stephen Zolotow
  • Ozzy Sheikh
  • Per Ummer
  • Ben Grundy
  • Sorel Mizzi
  • Annette Obrestad
  • Yevgeniy Timoshenko
  • Mike McDonald
  • Joseph Elpayaa
  • Carl Hostrup
  • Allen Cunningham

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 1A and 1B

WPT Spanish Championship is underway at the Casino Barcelona. Unofficially there were 225 entrants into the WPT Spanish Championship. The Tournament runs from October 11, 2007 through the Final TV Table on October 16, 2007. Buy-In was 7,500 euros approximately $10,000 US. Payouts have been announced and here they are:

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger has posted previously regarding the WPT. Here is how the Day 1A and Day 1B ended up.

• Day 1 Eliminations
  • Chad Brown
  • Joe Beevers
  • Patrik Antonius
  • Ram Vaswani
  • Vanessa Rousso
  • Tom Schneider
  • Kirk Morrison
  • Shannon Shorr
  • Rhynie Campbell
• Chip Leaders at the End of Day 1
  • Maurizio Carra 59,975
  • Carl Hostrup 55,750
  • Piagro Angelo 50,650 
  • Guillaume De la Gorce 50,450
  • Marciano Marc 46,300
  • Fabrice Soulier 45,750
  • Max Pescatori 44,400
  • JC Alvarado 42,075
  • Erik Friberg 40,075
  • Andre Akkari 37.050
  • Freddy Bonyadi 34,300
  • Joseph Elpayaa 34,250
  • Patrick Bruel 34,200
  • Steve Sung 32,300
  • Barny Boatman 32,250
  • Gus Hanson 30,500
  • Eric Hershier 30,350
  • Ozzy Sheikh 30,000
  • William Thorson 29,725
  • Steven Billirakis 27,875
  • Melissa Hayden 26,025
  • Annette Obrestad 24,600
  • Brandon K Schafer 23,500
  • John Juanda 21,675
  • Allen Cunningham 20,625

WPT Spanish Championship will continue tomorrow beginning at 5pm Barcelona time with the remaining players from Day 1A and Day 1B competing on Day 2.

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• 2008 World Series of Poker Dates Announced

Harrah’s Entertainment has announced the 2008 dates for the World Series of Poker. The WSOP for 2008 will be held starting May 30th, 2008 and continue with over 50 separate events through the conclusion of the Main Event on July 17th, 2008. Once again the WSOP will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Exact dates for the specific events have not yet been determined according to WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.

“The team is still hard at work on the schedule of events for next year,” said Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP Commissioner, “but we’ve received so many requests for the dates that we decided to announce them now.” Source

The WSOP hopes that the Main Event registrations get back to at least as many as the 2006 Main Event. Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) seemed to contribute to the reduction in entries for the 2007 Main Event.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger posted numerous times about the WSOP and the WSOPE and if you missed them you can see them here.

2007 WSOP Main Event and bracelet was won by Jerry Yang with a straight he hit on the river when he was heads up against Tuan Lam. Tom Schneider was the 2007 WSOP Player of the Year by winning two WSOP bracelets. Freddy Deeb won the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship and bracelet.

During the 2007 WSOP tournament there were 55 events. The events received record numbers of players. While Harrah’s has not announced the details yet of the events, don’t be surprised if there are even more events during the 2008 WSOP. Information on the specific events will be on the WSOP site soon.

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• Norway to Ban Online Poker?

The Norwegian Minister of Culture is planning to introduce new legislation that would ban online gambling. The legislation would reportedly work very similar to the United States Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA). UIGEA stops Financial entities from making deposits to Online Gaming sites.

It was only a little over a month ago the Norway resident 19 year old Annette Obrestad won the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event. Annette was the youngest player ever to win a WSOP Championship bracelet and the only female to win the WSOP Main Event. Annette collected over $2,000,000 for winning the WSOPE Main Event.

Annette had quite a Online Poker reputation for her Poker ability. The online forums are full of her Poker achievements, which if the Internet forums can be trusted are quite impressive. Annette started playing Online Poker when she was 15 and according to her she has never deposited any funds to any Online Poker site. Again reportedly, she has won several hundred thousand dollars in winnings from the Online sites.

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I find it ironic that if the proposed Norway ban on Online Poker had been in effect just a few years ago Annette possibly would not have become such a great Poker player. Also, she probably would not have had the money for the $20,000 buy-in for the WSOPE Main Event. She would never had accumulated the Poker skills that allowed her to amass the bankroll that she now has at the tender age of 19. Annette is a member of Team Betfair and writes a blog for CardPlayerNorge site, again probably opportunities she would not have had if not allowed to play Online Poker from her home in Norway.

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• Jean Robert Bellande Survivor
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Have you seen Jean Robert Bellande on Survivor China? I posted previously about Jean Robert being part of Survivor China. I have to admit I was a little surprised at the way CBS Survivor has been showing him. And they have been showing a lot of him. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger should have known that Jean Robert would not make many friends on the Survivor Island. Given the way he plays poker with the tableside manner of Phil Hellmuth and combine that Poker attitude with the lack of food and rest on Survivor, that makes even the most likable people behave horribly, it is no wonder we see the worst of Jean Robert.

On the latest episode CBS Survivor showed him causing much trouble with the sleep arrangements. Not only does it appear that Jean Robert has a bad snoring issue but ‘needs’ to sleep next to the young women of the tribe. The young women of the tribe are shown on CBS Survivor discussing how much they hate sleeping next to Jean Robert and how they avoid it at all costs.

In one very damaging segment to Jean Robert’s fans was when he was discussing strategy with another member of the tribe. Jean Robert got into a discussion about one of the women of their tribe that was very frank and of a sexual nature. That was bad enough but Jean Robert was talking loud enough that the women and another member of the tribe heard the discussion.

Because of Jean Robert’s size and strength he is valuable on the challenges thus far that have mostly been physical in nature. He has helped his tribe win most of the events so far. Jean Robert does not seem to be very popular with his tribe-mates. It seemed during the last episode, after his tribe lost a challenge, he would be voted off the Island, but he survived. Kind of like he went All-In and nobody called. It will be interesting to see how long he can last and how much weight he loses.

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• WSOP 2007 Main Event Hevad Khan on ESPN

Watching the ESPN broadcast of the WSOP 2007 Main Event over the last few weeks I have noticed a few things:

1. ESPN has not showed much bad behavior that was so prevalent on the broadcasts last year. Maybe that means there wasn’t as much such behavior.
2. Lots of the Hollywood crowd made it a long way in the Main Event.
3. Norman Chad is as funny as ever to Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger.
4. Lots of recognized Poker ‘names’ made very long runs in the Main Event.
5. Hevad ‘Rain’ Khan got way too much ESPN time.

Yes, Hevad Khan did finish 6th in the Main Event and won almost $1,000,000 in prize money. So he deserved a lot of ESPN air time finishing that well in the WSOP Main Event. If what you read on the Internet is even partially accurate, he is an outstanding Online Poker player. Just like Humberto Brenes with the Shark, Hevad Khan with the screams and dancing around and fist pumps is an act I only needed to see once. I would much rather see more hands shown on the ESPN broadcasts instead of the ‘Act’ that Hevad Khan puts on seemingly every time he wins a hand. I understand getting excited when you win a hand especially as the Main Event was getting near the Final Table. But Khan was doing this ‘Act’ as early as day 3 on the ESPN broadcasts. I have tried to figure out what this did for Khan. Did it help him play better? Did it put other players on Tilt? Did it make other players try to take him out with marginal hands just to get some peace and quiet? I have a hard time believing that he puts on this act in his home games. I guess I am left with, it is Khan that is on Tilt, maybe not the Poker Tilt but some type of Tilt for the 30 to 45 seconds the act lasts. I do have to give Khan credit for consistency though, he did go into the act everytime. In this earlier post I discussed some of the behaviors that take the fun out of poker for me. I will have to go back and update the post to include Shark and ‘Rain’.

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