EPT Vienna Day 1A – Sometimes They Come Back

Philosophical cab, insults in the morning parade of the army – the PokerStars EPT in Vienna is not just a poker event. It is a feature film.

Today is not just another day for Austria. Certainly not. Indeed, it is National Day, 26 October, and since 1955 as we celebrate our great nation, “explains us with undisguised irony, the friendly staff at the hotel breakfast.

Well If you had, your the “Home to the Reich” nonsense not joined, you had your first holiday of 1919 can keep, we mumble and do not ask for more After all, we celebrate our own holiday. The first EPT Vienna for six years is reason enough. even Tom DwanTo emerge here.

ept-wien EPT Vienna Day 1A – K.u.K. in each chandelier.

What Vienna actually keep their holiday day, how large a Wiener Schnitzel is real and what else is happening in and around the game room, hear and see in our feature EPT – the Movie, The bottom of this page.

From OESIS for OESIS

We enter the full vigor Kursalon, wrapped in a cloud Pitralon (Loosely based on the First Base).

A € 5,300 Main Event and the dozen side events of all kinds show that the EPT has returned to the Danube. Organized the tournament week with the famous Casino Concord, Town is the beautiful Kursalon directly at the city park. The know how to create atmosphere, the Austrians. K.u.k. Greetings from, of every painting and each chandelier.

PartyPoker Celebrates 20 Years of German Unity

As part of promotions “CardRush”, “First Deposit” and “20 Years of German Unity Party Poker gives away $ 5000, six trips to Berlin and more.

To make up for the 3rd October, a deposit – this applies to new and existing players – and participate in the freeroll “First Deposit” part in the final on October 29, $ 5k and six trips to Berlin stuck in the prize pool..

The Berlin-winning drive in March 2011 in the capital and there to take a city tour and a poker tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of € 25,000 parts.

Sondergimmick: The six winners will represent the six heads of state who attended the time of the 2 +4 negotiations. Finally his own coal, is the motto. This is living history in a style of play.

The finale of the “20 Years of German Unity” can also be done when you enter the “CardRush XL” action. You collect cards for which there are cash prizes, freeroll seats ($ 25k prize pool!) And party points to win.

A map have been around for 15 PP points. The first even for five. Up to 50 cards can be collected per day. The promotion runs until all 1.8 million tickets have been distributed. First collection day is 1 October.

CardRush The action was conducted at the beginning of the year for the first time and is now being extended to size XL. Freerolls with $ 25k at that time were still present. The freerolls are on 4-7. November.

The King of full ring – Antonius wins 1 million

In the past, a rarity, but announced today lie. An occupied table with nine players on the Limits Nosebleed rare. In recent days, however, the High Roller roamed the crowded PLO tables. As a fully sovereign, there was the Finn Patrik Antonius. With over one million dollars in the past 72 hours, he bagged the most dollars.

In live tournaments, he is increasingly rare – or perhaps one should say less and less in the first places seen. But his reputation is on the limit all the undoubted Nosebleed. Phil Ivey designated Patrik Antonius as one of his three most dangerous opponents, and a lifetime increase of almost 12 million U.S. dollars as well speaks for itself.

In 2010, it wanted to work for the former tennis professional, but not really. Until now, because Anthony has over the past 72 hours in the high stakes of Tioschen Full Tilt a clear decline of 387,000 dollars in a significant increase changed from $ 713,000.

According to Adam Riese makes a difference of about $ 1 million. 2836 hands took the Finn to finally play with that figure from the fire. Especially in the $ 300 / $ 600 PLO 6max, $ 2000 / $ 4000 Omaha Hi-Lo and the said $ 300 / $ 600 PLO Full Ring Anthony was unbeatable.

Much of the bill paid just by his countryman and close friend Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies. burned with 921,000 dollar loss Ziigmund so that nearly all of its annual profits.

The other big losers of the past week was another objective Tom durrrr Dwan ($ 346k minus). The example of the Danes Gus Hansen you could see, however, which can trigger an endorphin rush bracelet. For after the Dane before Sunday evening well $ 434,000 was distributed among his opponents, he cut after his triumph at the High Roller Heads Up WSOP Europe s wanted Di Urindanger “Dang and took the good $ 550,000 of the $ 500 / $ 1000 CAP PLO from.

Another major beneficiary of the past days was next to Patrik Antonius and the German fixed limit specialists depressed ($ 710k plus) of the still mysterious cadillac1944.

The biggest pot of $ 638k shared the Finn and the Americans also very fraternal. With three players at the table went Hac trex313 Dang on a J♦ 9♣ 8♦ Flop and T♣ 7♠ A♦ A♥ on hand with $ 97k all-in. The other two players in the hand, Patrik Antonius with T♠ 2♠ 8♣ Q♣ and cadillac1944 with Q♠ T♦ A♠ 3♥The pot even more exaggerated on the said $ 638k high. In the end, trex313 lost everything and turn and river provided with 6♦ century and ensure that Patrik Antonius cadillac1944 split the pot. Both had the straight. Trex313 went away empty-handed.

Bots and cheaters – PokerStars reacts

At least a dozen unidentified bots and an entire Chinese cheats ring DoN-players are flying in recent weeks on PokerStars. If the problem is solved?

As so often, it was members of the 2 +2 forum which Irregularities first discovered. On 13 July 2010 described a Forist three PokerStars players who had virtually identical playing styles and win rates. All played the same number of hands at NL200, then repeated the same thing at the same time and then again on NL100 NL50.

It quickly became apparent that these were not the only strange play patterns. The Security Department took care of the signs identified in the coming weeks twelve botsNot only $ 80,000 Profit had earned, but beside it also generates much more rakeback. Ten of these names are here poker table rankings to find. Their balance sheets are still available to the public.

PokerStars has refunded $ 80,000 to hundreds of injured players, but other than it was raked. Although this has understandably caused anger in the regular PS for players, it would be difficult to break down exactly who was cheated out of what percentage of the rake in either hand. An exact compensation of each individual involved is an impossibility.

Back in May the suspicion was confirmed that an unspecified number of players from Russia, China and Vietnam in the DoN (Double or Nothing) Sit and Go tournaments cheated. Alone, 49 Chinese players were convicted of common collusion and excluded. The injured players were back money used.

It is at this point about the integrity of Asian players, it was rather on a series of PS-players, that in the DoN-SnG the percentage of players from China, for example, was well above average. Some were up to six players of the ring in a single 10-player-DoN.

A number of them evidently belonged to a Chinese poker school in the town of Hua Zhou, the HP spokesman Jeff in December last year mentioned at 2 +2. There, not only seminars are offered, but many computers in a single room made available in which students should learn poker. Apparently the operator was – a PS-Affiliate – his duty to make sure that the poker is not coming at the same tables and played each other, helped by not enough.

DoN-SnG are particularly vulnerable to collusion, While a little soft play in bubble near enough perfect, to gain an advantage. It is by no means a fraud in the dimension of the UB scandal necessary could see in the so-called super-user all the hole cards of each player.

Rather rich occasional Whipsawing, Chip dumping and Soft PlayTo achieve better results in the long run. Whipsawing means a player by constantly attacking from two sides raises and re-raising. In chip-dumping means towards intentional losing chips, often by a limp-Fold to a minor Bet, which is not justified by odds, while soft play refers to a particularly aggressive, when, for example, a date, an all-general in the complicity not to pay. For this type of fraud is neither special software nor a super-user account is required.

Given the Accumulation of such events PokerStars has grown, especially among the regular visitors to the still by far the largest poker platform in the recent past, the fear that PS was not in a position to the many forms of fraud to be master. This suspicion was reinforced by the fact that there suddenly several employees for the Security Department were sought.

Although the flaring panic understandable, it is here, however, to question the view of the 2 +2 community, and to ask the right questions: Is the number of detected cheaters this year is proof that more and more fraudsters PS unsolvable problems and Online Poker is therefore no longer safe, or appears, however, that the safety system of PS on the contrary, works very well, as bots and collusion are nothing new and certainly do not drive only in PS to mischief?

When you hear so much from similar machinations on smaller networks or independent platforms, because there is no fraud – which seems highly unlikely as I said – or because they are not even discovered there?

Scams will continue to exist. As the players are effectively protected?

PokerStars now has over two million U.S. dollars compensation paid for and developed a new software tool that will prevent more participants from a particular region or country in the DoN-SnG.

With all due respect for the attention and the ingenuity of some 2 +2 activists, analyze and tirelessly to achieve some amazing results on the true Extent of fraud One can only speculate. On 19 July said security staff “poker star jeff” in the thread to the discovered poker bots:

“Most of us will be detected and removed without using bots recognized the player. In just the past four months we have reviewed more than 8,000 suspicious players while 258 bots detect and remove. „

First online league for women only

PokerStars the first poker league has started, the only women allowed to participate.

The brand new Women’s Only Poker League gives female players the opportunity to measure themselves against competitors from around the world and at the same time a lot of fun. Additional incentive, the cash prizes that are awarded to the best players.

The league runs initially until the end of the year, and can collect Pinkte woman starting a buy-in of $ 5.50.

The players, who each collected at the end of the month and year-end the most points may win cash prizes or special Ladies Luxury Packages.

The tournaments are running now twice daily at 17.10 clock, and (for European players rather clumsily) 2.10 clock. Points will receive all players at the final table or in the money.

In addition, Poker Stars on Sunday at a weekly Women’s Special Tournament.

The 50 best players come the end of August for the first time benefit from the dollar and euro prices.

The annual Best receives $ 1000 and the Ladies Luxury Event package.

WSOP Main Event Day 1 – Departure Orient Express

With 7319 players, it is officially the second-largest WSOP Main Event in history. Among the chip leaders after Day 1 is the two-time title winner Johnny Chan. The most important facts and figures. All members of the team PokerListings reach Day 2

“Congratulations, you’ve reached Day 2.” With these words of the tournament director ended the fourth and final starting day of the WSOP Main Event 2010. The prize pool is $ 68,798,600 and is also the second largest ever to be played out in a formal Poker Tournament.

From 117 countries registered for Day 1A 1125, for Day 1B 1489, for Day 1C Day 1D 2314 and for 2391 players. Day 2A begins on Friday, 9 July, 2412 players. On average in the first three starting days left 30% of the players. In order for Day 2B 2700 players are expected.

Compared to the previous year 12.7% more players take part in the main event. Joe Cada won $ 8,546,435 last November, the winner this year will take even $ 8,944,138 home with them. A total of 747 players make the money. The first payment level is $ 19,263.

At the initial days were each played four and a half levels. The blinds are now at 200/400/50. All players started with a starting stack of 30,000. The average is from Day 2 at about 39,000.

Cooler than the main event here in Rio, only the air conditioning. At the table from Andrew Feldman was known to help only to be with blankets.

The team PokerListings used the day off today for a little recreational sports: To bet money gamble in the upscale Mirage Casino.

The chip leader:

1. Corwin Cole, USA, 228 200
2. James Danielson, USA, 201 050
3. Dwyen ring Bauer, United States, 191 125
4. Steve Bilirakis, USA, 187 150
5. Khamsy Nuanmanee, India, 170 525
6. Steven Tabb, USA, 170 275
7. Mathieu Sauriol, CAN, 169 900
8. Filippo Candio, IT, 167 300
9. Julian Foussard, 166 175
10. Johnny Chan, USA, 163 700
11. Andrew Liporace, USA, 155 350
12. Robert Miller, USA, 155 225
13. Josef Monro, USA, 153 350
14. Dan Springfield, USA, 150 100
15. Jason Dewitt, USA, 149 950
16. Lauren Kling, USA, 149 650
17. Balazs Botond, Hungary, 146 595
18. Barny Boatman, EN 144 050
19. Filip Verboven, BE, 143 625
20. Steven Goosen, KAN, 142 925
21. Michael Mizrachi, USA, 142 650
22. Michael Reed, USA, 142 125
23. Jacob Petersen, USA, 141 050
24. Sean Prendiville, IR, 140 500
25. Benjamin Blair, USA, 13 720

Best German-speaking players:

1. Felix Bleiker, CH, 136 300
2. Heinz Kamutzki, NC, 135 750
3. Fabian hostage, DE, 113 200
4. Stefan Huber, CH, 113 725
5. Matthias Karweta, DE, 109 200
6. Mark Knight, DE, 97 700
7. Arne Riedberger, CH, 95 474
8. Florian Langmann, DE, 95 025
9. Sven Leu, DE, 84 625
10. Timo Strohmeyer, DE, 79 750