MacPhee recounts the EPT heist, Dwan pads his lead and we finally know who to blame for Face The Ace. Find out that name and all the rest in today’s PTP HNR.
Wondering who’s at fault for Face The Ace? A Nevada court has the answer: not Brandon McSmith. McSmith had sued Mori Eskandani (also behind HSP and Poker After Dark), claiming that he had come up with the bones for the widely panned show.
Judge Michelle Leavitt disagreed. Details and some info on why the FBI is horning in on the case at PND here.
Thanks to Wicked Chops for linking to a pretty funny Photoshop thread on 2+2. We won’t bother describing it; instead, here’s a sample…
… and a link.
Details are still emerging regarding the EPT heist. Here’s an interview with EPT Berlin champ Kevin MacPhee where he talks about the surreality of the event:
Get more updates from Pokerati.
The nutty high stakes action on Full Tilt Poker is spilling over well into the week. Isildur continued to be a force for moving money around the table; after taking over a million from Ziigmund, the mystery Swede dropped a huge chunk of it back to Brian Hastings (among others) and ended up realizing only $180k or so for the session.
Meanwhile, Tom Dwan continued his excellent start to 2010 with some play in the durrrr Challenge. Read the overview from DC here; summary is that Dwan cruised to a $350k-ish win, leaving him $1.75 million up with about 17k hands remaining.
Finally, some news for online MTT’ers: Tuesday means it’s time for the latest episode of PokerStars’ excellent show covering the highlights from last week’s Sunday Million. Watch below:
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… and be sure to check out the official schedule for the latest installment of the Full Tilt Poker MFTOPS tournament series, available here.
Want to play the MFTOPS? You’ll need a Full Tilt account, but first you should read this and learn why signing up directly at Full tilt could cost you a lot of money.
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