Interviews with Isildur1, Phil Ivey moving to Aria and Rihanna hooks up with PokerStars – those bits along with a few other choice bytes in our daily recap of the top stories in the pokerverse for December 22nd, 2009.
PokerStars Million-Dollar Challenge has had no shortage of contestants with mainstream appeal and compelling stories. Latest contestant 9-11 first responder Mike Kosowski is both, but he’s also now something other contestants haven’t been able to claim to date – a winner of the million dollar top prize. You can watch his win on December 27th following the NFL on FOX or on PokerStars.tv.
This is a couple days old, but Mason Malmuth issued a lengthy response to some of Boyd’s public comments regarding 2+2’s lawsuit against Dutch.
Daniel Negreanu wraps up 2009 and looks ahead to the poker world that will be 2010 in his latest vlog:
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Endorsements: In Rihanna’s new video for “Hard” (featuring Young Jeezy), the singer is seen playing with poker chips … branded with the PokerStars logo. Phil Ivey is reportedly in talks to be signed on to be the high stakes host, of sorts, for the new VIP poker area at the Aria. WSOP winner and long-time online crusher Eric Baldwin (who also won the CardPlayer POY race in 2009) signed with Ultimate Bet.
High stakes online news: There was a bit more play in the durrrr Challenge, with Dwan picking up a couple hundo thouso to pad his lead, now approaching one mirrion dollars. After dropping $5 mirron plus online this year, Gus Hansen announced he’s taking a sabbatical from poker. Isildur1 gave an exclusive, non-identity revealing interview to PokerNews where he indicated that he’ll be starting a formal complaint against Hastings at Full Tilt Poker over the Townsend hand history sharing issue.
Finally, more high-stakes poker robberies in Texas that are reigniting debate regarding the legal status of the game.
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