FTOPS starts. Doyle’s recovering. And can durrrr lose his challenge? Read all about it in today’s PTPN Hit and Run.
FTOPS XV is officially under way, and if the first event is any indication, it’s going to a big tournament series for Full Tilt. More than 5,600 players turned out for event No. 1, a $1M guaranteed, $216 buy-in tourney.
Doyle Brunson apparently is doing ok after some serious dental surgery that lasted hours. Brunson has said he’s going to take it easy on his live poker play leading up to the World Series of Poker, but he’s already back at the tables online, playing at doylesroom.com.
PokerStars announced the latest pro added to its team: England’s Julian Thew. He has $2.5 million in live winnings and is most famous for this 2007 European Poker Tour victory.
If you follow “High Stakes Poker,” some recaps of the most memorable hands in show history here and here. The No. 1 hand? A swet bluff by Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
Interview with one of Dwan’s playing partners at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables, Patrik Antonius here and here.
And more on both Dwan and Antonius here, in a story that wonders if it’s even possible for Dwan to lose his “durrrr Challenge” now that he has amassed a seemingly insurmountable $1.4 million lead. Since there’s a lot of money on the line, the story speculates that Dwan will become defensive to hold on to his lead. Doesn’t sound like Dwan, to us, but he’s also smart and likes money. So we’ll see.
We’ll call this poker-related, since it appeared on wickedchopspoker.com, who points out that it is about the Phil Ivey of golf. It’s a pretty great parody of the Google Super Bowl ad.
We still don’t know why the host of this poker show at cardplayer.com has a big pile of chips in front of him. Did he win a tournament of potential hosts for the tournament, and thus the chips? But there is an interview with Lauren ’supermodl’ Kling, which redeems him. But negative points because it’s only a phone interview:
We reported on California’s efforts to legalize intrastate poker yesterday. Here’s an editorial saying why it’s a bad idea, at least for the state budget.
Interesting read about PokerStars over at Forbes.com. Rarely do we see stories that look at all past the facade of the online poker giant, and this is at least a glimpse at it.
It’s not too late to play in this edition of FTOPS. Make sure to sign up with a new Full Tilt account, if you don’t have one already, to get rakeback today.
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