PTP News Hit and Run: February 4th, 2010

Dustin : February 4th, 2010

Cole South’s million-dollar day, and Cake buys Cloutier’s WSOP bracelet. We’re four-betting light in today’s PTPN Hit and Run.

Cole South had a pretty good day at the tables yesterday — he won than a million dollars playing mostly Omaha on Wednesday. Even more impressive were his victims: Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. And, in other high stakes news, Isildur1 was spotted playing some 25-50 today. We’ll let you know if anything more develops from that.

Remember that World Series of Poker bracelet that T.J. Cloutier put up for sale on eBay? Well, Cake Poker is now the proud owner of said bracelet. The price? Just over $4,000. “This was actually done basically on a whim,” said Cake Poker’s Lee Jones, according to the story. “We talked about it and thought, ‘Wow this is kind of amazing. We could find something cool to do with it.’”

And more from Cake here, where their blog talks about the possibility of the World Series of Poker moving from the Rio to Planet Hollywood, which Harrah’s is attempting to acquire. 2+2 thread here. The WSOP has been at the Rio since 2005. We’ll let you know if this gets past the rumor stage.

A story has been coming to light in recent weeks about former stoxpoker.com coach Jason Ho, who, according to allegations, isn’t very good at poker or coaching poker but has gotten paid a lot of money to do both. Story here at pokernewsdaily.com. And a 2+2 thread here. Ho has been banned from stoxpoker.com, and his personal Web site has been taken down.

Which UltimateBet player is the most popular? We’re apparently going to find out with a new promotion at the site, the UB.com Pro Freeroll Challenge. Team UB pros will try to draw the most players to a $2k freeroll over the course of the year. Joe Sebok will run the first freeroll — other top pros at the site include Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

Are you female, and a poker player? This story might be for you. Bodog poker is looking for women to sponsor in live tournaments around the world. Just e-mail pro@bodog.com with your bodog ID, a picture, and a little about yourself with a subject of ‘Female Pro Submission.’

Rush Poker hasn’t been around long on Full Tilt Poker, but already third-party software has caught up. Poker analysis software PokerTracker is now compatible with the new form of poker over at FTP. Read more here.

What could make Hawaii even better? If you can gamble there, too. Story here about how gambling is being considered for legalization on Hawaiian “homelands.”

Party Gaming/Party Poker had a strong fourth quarter according to financials recently released. Read about it here, if you’re interested.

It’s been a busy month for media related to Canadian poker. First, there was an announcement of a magazine covering poker in the country. Now, there’s a Web site set to be launched called www.CanadianPokerPlayer.tv. Read more here.

A look at what’s going on in the online poker world here, with a cardplayer.com report. It includes an interview with William ‘imahustla1’ Givens, who has been on a sick run of late. Don’t ask us why the host has a giant pile of chips in front of him. We don’t get it either.

And an interview with Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin here. Baldwin recently gave $200,000 to his alma mater’s baseball program.

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