PTP News Hit and Run: January 27th, 2010

Jace Thomas : January 27th, 2010

Who bought T.J.’s bracelet, Laak opens up a room and Issac Baron answers your questions – that and more in our daily trip through the aves and alleys of the pokerverse, the PTP News HNR for 1/27/10.

Cake Poker is in the news today, on a couple of fronts. First, Phil Laak has launched a room on the Cake Network. Unabomber Poker, named after Laak’s well-known hood n’ aviators look, launched this week and will feature Laak at the tables now and again, along with a Laak-penned blog.

Turns out Cake was also the secret purchaser of the recently ebayed T.J. Cloutier WSOP bracelet. That’s according to the guys over at Wicked Chops.

In honor of Wicked Chops, here’s Lacy Jones looking pretty hot in a Ksino ad:

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Ever wondered what it’s like to be a Supernova Elite? PokerStars has a couple of insights into a few of the 206 players who achieved the hallowed status in 2009 here. Unsure if any of them were at the final table of the Sunday Million last weekend, but you can watch the excellent wrap up of who was in the Sunday Million highlight show below:

News from the high stakes online stratosphere: Isildur1 is rumored to be pounding the tables at Betfair under the name Omlphalotus. So says High Stakes News here. Finally, Issac Baron gives us his take on the life of one of the most successful tournament players in history (his own) in the video below:

You can catch Baron on the felts at Full Tilt Poker. Interested in playing Rush Poker on Full Tilt? Read this before you create an account.