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Former champions and players who've made the overall table of the Battle of the Planets monthly $50,000.00 triple shootout freeroll often make return trips. It took two our final table players three and 4 years respectively to return in and say hi today. But, the month tonight would go someone new as jSorc took down $12,000.00 after winning three straight tables.

Down to the general two tables of the primary round Warningstein would take out Jjinjo after hitting a turned wheel to near their match as all eyes moved over to Table 47 where nitur and jucecito held the important thing to the second one round. With the blinds as much as 150/300 ante 25 and showing no sign of stopping, the rail was getting a little bit antsy to start out up the money round where everyone was assured at $195.00 for winning their first table.

When the blinds moved to 200/400 ante 50 nitur continued to be stay aggressive while picking up several preflop pots as jucecito won enough to stick away. Staying at the gas peddle, nitur pushed again from the button to 6,905 as jucecito found pocket fives [5h][5d] were plenty to make the decision. nitur's [Kc][Tc] found a 10 at the flop [Ts] [2s] [7c] [Ac] [Qs] to finish the last match and begin up the round of 81.

12ziz12 already has two Battle of the Planet freeroll final tables. September 2010 placing fifth ($2,735.00) and November 2010 taking sixth ($2,200.00). Well... make that three final tables because the Australian made short work of the table in claiming the primary seat. And after taking down Event #1-M for $131,114.57 within the SCOOP 2013 that may be carrying out tomorrow shall we embrace 12ziz12 is back.

Down to Gdzila versus skeldon87 for the last seat on the final table with a possible $12,500.00 or $195.00 already earned. Down 3,739 to 9,761 Gdzila would shove excessive of a min-raise by skeldon87 holding [Ks][2s]. skeldon87's mid-ace [As][9h] was enough to make the decision and enough to win the overall pot after an ace hit the flop [Jd] [Jc] [Ac] [9s] [5c] to solidify it and begin up the overall table below:

Seat 1: russunray (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: kafelnikovz (1500 in chips)
Seat 3: jSorc (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: camelino (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: skeldon87 (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: ViKtOrHaZaRd (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: blackDonii (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: 12ziz12 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Godfatti (1500 in chips)

Out as fast as coming in

12ziz12 waited over HALF-HOUR for the last round of this triple shootout to begin and was out of the tournament in under 10 minutes after pushing a semi-bluff just a little too far. Still within the initial 10/20 blind level with the bound showing [Ks] [7d] [8d] [Th] 12ziz12 was faced with an all-in bet by skeldon87. Holding [Jd][Ad] 12ziz12 made the decision facing pocket aces [Ac][As]. The fourth ace showed up at the river [Ah] sending 12ziz12 to the rail in ninth place ($775.00).

Russ runs away

Into the 25/50 blind level russunray would min-raise from middle position because it folded around to camelino within the big blind with pocket sixes [6s][6h] and under the starting stack. camelino would shove for 1,275 total as russunray holding big slick [Kh][Ac] made the decision for less. No card over a nine at the [2c] [9c] [2h] [4c] [5h] board and russunray went away in eighth place ($1,200.00).

In the black

As the blinds moved as much as 50/100 ViKtOrHaZaRd slipped to only 790 chips and was in a position to open shove with a small ace [Ac][5d] from early position. Unfortunately, blackDonii one to the left was desperate to call any bets with pocket aces [Ah][As]. No miracles on any streets here [7c] [7d] [Qs] [9d] [Tc] and ViKtOrHaZaRd left in seventh place ($1,700.00).

12 chips? 12 chips

That's all kafelnikovz had left tangling with jSorc. With the blinds moving as much as 125/250 ante 25 and still six players remaining kafelnikovz would attempt to bully jSorc with a shove from the small blind. Holding a good heads-up ace [9c][Ad] jSorc made the right kind call kafelnikovz flipped up a smaller ace [5s][As]. Both players would pair their kickers [9s] [Ks] [7h] [3c] [5d] leaving kafelnikovz with 12 chips. Two hands later kafelnikovz would officially receive sixth place cash ($2,200.00).

A familiar face

It will have been many years ago but Godfatti chopped up this freeroll back in 2009 and was seeking to accomplish that again nearly four years later. Two hands after kafelnikovz took leave Godfatti took a shot holding just 529 chips by shoving all-in barely over the five hundred chip raise by skeldon87. skeldon87 made the decision with pocket sevens [7s][7h] and managed to take the 1,433 chip pot after the [6h] [Qh] [8c] [3d] [Qd] didn't hook up with Godfatti's [5d][As]. RATHER LESS than last time, but Godfatti earned $2,735.00 in fifth place.

Fast to the finish

Just three hands later camelino would take a shot at improving a shortstack against the sizable 125/250 ante 25 blinds. Open shoving from the cutoff for 1,805 as skeldon87 went on the lookout for a second straight elimination by re-shoving from the button with pocket sixes [6s][6c]. Despite flopping a flush draw [Ac] [Kd] [Ad] [Qs] [2h] camelino's [Td][8d] would miss the board enough to ship the 4,085 pot to skeldon87 as camelino earned $3,350.00 in fourth place.

Black magic?

jSorc needed to cast some more or less spell over backDonii who took down six hands in row to get the Hungarian to take a seat for once. Firing 4,363 chips into the pot from the button was a good option to get blackDonii to fold but skeldon87 didn't. Holding pocket jacks [Jc][Js] skeldon87 made the decision for less as jSorc showed a wedding in diamonds [Qd][Kd] which quickly found another queen at the [Qh] [5h] [8h] [2h] [5d] board to say the 7,769 chip pot and send $4,500.00 with skeldon87 in third place.

Minute to win it

Ten hands and jSorc never let go of the lead. It could only take a minute to get through those ten hands and claim the $12,000.00 together with the May Battle of the Planets title. Watch below:

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Down to 2,715 chips blackDonii would shove excessive of jSorc's raise holding [Th][Kc] as jSorc made the decision with [As][Jh]. An ace at the turn [6c] [9s] [5s] [Ah] [5c] would shutdown blackDonii for the evening as jSorc claimed all of the $12,000.00 first place prize!

PokerStars Battle of the Planets May $50,000 freeroll (Triple Shootout) results

Players: 480
Prizepool: $50,000.00
Places paid: 81

1. jSorc (Slovenia) $12,000.00
2. blackDonii (Hungary) $7,500.00
3. skeldon87 (UK) $4,500.00
4. camelino (Austria) $3,350.00
5. Godfatti (Netherlands) $2,735.00
6. kafelnikovz (Brazil) $2,200.00
7. ViKtOrHaZaRd (Czech Republic) $1,700.00
8. russunray (Russia) $1,200.00
9. 12ziz12 (Australia) $775.00

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Everi Holdings Inc., the casino gaming industry’s single source provider of gaming products and payments solutions, announced that it has partnered with Las Vegas legends Penn & Teller to develop a slot machine that completely captures the duo’s unique magic and comedy experience that has entertained audiences for just about 40 years. The brand new Penn & Teller slot machine will debut on the 2016 Global Gaming Expo (G2E), to be hung on September 27-29 on the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, and is one of the licensed games Everi plans to unveil in the course of the casino industry’s biggest tradeshow of the year.

“Our game designers are excited by creating unique, engaging games that stand proud of the contest to capture the eye of players and deliver great returns for our casino customers,” said Michael Rumbolz, president and chief executive officer of Everi. “The new Penn & Teller game debuting at G2E 2016 marks the initial proof point in our initiative to leverage highly recognizable entertainment and consumer brands within the development of innovative games that translate the original experiences these brands offer into exciting game play for the casino slot floor. As such, we're extremely pleased to partner with the fantastic Penn & Teller on a game so one can definitely resonate with slot players when it debuts at casinos around the country. Penn & Teller are cultural icons who for almost four decades have created magical experiences infused with comedy to entertain fans around the globe and our game developers have captured the spirit of those Las Vegas legends on this truly special game.”

“We are so thrilled to be working with Everi’s creative, inventive team who're adding their very own special brand of magic to this game,” added Penn Jillette. "We thought that having a theater named after us in Las Vegas was an honor, but it surely seems that having our own slot machine is without equal honor.”

From sold out runs on Broadway to their popular television show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn & Teller have captivated audiences for many years with their very own special brand of magic and comedy. The duo have been recognized eight times as “Las Vegas Magicians of the Year” and their popular show on the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino is currently the longest running headliner show in Las Vegas.

Penn & Teller will visit Everi’s booth (#1116) at the G2E show floor on September 27 for his or her slot machine’s official ribbon-cutting ceremony. They're going to also take part in Everi’s TournEvent® for Charities celebrity slot tournament going down that day. G2E attendees are invited to forestall by Everi’s booth to try the brand new game and to look at Penn & Teller compete against other local celebrities on behalf in their favorite charities.

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The Hilton Casino in Atlantic City missed its July mortgage payment, becoming the newest New Jersey gambling venue to come across severe economic problems.

Papers filed with gaming regulators show that the Hilton Casino Resort in Atlantic City did not make its mortgage payment in July. Casino operators told the brand new Jersey Casino Control Commission that it's trying to negotiate new terms with its mortgage lenders.

The mortgage loan amounts to $349 million. Hilton executives told the Jersey regulators that the "severe impact of the present economic conditions" ended in the corporate being unable to make its scheduled payment.

The Hilton becomes just the most recent Atlantic City casino to stand a mixture of big debt payments and drastically declining earnings. Trump Entertainment already took its three casinos into chapter 11 earlier this year, and Resorts Atlantic City have been in negotiations to show its casino over to lenders in exchange for mortgage debt.

CEO Nicholas Ribis stated that casino operations would continue uninterrupted, as has occurred at other troubled casinos while management attempts to flee from financial maelstroms.

Regulators said no disciplinary action is anticipated, although the commission will closely watch the placement for further developments.

Atlantic City casinos was hit by a mixture of accelerating competition and recessionary effects leaving revenues plummeting by double-digit percentages on a monthly basis.

Published on August 24, 2009 by PrestonLewis

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The California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed a bill regulating online poker within the state on Wednesday, sending it to the whole chamber for a potential vote.The committee approved AB 2863 on Wednesday.

A vote have been scheduled to happen last week, but that was delayed as amendments were added to the bill. The amendments that were floated last week were inserted to the bill this week, and included:

• A “bad actor” clause that excludes online poker operators that accepted California players after the passage of the federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. Sites that did so could pay an added $20 million fee or wait five years to use for licensure. (Previously, the amendment’s line for bad actors was drawn in 2011.)
• The use of accrued assets — akin to player lists — from such operators could be limited by regulators.
• Ten percent of all gaming revenue collected by the state would visit the state’s General Fund, whether a $60 million threshold for a subsidy to the pony racing industry is reached.
• Half of the $12.5 million deposit paid by licensees can be offset by reduced taxes on gaming revenues.

The committee expressed a typical refrain that we heard in 2015, and earlier this year when the bill passed the Governmental Organization Committee this spring: The bill was the made from a large number of effort by bill sponsor Adam Gray, nevertheless it needs more work.

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The forfeiture case involves the seizure of cash being moved through foreign banks to the us for payments from and to Bodog, a well-liked online gambling site.

The Baltimore City Paper has uncovered documents revealing the filing of federal money laundering charges against two men concerned about transactions when it comes to funds belonging to Bodog.com online casino. Edward Courdy and Michael Garone were charged by federal authorities in a Maryland court, although nor is in custody.

Federal government proceedings have resulted in a forfeiture finding against Bodog related bank accounts within the amount of $24 million. Courdy and ZIP Payments had filed a claim against over $9 million of the suspect funds on September 29th, and the similar day, authorities brought the laundering charges.

Maryland is the house site for the case as it was the state through which an secret agent gambled at Bodog and other online casinos. The forfeiture case involves the seizure of cash being moved through foreign banks to the U.S. for payments from and to Bodog, a well-liked online gambling site.

The forfeiture was filed in April of 2007, after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act made financial transactions involving online casinos illegal within the United States.

Although Garone and his company, JBL Services, didn't contest the seizure of over $14 million, the laundering charges against both men seem spurred by Courdy's decision to contest the only forfeiture. Department of Justice policy was to persecute executives of Internet casinos that operated within the U.S., without reference to jurisdiction questions.

Authorities have used the specter of ominous felony charges to extract agreements to pay fines, allow forfeitures, or even accept smaller jail sentences, as accused executives seek to give protection to threatened members of the family. The actions of federal law enforcement was morally shameful, if not illegal.

Published on October 30, 2008 by A.J.Maldonado

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If you, like many, wonder whatever happened to poker of yesteryear, the sort with trash-talking, ridiculously bloated over-bet pots, and happy-to-cash amateurs, this was an afternoon to look at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Maybe it was the reduced Main Event buy-in. Maybe it was simply the fates granting us a nostalgic throwback to the old days. It's hard to mention. Regardless, from the bet-sizing to the banter, today's PCA felt just like 2005 everywhere again.

It ends, however, back on 2016 form with four of poker's best-known pros within the final six headed into the last day of the principle Event. Topping all of them is Mike "SirWatts" Watson.

Mike Watson

Here's the general six, where they're seated, and the way they stack up for Thursday's final.

Seat 1: Mike Watson (Canada) 6,585,000Seat 2: Vladimir Troyanovskiy (Russia) 5,025,000Seat 3: Randy Kritzer (USA) 2,565,000Seat 4: Tony Gregg (USA) 5,690,000Seat 5: Phillip McAllister (UK) 3,040,000Seat 6: Toby Lewis (UK) 4,665,000

Watson, Troyanovskiy, Gregg, and Lewis need no introduction to poker players. Gregg has made two previous PCA Main Event final tables. Lewis is an EPT champion. Watson is an WPT champion with millions in winnings and two SCOOP titles. Troyanovskiy is an EPT regular and one in all Russia's biggest poker winners. Any of them could win this and it will surprise no one.

Tony Gregg

Toby Lewis

Vladimir Troyanovskiy

Meanwhile, Phillip McAllister is a 22-year-old grinder from the united kingdom referred to as Grindnation on PokerStars with greater than one million bucks in combined live and online winnings. He and Randy Kritzer, a neurosurgeon and recreational player from North Carolina, could have their hands full against the four pros on Thursday.

Randy Kritzer

Phillip McAllister

For all folks that won't see tomorrow, the sport of What Could have been will go on playing for a while. For one-time Main Event final tablist Fabian Ortiz, that game may match on forever.

Today, Ortiz started third in chips but couldn't beat overnight chip leader Pires in any pot of significance. If Ortiz had a hand, Pires was bigger. If Pires was bluffing, he got there anyway. For Ortiz, it was a slow-motion horror show that ended with him getting disemboweled when Pires held an overpair of kings to his own flopped top pair of queens.

Fabian Ortiz

Ortiz's 17th place finish was not the primary of the day (Taylor Paur and Fedor Holz went first), however it induce a chain of bust-outs that went so fast, everyone thought we'd be finished by dinner. Fabian Chauriye, Ami Barer, and Stephen Chidwick went separately. (YOU'LL FIND the entire payouts here on our 2016 PCA Main Event results page.)

After that, the Brazilians had reason to believe that they had a lock at the final table. Pires, the person folks started calling the Brazilian Jamie Gold, had run roughshod over the sector on last three days of play. Until today, every night since Day 2 had finished with Pires within the lead.

Leonardo Pires

That ended today when Pires imploded over the process a few hours. After extending his result in some extent where he had greater than 25% of the chips in play, Pires lost pot after pot. He didn't play small ball. He made big bets and larger bluffs. It ended when Pires bluffed all-in over and a raise and a decision with 4♣3♥ and bumped into Mike Watson's pair of tens. So it goes.

Pires with a last handshake

Paul Gooley departed within the time it took people to forestall marveling at Pires' meltdown, one who wouldn't be the tip of the massive blow-ups. Martin McCormick, the day-drinking, hard talking amateur was a polarizing figure on the table.

Yes, I'm chatting with you

After five days of warnings, penalties, and needling, McCormick spent an hour of Day 5 in a spat with Matt Waxman. It hadn't ended when McCormick played a blind-vs-blind hand, indeed blind, to the flop with Ken Demlakian. They checked it through to the turn where Demlakian hit his ace and bet out. McCormick bluffed all in with just a flush draw. He missed, and he was gone.

"I used up all my good luck," McCormick said.

Martin McCormick's quiet(er) exit

After that came the slow game of creating it to the general table. It finally happened when Matt Waxman shoved A♠7♥ into Mike Watson's A♦Q♥. Watson flopped two queens, made queens stuffed with aces at the turn, and avoided the chopped pot at the river. Waxman was gone in tenth, and the sphere consolidated to the unofficial final table.

Matt Waxman

To come so on the subject of PCA title and fall...that would be the toughest beat of all. It happened first to David Eldridge, who managed to double once through Toby Lewis, before losing the following two all-ins against the similar man.

David Eldridge in full pirate "aaargh."

After that it, we lost Timothy Ulmer in 8th, and Aussie Ken Demlakian in seventh to make the overall table of six. We cannot fail to note, Demlakian made it this far after quadrupling up a couple of nights ago once you have his last chips in blind--it was either go big or make his flight the following morning. He now has good enough winnings to pay for that airfare change.

Ken Demlakian

Tim Ulmer

If you wish to have more action before the night ends, we still have ongoing $25,000 High Roller live updates as that tourney winds its way toward a 3rd day. Both it and the principle Event will crown champions on Thursday. Join us then for live updates from starting to end.

Until then, goodnight from the Bahamas.

Ready to qualify for a PokerStars live event? Click here to get a PokerStars account.Brad Willis is the PokerStars Head of Blogging.

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Five things from the arena of PokerStars heading into the weekend.

And so after six weeks in Las Vegas, the sun has set at the World Series of Poker for one more year, a minimum of until the overall nine player return later this year to minimize to a winner. This week our own coverage from the primary Event concluded, and with some style. Much great writing has pop out of the principle Event, but Anatomy of an Elimination and November Nine ball, corner pocket from this week are particular stand outs and worth reading.

The same goes for all of our WSOP coverage, that you can find here for a couple of more days.

Arguably the most important story of the Series outside the primary Event itself was that of Jason Mercier.

To say the Team Pro's summer was eventful can be a daft understatement. Not just did he win not one, but two bracelets (narrowly missing out on a 3rd) he got engaged (proposing to his girlfriend Natasha as she finished third in an event), but in addition earned the WSOP Player of the Year title, the third Team Pro to take action in four years.

As Brad Willis wrote, all of that adds as much as nearly $1 million in earnings this summer, and makes him "A walking, talking, laughing, soon-to-be married poker phenomenon the likes of which we won't see anything like ever again."

No argument here.

From one high stakes series to a low stakes one. MicroMillions 12 began last weekend with the primary of 90 events with a view to award millions in guaranteed prize money, with events at micro stakes running until Sunday July 31.

It's a sequence with countless selling points, not only the buy-ins. For while they are small it doesn't stop the massive names from contesting them, allowing players of any sized bank roll to pitch themselves against professionals and amateurs alike. Although they'll still take some beating, as Team Pro Tyler "frosty012" Frost demonstrated this week when he won Event #17.

Here are the newest results:

EVENT BUY-In PRIZEPOOL WINNER COUNTRY PRIZE MONEY ROI %

25	$5.50	$22,287.50	karet2	Russia	$3,119.07	56600
26	$2.20	$31,370.00	xMilaNis7a64	Luxembourg	$3,600.00	163500
27	$4.40	$92,432.00	SARAMILI	Colombia	$13,157.01	298900
28	$3.30	$56,373.00	URIEL ROCK	Argentina	$5,873.15	177800
29	$1.10	$15,301.00	Mudrik	Ukraine	$1,754.13	159300
30	$5.50	$73,365.00	Lionet	Romania	$10,482.01	190500

Find the entire details you will have in regards to the series at the MicroMillions homepage, which has the tournament schedule and statistics able to browse. Meanwhile keep tabs at the everyday results from micro Millions at the PokerStars Blog.

Sometimes great poker stories come from unexpected places, clear of major tournament championships or high stakes competition.

Lee Jones is an ordinary contributor to the PokerStars Blog and infrequently do his stories fail to inspire or make you're thinking that. His latest, "Poker as Distraction" ticks the entire boxes, and makes for perfect, uplifting reading going into the weekend. Test it out here.

Finally we'll send you into the weekend with the consolation of knowing that however bad your beats get sometimes, few count as being worse that the highest five we picked out from PokerStars.tv.

As the video below demonstrates, not all bad beats are of the "heard all of it before kind", as Vanessa Selbst, Phil Hellmuth and others will testify. Watch the video below and tell us in the event you can call to mind any we missed.

That's inquisitive about this week. Good luck to everyone on the tables this weekend. As always you will get involved with us along with your comments via Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.

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Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.

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