January 13th, 2011
Full Tilt Poker have always been one of the great innovators of the online poker world. Creations such as Matrix Sit ‘n Go’s, Cashout Tournaments and the ever-popular Rush Poker format have brought a whole new level to the game to disprove the theory that No Limit Holdem is stale. Well, they’ve done it once again with the introduction of Multi-Entry Tournaments. Yes, it’s true. Finally Josh Field, Sorel Mizzi and Justin Bonomo have a tournament format to call their own.
How does it work? Well, as the name suggests you are allowed to buy-in multiple times into the one tournament. You can choose to do this at the start of the tournament, or use it as a second chance, similar to a rebuy, if you bust out early. Your multiple entries will never play on the same table, and if you have more entries in the tournament than there are tables, then your entries will merge so that this situation never occurs. It is possible to have two or more entries reach the money, but you’ll never have multiple entries on the final table. There is also a maximum number of entries allowable. This varies for each tournament, and will be displayed in the tournament lobby.
You can keep track of the progress of all of your entries in the tournament lobby with the handy “Show My Entrants” check box at the top of the player list. Will poker ever be the same again? It seems with all of the new innovations, formats and novelties that traditional poker may never be the same again. Is this a good thing for poker? Some of our PNW members have discussed this evolution in our forums.
If you’re interested in trying out the new Multi-Entry Tournament format then you can download Full Tilt Poker here, then head to the tournament lobby and look out for the new Multi-Entry icon listed against the tournaments. It certainly looks like another winner for Full Tilt and we’re sure plenty of fun will be had with the new Multi-Table Tournament format.
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December 13th, 2010
Jonathan ‘xMONSTERxDONGx’ Karamalikis has ensured that the APPT Grand Final title will remain in Australia for at least another 12 months, while solidifying his reputation as one of the best young talents in the game after taking down the win in the final event of the 2010 PokerStars APPT.
The Sydney event was a fitting end to the fourth season overall, with arguably the most star-studded final table in tour history. Karamalikis had to fight off the challenge of some well accomplished players at the final table including chip leader coming into the final table Roland de Wolfe, Tom Rafferty, Antoine Amourette, Eddy Sabat, and probably the highest profile of all the players on the final table Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu came into the final table with the shortest stack and was going to need to make some moves to get back into the tournament. He came unstuck against Roland de Wolfe. Antoine Amourette and de Wolfe limped up to Negreanu’s big blind and they all took a 
flop. Negreanu was the first player to act and after thinking about his move, he decided to ship in the remainder of his stack totalling another 245,000 in chips. Amourette got out of the way and de Wolfe made a quick call to table 
for bottom set. Negreanu had top pair and things were looking pretty bleak for him. His situation improved a little with a turn 
, but the river 
did not make his hand sending him home with $36,415 in his pocket as the first player eliminated from the final table.
You could have got long odds on Roland de Wolfe, who started the day as the chip leader, being the second player eliminated from the final table. But that is exactly how things went down, with de Wolfe losing a monster pot holding 
early in the day to bring him crashing back to the field, before a chipped up Jonathan Karamalikis finished off the job.
more at pokernetwork.com
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December 5th, 2010
Staffers for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are circulating a bill to legalize poker playing on the Internet that’s backed by large casino interests. The Nevada casino companies pushing the measure were among the Democrat’s biggest donors during his fierce re-election fight. They argue the bill would provide consumer protection for poker players and would provide some tax revenue for federal and state governments.
On Wednesday, three Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Mr. Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) opposing any efforts to pass Internet poker legislation during the lame-duck session.
“Congress should not take advantage of the young, the weak and the vulnerable in the name of new revenues to cover more government spending,” Rep. Spencer Bachus (R., Ala.), the ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee and others wrote.
Jim Manley, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, declined to comment.
Mr. Reid, who has opposed online gambling in the past, is holding his cards close to his vest regarding plans to move forward with the legislation. Passing such a measure is highly uncertain as the heated session winds down, given the sensitive nature of the subject.
Previous attempts at online-gambling legislation haven’t moved forward, but casino interests believe that given Mr. Reid’s powerful position atop the Senate, he might be able to push the poker measure into another bill, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The legislation would overturn a bill passed in 2006 that bans financial institutions from processing online-gambling transactions. That led publicly traded companies to pull out from operating online sites in the U.S. In their place, offshore sites have gathered an estimated 10 million U.S. poker players, according to the Poker Players Alliance.
>> read more at “The Wall Street Journal”
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December 4th, 2010
The 2011 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Schedule has now been released! To view the satellite and Official Championship events follow the link below…
http://www.aussiemillions.com/schedule/
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December 4th, 2010
Day 1 is over and done here at Bellagio in Las Vegas! We’d like to tell you the action was hot and heavy but, like most deep-stacked Day 1s, action started out relatively slow.
Registration for this event will remain open until late on Day 2 but so far just under 400 players have entered. That’s up from last year but that increase was expected, considering the buy-in was cut from $15,000 to $10,000.
In all likelihood we’ll see that number get even bigger tomorrow, adding to the already impressive prize pool.
Since players started with 40,000 chips, and a pretty relaxed blind structure, most made it through the day with at least a few chips to their name.
Things don’t really get rolling in this tournament until sometime on Day 3 but that’s not to say these early stages aren’t important. Some players are expert at using the super-deep opening levels to run plays that just won’t work later in the tournament.
Antonio Esfandiari is one such player, a “Day 1 specialist” as he put it in a video interview we did with him earlier today.
Another player who absolutely crushes early in tournaments is Phil Ivey and today was a shining example of that fact. Ivey arrived a few levels in and proceeded to demolish his table, running up a chip leader stack in about 90 minutes.
The Chip Count Approximation
We’ll have the official counts for you when they come in but for now peruse the latest leaderboard, courtesy of our friends at WPT.com.
| 1 |
Ryan D’Angelo |
190,000 |
| 2 |
Amirouddine Alibay |
185,000 |
| 3 |
Albert Kim |
157,100 |
| 4 |
Antonio Esfandiari |
150,000 |
| 5 |
Phil Ivey |
143,200 |
| 6 |
Mike Gracz |
138,000 |
| 7 |
Matt Keikoan |
133,700 |
| 8 |
Steven Burkholder |
133,200 |
| 9 |
Kirk Morrison |
130,000 |
| 10 |
Justin Young |
130,000 |
source: pokerlistings.com
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