1/3 E08 National Heads Up Poker Championship 2011 Episode 8 HD

David Wiliams Video Score: five / five

JOIN THE iSERIES

Arranged by the Irish Poker Open championship in Dublin, the iSeries Live’s judgment assign James Dempsey as their 1st champion. The iSeries, as a reminder, is a love poker championship exhibiting the format Sit & Go Winner Takes All that are available for an entrance fee of € 10000.

The 1st edition assembled a dozen poker pros and participants duel for around 8 hours before the champ victory and also allow the public to be a part of a championship full of action. More than that, we must not forget that general public could be a part in several online poker betting. James Dempsey, the British poker player, already has some WSOP and WPT titles. He finished with a winner’s face to a huge tough pack and received a sum of € 100000.

Not to forget that, he confronted Dave Ulliot in the final match and managed to get rid of this redoubtable adversary. Now with this win, James Dempsey has $ 2 million in live championship winnings. About the results of several other participants, Maria Ho got the 3rd place. Carlos Mortensen was 4th, Eoghan O’Dea was 5th, Farah Zaka was 6th, Tobias Reinkemeier was 7th, Daniel Negreanu 8th, Phil Hellmuth was 9th and Marvin Rettenmaier was 10th. After the event’s success, the organizers design to fix a brand new edition of the iSeries Live. Details regarding this appointment will be declared shortly.

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David Wiliams Video clip Score: 5 / 5

NCSL AGAINST ONLINE POKER

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has opined against federal online poker corroboration. It is also said to have informed the Congress that individual states should adopt their own laws on this matter. In its arguments written by a couple of lawmakers, NCSL has cited the Department of Justice’s ruling in December which stated that Federal Wire Act of 1961 apply only to sports betting. NCSL feels that the rule will permit individual states to come up with their own laws regarding online gambling games such as poker.

In a letter the representatives of Alabama and Hawaii, have stated that the NSCL believes that the Federal Government needs to respect the verdict of the Justice Department and it will combat any efforts undertaken by Congress to block state authority over internet gaming. NCSL once again re-affirmed themselves in the letter believing that each individual state need to take control over their own gambling laws and adopt online gambling policies which they deem fit. The letter further added that states for long have been able to choose whether any other form of gambling should be legal or not and have been pretty successful in its regulation.

It is not only NCSL which have this belief, but many state run lotteries are also opposed to federal law regarding online gambling. However, several top casino companies are fully behind any federal plan to renovate gambling laws across America and the American Gaming Association is also behind federal law.

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David Wiliams Video clip Ranking: 5 / five

BIG GUNS OUT ON WPT

The names for the forthcoming WPT (World Poker Tour) Bay 101 Shooting Stars championship has been declared – and it looks like a stellar-packed list.

Already affirmed for this year’s $ 9500 + $ 500 buy-in championship are Alan Sternberg, the reigning champion, as well as players like Liv Boeree, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Jonathan Duhamel, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, David Williams and Jason Mercier.

If these 9 poker players are not enough to live up to your expectations that this will probably be the most telling line-up you will check all year long, then see some of the other huge poker pros called for.

What do you think about Phil Hellmuth? Or even Antonio Esfandiari? Well, there is Todd Brunson, Tony G, Fabrice Soulier,  Eugene Katchalov, , Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly JC Tran, , Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Ben Lamb,  Erick Lindgren, Sam Stein, Chris Moorman, Men Nguyen, Will ‘The Thrill’ Failla, Erik Seidel, Scott Seiver,  Michael Mizrachi and Mike Sexton and– to name some of them.

All those already listed will have a $ 5000 bounty on their heads when the play starts at the Bay 101 Casino. It will start on 5th March (Monday) and will finish on 9th March (Friday).

On the whole, forty-nine players in the field will be of $ 5000 to the poker player who kicks them out, and also includes pros like David ‘Chino’ Rheem Allen Bari, Freddy Deeb, Matt Giannetti, Andy Frankenberger,  Jennifer Harman, John Juanda, Maria Ho, Dwyte Pilgrim and Kathy Liebert.

There is a $ 10000 bonus up for catches for the chip leaders after Day 1A and Day 1B. Therefore, there much more on offer; even for those players who do not earn the money.

Sternberg grabbed $ 1039000 for pulling down the event in San Jose, last March, after beating another American poker player Steven Kelly in their heads-up combat.