Phil Ivey didn't want his picture taken. He didn't have to say so. His ice-bath stare made it pretty clear. He would've probably rather hit the photographer in the face than hear the shutter click one more time. The problem was this: Ivey was the biggest news that day. When he showed up at APPT Macau in November, it was the first time he'd been seen at a live tournament in nearly a year. It was the kind of breaking news that had the photographer on guard for the best shot (and potentially Ivey's wrath).
Caught in the crossfire was a lesser-known poker player by the name of Tobias Huber. He wasn't news. He was just in Macau for the tournament. It was something he once did for a living. Nobody pays him to be Ivey's photo-bomber, but on this day, Huber showed up next to Ivey and was de facto news.
Tobias Huber (right) and some other guy
You should know this about Huber: he likes to party. He also likes to relax. The two sort of go hand-in-hand on a Sunday. So, this past weekend, Huber was grinding. Sort of.
"Grinding the TV," he said with a smile.
Regularly a cash game player, Huber started looking at the PokerStars lobby while he was grinding out the television-watching. He noticed the Red Spade Open was getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
"I started the tournament out of boredom, and I guess a little bit because it got so huge," he said.
It was, indeed, big. Nearly 25,000 people entered. It would take more than half a day to finish.
"I obviously ran super hot, proceeded to hit every board, and won most all-ins," he said.
"With a hundred left the field, it seemed super-soft with a few exceptions," he said, "but, again, I continued to run super hot, got awesome table draws. and could really abuse my super-sick nitty competition!"
And so, we now look back to that photo taken in Macau a few months ago and realize there was more than one piece of news we should've been keeping an eye on.
So, a personal request: if you plan on winning a big PokerStars event in the near future and you see our photographer, smile for the camera. It will look better on the blog next time.
Congrats to Tobias Huber for his Red Spade Open win. Now, get back to grinding that TV, man.
Maybe you've been there: sitting in front of your computer, watching the World Championship of Online Poker, wishing you could compete for big money on a micro bankroll. Now, you have your chance.
Today PokerStars launched the MicroMillions tournament series: 100 tournaments over the course of eleven days. The buy-ins are tiny, the guaranteed prize pools are big. In all, PokerStars is guaranteeing $5 million in prize money during the eleven days of the series. At the end of it is a $22 MicroMillions main event with a $1 million prize pool.
The buy-in amounts may look ridiculously small to some folks, but there is real potential for life-changing money here. PokerStars is guaranteeing $150,000 for first place in the main event. Beyond that, the MicroMillions will offer a Player of the Series race that pays 100 places deep and give a full PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package. That in itself could end up being worth millions alone.
This is not your average tournament series. Buy-ins start at ten cents and never go higher than $22. What's more, the events are running around the clock. It doesn't matter if you live in Sydney, Saskatchewan, or Sitches, you'll be able to find an event that matches your time zone as well as your bankroll.
While the buy-ins are already really, really cheap, you can get in even cheaper. Satellites for all the events will be running around the clock to give you your chance to win thousands of dollars for mere pennies.
Visit the MicroMillions web page for details and a full schedule of events (or check out the bottom of this post for the schedule).
The are a lot of things standing between you and a big tournament score: big fields, tons of buy-ins, and that pesky little problem of run-bad. While a lot of us roll around in puddles of self-pity and loathing, a lot of other people have figured out a secret: they enter PokerStars tournaments for free and then crush them.
After this past weekend, a little bird inside PokerStars dropped me a note with an interesting statistic. This weekend's Sunday majors were overrun by people who were crushing events after paying next to nothing to get in. Why? Well, they bought tournament tickets in the PokerStars VIP Store with their Frequent Player Points.
So, how good can it be? Well, this past weekend, three people spent less than 5,000 FPPs total to win more than a combined $65,000. One minute, they were coughing up some unused FPPs. A few hours later, they had a bunch of money in their bankroll.
As you might be aware, you can buy tickets to almost any big PokerStars tournament in the VIP store for nothing but FPPs.
A winning poker player never sits still. Just days after bagging his first big live event win at EPT Copenhagen, Mickey Petersen headed to another tournament in his home country of Denmark. Petersen is one of that rare breed who has transferred undoubted online skills--he's a member of Team PokerStars Online--to the live stage. And that can present some timetable issues. Now he has to juggle the big live action with his online routine.
While delighted to have won his first live event in about 50 attempts, a DKK 2,515,00 score that will drive him on to get another, it's a particular online title he now wants.
"Winning a big live tournament was my biggest goal, and while I'd obviously like to win another one (especially a bracelet event), I'd really like to win a PokerStars SCOOP title. I have been close a lot of times but always stumbled right before the finish line, hopefully I can win one this year."
"It feels amazing and is still sinking in," he said. "It feels good for so many reasons: I ran good enough to pull off a ridiculous comeback after being down to two big blinds; I had to battle heads-up for over six hours before finally closing the victory; I finally cemented that I can do well in the live arena, too; and best of all I got to do it all in my home city with a bunch of fellow Danes railing me.
"The final table obviously went very well for me overall. I was very fortunate to be on the right side of two big setups, A-A vs Aage Ravn's A-K and Q-Q vs Bjarke Hansen's J-J. I made a few mistakes at the final table, especially in the long heads-up match, but overall I think I played very well, never gave up and picked my spots well."
Petersen radiating confidence
The ability to switch from online play to live tournaments is one that not too many have achieved, but Petersen says it came naturally to him. "Absolutely. Putting in so many tournaments online and seeing so many hands is a tremendous help when playing a big live tournament like an EPT, especially once the stacks gets a bit shorter.
"There are certainly some important differences between online and live poker, but at the end of the day you are still playing the same game, so hours put in online definitely pays off at the live felt as well."
Team PokerStars Blog can also claim some credit for Petersen's live form; we gave him a lift from the airport to Atlantis for the PCA, and clearly he took careful note of our expert opinions during that 30-minute ride.*
Congratulations on the win, Mickey, and SCOOP players beware.
Team PokerStars Pro Pierre Neuville, who narrowly missed becoming the first ever Belgian EPT champion in Copenhagen on Sunday, has shot up to fourth place in the All-Time EPT Tournament Leaderboard.
This is not the first time that Neuville, who was also runner-up at EPT6 Vilamoura, has been in the top ten, but it's by far his highest position to date.
Thanks to the extra 420 points he snagged in Copenhagen, Neuville is now higher up the Leaderboard than every single EPT champion apart from Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier. Neuville is also now hot on the heels of Swedish pro Martin Jacobson who--ironically--is also a two-time EPT runner-up and the current EPT Online Qualifier of the Year.
Neuville first started playing poker more than 50 years ago but took 25 years off while pursuing a career in business. Once retired, he got back into poker, kicking off with the PCA in 2008 where he finished 18th. He topped that result the following season with ninth place at EPT San Remo for €78,800 and then finished second in Vilamoura, a result that helped him win the EPT Qualifier of the Year Award and ultimately his place on Team PokerStars Pro.
PokerStars' Simon Young discovered why age is no barrier for Neuville when he spoke with him at this year's PCA and found that, mentally at least, Pierre Neuville is getting younger.
Pierre Neuville
Neuville now has 12 EPT Main Event cashes to his name. That's still way behind Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, who broke his own record at EPT Deauville and now has 20 cashes, but it's ahead of all other players currently in the top ten.
Martin Jacobson's current standing in third in the All-Time EPT Tournament Leaderboard is particularly remarkable because he is a relative latecomer to the EPT circuit. Most players in the TLB top ten started competing in Season 3 or 4, but the Swedish pro only joined the tour in Season 5. Since then, he has notched up seven Main Event cashes which include--incredibly--four final table appearances. He nearly made it five final tables at the PCA this year, but bust in tenth place. His overall earnings--from EPT Main Events alone --now total nearly $1.9 million and he's also notched up an extra $80,000 on the tour with five side event cashes.
Martin Jacobson
Luca Pagano and ElkY have been juggling the top two TLB spots for years. They are veterans of the tour--both started competing in EPT Season 1--and, as long-term members of Team PokerStars Pro, have been to dozens of events.
The post-Copenhagen rankings also reflect a new structure for the EPT All-Time Tournament Leaderboard. After much soul-searching, it was decided that High Roller events should be taken out of the TLB mix and only Main Event results included because including High Rollers gave an unfair advantage to high-stakes players.
The player most affected by the change is Will Molson. The young Canadian was far from being in the TLB top ten but, having won the PCA High Roller in 2011, and been runner-up the two previous years, he had managed to amass 1,454 TLB points. ElkY has also lost some points, but he had already surrendered the TLB lead to Pagano following the Italian's seventh-place finish at EPT Deauville. EPT London champion Benny Spindler--and Neuville himself--have also lost a few points but it has had a negligible effect on most players' rankings.
Will Molson
With EPT Madrid less than two weeks away, the All-Time Tournament Leaderboard continues to be fiercely contested, along with the EPT Season 8 Player of the Year race and other Season 8 Awards. News on the Awards will follow shortly once the EPT Copenhagen points have been totted up.
Current top ten all-time leaderboard
1. Luca Pagano, 5,550
2. Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, 4,315
3. Martin Jacobson, 3,864
4. Pierre Neuville, 3,598
5. Mike McDonald, 3,585
6. Sebastian Ruthenberg, 3,504
7. Kevin MacPhee, 3,487
8. Johannes Strassmann, 3,466
9. Arnaud Mattern, 3,190
10. Joao Barbosa, 3,094
It was a most super Super Tuesday this week, with an enormous turnout that not only smashed the event's $300K guarantee, but may well have established a new record for the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament.
PokerStars first introduced the Super Tuesday in late May 2007, with Eric "Basebaldy" Baldwin winning the inaugural tourney by defeating a field of 356 players for a $89,000 first prize. Here on the blog we began recapping the Super Tuesdays a couple of years ago, and since then the largest field to play was in mid-February 2010 when 487 players competed. Jemmert1983 won that one, earning an eye-popping $92,530 payday for doing so.
It's reasonably safe to assume, then, that tonight's Super Tuesday field of 498 certainly represents the largest in the last couple of years, and very likely the most players ever to participate. That huge group came close to creating a prize pool of half a million dollars, with a total of $498,000 scheduled to be divided among the top 63 finishers.
And for the player coming out on top, a first prize of $94,620 awaited barring any final table deals -- likely the biggest Super Tuesday in its almost five years!
It took five hours for the field to be whittled all of the way down to the stone-cold bubble, as 64 remained. By then all representatives of Team PokerStars who'd taken part had been eliminated, with Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth's 93rd-place finish the best among the group.
As players returned from the five-hour break, VicksMyDawg led with 111,694, with Dan "GotURead" Reijmer, Carter "cswidler" Swidler, and Skintz the only other players with 100,000-plus chip stacks. Meanwhile, Louloumia, claudioney18, KaptianKush, and Alexander "Schildy1984" Debus were on the short stacks, all hoping to avoid becoming the last elimination before the money.
Hand-for-hand lasted for more than 40 minutes with all of the short stacks continuing to hang on. Then came a wild hand in which hook2120 and Scarypooper5 raised back and forth until Scarypooper5 finally five-bet all in for 53,369 total and hook2120 instacalled for just a little less. hook2120 had [Ac][Ah] while Scarypooper5 had made a move with [8h][6c], and five cards later Scarypooper5 was 64th of 64 with less than 2,000 chips -- just over one big blind.
On the very next hand there were two all-ins -- KaptianKush on one table with [Kd][Kh] against WushuTM's [Ac][4d], and Scarypooper5 with [6s][6d] against hook2120's [Jc][4c].
In KaptianKush's hand his kings remained best until the river, but the [Ah] from space fell to give the hand to WushuTM. He'd still cash, though, if Scarypooper5's sixes didn't hold as the latter had fewer chips to start the hand. But the board failed to improve hook2120 and Scarypooper5 survived, making KaptianKush the unfortunate player to bubble.
Once they were in the money, a flurry of eliminations swiftly followed, with more than 25 players busting before the six-hour break arrived, among them Louloumia (64th, $2,191.20), Scarypooper5 (56th, $2,191.20), utreg (53rd, $2,340.60), turataika (51st, $2,340.60), danceofddead (49th, $2,340.60), AJSuited16 (47th, $2,340.60), and KingGr (42nd, $2,490).
Over the next hour the field was reduced to 18 players gathered around two nine-handed tables. Fatzie had pushed out in front with 335,159, followed by shakalas (257,423), and Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis (229,064). Among those eliminated during the seventh hour of play were WushuTM (36th, $2,739), Schildy1984 (33rd, $2,739), Stefan "I'am_Sound" Huber (31st, $2,739), THEDUTCH4141 (26th, $2,988), VicksMyDawg (25th, $2,988), and mikki696 (20th, $2,988).
It would take just over one more hour for the group to be halved to the final nine, during which period shakalas, Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis, and BoskoRock rose to the top of the counts. Those coming up one table shy of the last one included caaaamel (18th), VL-Hannibal (17th), and Princesblade (16th), each of whom earned $3,984; jandrin2 (15th), hook2120 (14th), and flavioreis88 (13th) who took away $4,980; and Chris "d0r1t0s" McClung (12th), Pendos90 (11th), and andrekos0095 (10th), each earning $5,976.
On the sixth hand of the final table, the blinds were 2,800/5,600 when BoskoRock opened with a raise to 12,320 from the hijack seat, then it folded to Christopher "NigDawG" Brammer in the big blind who shoved for 81,383 total. BoskoRock called, turning over [Ts][Th] to NigDawG's [Kd][Qd]. The board ran out [Ad][As][8s][Jh][Ah], giving BoskoRock a full house and sending Brammer out in ninth.
It was a little over an orbit later that the table folded to jeff710 in the small blind who open-shoved for 88,079 with [Ac][4h], but MONSTER_DONG was waiting in the big blind with [Ks][Kd]. Karamalikis quickly called, and after the five community cards came [5s][7s][Th][Tc][5d] jeff710's run had ended in eighth.
The remaining seven would battle for a while as the blinds increased to 3,200/6,400. Then MONSTER_DONG opened for 12,800 from middle position and it folded around to Fatzie in the big blind who reraised to 25,999. Karamalikis responded with a four-bet to 44,444, and Fatzie pushed all in for 148,170, getting a call from MONSTER_DONG.
Fatzie: [Ah][8c]
MONSTER_DONG: [Ac][Kh]
The board would come [7c][8h][Jc][9c][5c], giving both players flushes but Karamalikis the better one, sending Fatzie out in seventh.
They'd push on for another half-hour, reaching the nine-hour break with BoskoRock out in front and shakalas and MONSTER_DONG not far behind. Soon after play resumed, Bolivar "Ramux" Palacios opened with a minimum-raise to 16,000 from the button, then shakalas reraised to 40,000 from the big blind. Ramux called, and the flop came [5h][Ts][6c].
shakalas continued for 40,000, and Palacios responded by shoving all in for 220,080. shakalas called, showing [Ad][Tc] for top pair, while Ramux had [7h][6h] for a middle pair of sixes. The turn and river came [Jc][Js], and Ramux was eliminated in sixth.
About five minutes later it was MONSTER_DONG opening for 16,000 from UTG and joeyspanne88 reraising to 32,177 from the big blind. Karamalikis then shoved and joeyspanne88 called with the 143,772 he had left.
joeyspanne88 showed [9c][9d] but had run into MONSTER_DONG's [Qc][Qh]. The board brought a bunch of clubs again -- [Tc][4c][2c][7c][6s] -- and once more Karamalikis was the one with the better flush, sending joeyspanne88 railward in fifth.
Play continued, with Carter "cswidler" Swidler becoming the short stack among the remaining four. Then, with the blinds 4,500/9,000, Swidler pushed all in from the button for 101,379 and got one caller in shakalas from the small blind. cswidler had [Ad][Js] and was in good shape versus shakalas' [Ac][2c]. But the board came [8c][7d][6d][5c][3c] to bring yet another club flush to the final table and knock out Swidler in fourth.
There was no talk of deals as the remaining three pushed ahead, with MONSTER_DONG out in front with nearly 1.26 million, BoskoRock next with almost 740,000, and shakalas third with just over 492,000.
Then, with the blinds 5,000/10,000, BoskoRock opened for 20,000 from the small blind, then shakalas shoved all in for 470,929 and BoskoRock quickly called. shakalas had [Ac][Jh], but needed to improve against BoskoRock's [Qc][Qs]. The board came [5d][4d][5h][7d][Qh], giving BoskoRock a full house and the 985,000-plus chip pot and knocking shakalas out in third.
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That hand meant heads-up play would begin with the final two players nearly even in chips, with Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis starting with 1,256,801 and BoskoRock 1,233,199. The blinds were still 5,000/10,000, meaning both players were especially deep. And thus, perhaps unsurprisingly, they settled in for a lengthy duel.
Over the first half-hour between them BoskoRock momentarily grabbed the lead but Karamalikis soon took it back, then gradually increased his edge to almost 1.6 million to BoskoRock's just under 895,000. They played through the tourney's ten-hour mark, with MONSTER_DONG chipping up further to as much as a 3-to-1 advantage while maintaining the lead through most of the next half-hour.
Then came a big hand in which BoskoRock seized the lead, earning a 1 million-plus chip pot in a hand in which he'd turn trip aces. Take a look:
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MONSTER_DONG would battle back again to nearly even the match, but BoskoRock pushed back out into the lead once more. As the two approached the 70-minute mark of their battle BoskoRock had chipped up to 1,539,748 to Karamalikis' 950,252 when the final hand -- the 233rd of heads-up play (!) -- took place.
The blinds were 9,000/18,000, and BoskoRock opened from the button with a raise to 36,000 which MONSTER_DONG called. The flop came [Td][9d][2s] and Karamalikis checked. BoskoRock bet 33,660, and MONSTER_DONG called. The turn was the [8s] and MONSTER_DONG checked again. This time BoskoRock bet 93,483, and once again Karamalikis called.
The river was the [9s]. This time MONSTER_DONG bet out for 178,555, and BoskoRock responded with an all-in shove. Karamalikis called with his remaining chips, showing [Qh][9c] for trip nines. But BoskoRock had [Th][9h] for a full house, and the super-duper Super Tuesday had been decided.
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Congratulations to BoskoRock for besting a likely-record field for the Super Tuesday of 498 to claim a whopping $94K-plus payday!
If you thought the contest for best blogger was over, we have news for you today. There are now two more wildcard spots open from the PokerStars Blog team. More on that at the end of this post. But first, a little background.
WBCOOP Best Bloggers By: Donnie Peters On Thursday, February 23, the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) kicked off. On this year's schedule are 31 events stretching until Sunday, March 4. The submissions for the WBCOOP are now closed and plenty of players have gotten in on the action. In order to qualify, bloggers were asked to send a 500-word blog post or short video telling what you would do with $5,000 if you won the WBCOOP's Best Blogger prize.
On PokerNews, a contest was held where various bloggers would submit blog posts and people would vote for the best blogger. There were plenty of submissions, but not everyone could get voted to the top. With 311 votes on his blog post titled, "WBCOOP 2012 The epic beginning of our poker blogging journey!" Radostin Minchev is sitting number one.
Right at the beginning of his post, Minchev states that "this is the very beginning of his blogging journey" and goes on to say that the blog is aimed as "A way for me to show you that the more you believe the bigger you can be." From there, Minchev gives a little background on how his poker career and outlines a few of the things it takes to be a successful player.
After the introduction, Minchev opens up with honesty and says that the main reason he started this poker blog was for the WBCOOP. As for the $5,000 he'd earned for winning WBCOOP Best Blogger? Minchev sites some hardship with being able to land a successful, full-time job in his country, but says he's been able to always find time for his first love -- poker. Working on his game throughout the years and saving some of his salary in order to build a small bankroll, Minchev eventually made his first real-money deposit and claims, "my life turned 180 degrees."
Unable to consistently move up limits due to regular withdrawals in order to sustain himself, Minchev claims winning this $5,000 would, "help me be the person I know I'm supposed to be , the player I'm supposed to be." He also goes on to be very thankful of all that PokerStars has offered him and allowed him in his life, saying, "PokerStars gave me the hope and did what my home country couldn't, it turned my potential in profit."
Along with the over 300 votes, Minchev's blog post has 21 comments. Much of them are wishing him good luck in the competition along with other positive comments. Reading the comments section truly shows the camaraderie within the game of poker and especially within the world of poker blogging. You can find Minchev's blog HERE..
The person with the second most votes comes in at 195, which is still a ways off of Minchev. This blog comes from a man named Ernestas, who is originally from Lithuania, but now resides in Edinburgh where he is studying. Known on PokerStars as "Wernestas" and "WeRnIS" to most people, his blog can be found HERE.
In his WBCOOP blog post, Ernestas states that "shock" would be the first thing that would pop into his mind if he won the Best Blogger prize. That's very understandable as $5,000 is a good chunk of change for most people. "If I won such prize, I could barely speak for several days and it would be such a big honor for me. When I would actually understand what happened, I would start thinking what to do."
So, what would he do? First, Ernestas says he would withdraw some of the money in order to pay for some of his study expenses, which we believe is the smart thing to do. From there, he'd spend the rest of the money he left online for poker, where he prefers online tournaments to cash games. He also mentioned that he'd like to purchase some poker books in order to better his game and also invest in a poker chip set so he could play with his friends.
Then there are live tournaments, which Ernestas mentions that he'd like to be able to play a bit more of. Winning $5,000 could certainly allow him some room to buy-in to some smaller events and hopefully go on to become a star.
In the end, Ernestas is very genuine in everything he says. He finishes the post by saying, "My expectations are not big, I am just a simple man, but if I won any award in this competition, I would see it as a trophy. And I really value such trophies, they show what you have made that others did not, it shows what skills you have, and it shows your strengths. I would like to thank PokerStars for creating such competitions, it helps you to show your creativity, share your ideas."
Siting in third with the most votes is Paul and his blog can be found HERE. He has 118 votes, which is a good way off of the top two, but still a very respectable number. Closely behind him is Arkly with 110 votes and his blog can be found HERE.
All together there have been tons and tons of blog posts made about the WBCOOP and the series is now running. Every tournament awards Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) tickets to the highest finishers, and everyone who cashes will also be invited to play the 2012 WBCOOP Main Event. On top of having a shot at the Best Blogger award, PokerStars is giving away a second award for $1,000 to the Best Live Tweeter. That's a reminder for the playing bloggers to be sure they are sticking to their social media duties while grinding the events on the schedule.
Now, a special announcement: we here at the PokerStars Blog have just been asked to keep our eyes open for a couple of bloggers who are doing exceptional work while WBCOOP is running. Over the next few days, we'll be picking two wildcard bloggers who will join the top ten from PokerNews to go on to the finals and PokerStars WBCOOP judges.
So, keep writing, and make sure we know you're writing!
Fifty-five bucks. It will buy you a decent meal. It is good for a night out at the movies with your best guy or gal. It might buy you groceries for a few days, if you're frugal and don't mind some generic items. Or, you might consider buying into the Red Spade Open when it comes around.
That's what Austria's crackin_ty did this weekend. The $55 tournament entry was good for more than a couple chicken breasts and some crackers. A lot more. In fact, crackin_ty could end up buying groceries for everybody he knows and still have a lot of cash left over.
Up against nearly 25,000 people, crackin_ty topped the field and picked up $247,378 in cash in yesterday's Red Spade Open.
If you're not familiar with the event, the $55 Red Spade Open always guarantees $1 million in prize money. First place is always at least $200,000.
While the Red Spade Open isn't a regular event, it pops up every once in a while. Keep your eye on the Red Spade Open page to see when it's coming next.
Congratulations to crackin_ty for his big win this weekend.
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Phil Ivey didn't want his picture taken. He didn't have to say so. His ice-bath stare made it pretty clear. He would've probably rather hit the photographer in the face than hear the shutter click one more time. The problem was this: Ivey was the biggest news that day. When he showed up at APPT Macau in November, it was the first time he'd been seen at a live tournament in nearly a year. It was the kind of breaking news that had the photographer on guard for the best shot (and potentially Ivey's wrath).
