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There didn't seem to be a thead for this, but there has been a(nother) spat on twitter about mark-up betweeen Doug Polk, Daniel Negreanu and Sean Deeb amongst others.

As a result, Sean Deeb has appeared on Joey Ingram's channel.  He is a bit marmite, I have never been much of a fan, but I think there are a lot of gems in this.  There are also bits that i find fairly disagreeable, but the bits about balancing kids, poker and marriage are very good.  I was interested to hear that Jason Mercier's solution seems to have been to virtually jack poker in.   There is a lot of other good stuff there too. 

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4O5wBcBPQI

I don't particularly care for him, but thought on the most part he came across well there.

Yeah, this divide in Deeb is what I have found myself playing against him. A lot from him fairly interesting, and quite fun, and then he'll do something like I saw him do last year. Out of nowhere, he put down a quiet guy at the table, who wasn't a classic rec, but clearly it meant quite a lot to him to be playing at the WSOP. Deeb said to him that he seemed "a bit cleverer than he looked," and the guy looked gutted and didn't say a word after.

Say something like that to the wrong person one day, and wish he didn't live in the US.

He has obviously taken a dislike to this Johnnie guy, who by all accounts is a good winner in the 5/10 games. Absolutely coats him for charging ~1.4 for his package of what I presume is NLHE games, and in the same sentence says he has no problem with Joey's GF charging the same markup for her package that includes a $10k PLO.

This is interesting......


https://twitter.com/shaundeeb/status/1127908602155606016

You'll like this Tony

https://fullcontactpoker.com/a-common-sense-rewards-system/ (https://fullcontactpoker.com/a-common-sense-rewards-system/)

There is a lot of truth in it, but there are a couple of flaws when applied to Stars.

1.  The rewards on stars don't go to losers either.  I am a long run loser on Stars and my chest rewards have been absolutely feeble since they started.  Thoygh there is a promo on at the moment where I have been getting $5 chests rather than the usual 2 cent ones. 
2.  Saying Supernova Elite should never have existed, and I don't think it should have, still doesn't excuse the late withdrawal of it.

Other than that I do agree with much in the article.  Having said that, the rake in some games is making those games unbeatable, and I think there should always be a reasonable chance of the best players winning.

Very wild gossip - Tikay is soon going to let us know where he's burning our money this summer!!!!!

Lots of '!', just for him ;)

He seems so convinced he is correct. If he did manage to go deep it would be very interesting on what he would do when faced with opportunity to do a deal. A lot of the time it makes sense to deal when massive amounts are on the line, given the cap he has so much more upside to not dealing than a player ordinarily would.

Danny leaves 'Stars?


https://twitter.com/RealKidPoker/status/1131598749304705024

https://www.pocketfives.com/articles/daniel-negreanu-no-longer-a-member-of-team-pokerstars-623897/

Wonder which will come first?

Daniel's kids, or Tikay's staking package....

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/phil-ivey-teaches-poker-strategy

Ivey on the firm as well.

Used the infamous hand against Paul Jackson in the trailer :)

Party Poker are getting rid of HUDs and forcing everyone to change their alias.   My HUD broke a few months ago, so it could be good
for me.  Would love to see it on Stars.  As I am a logic wizard racist without a HUD, I already do tendencies by nationality, so get a headstart on others.   Though my thought process usually involves recognising some lunatic from Stars.

https://poker.partypoker.com/en/blog/partypoker-to-enforce-player-alias-change-with-upcoming-software-update.html (https://poker.partypoker.com/en/blog/partypoker-to-enforce-player-alias-change-with-upcoming-software-update.html)

Party are planning to go with real names, no aliases at 25/50 and above soon.

Nationality will be hidden too

partypoker

"Cash game news: All of our #cashgames, including #fastforward, will have a minimum buy-in of 100 big blinds by the end of June as part of our ongoing ecology improvements. More details coming soon"

more changes coming too

Russia’s ‘sexiest poker player’ found dead in her home – electric shock suspected


https://www.rt.com/news/461765-sexy-poker-dead-novikova/



(http://i.imgur.com/kJeHSTL.jpg) (https://imgur.com/kJeHSTL)

 

I shove utg dealer make it very clear.  Btn throws 1 chip in dealer says call  blinds fold I turn over hand. He says he didn’t call Tim the floor says his 5k stays and he decides after seeing my hand lol.


https://twitter.com/martin_zamani/status/1143743828181995520

I saw this posted up on Facebook the other day - horrible ruling

A really odd series of Tweets from Doug Polk, starting with;

I'm out guys, punted off the rest of my chips. Cant even play poker well anymore, playing gives me really bad anxiety and while I'm there I just want to leave. Only played this summer because I didnt want to let you guys down.

Not going to play again, sorry everybody.


https://twitter.com/DougPolkPoker/status/1147376178803511298


He followed up with;


I think it's a few things compounding. If I had to guess it's not studying or playing, feeling like I need to win or I'm upset, and not caring about the stakes. But the result is I'm just not able to play at any sort of reasonable level.


And.....


Hard to say if poker is gonna crash, I do think it's a great game. But I'm out. Thanks for kind words

As of June 30, 2019, OPR will no longer be tracking PokerStars tournaments. We are sad to let go of PokerStars after 12 years on OPR but we no longer have the resources to support the tracking of PokerStars. We will continue to track partypoker tournaments so stay tuned.

Missed this.  I like Doug, he has done a lot for poker and made a lot of great content available for free.  Hope he comes back.

As an aside, Pius Heinz responded; I wondered what happened to him.  

Pius Heinz
‏
@MastaP89

Never say never though. I felt the same for 3+years. Now its actually fun again to dabble occasionally.

and snigger

Mike McDonald
‏
@MikeMcDonald89

Is it possible the rake is too low?

Agree as to Doug Polk's content, I rather enjoyed most of it. Think he's gone across to the dark side (Bitcoin) now though. Or UFC.

Mention of Mike McDonald reminds me of this Tweet, for which some of the comments are well com.....




https://twitter.com/JustinBonomo/status/1147973804267696130

See you next year, Doug.

https://twitter.com/shellzskillz/status/1149863399997632512

Really surprised to see these comments from Doug Polk, last I knew (clearly outdated) he was strongly promoting some poker training site (upswing poker?).


Used to really enjoy his twitch stream and broadcasts really surrpised to see so much venom directed his way on twitter.

Whilst in Vegas I read on someone's twitter that last year, Chris Fergusson used to join the late reg queue late on then move to the back if other's joined after him.  He was thus maximising his chance of a min cash for POY points.   It is clearly reasonable to late reg in the circumstances, but moving to back of the queue is absurd.  Should be a DQ on the overall fair play rule.  If he did it again throw him out of POY standings too.

Obviously Vayo should be DQ'd if true.  

I like Doug, his content is always good, and he's a very funny guy.

Definitely uber melodramatic, like most poker players, though.

Thought he was a crypto expert now, anyway ;D

Never surprised to see venom directed anyone's way on Twitter. Some people live to be spiteful *****

Your chips don't go in play until you sit down right? So why didn't Ferguson just get his ticket and then go and get a coffee or something?

Couldn't he go get a buffet and guarantee a min cash?   

If you are at the late reg desk isn't it different to normal reg?   If you are going to give someone a round penalty for ducking a big blind with 20bbs (as I saw happen in the plo8), surely the same should apply if you late reg 20bbs?   I don't know the rules, and wondered off to get a coffee in level 1 after a 1 hour queue to reg.   I think 6 mins into level 1 is different to half an hour into level 9, though not sure where the line is. 

Feels like it should be take seats immediately after reg closes and/or if they are running alternates.

Ah I get the angle now. The registration closes so all stacks should be in play, but if you are in the queue, your stack isn't in play. Yes sneaky!

Oh and I love calling people out who wander around to miss their big blind - once I have seen them see the table and then look or walk away. I usually stand up and shout Table 45?, over here mate!

Each to their own, but I think I'd find sharing a table with Will a little tiresome;


https://twitter.com/WilliamKassouf/status/1153245062697869313

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But it works for him I guess and, while he's still in fashion over there, they'll keep lapping up his schtick. Dave's got himself a cool story to tell at work bruh.

Be alright until he gets one in the coconuts after yapping at the wrong person for too long :D

I nearly did once but then we had this hand in a big buy in
How big I can’t remember
66 all in
Ace king wk re raise
Me sat next but one to him
Kk I min re raise
He call
Flop king xx
He check
I bet half pot
He tank open folded
Asked why did I bet
Couldn’t get him to call
Always admired his game since then really

Never played with him (thankfully), so no opinion on his game, but he can obviously play. It's the insufferable yapping that I can't be doing with.

I'm all for talking with other players at the table, but that isn't fun. It's irritating :D

Instant irritation and more worthy of the ‘FairPlay’ initiative’s attention than people wearing scarves.

I was moved to his table at a £500 in Nottingham and by the third hand of hearing his inane chatter I had had enough. I called clock when it got to him on the next hand. He seemed puzzled by this.

People like that are the only reason I still take headphones with me to play. Thankfully I didn't feel the need to take them out of my bag once this summer.

Not to mention his other shennaigans with his mate's chips on the roulette tables.................

In for the min, out for the max weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Forgot about that. Did well to not get himself a pasting there, too.

Is this Pete Linton's brother?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49039959

Whatever next?


https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/PokerStars-to-launch-All-In-Cash-Out-in-cash-games_108250/

So if a player has 50% equity in a $100 pot, they can take $49.50 there and then rather than run out the board. If one player chooses this new option and the other does not, the player who has not chosen it plays the remainder of the hand against PokerStars, who keep the money if they win.

 rotflmfao

Seems fair if poker stars are going to pay you if you win for them to take your money if they win. 

What happens if PokerStars go on a massive downswing?

Cue the "online poker is rigged" claims when Stars start hitting their 1 & 2 outers

If anyone is interested in the Triton Million thing, here's the chip counts at the end of Day 1;


Bill Perkins   United States   3,560,000
Timothy Adams   Canada   3,095,000
Dan Smith   United States   2,810,000
Rui Cao   France   2,700,000
Nick Petrangelo   United States   2,700,000
Aaron Zang   China   2,185,000
Justin Bonomo   United States   2,050,000
Wei Lim Chin   Malaysia   2,050,000
Igor Kurganov   Netherlands   2,015,000
Hing Yaung Chow   Malaysia   1,975,000
Sam Greenwood   Canada   1,865,000
Ferdinand Putra   Indonesia   1,830,000
Stephen Chidwick   England   1,815,000
Christoph Vogelsang   Germany   1,765,000
Vivek Rajkumar   India   1,715,000
Bryn Kenney   United States   1,645,000
Rob Yong   United Kingdom   1,625,000
Tony G   Lithuania   1,445,000
Qiang Wang   China   1,430,000
Danny Tang   Hong Kong   1,390,000
Wai Leong Chan   Malaysia   1,235,000
Martin Kabrhel   Czech Republic   1,155,000
Sosia Jiang   New Zealand   1,150,000
Jason Koon   United States   1,120,000
Ivan Leow   Malaysia   1,080,000
Andrew Robl   United States   1,075,000
Mikita Badziakouski   Belarus   815,000
Xuan Tan   China   765,000
Yu Liang   Vanuatu   750,000
Winfred Yu   Hong Kong   730,000
Alfred Decarolis   United States   675,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu   Turkey   475,000
Matthias Eibinger   Austria   375,000
Stanley Choi   Hong Kong   320,000
Timofey Kuznetsov   Russia   320,000
Cary Katz   United States   275,000



Looks like there are just 2 Brits still in, Stephen Chidwick & Rob Yong, & as it happens, they will be on the same table today.


DAY 2 CHIP COUNT/SEAT ASSIGNMENT

Name   Chips
Table 1      
1   Mikita Badziakouski   815,000
2   Bill Perkins   3,560,000
3   Sam Greenwood   1,865,000
5   Stanley Choi   320,000
6   Martin Kabrhel   1,155,000
7   Xuan Tan   765,000
8   Alfred Decarolis   675,000
Table 2      
1   Hing Yaung Chow   1,975,000
2   Rob Yong   1,625,000
3   Tony G   1,445,000
5   Cary Katz   275,000
6   Stephen Chidwick   1,815,000
7   Winfred Yu   730,000
8   Orpen Kisacikoglu   475,000
Table 3      
1   Yu Liang   750,000
2   Matthias Eibinger   375,000
3   Ferdinand Putra   1,830,000
5   Timofey Kuznetsov   320,000
6   Justin Bonomo   2,050,000
7   Jason Koon   1,120,000
8   Wai Leong Chan   1,235,000
9   Bryn Kenney   1,645,000
Table 4      
1   Dan Smith   2,810,000
2   Rui Cao   2,700,000
3   Nick Petrangelo   2,700,000
5   Sosia Jiang   1,150,000
6   Vivek Rajkumar   1,715,000
8   Wei Lim Chin   2,050,000
9   Danny Tang   1,390,000
Table 5      
1   Igor Kurganov   2,015,000
3   Timothy Adams   3,095,000
5   Aaron Zang   2,185,000
6   Ivan Leow   1,080,000
7   Andrew Robl   1,075,000
8   Qiang Wang   1,430,000
9   Christoph Vogelsang   1,765,000

I watched some of it last night Tony, seen Perkins with 1010vs33vs A10 on a 10 3 x flop WAL

Yes, what a lovely 3 way coup that was.

I don't really know much about this event, and who or what Triton are, but have to say, the quality and production values of the stream (which I watched free of charge on You Tube) was absolutely superb, best quality I can recall in many a year. Commentary was very good too.

Sam Trickett's river play v Chidwick was fun

3 handed

all check flop and turn including Stephen with the flopped flush

River Trickett bet small, Kenney raise as a bluff, Chidwick flat, Trickett...

https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1156986271241314304?s=20

lots of clips on that account over the three days of the tournament

Triton, Paul Phua and Richard Yong launched in 2018. originally short deck for the Asian market,now SHR all formats worldwide

now partnerred with Rob Y and partypokerlive

streaming has been superb.

Oooh, Justin Bonomo got an invite in the end.   Suspect more layers than backers of that one.

Saw him begging on Twitter, looks likie it must have worked.

Did the "businessmen" pay $2M each -  for their own entry plus the invited pro?

The prizepool suggests $1M per player

£1,050,000 entry per player.

£50k goes to charity.

Are you saying the pros paid themselves in?

No pro has more than 50% of themselves. That was stated publically

I'm just trying to clarify if the pros had to pay their own entry or if the businessmen paid for their invited pros.

They paid, but all were backed to some degree

Thank you.

Pro's rarely have much of themselves in SHR comps.

Businessmen most likely had pieces of them, though.

I had assumed that most if not all of the pros were freerolling for ~10%

Struggle to get much markup in a £1m buyin, but can't know for sure.

Here's the chip counts heading into today;


1 – Timothy Adams, Canada, 5.735 million
2 – Bryn Kenney, USA, 5.54 million
3 – Alfred DeCarolis, USA, 5.455 million
5 – Vivek Rajkumar, India, 18 million
6 – Bill Perkins, USA, 2 million
7 – Stephen Chidwick, UK, 9.79 million
8 – Dan Smith, USA, 2.35 million
9 – Aaron Zang, China, 5.06 million




The chip leader seems to be based in Seattle. Here's his THM:


https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=75456


And his Wiki page;



 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Rajkumar


(http://i.imgur.com/Z7GFcRA.jpg) (https://imgur.com/Z7GFcRA)

Here's how the Triton thing ended;



Aaron Zang (China) £19,000,000
Bryn Kenney (United States) £11,670,000
Dan Smith (United States) £7,200,000
Stephen Chidwick (United Kingdom) £4,410,000
Vivek Rajkumar (India) £3,000,000
Bill Perkins (United States) £2,200,000
Al DeCarolis (United States) £1,720,000
Timothy Adams (Canada) £1,400,000
*Chop agreements not included.


Although note;


Hendon Mob will show Kenney won £11,670,000 and Zang earned £19,000,000. But Liv Boeree announced on the post-game live-stream that a chop was made during heads-up play. Kenney actually received the biggest cut (£16.8 million). But Zang, who also added to his wealth, received the shiny gold trophy.

Players had to dress up, & follow certain rules, though Kenney declined to wear a suit, so presumably the "dress rule" was not enforceable.



Players will not be allowed to cover any part of their body from the neck up. This includes, but is not limited to, wearing scarves, funnel neck sweatshirts, turtle neck jumpers, hats/caps. The only exception will be made for sunglasses and hats that do not cover/hide any part of the face at any time due to stage lighting. Hoodies are not recommended to follow the rules above. A formal suit will be required to be worn at the Final Table (9 players remaining).



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Don't know who the official "winner" was, (Mr Zang presumably?) but here's the 1st & 2nd.


(http://i.imgur.com/8rGhkcU.jpg) (https://imgur.com/8rGhkcU)



 (http://i.imgur.com/Cuv4Thv.jpg) (https://imgur.com/Cuv4Thv)

Saw a post somewhere that said Will won 17m, so must have chopped it HU, at a guess.

Partypoker have been covering this event all week on their main Twitch channel and tonight is our last night before we move on to something new we are trying tomorrow night with one of our pro streamers.

We are covering Event #7 the £100k Short deck Main Event, it's available on a few other outlets as well as PPTV.

I've never played Short Deck but it's pretty action packed.

Pros had to pay themselves.

Pros divulged the % they had to the organisers,  biggest piece was 50%, in theory a pro could have had 100% I believe,  don't believe there was any stipulation.

I suspect that the businessman who invited them would have had first option for a sizeable chunk of action in practice.

On twitter Rob Yong said

Yes - most of time Pro normally allows VIP to buy a piece at no mark up or maybe offers small 1-5% freeroll

This is an interesting one, mainly for the replies, some of which can't be serious, but are.

I'm so glad it all panned out OK in the end for Simon, if he was ever shown to be a wrong 'un, it would be too much to bear. Does seem rather odd that given the nefarious nature of many of those who inhabit Casinos & high cost poker tournaments that their suspicions should alight on Simon of all people.  



https://twitter.com/SIMONDEADMAN/status/1160753804360474625



Compensation? A gracious apology & a free meal is more than enough, some of the guys replying have somewhat ambitious expectations.

I would probably laugh about it, and say whoever fked it up can pay for my dinner at the best restaurant in the hotel.

If I was staying at the hotel then 'I hope my room is comped now, too?'.

Yup, feels about right.

How can that be enough?   Surely the EV of his chips whilst blinded out is a start point.  Then plus a bit more for the hassle/heavy handedness (say extra 50%).   Hard to say what that is without blind info.  Could be price of a meal/hotel night or buyin depending on the level.  If he can't get right in 10 minutes after a 20 minute dusturbance, he needs to work on his mental game (general point and not specific to Simon who has always been pleasant).

FWIW he got some serious heavyweight replies, so maybe they have higher expectations than us riff-raff.

Jaffa nd Mike Hill, I see what you mean!

It looks like Simon got the result he was looking for, though he is so far being a little coy as to what it was.


So they have offered me $1M USD in compensation for yesterday. Lol JK. but they did offer me what I believe is adequate compensation so thanks to
@shrpo @HardRockHolly and @TDTonyB for apologising and dealing with this situation quickly and fairly.

Happy days, but now he'll have to spend about 3 weeks answering all the 'So what did you get?' questions/DMs :D

Serves him right for asking the internet for advice.

This is true.

Interview with Sam Grafton https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161349840774807554?s=20

Interview with Jack Sinclair https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161329694027001856?s=20

QQ v AA v KK all in pre. Ivey/Kristen https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161286169885327360?s=20

Interview with Philbort https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161273078971817985?s=20

Interviews with Charlie Carrel https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1160963077195665408?s=20 and
https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161235049464913921?s=20

All bite sized chunks

Hoping to get Leon, Rob, Tony G, Phil Ivey, Dietrich Fast, Trickett by the end of the week

if you want i can post them in here

if you want i can post them in here



Yes please Tighty. I watched a couple on Twitter this morning, including the Sam Grafton one & the Kristen hand, but would prefer to see them on here.

Tony G interview part 1 https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1162036373404209152?s=20

Part 2 https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1162084259252908032?s=20

Charlie Carrel part 3 https://twitter.com/partypokerlive/status/1161608610205618177?s=20

This looks pretty dirty

https://clips.twitch.tv/ColorfulFancyCoyoteBlargNaut?tt_medium=clips&tt_content=recommendation (https://clips.twitch.tv/ColorfulFancyCoyoteBlargNaut?tt_medium=clips&tt_content=recommendation)

In the same way that Hitler was pretty naughty.

What a shithouse, and then tries acting like he's done nothing wrong :D

Love the fake muck, sneaky peak, scowl at the dealer as if he is the scumbag hatrick. 

Shame it wasn't Barry Neville sat next to him :D

Is he in the BITB stable?

https://clips.twitch.tv/ObedientSleepyKathyKlappa

First time I watched it I just saw the fake pass, only after watching again did I realise he was peeking at the other fella's cards when he did the feint.

What a POS. 

That was a bit shitty.

:)

That's terrible!

:D

Remember that. Diiiiiiiiiiiirty.

Nick Marchington wins legal battle with WSOP "stakers"

https://www.beatthefish.com/nick-marchington-wins-wsop-staking-lawsuit/ (https://www.beatthefish.com/nick-marchington-wins-wsop-staking-lawsuit/)

Neither side emerges with much credit here imo.

Marchington gazumped C Biscuit, which is not ideal, whilst C Biscuit tried to freeroll Marchington after it unravelled. 

A 2,700 Twitter poll to gauge opinion was about as conclusive as our Referendum. 

Not sure I'd want to do business with either party.

I see it like this. Say I sold you a horse or a car and then later realised I could sell it elsewhere for more money, would you be obliged to sell me my goods back at cost?

The answer is no of course. Your options would be:

Keep the goods.

Offer to sell them back to me at a price that suited you.

Accept the refund and return the goods.

I cannot force you to return the goods at cost.

You cannot accept the refund and then lay claim to the goods.

If you agreed to sell me a horse at a certain price, and I paid you for it, I'd expect you to honour that arrangement. And I'm sure you would.

But what if I wanted to give you your money back and sent you a cheque for the full amount.

If you banked that cheque that would mean that the deal was cancelled, but if you returned the cheque to me then the deal stood.

He should have honoured the deal imo but the fact that they accepted their money back before he played suggests they might have freerolled him.

Yep.

I remain of my originally stated view - neither side emerges with much credit.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGFYv5Ydx24

On a lighter note, it was a great summer.

WPT ends in a SIXTEEN WAY chop. I keep searching for Chompy's name, he must have used an alias.


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