22 Feb 12

Daily Rewind: Eastgate Signs with Betfair, ISPT Tour is on, Cake Update

Today we hear that 2008 WSOP champ Peter Eastgate has signed a deal with Betfair Poker. There's news from Laurent Tapie concerning the ISPT and we check out the Cake Poker's new software update.

The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:

Eastgate signs with Betfair

2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate has had an interesting few years since he exploded into the poker stratosphere following his championship win.

The Dane controversially decided to hang up his poker playing boots in July 2010, having announced that since establishing financial security he had lost motivation for "playing high-level poker".

His hiatus lasted until February 2011 and he is most definitely back in the big time this week following news that he has become an official ambassador for Betfair Poker.

Eastgate joins John Tabatabai, Hans Martin Vogl and Stefan Raffay on the Betfair Poker sponsored pro roster.

You can join the WSOP champ over at the Betfair Poker tables today - Find the download here.

Stefan Raffay and Peter Eastgate - handshakes all round

Tapie considers new ISPT stop

Laurent Tapie has revealed this week that he is already considering the second stop on the International Stadiums Poker Tour.

The first quarter of 2013 has been earmarked provisionally for the successor to the Wembley Stadium leg, and Tapie has confirmed that Full Tilt Poker software will be used, if available.

The most likely destinations for the second stop are thought to be either Paris or the Stade Louis II in Monaco.

You can read our full news report on the ISPT here.

EPT Copenhagen

The eighth successive EPT Copenhagen has reached day 2, with day 1b seeing a flurry of action and bustouts.

When the dust had settled it was local favourite Mads Wissing who sat on top of the chip counts, bagging a healthy 127,575 chips. Other notables accruing sizeable stacks include Juha Helppi and Johnny Lodden.

You can read our full report of day 1b here.

The remaining 131 players are in action now, and you can follow their progress over at the PokerStars Blog.

Mads Wissing leads day 1b field in Copenhagen

High stakes corner

The past 24 hours of action have seen February's hot shot "MaiseE" (rumoured to be Swedish pro William Thorson) dominate the PokerStars PLO tables yet again, banking a tidy $130,761 according to HighStakesDB.

2011's two biggest winners, Rafi "refaelamit" Amit and Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies were on the receiving end yesterday, losing $117,184 and $81,645 respectively.

Cake rising

Cake Poker has announced a major software upgrade this week.

The update to its 2.0 client features improvements in speed, stability, navigation and graphics, and users will find load times much less draining on computer resources.

You can try the new Cake Poker software by downloading it from our page here.