21 Feb 12

Daily Rewind: Rumble in the Jungle, Doyle on Lederer, Seidel in Premier League

Today Daniel Cates and Andrew Feldman square up for a potential boxing match, while Doyle Brunson gives his take on the Full Tilt Poker saga. Erik Seidel is confirmed for the Party Poker Premier League and we check out the latest from EPT Copenhagen.

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:

When internet warriors collide

Today we hear about one of the most unlikely boxing matchups in recent history: Cates V Feldman.

And no, we're not talking about Gremlins stars Phoebe Cates and Corey Feldman going toe-to-toe in the ring (although this would likely be a more interesting contest).

PokerStrategy.com instructor and high stakes supremo Daniel junglemandan Cates has challenged fellow high stakes pro Andrew Feldman to a fight via Twitter, presumably inspired by classic poker punch-ups such as Veldhuis v ElkY and Hansen v Jorgenson.

Cates Tweets: "@Andrewfeldman1 so you still want to do the fight? Let's schedule for this WSOP perhaps? #Ringmatch."

It seems his offer may have been accepted, after the pint-sized Feldman Tweeted back, "Sure lets do it! #hu4rolz".

Cates's stare	Feldman, pink shirt, in a chair

Doyle backs Howard

Septaganerian poker hero Doyle Brunson released a blog yesterday which is sure to ruffle a few feathers in the poker community.

Brunson addresses the downfall of Full Tilt Poker, and intimates that the likes of Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer may not be the villains that much of the community has made them out to be.

"The bottom line was they were poker players, not corporate executives" claims Brunson, also sharing that Lederer had personally vouched that "he didn't know about the financial problems" which contributed to FTP's dramatic collapse.

Seidel primed for Premier League

Tony G today reveals on his blog that another poker superstar will be lining up for the upcoming PartyPoker Premier League V at Montesino.

Tournament monster Erik Seidel will be joining the likes of Patrik Antonius, Sam Trickett, Vanessa Selbst and Luke Schwartz this April in Vienna to compete in one of the most anticipated poker events this year.

In his usual modest tone, Tony explains "I am born to crush the Seiborg by the Danube. Forget Tony the Tiger I am Tony the Terminator!" 

We'll see who ends up crushing who, Tony... 

Erik Seidel joins Premier League V

High stakes corner

The past 24 hours have seen PLO experts Ville "V.Wahlbeck" Wahlbeck and Rafi "refaelamit" Amit rise to the top of the charts. 

While both players won't be winning imaginative alias awards, they will be winning the most money anywhere today, having banked a hefty $198,710 and $170,731 respectively according to HighStakesDB.

It's been a day to forget for PokerStrategy.com Black Member mTw-DaviN and Gavin "Gavz101" Cochrane, both suffering losses of close to $150,000.

EPT Copenhagen

Cards are in the air for day 1b over at EPT Copenhagen. You can check out our day 1a recap here, with well known pros Steve O'Dwyer and Roberto Romanello both sitting at the top of the chip counts.

You can also follow live updates via the PokerStars Blog.

Daily Signoff

With news that Erik Seidel is joining this year's Premier League, we thought it was fitting to look back at an infamous hand played 24 years ago against a certain Mr Johnny Chan.

Who would have thought that Seidel and Chan would still be giants of the game nearly a quarter of a century later...