Madsen claims he was banned from the WSOP for cannabis possession
In today's Daily Rewind we find out why Jeff Madsen could be missing the rest of the WSOP and show you how to freeroll the Main Event.
Was Madsen banned?
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We're not quite sure if it's one of his jokes or whether it actually happened, but it seems as though Jeff Madsen has brought his WSOP to a premature end after getting caught with marijuana.
According to the American's Twitter account he took some cannabis into the latest WSOP PLO event so he could throw it into the "pot" during the session.
However, after busting out of the tournament he was allegedly accosted by the Rio's security staff and searched.
After the drugs were found he was arrested, escorted from the Rio and banned from the property.
A later tweet revealed he'd been released, but if the story is true then the three-time bracelet winner won't be adding another title to his collection any time soon.
Hellmuth misses out on bracelet #14
The eyes of the poker world were on Phil Hellmuth earlier today after he sat down for the final table of Event #61 ($10,000 Seven Card Championship) with 404,000 chips.
Good enough for third place on the leaderboard at the start of play, that haul had the rail expecting a record 14th title for the all-time leading bracelet winner.
However, as Doyle Brunson watched on it was his son, Todd, who helped thwart the Poker Brat's dreams.
Despite eliminating Henry Orenstein (inventor of the hole card cam), Hellmuth was crippled by Brunson before James Obst's sent him to the sidelines in a disappointing sixth place with a pair of tens.
With the headline act now watching from the rail it was Brunson (2nd - $165,981) who looked to be in control, but as the field thinned he was gradually usurped by Matt Grapenthien.
A flurry of action saw the Chicago native take the lead heads-up and, despite surrendering control three times, he eventually clinched his first bracelet and $268,473 after his pair of eights bested Brunson's fives.
Wtf was I thinking taking a pic with @RealKidPoker before the final table???His second place karma/disease rubbed off pic.twitter.com/T4BfMpxEUw
— Todd Brunson (@ToddBrunson) July 4, 2014
Win a piece of Heimiller
Recent WSOP bracelet winner, Dan Heimiller, has devised a novel way to improve his Twitter following ahead of this year's Main Event.
Following on from his $627,462 score in the Seniors Championship, Heimiller will be giving away 2% of any money he wins in the Main Event to a random Twitter follower.
To be eligible for a piece of Mr. Heimiller all you have to do is follow him, retweet one of his promotional tweets as well as five additional Twitter posts.
At present Heimiller has just over 2,300 followers, so your chances of bagging a slice of his action (which could amount to $200,000 if he wins the ME) are certainly better than playing the lottery.
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Question of the Day
"With Phil Hellmuth almost winning his 14th bracelet in a Stud event, do you think his best chance of scooping another title is in a non-Hold'em tournament?"
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After two days of registrations, this year's Little One for One Drop is now awaiting the start of Day 2.
In total, 4,496 players played on Days 1A and 1B and when play resumes later tonight 887 hopefuls will return for a shot at the $637,539 top prize.
Leading the way will be Cuong Van Nguyen, but with the likes of Annette Obrestad, Rupert Elder and Antonio Esfandiari all still in contention he'll have his work cut-out as the session progresses.
In the day's other WSOP action, Salman Jaddi and Brandon Hall couldn't bring a close to their heads-up match in Event #60 so will return tomorrow to battle for the bracelet and $614,248.
Daily Signoff
Randy 'nanonoko' Lew turned 29-years-old today, so to celebrate and wish him a happy birthday we thought we'd finish today with this short biography by PokerStars.
Yesterday's Daily Rewind: "I don't owe poker a single thing"
 Daniel Smyth has been working in the poker industry for six years as both a player and writer. He currently has a costly penchant for PLO and provides daily content for PokerStrategy.com. You can learn more about Daniel by clicking here.
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