Another Main Event bracelet listed on eBay
We round-up some stories you may have missed including another Super High Roller event and the humans are getting crushed by the machine.
Main Event bracelet for sale
This week Main Event champion Tom McEvoy put his championship bracelet up for sale on eBay. He also included several signed books, PokerStars patches and even a one hour poker lesson in the listing.
The listing was ended by the seller at the stage where it had received a $15,000 bid, though it is uncertain if this means that it has actually been sold or not.
McEvoy won the bracelet in 1983 for $540,000 and went on to win another three. He is not the first Main Event champion to sell their bracelet, Jamie Gold's bracelet was sold due to legal reasons and Peter Eastgate auctioned his for charity.
Super High Roller Bowl III announced
Rainer Kempe may have won it, but the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl was the event that kickstarted runner-up Fedor Holz's epic year at the tables in 2016.
The nosebleed stakes event has announced it will be returning on May 28, again with a $300,000 buy-in.
The player cap will be set at 50 with at least 15 seats set aside for recreational players and with a special celebrity guest scheduled to be announced (the smart money must be on Kevin Hart).
Humans struggling against Libratus
Earlier this month we brought you the news that the second incarnation of the Man vs Machine poker battles were taking place in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University.
The humans won last time around but this time they are really struggling. At the time of writing after eight days of the 20 day challenge, the humans are down $459,154 in virtual money.
There is still plenty of time to go, with just 49,240 hands of the scheduled 120,000 hands played, but if this ends in a loss for humans it is likely to become a pretty big story in the mainstream media, just as Deep Blue beating chess Grand Master Gary Kasparov was in 1997.
Blast from the Past
With the news that there is a (small) glimmer of hope of Daniel Cates and Tom Dwan resuming the durrrr Challenge, we decided to look back at this classic spoof song on the topic from SrslySirius.
Would you sell a bracelet if you won one? Will the humans lose to the AI? Let us know in the comments:
