Booth takes another shot at Hellmuth
In today's Daily Rewind we witness a Twitter war between Brad Booth and Phil Hellmuth and it was a big winning day for Phil Galfond.
Booth pours scorn on Hellmuth's generosity
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| Phil and his "bestie" |
For those of you who aren't aware, Phil Hellmuth is the leading WSOP bracelet winner of all time with 13 pieces of shiny metal to his name.
However, while he likes to inform people of this fact whenever he gets the chance, you probably didn't know that he's not as precious about the actual bracelets themselves.
In a recent tweet the American pro explained that he'd just given away bracelet #13 to his "best friend" Chamath Palihapitiya.
According to his status that's the eleventh piece of WSOP bling he's given away - "10 to family, 1 to bestie" - which means he now has just two in his possession.
While many praised Phil for his generosity, Brad Booth wasn't so complimentary and took the tweet as an opportunity to make his feelings about the American pro known:
"@phil_hellmuth if only the respectable @chamath found out about your inner BullShit at UltimateBet he would never accept it - U R A POS PH."
Help organise the PokerStars schedule
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The recent Sunday Warm-Up registration blunder which cost PokerStars over $250,000 seems to have opened up a new position at the company.
Although the online poker room never publically stated how the "technical glitch" occurred, a recent advert for a "Global Scheduling and Adherence Manager" could be a sign that it was down to human error.
Earlier this week a new job posting on the Rational Group's website stated that an "exciting" and "challenging" role had just been created in the Global Support department.
The successful candidate will be responsible for "building, publishing and maintaining global schedules", which essentially means making things happen on time and not costing the company money.
If you think you can keep PokerStars' operations running smoothly, press the correct buttons and not cost them a six-figure sum, then you could be just the person they're looking for.
Spanish police storm bar game
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Unlicensed home games in Spain appear to be serious business no matter how small the stakes are according to a recent article by EuroWeeklyNews.
The latest game to be "busted" by the police took place in a bar and cost just €30 to enter.
Between the nine players in the Sit&Go that meant there was no more than €270 in buy-ins on the table.
However, that didn't stop police from raiding the game and confiscating €1,655 in cash, three decks of cards and 497 poker chips.
The owners were then served with a prosecution note containing multiple charges such as allowing patrons to smoke inside, not having insurance and fraud for not paying taxes on winnings.
Question of the Day
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Despite enjoying another hugely profitable day at the virtual felt on Wednesday, Niki Jedlicka was unable to surpass Phil Galfond on the daily profit leaderboard. At the close of play the Austrian grinder managed to rake in $391,000 but found himself someway behind the $577,810 Galfond managed to make over the course of 1,113 hands.
Suffering at the hands of Galfond and Jedlicka in the last 24 hours was Hac Dang, Alexander Kostritsyn and 'MalACEsia'. Although 'MalACEsia' dropped more than $200,000, that haul wasn't enough to top Dang's and Kostritsyn's $300,000+ deficits.
Daily Signoff
The final instalment of Antonio Esfandiari's Strip Magic was released last night and in our Signoff today we find out why 'The Magician' really loves performing tricks.
Yesterday's Daily Rewind: Attackers try to murder French pro Cyril Mouly
 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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