Brian Rast challenges Sheldon Adelson heads-up
We round-up some stories you may have missed including a poker pro is crushing Masterchef and all the pictures from Burning Man.
Rast challenges Adelson
It's probably no surprise that enemy of online poker Sheldon Adelson would claim that poker was not a game of skill in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, but it still annoyed the poker community.
Luckily a poker pro was on hand to publicly see if the casino mogul was prepared to put his money where his mouth is, this time in the form of two-time Players Championship winner Brian Rast:
Hey Sheldon Adelson, waz up? Poker is a skill game. Don't believe me? You're a billionaire, I'm not close. Let's play HU 4 2 million each.
— Brian Rast (@tsarrast) September 10, 2016
In fact Sheldon my man, I'll pay you 500$ 2 play 100bb freeze outs for 2mil, so if poker isn't a skill game u earning and can prove me wrong
— Brian Rast (@tsarrast) September 10, 2016
The Open gets renamed quickly
Remember last week we told you about the new event from PokerStars called The Open which will get renamed if you make the final table twice in a week? Well, it didn't take long.
The event is now called The Bookmaker_85 Open after the online player of the same name.
The player from Chile won The Open on Thursday 9th for $1,556.29 beating a field of 949, and then came 7th on Friday 10th for $187.85 in a field of 757
Make the final table twice in a week and you can have the event named after you.
Williams in the Masterchef final
WPT Champion and Main Event runner-up David Williams has made the finale of the US version of Masterchef, which airs tonight in the States.
The poker pro has been a big source of entertainment in the show, as he has not only shown a lot of talent but also has been known to lose his cool more than once.
He is one of three amateur chefs vying for the title and $250,000 first prize this evening on Fox.
Burning Man pic dump
If you follow professional poker players on social media you are probably sick to death by now of all the Burning Man pictures. Whether it's because poker players are more spiritual than most or maybe because it's near Las Vegas, there is something about the event that brings the poker players out to play:
Not everyone is a fan, however:
I wish the first rule of Burning Man was: 'You do not talk about Burning Man.'
— Lex Veldhuis (@RaSZi) September 6, 2016
Would you go to Burning Man? Can David Williams win MasterChef? Let us know in the comments.
