Daily Rewind: WCOOP Catch-Up, Petersen Wins English Poker Open, Lederer Critics

In today's Daily Rewind we get the latest results from the WCOOP, crown Mickey Petersen English Poker Champion and report on more backlash towards Howard Lederer.

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World Championship of Online Poker

Just two more days of play remain in this year's WCOOP and yesterday another three players dramatically increased their bankrolls.

The first player to scoop $182,629 was "Ti0373" from Russia after he took down the $530 rebuy event.

Next to battle their way to a title was "SlickDickey". 261 players paid the $1,050 entry fee for Event 58 but, when the chips had fallen, it was "SlickDickey" who won $57,420.

"Beckersen81" from Germany was the third winner of the day. His $33,372 win came after he outlasted 926 other players in the $215 Omaha Hi/Lo event.

To stay up-to-date with all of today's action tune into WCOOP Radio right here in the Daily Rewind.

Petersen is English Champion

A raft of British and European talent descended upon the Fox Poker Club in London this week for the English Poker Open.

Liv Boeree, Sam Trickett and Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen were all in attendance, but it was the latter that made it the furthest. The PokerStars pro outlasted a field of 137 players to scoop the £78,660 ($127,807) first place prize.

After starting the final table third in chips, Petersen kept his composure as a number of players hit the rail.

With four players left Petersen eliminated one time chip leader Jamie Roberts, before Chris Bjorin took the tournament to its heads-up stage by eliminating Surindar Sunar in third.

Going into the finale Petersen held a 4.5-1 chip advantage against Bjorin and, despite a mini comeback from his opponent, he managed to hold his nerve and claim the title.

Pros speak out against Lederer

Howard Lederer probably saw the opportunity to speak publically about the crisis that befell Full Tilt as a way of clearing his name.

However, a fire seems to have been ignited amongst those he's accused thanks to multiple utterances of "I don't know" and the constant shifting blame.

John Juanda and Barry Greenstein have already offered their views and now Daniel Negreanu has joined the backlash.

In an interview conducted via email with Pokerlistings, Daniel addressed a number of points made by Howard.

Daniel was mostly concerned with how his friends had been portrayed, saying: "I can't wait until more people speak out so the whole truth comes out. Juanda took great offense to Howard's comments about him, and Juanda is 100% in the right. I've spoken to Ivey, and I'm confident he will speak out as he is not in the least happy about the lies being told."

Daniel also describes the company's actions following Black Friday as "fraud" and "criminal" but he fears that the interview will "convince some people that he wasn't the crook he actually admitted to being, but was actually the lone saviour."

Negreanu hitting back

High stakes corner

PokerStrategist Jens 'jenskyllonen' Kyllonen topped the high stakes charts for the second day in a row yesterday after banking $102,086.

It took the Finnish player just 334 hands to earn just under $10,000 more than "patpatman" who won $92,604.

At the other end of the profit spectrum was Andreas "Skjervoy" Torbergsen.

The Norwegian player dropped $132,578 over the last 24 hours, putting him ahead of Sam "tr1cky7" Trickett (-$84,716), "Lottenice" (-$72,153) and "Mysters_Y" (-$67,731.

Daily Signoff

Phil Ivey might have had a rough ride in the business world over the last few years, but at the poker table things always seem to go his way.