Daily Rewind: bwin.party's Social Venture, WSOP News and Controversy
In today's Daily Rewind we check out bwin.party's latest venture, focus on the latest happenings at the WSOP and get controversial over Twitter with Jonathan Aguiar.
The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:
Let’s Be Social
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| Ryan and Teufelberger being social |
Bwin.party is upping the social gaming stakes by pledging $50 million to their new venture.
According to an article by Pokerfuse, the parent company of Party Poker are planning acquire $23 million worth of gaming contracts and engineering resources.
In addition to this they are planning to invest a further $27 million over the next two years in order to establish themselves as a force in the social gaming market.
According to Jim Ryan and Norbert Teufelberger, Co-CEOs of bwin.party, they are: “focused on building a meaningful stand-alone enterprise that will operate outside our core real money gaming business.”
This move could provide a new stream of players into the poker community. Indeed, Zynga Poker’s millions of registered members certainly demonstrates the size of the potential market that bwin.party are looking to tap into.
WSOP News
If you’re looking for a way to get in on the action at this year’s $1 million One Drop WSOP event then Jason Mercier is the man you need to see.
The tournament expert recently tweeted that he’s just put down his deposit for the tournament and will be selling shares at 1.1.
If you’ve got a spare $11,000, you can own 1% of Jason in the biggest buy-in tournament in the history of poker.
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| Buy a piece of history |
In other WSOP news, Andy Bloch managed to take down his first WSOP bracelet after beating Barry Greenstein in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event.
Former November Niner, Joseph Cheong, also enjoyed a positive day yesterday, as he managed to make it to the final four of Event #6, the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Mixed Max.
Say What You Mean
Tempers continue to fray at this year’s WSOP after a Twitter war between the players and the event’s organisers erupted yesterday.
After making the final table of Event #5 both 
Bryan 'PrimordialAA' Pellegrino and Jonathan Aguiar were disgruntled with the attitude of the tournament director after being ordered to verbally declare every move they made.
The rule, which is written in the WSOP guidelines but hadn’t been enforced throughout the tournament, didn’t sit well with the players and so they decided to air their thoughts on Twitter.
However, things took a turn for the worse when the official WSOP account retweeted Shawn Daniels’ thoughts. A wave of shock swept through the community and has led many to questions the WSOP’s actions.
PokerStrategy.com managed to get an exclusive interview with both Bryan and Jonathan to find out what their thoughts on the situation were.
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| A retweet too far |
High Stakes Corner
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| Bad times for Blom |
The numbers for May have just been posted and they certainly make positive reading for Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky.
The American player continued his dominance of the high stakes scene last month with an impressive $903,000 profit.
His table-topping performance occurred over the course of 25,163 hands, which was around 50% less than the May’s second biggest winner, “EireAbu”.
The as yet unidentified player managed to bag a total profit of $890,000 after playing 50,000 hands.
In comparison to their success, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom endured a torrid time at the virtual felt in May.
The Swede, who is looking to impress at his first WSOP this year, took a beating at the tables and finished the month $756,533 down.
Daily Signoff
Who let the dogs out? There have been many strange antics at the WSOP over the years, but Ted Bort's has to be one of the weirdest.
