NBA star in high stakes battle with Jason Mercier and Scott Seiver
In today's Daily Rewind we recap the latest PCA action and reveal why you should learn coding alongside playing poker.
Pros and NBA stars battle at PCA
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| Arenas playing for pots |
Following Fabian 'fabstinho' Quoss's victory in the $100,000 Super High Roller, the attention of the rail at the PCA turned towards the festival's $10,300 Main Event, yesterday.
Thanks to a guaranteed prizepool of $10 million, a total of 295 players, including Isaac Haxton, Mickey Petersen and Phil Laak, joined the action on Day 1A.
As the session progressed and variance pushed more than 100 players to the rail, Dylan Hortin managed to clamber his way to the top of the chip counts.
Having qualified for the Main Event through an FPP satellite, Hortin was able to parlay his good fortune into 160,500 chips and finish the day at the head of a 184-strong pack of players.
Whilst the Main Event dominated yesterday's PCA action, a high stakes cash game involving NBA star Gilbert Arenas was also taking place in a secluded corner of the poker room.
With his basketball career currently on hold, Arenas decided to join the likes of Scott Seiver and Jason Mercier for a bit of light-hearted grinding.
According to reports the amateur player looked to be enjoying his session and was even seen raking in a pot worth $30,000 at one point.
EPT Deauville announced
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| Down in Deauville |
A packed schedule of 45 tournaments will be on offer when the EPT visits Europe for the first time in 2014.
Taking place inside Casino Barrière and marked by a €5,300 Main Event, EPT Deauville is expected to attract a slew of players when the action gets underway on January 22.
The Grand Final of the France Poker Series (FPS) will get the festival underway before a string of side events culminate with the Main Event and €10,300 High Roller which take place between January 26 and February 1.
Another key feature of this year's EPT Deauville will be the GPI's European Poker Awards which will honour some of the game's finest individuals in a lavish ceremony on January 29th.
Grinders make good coders
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| Enter the matrix |
If you're looking for a career when the poker pennies stop rolling in then you should consider learning computer code according to Ben Plesser.
Once a player himself (he reportedly made $500,000 between 2009 and 2010), Ben recently wrote that there are many similarities between the online poker movement and the current trend for coding.
Commenting in a blog post, Ben said that "the makeup of successful poker players is similar to that of coders in early stage start-ups"; however, he feels coding is ultimately a more "socially constructive" endeavour.
To see why a new career may await you, click here.
Question of the Day
In a bid to help improve your poker prowess, we bring you another thought provoking question from 
pleno1's Lets Talk Poker thread:
"How strictly should you use a stop loss and how do you go about implementing it?"
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'BrynKenney' made a rare appearance at the top of the daily high stakes chart yesterday after banking $187,125. Overtaking the likes of Gus Hansen ($148,864) and 'thecortster' ($125,876), the six-figure win was the online grinder's first of the year.
Suffering at the hands of negative variance in the last 24 hours was 'oogee', 'taktloss47 and Ben 'Ben86' Tollerene. While Ben and 'taktloss47' both suffered six-figure losses, it was 'oogee' who topped the loss chart with a deficit of $197,760.
Daily Signoff
The staff at PokerStars' events are usually pretty slick, but in this clip it seems the dealer's aim was a little off when one of the cards became stuck under the table lining.
