Rick Salomon dumped by Pamela Anderson after One Drop
In today's Daily Rewind we find out why $2.8 million wasn't enough for Pamela Anderson and crush the Main Event with Phil Ivey.
Salomon dropped by Anderson
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| Bad luck, Rick |
Rick Salomon has just suffered his second bad beat in the space of a week after his wife, Pamela Anderson, filed for divorce.
The TV producer and part-time poker player had been married to Anderson for six months (the second time they'd been married), but just two days after he finished fourth in this year's Big One for One Drop his partner had officially dropped him.
Salomon and Anderson first met during a private poker game where the latter reportedly lost $250,000 to her future partner.
However, despite their initial attraction the couple's two marriages lasted less than 12 months.
It's unclear whether Salomon's failure to scoop the $15 million top prize was behind Anderson's change of heart, but she could now be entitled to half of his $2.8 million score.
WPT to debut in Holland
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| A new WPT stop |
The WPT will head to the Netherlands later this year for its first ever tournament in the land of tulips and windmills.
Despite producing a slew of world-class players, the country has yet to host a WPT event but all that will change on October 1 when WPT National Valkenburg gets underway.
Running over the course of five days inside Holland Casino, the festival will feature a €500+€50 Main Event as well as a €1,350+€150 High Roller.
Commenting on the news, Holland Casino's Director, Noel Leise, said:
"I am thrilled to announce this venture with World Poker Tour which is set to offer our players something they haven't experienced before in Holland."
Community's tribute to Brown
A charity tournament in honour of Chad Brown will take place this Sunday inside the spiritual home of the WSOP, Binion's Horseshoe.
Following the news of Brown's passing last week, Vanessa Rousso was quick to help set-up a memorial MTT as a tribute to her former husband.
The $225 (+$50 rebuy) tournament will be overseen by Matt Savage and, in amongst a host of pros expected to attend, the general public are being invited to ante-up.
Half of each player's buy-in, plus all the funds from rebuys, will be given to the T.J. Martell Foundation which conducts research into various forms of cancer.
In addition to money raised through buy-ins and donations, PokerStars (Chad's former sponsors) has pledged to match the total amount raised by the event.
Moreover, the online poker site is offering a 2015 PCA Main Event seat for the winner and a Main Event seat + hotel stay at the Montreal Poker Festival for the runner-up.
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| Ante-up for Chad |
Question of the Day
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Phil Ivey's Main Event momentum continued today as he raked in 505,500 chips. After starting Day 2C with a healthy stack, the high stakes pro seemed to thrive as the field gradually whittled itself down to less than 1,500 players.
Indeed, by the close of play he was left atop of the leaderboard and will start Day 3 as the overall chip leader.
While Phil Ivey was rising, Phil Hellmuth became one of the many high profile casualties on Day 2C.
The Poker Brat couldn't keep pace with the field and eventually fell midway through the session and joined the likes of Dominik 'ace0ntheriver' Nitsche, Joe Hachem and Tobias 'pokernoob' Reinkemeier on the rail.
Daily Signoff
With Phil Ivey looking like he could make another deep Main Event run this year, we thought we'd finish today with this bluff during the 2009 finale.
Yesterday's Daily Rewind: Jesse Pinkman joins the WSOP's festivities
 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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