The Daily Rewind: Daniel Tzvetkoff, jungleman Says He's Best, Pokerfest Latest

Today we hear the fascinating story behind payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff. Daniel Cates makes the news again after he issues a challenge to all-comers, and we hear about everyone's favourite grinder cleaning up again over at PokerStars.

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:

Poker’s Liar: The story of Daniel Tzvetkoff

A captivating article was updated today over at the Australian Financial Review.

It focuses on one man's fascinating story and how he worked the payment processing system to monopolise financial transactions from online poker rooms through a internet payments gateway.

That man is Daniel Tzvetkoff and it's an enthralling read which confirms Tzvetkoff was one of the principle targets of the DOJ, suggesting that the Australian is likely to testify against the 11 men indicted after Black Friday to save him from a lengthy jail term himself.

Daniel Tzvetkoff - "IT genius" in hiding

Pokerfest day five

PartyPoker's inaugural Pokerfest series continues today with 16 events already in the books.

Yesterday's big winner was "donni3brasco" who took down $7,124 for winning Event #16 $25,000 FL Hold'em.

There's still 31 tournaments to go with today’s three MTTs consisting of  $1,000, $10,000 and $100,000 GTD NL Hold’em events. Good luck to those playing!

I’m the best, says jungleman12

PokerStrategy.com coach Daniel junglemandan Cates has been a man in the limelight for slightly negative reasons lately, but this week he's thrown down the gauntlet to let his cards do the talking.

Cates has issued an open challenge to "the poker world" that he can beat anyone at a €100,000 heads-up game. He invites anyone to play him in a one-off match taking place at the Prague Poker Festival on December 6th.

This match will be streamed on the internet with a fifteen minute delay allowing hole cards to be seen. Bizarrely the press release doesn't say which games Cates will be playing but one would assume NL Hold’em will be the format. The match will be streamed at thepokerfarm.com.

"I'll play anyone" says jungleman12

High stakes corner

The past 24 hours have seen every railbird's favourite grind machine, "!P0krparty?" back online and crushing.

The Canadian known for playing marathon sessions was back to his old tricks yesterday, logging a staggering 11,318 hands playing solely $25/$50 PLO on PokerStars. According to HSDB he logged a similarly impressive $96,822 winning session. Now that’s dedication!

It was a bad day at the office for Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond who parted with $151,888 over the day, again all at $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha.

Hot shot of the day

Today we inch ever closer to discovering the hottest female in poker. Charting at number 34 is the wife of high stakes legend Patrik Antonius, Maya Geller-Antonius.

Hotshot #34 - Maya Geller-Antonius