The Daily Rewind: jungleman12 Video, Brandon Adams Responds, Pokerfest Begins
Today we're excited about Daniel Cates' first exclusive video for PokerStrategy.com. There's news about a PokerStrategy.com winner in PartyPoker's Pokerfest series and we hear from Brandon Adams about his controversial comments after Black Friday.
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:
Jungleman is here
Daniel "jungleman12" Cates is unquestionably one of the most revered high stakes online poker players in the world.
Battling and winning against the very best players such as Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Cates has been at the top of the game for a while now. It makes us particularly happy to welcome Daniel to PokerStrategy.com as his first training video is released today!
You can a ten minute preview below and Gold members can see the whole video here. Welcome Daniel!
Pokerfest underway
PartyPoker’s inaugural Pokerfest series kicked off this weekend and already 4 of the 47 tournaments have been and gone.
Pokerfest is guaranteeing $3 million in prize money and runs until November 6 culminating in a $1 million guaranteed tournament. Every day there is a selection of tournaments at a variety of buy-in levels.
Big winners so far include PokerStrategy.com member kiersno who won $47,248.93 for taking down Event #1 $300k GTD NL Hold’em.
The action continues today with $500, $5,000 and $50,000 guaranteed tournaments. You can find out more about the series here.
Adams speaks out on FTP
It wouldn't feel normal to have a daily newsflash without any Full Tilt Poker news, so here’s your daily fix.
Well regarded high stakes poker pro and businessman Brandon Adams has been speaking out this weekend in defence of his somewhat asinine comments around the time of Black Friday.
Adams's infamous tweet described Full Tilt Poker as being "run by much more honourable people than PokerStars". The ex-FTP pro was made to eat his words but has since clarified his stance in a 2+2 thread, stating he "never had anything close to an ownership interest in FT" and that he had made some "dumb comments".
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| Adams admits "dumb comments" |
High stakes corner
The past 24 hours have seen some juicy $200/$400 NL action going down at PokerStars and one man in particular has been enjoying a fine end to the weekend.
Phil "takechip" D'Auteil took a stranglehold on the game yesterday and managed to book a chunky $374,444 win according to HSDB.
D'Auteil won a monstrous pot worth $350,000 in the process and made both "nutsinho" and particularly "LiangYu" suffer, who lost $288,390 and $326,766 respectively over the past 24 hours.
Hot shot of the day
Today we continue our foray through the poker hotness charts and introduce you to number 38. Featuring today is none other than self titled "Poker Diva" Liz Lieu.
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| Liz Lieu is hotshot #38 |
