The Grand Tour launches at PokerStars
We recap some stories you may have missed including a $500,000 Rock, Paper, Scissors bet and poker's own #DontRushChallenge.
The Grand Tour launches
You may recall earlier this week we told you about La Course, a hyper turbo PKO SNG with lottery style payouts, which launched this week in France. The global version of this should be hitting the Play Money tables (and soon real money tables) at PokerStars today.
In the global market it is called The Grand Tour and has a cycling theme. It is still a four handed hyper turbo PKO SNG where you win a ticket to the next buy-in level as well as your bounties. If you win the final stage your final bounty payout is multiplied like a Spin & Go and can be worth as much as $100,000.
You can read more about it here and we shall do a full review once the format is live.
Floyd Mayweather plays for stacks
Live poker may not be happening in any land based casino, but what about the sky?
It's not the first time Floyd Mayweather has flouted his money playing poker but given the entire world is on lockdown, this Instagram picture of him playing for big money on a private jet is something of a surprise.
Now is as good a time as any to call BS on him having four of a kind in this shot like he claims, it looks more like a photo opportunity than anything else:
$500k Rock, Paper, Scissors bet invalid
Proof people are prepared to bet on anything, especially when there is no sport to wager on.
A Canadian court has ruled a $500,000 bet on the outcome of a Rock, Paper, Scissors game as invalid after an appeal. It comes after a game in 2011 where the loser remortgaged their house to pay off the debt.
Rock, Paper, Scissors was also deemed a game of skill by Superior Court Justice Chantal Chatelain.
Poker Ladies do the #DontRushChallenge
Finally, some of the best known names in women's poker broke the monotamy last week by doing their own version of the #DontRushChallenge, enjoy.
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