Tobey Maguire's poker skills are on "another level"

In today's Daily Rewind we find out how Tobey Maguire became Hollywood's biggest shark and see why rowdy rails are under threat.

Maguire's high stakes trap

Tobey the shark

We've all heard about the Hollywood home games involving some of the most famous celebrities on the planet, but according to Molly Bloom we don't know the half of it.

Bloom, who organised many of the games, is set to release a book called Molly's Game about her role in the notorious poker ring.

Promising it will share a slew of secrets, she recently told the New York Observer that Tobey Maguire was one of the game's biggest hustlers.

Using his friend Leonardo DiCaprio as bait, Maguire reportedly staged games in order to entice the likes of Andy Beal to play him for million dollar stakes.

Moreover, Bloom explained that Maguire's skills were on "another level" compared to everyone else in the game and that he is seen as a shark amongst rich players.

While the exact amount of money at stake has been reserved for the book, the article does mention a $1 million buy-in private tournament and that Beal allegedly lost $50 million in one session.

Railbird's WSOP ban

We all know the rail is a boisterous place to be during the WSOP, but if you're planning on visiting the Rio this summer then let Sam Panzica's story be a lesson to you.

According to reports from Twitter, Panzica, who is friends with Ryan Riess, was given a lifetime ban from all Caesars Entertainment properties for an incident last year.

While the exact details of the situation are unclear, it seems as though Panzica was engaged in a verbal and physical altercation with another spectator after being attacked.

After been escorted from the property Panzica was told not to return and earlier this week he found out his appeal to join this year's WSOP had been unsuccessful.

In a letter written on behalf of Caesars Vice President of Security, Mr. Thomas Flynn, Panzica was told the company is "not willing to lift" the ban which means he won't be able to watch Riess defend his Main Event title.

No WSOP for Panzica

SCOOP 2014 heating up

'ElkY' on a roll

The race for this year's SCOOP Player of the Series title is starting to heat up as some of the game's top pros continued to put in strong performances last night.

While the likes of Nacho Barbero went deep in another MTT, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier scored two cashes in Event #9(M) and Event #12(M).

However, whilst the pros gradually racked up points, Poland's 'Colisea' moved his way to the top of the performance leaderboard.

Despite not ranking top of the low, medium or high leaderboards, the Polish grinder has managed to top the overall POS rankings after cashing six times in 13 outings.

Question of the Day

"Given the antics of supporters in recent years, do you think rowdy rails help enhance the WSOP or do they reflect the badly on the game?"

Dan Junglemandan Cates managed a second day at the top of the high stakes leaderboard yesterday after banking $154,302. The US pro's haul was enough to put him ahead of Alex Luneau and Viktor Blom who won $143,014 and $64,056 respectively.

At the other end of the spectrum three big names finished atop of the daily loss chart. Falling to the biggest defeat of the day was Patrik Antonius and he was closely followed by Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen who dropped $99,006 over the course of 64 hands.

Daily Signoff

Tobey Maguire might prefer to keep his poker antics under wraps, but at the 2004 WSOP he was happy to swap strategy advice with Daniel Negreanu on the rail.

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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. Follow Daniel Smyth on Twitter l Follow Daniel Smyth on Google+