Patrik Antonius Clears 2010 Losses
Full Tilt Poker professional poker player Patrik Antonius is once again been fired into the poker industry spot light but this time its on a positive note.
The high stakes real money player had been having a rough time at the online poker tables since the start of the year but with the player having a complete change of luck at the tables over the past 6 weeks, the player has been able to claw back the bankroll to cover his losses earlier within the year.
The report comes as the player has been able to create a string of victories that saw the player make just less than $4 million in poker winnings, clearing the losses that the player had experienced.
The recent success is not going to prove as too much of a shock to anyone who knows the player after Antonius was able to make $9 million in poker bankroll throughout 2009.
Poker Player Looks to Donate All of World Series of Poker Winnings
A poker player who is better known for being an entrepreneur from New York, America has spoken out to the poker community media to say that should he be successful in his attempt to win the World Series of Poker Main Event, he will donate the whole of his winnings to charity.
Michael Karnjanaprakorn spoke out about his intensions after speaking to another poker player last year about how poker would be able to continue to help charities, even without specially organised poker tournaments that include large name celebrities from all walks of backgrounds.
To enable the player to be able to have a go at completing his pledge, the player will look to raise the $10,000 buy in fee into the tournament through donations from others who would like to see if the player can complete what he has issued.
Karnjanaprakorn has already selected which charities will benefit from his pledge, telling media that the winnings will be split between the Langston Hughes Academy and Bad Beat on Cancer.
Langston Hughes Academy are a charity that are dedicated to providing schooling to children who were effected by Hurricane Katrina.
Bad Beat on Cancer is a charity that was created with the help of a number of professional poker players who signed up to pledge that they would share a small percentage of their tournament poker winnings for each and every tournament that they enter. With names such as Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson all involved, the charity has already generated more than $2 million for this charity’s cause.
To increase his chances of success should he be able to secure the full buy in amount of $10,000, the player has called on a number of big name professional players to offer their training, with Annie Duke and the National Heads Up Poker champion Rafe Furst stepping forward to back the player and offer their advice.
Labat Leading France Poker Series
With online poker room PokerStars putting the European Poker Tour to bed for another year, attention is being moved over to the France Poker Series.
The France Poker Series is breaking into action for the first time ever, taking host in the Casino of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, found close to Monte Carlo where the more popular EPT tournament was been played.
The option to hold the tournament so close to Monte Carlo seems to have paid off, helping the tournament to attract 149 players to buy in to the tournament.
Part of the tournament field that opted to buy into this tournament is made up of names that have travelled down to the casino after taking part in the EPT tournament, with the biggest player making the trip between the two tournaments being Roger Hairabedian who made the final table of the larger tournament.
After day 1 came to an end, there were only 31 players remaining so those players return today as they look to battle it out for the top spot as well as the €40,123 first place payout.
The current leader of the tournament is Antoine Labat who has been able to acquire 305,000 chips and carries a small chip advantage into day 2.
PokerStars professionals from the Team PokerStars Pro France are having a poor showing in this tournament, with the only member still in the tournament being Arnaud Mattern who is struggling too with only 60,000 chips.
Obrestad Signs With Full Tilt Poker
Annette Obrestad has been within the poker industry media this week, recalling the time that the female poker professional managed to win an online poker tournament without looking at her hole cards.
Obrestad plays under the alias of ‘Annette_15’ and Full Tilt Poker members are about to see a whole lot more of the female who has already placed her name within the poker history books as being one of the most successful female poker players ever.
Obrestad revealed small details of a new announcement that she had to tell to the world while she was using the social networking site Twitter but now that she has been given the go ahead, the cat is out of the bag and she has revealed that she has signed to be the latest addition to the Full Tilt Poker professional rosters.
Obrestad will make her debut within the World Series of Poker, entering the tournament for the first time and when she takes to the tables, she will be wearing a Full Tilt Poker patch on whatever she is wearing.
Annette is getting a taste for success with large tournaments, carrying the title of being the youngest person ever to have won the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event back in 2007.
After partying ways with Betfair Poker, it seems that the deal will not only benefit her but the online poker room too.
It seems that Betfair Poker is losing a number of their professional roster players with former professional Team Betfair player Sorel Mizzi also jumping ship and signing up with iPoker network’s Titan Poker.
Machine Poker Causing Issues in Australia
A recent report that has been conducted in Victoria, Australia has revealed that over 12,000 machine poker players each and every year have thought about committing suicide following a poor run of luck on the electronic gaming machines.
The report found that with 15,000 gamblers from the region being asked questions about their gambling habits, that a high percentage of the people asked had at some point thought about either ending their life following poor results on the machines or even about breaking the law in order to fund their habit.
The report that was commissioned by the Department of Justice, revealed that Victoria had the worst gambling problem in the whole of Australia.
An excerpt of the report reads like this:
“Results also revealed that problem gamblers were significantly more likely to have considered taking their own life compared to moderate risk gamblers and were also significantly more likely to have done something that is technically against the law.”
