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The poker grapevine – a retrospective of the week
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2011-02-02 11:42
Nowadays, there’s little shortage of live and online poker events and the first part of this week was a perfect illustration of the bustle that has become the everyday pace of the world of poker.
David Gorr, winner of the Aussie Millions’ Main Event was quite probably the biggest live tournament winner of the week. He bested a starting field of 721 players to pocket the AUD$2 million. Gorr bested James Keys heads-up in a confrontation which he entered with a 5-1 chip lead. The final table that he had had to wade through to make it to that stage though was an extremely impressive one. Patrik Antonius was there (he eventually ended up becoming the first player to hit the rail), together with Chris Moorman, Randy Dorfman (who had held the chip lead for a couple of days before the stage of the final table was reached) and Jeff Rossiter.
The weekend offered prolific breeding grounds to various high buy-in
online poker guarantees yet again. Player participation was extremely impressive in
Full Tilt Poker’s biggest guarantees, which not only covered their respective prize-pools but some of them nearly doubled their guarantees.
The starting fields of these guarantees were unusually pro heavy too, and railbirds got to see Justin Bonomo, John Dolan, Chris Moorman and Vanessa Selbst turn in impressive performances.
Viktor Blom managed to improve to 2-1 in his SuperStar Showdown series by besting Daniel Cates over the 2,500 hands set forth by the rules of the match.
In other news: in the wake of New Jersey’s online poker bill, several other states are beginning to look at the prospects of legal intrastate online poker and gambling seriously. California lawmakers have been toying with the idea for a while and now a similar initiative seems to have spread wings in Florida. Due to their proposed nature, such legal initiatives do not exactly help the online poker industry as they mostly seek to isolate the various states and their poker-playing public from the already existing online infrastructure.
