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The Poker Grapevine – Ivey to Launch Training Site
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sat, 2014-01-18 08:55
Phil Ivey has spent a lot of time and money building up his own poker brand and hiring various pros to represent it all over the world, and he has made it clear from the get go that it was his intention to launch an online training site, where the pros hired by him would teach the masses how to play optimally. The time to make good on his promise has apparently arrived as it was announced that his Ivey League training site would be launched later this month. In an effort to lend another marketing push to his operation, Ivey has apparently teamed up with a number of televised sporting events, to effectively target the audience demographics of his choice. The first such show to bear the iveypoker.com mark is Shobox, the Next Generation, a sort of boxing talent show, featuring some of the up and coming talent.
Besides the instructional video content, Ivey’s poker training site offers a social poker app on Facebook too.
In other news: the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, the one offering a $2 million guarantee, was quite a trouble and confusion-burdened one from the beginning. While it did manage to play down to the final 27 players on Friday, the
poker tournament was stopped by the organizers for having been “compromised”.
Apparently, the reason behind the stopping of the action was the suspected use of counterfeit chips. Exactly who used the said chips, where they came from and other such details are currently unknown. The action had been scheduled to resume at noon on Friday, but it has been postponed on account of the ongoing counterfeit chip investigation.
Allard Broedelet was the chip leader, holding a little more than 10% of the chips in action.
Play at PokerStars and make your way to the 2014 WSOP Main Event through one of the online qualifiers offered by the site.
