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The poker grapevine –Liv Boeree, Phil Laak and other bits
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2010-08-07 11:42
The vul… er… agents hovering about the tables during the final stages of this year’s WSOP will like this one:
EPT San Remo Main Event winner Liv Boeree may have parted ways with her sponsor,
Ultimate Bet. Boeree had been seen wearing a UB patch through much of the
WSOP, right up to till the Main Event. Since then though, she’s been seen around patch-less. This is by no means a confirmed report, rather just a logical conclusion (read: speculation) regarding Boeree’s status. Besides the rumors, one fact seems to give some food for thought for those with nothing better to do than to salivate over every bit of poker and online poker information out there (myself): Boeree’s name has been removed from UB’s team page.
In other news: Phil Laak has apparently made the wrong choice when he decided to go ATV-ing in Oregon. While the pastime itself sounds rather exciting and harmless, if one adds Antonio Esfandiari (the Magician) and Alec Torelli to the mix, the situation deteriorates at an alarming pace. This time it was apparently Laak who “bought it”. Esfandiari tweeted a picture showing Laak in a rather banged up state, after he’d supposedly broken 7 bones in what must’ve been an incident involving an overdose of aged teen spirit and an ATV flipping over.
In still other news: Cake Poker has apparently still not done away completely with the security glitch plaguing the site. While the 1.0 version of the software has indeed been successfully patched, the version used by some of the cake poker skins remains vulnerable as the SSL used for the original version is apparently incompatible with it. Look for the issue to be sorted out on the skins too soon.
