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The Wacky World of Poker - gossip and news
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-11-02 15:38
While the online poker industry is as serious as it gets when it comes to making money and to cooking up promotions (the poker rooms) and winning or losing (the players) the game of poker is a game at the end of the day, and as such it’s supposed to be fun above all. Not all news about poker is about millions changing hands or poker rooms struggling for supremacy (although that part is fairly entertaining too). There are light, funny things happening pretty much all the time, and no matter how tied up you are in your game, sometimes taking a poker-related break from it is a good idea.
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are apparently far from being the highest volume players they’re hyped up to be. Sure they’re quite impossible to match when it comes to the money they wager at the tables, but when it comes to putting in the hard work and to grinding away, a father of three taking care of a newborn is apparently well ahead of these guys. Dan Grolemund, know at PokerStars by his online moniker “DannyOhBoy”, has played no fewer than 1 million hands in 10 months to achieve SuperNova Elite Status at
PokerStars. To put that achievement into perspective, consider the following: Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have played around 25,000 challenge hands during the same time span.
Of course, they’ve logged plenty of other hands at non-challenge tables, but then again, they didn’t have to care for a newborn and maintain a full time job too. Grolemund is obviously the person they should look to for inspiration if they intend to finish that already wound-down challenge series of theirs.
In other news: in Cleveland, another poker robbery occurred a few days ago. The robbers made off with $11,000 in cash, but the truly interesting thing about if all was that they removed all the victims’ pants before making a dash for it. One of their victims had also been robbed a few weeks before the incident, so this guy will definitely think twice about taking money to another – otherwise legal - private poker game in Ohio.
