After a day’s worth of flying — had a lengthy layover at Dallas/FTW (FTW!) — I landed at McCarran International Airport in Vegas at about 10 p.m. last evening. Garry from PokerNews met me at the baggage carousel, and when my overstuffed bag finally turned up it felt a little like I’d won at roulette
The XY Factor heads to Salisbury for the 8.45 race on Thursday….. Suggested Bets (with current Betfair win odds): 3 point win THEOLOGIST [5.4] Staking Plan Records (on £1 per point basis): Yesterday: -4.00 This week: -14.00 All time: +61.31 VERDICT: The final race at Salisbury could provide a good opportunity for THEOLOGIST to get off the mark.
Well, the flight is booked. Still a few details to be ironed out, but I’ll be back in Las Vegas this summer, again helping PokerNews cover the World Series of Poker. Will be arriving in LV in just a week-and-a-half (no… really?), and once more I’ll be there for the duration, all the way ’til mid-July when the new November Nine is set
Fourth place finisher at WPT Venice, Mike “Timex” McDonald, writes up an excellent Euro poker trip report on his blog with brutally frank assessments of various players and one hand history that ends with the sentence, “I never thought I’d win a big pot in a major live tournament with 6 high but there’s a first time for everything.” Check it out. (Photo of Mike from Bwin’s tournament coverage located here .)
Congratulations to Sven Ragnar Åström from Sweden who took down the WPT Venice title and the over $500,000 that goes with it.
The timing for the WSOP this year was impacted by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) when they arrested David Carruthers, CEO of BETonSPORTS, in Dallas, Texas, while changing planes on his return to Costa Rica from the Company’s AGM in the UK. Other online gaming company executives like Calvin Ayre, CEO of BoDog.com, were compelled to change their plans of attending the WSOP, and supporting events, as a precautionary measure to avoid being possibly arrested themselves; eventhough unrelated to the BoS situation.
The day started well for me, at home, looking for a book to read on the long busride to The Bike, and found the latest Robin Paige mystery that I have yet to read, and at the same time, noticed that I hadn’t finished the previous one, so, I picked that up too. I finished that one about the time the bus dropped me at the corner of Eastern and Florence, which is a short block away from the main entrance of The Bicycle Casino located in Bell Gardens California, and the site of the Legends of Poker WPT tour event every year. This tournament was named after Doyle Brunson , who won the event two years ago, and I was hoping to see him there, as all past Legends winners were invited to attend as well.
LOS ANGELES — Back in 1996, Entertainment Weekly magazine proclaimed that Price is Right model Cindy Margolis was getting her 15 minutes of fame after she set a record for downloads of her picture on the internet. Now, with the 10 year anniversary of that article coming up Margolis is still being downloaded and turning heads wherever she goes. From her corporate offices in Los Angeles Margolis takes it all in with a grain of salt
Word is that Barney Frank (D-MA), the Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, is very close to reintroducing legislation — any day now, apparently — designed to counter the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. What’re we supposed to think about that?