Online Craps Player

Finnish star Juha Helppi has climbed eights spots into ninth place on 2,328.50 points following a good showing at the recent European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin and he has broken into the top 10 of the Global Poker Index (GPI) 300.

Back in 2007, the Helsinki pro won the inaugural Party Poker Premier League Poker title for $125,000 after seeing off former Full Tilt Pro Liz Lieu, Phil Hellmuth, Eddy Scharf, Team PokerStars Pro Ian Frazer and Vicky Coren at the final table in Maidstone, England. in the €2,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Turbo event, he earned 152 points for finishing as runner-up at the Spielbank Berlin for $29,493 in mid-April.

$301,992 was added to the London-based Frenchman for his success to close the gap on GPI leader Jason Mercier (2,934.67), of the USA. He had his overall score by 192.21 to now sit on 2,910.67.

When the next rankings list is revealed, Jason Mercier will see his 11-week stay at the top of the leader board come to an end, however, with Grospellier’s third place finish will add even more points to his tally.

Vegas-based pro Justin Bonomo will undoubtedly return to the GPI 300. He took down the Super High Roller event for $2,165,217. Also breaking into the top 40 are 53rd-placed Canadian Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu (sixth for $409,279) and Germany’s Tobias Reinkemeier (second for $1,404,750).

Additionally, expect to see New York’s Tommy Vedes to improve on his 146th place on the rankings. Vedes will be happy to climb back up on the next list. He is now sitting on 1,352.84 points after a fall of 38 places.

On the rankings, Canadian Sorel Mizzi gained four places to move into third. This is his highest place until date. The biggest winner was Belgian Davidi Kitai. He holds 1,644.16, as well as the largest placing jump of 167 spots to 64th. Canadian Shawn Buchanan (sixth on 2,366.96) dropped 49.23 points and one place into sixth, while Vegas-based Steve O’Dwyer climbed one place into fifth on the GPI with 2,385.82 points.

Ontario’s Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald added 26.85 but remained in eighth on 2,332.84, Quebec’s Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel fell one spot into 10th on 2,288.28 and Montana’s David ‘Doc’ Sands fell four places into seventh place after losing 200.96 points to now hold 2,343.88. Long Island’s Andrew Lichtenberger (2,278.62) lost three places to now sit at 13th after losing 6.62 points.

Canadian Andrew Chen and German Mario Puccini shot up the rankings after making it into the final table.

The Global Poker Index Top 10 is as follows:

1. Jason Mercier (USA) – 2,934.67 (no change)

2. Bertrand Grospellier (France) – 2,910.67 (no change)

3. Sorel Mizzi (Canada) – 2,670.68 (up four places)

4. Eugene Katchalov (Ukraine) – 2,551.10 (no change)

5. Stephen O’Dwyer (USA) – 2,385.82 (up one place)

6. Shawn Buchanan (Canada) – 2,366.96 (down one place)

7. David ‘Doc’ Sands (USA) – 2,343.88 (down four places)

8. Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald (Canada) – 2,332.84 (no change)

9. Juha Helppi (Finland) – 2,328.50 (up eight places)

10. Jonathan Duhamel (Canada) – 2,288.28 (down one place)

Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, the Swedish online poker sensation has gained revenge against nemesis Isaac ‘philivey2694’ Haxton for losing the first two PokerStars SuperStar Showdowns. Isildur1 took the third and the match-up against the American for a massive $500,000 profit. He secured a huge turnaround by winning the latest $1 million clash to move into a profit of $453,206 from the three battles with his rival, after having found himself 2-0 – but only $46,794 – down to the Malta-based States star, Viktor Blom.

The high hollers had played a fixed 2,500 hands with $150,000 bankrolls then, with the winner simply being the player with the most cash at the end of each game, although this encounter was significantly different from the previous two.

For four hours per day, across four heads up tables at $200/$400 blinds, the two had agreed to play no limit hold’em until one player had won the $500,000 stake from the other. the cash game gurus agreed to play one four-hour session per day until one player had won their opponent’s $500,000, instead of playing just 2,500 hands. This eventful match took three days to complete. The match took 5,030 hands to crown Isildur1 the winner. Posting a lead of about $200K, Blom got off to a fast start on day one. He then finished off Haxton on day three of the challenge and increased his lead to about $280K on day two.

In a standard challenge, Blom and Haxton had faced each other twice, with Haxton winning both battles. By $41,701, Haxton won the first encounter and then more recently by just $5,093. Blom decided to up the ante and make their third match even more exciting, despite having lost twice to the extremely talented Haxton.

Many in the poker community were all completely wrong because they thought Haxton would run away with the match but it was Blom who bludgeoned his way to victory in record quick time. On Saturday 31 March, the first day’s play took place and by the time the four hour session had been completed Blom had carved himself a lead of $198,438. On Sunday 1 April, the session saw the young Swede extend that lead to $281,365. Blom continue his amazing run and win all of Haxton’s available funds in the third and final match.

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Craps, for beginners can be a very nerve-racking game. At the table, the players shout aloud the commands and it seems the game has about hundred unusual kinds of bets. Following is a write up regarding few strategies relating to Craps.

Firstly, place the numbers is the first craps strategy. “Press” is the term one should keep in their mind. You increase your bet, when you press your bet. On your first hit, it is a first-rate strategy to take the winnings and then press on the next hit. This taking and pressing rotation should be followed.

Secondly, on your passline bets, all the time take the maximum odds. In the casino, the passline bet in Craps is one of the best bets. The maximum amount they allow should always be taken. It is in your best interest to do so. Ask the dealer if you bet is correct, if you are new to craps.

Thirdly, on the craps table, improve your bets. By only choosing the bets with the lowest house edge, this can be attained. Buying do not pass and/or do not come bets from players, you can make the best bet. This should be done from players who place do not pass and/or do not come bets that wind up on the six or eight.

Fourthly, by supplementing your original Pass/Don’t Pass bet, an odds bet is made by an additional amount after you have made it past the Come Out roll. Restricting these bets to Single Odds is a typical in Vegas, meaning you can match your Come Out bet with an equal amount. The more you shave off the house edge on your initial bet, the biggest Odds you can find because the larger the Odds bet.

In order to give time for the dust to settle from the recent online poker shutdown in the United States, the World Team Poker Championship has been postponed. The event is not expected to be rescheduled for a date later in the summer whereas the event was originally scheduled to take place between May 24 and 26 at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas.

Even though no team may be more affected than the United States team, several teams include players that have relationships with PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker or UB.com. Including Jennifer Harman and Howard Lederer, who may both have stakes in the ownership of the site several Full Tilt Poker professionals are on the team. Although Tom Dwan has specifically noted that he has no stake in the company, he is also a Full Tilt pro.

Todd and Doyle Brunson are other players on the US team with online poker ties, who work with DoylesRoom, and Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, who formerly represented UB.com.

From about 30 different countries, the World Team Poker Championship Event was expected to draw teams. The inaugural event, held in 2010, was won by Team China, which outlasted seven other teams in a 19-hour battle. The Chinese team includes 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Johnny Chan, David Chiu, Derek Cheung, Chau Giang, Maria Ho, Winfred Yu and Rich Zhu.

For World Team Poker’s Championship Event Teams were slated to come in from around the world. Among the countries represented were Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the Ukraine, Vietnam, and Wales.

On June 2, at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker will be holding a series of rematches from past main events at this year’s tournament series. Poker champions are gearing up for a rematch of their most storied games.

By bringing back players from some of the most interesting main events from years past, the matches will relive a part of a WSOP history. All the matches will be held and filmed at the Rio in the Amazon Room. The events are open to the public and free to attend. As part of ESPN’s WSOP coverage, the matches will be aired on July 26th. There will be three matches, and all three of them will be contested under slightly different rules.

On June 2, Chris Moneymaker will face off against Sammy Farha in the World Series of Poker rematch games. In the 2003 main event, in a surprise finish, Moneymaker trumped Farha.

During the games, World Series of Poker winner Phil Hellmuth will also go another round with runner up Johnny Chan. In 1989 Chan had two consecutive main event wins when he lost to Hellmuth.

Fans can vote for one of four possible face offs on the World Series of Poker’s Facebook page for a third rematch. Among the choices is a possible rematch between Chan and 1988 second place finisher Erik Seidel.

A $90 million casino expansion and hotel development has been planned by the Yakama Nation at its existing casino in Toppenish. As Indian casinos nationally showed their first profits declines, echoing the economic downturn in 2009, which led to the suggestion for the expansion.

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are working on a $67 million project, across the Columbia River in Oregon to add more casino space, a Cineplex and high-rise hotel of their own.

On March 8, tribal council chairman Harry Smiskin said that the tribe’s general membership accepted the expansion. To offer more entertainment and, in turn, draw crowds, the project will facilitate the tribe to alter existing gambling space into a 29,000-square-foot events center.

Smiskin added that they have to develop with the market, in order for Legends Casino to remain competitive. The expansion is something that will be advantageous to the tribe and all are looking forward for the same. Smiskin added that once the development is complete in 18 months, the tribe hopes to add 150-200 jobs.

For the Umatilla tribes, the casino that is already frequented by gray-haired slot-lovers, the expansion marks a new endeavor to draw a younger crowd. The expansion will add 20,000 square feet of gambling space, a four-screen movie theater and a 10-story hotel and the tribe lures visitors with a casino, small hotel, RV park, golf course and museum.

Bergman Wells and Associates, based out of Las Vegas, Nevada is the architect firm working on this project.

By late summer or early fall of 2012, the leaders say they hope to complete the hotel and casino project. On May 16, groundbreaking for the project is programmed.

At the Commerce Casino, Day 5 of the $10,000 World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic Main Event was completed with a magnificent field in action. In the event out of an initial 651 contestants, the day began with 18 players remaining, everyone expected an extensive exhausting day of play due to the high-profile names remaining in conflict; however, that was not the case.

For the 18 players, it took less than six hours to be whittled down to the final six players who took their seats at the concluding table, in the hope to triumph the event, which has $1.654 million set aside for the champion. As chip leader, holding 5,235,000 chips, all eyes were on Carlos Mortensen. Vivek Rajkumar, who won the Borgata Poker Open, last year, strongly followed Mortensen. Rajkumar has a World Poker Tour title to his name and he is better known in online poker circles as “Psyduck.” The rest of the four players were Amir “AmirSF” Lehavot with 4,115,000 chips, Gregory “MYNAMEIZGREG” Brooks with 2,300,000, and Darryll “Dfish” Fish with 2,275,000 and Steve “gboro780″ Gross with 1,320,000. Of all time, Gross is in all probability the finest online tournament player and he has close to $6,000,000 in online winnings.

In career live tournament earnings, Mortensen has over $10 million. At the WPT L.A. Poker Classic most recent season, he was ninth before captivating his record-tying third WPT title at the Hollywood Poker Open in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

Creating a $6,537,600 prize pool with $1,654,120 held in reserve for first, the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic attracted 681 players. The WPT Celebrity Invitational final table is filmed for TV, while the final table will be held back for a day.

A triumph at final table would set Mortensen, a fresh tournament record of four WPT titles and it would move Mortensen to 5th on the ‘Money List’ at the forefront of Phil Hellmuth.

Party Gaming has inked a major deal to supply the gaming platform for online poker to at least two big Las Vegas Casino operators. It has not been reported which two as of yet, but in the list of Vegas Casinos that “could” be the two that inked the deal are MGM, Las Vegas Sands, Boyd Gaming or Caesars. The gaming world is abuzz with the news of this major deal.

After the UIGEA bill became law, Party Gaming was booted out of the US and it was fined a major amount of money by the DOJ. However, they were able to leave the door open to re-enter the US market if online gambling was ever legalized, after paying their fine and leaving the States. Many European gaming companies were effectively outlawed in 2006 and they left the US, after the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

To form a mega company, Party Gaming has merged with Bwin, an Austrian based company, and it is now in perfect position to become a major force in the US.

Police has arrested Bulldogs front-rower Ryan Tandy for providing false evidence to a law enforcement agency during the course of an investigation. The arrest took place at a unit in Bronte in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and homes in Strathfield and Punchbowl in the city’s west.

Under the command of Superintendent Arthur Katsogiannis, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Racing and Casino Investigation Unit are finalizing their investigation into suspicious betting activity on round 24 NRL game between North Queensland and Canterbury in Townsville last year.

A police statement said that in Sydney’s CBD, at about 11.15am a 29-year-old man was arrested by police, before being taken to City Central Police Station. Charges are expected to be laid.

Betting agencies reported suspicious punting trends on the Cowboys to open the scoring with a penalty goal, since Tandy’s role in the match has been a centre of focus. In the match betting, it was something of a novelty option. Relevant documentation and mobile phones were located and seized during the searches.

Katsogiannis, said that investigation is treated seriously by the police. He added that it is not a game. It is real life and police will endeavor to uncover the truth with their investigations and ensure justice is done. To uncover the truth and complete their investigation, detectives will continue to use every available resource. He said that it is important for anyone with any information on criminal activity regarding betting allegations, should cooperate with police so that the investigations can proceed. He has urged the same to come forward, while they still have the opportunity.