Poker Blog and Poker Gossip

I am off to Greece for a week!  I will try to write some posts while I am away if I can get access to a computer.

Thanks for reading!

Graham
BankrollBoost.com

A new player on the scene, CryMeARiver8, was crushing the $200/$400 PLO game on Full Tilt yesterday.  He doubled up through Tony G to get to around $200K and kept on steamrolling.

Here is a shot with him sitting well over $300K:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3412332449: Table Ano (6 max) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 18:55:21 ET - 2007/08/30
Seat 1: CryMeARiver8 ($308,621)
Seat 2: John Juanda ($14,800), is sitting out
Seat 3: Dogs n Cats ($6,200)
Seat 4: DaFool ($31,587)
Seat 5: Luck123 ($0), is sitting out
Seat 6: borodino22 ($8,162)
borodino22 posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
CryMeARiver8 raises to $1,200
Dogs n Cats raises to $4,000
DaFool folds
Luck123 adds $8,000
borodino22 folds
CryMeARiver8 raises to $12,400
Luck123 has returned
Dogs n Cats has 15 seconds left to act
Dogs n Cats calls $2,200, and is all in
CryMeARiver8 shows [Qd Jh Js Th]
Dogs n Cats shows [As 7c Ac 3d]
Uncalled bet of $6,200 returned to CryMeARiver8
*** FLOP *** [4h 9h Ts]
*** TURN *** [4h 9h Ts] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [4h 9h Ts 9c] [Kd]
CryMeARiver8 shows a straight, King high
Dogs n Cats shows two pair, Aces and Nines
CryMeARiver8 wins the pot ($12,798) with a straight, King high
Dogs n Cats adds $8,000
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $12,800 | Rake $2
Board: [4h 9h Ts 9c Kd]
Seat 1: CryMeARiver8 showed [Qd Jh Js Th] and won ($12,798) with a straight, King high
Seat 2: John Juanda is sitting out
Seat 3: Dogs n Cats showed [As 7c Ac 3d] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 4: DaFool (button) didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 5: Luck123 (small blind) is sitting out
Seat 6: borodino22 (big blind) folded before the Flop

Who is CryMeARiver8?  Some believe that this may be another Patrik Antonius account, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

One of the promotions that we offer that I am surprised not as many people take advantage of is our £50 Free Casino Chips at Betfair Casino.  You can use this money to play anything from Blackjack to Roulette all in Betfair casino’s special Zero Lounge where there is Zero house edge.

This promotion isn’t going to be around for much longer, so if you want to try something other than just playing poker all the time, check out Betfair’s casino.

The full details of this promotion can be found on our special Betfair Landing page.

Betfair is the main sponsor for the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe.  You can qualify online at Betfair Poker today.

For those of you playing on Pokerstars this evening thinking you lost your connection, you are wrong.  Pokerstars servers crashed this evening putting all the ongoing games in limbo.  Players were left scrambling wondering what will happen to tournaments that were in play.

I am sure Pokerstars will rectify these situations as they are one of the top online poker sites.  Many players who were in tournaments were either credited money back, or the tournaments were resumed when the servers came back online.  This is probably due to the excess of Bodog players being unable to play at Bodog.

Betfair Poker is preparing for one of their biggest days ever.  There will be over $370K in prizes given away on Sunday September 2nd.  Here is the list of events:

$370,000 of packages and cash must be won

Two massive tournaments in one very special day on Betfair Poker will see a staggering FIFTEEN players win their $23,000 package to September’s WSOPE in London - Take your seat now!

Sunday 2nd September, the last weekend before the magnificent 10 day WSOPE series kicks off, has been declared “WSOPE Super Sunday” by the big-wigs at Betfair Poker, and you’re all invited.

2pm - Grand Final of the $250k Freeroll Giveaway

The day’s proceedings will kick off at 2pm with the Grand Final of the $250k Freeroll Giveaway where qualifiers will fight it out for an incredible TEN available WSOPE packages. We’ll also be throwing in a further $20,000 of prize money for those who just miss out meaning that the prize pool will swell to a wallet-busting $250,000!

Don’t worry if you didn’t make it in to the Grand Final, the fun doesn’t stop there

6:30pm - Last chance showdown - FIVE PACKAGES GTD

The finale of our 2007 WSOPE Qualification period will be a monster five packages guaranteed super satellite at 6:30pm on Super Sunday (Sep 2nd if you missed it). This fantastic tournament will be available for a $500+$25 buy in and there’ll be plenty of room for play as we’re giving everyone a starting stack of 5000 chips with a 15 minute clock.

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On hearing the news of WSOPE Super Sunday, poker boss, Ben Fried said “I nearly fell off my chair! This is the biggest and best opportunity to qualify for the WSOPE both online or offline. The WSOP show really is in full swing now.”

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Players of Bodog have probably noticed that their favorite site has been down now for over 24 hours.

An email went out to players yesterday stating that, “Bodog.com is currently experiencing technical difficulties. All of us at Bodog are working hard to get things fixed as fast as possible.”

In a message posted by CEO Calvin Ayre, he says that some of the issues are related to a legal dispute the company is in the middle of.

Players seem to be scrambling for somewhere else to play.  Pokerstars is operating at extremely high numbers with over 100,000 players online.

If you are looking for somewhere else to play until Bodog is fixed, check out some of our top online poker sites.