It seems the pokerstars sponsored former tennis champion Boris Becker’s appearance has ,like Paul Weller at Coachella, gone unnoticed by the younger generation. The German ginger enters day3 with 239k. Good luck also to cougar Heather Mercer and her boots.
The Omaha8 at the Bike attracted 77 players including Jerry Buss, Ray Davies and Robert Turner. [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Boris Becker alive in 25k.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009$49 rooms at MGM. News in brief.
Monday, April 20th, 2009I received an email on Friday from the MGM in Las Vegas offering $49 rooms at the end of the month plus $25 in entertainment credit. This includes use of the spa or show tickets. That has to be an all time low for this property. Also at an all time low the number of [...]
Jockeys
Monday, April 20th, 2009The final and 84th day of the Santa anita meet ended today. I managed exactly 25% of the meets, not too shabby considering I have to work! I do observe the filming of” jockeys” and they seem to be going for mass appeal. So whereas we don’t watch ESPN WSOP coverage for poker but to [...]
Overlay alert?
Friday, April 17th, 2009Tomorrows $300 NLHE tournie at the Bike is $100k guaranteed, meaning a sell out of 350. Yesterdays, $300 only had 98 entries. With Coachella, a big weekend in Vegas and beautiful weather in SoCal could the casino be offering an overlay?
The winner was Andrew Bick. Caesars posting better numbers with 151 playing the $1k where [...]
Brit girls on a roll
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Not only has the lovely Liv Boeree made two final tables and won her WPT seat in a super at the Bellagio but now I learn that Kera Scott, one of the most beautiful girls to grace the Amazon room, as well as a Ladbrokes suite regular at last years WSOP, has finished second in [...]
Bounty and studs at the Bike
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009The total entries for yesterdays bounty tournament was 135. The winner Thomas Bohmer $9880. 2) Robert Ohanian 3) Karlo Gharabegian with Alan Marks,Todd Z, Ben Tang, Cinda Villa,Erik Ostergard and the ever present Bryan Hyland all in the money.
Today is, a cold windy day in L.A., the stud8 $200 tournament. I am expecting ten tables [...]
Bike update
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009The ongoing America poker Classic at the Bike continues to sell out for its $100 NLHE events and draws between 100-200 for the other tournaments. No real stars amongst this crowd as the stars are in Vegas choosing between poker and beer pong.
Easter Sunday saw 155 ante up $205 for a NLHE event # 4. [...]
Hendon Mob database tops 100000 players
Sunday, April 12th, 2009A truly remarkable feat and a credit to them for their perseverance. I know I would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. Read the official release here.
Easter at Santa Anita gallery
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Good Friday Bike Gallery
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Triple the buy in ,a third of the players.Results 1)Michael Christianson $12k 2) Khang Pham 3) Larry Vance 4) Ed Hansen 5) Greg Nersesyan 6) Richard Rivlin 7) Micael Simhai 8) Julie Le 9) Scott Preston
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