Not many players FT a $5000 buy in tournie then win a $50 buy in a few days later.That is exactly what Jim Pittman achieved. After his big score at the Bellagio he entered the small tournie at the Bike and added another $12.5k to his weekly earnings. I believe the Bike is done until [...]
News in brief
July 17th, 2010Jennifer Tilly has a good day at Bellagio (then a bad one)
July 12th, 2010The eye candy in one of my favourite movies,”Let it Ride”, Jennifer Tilly split first place in the $5k event at the Bellagio. Jennifers share was a whopping $112k plus a seat in the Bellagio Cup ME with Danny Yousefzadeh taking just the money! 93 entered the event.
The ME started today but the entry remains [...]
News in brief
July 7th, 2010While the WPT (not to be confused with the scumbag WTP) prepares to unveil Matt Savage on Saturday morning at the Bellagio as their new exec TD , the Commerce has decided to blow the cobwebs off the Ballroom with a single summer tournie. The buy in is $335 with a Million dollar guarantee. The [...]
Freeroll time at the Bike
July 1st, 2010The last tournament ME finished on Monday (no results available,I believe because Greg is probably taking a couple of well earned days off).The Star + Stripes begins tomorrow (no tournie on the 4th). Inbetween the Bicycle Club held a $50k freeroll for cash players yesterday and a $10k freeroll for giving your email to thebike.com [...]
Monday is Bike night
June 22nd, 2010The Bike showed it is all heart and gave players Fathers Day off.Maybe TNT wasn’t aware of this when he was eliminated in 38th place. That resulted in the final day of the $40k Guarantee restarting,with 40 minute rounds, at 7pm Monday. The prize pool was over $50k resulting in a very useful $18k first [...]
Weekend update
June 20th, 2010As I write Men Nguyen is heads up in the $5k NLHE six handed. This would be a milestone as Men doesn’t have a bracelet in NLHE in his collection. A joke he isn’t in the WSOP Invitational. Almost as bad as Scott Diamond and myself not being in the WPT Invitational at the Commerce. [...]
Very brief poker news
June 17th, 2010The richest man in poker, Matt Savage, just added another six figure job to his resume.Matt Savage will be assuming a role of executive tour director. Will be interesting to see how warm a welcome he receives at the Bellagio and especially the Bike who are the main L.A. competition for Matts Commerce casino.This sees [...]
The road to the WSOP starts at the Bike
June 14th, 2010Johan Ramirez told Chris Ferguson recently he would see him at the WSOP. Today Johan, warmed up with a third in a $100 buy in $57k prize pool event at the Bike in Bell. On Thursday Johan, the other half of Lizette Acoba, will attempt to be one of five players the Bike are sending [...]
Extra event added to WSOP schedule
June 9th, 2010Don’t worry it will not affect your budget. The added event is the WSOP academy tournament. It is an invite only one table shootout with the prize being a seat in the WSOP tournament of Champions. The tournament will take place on Thursday,10th June at Noon. All events at the WSOP are free to watch,although [...]
Poker + Basketball at the Bike
June 7th, 2010Most of L.A. was a ghost town tonight as everyone watched the Lakers lose to the Celtics. However, the Events center at the Bike was busy although most of those present paid as much attention to the TV screens as their cards.
It was final day of the $100 with a $60k guarantee. The 4pm start [...]
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