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Poker Pro and EPT Winner Vicky Coren Gets Engaged
Sunday, April 1st, 2012Known as the first woman ever to win the European Poker Tour, British poker pro Vicky Coren is engaged. She and her fiance, actor David Mitchell, announced their engagement on Tuesday. The couple began dating last year after they met on a UK quiz show The Bubble.
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Aside from being the first player to win both a televised professional tournament (EPT London 2006) and a televised celebrity tournament (Celebrity Poker Club 2005), Coren also writes weekly columns for The Observer and The Guardian newspapers and hosts a British television quiz show Only Connect. In 2009 she released her poker memoir called For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker.
According to the BBC, Mitchell placed an ad in the Birth, Marriages and Deaths column of The Times newspaper to announced the big news: MR D.J.S. MITCHELL AND MI
3 and 4-Betting
Monday, March 26th, 2012
One of the topics in poker that can be opponent specific, is 3 and 4-betting. Once being a very uncommon practice in the world of poker, players who were keen on the tendencies of their adversaries were able to manipulate their pre-flop raising strategy to exploit them. First making its presence in the high-stakes world, and now being used heavily in the mid-stakes and small-stakes games, even players who are beginning in the micros will need to have a general understanding of 3-betting principles in order to be successful at that level.
Full Tilt Poker Deal By 16th March, 2012?
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
According to reports coming from two gaming news sources, the sale of Full Tilt Poker to French investment company Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) is imminent and could be finalized as early as this week.
Whereas eGaming Review is predicting the deal will be completed in the next week or two, Gaming Intelligence is even more optimistic in its assessment, and wrote:
The Bernard Tapie Groupe looks well placed to complete its agreement to buy Full Tilt Poker this week.
Andrew Kim Takes Down Asian Pacific Poker Tour Seoul Main Event
Friday, March 9th, 2012
American Andrew Kim has picked up KRW 145,000,000 for winning the PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Seoul No-Limit Hold’em main event at the Paradise Walker-Hill Casino.
The KRW 3,000,000 buy-in tournament attracted 268 entrants to create a prize pool of KRW 717,489,600 – or about $639,571 – with Kim leaving with $129,253 after beating fellow American Vincent Rubianes in their heads-up clash.
Rubianes left with KRW 90,500,000 ($80,672) after a four-way deal was struck between him, Kim, third placed Spaniard Rafael Rodrigo (KRW 94,500,000 or $84,237) and Germany’s Moritz Ortmann, who took home KRW 106,000,000 or $94,488 in fourth place.
With Rodrigo out in third, Kim was just ahead on 3,005,000 chips to the 2,120,000 of Rubianes as the heads-up battle commenced.
Champion’s Pair of Aces Good Enough for Title
Kim was pretty well in control for the majority of their heads-up clash, slowly cutting down Rubianes’ stack until the final hand arrived when the Spaniard was all-in pre-flop while holding 10♦ 10♣.
Kim showed A♠ K♦ and it was all over when an ace arrived on the flop, ensuring that the champion picked up an extra KRW 35,000,000 for his success.
Day 3 started with 16 survivors, but it only took a couple of hours for the nine-handed final table to be reached.
Hong Kong’s Kenneth Wong was the first player to hit the rail in ninth place for KRW 15,889,600 ($14,164).
This year’s Aussie Millions runner-up – who earned $1,029,474 after losing out to home favourite Oliver Speidel in the AUD$10,000 No-Limit Hold’em main event in Melbourne at the end of January – lost out to Rubianes in level 21 when the blinds were set at 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante.
Wong had moved all-in pre-flop while holding 9♠ 9♦ to be faced by the A♥ Q♥ of the American. The flop came J♦ 7♠ 4♥ to change noth