Like many people accross the world yesterday, Doyle Brunson put down a bet on football’s biggest game of the year: The Super Bowl. In his blog Doyle said he placed $50k down on New Orleans. Brunson posted on the 4th, “This will be an enjoyable event this year as I made a 100k bet on picking the winner of the championship game. I took the Colts and my opponent took the Patriots. I think I’ll bet 50k on the Saints +4 1/2 and lock up a nice win. If Indy wins by 4 or less, I’ll win 150K. Nice position to be in huh?”
If you were watching the game, or even picked up a newspaper today, you would know that the Saints went on to win the game in a massive upset giving Doyle a lock on his bet. After watching the first quarter Doyle must have been thinking he just threw his $50k away, but with a decent 2nd quarter and the onside kick that was recovered to start the 2nd half, he probably started to feel a bit more comfortable about his bet. Most people had the Colts as a lock, but the Saints came through with a massive upset.
As for the Super Bowl commercials, for the most point they were pretty dissapointing compared to years passed. My favourite one was probably the Budlight Stranded one:
Or, the HomeAway.com one with Chevy Chase:
Did anyone else make some money on the Super Bowl? If so, post your bets below.
Could this be a start to government regulation of online gaming in Canada? It appears so. Loto-Quebec has received cabinet approval to launch their own online gaming site, which would include online poker.
According to a report on CTV, “The provincial gambling monopoly, in conjunction the BC and Atlantic Lottery Corporations, will set up a site this fall aimed at stemming the lucrative yet unregulated internet gambling market.”
The government claims it is losing money to “illegal” offshore companies where citizens “are not protected” according to Finance minister Raymond Bachand. But the reality is, the government really just wants to control where people can choose to play and most likely offer worse odds than many of the online casinos currently in operation today.
I agree that something needs to be done about the current situation where there are many fly-by-night online casinos, but why not sell licenses to several of the big publically traded companies that are already in existance today such as 888 or Party Gaming where they can work with the government to ensure safety for the players. Monopolies are never a good thing in my eye as the consumer is the one who is going to really lose out [...] Continue Reading…
Well, maybe that is just a small part of the story, but it was an easy way to shorten the title from “Lacey Jones is the new face of the Canadian Poker Tour”, which is the actual story here.
Yesterday the CPT announced in a press release that Jones will be the new “face” of the CPT. For those who don’t know who Lacey Jones is, she has been voted the sexiest poker female poker player many times has appeared in this poker music video and has even won a few games too!
Here is the full press release along with a sexy pic of Lacey:
CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 1, 2010/– The Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) owned and operated by HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (STOCK SYMBOL: HDUP.PK) is pleased to announce that it has signed Poker pro Lacey Jones as the “new face” of the CPT. Recently voted the “hottest girl in poker”, Lacey will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of Canadian Poker Player Magazine as well as having a pictorial spread and feature. That issue is scheduled to hit poker rooms across the country in February.
The deal was set when Lacey and CPT President Kelly Kellner met [...] Continue Reading…
The headline sounds like the lead-in to a bad joke about T.J. Cloutier’s craps habit, but in this case it’s the literal truth. Word leaked out on various poker forums and poker rooms about an eBay listing from a pawnshop in Plano, TX that was auctioning of T.J. Cloutier’s WSOP bracelet from his win in a 2005 $5,000 NLHE WSOP event. In subsequent interviews the pawnshop confirmed that they’d bought the bracelet (along with another championship bracelet from a non-WSOP event) directly from Cloutier, but they wouldn’t say how much they paid him for it.
Cloutier’s WSOP bracelet was originally listed at $2,500, but it eventually attracted 12 bids, with the winner ultimately paying $4,006 for it. No details have surfaced yet on who purchased it, although discussion on some forums floated the possibility a poker pro friend of Cloutier’s buying it and returning it to him. At which point he might very well pawn it again, considering the fact that anyone who’d pawn a WSOP bracelet is likely facing some serious cash flow issues.
It makes us wonder if T.J. knows about some of the poker bonus offers out there for sites like Pacific Poker and others. Grinding signup bonuses [...] Continue Reading…
A few days ago I wrote about Full Tilt Poker’s new innovating game called Rush Poker. In the past few days this got me thinking to how Pokerstars was going to respond. Would they try and buy rights to the game for Pokerstars or could they try and come up with something similar, or even better?
No matter how you look at it, Rush Poker is going to be a HUGE money maker for FTP. When players go from playing an average of 50 or so hands per hour to well over 300 they just instantly increased the amount of rake they are making massively. Other sites are definitely going to take a look at this and see what they can do to speed the game up even more and a giant like Pokerstars must be hitting themselves thinking why didn’t we come up with something like that.
One area I think that Pokerstars needs to pick it up a little on is their innovation. I can’t even think of the last groundbreaking thing that Pokerstars has done in online poker other than hosting record breaking tournaments. Their game really hasn’t changed much on the site in ages, other than maybe [...] Continue Reading…
Like many people accross the world yesterday, Doyle Brunson put down a bet on football’s biggest game of the year: The Super Bowl. In his blog Doyle said he placed $50k down on New Orleans. Brunson posted on the 4th, “This will be an enjoyable event this year as I made a 100k bet on picking the winner of the championship game. I took the Colts and my opponent took the Patriots. I think I’ll bet 50k on the Saints +4 1/2 and lock up a nice win. If Indy wins by 4 or less, I’ll win 150K. Nice position to be in huh?”
