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.
I was watching the video for Hard by Rihanna the other day (see below) and couldn’t help but notice a nice little product placement in the video for Pokerstars.com. This is the first time I have seen an online poker site advertising within a popular music video such as this one (which is an amazing song might I add). Anyway, kudos to Pokerstars for once again going outside of the box on their advertising efforts. Here is the video (if you forward to around 2:03 you will see a poker scene where they are playing with Pokerstars chips and cards):
According to the Phil Hellmuth in his blog, himself, Brandon Cantu, Clonie Gowen, Layne Flack and a bunch of other poker players flew down to Pheonix to play a tournament. Along with them for the ride was one of the founders of TASER, Tom Smith. When the event started, Clonie Gowen made a last longer with Cantu saying the winner could tase the loser. Cantu reluctantly accepted the bet and the two proceeded to play. The tournament was a rebuy and Cantu quickly went through 3 buy-ins after going all-in with Q3os twice, and J3os. On his 4th buy-in, Cantu went all-in in a 3-way pot, with pocket aces this time. The aces held and Cantu took a massive chip lead. Gowen started to worry with about 1/4 the chips that Cantu held, but all was not over yet. Gowen finally got all her chips in with J9 against Cantu’s A7. The flop came AJJ and didn’t improve for Cantu making them almost tied in chips. Fortunately for Gowen, Cantu ended up busting just before the bubble losing the prop bet. Here is the video of the tasing as posted by Phil Hellmuth on twitter:
I came accross this video called “Four Days with Phil Ivey” from an episode of ESPN’s E 60 where they follow around Phil Ivey for a few days to see what it is really like to live like Phil Ivey. From huge swings at the craps tables, private jets accross the world and some of the most lavish treatment offered by casinos, Ivey truly lives like a rockstar. I am really starting to wonder if Ivey even likes poker, or just uses it to fund his denegerate activities at the craps tables. Watch the videos below:
There is a new poker reality show set to launch about 4 online poker pros trying to make the big bucks in a short period of time from playing poker on the G4TV network. Their goal is to make $2 Million Dollars playing poker in just 2 months. The 4 pros in the show are: Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz, Brian “Flawless_Victory” Roberts, Emil “whitelime” Patel, and Dani “Ansky” Stern.
Here is a trailer for the show with some sexy playboy girls:
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?”
