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by on November 22, 2009 TweetThis
The omni-present poker party crowd was on hand (Jeff Madsen, Layne Flack, etc.). Hats off to Cantu for going through with the tasering, but let’s just say if Layne Flack’s teeth are “proud” of what you’re doing, you’re probably not doing the right thing.
Final note, was that Robin Leach with more hair and Kevin Smith in the background?
Thanks to pokerati for the find.
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by on January 12, 2009 TweetThis
We unfairly rip on America's cap. We actually love Canada. Good people up there. One thing Canadians also don't get enough credit for is being a land filled with hot girls. Heck, we've been to Edmonton and even there the ratio of hot to not-hot girls was off-the-charts. So in honor of PCA Caribbean Adventure winner (and Canadian) Poorya Nazari, we bring you Kim Cloutier. Easily one of Canada's finest. View more here.
:: As noted above, Poorya Nazari wins PCA Main Event, banking three million f'in dollars. Obviously
:: In other tournament news, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott wins the Irish Poker Championship, banking €33,000. Good to see Devilfish winning something, since he's voteless in
:: Tiltware files motion to dismiss Clonie Gowen lawsuit. [link]
:: The Best Damn Poker Show Season 2 (aka The Giant UB Ad Buy) begins today. [link
:: Speaking of UB, Annie Duke writes about getting back in poker after six months off (if you missed her, you'll see plenty of her when the Celebrity Apprentice kicks off March 1). And Annie,
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by on December 15, 2008 TweetThis
Clonie Gowen is having one helluva year, for a woman.
She's got two six figure wins under her belt in 2008, for a woman.
She's got a $40 mil lawsuit in the works that kicks the crap out of just about any divorce settlement, for a woman.
And she's killing it at the ridiculously long-named (copy+paste) WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic, for a woman.
At the end of Day 2, Gowen is among the big stacks, for a woman, sitting fourth overall with 405,000. She trails Justin Young, who is stacked at 550,000.
Other big named big stacks include but are certainly not limited to the suddenly resurgent Kido Pham (400,000), Antonio Esfandiari (336,000), David Benyamine (335,000), Phil Hellmuth (335,000), Tuan Le (310,000), creepy as fuck Rene Angelil (283,500), and Dutch Boyd (275,000).
Get full chip counts here.
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by on December 14, 2008 TweetThis
Phil Hellmuth dominated Day 1A play, but unfortunately THO Girl was nowhere to be found.
Guess Phil Hellmuth wasn't one of the many who got too hungover from the Poker Royalty five-year anniversary party, as he dominated Day 1A play at the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic.
With a field of 203 entrants, Hellmuth finished play as chip leader, stacked at 188,150. He's followed by Gary Gibbs with 169,075.
Apparently you don't want to get on Clonie Gowen's bad side. After
Tons of big names remain. Get full chip counts here.
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by on November 17, 2008 TweetThis
A few of you, including Michael Binger, took notice back in June when
At the time both parties scoffed at the suggestion, and Clonie kept on wearing her patch.
Well, as you probably know by now, we were right. Gowen has been forced out and in return has filed a $40 million lawsuit on Friday in the Nevada District Court against Full Tilt Poker and all related parties including its CEO Ray Bitar and player/owners Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Phillip Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.
According to PokerNews:
The filing details alleged meetings between Gowen and Tiltware executives where the deal for Gowen to endorse the website was struck. In the claim, Gowen alleges an oral contract existed while admitting no written contract had ever been signed, and that most of the alleged promises took place over the telephone or in meetings with Tiltware executives in Las Vegas in 2004.
In response to the suit, Tiltware issued the following statement:
“Tiltware, LLC, has been made aware of the recent filing of a meritless lawsuit by a former Full Tilt Poker endorser – Ms. Cycalona Gowen. All claims have no merit and there are many inaccuracies improperly and unlawfully asserted by Ms. Gowen within her frivolous complaint. Tiltware LLC expects that this lawsuit will be dealt with accordingly by a competent court in due course.”
Love that they called her out as Ms. Cycalona Gowen, her real name as revealed in the lawsuit, in responding. Such a bitch slap. Almost as much as a bitch slap as naming your kid Cycalona.
Relatedly, considering we were right about this, what do you think the odds are
Unrelatedly, Victoria’s Secret models parading around in next to nothing.
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by on October 29, 2008 TweetThis
So how do you make it easy for a woman to win a World Poker Tour event when it’s never been done before (in an open event)?
You lower "the hurdle", so to speak, by cutting the buy-in in half, getting the number of players down to about a 100 or so, and keeping as many big name pros away as possible.
And oh yeh, you drop the event from the tour so it’s not an actual World Poker Tour event anymore.
That’s what happened in Tunica yesterday when Clonie Gowen, a woman, beat out 106 players and a final table that read like a who’s who of who knows these guys but friends and family to win the World Poker Open, the Southern staple of the WPT for the past six seasons but dropped this past year because, we’re guessing, Tunica isn’t so much a vibrant city as it is an island of crappy casinos in a sea of cotton fields.
For the win, Gowen takes home $183,224 and a seat in the WPT event in Biloxi this January.
Finishing in second, and only worth noting because he’s a friend of FOWCP Brian Heptinstall, was BJ McBrayer, who grabs $96,701 but has to play his next tournament with his pants down for losing to a woman.
Read more about the WPO here.
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