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Caesars IPO Should Have Little Impact On Online Poker Plans
Big news today as Caesars Entertainment (CZR: Nasdaq) IPO’d. The stocked opened trading on Wednesday at $9 per share and closed up 71% at closing price of $15.39. Good news for some for...

Full Tilt Practically Drawing Dead to Relaunch by March
In a recent interview with Gaming Intelligence, Laurent Tapie said that he hopes to have a re-branded Full Tilt Poker launched by March 1. Ok then. There’s a better chance of Layne Flack repaying his debt...

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David Williams Signs with PokerStars; Shannon Elizabeth Signs with Carbon

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.30.2010 in Poker News | no comments

Time to put a PokerStars cap on that head...

PokerStars has an impressive roster. No doubt about it. Even the random Euros they’ve signed that we’ve never heard of are smart choices on Stars’ end, because people who live in those Eastern block countries we’ve never heard of that are into weird porn know and like the aforementioned Euros we’ve never heard of before, so, you know, gooooo Marketing!

However, one thing Stars has been missing is a brother.

And a lesbian.

Until now.

PokerStars has scooped up a fresh-off-his-WPT-Championship win David Williams, and a fresh-off-her-NAPT-win, Vanessa Selbst. Good score for Stars as both are respected pros that can broaden their marketing reach.

In related but kind of unrelated news, Carbon Poker has signed a fresh-off-her-taking-a-rake-in-her-Hollywood-home-game Shannon Elizabeth to a sponsorship deal. This makes Shannon’s 47th endorsement deal (give or take) in poker. Read about it here.

Tagged as: David Williams, Poker Stars, PokerStars, shannon elizabeth, Vanessa Selbst

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Is Dennis Phillips The New Oliver Tse?

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.15.2009 in Poker News | 3 comments

Dennis Phillips: Poker Agent?

With Oliver Tse closing his agency doors, it looks like someone new is stepping in to fill the void.

We’ve been watching Dennis Phillips from media row hanging with Mike Carroll (remember him) and a few others as they carry on discussions with various players remaining in the Main Event.

Naturally, we were like, “What the fuck are those two doing together?”

Turns out Phillips is trying to broker some Poker Stars deals for players. Phillips has gone as far as following players into the bathroom and approaching them for deals. We even overheard him telling Jordan Smith that he wanted to take a picture with him, then tried to talk him out of a deal with another site and with Stars.

Multiple industry sources have said that he’s not just pushing players to Poker Stars as an advocate of the site, but that he is doing so to get a cut or percentage of the deal.

Listen, we’re all for people making an extra dollar, especially in The Economy^TM, but Phillips was the “regular guy” who wanted to stay “above the fray.” And by befriending and directing these people to only one site, he’s limiting the bargaining power those individuals have with other sites to get a better deal.

Looks like Phillips though is quickly making the transition from “poker ambassador” to “poker agent.” And if that’s the case, will we see “Salty” Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, or Phil Ivey brokering deals at next year’s WSOP?

Probably not.

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Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Dennis Phillips, Poker Stars

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Win an Entry Into Daniel’s Big Swing Golf Tourney + 2009 WSOP Package

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.12.2009 in Poker Promotions | no comments

Event this GOTR can't believe what they're giving away on Stars this weekend...

Poker Stars is running $16.50+R turbo qualifiers all weekend into $320 tourney on June 14 at 20:15 (military time) ET to win a pretty killer WSOP and golfing package. Here’s the details:

As posted last month, Daniel Negreanu is hosting a charity golf event (Daniel’s Big Swing) to benefit the Lili Claire Foundation. The event is a chance to play golf and gamble with Daniel and a bunch of other pros (Erick Lindgren, Bill Edler, Josh Arieh, Gavin Smith, to name a few).

If you win an entry on Stars, you receive: 1) Around a $2-3k entry into Big Swing, all proceeds going to Lili Claire, 2) a $1,500 WSOP seat, 3) $750 in airfare, 4) a hotel room at Planet Hollywood.

RawVegas.tv will be on hand to cover it all, so you might end up being sort of famous via the Internet. Or at least have some proof for your friends that you won some $$$ off pro poker players.

Or if you’re a baller and just want to buy into the charity golf tourney without qualifying, contact Elaine at Poker Royalty here. If you go that route, then book your Las Vegas hotel room here.

Sooo…the $320 Poker Stars qualifier is on Sunday, June 14. Find it by searching for tournament ID 170942700. And below is a list of all the $16.50+R turbo sats to the $320 qualifier:

Tagged as: Big Swing, Daniel Negreanu, Poker Stars

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Online Poker Funds Freeze Big News, Makes the New York Times

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.11.2009 in Online Poker | 4 comments

: Not pretty: having your online poker winnings frozen upon cash out. Pretty: the Vikki Blows photo shoot here.

This story is officially getting big.

Last week, Pokerati first reported that the Feds had frozen funds from Poker Stars, leaving players unable to cash out their winnings. Later that day, we received an email from a high-stakes Full Tilt player saying he tried to cash out a check, which bounced, and was unable to cash out his winnings as well.

Since then, it has come out that Wells Fargo, Citibank, and two smaller institutions received requests to freeze funds in accounts belonging to payment processors Allied Systems and Account Services.

The total take frozen: $33M.

The irony is that the majority of funds were frozen in California, but the request to freeze them came from the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, where it is not illegal to place bets. Speculation abounds that this is a last ditch effort by a staunch Republican U.S. Attorney on the way out to make some noise before he’s replaced by President Barack Obama‘s new nominee for the job, Preet Bharara. Makes sense, but doesn’t make life easier for those trying to cash out winnings for the WSOP Main Event seats.

For now, read more at the NY Times here, NYC Rounders here, and Pokerati here.

* Thanks to Kid Dynamite for the link. How’s that KD.

Tagged as: Full Tilt Poker, Poker News, Poker Stars, Vikki Blows

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Aubrey O’Day in Playboy Brings You This Weekend’s Poker Link Dumps

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.14.2009 in Poker News | 2 comments

Aubrey O'Day was in some all-girl R&B group called Dannity Kane that P-Diddy put together, but then she left because she has perfect natural breasts. Actually we have no idea if that's why because what the fuck do we look like, detectives? If only there was some sort of way that one could enter in someone's name somewhere and a bunch of news and bio related information was then returned to you about said person. The day someone invents such a searching device or portal if you will, that individual will probably be a very rich person. Anyway, O'Day seems like a cool chick if you're into potty mouthed girls with morally casual attitudes, so watch the vid below and view NSFW pics of her here.

:: The Poker Beat had a spirited debate on the newsworthyness of the Russ Hamilton ambush video we did last week. We say if you spend over 20 minutes debating if a piece is newsworthy, then yeah, it's probably newsworthy. [link]

:: GoDaddy.com is sponsoring the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Rather them spend their money on that than more lame Super Bowl commericals. [link]

:: Poker Stars finds more creative ways to advertise, this time by having "Salty" Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso (who went to Duke), and Lorenzo Lamas giving dating tips on the Huffington Post. [link]

:: Mike Matusow sounds like he's ready to go O.J. on Russ Hamilton (go about 6 mins in). [link]

:: Looks like the durrrr challenge is about set to begin. [link]

:: The NHL thinks it's Eh-OK! for their players to be endorsed by dot-net poker sites. [link]

Watch Aubrey ODay Celebrates Her 25th Birthday at Jet Nightclub Las Vegas; talks about being on the cover of Playboy Magazine on RawVegas.tv

Tagged as: Aubrey O'Day, Mike Matusow, Poker Stars, Russ Hamilton

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