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PokerStars Looks toward New Jersey Market

New Jersey residents have received an email from PokerStars asking specifically about their gaming preference as regulated online poker sites within the state get closer to becoming reality.

PokerStars’s survey asks questions like “On a scale of 0-10 how likely would you be to recommend PokerStars to a friend or colleague?” and “If online casino games were licensed and regulated in New Jersey, how likely would you be to play these online?”

Residents were also asked how likely they would be to play online poker at PokerStars if the site receives a license and another specific question regarding Full Tilt Poker.

In order to offer New Jersey intrastate online gambling, PokerStars has teamed up with Resorts Casino Hotel with the earliest possible go-date being November.

Full Tilt is reportedly working on casino-style side games that would be available in addition to real money poker, but PokerStars will continue to offer only poker.

This isn’t the first survey PokerStars has sent to customers, but it is the first one to target the New Jersey market directly. A PPA survey from earlier this year did ask New Jersey residents if they preferred the PokerStars brand and found that there was “near unanimous support” for PokerStars.

2013 November Nine Finalized

The ultimate battle for the ultimate poker title in the world is going down on Monday, November 4 and the winner will bag over $8.3 million in prize money alongside the most prestigious trophy in poker, the championship gold bracelet. The $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship in the 44^th annual World Series of Poker, an event more commonly known as the Main Event, is now down to the last nine players who will be converging for the “November Nine” event. The players come from five different countries: the United States, France, Canada, Netherlands, and Israel.

The nine are the top contenders from a massive field of 6,352 entrants hailing from 83 different countries. They will meet for the final battle for the WSOP gold bracelet at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The winner will walk away with a whopping $8,359,531 while the other eight will share $18,302,535.

The players will resume from level 35 with 42 minutes and 25 seconds remaining. The WSOP television coverage for the Main Event will start from August 6 at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. There will be 2 hours of coverage each Tuesday until the Main Event coverage on the 4th of November.

The November Nine finalists with their seat allocation and chip counts follows.

1. Sylvain Loosli – 19,600,000

Sylvain is originally from France but now resides in London. The 26 year old business school graduate has a recorded world earning of $3,198. This is his maiden WSOP Main Event.

1. Michiel Brummelhuis – 11,275,000

Michiel is a 32-year-old poker enthusiast from Netherlands. His career earnings in poker tournaments are more than $670,000. This will be the 4^th time that Michiel will be showing at the WSOP Main Event.

1. Mark Newhouse – 7,350,000

Mark is a 28-year-old poker professional from the United States. He is a veteran, having been in every WSOP Main Event since 2006. His total poker earnings are more than $2,004,277.

1. Ryan Riess – 25,875,000

Ryan is 23 years in age and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a business graduate from Michigan State University. His career earnings in poker are more than $309,478.

1. Amir Lehavot – 29,700,000

Amir is 38 years old and he comes from Israel. He was the WSOP champion in 2011. His total poker earnings are more than $1.5 million.

1. Marc-Etienne McLaughlin – 26,525,000

Marc-Etienne is a 25-year-old poker player from Canada. This is the fifth consecutive time he will be gracing the WSOP Main Event.

1. JC Tran – 38,000,000

JC train is a 36-year-old poker professional from Canada. He has won 2 WSOP tournaments. His earnings in poker are more than $8.3 million.

1. David Benefield – 6,375,000

David is a 27-year-old poker professional and part-time student from New York. He has featured in the WSOP Main Event for 4 times in the past.

1. Jay Farber – 25,975,000

Jay is a 28-year-old poker professional from the United States. This is the second time he is playing at the WSOP Main Event. His lifetime poker earnings are $2,155.

WSOP Main Event: Day 6

The 6th day of the WSOP is over and 27 players are still in the running for the final table. Here are some of the day’s highlights. The chip leader is Anton Morgenstern. He got the chip lead at 6 p.m. He then pulled away from the rest of the pack, ending up with 21,955,000 chips. Yevgeniy Timoshenko had captured the chip lead earlier in the day but did not last long. Timoshenko is now in the 18th position.

When asked if he was going to be able to sleep tonight, Morgenstern replied, “Yeah, for sure.  Every night when I go to sleep, there are thoughts going through my head, like what it would be like to make the November Nine.  I have a couple of meditation tapes that help me with all those thoughts to try and relax and try and concentrate.  That way I can fall asleep.”

Carlos “The Matador” Mortense is still very conspicuous in the Main Event. He has had a steady rise during the day and is now in the 6^th position. Steve Gee, the 9th finisher in 2012, is kicking hard this year. He is posting a two year run that might be one of the most impressive feats in the history of the WSOP. The dream is now over for 41 more players who started the day but won’t continue on. Jackie Glazier was the only remaining female player on Day 6. The 31-year-old Australian had survived through most of the day but busted out at 10 p.m. in 31^st position.

All players who will proceed to Day 7 have a guarantee of more than $285,408 in prize money each. The average chip count is 7,058,000. Ten countries are still represented in the final event including Germany, France, Netherlands, Israel, United States, Holland, Italy, Czech Republic, Canada, and Brazil.

Day 7 is on Monday. The three tables of survivors will battle it out for one last table, known as the “November Nine.”

Last Woman Standing: Jackie Glazier

Among the 68 remaining players in the 2013 WSOP Main Event, only one female remains, Jackie Glazier. She started out Day 5 the only female of the 298 females who started on Day 1. Ranked 12^th among all remaining players, the Australian poker pro is comfortable being the last woman standing. She outlasted other female players including poker superstar Annette Obrestad, who was knocked out in 89^th place, and Kristy Gazes, who exited in the 200^th position, as well as Estelle Denis, Beverly Lange, and Kima Kimura. All seven of these poker ladies went into Day 5, but only Glazier came out still in the running.

In other news from the frontline, Sami Rustomi, who has never cashed in the WSOP, hit above the 7 million mark to take the chip lead. 2012’s WSOP Main Event champ Greg Merson was knocked out in 167^th place by Brett Richey.

Carlos “The Matador” Mortensen, winner of the 2001 Main Event, is the last remaining former world champion, sitting with about 2.5 million chips going into Day 6.

2013 WSOP Event #61

Now four-time gold bracelet winner Daniel Alaei won his fourth bracelet this year at the $10K PLO, the very same event he won in the 2010 series. This win puts him over $3.5 million in all-time WSOP winnings.

Alaei’s most recent WSOP victory came after three long days and yielded an $852,692 payday, putting him among the ranks with Amarillo Slim, Puggy Pearson, and Bobby Baldwin, all four-time WSOP bracelet winners. Alaei is the second player to win his fourth gold bracelet during this year’s WSOP; Tom Schneider (2007 POY) also scored his fourth bracelet this year.

Alaei won his title by defeating 385 other players, including well-known online poker pro Jared Bleznick, who still won more than $525K for his second place finish, his biggest live cashout to date and first final table in a WSOP event. Event #61 amassed a $3,628,400 prize pool and paid the top 45 placers. This event saw former Main Event November Nine players cash out, Joseph Cheong, who finished 21^st, and Matt Gianetti, who finished 33^rd, and 2010 WSOP Main Event champ Jonathan Duhamel finishing 18^th. Alaei started the final table with the chip lead and was joined by fourth place finisher in the 2007 WSOP Main Event Alex Kravchenko, who finished 9^th in this year’s event #61, and Tome Marchese, well-established tournament pro, who cashed out in 4^th place in this event.

2013 WSOP: Breakout Female Player

There has been a rise in female success stories at the WSOP over the past few years, and Loni Harwood is a female young gun who has proven time and time again that women can play poker just as well as men. Harwood, 23, hails from New York and has made an impressive mark on this year’s series. She made three final tables this year alone and finally bagged a gold bracelet, making WSOP history.

Among 2,500 players in the last NLH event this year, she managed to break last year’s Allyn Jaffrey Shulman’s record, who had until held the record for the highest sum won by a woman (Senior’s Event). With a paycheck totaling more than $600,000, Harwood is only second to the largest winning woman in the WSOPE, Annette Obrestad. Furthermore, Harwood, who had no WSOP earnings at the start of this year’s WSOP, is now 8^th for all-time money winners in WSOP history with a whopping total of $874,698 in total WSOP winnings, in just this year alone. She also now holds the record for the most money won at a single WSOP by a female.

Harwood, who is also a regular on the WSOP circuit, is one of many Circuit regulars who have won a first place title this summer. Bryan Campanello and Jonathan Taylor have also won gold bracelets and have frequented the Circuit this year. And if that wasn’t enough, Harwood is only the fourth player to make three final tables in one WSOP, tying her with Cyndy Violette (2005) for the most final tables by a female in one year. She also became the second woman do win an open-field NLH event since Annette Obrestad, the second being Dana Castenada, who completed the feat only days before Harwood.

She is now in the running for WSOP player of the year. Her performance has put her third in line behind Daniel Negreanu (2^nd) and Matthew Ashton (1^st).

Harwwod won her first gold bracelet in a showdown against Canadian player Yongshuo Zheng, who could have been the next Chris Moneymaker after winning his seat online at a Canadian poker site. Though he didn’t win the bracelet, he took home a rather decent consolation prize totaling $378,607.

Little One for One Drop

The Little One for One Drop is the lower-priced buy-in counterpart of the Big One for One Drop, which is not only a charity poker tournament, but also an event in the WSOP. Last year, the Big One for One Drop was incorporated into the WSOP schedule to raise money for the One Drop Foundation which exists to provide clean water to regions where clean drinking water is scarce or not readily available. This year’s charitable addition to the WSOP was the Little One for One Drop. This event was a bit more obtainable for the average player with a buy-in at only $1,111 instead of the $111,111 buy-in at 2013’s event #47 One Drop High Rollers or the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop, all three charitable tournaments raising money for the One Drop Foundation.

Out of an outstanding 4,756 entries, only one man was left standing. In fact, the field was so large, an extra day was added to the event, making it a five-day tournament. Twenty-three-year-old Brian Yoon won the inaugural gold bracelet and $663,727 for his first place win. The Californian poker pro, who graduated last year with an economics degree from UCLA, spends a lot of time in Canada where he can play legal online poker. He plays both live and online poker professionally and has cashed in the WSOP before, placing 58^th place in the 2011 main event for which he landed $130,997, but he’s has total of five WSOP cashes throughout his short career equaling more than $815,000. Yoon is hoping this gold bracelet won so early on in his career will set the stage for a successful career and people will take him more seriously from now on. Perhaps a sponsorship deal is in his future. One thing is for sure—he will be playing in the 2013 Main Event.

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