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Another Cheating Scandal Involving Sorel Mizzi

It’s not the first time Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi has been accused of cheating at poker. Last August, the online poker forums have been buzzing about an IM chat between a supposed co-conspirator, Steve “thorladen” Weinstein, and Mizzi.

The alleged convo between the two discussed ways in which to violate the Terms and Conditions of online poker sites by using a common tool that allows access to a PC from another PC like the popular programs GoToMyPC.com or PCNow.com. These programs allow users to access computers from different locations via the IP address of the other computer.

Mizzi noted that use of these programs “revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker” and he also notes that they can be “used for multiaccounting.”

Fast forward about six months and a story has surfaced on 2+2 regarding a live game of Chinese Poker between Mizzi and John Racener at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The story goes that Racener caught Mizzi dealing off the bottom of the deck. Mizzi replied to the thread in an attempt to clear his name, denying the allegations and stating that he is “by no means a magician.” He even said after the WSOP this year, he will “seriously consider finding another job.”

According to Racener, Mizzi did beg Racener not to leak the story since they were the only two in the room when the incident occurred. The 48-page thread, “Sorel allegedly bottom dealing vs John Racener” remains active on 2+2.

It remains to be seen come July whether or not Mizzi will actually retire after the WSOP or if his true character will inevitably surface again. Either way he will eventually be outed for one shenanigan or another. Perhaps he will someday be banned from poker all together.

Florida May be the First State to Regulate Online Poker

The question of legalizing and regulating online poker has been raised time and time again across the United States at both the state and federal level. New Jersey has actually passed an online gambling bill while California legislators have proposed legislation to regulate Internet poker.

Now Florida has moved through the red tape and may actually become the first state to legally offer online poker, and this could all be reality by July of this year. Rep. Joseph Abruzzo has introduced legislation that will be discussed by Florida lawmakers beginning March 8th. If approved, Internet poker would likely be legal in Florida before New Jersey and California.

Gaming Analyst Steve Schwartz notes that “It is likely with a $4 billion budget deficit that Florida legislators will approve the online gambling bill. The revenue may be too much to ignore for lawmakers looking to win over public support.”

The problem though is that for Abruzzo, his party is the minority in Florida, and the Republican party has been against the idea of gambling expansion. However former Gov. Charlie Crist was able to negotiate a contract with the Seminole Indians that moved the industry forward.

The time is now for Florida to expand gambling to the online sector, as millions of gamblers are already betting online at unregulated online poker clubs while millions dollars that could potentially be taxed goes back and forth to other countries. Abruzzo’s argument is that he wants to protect those gamblers, as well as bring in some much needed revenue for the state. “We want to legalize it,” Abruzzo said. “Regulate it, and bring revenue to Florida. To me it’s common sense to protect our players.”

Future of Online Poker Tracking in Jeopardy

As of late, it seems that Full Tilt Poker may be moving to prohibit datamining sites from collecting information from Full Tilt players. After complaints were filed last year against PokerTableRatings and their coverage of Full Tilt games. Sites like PTR, known as dataming websites, track real money cash game data at online poker sites. Some data is free to those who subscribe, but some is not free and must be paid for, such as hand histories.

In a post on the 2+2 poker forum, a Full Tilt rep suggested that the online poker room had taken measures to prevent PTR from collecting data from their site, which explains why there has been little reports released by PTR regarding Full Tilt players and games. There has not, however, been any official statement made by Full Tilt regarding this issue. Nor has PTR released a statement, though they have acknowledged that this is a problem, especially for their paying users.

The problem with the datamining lies with those players who do not subscribe to a tracking site and who do not rely on these types of advantages. They say it is unfair to the everyday player that online poker sites ultimately markets to. The available data is very valuable to those players who do use it, especially at the mid to high stakes levels where the same players ¬¬¬return again and again. It is also useful in poker coaching and staking.

Since little is known about the extent to which Full Tilt Poker and other big online poker sites like PokerStars will go to prevent datminers from collecting information off of their sites, it is hard to say whether or not it may soon be something of the past. While the online poker industry is still young, but continues to grow and advance in light years, it must adapt and amend itself along the way to compensate for fairness and the overall security of its players. This may be a big step for the industry as a whole that site after site will follow, or it may prove to be just a passing issue. However, the latter is unlikely, as once a big force like Full Tilt takes something on, it doesn’t usually get swept under the rug.

February 2011 PartyPoker Bonus Code

PartyPoker Bonus

Join PartyPoker this month and receive the February deposit bonus worth 100% of your first deposit back up to $/£/€100. When you sign up your new PartyPoker player account and make your deposit, use PartyPoker Bonus Code 500PS and then start playing poker. Your bonus will clear automatically to your account as you earn PartyPoints. These points will clear your bonus in $10 increments as you earn points required. You will have 60 days to clear the bonus. PartyPoker offers Beginner Tables for rookies who would like to get their feet wet before jumping in to the hardcore online poker action.

Win Tonight

PartyPoker is offering iPads, PS3s, iPods, and more as prizes in daily freerolls that take place every week night through March 28th. Win Tonight Premium Prizes go up for grabs on Sundays and consist of huge prizes such as a 40” Samsung 3D TV with Blu Ray player and 3D gear. All final table players will at least win cash. Another great thing about the Win Tonight freerolls is that you have as many chances as you want to win the prizes—play every night. And what makes this even more killer is that it’s only available to new PartyPoker players. Tournaments start at 20:00 CET daily. Once you make your first deposit, you will automatically be able to register for all the tournaments through March 28th. Other prizes going include a Canon EOS 1000D with tripod and bag, PSP Go and Monster Beats headphones, a Sony VAIO VPC with 16 GB flash drive included, and others. Don’t wait any longer—join PartyPoker today and freeroll tonight!

Cake Poker Signup Code February 2011

Cake Poker Bonus

Cake Poker has a great offer for February 2011. If you don’t have a Cake Poker account, you can get a 110% bonus up to $600 back on your first deposit. Just open a new account with the Cake Poker Signup Code PBSPOKER. Then deposit and start playing real money tournaments and cash games at Cake Poker. You’ll automatically start earning Cake Poker Frequent Player Points, aka FPPs. These points are necessary to clear your bonus. As you earn enough points, you will start to receive payments of $5 into your account until your bonus is cleared in full. FPPs can also be spent at the Cake Poker Store on things like Cake Poker merchandise or buy in for freerolls and Cake Poker tournaments.

Cake Poker New Depositor’s Freeroll

Every new Cake Poker player will also receive one free ticket into the New Depositor’s Weekly Freeroll. Here you will have a chance to win a piece of the $500 prize pool while getting to know the Cake Poker software with other new Cake Poker players.

Gold Spree

Through the month of February, the Gold Spree Challenge is giving weekly FPP targets that are individualized to each player. If you reach your FPP target, you’ll get entry into one of four Kamikaze tournaments with progressively larger and larger prize pools. You will earn a Kamikaze ticket for each target that you hit. The four Kamikaze tourneys will run on March 3rd at about 5:55 p.m. GMT.

Absolute Poker Referral Code February 2011

Poker Bonus

Now at Absolute Poker you can get the 150% deposit bonus back on your first deposit worth up to $500. Just sign up a new account with Absolute Poker Referral Code PSITEORG and make your first deposit. You will then have 60 days to clear your bonus by earning Status Points at cash games and tournaments at Absolute Poker. For every 20 Status Points you will clear $1 of your bonus, which will automatically clear to your account in $5 increments.

Toe-to-Toe with Absolute Pros

Each and every day, Absolute Poker gives you the opportunity to play with the pros live and in real time with some of the biggest bounties in the industry sitting atop their heads. Every event features huge guaranteed prize pools and celebrity poker pros seated across the virtual tables. Some of these events are Roothlus Rebuy Rumble, Hollywood Nights, Tuesdays with Trishelle Cannatella, Wednesday Sniperbok, and Maria Ho’s Amazing Tuesday. If knocking out some big name poker pros sounds like fun to you, then sign up and log on to Absolute Poker now!

Power Hours

To clear your Absolute Poker bonus even faster, play during Power Hours to earn double the Status Points. These hours are from 1:00 a.m. ET to 4:00 a.m. ET and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. every day and through 5:00 p.m. ET on Sundays.

Bad Beat Jackpot

If bad beats is your middle name, play at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables on Absolute Poker to win a massive jackpot for your next bad beat—that’s when you lose with a hand of 4 eights or better using both of your hole cards. And even if it’s not your bad beat, if someone at your table wins the bad beat jackpot, you will still get paid.

February 2011 PokerStars Marketing Code

Poker Bonus

At PokerStars this month, get a 100% deposit rebate bonus up to $600 that’s good on your first three deposits at PokerStars. Just create your account and deposit with PokerStars Marketing Code PSP11903 to automatically claim your bonus. Then just play real money poker at PokerStars tournaments and cash games to earn frequent player points. These points will clear your bonus in $10 increments. You will need 17 times the bonus to clear it in full. You can also use PokerStars points to buy merchandise like PokerStars clothing, electronics, and other great stuff, as well as tournament buy-ins.

The Big Game

For the rest of the year, you can partake in the Big Game promotion that gives you a chance to appear on the nationally televised Big Game show. Through December 31st, you can play in Round 1 tournaments to move on to Round 2. The top 300 finishers from Round 1 will move on. The top 1,000 finishers from Round 2 will move on to the Final Round, which could lead to the opportunity to make a video explaining why you should be on the next Big Game. If your video is picked, you will appear on television.

Ultimate Home Game

If you are a home game player, PokerStars has a unique way to incorporate home and online poker. The Ultimate Home Game is a $100K Freeroll that you can win stuff for your own home game. Just follow the steps below by March 5th to qualify.

1. Start a PokerStars Home Games Online Poker Club at PokerStars

2. You will need at least seven friends to join this game online

3. Participate in two real money games or five play money games

If you meet all three of the requirements listed above, you will earn an entry to the freeroll. The freeroll winner will earn a dream vacation for their friends and the bankroll to play in a VIP private game with Team PokerStars Pros.

Full Tilt Poker Referral Code February 2011

Full Tilt Poker Bonus

Don’t miss out this month on the Full Tilt Poker bonus worth 100% back on your first deposit up to $600. Just create your player account and make a deposit using Full Tilt Referral Code PRULESNET to get the complete Full Tilt Poker bonus for February. All you will then need to do to clear your poker bonus is play real money ring games and tournaments to earn Full Tilt Points, also called FTPs. The more points you earn, the more of your bonus will clear to your account. You will get a point for every $1 you pay in rake and even more points for every $1 you pay in tourney fees. The bonus will automatically appear in your player account each time you’ve earned $20 worth. You will have 120 days to clear your entire bonus.

FTOPS XIX

The FTOPS XIX continues at Full Tilt Poker through the 20th of February, so there is still time to get your piece of the $22+ million they are giving away in the form of guaranteed cash prizes during FTOPS this month. Every FTOPS event is hosted by a Full Tilt Poker Pro. There are satellites running all the time, and this FTOPS series features Multi-Entry tournaments, which are a unique way to multi-table in the same tournament, which ultimately provides more chances for you to win.

If you miss the FTOPS or think the buy-ins are a little too steep, go ahead and get your account set up because from March 6th through 20th the Mini FTOPS XIX will paralleling all the same events as the FTOPS but at a fraction of the cost. All buy-ins will be much more affordable, and there will even be satellites running for these events too, so don’t wait any longer to set up your Full Tilt Poker real money player account.

Another Mysterious Swede Now Playing at Full Tilt

A mysterious player showed up at Full Tilt Poker the other day and had the posters at 2+2 online poker forum buzzing. An unknown player, “Lindqvro” just happened to be taking Dan “Jungleman12” Cates by storm at the $25/$50 PLO tables. This Lindqvro had a lot of money and was using an ultra aggressive style to take Cates for quite a bit of money—somewhere in the neighborhood of $300K on four tables at once.

The fact that this unidentified player was from Sweden led many to believe that it was none other than Viktor Blom, who after recently signing with PokerStars, would not be able to use his regular handle “Isildur1” anymore, as rights to that name belong to PokerStars according to the sponsorship contract between Stars and Blom. After about five hours of posts on 2+2, poker community enthusiasts believed to have had it all figured out. The bankroll, the playing style, the “mysterious Swedish player” were all too familiar. Signs pointed towards Blom, who until recently was unknown to the world as Isildur1, but came out during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, as a publicity stunt after signing a contract with the online poker room.

It is not yet known who Lindqvro actually is, nor is it clear whether or not he will continue to appear at Full Tilt Poker. Only time will answer these mysteries, but if it is Blom, it would seem as if he got some enjoyment out of playing in anonymity, which is already starting to be the first tell that it is him. If he wishes to continue to play in secret, he may have to take up a second residence somewhere. Eventually though, his secrecy will become familiar due to the fact that no one else just randomly shows up and then proceeds to play so aggressively and have the bankroll to back it up.

Team UB “New and Younger”

While Team UB has lost a couple key players as of late (Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth), they’ve gained just as many. After acquiring Prahlad Freidman last month, Team UB has confirmed Eric Baldwin for two additional years after a successful first year partnership that began in December 2009.

Baldwin says, “Signing again with UB.com was a no-brainer. I like the direction that the site is headed and I’m really feeling the new, younger Team UB. I’m excited to continue to be a big part of it.”

It is an obvious plus for UB.com to re-sign with Baldwin. The poker pro landed $1.4 million in winnings in live tournament cashes alone. He was just as successful in 2009 and named Card Player Magazine’s Player of the Year. He landed in the 6th place spot in Bluff Magazine’s 2010 Player of the Year list, and he also got first place in the NAPT LA Bounty Shootout which earned him more than $157K. He also finished in 59th place in WSOP Main Event, cashing out with $138K+. He also finished in the money in three other WSOP events in 2010. He took home a bracelet in 2009 as well in the $1,500 NLH event, for which he earned more than half a million dollars. Baldwin’s career winnings total more than $4.2 million.

Despite the loss of two of the brand’s biggest named pros, UB.com seems to be reinventing itself as a younger and fresher online poker club and recovering from the cheating scandals that once plagued the brand.

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