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One of the online poker room’s most popular characters has won the £6,500 Sky Poker Jackpot after winning two flagship tournaments on the same night. Many in the poker world thought it could not be achieved, but the online poker room Sky Poker is celebrating its first Jackpot winner this morning after Dylan ‘dylan12′ Davies proved all those people who thought otherwise wrong and accomplished what many thought would be poker’s very own ‘mission impossible’.
Davies of Llandysul, Wales showed that winning two of the biggest online poker events on SkyPoker.com on the same night was indeed possible, and in one of the most action-packed tournaments on offer. Having secured the win in the 8.15pm ‘Mini Bounty Hunter’, all eyes were on the Welshman as he navigated his way to the final table of the £8,000 Bounty Hunter. It all goes to prove that there is more to just having fun when you download a game or two of online poker.
The fallout from “Black Friday” continues, but in this case it is good news because 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion has decided to launch his own online poker site to help allow American players to still enjoy one of their favourite pastimes. You could argue that he is taking a huge risk but this is not the case as it should be pointed out that the poker room Gold has in mind will be 100% legal in the eyes of US law.
When questioned about this Gold replied; “After Black Friday and all the negativity surrounding online poker, I asked myself what I could do to help our community enjoy playing a game they love legally so creating FreeGoldPoker.com was the clear answer.” It is pretty clear that FreeGoldPoker is unlikely to attract poker pros to the site, but could yet prove a hit with recreational players, and so it will be interesting to see how the business develops over the coming months.
Although he made his name and a living playing online poker, Brian Hastings has just won the WPT Regional Summer Splash Event, after overcoming a field of 391 players over four days to capture the title, and the $213,877 first place prize. The US pro has had to change his approach recently after the plug was pulled on online poker in the States back in April. Consequently, Hastings has been weighing up his options with a possible move to Canada seeming more likely on the horizon.
He is reported as saying on his blog that: “Despite my newfound liking of live poker, I really don’t like Vegas and just can’t imagine spending any more time there than the WSOP and a few shorter trips. I think my earn potential is still highest online unless I can get into some really good and big live games regularly, and as that seems somewhat unlikely, I’m leaning toward a short term move to Canada (at least until it gets too cold).”
There is more competition and new challenges coming to Europe in the form of the Poker Pros Network (PPN), which has become the latest site to move to a European internet domain to comply with the crackdown on sites offering online poker to US players. The site also stated that it would be leaving the Cake Network in the near future and establishing its own proprietary software platform, a move expected to take place sometime in early autumn.
The PPN will stop accepting new customers based in the United States from August 31st, although players who have registered accounts prior to that date will still be able to play on the site. PPN pros are accessible at all levels anyone can challenger a team pro to a heads up game for amounts from $2 to $2,000. PPN team professionals include Kevin Vandersmissen, the 2010 Belgian Player of the Year, Matias Gabrenja, Stefan Mattsson, Neil Stewart and James Worth.
At last we know the final November nine for the 2011 WSOP main event and many of are wondering what we will do during the three and a half month layoff.
With the troubles that the usual sponsorship have been having in the United States, there was a distinct lack of online poker sponsors names on the clothing of the final group of players last night. But one online poker room in particular was on display: 888poker.com. 888Poker already has not one, but two players wearing its logo at the Main Event final table.
The first one seen on television was Anton Makievskyi, who got a lot of camera time during ESPN’s Day 8 telecast. The other 888poker representative is the lone Englander still remaining, Samuel Holden. A quiet player, the 22-year-old was the epitome of calm, cool, and collected on Tuesday. Nothing seemed to rattle him. And while he wasn’t splashing around chips like a couple of his competitors, when he did commit chips to the pot, he made great reads, making sure his bets counted.