A clip from a podcast with Edward Norton was posted on Reddit, in which he recalls playing the 1998 World Series.
– The movie studio fronted the fee, correct?
Either they did, or the tournament did, because in that era, it was not sexy. They didn't have a lot of celebrities coming to play poker. And, Matt Damon and I weren't even big celebrities, we were what they could get.
– Who lasted longer?
We both did okay, we both had very dramatic exits.
I played a Johnny Chan tip. I had pocket nines on the button. I played it as if it was an Ace King or something like that. I got a middle flop, I got a nine, a ten, then a second ten. I had a pretty much unreadable full house, and I got beat by four tens.
Matt went all-in before the flop with Kings against Doyle Brunson.
Brunson had pocket Aces, Matt had pocket Kings, and nothing came up. He got beat on an Ace King flop runout by Doyle Brunson.
"He could be totally making this shit up and no one would ever know," doubted a distrustful viewer on Reddit.
"He is not," another chimed in. "I forgot who talked about this awhile back, but it was along those same lines. I think it was Matt."
After a successful summer offline, Englishman Jamie Dwan continues to grind online.
"Never seen this before…" he wrote after one session. "My last table online everyone has clicked deal because it’s super late in Europe."
But fuck em! This is is why I paid to be in Canada for the series! I’m fresh as a daisy chaps
(Of course had to slowroll the deal)
His opponents, particularly tournament finalist Boris Angelov, didn't appreciate the humor.
TableSelection has returned online after a six-year hiatus under its familiar nickname, TiltMeNot.
“I probably need to make better life choices,” he said, posting a screenshot of a heads-up match on CoinPoker against Buttonclicker.
Then he gave valuable advice to all grinders:
– I see bros debating when to run it once or twice.
Pro tip: only get it in with 100% equity
A couple of days later, TiltMeNot posted a hand in which he had only a 95% chance of winning.
On the river, KraciFisk found one of his two outs.
CoinPoker also finished their Global Online Poker Championship, somehow going past the $50M GTD by about $38M.
Long time tournament crusher Yafish took many of the top accolades, but the largest prize of the tournament went to siema for winning $423,605 out of the $3M Main Event.
MTT DB summed up the results of the Triton series in Jeju.
Most successful players:
The main losers:
Interestingly, Wang Ye won the last tournament of the series, but it didn’t help him much.
Sam Greenwood decided to take a break from poker after a less than successful trip :
Everyone is begging to know my top 10 TV shows this decade. Here it is. The list is unorderd.
Scott Seiver also shared his favorite TV series:
– Shocked if a single person that reads this has watched all 10 of these, but this is just the flat out correct list (I have not seen succession or mad men, knowing my taste I would be surprised if either could knock anything off).
Alexandra Botez won a closed heads-up tournament at ClubWPT Gold. Only invited bloggers and streamers participated, with Doug Polk commentating the matches.
Alexandra won $250,000 – half of the entire prize pool.
OMGGGG WE WON THE POKER TOURNAMENT! $250,000 FOR FIRST PLACE! 😭🤠☺️🙌😮
One of the world's most popular streamers, xQc, participated in the tournament, with over 20,000 viewers watching his game.
At the same time, a $10,000 buy-in WSOP Online heads-up tournament was held on GGPoker.
A total of 123 players participated, and the title went to Italian Alessio La Francesca.
Daniel Negreanu came to Vancouver to play and stream the final WSOP Online events, making three final tables in a week:
- 7th place in the $10k PLO ($71k)
- 4th place in the $25k High Roller ($415k)
- 6th place in the $5k Bounty PLO ($72k)
The bounty tournament was won by Anatoly Zlotnikov.
Daniel was knocked out of the $25k tournament by eventual winner, Casimir Seire.
In the last hand, Kazimir in the SB pushed all-in with 98o, Daniel in the BB called and lost to two pair.
"Well, we are playing some good poker," Daniel wrote after his elimination. "Not so sure this guy understood that DNegs is not going to make ICM folds here, but alas! 😂
86% chance to have a big chip lead.
On to the next!"
VeniVidi1993 took 5th place in the $10k PLO.
Veni started the morning before the final with a light jog :
– Breakfast: half a marathon
Dinner: win a bracelet
The New York Times reported that DraftKings used artificial intelligence to analyze customers' betting histories and identify the most losing ones. Players prone to losing more money received generous bonuses. Former employees said the company resisted implementing similar technologies to identify or protect users at risk of gambling addiction.
“Shameful,” Haralobos Voulgaris quoted the investigation as saying.
"Bob what’s a realistic solution to the gambling epidemic?" he was asked in the comments.
Regulation that bans all forms of advertising for gambling is the bare minimum.
Recently, Brazilian President Lula da Silva issued decrees banning online betting and any bookmaker advertising. All advertising must disappear within 10 days, including in sports, despite the fact that more than half of Brazilian football clubs partner with bookmakers. The law has already entered into force, but must still be approved by Congress by November 23.
Benny Glaser won two WCOOP events in one evening:
– It's been a good WCOOP so far! 😊
I haven't played much of it this series, but yesterday I won 2 events, to go up to 3 wins this series! 🏆 🏆 🏆So that's now 19 WCOOP titles, as the most, and now I'm tied for the most titles overall.
And 3 more days to go to finish strong! 😀
MTT_DB also keeps detailed statistics for the WCOOP series. The list of the series' top winners:
Benny is not on the list, and Johannes "Jepser8" Starver leads the pack with four titles won in the series.
In second place is Belarusian regular AHTOCb, who won the anniversary Sunday Million in early September.
These days, major tournaments (in three buy-in categories) are taking place, which can seriously affect the final standings of the players.
Juan "OMGHilarious" Pardo and Samuel "SamuSabu" Mullur split heads-up play in the $25,000 ACR tournament.
The tournament attracted 51 entries, with Chris Moneymaker also making the final table.
