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Harrah’s Chester customer receives $100 instead of $1 bills

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:40:36 +0000

Lest you’re thinking of advantage-playing a ticket voucher machine, we point you to a tale of a faulty one at the Harrah’s Casino and Racetrack in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Voucher machines are a combination slot ticket redemption, ATM, and change from large bills.

Last week, players found that instead of receiving $1 bills, one machine was dispensing $100 bills, effectively paying 100:1.

Upon discovery, walking away quickly with your windfall probably would not have provoked a response.

But a 53-year-old woman greedily returned to the machine 56 times, receiving $22,200.

She was charged with theft by illegal taking or disposition.

The money was recovered (though there’s no mention of the $222 she was legitimately owed), and her bail was set at $10,000.

[Source] poker-authority

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PokerStars Sunday tournament results (3-7-10)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:13:06 +0000

Jen Newell has all the details in our 3-7-10 Sunday Million final table report.

As whether the four-way cut wasn’t ample, that weekend’s Sunday Warm-Up enjoyed a six-way deal. Of the 18 final table players in the pokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and Sunday Million, ten of them walked away having chopped part of the pot.

The Sunday Million saw a four-way cut that still resulted in a $260,000 won for MAE9690.

It was one of those weekends in which deal-making was in the air. Take a peek at John Hartness’ 3-7-10 Sunday Warm-Up final table report for a full rundown of the cut and Ramux’s $139,163 win.

For a complete look at the final tables of all the big events that past weekend, be certain to check out the 3-7-10 pokerStars Sunday tournament results,.

Congratulations to all of last week’s winners, and good to luck to everybody playing that week.

[Source] Brad Willis

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Annie Duke Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:28:38 +0000

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Annie Duke, the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up poker Championship Winner
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Annie Duke won the NBC National Heads-Up poker Championship Sunday evening at Caesars Palace. Congratulations to Annie for blazing the way and making poker history. She won $500,000 plus a championship diamond ring. Annie Duke becomes the first woman to win that prestigious poker tournament and joins the ranks of past winners – Phil Hellmuth, Ted Forrest, Paul Wasika, Chris Ferguson and Huck Seed.

Photos from the final day action will be added to the photo gallery.

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Annie Duke shares her win with 2009 heads-up champion, Huck Seed
Click image for gallery photo Along with the loot she gets the trophy and a lifetime of bragging rights. On the way to the championship she had to defeat a former champ, a WSOP Main Event winner, two players that sat at a WSOP Main Event final table and soon after get past eight-WSOP-bracelets man, Eric Seidel, in a best of three final matches.

In the end Annie Duke prevailed when her nines took the final pot.

[Source] poker-authority

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March 7 Sunday Million Gives MAE9690 a $260,000 Victory

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:54:59 +0000

Or the stars could have been aligned in a particularly complicated way.

As the tournament ran into the nighttime hours in America, there was one Team pokerStars Pro who is no stranger to deep tournament runs these days. Should Ms. The all-in move came from adam eterno preflop from the small blind with [Qc][Js], and camillo30 made the shout from the big blind with [8h][7s]. The [Qh] turn and [Ts] river ended the action for rigodoncio, who finished in tenth place with $10,123.00.

Camillo30 in front but not out of reach

In the start of Level 36, with blinds at 200,000/400,000 and a 40,000 ante, players quickly launched into final table action as chases:

Seat 1: by.be (9,465,306 in chips)
Seat 2: adam eterno (1,932,992 in chips)
Seat 3: camillo30 (22,425,333 in chips)
Seat 4: maestrocaggi (18,292,096 in chips)
Seat 5: asturiano (17,730,819 in chips)
Seat 6: reelhugefish (5,508,071 in chips)
Seat 7: Lagerborg (7,959,486 in chips)
Seat 8: MAE9690 (15,234,599 in chips)
Seat 9: AA TURON AA (2,681,298 in chips)

It took only two hands for camillo30 to wield that chip lead at the expense of the shortest stack at the table. Suddenly, by.be was gone in sixth place with $60,738.00.

MAE9690 was at it again, shoving preflop. camillo30 showed [Ac][Jc] for the dominating hand, though reelhugefish took the lead when the flop came [Qc][8s][7s]. The top payout of $283,449.40 was reserved for the first place finisher, but 1,440 players would receive some sort of payout for their $200 + $15 investment. After the [7h][8s][8c] flop, a bet from camillo prompted a fold from maestrocaggi. It was only a few hands later that Lagerborg pushed all-in for his last 174,179 chips with [Kh][8c], and three players – by.be, MAE9690, and asturiano went along to see the [8s][7s][9d] flop. The final registration number was 10,123, which translated into an impressive $2,024,600 prize pool, well beyond the $1.5 million guarantee. Or players were simply anxious to play some online poker.

Whatever the reason, the Sunday Million was packed with players.

The first weekend in March brought a sizable crowd to the pokerStars tables for the big Sunday tournaments.

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MAE9690 didn’t let up, which soon prompted camillo30 to move all-in for his last 18,140,649 chips with [Qc][Tc]. But the race was on as MAE9690 showed [Tc][9s]. Argentinian Veronica “Princesa” Dabul just scored 18th place in the March 2nd Super Tuesday event and followed that up with a solid 48th place finish in tonight’s Sunday Million. And with that, asturiano was gone in fourth place with $150,000.00.

A few hands later, the other short stack pushed. It was camillo30 with the original raise from the small blind, but reelhugefish moved all-in from the big blind with [Ah][8c]. It didn’t take towering after that for maestrocaggi to move all-in with [Ad][7h] from the big blind. The cards were soon after shown: camillo30 had [Ad][Ks] and rigodoncio was on the line with [As][6c]. And a short while later, when MAE9690 pushed all-in, by.be called from the big blind for his tournament life with pocket eights. The $176,959.80 prize money went to camillo30 for finishing in second place.

And the winner of the tournament was MAE9690, and the prestigious Sunday Million title went with a solid $260,000 payday. MAE9690 showed pocket sixes, and the board allowed that pair to win the race when it came [2s][6h][Kh][5c][9c]. The cards fell in favor of by.be with the [4c][5s][Js] flop and [3h] turn, but the [9d] on the river gave MAE9690 the pair of nines. MAE9690 called with [Ad][4d], and the [Ah][2h][5d][3d][8h] board turned a straight. That left maestrocaggi out in seventh place with $40,492.00 for the deep run.

MAE9690 rises while by.be falls

After steady movement up the leaderboard, the loss of a 23.5 million-chip pot to MAE9690 hurt the stacks. The all-in move came from rigodoncio with less than 100,000 in chips, and calls came from maestrocaggi and camillo30. Dabul continue that trend, she may be one that takes her South American success to an entirely new level.

The playdown toward the final table was quicker than anticipated for the substantial starting field, but action got stuck at hand-for-hand play that went into effect for the last two tables with ten players remaining. When by.be bet, the other two players got out of the way, and by.be showed [Td][9s] for the straight draw and top pair. possibly it was the absence of big land-based tournaments to consume players. The board came out smoothly for camillo30 with [6c][6s][9d][Th][7d] for the turned straight, and adam eterno was out in ninth place with $13,767.28.

AA TURON AA made a small dent in camillo30’s stack with a double-up through the chip leader, though the former was still one of the shorter stacks. The [4c] on the turn changed nothing, but the [Js] on the river gave camillo30 the bigger pair and eliminated reelhugefish in third place with $150,000.00.

MAE9690 takes lead into heads-up with camillo30

The starting chip counts were as chases:

Seat 3: camillo30 (32,240,649 in chips)
Seat 8: MAE9690 (68,989,351 in chips)

Though camillo30 tried to chip up, it was the following hand that gave MAE9690 more than a four-to-one chip lead. Original raiser camillo30 called from the small blind with [Kd][Jd], and the board came [8c][9c][Tc][Qs][As] to form a Broadway straight for camillo30. Possibly not many citizens cared about the Academy Awards. AA TURON AA looked down at [Ad][Jd] in the big blind and decided to form the shout, which forced MAE9690 to show only [9s][7s]. The [Jh] on the turn made that straight, and the [7h] eliminated Lagerborg from the tournament in eighth place with $20,246.00.

Then it was by.be who put a serious dent in the stack of maestrocaggi with the collection of a pot worth nearly 20 million chips. AA TURON AA went on to double again soon after, though, through asturiano to live to fight a few more rounds.

Beginnings of a climb for by.be

The battle consisted of two hands, the first that saw by.be double through Lagerborg and leave the latter with little behind. But eventually, it had to happen to someone. The last two cards brought [4d] and [6h], and that put MAE9690 at the top of the leaderboard by a large margin, while AA TURON AA was headed out in fifth place with $80,984.00.

Let’s form a deal

The final four players soon decided to take a look at chip-chop numbers, which weren’t to the liking of any of the finalists.

Sunday Million Results for 03/07/10:

1st place: MAE9690 ($260,000.00)*
2nd place: camillo30 ($176,959.80)*
3rd place: reelhugefish ($150,000.00)*
4th place: asturiano ($150,000.00)*
5th place: AA TURON AA ($80,984.00)
6th place: by.be ($60,738.00)
7th place: maestrocaggi ($40,492.00)
8th place: Lagerborg ($20,246.00)
9th place: adam eterno ($13,767.28)

*payouts based on a four-way agreement

For more info on ways to register and qualify for upcoming Sunday Million tournaments, visit the Sunday Million page.

Players were hesitant to hit that bubble, knowing what it meant – financially and otherwise – to prepare a Sunday Million final table. But they continued the discussions and came up with numbers they decided were fair. With the agreement that $30,000 be set aside for the eventual winner, the deal amounts were as chases:

Seat 3: camillo30 (22,257,597 in chips) = $176,959.80
Seat 5: asturiano (10,254,769 in chips) = $150,000.00
Seat 6: reelhugefish (10,283,052 in chips) = $150,000.00
Seat 8: MAE9690 (58,434,582 in chips) = $230,000.00

On the first hand back, short-stacked asturiano decided to raise preflop from the small blind, but when original raiser MAE9690 came back with an all-in move, asturiano called all-in for his tournament life holding [As][Td]. But the flop couldn’t have been better to put MAE9690 in the lead as it came [9c][7d][Ac].

[Source] Jen Newell

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No gold statue, but plenty of doubloons for Ramux in the Sunday Warm-Up

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:40:34 +0000

Hismoon played a brilliant final table, even taking by Ramux’s seemingly insurmountable chip lead a couple of instance, but in the end he could only come away with second place.

Ramux opened for a raise with [Kh]-[Qh], and made the shout when gaffel moved all in by the top with [Ac]-[Js].

But the frenzy wasn’t by yet, as Ramux and gaffel tangled in one last huge pot to kick off the final table. The river was the irrelevant [Jc], and gaffel headed to bed with an additional $22,410 for 7th place in his bankroll. A slight edge was all juda10 needed, as the board came down [Ks]-[5d]-[Jh]-[4c]-[9d], and Shaaarrrp was done in 9th place ($7,968). After Ramux folded from the button, juda10 moved all in from the small blind with [Ac]-[6c]. The flush hit the turn on the scheme of the [Th], leaving gaffel drawing dead. His [Ac]-[Ad] was firmly in the driver’s seat against Hismoon’s [Kc]-[Jh]. That left $10,000 for the eventual winner of the tournament, and play resumed.

After some jockeying for position at the final table and a few double-ups, the first big confrontation sent two players to the rail at once. The flop came down [9d]-[Ks]-[7h], and the rest of the chips went in the middle. After crippling Hismoon, next doubling him up on back-to-back hands, all the money went in the middle preflop once again, but that duration Ramux had the right ammo – pocket aces. The river was a meaningless [Qd], and the tournament was heads up for $10,000.

While the Hollywood stars were walking the red carpet in Hollywood, the only fabric anyone was concerned about in the poker world was the final table felt at the pokerStars Sunday majors. Hismoon made the shout with [Ad]-[9c], and his lead extended with the flop of [4d]-[As]-[9s].

Ansgar2000 was the next to fall, busting in 4th place at the hands of juda10. that week’s Sunday Warm-Up had 4,980 players, with a prize pool of $996,000. His only opponent was Ansgar2000, holding the charmed hand du jour – pocket eights. The massive chip lead the Ramux had accumulated made the deal process difficult, but after some lengthy debate, a deal was reached that left $10,000 for the winner and locked up comfortable guarantees for everyone.

With the breathtaking pace of the first few eliminations, the remaining six players decided to chat about a deal. But in the end, it came down to who could catch cards when it counted most, and that was Ramux on the last hand. After two hands, and two coin flips, there were two fewer players at the table as LCP collected $12,450 for 8th place. Ansgar’s [8c]-[8d] was good adequate to send another competitor to the rail, however, as the board ran out [6h]-[9s]-[5s]-[Js]-[3d]. It was a fast and furious final table, with a six-way deal after a racecar start, but when everything was settled and the last cards were dealt, Ramux walked away with the win and the $139,163.73 first place prize money.

Congrats to Ramux, who picked up $139,163.73 when all was said and done, and congratulations as well to all our final table players! Ramux just needed to fade an ace or nine on the river to win the tournament and the additional $10k, and when the river brought the [Qd], that’s precisely what he did.

Before the rest of the table could catch their breath, all the chips were in the middle again as L C P open-shoved with [Kd]-[Qd]. Juda10 moved all in by the top to isolate, and when the rest of the table folded, juda10 showed [8c]-[8h] for the slight edge in the race. Needing running sixes to stay alive, juda was drawing dead after the [Tc] hit the turn. Action folded around to juda, who moved all in preflop with [6h]-[9h]. The flop brought a huge draw to Ramux, as it came down [3h]-[3s]-[7h], giving Ramux the flush draw to go with his live cards.

It took a little while to whittle it down, and there were several double-throughs along the way to heads-up play, but finally juda10’s run at the final table came to an end. On the very first hand of the final table, the short-stacked Shaaarrrp moved all in from early position with [As]-[Qc]. Juda10 picked up a pair of nines on a flop of [Th]-[Ks]-[9c], and that was sufficient to hold up and send Ansgar packing as the turn and river came down [7d]-[Qd] and thin the field to three. Method999 raised from the button, and Ramux made the shout from the small blind. The flop brought more suspense as it came down [Tc]-[7c]-[Qs], giving Hismoon the up and down straight draw, but the [5h] on the turn was no help. Not only did he win the event, he held the chip lead when the deal was made, so he ended up with the lion’s share of the cash as well!

The final table kicked off in the most tumultuous action I’ve ever seen, with an elimination on each of the first three hands! Feez0 showed [Qs]-[4s], Method999 opened [Kh]-[6d], and Ramux held the lead with [Kc]-[Td]. Ansgar thought for a moment but finally called with [Ac]-[8c]. Hismoon nabbed $77,163.71 for his third-place stack, Method999 locked in $68,163.71, juda10 took down a guaranteed $66,163.71 and Feez0 grabbed $48,163.71 for his 6th-place stack. Feez0 found himself on the extreme short stack and put his last few chips in the middle of the table as the big blind.

The deal locked up $129,163.73 for chip leader Ramux, while the second-place Ansgar2000 picked up $86,163.71. The [Kd] on the turn did nothing to change that, and when the river brought the [Ts], it was all by for Feez0 and Method999.

Heads up play was a real battle, with multiple lead change and double ups before everything was finally settled.

[Source] John "Falstaff" Hartness

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