Big Week in Toronto

Yes poker is in the air here in Toronto. Daniel Negreanu's Protege table will be filmed here on sunday and we will finally find out who gets to travel around with Daniel and hopefully win some big bucks. The winner get's buy-in's to 4 $10 grand tournaments and of course tips etc from Daniel himself. http://www.fullcontactpoker.com
Be there on Sunday to watch it live via the internet.

Also the Daniel Negreanu Canadian College Poker Championship is on Monday with the top 6 flying in from across Canada to compete for a full scholarship and a chance to play Daniel Heads Up. It should be a lot of fun and you will be able to see it on CGTV coming in the near months. On a side note to this I was going to be the dealer for this event but then I remembered that I am a terrible shuffler and didn't really want to do it on television and embarress myself haha. http://www.lifeofsports.com
for more info.

And finally the Degree Poker Championship 2006 starts next wednesday so that is going to hopefully be a huge event for me. I will be playing on May 3rd, so come out and cheer me on or boo me, either way I want to see people doing something.

WPT in October at Niagara Fallsview

Holy shit people! Its happening!

"The North American Poker Championship is scheduled for October 23-27, at the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls Canada."

They are wanting for it to be confirmed for sure, but it seems its just paper work that needs to be done. They are going to run satellites etc. and its going to be huge!

http://www.niagarapokerrooms.com/News/wpt.htm

http://www.worldpokertour.com/calendar/?x=...ason=5&type=wpt

Daniel's Protege Table

Just got this email, thought I would share.

On Sunday, April 30th, poker and Daniel Negreanu fans alike can watch an event via live webcast at www.FullContactPoker.com that will change the life of one amateur poker player forever. This final table webcast will begin around 12:00 pm EST and last into Sunday evening.

Ten amateur poker players from cities around the world will all vie to become Daniel Negreanu’s first-ever protégé. In this rare opportunity, the lucky winner will experience the life of a professional poker player for four months, and possibly beyond, while being mentored by ‘Kid Poker.’

“People from all over the world can log-on and watch the play-by-play to see who becomes my first-ever protégé,” explained Negreanu. “I’m going to give this person every tool at my disposal to make him or her an outstanding professional player. From the bankroll, to tips, to analysis on some of the individuals they’ll be up against — my goal is to help potentially launch their full-time career as a professional player.”

$25,000 World Poker Tour Championship

Well it's that time of year again where the best in the world all head down to Vegas and play in the WPT Championship at the Bellagio. It's day two of the event but really it's still day one because the field was 600+ which meant they had to split into Day One A and Day OneB. Cardplayer.com has all the live updates and videos from down there so you should go check it out.

Some interesting notes: Daniel Negreanu is currently at 45,000 in chips and Evelyn Ng is at 190,000 (currently 2nd).
On the first day Hellmuth as always came in late, about 40 minutes into the tournament but today Ted Forrest beat out all late comers by not showing up....
"With only 70 minutes left in the final level of the day, Ted Forrest has still not made an appearance. His seat and chips await him and he still has around $38,000 chips." Very odd...

Also this just happened and I thought it was funny...this happened on High Stakes Poker as well...Freddy Deeb keeps getting into fights with other players: "Security had to be called over as Freddy Deeb and Haralabos Voulgaris had to be separated. Voulgaris had been eliminated and the two got into a confrontation after the hand. Voulgaris eventually left the poker room
and everyone called down."

High Stakes Poker

Well not much to talk about really, just finished up school so in the next couple weeks I can play some more poker to get ready for the Degree Poker Championship in May.

I was watching some of the High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network, amazing stuff really. I guess last night was the last episode of season one and if you head over to fullcontactpoker.com Daniel just updated with some info about season two.
It really is amazing seeing all the top pro's in a cash game and watching Phil Hellmuth lose all his money and start swearing and getting up from the table is really a joy. Even though I do like Phil and think he's a great player, its just fun to see him blow up on television. "I can dodge bullets baby!"

So...do you want to win 1 million bucks?

Ya thought so...
So if you haven't heard the biggest online tournament in history is having qualifiers right now and I suggest checking them out.
Here's the lowdown: The Ongame Network Poker Classic is a tournament with a record-breaking guaranteed prize pool of $5 million and at least $1 million for the final winner. This will be the largest-ever guaranteed prize for an event that starts online. It is an exclusive event open to Full Contact Poker players.

Sit & Go and Scheduled tournament-based qualifiers start on Monday, March 27th. Players can proceed through various levels which start at $1 – and who knows, $1 could lead to $1 Million.

So head over to FullContactPoker.com!

Campus Heaven check it out

Check out this new site that just launched this week. www.CampusHeaven.com its going to become big very soon and it has poker...sweeeeeeet!

Red Hot Poker Tour

Tournament of Champions was held on April 1st, 2006.
An amazing event in downtown Toronto, which saw Daniel Negreanu be our host for the final table or the speaker system. TV camera on top of the table so we could watch all the action from anywhere in the bar and some of the most crazy hands in poker history!
Well maybe not history but Daniel said he had never seen a final table with so many bad beats after the flop.

The Final hand of the night that crowned our winner "Jimmy" was a shocker.
With the blinds at 6000/12000 and each player dead even with around 300,000 in chips (Jimmy had a bit more then James), it was all about limping in or saying all in...which is a unique strategy considering the amount of chips in play, and with the blinds so low (compared to stakes).

The button was on James, so he calls the 6000 and Jimmy checks the big blind. The flop comes 5 9 Q all dimonds...a dangerous flop if I ever saw one....Jimmy checks....and James says All IN! wow....what does he have? Nut flush? Set? ....

Jimmy says CALL! and stands up quickly throwing over his Set of 5's! James throws over Pocket Aces!!@!@! He limped with pockets to set a trap and the Jimmy set a trap after flopping the set by checking...amazing shit.

The turn comes an 8 and the river comes a King...Jimmy is our champ and has a seat at Daniel Negreanu's protege table.

www.redhotpokertour.com
www.fullcontactpoker.com