Phil Hellmuth misses his 2nd attempt at winning a bracelet at this years World Series of Poker, although we have only reached the half way mark of the 58 events in the series. So far Hellmuth has cashed more than half a million dollars for his two 2nd place finishes, not bad even though he hasn’t won Gold yet.
Elky was also a pro gamer on the StarCraft Team who then focused his attention to online poker and then live poker and become a member of Team PokerStars Pros.
The first place prize was $331,639 although winning a WSOP bracelet is worth far more to ElkY than the prize money.
Victory Poker are yet another victim of Black Friday, VictoryPoker stopped serving the US market, although the decision was made by Fleyshman despite the fact the Cake Poker Network continues to allow USA Poker players to play poker online.
Victory Poker was a new emerging online poker room which showed great potential within the first year of it’s conception, with a long list of poker pros endorsing the brand which included Antonio Esfandiari, Andrew Robl and Sara Underwood.
This temporary ban on USA players will not affect players who have already signed up, CarbonPoker are battling to cope with the amount of new players signing up, the network has gained a 76% increase in traffic within the first month following the poker room indictments.
CarbonPoker decision was made in the best interest of the players so they can still offer support and services to the thousands of new players who have signed up. Carbon Poker will continue to accept new USA Poker players after a 4-6 week waiting period while they find ways to best deal with the surge in poker traffic.
Update: Carbon Poker US players welcome – Merge Gaming have re-opened their doors for American players to sign-up and play poker online. Read our Ultimate showdown review with Cake Poker vs Carbon Poker.
In a rather unexpected turn of events, poker legend Phil Ivey has announced that he will not be participating in the 2011 World Series of Poker and has taken legal action against Tiltware owner of Full Tilt Poker a move that no one would have anticipated seeing the two had such a good relationship in the past prior to the US Poker room closures and black Friday.
It seems that Phil Ivey has reached breaking point about payment delays from FullTiltPoker to their USA based players. Full Tilt Poker recently announced that they are raising capital to pay back their USA players their outstanding balances prompting Phil Ivey to file a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker.
This is rather bad news for the Full Tilt brand while on the other hand FullTilt’s rivals are probably loving the news and hoping that several other Full Tilt Poker Pros follow Ivey’s lead and sue FullTilt Poker.
Read Phil Ivey’s full statement about FullTiltPoker, the lawsuit and not playing in the WSOP 2011.
Updated: https://winallpoker.com/full-tilt-poker-lawsuit-vs-ivey-dismissed
