WSOBP (Beer Pong)

by Karl Popper

The fourth annual edition of the
“World Series of Beer Pong”,
a frat style drinking game recently
turned popular, is coming to Las Vegas
in 2009.

Hundreds of teams are expected to gather
at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino from
January 1st- 5th to battle for the
$50,000 grand prize.

The five-day event, presented by BPong.com,
will be the largest of its kind, the 2007
tournament attracted almost 600 contestants
from 39 states and three different countries.
In addition, twenty-one satellite competitions
will be held in several locations inside the U.S.,
with the final satellite taking place in New York
on December 16th, 2008.

“It's a pastime with a very loyal following.
We introduced beer pong to the Las Vegas Strip
a couple of years ago at O’Sheas Casino and it
continues to be immensely successful for us.”
said Flamingo’s VP of marketing, Suzanne Trout.

“Beer pong” involves two teams that face-off
from opposite ends of a long table. Each team
has 10 plastic cups arranged in a triangle
at their side of the table, then both teams
take turns attempting to throw ping pong
balls into the other team’s cups.
The first team to full all the cups with at least
one ping pong ball wins the match.

In most frat-style “Beer Pong” games,
all cups are filled with beer and a member
of the defending team has to drink a cup’s
contents when the opposing team lands
a ball in it, however, drinking is not
mandatory during the “WSoBP”.

During a BPong.com-regulated game,
twenty-four ounces of beer or water is split
between six of the 10 cups .The remaining
four cups are filled with water and no one
drinks the water from these cups during
a regulation game. According to the
tournament rules, all cups may be filled
with water instead of beer and competitors
can choose if they want to drink the
contents or not.

2008 world champion beer pongers,
Jeremy Hughes and Mike Orr, are
expected to make their best effort to
defend the title, regardless of what
the cups are filled with.
The tournament is open to anyone,
ages 21 or older. All teams are welcomed
to register online before December 5th,
the Tournament’s registration is set at
$1,000 per team, and includes four nights
at the Flamingo Las Vegas.

Eric Lui buys Range Rover with Stars fpp's

Not a big deal normally. These pros on
PokerStars who play big $, they rack up
the Frequent Player Points like crazy.

Thing is, Eric Lui is a Full Tilt Red Pro !
Maybe not for long ...lol
I'm sure FTP wants him to get his name
out there, but not by posing for pictures
and writing articles for their biggest competitor.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2008/11/vip-club-liu-snags-car-with-fpp.html

Tropicana Closing its Poker Room

The poker room at the Tropicana Hotel
in Las Vegas will be closing down
permanently as of November 30th.

The rooms 19 employees were notified
today of the closing date and layoffs.

The poker room consisted of 6 tables
spreading $1/2NL and 2/4L holdem.

Sarnia SitnGo's

Point Edward Charity Casino is running
"Touchdown Sundays SNG Tournaments"
until January 04, 2009. Sundays Noon-8pm.
Watch football and play poker.

Buy-in is $25+$5, starting when 10 players
sign up. Play up to 3 SNG's per day.

Payouts: 1st - $125, 2nd - $75, 3rd - $50
Blinds go up every 15 minutes.
Levels: 5/10, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100.

Neil Millson, his wife Gloria and their
daughter Linda have had great success
at these with numerous cashes.


Had to post this picture of Neil winning a PPT
event with what is fast becoming one of my
favourite cash game hands, the Four-Deuce.

Medic, Benyamine, and Clonie

Canadian WSOP bracelet winner
Nenad Medic is still playing at FullTilt
despite (for undisclosed reasons) losing
his Red Pro status. Medic has seen playing
under his old username "Serb2127"
on $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha tables.
Nenad has also been removed from the
FTP website showing all of the FTP pros.

Another notable pro missing his red status
is David Benyamine. David is rumoured to
be moving to another site although he
continues to play at FTP. Its hard to find
bigger action anywhere online, so I suspect
he'll continue to hang around as long as his
new site allows him.

Last but not least, Clonie Gowan is
no longer a Full Tilt pro. Further to that news,
Cycalona 'Clonie' Gowen has filed a lawsuit
in Nevada Court against Tiltware LLC,
Full Tilt Poker, and most of the big name
pros associated with FTP including Howard
Lederer, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson,
John Juanda, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren,
Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman-Traniello,
Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham,
Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.
The basis of the lawsuit stems from oral
contracts which Clonie believes entitle her
to a percentage of the profits earned by
Full Tilt. She admits that no written
contract exists but is seeking $40,000,000
which is approximately 1% of the $4 Billion
that Full Tilt may be valued at.


Clonie needs the money for..... ? ? ?