PPT Online Tx Update

The lower buy-in NL Holdem K/O
tournaments have been a big success !

We're going to extend that buy-in
and format to our other nights.
We've had as many as 17 players !

Mondays 7pm, $3 + .50, Bounty NLH
Tuesdays 7pm, $3 + .50, Bounty NLH
Wednes 7pm, $3 + .50, Bounty NLH
Thursdays 7pm, $3 + .50, Bounty NLH
Fridays 7pm, $3 + .50, Bounty NLH

These new events will start Feb/6/09.

Everyone is Welcome !

The buy-in for the KnockOut tournament
is $3 + $0.50, with $2.40 going to the
prize pool and $0.60 paid as a bounty
every time you Knock another player out.

To locate our tournaments, click the
"Private" tab in the tournament lobby.
Password is " PPT "

Sign up for a new Full Tilt Poker
account using bonus code PPT.

High Stakes Poker, Season 5

GSN has started running commercials
for the upcoming season of HSP.

Season 5 premieres Sunday, March 1st.

I'm so excited ! HSP is probably
my favorite show on television.

Taping was done December 19-21 at
the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.

The upcoming season will have a
minimum cash buy-in of $200,000,
which is the largest to date.

Prospective Lineup:

Daniel Negreanu

Doyle Brunson

Phil Hellmuth

Eli Elezra

Antonio Esfandiari

Tom Dwan

Dario Minieri

Howard Lederer

Peter Eastgate

Ivan Demidov

Barry Greenstein

Sam Simon

Giorgio Medici

Ilari Sahamies

Phil Laak

Patrik Antonius

David Benyamine

Bob Safai

Nick Cassavetes

Mike Baxter

Filming on Friday December 19th featured

Doyle Brunson, Dario Minieri, Phil Laak,

Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Eli Elezra, Mike Baxter,

Alan Meltzer, and David Peat.

Saturday’s action features Daniel Negreanu,

Joe Hachem, Howard Lederer, Patrik Antonius,

Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Simon, Tom Dwan,

& Nick Cassavetes.

Sunday’s table will include Peter Eastgate,

Doyle Brunson, Ivan Demidov, Phil Ivey,

Barry Greenstein, David Benyamine, and

Ilari Sahamies.

Although that is the order in which the tables were

filmed, GSN may not necessarily air the episodes

in that particular order.

High Stakes January recap

Courtesy of http://www.highstakesdb.com/

Gus Hansen became the biggest winner
last month when he closed January for
a $500k profit. There´s been a lot of
action on his PLO HU tables, and also
some huge swings.

Patrik Antonius looked good all through
the month but was passed at the finish
line by Gus Hansen as the biggest winner
this month. Patrik still made a total profit
of $2.6M and played his A-game
straight through January, making most
of his profit on the HA tables.

Gus Hansen won his biggest pot ever,
the hand was played against durrrr and
trex313, a $537k pot.

Patrik Antonious wins his third biggest
pot ever, which also was the biggest of
the month, $562k pot

Durrrr didnt have a good month, experiencing
his presumably biggest poker loss ever.
There have also been alot of roumors going
around him, some about his huge loss and
some about he not being able to run his
Million dollar challenge. Most of these were
straightened out when durrrr did a radio
interview, in which he talked about the
rumours and stated that the challenge
was in no danger. All in all he is UP about
$1.0M in NLHE but STUCK $4.0M in the
other games in January.

Montel Williams new Poker tv show

Former talkshow host Montel Williams
has announced his new one hour tv show
titled "International Team Poker League"
that will combine online qualifiers with
bricks and mortar casinos.

The show, starting with satellite tournaments
in March and set to be televised starting in
November this year, will combine NLHE with
‘reality TV’ style segments about the players.

Creator and CEO of ITPL, Montel Williams
comments: “I love poker – it’s a game that has
everything, played by kings and leaders and
regular joes alike. It crosses boundaries and
borders, now, thanks to technology and the
Internet, a global phenomenon that brings
people of different ethnicities and origin
together around the world. It is truly international,
and the time is right for the International
Team Poker League to take poker to a new
level and a wider audience.”

In a similar format to the more familiar talent
shows, the series will begin with a selection
process through regular NLHE satellite tournies
in both land-based casinos and online poker sites.
Entrants play to win entry into a three-day
Draft Pool Seeding Tournament at a Las Vegas
host casino at which the leading players will be
selected into six teams before fighting it out to
build chip stacks for the final one-day SuperTable
team event.

The six winners will become the ITPL Team for
the season, and will be filmed as they live the poker
lifestyle, play the pros and possibly find or create
celebrity for themselves.