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POKER FACE Saturday, June 25, 2011 Racingpost.Com POKER NEWS Deals at Business End in Dundalk and Carlow SPaturday, June 25, O2011 KER FACE POKER FACE THE IRISH RACING P OST ... exclusively for the Irish poker player The latest updates from the WSOP PAGES 4 & 5 John O’Shea reports back from his Vegas voyage PAGE 11 KITT HAPPENS Singer-songwriter turned poker phenomenon Tom Kitt reveals all in an intriguing interview PAGE 9 FEEL THE RUSH. YOU’LL NEVER PLAY POKER THE SAME WAY AGAIN. LEARN, CHAT AND PLAY WITH THE PROS 100% SIGN-UP BONUS UP TO $600* 6HHZHEVLWHIRUGHWDLOV(QMR\WKHIUHHJDPHVDQGEHIRUHSOD\LQJLQWKHUHDOPRQH\JDPHVSOHDVHFKHFNZLWK\RXUORFDOMXULVGLFWLRQUHJDUGLQJWKHOHJDOLW\RI,QWHUQHWSRNHU)XOO7LOW3RNHU$OOULJKWVUHVHUYHGZZZJDPEOHDZDUHFRXN THE IRISH RACING P OST PULL-OUT FREE WITH THE ON THE LAST SATURDAY OF EACH MON TH 2 POKER FACE Saturday, June 25, 2011 racingpost.com POKER NEWS Deals at business end in Dundalk and Carlow By Ken Powell of €52,000. Aidan IRISH EYES NORTHERN OPEN It was a similar story at the 136- McAllister 1. Aidan McAllister €9,300 JUNE’S two biggest domestic runner Celtic Poker Tour Grand Final 2. Alex Scullion €7,100 tournaments followed the lead of May’s earlier this month, with a three-way 3. JP White €6,475 JP Poker Masters main event, with chop settling matters at the Dolmen 4. Stephen Neeson €5,830 multi-way deals in the latter stages. Hotel in Carlow. 5. Connie O'Sullivan €5,520 Aidan McAllister was deemed the Tom Kitt was presented with €19,200 6. Jeff Jones €4,925 winner of last weekend's Irish Eyes and the title, while Tommy Walsh and Northern Open at the Fairways Hotel in Dimitri Pembroke took home €15,200 CELTIC POKER TOUR GRAND FINAL Dundalk following an equity split and €14,700 respectively. 1. Tom Kitt €19,200 requested by the last six remaining Other notable final-tablists at the 2. Tommy Walsh €15,200 players. €600+75 event included evergreen McAllister was presented with Northerner Mick McCloskey and 3. Dimitri Pembroke €14,700 €9,300 and the trophy, while Alex popular Dublin potter Colette Murphy. 4. Noel O'Brien €7,000 Scullion, JP White, Stephen Neeson, Veteran side-event specialist Nicky 5. Alan McIntyre €5,000 Connie O'Sullivan and Jeff Jones Power prevailed in the 51-runner €200 6. Niall Rogers €4,000 carved up a further €30,000. tourney in Carlow, while Elaine 7. Mick McCloskey €3,000 The €260+40 event attracted 200 Moloney took down the 35-runner 8. Collettee Murphy €2,000 runners, contributing to a prizepool €150 game. 9. Caroline Murphy €1,700 Season 8 EPT schedule unveiled Slog on the Tyne pays for Foley By Ken Powell Any pain he was suffering didn’t diminish his fear, however, as he got Viktor Blom IRISH grinder Barry Foley took home caught shoving 5h-4h blind-on-blind over £18,100 last week for his fourth- to exit in seventh place for £8,580. place finish at UKIPT Newcastle. UKIPT Newcastle attracted 554 Scottish pumper Richard Sinclair, entrants to the £500 main event, who has cashed in the WSOP main contributing to a £277,000 prizepool, event for the past two years, defeated with 72 spots paid. Englishman Raj Verma heads-up to Other Irish players to cash were land the title and £67,000. Ciaran Boyle (13th), Andrew Dwyer Foley, from Portlaw in Co (17th), Richie Lawlor (28th), Gerard Waterford, was always shortstacked Connolly (38th), Mark Coyne (46th), on the final table and laddered his Ken Corkery (54th) and Nik Kamal way to fourth following an impressive (57th). slog on the Tyne. In the £300 side event, Sligo pro Tadhg Ryan, from Cork, also made Fergal Nealon was unlucky to finish it to the final table, sporting a plaster fourth, having had half the chips in cast on his right hand due to a hurling play seven-handed, but he still took injury. home £4,000 for his efforts. Mizzi’s honour as poker players help charity By Ken Powell on progressing as a poker player and giving back to my community. As a CANADIAN pro Sorel Mizzi has kick- young poker player with a talent that started a new charity program with an brings me financial abundance, I feel initial $10,000 donation for Poker it’s my responsibility to give back to Players Against Poverty (PPAP). people in need who are hurting It’s part of A Good Idea, a non-profit financially.” program that connects people in need Mizzi, nicknamed Imper1um, with those who want to help alleviate finished third at the 2010 Aussie hardship and homelessness. Millions for $599,319 and followed PPAP now hopes to recruit other like- that up with a ninth place in this year's minded poker players who will commit renewal Down Under for $108,967. service days and percentages of their More recently, he won Full Tilt tournament winnings in the fight Poker’s FTOPS XX Leaderboard against poverty. challenge in May and cashed in two By Ken Powell in France, Prague in the Czech expecting another incredible year, with In addition to Mizzi’s first donation World Series of Poker bracelet events Republic, and San Remo in Italy. a whole host of new champions of $10,000, he has pledged five per earlier this month. THE EUROPEAN Poker Tour has The largest change to the schedule crowned and maybe even the first ever cent of all tournament winnings released the first half of its Season can be found with the dates of the EPT two-time EPT main event winner!” through the lifetime of his poker- Eight schedule. The first seven events San Remo main event, which will take Swedish online poker phenom playing career. on the schedule will take players to place from October 21-27. The popular Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 said he can’t The 25-year-old, from Toronto, will locations as diverse as Tallinn, Estonia, tournament on the Italian Riviera has wait for the new season to begin. He also participate in four service days for the first event in early August and usually taken place in April in years added: “I’m really looking forward to annually working directly with the the Bahamas in January. past, but it will now hope to attract the coming EPT season. My live game homeless in 2011, with plans to work The first seven events feature two players who are participating in the is something I want to work hard on with the Nevada Partnership for festivals of poker – in London in late World Series of Poker Europe in improving, and I would love to have Homeless Youth in the US. September and early October and at Cannes, France, earlier in October. some deep runs this year. I plan to play Speaking about his new the PCA in early January. EPT Chairman John Duthie said: in most of the events, including philanthropic endeavours, Mizzi said: The other stops in the first half of the “We’re delighted to announce the dates Barcelona, the PCA and London. Those “I am very excited for 2011 and tour are Barcelona in Spain, Deauville for the first half of EPT Season 8. We’re stops will be big events for me.” beyond. I will be placing equal priority Sorel Mizzi SEASON 8 SCHEDULE EPT Tallinn, Estonia Aug 2–7, 2011 €4,000+250 TWEET OF THE MONTH EPT Barcelona, Spain Aug 27–Sep 1, 2011 €5,000+300 EPT London, England Sep 30–Oct 5, 2011 £5,000+250 “Irish bracelet winner considered as likely as Maggie Thatcher moon EPT San Remo, Italy Oct 21–27, 2011 €4,600+300 EPT Prague, Czech Rep Dec 5–10, 2011 €5,000+300 landing? Is the double too much to hope for?” 2012 PCA Bahamas Jan 5–15, 2012 $10,000+300 EPT Deauville, France Jan 31–Feb 6, 2012 €5,000+300 Padraig Parkinson (@padraig888) tweeting from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Racing Post Saturday, June 25, 2011 POKER FACE 3 POKER NEWS There’s so much to read in your super Congressmen move to legalise POKER FACE SUPPLEMENT online poker in United States PAGES 4 & 5 All the low-down on a By Ken Powell Texas Rep legislation introduced by cracking couple of weeks Joe Barton Massachusetts Democratic Rep Barney BIG MOVES to legalise online poker Frank that would legalise and regulate the WSOP in Vegas were afoot in the United States this online gambling. week, with Texas Republican McDermott, who first introduced his PAGE 8 Representative Joe Barton set to legislation in 2009, said: “Legalising, ANDREW GRIMASON introduce legislation to make online regulating and taxing internet poker lawful and set up a new federal gambling just makes sense. answers our unique agency to regulate it. “Right now, the US loses billion of questionnaire April 15 2011 came to be known as dollars to off-shore gambling and Black Friday in the online poker world illegal gambling rings because of an when the FBI shut down PokerStars, unrealistic and virtually unenforceable PAGE 9 Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, policy. An unmissable interview three of the largest poker websites. “The current prohibition of online with Dublin poker star The companies were charged with gambling has failed and made TOM KITT illegal online gambling, bank fraud and countless American vulnerable to money laundering. fraud, identity theft and money However, Barton insists online poker laundering.” PAGE 10 is not illegal in itself, though he admits His revised bill's provisions include The EMOP jets into Dublin some processing payments used by an incentive for states and tribes to online poker sites are unlawful. participate in the form of a six per cent According to various discussions on tax on gambling deposits; two new PAGE 11 the proposed law, online poker sites revenue set-asides designating 25 per Pulsating punter JOHN will be registered and regulated in a Barton’s spokesman Sean Brown said poker back to the comfort of cent of the funds for foster kids; and state where gambling is legal, much the Representative has been besieged Americans’ home computers and 0.5 per cent reserved for historic O’SHEA reports back from like brick and mortar casinos.
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