Peter Eastgate is poker pension. The WSOP Main Event winner from 2008 may not be motivated to high-level poker. He declares himself following the PokerStars blog:

“When I started playing poker for a living, it was never my goal to spend the rest of my life as a professional poker player. My goal was to become financially independent. That I Achieved by winning the WSOP Main Event in 2008. The period following tasks HAS me on a worldwide tour, Where I have seen Some amazing places and with many new people, it Has Been a great experience. In the 20 months following my WSOP win, I Feel That I have lost my motivation for playing poker high level along the way and I Have Decided That Now is the time to find out what I want to do with the rest of my life. What Will Be this, I do not know yet. I Have Decided to take a break from live poker tournament, and try to focus on Peter Eastgate, the person. I want to thank PokerStars, my friends and family for support over the last 20 Their months and for Their support in my decision to take a break from poker. ”

Peter Eastgate was the next main event of the World Series of Poker also second in the European Poker Tour London, accounted for $ 843.734. He will be the 2010 WSOP Main Event not play.

2010 World Series of Poker: The deconstruction of the 6-max $ 25k

Event $ 25 does not exceed 200 players

Any person who has posted below the number of participants who would come to $ 25k event had come to collect the cash register after the end of day 1. 191 players bought his chair to attend the event, and forecasts said it would participate only 40 players and less well, the most experienced predicted about 50 people. Last year’s event $ 40,000 buy-in NLH had a turnout of 201 players but that was what was anticipated at the beginning of the 2009 WSOP. The $ 25K was Event # 52 last year. This afternoon in the series, to put it bluntly, a lot of people stay in bankruptcy. There are a lot of pros NLHE out there that try to achieve encouraging results this summer and when you’re looking at a donut hole, it is difficult to reach into your pocket and take out another $ 25,000 for playing in a tournament in which there are virtually no points weak.
Three-bet, bet four-, five-bet, six

Despite the 75,000 starting chips, the pace of play was as fast as lightning. Tom Dwan retired in the first level. Howard Lederer lasted about 20 minutes. The same thing happened to Yevgeniy Timoshenko. The high buy-in label did nothing to dissuade these players to push his chips around a dizzying pace. If I had a dollar for every three-bet in this tournament, could have left out the WSOP and rested on a beach in Maui during the past five weeks.

That’s how guys like to do these days. Even at the end (when 11.2 million cards were in the boat), hand finished pre-flop after a bet of five bet, “all in” “call.”
The structure received some criticism, or at least out loud

Back to March 7. Daniel Negreanu wrote a post on his blog detailing what he believes are “the ten best and toughest tournaments in the world.” Negreanu positions it as second in his inaugural list at $ 25k but still missing nearly four months to begin. His prediction about the level of talent in the field, was certainly the best online players in the world of no-limit hold’em ended up dominating the event, but by day 3, Negreanu changed his mind when it came to the structure.

“The structures of all the WSOP will be solid. Do not worry about that,” he wrote on March 7 Negreanu.

Day 3 of the $ 25k Negreanu was one of 18 players who come to the awards, dismissing return to play the final table. After the first level of play throughout an entire table was removed, and when the flurry of eliminations, Negreanu approached me and expressed his frustration with the structure. At this stage of the tournament, the average stack was about 41 big blinds and Negreanu thought it should be much later in an event like this at such a high buy-in.

“150-300 with an ante of 25 is too high to start,” he said.

“Why do levels of 75 minutes instead of an hour?”

“What about the 90-minute levels, as in the $ 50k?”

A little research and number crunching has shown that the size of the stacks were similar at the same stage of the $ 40k NLHE event last year. When the bubble burst of charges in this case, the 27 players, the average was 44.8 big blinds. In event # 56, $ 2,500 NLHE, the average stack when players reached the money was of 30.8 big blinds.
Frank Cassel = Surprise Final Table

It is no secret that Frank Cassel is a player of world class Stud. His two bracelets this year got into the $ 10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Razz event $ 2,500. However, Cassel talk about himself and confessed that the No-limit Hold’em is your worst game.
Well, Kassel must have eaten his Wheaties or something on Sunday morning because impressively played poker at the final table of this event. Cassel knew very well adjusted to their opponents, specifically with Dan Kelly. Cassel saw Kelly doing his three bet on several occasions by sending a clear message to their opponents would not be hit.

Then in a move worthy of a brilliant piece of advertising, Kassel is the minimum bet to 140,000 chips, Kelly is charged from the small blind. Kelly chekea the flop of (a-Spades) (4-Diamonds-Clubs) (3) to 180.000 Kassel you bet chips. Kelly “call.” Both came on the turn (7-Clubs). When the (8-Clubs) Kelly landed in the river made a bet of 400,000 chips to receive an increase of 1,025,000 Kassel. Kelly seemed to torturing the subject, and got sicker when Cassel showed him a-Diamonds) ((10-Clubs). Kelly had folded A-J.

Thus Frank Cassel is becoming one of the players who will compete for the title of player of the year at the WSOP 2010.
The final table has its own day in which players make the difference

Dan Kelly made a surprising comeback in three days, passing 260,000 chips to more than 5.8 million. The momentum was clearly on his side. However, in the first part of Day 4, Kelly seemed to have lost his magic as well as their opponents were adapted to their continued aggression. Of course the result of Kelly became the same could have been if the tournament had been played only until the end of Day 3, however he did it being deleted shortly after it began the final table. This is a tribute to her strength and mental strength that he could get rid of the setbacks and discover that he had thrown away the best hand after the raise of Frank Cassel in the river, and get back in the race focusing on being among the first places.

High Stakes Poker

Online Report: Where is everybody?

The high stakes online tables were like a ghost town this week, as many usual trip to Las Vegas to participate in the World Series of Poker 2010. We saw Tom “durrr” Dwan, Patrik, Antonius, Phil Ivey, David Oppenheim, and Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick $ 50,000 to participate in the Players Championship, which this year mutated a HORSE event to mixed eight games. Some of those who fast as Brian Townsend lost a little hands played online and saw that “Isildur1″ was back at it again playing heads up several tables with the likes of Di “Urindanger” Dang, David Benefield and “URnotINdanger2.”
Closed Townsend $ 142K

After staying out of the WSOP Players Championship, Brian Townsend sat down to play online and was able to capture $ 142,000. First, Townsend was charged to “christinhoch” on Pot Limit Omaha $ 100 / 200 for $ 103,000, then rose to $ 300/600 to get $ 39,000 of Patrick Antonius.

The biggest jackpot of the day reached six figures – $ 113,000, and was against “christinhoch.” Townsend opened for $ 600 on the button and “christinhoch” paid from the big blind. With the flop of (K-Clubs) (5-Spades) (3-Hearts), “christinhoch” he check-raised by $ 4,000 to bet Townsend for $ 1,000, to which Townsend was re-raise to $ 13,200. “Christinhoch” paid to see the turn brought a 9-Clubs) (. Christinhoch happened, Townsend bet $ 27,600 and “christinhoch” moved all in for $ 42,890. Townsend was paid and he had (a-Clubs-Hearts) (10) (5-Clubs) (4-Diamonds), for a couple of 5 and a project internal staircase and color. Meanwhile, “christinhoch” had (a-Spades) (a) (j-Hearts-Spades-Clubs) (3) for a pair of aces. Townsend hit the staircase when he appeared on (2-Hearts) in the river and took the pot.
“Isildur1″ back at Full Tilt

Sweden’s favorite of all, “Isildur1″ was hanging around the high stake tables again this week, but despite having played a great number of hands-nearly 15,000-could only make a profit of $ 16,000. On Monday morning began with “URnotINdanger2″ in No Limit Hold’em $ 50/100, which lost $ 74,000, before they agreed to pass $ 50 / 100 Pot Limit Omaha. At that meeting, “Isildur1″ got a win of $ 126,000, after 3000 hands.

“Isildur1″ returned on Tuesday afternoon for a session of 960 hands of PLO $ 50 / 100 against Di “Urindanger” Dang, where he collected $ 84,000. The largest jackpot was $ 36,000, well short of the boats millionaires playing a few months ago. Dang opened for $ 300 from the button with (a-Hearts) (K-Spades) (Q-Hearts) (J-Spades), and “Isildur1″ did a three-bet to $ 900 with (7-Diamonds) (4-Diamonds (3-Hearts) (2-Hearts)), and Dang reraised to $ 2,700. “Isildur1″ paid and saw a flop of (q-Diamonds)) (6-Clubs) (5-Diamonds. Dang hit top pair, and “Isildur1″ a project to color and stairs. “Isildur1″ faced with $ 5,400, and Dang shot back at $ 21,600, and “Isildur1″ being paid all in for $ 15,398. Dang couple got a double when the j-Hearts) (arrived on the turn, but “Isildur1″ correct color when the (a)-Diamonds appeared on the river, getting the pot.

Interview with Doyle Brunson on the WSOPE

At 76 years old, Doyle Brunson has seen it grow from the back rooms poker illegal in Texas to a worldwide phenomenon.

However, twice winner of the Main event said that the game itself really is not very different.

“In essence has not changed,” Brunson said in an interview with PokerListings. “What people do not understand is that players are playing against you dictate your game.”
“I have preached the aggression and all these strategic measures for some time, but these guys do not work because the Internet is what they do. So therefore I’ve changed my game a long time.”
“We have to change what you do what is beneficial in the situation.”

Whether in a game in Bobby’s Room at Bellagio or within the Empire Casino in Leicester Square in the WSOPE, 10-time winner of a WSOP bracelet, said:

“Poker is about people who play it, I have always said that,” he said. “It’s not about charts, it is people.”

The global boom of poker has grown to the point where there are World Series events on both sides of the Atlantic, and there is high buy-in tournaments in different parts of the world almost every week.

While doing an effort to play in both events at the WSOP in Las Vegas and London, traveling Brunson increasingly these days and thinks that the wear of the tournament is just too much.

“I think probably would be dead if not for poker.”
“I think there are many tournaments,” he said. “There’s a tournament every week somewhere. I think that a tournament should be something special. A special event in the life of the people, not just one more week.”
“I think we should have to be only a small number of big tournaments. Of course I’m partial to the cash games and tournaments they are shocked at this.”

When you are at home in Las Vegas, Brunson still can be found playing marathon sessions in cash games at Bellagio and says he remains young poker.

“I think probably would be dead if it were not for poker,” he says. “The poker gives me energy. There is a saying: It’s a shame that my youthful spirit that locked in this mortal body and have to grow old. Until last year I did not really realized that I was getting older.”
“The game, which produce adrenaline, causing blood to continue flowing and has kept my mind sharp, reading or playing poker, doing something. I have blessed with good genes. In my family live into their nineties, so I hope be around for a while. ”

After playing in the WSOP for the first time in 1970, Brunson is still surprised by the growth of the game and the fact that he is now playing for the bracelet in the United Kingdom.

“Nobody could have foreseen this,” he said. “Benny Binion (founder of the WSOP) told me once, probably in the last years of the 70s,” You know, we might have 100 people in this tournament one day. “Now we have 8500 or something.”
“No one knew and no one knows where it will go.”

Brunson What if he knows is that there’s a World Series bracelet in reach, always have a seat at the table.