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Poker News Digest 5/16/2009 – 5/19/2009
By Dan
Published: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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- Back in April 2006, socialite Paris Hilton lost a Bentley in a poker game at her family’s casino in Las Vegas, prompting her parents to ban her from gambling there. In a clever publicity stunt, online poker room Party Poker offered Hilton the chance to win a new car – all she had to do was beat its resident pro, Mike Sexton. Alas, she never took the site up on its offer. Now, three years later, Hilton’s Bentley is back in the news and Sexton is back with Party Poker. This time, her Bentley was vandalized, supposedly by egg throwers, and once again, Party Poker is putting up a new car if she just beats Sexton in a heads-up, No-Limit Hold’em match. While Hilton has not responded to the proposition, she has been playing poker, having participated in the WPT Celebrity Invitational at the 2009 L.A. Poker Classic back in February.
- Hull, Quebec’s Benjamin LaBlond defeated a string of top poker pros over the weekend to take down the 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championship Main Event and its $100,000 first prize. This Main Event was different from most in that it was a heads-up tournament rather than the typical full-table No-Limit Hold’em tournament. LaBlond defeated Canada-native Brad Booth and eleven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth en route to the championship round of the $5,000 buy-in event, where he had to face yet another WSOP winner. Jeff Madsen, a two-time bracelet winner and the youngest to ever win WSOP hardware, was LaBlond’s opponent in the best-of-three finals. Madsen took the early lead, winning the first match, but LaBlond stormed back to win the final two and the championship.
- This year’s World Series of Poker, which is set to kick off in just a couple weeks, marks the 40th anniversary of the globally celebrated poker festival. It is also the 20th anniversary of Phil Hellmuth’s triumph in the Main Event, which made him, at 24 years of age, the youngest Main Event winner in history (Peter Eastgate, age 22, broke his record last year). In conjunction with the occasion, Phil Hellmuth’s publishing company, Phil’s House Publishing, has released a new book, Deal Me In by Stephen John and Marvin Karlins, available exclusively at Hellmuth’s website, PokerBrat.com. The book is comprised of tales told by twenty poker pros, including Hellmuth himself, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, “Celebrity Apprentice” runner-up Annie Duke, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, which detail to readers how they got started in poker and what roads they had to travel to arrive where they are today.
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