The buzz inside the walls of the Rio extends beyond just the tournaments on the 2013 World Series of Poker schedule. Online poker in Nevada is a very, very hot topic right now, and WSOP.com is making a lot of noise.
While the site has yet to launch, you can head to the Lambada Room of the Rio or look for one of the beautiful and friendly WSOP.com ladies walking the hallways to sign up for a free, personal WSOP.com online poker account. This is a great way to get a jump on the site's registration, and plenty of people have already taken this opportunity.
What's more is that the WSOP will be hosting daily raffles for everyone that has taken the time to register for WSOP.com at the Rio. What can you win? Plenty of fantastic prizes including 36 WSOP seats!
Players 21 years of age and older who sign up for a WSOP.com account will automatically be entered into the “36-Seat Giveaway” where a randomly-selected winner will win a seat into the next day’s first WSOP gold bracelet event. One of the events eligible in this promotion is the $111,111 One Drop High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament that is expected to feature a $10,000,000 prize pool and allow you to play poker with the biggest names in the game. In total, $182,333 in WSOP seats, including a seat to the WSOP Main Event, are being given away during this one-of-a-kind WSOP.com promotion.
In addition to the 36-Seat Giveaway, a “Hot Seat” promotion will allow any player who signs up for a WSOP.com online account and wears their WSOP.com patch on their chest at the table while playing an event to be randomly selected to receive 500 bonus dollars deposited directly into their WSOP.com online account once the site has received all regulatory approvals and launches.
With 62 WSOP gold bracelet events and three winners promised for the Main Event, this promotion includes $32,000 worth of value to those participating.
Bart Hanson opened with a raise from UTG+1 and action folded around to Karen Longfellow who called from the small blind. Jonathan Duhamel decided to tag along from the big blind and the flop brought . Longfellow checked and Duhamel followed suit, prompting Hanson to continue out with a bet. Longfellow called but Duhamel opted to slide out a check-raise. Both of his opponents called.
The trio saw the drop down on fourth street and Longfellow checked. Duhamel bet and Hanson decided to get out of the way. Longfellow called and the two were heads up to see the finish off the community cards. Longfellow checked a third time and Duhamel cut out one more bet. Longfellow mucked her hand and Duhamel took down the pot without a showdown.
We caught the very end of the hand, but Tim Finne's last chips went into the pot after the river of an board (the turn may have been the , but it doesn't affect the situation).
Finne tabled , but his trips were bested by Mizrachi's for a full house.
Huck Seed opened from under the gun plus one and it folded around to Phil Ivey who three-bet from the button. The blinds folded and Seed called.
The flop brought and Seed check-called a continuation bet from Ivey. The turn brought a second pair on the board with the and Seed checked again. Ivey bet once more and Seed stayed the course. The rivered and Seed checked again. Ivey checked it back and Seed rolled over . Ivey picked up his cards, looked at them, and then dropped them into the muck. Seed scooped the pot and now has about 138,000 in chips.
We caught up to find Adam Schwartz all in before the flop against James Dempsey.
Schwartz;
Dempsey:
The board ran out and Dempsey was able to score the knockout against Schwartz's unimproved hand for the high and using his ace-deuce for the nut low. Dempsey is now sitting on about 72,000 in chips.
All in after the turn of a board, two-time bracelet winner Viacheslav Zhukov (one in limit O/8, one in PLO/8) was all in with against Alex Kostritsyn. We didn't quite catch Kostritsyn's hand, but he quickly mucked after the river fell, giving the pot to Zhukov with aces and kings.