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The Bad Beat Jackpot on Carbon Poker recently was hit, paying out a whopping $734,542.27

The hand in question saw “Ween10″ with quad 7s and “kdawg1979″ with quad Queens

This won Ween10 a collosal $257,089.81 for the bad beat. Well at least if you can call it bad

kdawg1979 won $60.92 in the actual hand and more importantly $128,544.90 for having the winning hand at the bad beat scenario.

The other remaining 7 players at the table each got $18,363.55. Not bad for just being sat around

It was a great result for Ween10, not least because many sites dont pay out bad beat jackpots on quad 7’s being beaten, but as chance would have it Carbon poker is the one known site that does.

kdawg1979 amazingly had no money on the site a few days before. He won $5 in a freeroll, and run that up to $60 at the cash tables, and then after just 2 hours at the bad beat tables he had $128K!

He said “It came at the right time. I have three boys and a wife. We were literally getting evicted. This was a blessing from God. Thank you again”

Former crowd favorite, Tiffany Michelle, developed a bit of repuation as a super bitch at the 2008 WSOP. The 3 things in summary that did it were:

1. Calling the clock on someone when their tourney life was on the line and they had a tough decision

2. Eating fries at the table with her hands

3. Waggling her finger around (pointing at her chips) and not saying a word when asked for a chip count.

Having seen a few more recent interview videos with Tiffany, it seems that perhaps she received a bit of a hard time due partly to some rather harsh editing. For example, the player in question who she called the clock on had apparently been deciding for 10-15 minutes. She also says she received quite a lot of constant ribbing at the table, that put her quite a bit on the defensive, which naturally when seen in isolation looks like giving it some attitude.

Regarding the french fries saga she says she ate them with one hand and handled chips and the cards with the other hand.

Having seen the videos it’s tough not to like her as she always seems very friendly, passionate, and well-natured. The jury is out, I’ll let you decide for yourselves, but personally I’ve re-warmed to her as a poker personality, and it will be interesting to see if she can gradually turn the image around to a more favorable one.

Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, the PokerStars Pro, has made an attempt on the SNG volume world record. He needed to make a overall profit from all the simulataneous SNG games in order for the volume to qualify.

After a few feeler attempts, he loaded up a whopping 62 (yes sixty two!) $6.50 SNGs accross 4 screens. Witnessed by an audience of spectators on a big screen he then proceeded to covert the 62 SNGs into an overall profit of $24.67 thus breaking the World Record!!!

That is one crazy volume to manage to convert to profit. Probably needs a warning of “dont try this at home” Congratulations to Elky. It may be a while before anyone gets near to breaking that one

Speculation is always quick to come of “Busto soon” when a new poker player emerges through the ranks on a heater and then heads on a downswing. The chances of the busto soon speculation actually becoming a reality is obviously a lot to do with Bankroll Management and the faith of any backers to stick with the player in question.

We have seen it time and time again, players coming and then blowing their bankroll, with probably the most recent being Kaibuxxe emerging and running up a $3 million profit, but then losing a not disimilar amount after joining the Full Tilt ranks under the new ID of Niki Jedlika.

Now durrrr is the man of the moment, but he has started to run cold and inevitably some calls of “durrrr busto soon” are starting to emerge.

He ran up a $5.4 million profit on Full Tilt in 2008, but this year he is more than $3 million down to date. He is also behind in his 50,000 hand challenge against Patrik Antonius. Should he finish that behind he needs to find $1.5 million to pay off the prize. Now if a player were rolled really really deep, or has very wealthy and patient backers, then it might not be a problem. Sometimes backers are few and far between though for a young maverick at nosebleed stakes. Dangerous waters certainly seem to be approaching.

The problem always comes from the apparent inabililty of a player below about 25 years-old to step down stakes after reaching the top. Blowing the whole roll at the top level is so so much more likely than gradually dropping down the levels. It’s partly to do with ego and partly to do with chasing the losses, thinking it will be impossible to turn them round any time soon by dropping down.

So back to the player in point. Tom “durrrr” Dwan. An excellent cash player, that is certainly not in doubt. But can he control the roll? and can he convince anyone with very deep pockets that millions of dollars of backing are a “sure thing”? Time will tell. I would like to see durrrr emerge and hold-up at the top stakes, but that is far from certain. High stakes cash poker is a cruel game, and the next busto-soon baller is always just around the corner. Good luck durrrr, dont let it be you.

Episode 1 shows Ned and Scotty meeting and discussing a little poker

PokerStars pro Gavin Griffin has no shortage of poker talent. He is the first player ever to win titles in all three of the following: WSOP, WPT and EPT

And, he’s not too bad at multi-tabling either. On Sunday I spotted him playing 15 tables at once. Keep up the good work Gavin

Victoria Coren has had an interesting career progression. Some people cant help themselves to consider any new player they havent heard of who happens to win a major title as a lucksack. But here in this video you get a proper flavour of the work Victoria has put in, and why she is one of the top female poker players around.

Victoria Coren won the EPT London in 2006 winning $941,513

I recently finished first in 8 out of 20 nine-seater STTs! Sick run. I even won a prize from PokerStars in the Battle of the Planets in relation to it.

For those of you who are not familiar with Battle of the Planets, it is basically a SNG leaderboard on PokerStars that runs Sunday through to Saturday every week. The top players for the week get listed and get some money from a cash prizepool. Not bad

Sandra Naujoks has become the 2nd women to win an EPT title, by winning the 2009 EPT Dortmund. She took home over 900K in Euros in the process.

Result

1st: Sandra Naujoks (Germany) - €917,000
2nd: Holger Kanisch (Germany) - €533,000
3rd: Marc Gork (Germany) - €307,000
4th: Johan Storakers (Sweden) - €237,000
5th: Mike McDonald (Canada) - €197,000
6th: Luca Pagano (Italy) - €153,000 (PokerStars Pro)
7th: William Thorson (Sweden) - €116,500
8th: Cengizcan Ulusu (Turkey) - €83,500

(All prize money is Euros)

Bad Beat Jackpots are a great way of attracting players to a poker room. Let’s face it everyone wouldnt mind getting their hands on a big win for little work. I’ve always been slightly curious about live poker rooms that do it as the chance of some regular colluding with the dealer seems high. The only thing I can think in their defence is that several levels of management probably all have to check the CCTV footage to validate the Bad Beat.

Online things are a bit more straightforward I think. Either the RGN is going to shuffle the cards as you would love them, or not. More often than not obviously the latter.

One lucky customer to be lucky enough to be at the table when a Bad Beat Jackpot qualifying hand was dealt was ‘Ruggio’ who pocketed a cool $417,000 as the jackpot was hit on the Merge network (Carbon Poker, Aced Poker, etc). The total jackpot money paid out to the table was around $1.2 million. Quite possibly the biggest online bad beat jackpot ever.

One of the unluckiest people around was definately Pokerbunny69 who had just joined the table but hadn’t actually been dealt into the hand, therefore didnt get any cut of the money…ouch

Below is the chat log from the table:

MrC4shier>SADOMSADSOADMAS
MrC4shier>OMFG
MrC4shier>LOOOOOL
Pokerbunny69>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
MrC4shier>DO YOU GUYS REALISE WHAT JUST
MrC4shier>OOOOOOOOOOOOLT
MrC4shier>OMG
MrC4shier>INCREDIBLE
MrC4shier>HOLY MOTHER OF shit
Pokerbunny69>i wasnt iin yet
MrC4shier>why is everyone quiet lool

Pokerbunny69>I wasnt dealt in
aelani>WOW
RUGGIO>ya
aelani>ty
aelani>all
aelani>i love you
RUGGIO>what hapopened
RUGGIO>lol
MrC4shier>so sick jesus
RUGGIO>417k in my bank
MrC4shier>how much did the loser get
RUGGIO>what u get?
aelani>200 k in mine

lll11133>let’s party
MrC4shier>lool how sick
aelani>st8 flush
aelani>str8
aelani>lol
MrC4shier>i got 40k

peokunn>wowo

MrC4shier>I’m suprised that no one is typing anything lol
lll11133>move to higher limit

Pokerbunny69>I did
MrC4shier>hm I think I wont yet
name2008>who won the mo

name2008>who won the jack p

MrC4shier>god really unlucky for you pokerbunny69 ..
RUGGIO>bad beat

MrC4shier>I think some people at this table have not realised that there was a bad beat at this table
Pokerbunny69>I DID
MrC4shier>LOL yeah
name2008>you get any m
Pokerbunny69>NOO
RUGGIO>HOW MUCH U GUYS GET?

RUGGIO>417K
Pokerbunny69>NOPE
MrC4shier>sick I would have killed myself lo
RUGGIO>rockon

Pokerbunny69>CAn u imagine…….??
RUGGIO>how do I cash out lol
MrC4shier>wait RUGGIO did you win that BBJ or the guy next to you
Pokerbunny69>was a minute away
RUGGIO>noooooooooo
RUGGIO>YA

RUGGIO>I LOST
MrC4shier>you
name2008>i was in line to get in
MrC4shier>sick lol, u got 417k ?
RUGGIO>87 HEARTS
Pokerbunny69>ME 2

MrC4shier>jesus how do you feel now lol
MrC4shier>after winning 417k
Pokerbunny69>BAF
Pokerbunny69>BADDDDDDDDDD

MrC4shier>and I was about to move to party poker in a week lol

MrC4shier>p a r t y p o k e r
name2008>how about rest of table
Pokerbunny69>I think I gonna get a knife
MrC4shier>lool

name2008>any mo

MrC4shier>so sick this , but I think I deserve it after all those months of running horrible

Pokerbunny69>well congrats anyway

MrC4shier>ty

Pokerbunny69>why dont u go and get drunk??

MrC4shier>I am still shocked I don’t know lol

Pokerbunny69>I would
MrC4shier>feels weird to see 50k in my account

Pokerbunny69>just send me half if u cant handle!!
Pokerbunny69>

=THE END=

Not bad for a couple of hands of poker