The Nightly Turbo: Phil Ivey's Heli-Taxi, PokerStars PCA Schedule and Durrrr Hosting an FTOPS Event?
The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day's top poker news stories. We know you can't be bothered googling for news when you're eight-tabling.
In Case You Missed It
The World Series of Poker Europe Final table is underway today in London. See how the final nine got there with our recap.
The boys from 2 Months, 2 Million were back at it on G4TV last night and even made a trip to the Sapphire gentleman's club to pick up some ladies. Find out whether they scored or not.
Details for the PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge have been released. Find out exactly how to get your hands on the million bucks.
The PokerNews Cup continued today Down Under with the conclusion of the Tony G Celebrity Bounty Event. For a full rundown of the day's action check this out.
Phil Ivey Flies High With Chris Gotti
In London for the World Series of Poker Europe, Phil Ivey decided the city traffic and the underground tube were just not an option, and music mogul Chris Gotti decided it was well worth it to hire a 16-passenger helicopter to take them to Wembley Stadium for a Coldplay concert.
According to the New York Post, the chopper landed in a nearby park where children were playing. Gotti told the newspaper "The kids went crazy and rushed over. They thought we were Jay-Z."
No word on what games the children were playing but it probably didn't involve cards or dice, since Ivey would probably have missed the concert to join in had that been the case.
Read more at NYPost.com.
PokerStars PCA Gets Bigger
The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure schedule was released today. Starting on Jan. 4, 2010, and running through the Jan. 14, next year's PCA promises over 50 events.
The main attraction is, of course, the $10,300 buy-in main event, which is expected to be the largest poker tournament ever held outside of Vegas. Other events will include a high-roller, World Cup of Poker VI, pot-limit Omaha heads-up, and the now famous Battleship challenge in which players play online heads-up matches on laptops. Combatants sit face-to-face bringing aspects of the live game into play, which leads to more of a game within the game. What would make the battleship event even more exciting would be if play actually took place on ships. The losing player would be forced to walk the plank in shame after an ill-timed bluff or a horrendously bad call.
For a full schedule, check out PokerStars.com and to start winning your way to the Caribbean sign up for an account here.
67 Left Low, as Eight Roll High to Tomorrow's Final Table
Eight players remain in the PokerStars European Poker Tour High-Roller Event with recent World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Erik Cajelais leading the way with 893,000 in chips. Joining the Canadian are yesterday's early chip leader, Adolfo Vaeza, cash game grinder Matt Glantz, Dennis Phillips, and Ilari "Zigmund" Sahamies.
While the ��542,000 first prize may be a hefty chunk of change to most of the final eight, it is nothing but an amount Sahamies is comfortable flipping coins over with Phil Ivey, who like Sahamies, plays the game with reckless abandon.
Tomorrow's final table will air on PokerStars.TV at 7 a.m. EST, and you can follow the PokerStars EPT right here at PokerNews.
Tom "durrrr" Dwan Signing with Full Tilt?
We're not sure whether this is some sort of Freudian slip, but Full Tilt's latest FTOPS XIV schedule has a slew of yet-to-be-named hosts for every event but one. Full Tilt lists Tom Dwan as the host of event #23, a $109 pot-limit Omaha event with rebuys.
The move would make sense for both Full Tilt and Dwan, because he spends most of his time in their high-stakes games and would benefit from a bit of rake-back from the site.
A thread has started boiling about the topic on TwoPlusTwo.com, and you can view the full schedule here at FullTiltPoker.com. In case this was a snafu, we've attached a screen shot below.
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