The Billionaire vs Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey played Andy Beale heads up and won 16 million.

Beale seems like an interesting and nice guy, but does anybody root for a billionaire to win playing poker?

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/2/beal-corporation-finished.htm

Last Day For Doyles Room Rakeback

If you would like 27% rakeback and a special bonus at Doyles Room today is the last day you can get it. Complete sign-up instructions as well as a confirmation e-mail have been placed on The Rakeback Store Blog http://www.rakebackstore.com/blog/

Here is the e-mail I received from Doyles Room.

Dear Affiliate,

Due to a recent management decision by Tribeca (the software provider we use for DoylesRoom.com) we will no longer be able to accept Revenue Share players from you. This WAS NOT our decision and was forced on us by Tribeca.What does this mean to you?

1. All players you have signed up prior to the end of business today will be paid as normal. We will make the revenue share payments directly to the players.
2. We will no longer be able to accept new revenue players from you after today.
3. You must remove all mention of Revenue Share or Rakeback from your web sites concerning DoylesRoom.com.

It seems that zealous affiliates have been recruiting players directly from other poker rooms on the Tribeca network in complete disregard of our rules and regulations concerning the Revenue Share program that we established. This is the main reason Tribeca has mandated we discontinue this program. Just so you know, it is not without great regret that we are canceling this program. Your efforts were amazing in recruiting players for DoylesRoom.com and we thank you for those efforts.Rest assured that you and your players will continue to be paid for your efforts on our behalf. Payments will be made to the players as promised and will be made in the next few days for the month of February.Once again, we feel extremely disappointed in the decision by Tribeca, but have no choice in the matter but to follow their wishes in this.

Best Regards,
Affiliate Team
The Doyle Brunson Poker Network

The future at Doyles Room may be very good if rakeback is not allowed so get it while you can. Playing with an approved rakeback deal at a site that doesn't allow rakeback is an ideal situation.

Multi-Table Tournament Cheater Caught

Zee Justin got caught cheating for playing on 6 accounts from the same IP address in MTTs at Party Poker and they froze all the accounts he was using. He said he had $100,000 in the accounts.

I was reading his blog and around the time he got caught there was a self-congratulatory post about how he pulled himself out of a $20,000 hole in one day. There wasn't any mention of his five imaginary friends doing any of the pulling.

When I heard about it I figured he would lie or confess. I couldn't imagine what his other options might be. If I had $100,000 hanging in the balance I would come up with a pretty good story about how 5 other people sat in a room with me and played poker. These five people would think I was some kind of poker genius and thus come over to my house and get inspiration from me and feedback when I had a spare moment to enlighten them. I could see how this story may unravel quickly however as five real people would have to emerge to verify the information on the accounts.

The next option then is to fess up. "I had a nice ride. I got caught, but anybody can cheat at Party Poker. Read my book about it and I'll tell you how NOT to get caught and make millions!"

Zee Justin choose neither of these options. I'll let you read what he wrote because it is kind of confusing, hilarious and pathetic all at the same time. The sad part for me is that he has no sense of pride for what appears to be his main accomplishment in life: having deceived and cheated so many people on such a grand scale for so long. But at least he had enough pride not to apologize to the poker players he stole money from - the ones who don't cheat and rely on their own skill to win.
Zee Justin In his Own Words