Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Last year, David Pham earned his second CardPlayerPlayer of the Year title. Not too shabby.
Now, just four months into 2008, the Dragon is chasing the title yet again. Last week, he took fifth at the WPT World Poker Challenge, which was good enough for nearly $94K in prize money. While the cash is nice (OK, very nice, if you ask us), we know David is really more excited about the fact that he’s now’s in third place in this year’s POY race, and in great position to capture yet another title.
With 2,590 points, David is less than 350 points behind Michael “Don’t Call Me a Doobie Brother” McDonald and only 20 points behind some donkey phenom named Ivey. Now, we’re not going to go out and predict that the Pham-tastic one will pull down back-to-back titles but… oh hell, sure we are.
Keep watching this space and the POY leaderboard to see if we’re right.
This is a big week for those of us who like to play a little online poker from time to time. That’s because there’s a Congressional hearing scheduled for Wednesday that could help determine whether the controversial UIGEA bill is actually enforced – or is even enforceable.
Entitled “Proposed UIGEA Regulations: Burden Without Benefit?”, the hearing is the first time Congress will hear concerns raised by the general public and affected business interests (the banks) regarding the legislation. While no one expects Wednesday’s hearing will result in any immediate action from Congress, it could help to pave the way for passage of new legislation that would overturn the bill and – hopefully – clarify the legality of online poker once and for all.
For those of you really into Robert’s Rules of Order, you can follow the live hearing here starting at 10AM ET on Wednesday.
Two red pros are among the month’s biggest winners on the site, according to our friends who track this info over at the High Stakes DB.
Leading the pack is March’s Million Dollar Man, Brian Hastings, who’s pulled down more than seven figures at the PLO tables. Following close behind is Erica Schoenberg’s main main, David Benyamine, who scooped about $976K off the tables over the past month.
In the NLH games, relative unknown yossarian_2_ has made a splash by taking down more than $330K over the past 31 days.
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