60 Minutes finally ran the feature on the Absolute Poker Scandal. You can watch the video and read a summary of the story here.

Adanthar is featured in the story and comes across as very knowledgeable. Good job, Serge!

Not sure if the story is good for online poker. I actually wish they didn't run it because my gut tells me that any momentum there might have been to ease the regs for online poker will only be hurt by this feature which paints a picture of a dirty, underground world where there is no regulation and no little consequences for cheating.

What are your thoughts?

Vivek Rajkumar just won the Borgata Poker Open and a cool $1,424,500. This is coming off the heals of SirWatts's big win and Amit Makhija's 2nd place finish at the Legends - Amit is Vivek's roommate!



Vivek isn't a regular blogger on tworags, but we like to think of him as a friend of the site. He joined us last spring at the Commerce suite for a Laker game:


You're looking at two young millionaires! Who knew?

...and participated in the inaugural Bike Club/TwoRags SnG:

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Congrats Vivek. Great playing!!!

Vivek Rajkumar just won the Borgata Poker Open and a cool $1,424,500. This is coming off the heals of SirWatts's big win and Amit Makhija's 2nd place finish at the Legends - Amit is Vivek's roommate!



Vivek isn't a regular blogger on tworags, but we like to think of him as a friend of the site. He joined us last spring at the Commerce suite for a Laker game:


You're looking at two young millionaires! Who knew?

...and participated in the inaugural Bike Club/TwoRags SnG:

SNG Video

Congrats Vivek. Great playing!!!

So Podiman did us proud in the ME finishing in the top 100. Badgerpro also made a deep run and SirWatts finished just shy of the $$$. Now comes the WPT Bellagio Cup $15k tournament. This just in from the WPT site:

"Mike "SirWatts" Watson is putting the floor staff here in the Fontana Lounge to work, busting 3 players in 2 hands.

First, a player open shoved under the gun for his entire stack, Watson made the call from middle position, and another player calls behind him.

The under the gun player turns over A-6, Watson holds pocket queens, and the third player has pocket jacks. The board does not improve any of the three hands and Watson takes down the 350,000 chip pot.

After the hand, Watson explained that the player who moved all-in had been pushing several times over the past few rounds, so his large overshove was not very surprising to the rest of the table.

The very next hand, Watson is still stacking his large mess of chips when the player under the gun moves all-in for his remaining 24,800 chips. It folds around to Watson on the button and he deliberates for a minute before calling. Everyone else folds and the other player reveals K10 while Watson has AJ. The board comes out J53109 and Watson knocks out another one, increasing his stack to 412,000.

Watson resumes stacking his winnings as Tony "Bond18" Dunst is moved into one of the vacant seats and he is shocked to see his friend with such a large stack. Following behind Dunst to fill the other seats are Thayer Rasmussen and Glen "Choron" Chorny, making for a stacked table to play out the last five hands of the night. "


Looks like day 2 is about to end with 125 players remaining and SirWatts, Bond18 and Thay3r are all in the hunt. Good luck, boys!!!

Marc "Podiman" Podell was just busted in 100th place at the ME. After a tough day yesterday where little went right, he started the day short-stacked and received lots of help today in the form of big pairs but was rarely able to get action. He did double up a few times and was just under average at $1mm when he lost a few hands and went down to $650ish and then this hand went down as reported by PokerNews:

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Marc Podell opened with a raise to 60,000 before Tiffany Michelle made it 227,000 to go from the hijack position. The action folded around to Podell who moved all in for 433,000. Michelle made the call.

Podell: {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades}
Michelle: {A-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}

The flop came {7-Diamonds}{A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds} to give Michelle a monster -- top pair and nut-flush draw. However the turn fell the {10-Clubs} to give Podell a two-outer for a set of tens to take the lead as the gallery roared. But in a classic suck-resuck moment, the roof of the Rio was lifted as Michelle hit the {3-Diamonds} on the river to complete her flush and eliminate Podell in amazing circumstances.

Michelle is now up amongst the chip leaders with three million in chips!

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It's a shame that a player sees to it to commit herself to a hand like A2 by RR so light against an early position raiser who is clearly only going to be raising with quality hands. Oh, well...

Marc has been at one of the two ESPN tables for the last few hours so he should get some TV face-time during the coverage.

Let's all send Marc a huge congrats for an amazing accomplishment!!!! Marc won approximately $50k in the event. It's unfortunate that all of his grinding and great play had to end this way.