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• Top Online Poker Players BOYCOTT PokerStars

  Sasha Salinger brings you the PokerNews Weekly Roundup for the week of February 13th. First up, PokerStars announced big changes to their Rewards Program. Watch to see what those changes were. "Giraf Ganger," currently ranked #4 online MTT (multi-table tournament) player in the world, organized a boycott of PokerStars' online Sunday $5K Progressive Knockout Tournament. Over 190 of the top online poker players in the world including Mustapha Kanit, Steve O'Dwyer, Jason Koon, and Chance Kornuth agreed to boycott the poker tournament. Watch to see if this boycott effected the tournament's guarantee. Next up, a congratulations to the winner's of the first three US Poker Open Events. Stephen Chidwick won the $10K NLH event, Jordan Cristos took home the trophy for the $10K PLO event, and, lastly, Lauren Roberts won her first poker tournament! She took home over $218K and the trophy for the $10K NLH tournament. Congratulations to her! Click below for all the latest US Poker Open Live Updates: https://www.pokernews.com/tours/us-poker-open/2019-us-poker-open/ Lastly, watch to find out which online poker website is sponsoring Bill Perkins' Thirst Lounge.  Partager: Facebook Twitter Google+ Linkedin   

• LIVE PN Pod: Phil Galfond Reveals on RunItOnce & Poker's Biggest Threats

  Phil Galfond has officially launched the beta on a poker site the community has been drooling over for years. He joins Sarah Herring and Jeff Platt to talk about the biggest threats facing poker, why he wanted to start a poker site, his biggest hurdles and his legacy. For more on Run it Once: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/02/phil-galfond-talks-run-it-once-launch-33349.htm TIMESTAMPS: 3:20 Jeff Gross and Jaime Staples Part Ways With PokerStars 7:30 PSPC Winner Ramon Colillas is the Newest Face of Team PokerStars 14:40 Sponsor: Natural8 Natural8 continues to grow as one of the major poker room in Asia and Europe. With a variety of tournaments unique in its own way, catered to both recreational and professional players alike, get ready to spice up your poker life. Over $300,000 in guaranteed prize money to be won each day, plus all buy-ins and guarantees are doubled on Sundays, that's $12million in monthly guarantees! Stunning tournaments and extraordinary guarantees only at Natural8. https://www.natural8.com/welcome/the-best-mtts?ref=sa1DZReiqos99a5mMDBQuoXh 15:30 GIVEAWAY a seat to the upcoming CSOP event in Las Vegas 21:00 Phil Galfond joins the show! 23:30 The public beta launch of Run It Once: "The response has been about as good as I could hope for so I'm very pleased with how it's been going." 25:20 Plans on when to move Run It Once past the public beta stage 27:20 Galfond goes over the features that differentiate Run It Once from other sites: splash the pot, random aliases, dynamic avatars, and more! 40:00 Motivation behind creating Run It Once: "The idea for the poker site was born out of fear really, for where the online poker world and industry is heading. And obviously, it's very exciting running a poker site. It wasn't just a purely noble pursuit." 43:00 The top threats to the online poker community: "The biggest threat is botting, just in the past few years bots have become that much better and able to beat humans." 46:20 Challenges he faced in creating the site: "The biggest struggle was definitely development." 49:40 Being the face behind Run It Once: "I'm not too stressed about it...I'm very involved, and the people that are there, keeping an eye on things, I trust very much, I trust completely. It doesn't really scare me, I'm happy to put my face on it." 53:40 Does he look at this as helping to create his legacy? "I definitely think it will be my biggest achievement in poker." 54:30 Looking ahead: "What I've noticed is the players who are playing are really enjoying it...I think players are going to keep coming back and keep playing. So what we need to focus on, what we are focusing on, is just growing and getting the word out to more people."  Partager: Facebook Twitter Google+ Linkedin   

• Stars from Big Brother, Survivor, YouTube & More...

  Meet the Thirst Lounge Hosts. Hand picked by Jeff Gross and Jaime Staples to star in various styles of coverage, meet the Thirst Lounge Team. They will be heading to the Virgin Islands to play poker on the Thirst Lounge page. https://www.twitch.tv/thirstlounge Time Stamps: 0:15 - 2:10: @Ebony_Kenney -- Ebony Kenney - Model & Poker Pro 2:13 - 5:33: @catrific -- Cat Valdez 29 - YouTube Personality 5:36 - 6:55: @Jon_Pardy -- Jon Pardy - Big Brother Canada Winner 7:00 - 8:52: @Fattrain -- Justin Kelly - Commentator and Host 8:55 - 10:30: @AdamScottKlein -- Adam Scott Klein - Winner of Survivor 10:32 - 13:52: @BetOnDrew - John Gonzalez - Streamer 13:54 - 15:37: @Voislavbxl -- Voislav Ivanovski 27 Wandering Spirit 15:38 - 19:50: @Priestley_ --Priestley Leng - Vlogger 19:50 - 22:00: @The_Illest -- Kelly Minkin - Poker Pro 22:00 - 23:50: @ThirstLoungeMat - Living in his car traveling the country  Partager: Facebook Twitter Google+ Linkedin