Nov 12, 2015 | News
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What a great start it was for Joe McKeehen, eliminating three of his fellow November Niners on Day One! Poker fans all over the world have been waiting to see how this year’s November Nine was going to unfold on Sunday. McKeehen who came to the finals with the highest stack of chips, 63.1 million of them, kept piling more chips and elevating his advantage. He elbowed out the competitive German poker player, Alexander Turyansky, last July at the close of the WSOP main event. Alexander Turyansky ranked number 10 overall, one step to qualifying for the November Nine.
McKeehen’s Hopes
Joe McKeehen is only 24 yrs old and is close in age to his fellow finalist, Thomas Cannuli from New Jersey. He looks forward to another great day of play on Monday when the remaining six players proceed with the poker finals. The games begin at 4:30pm and the venue is the Penn & Teller Theater. As usual, ESPN will air the poker tournament live and hope to increase its viewership, thanks to the accommodating poker law in Nevada.
McKeehen who came into the poker finals with a stack of 63.1 million chips now has a whopping 91.1 million of them. This means that out of all the chips to be utilized at the final table this year, McKeehen is controlling 57% of them at this stage. The competitor closest to him in the chips count is Zvi Stern from Israel, who came into the finals with a stack of 29.8 million chips and now has 32.4 million of them.
Sunday’s Order of Exit
First to exit the finals of the WSOP tournament on Sunday, November 8th, was Patrick Chan. This poker player, who became McKeehen’s first victim, ranked 8th in the number of chips he brought with him to the poker tournament finals. By the end of the main event last July, he had accumulated 6,225,000 in chips. At the time he had managed to marginally beat number nine in the race, Federico Butteroni.
The next poker player McKeehen beat on Sunday was Italian Federico Butteroni, who entered the WSOP finals with 6,200,000 chips. The third victim of the poker finals on that same day was Pierre Neuville, the Belgian poker veteran who is over 70yrs old. It was a feat for McKeehen, beating this elderly but formidable poker player, who has been an inspiration to many players particularly because of his advanced age. This time, however, he has ranked number 7 in the finals.
McKeehen’s Past
Joe McKeehen has a good education and graduated with a math major from the Arcadia University. Evidently, though young in age, he is wise in handling himself in public. At this juncture, he has decided to avoid media interviews until the November Nine poker finals are over.
Unlike his fellow contestant, Cannuli, whose early play was dominated by online poker, McKeehen made his first memorable poker debut in 2010 at the Turning Casino which is in the city of New York. He was then 19yrs old. From then on, he returned for more poker games in the same casino and continued to earn more cash. He even played in the state of Florida as a side trip before he was 21yrs, after great performances in poker tournaments at the Turning Stone.
In 2012, McKeehen came top in the Turbo Event of the Caribbean Adventure hosted by PokerStars and his takeaway was $2,000. In the poker Six Max High Roller event, he came 10th. Of course, he has won many more cash prizes since then, but the highest so far was last year in WSOP’s “Monster Stack”, where he bagged $820,863. That amount now dwarfs in the face of the possible winning of $7.7 million this week.
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Nov 9, 2015
The Internet is quite an excellent and huge place and the world of online poker within the US is a complicated affair. The number of states that have legalized online gambling may be few but it’s still possible to play poker from the comfort of your home in almost every American territory. Depending on the state you are domiciled in, there are over half a dozen networks of poker sites for US players to get their gaming fix at.
There are various factors you must consider when searching for the top rated online poker sites which are US friendly, with the major ones being the ease with which you’re able to make deposits and withdrawals alongside being offered fair and totally random poker games. Other aspects that you may require are a diverse selection of poker tournaments and poker variants.
Such information is critical towards helping you become more aware of the options which are open to poker sites for US players, which include the particular states or territories and the poker rooms that are accessible to you. An overwhelming majority of states do not restrict playing poker and some of the US friendly poker rooms are available to players 24/7, with many of them being available on Mac and even mobile devices.
Listed below are the poker networks that operate a variety of poker rooms as well their offerings of some of the top poker sites for US players. The list also includes brief morsels alongside the US states from where you can access these gaming portals.
As evident above, gamers are logging in and playing online poker at the top poker sites for Us Players. Each of these online poker sites allow you to make your deposits and withdrawals in a safe and secure environment, in addition to offering you several banking methods to choose from no matter where you are located in the United States of America.
Nov 9, 2015
Poker players based in the US have a number of options where they can play online. Although federal legislation governing the gambling industry has been slow to adapt to change, players can still try their hand at any of the existing US-facing poker sites. The states of Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey are already up-and-running with regulated poker even as other states encounter difficulty when crafting their own legislation that will allow online poker.
Be as it may, online poker is thriving in the US thanks in most part to the poker sites targeting the US market which have continued to maintain their presence in this uncertain period. Below is a list of some of the best US poker sites.
Nov 9, 2015
A major misconception with US players has been that playing poker online is illegal because of the strict regulatory framework that’s currently in place. This is false of course. Playing online poker is only illegal where specific states have banned it in general. At present, most states are in the process of submitting bills that will legalize and regulate poker in the United States.
Players will find that the best poker sites for US players are packed with top notch software, a variety of banking methods, hugely competitive bonuses and promotions as well as a wide array of games that include the hugely popular Texas Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Below are the rooms that constitute some of the best poker sites for US players that are open to gamers based in the country that invented the game.
Nov 9, 2015 | News
The long awaited November Nine is underway and each of the WSOP finalists is hoping to clinch the championship this year. Some of the poker competitors have their hopes even higher. 23yr old Tom Cannuli, for example, has expressed his dream of one day becoming an inductee to the WSOP hall of fame.
Cannuli’s Poker Life
It may sound amusing to purport to discuss the poker life of a 23yr old in a tournament where there are veterans like 71yr old Pierre Neuville, but this young poker player from New Jersey has experienced a lot that many older poker players have not. He has seen the good fortunes of poker and the bad is his young life. He got fascinated with online poker after a friend to his father, Joey Scarlotta, introduced him to it at the age of 15yrs. And before his debut into the world of online poker, Cannuli was already a sporty boy. He played basketball and shooting hoops; video games, particularly, halo 2; and even paintball. However, what fascinated him most about poker is the thrill of outdoing somebody else’s brain.
As a beginner in online poker, Cannuli tried his hand playing freerolls. After his first win, he embarked on consolidating a bankroll and soon became a regular online poker player. He began lowly at $10 sit-n-go’s, and then proceeded to play cash games. That is how he developed his poker skills. While still a high school student, Cannuli managed to build himself a 6-figure bankroll and began his way to becoming a formidable poker player.
He did not proceed to college after high school. Instead, he chose to pursue a career in poker, sharpening his skills and aiming to be the best player the poker arena has ever seen. Then came a sad day in April 2011 when the federal authorities clamped the activities at three of the most significant online poker sites – PokerStars; Full Tilt Poker; as well as Absolute Poker. The authorities used provisions of the Illegal Gambling Business Act of 1955 and those of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) to ban poker activity on those sites and the freeze went on for a whole year.
Cannuli was devastated as poker was the only life he knew as far as career was concerned. Not surprisingly, many more avid poker players were adversely affected as well. That day when the U.S. Department of Justice indicted the online site owners came to be known in the poker scene as Black Friday.
Cannuli Is Focused On Poker Heights
Not only does Cannuli want to enter the poker hall of fame. He also wants to win as many bracelets as is possible in the competitive poker arena. And deriving motivation from elderly November Nine finalists like Neil Blumenfield and Pierre Neuville who have crossed the age of 60 and 70 years respectively, Tom Cannuli looks forward to playing competitive poker till he is 80 or even 90 years old.
However, right now his focus is on the ongoing WSOP finals where he is recognized as a serious contender for the championship. He came onto the final table with 12.25 million in chips, and he aims to clinch the biggest prize of the poker tournament – $7.7 million in cash! However, he cherishes the bracelet more. And when the curtain comes down after three days of intense poker play, the world will know if young Cannuli’s dream of wearing a poker bracelet will have been realized. His hopes are high despite the fact that his stack of chips is nowhere near the top. Zvi Stern has the chips lead with 29.8 million.
