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PokerStars Rates Pros on Their Social Media Skills
Top social currency bragging rights go to Daniel Negreanu, but Liv Boeree proves her pulling power by ranking third.
- The PokerStars blog has posted the results of a social media analysis of top professional poker players—not just their own—but top players by any measure.
- PokerStars has assessed players on the basis of their performance on Twitter and Facebook using measures developed by FollowerWonk and Likealyser.
- Unsurprisingly, both because he is the GPI Player of the Decade, and the top PokerStars Team Pro, Daniel Negreanu comes out with the top score.
Go Fast: French Leader Winamax Launches (Then Pulls) Fast-Fold Poker
New Go Fast innovates on the aesthetics, but multiple bugs cause the new game to be pulled hours after launch.
- Winamax, the leader in the French regulated online poker market, finally joined the fast-fold poker game with the launch of Go Fast on Monday.
- Unfortunately, various critical bugs forced Winamax to remove the game soon after launch.
- Prior to the Go Fast launch, Winamax and Adjarabet were the only online poker rooms in the top ten worldwide not to offer the format; In France, Winamax was the only major poker room not to spread it.
Free at Last, Paul and Darren Phua Released
Efforts by prominent poker players to have suspects released finally pay off.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have released Wei Seng “Paul” Phua and his son Darren Phua from the Henderson Detention Center.
- Lawyer David Chesnoff challenged the detention after saying publicly that he was “outraged” when the Department of Homeland Security detained the Phua’s following their release on bail by a federal judge.
- The $2.5 million in bail was paid by Phil Ivey ($1 million) and Andrew “good2cu” Robl who regularly play high stakes cash games in Macau and Las Vegas with the Malaysian citizens.
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