OFFICIAL IFP WORLD POKER CHAMPION!!!

IFP World poker champion

The International Federation of Poker(IFP) made history in poker news after launching its first World Championship in history, and the final table, or what they call “The Table” featured some amusing play from the word go. When all was said and done and it was down to two players, it was Raul Mestre the IFP World poker champion from Spain, matched up against Victoria Coren from the United Kingdom for the first place finish and the grand prize. IFP World poker championship was held between November 17-20, 2011 in two iconic locations in the city of London: EDF Energy London Eye & London County Hall.

Starting of IFP World Poker Championship!!

Play went on for 11 hours on Saturday, and it spotlights a starting field of 135 players who were ultimately taken down to only 9 final players, who made up the final table. This final table featured all types of players from across world, and presented 3 women, Sandra Naujoks (Germany), Marsha Waggoner (Australia), and Coren. The 1st place prize for the first IFP World poker Champion was an exciting $250k payday, and would also give them the bragging rights to say that they were the first ever IFP Champion.

Final Table of IFP World Poker Championship!!

The final table action started off with players from various countries including IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre (426k) from Spain, Igor Trafane (369k) from Brazil, Sandra Naujoks (167k) and Tim Reese (44k) from Germany, Takuo Serita (41k) and Kinichi Nakata (29k) from Japan, Victoria Coren (204k) from United Kingdom, Slavko Tomic (44k) came from Serbia, and Waggoner (32k) came from Australia. From those chip stacks begin the last final table, there was a wide range of starting stacks, and two of the bigger stacks were the ones who found themselves alive at the end of the day. Coren was highly combative in the early going, eliminating Kinichi Nakata and Tim Reese from the tournament within the first hour of the start of the tournament. She maintained this aggressive approach as she began to climb up the leaderboard to threaten chip leader and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre. His heads-up opponent Victoria Coren had a right to argue she had been unlucky not to have gone one step further.

To separate down the last and final table action, all the remaining players was given a prize for their exclusive hard work and efforts by giving them watches from Perrelet Company. Perrelet was the sponsor of the event, and gave them a Perrelet Turbine watch. It’s a nice prize for any of them, particularly due to the fact that it has a value of around US $6500.

The action begin off soon, as Victoria Coren eliminated Kinichi and Tim in just 1st hour of play, and kept flying up the leader board all around the day. The action saw Takuo and Sandra eliminated in 7th and 6th places, respectively. The 2 players who finally made it to heads up play in Victoria and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre then made 2 big knock outs when Victoria sent Waggoner home in 5th, and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre sent Tomic home in 4th place. This left three players remaining, with IFP World poker champion Mestre holding 732k chips, Trafane holding 486k chips, and Coren holding 134k chips. Three handed play went on for three hours before the elimination finally came.

The biggest hand came when both Victoria and Igor Trafane got it all in with A-Q, but Victoria has spades. The flop fell with all spades and left Igor debilitate with only 14k in chips. Igor Trafane was then knocked out by IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre on the very next hand, which set up the match between Coren and Mestre.

IFP World poker championship

Here is a look at the final table payouts from the tournament:

1. Raul Mestre (Spain) — $250,000

2. Victoria Coren (UK) — $100,000

3. Igor Trafane (Brazil) — $50,000

4. Slavko Tomic (Serbia) — $25,000

5. Marsha Waggoner (Australia) — $20,000

6. Sandra Naujoks (Germany) — 17500

7. Takuo Serita (Japan) — 15,000

8. Tim Reese (Germany) — 12,500

9. Kinichi Nakata (Japan) — $10,000

IFP World poker champion begun up strong, but Victoria waited for her spots and finally latch on the chip lead from him. The 2 went back and forth for a good while, before Raul pushed all in, with Coren calling. Raul turned over pocket fives and was up against the A-J of Coren. IFP World poker champion Mestre held up though, and held a chip lead of 1.17 million to 180k. Coren put up a good fight to make the comeback, but IFP World poker champion Mestre eventually took it down when he had his A-5 up against the A-3 of Coren. In this poker news of IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre won it all, and took home the $250k prize, while his opponent Coren got a nice consolation prize of $100k.

We persist to get closer and closer to Legalized and Regulated Online Poker in the United States. I belief that this Legislation is very much required. In fact for non-poker players Legislation has enough of advantages and should be reinforced.

Online Poker Legislation

Although it continues harder and harder to play Online Poker in the United States, other countries have moved much speedy in passing Legislation. Countries across world are able to enjoy the freedom of playing Poker from the amenities and coziness of their own homes in a regulated and legal market. We don’t have that freedom in the United States. While you can still play Online Poker from the United States, it is far from safe and legal as we all learned on Black Friday. The lists of sites that still acquire United States players extend to get smaller. Few of the Poker sites that are still accepting US players have been forced to block players from particular states because of the state laws that exist there.

With the current Debt Crisis facing the United States, legalizing and regulating Online Poker could bring a much desired new revenue stream. It’s guesstimated that regulating Online Poker could bring in $42 Billion in new revenue to Federal Budget over the course of decade. Probably it may also give states with increased revenue streams. With US citizens still playing Online Poker in regardless of the Department of Justice’s recent clampdowns, rather those revenue streams stay in the United States, rather than a foreign country.

United States are in one of the poor economic extent of time since the great depression. Millions of Americans lost their jobs. The suppression on Online Poker on Black Friday only added to the numerous Americans that are jobless. Thousands of Americans made their living playing Poker professionally. Thousands more Americans were employed by Poker Affiliates, Poker News Sites, Poker Coaching/Training Sites, and web design sites. Many of these players are incompetent to make the same living in the current United States Online Poker climate. The reason being sites still receiving US players have diminutive player pools and they do not offer same high stakes as the sites seized on Black Friday. Legislation is the only way that can give US citizens their jobs back, but it would also bring the offshore Poker Sites onto American soil which would generate chiliad of jobs enclosed with: Customer Service Positions, Marketing jobs, Technology Positions, Computer Programming and Networking Positions, etc.

Online Poker Legislation

Some may verbal disputes that legalizing Online Poker would open the door for problem Gamblers and minor Gamblers. Literally, the conflicting would happen under government regulation. Recently, we believe on these offshore Poker sites to police problem gamblers and adolescent gamblers. Can we authentically rely that these offshore sites have the great interest of these individuals in mind? Well present offshore sites cannot probably catch all the problem gamblers and minor gamblers even if that was their objective. Excellent federal legislation would set up different detection techniques to check.

United States have eternally been on top if we talk about freedom. Now it’s a day to get back to that and give United States Online Poker players the independence to play in a safe, legal and regulated Poker world. At present there are enormous bills to Legalize and Regulate Online Poker at the state level and there is also a Federal Bill.

It’s good to see your family members to be with you when you decide to go for an event like WSOP, but it would even better if you have your family playing at the WSOP. You don’t know how it feels then Hinkle brother’s are here to explain it.

Hinkle Brothers Grant & Blair who made good news during the 2008 WSOP by winning bracelets each, now it’s the youngest brother out of four Hinkle brother “Manson” who is making the news with his debut at the age of 21.

There is lots of expectation from the young lad as he hails from a well poker educated family. And how can’t it be when two of your elder brothers are WSOP bracelet winners.

When asked about his expectation this is what he had to say “I have high expectations, well not high, but I feel like I’m better than the field, at least in this (event), but realistically you’re going to have run real good to go deep or anything,”.

Mason Hinkle was inspired to play poker after seeing his elder brothers winning WSOP bracelet in 2008. That’s when he took up playing poker online in order to improve his poker skills. He made a fair amount of winning playing at FullTilt. His online poker skills caught his elder brother’s attention, after which they were extremely satisfied with Masons poker skills.

Grant says “Mason’s probably got the most potential. “He’s young and pretty smart too. We didn’t really teach him that much. He picked a lot of it up on his own.”

Now the only brother missing from this poker circuit was Taylor Hinkle who is 23 and is yet to make his debut in WSOP. Well lot depends on Mason.

Infosys & Mobile Streams have united together to bring more new & trendy mobile apps in the the market including mobile casino games. Infosys will contribute its expertise within India while Mobile Streams will help its new partner with a move into Latin America.

Two giants in the mobile apps industry, Infosys and Mobile Stream, united their forces to share their existing technologies and application base to focus on developing software for niche markets including mobile casino games. Reciprocal distribution deals and licensing will help both companies build on each other’s expertise.

Mobile Streams’s popular mobile app marketplace, Appitalism, is already the home of multiple Smartphone applications including mobile casinos, and will become the future distribution point of new products created by the joint venture.

Infosys in turn will put Mobile Stream’s apps into its Flypp game apps marketplace and make them available to its Indian and Asian partners. Both companies see synergy and new global opportunities in the collaboration deal with Mobile Stream’s successes in Latin America and Infosys’ extensive presence in India.

R&D of new applications and technologies is expected to develop rapidly and generate higher revenue for both of them. Both companies will use each other’s expertise and experience to come up with a whole range of new applications and mobile casino games. Also the rapidly growing mobile casino market is expected to get particular attention. Original mobile casino software games for both the iPhone and iPad 2 as well as 3D casino games for the Android 3 Honeycomb O.S. are currently in the stage of designing.