The National Heads-up Poker Championship gets down to the final four, the CEREUS network corrects its security issues and a SCOOP Main Event Champion is crowned.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to you by PokerSource.com.
On Sunday, the quarterfinals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship aired on NBC. Of the eight players left standing, four were former World Series of Poker Main Event champions. Last year’s WSOP winner, Peter Eastgate, faced eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel, who showed Eastgate the door. In the match between two thousand and nine Bluff Magazine Player of the Year Jason Mercier and Main Event winner Scotty Nguyen, it was the Prince of Poker who prevailed. Poker legend Doyle Brunson battled former November Niner Dennis Phillips, who went on to the next round. Finally, PND columnist Annie Duke faced Main Event champ Jerry Yang for the last spot, and defeated him to become the only woman in the semi-finals. This Sunday, the semifinals and finals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship will air on NBC from Noon to three PM Eastern Time.
On Sunday, programmers for the popular CEREUS Network, home of Absolute Poker and UB.com, fixed a security issue after implementing OpenSSL for client-server communication. PokerTableRatings.com, which first reported the security gap, posted in an update on Sunday, “We can confirm that SSL is now being used everywhere for CEREUS. The login vulnerability no longer exists. We’re now ensuring a proper implementation, but it seems like the biggest problems have been addressed.”
Straight ahead, someone wins one point one million dollars in the SCOOP Main Event.
The finale of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, wrapped up on Monday. In the end, it was Ryan “toetagu” Fair taking down the high-stakes version for over $1.1 million. Second place belonged to Kristoffer “Sumpas” Thorsson, who earned $851,000. PokerStars player Mr.M.M0ney won the SCOOP mid-stakes Main Event for $443,000, and midjat brought home the bacon in the low-stakes version for $191,000.
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