On today’s Daily Deal, Annie Duke triumphs on NBC, Phil Laak attempts to set a world record, and PartyPoker awards tickets to the WSOP Main Event – for life.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily.
Annie Duke finally got her OWN victory on NBC after coming second to Joan Rivers last year in the network’s “Celebrity Apprentice.” Duke just became the FIRST woman to win the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and her win was broadcast on Sunday. The three hour episode included the semifinals, in which Duke soulcrushed former November Niner Dennis Phillips, while Main Event champ Scotty Nguyen battled Erik Seidel. In the end Duke defeated her good friend Seidel in a dramatic final.
Duke won half-million dollars for her efforts, along with the right to REFUSE to donate to Joan Rivers’s current charity of choice, the Beverly Hills Foundation for Chiuahuha Plastic Surgury.
Phil “The Unabomber” Laak is one of the most liked poker pros on the planet and a welcome addition to any poker table thanks to his exuberant personality and boundless energy. Precisely these two traits will be put to the test as Laak attempts to play poker for seventy-eight consecutive hours. That’s right: seventy-eight consecutive hours. Laak told Poker News Daily on an exclusive interview
“I want to have the record for something. I am going to fulfill a childhood dream and it’s going to feel very cool after I get it.”
He says of previous experiences with mega-sessions: “After thirty-five or forty hours, weird things happen. I’ve started hallucinating about floating chips before. I’ve also totally forgotten that folding was an option.”
Laak’s shot at a Guinness World Record will start on June second at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and half of any profits he makes will be donated to Camp Sunshine, which helps kids with life-debilitating illness.
On Monday, PartyPoker kicked off its WSOP for Life promotion. The site is giving you – the everyday common poker player – the opportunity to play in the WSOP Main Event for the next twenty years. So if there’s a downside to this, it’s that PartyPoker thinks you’re probably going to die in 20 years. A leaderboard competition and $320 buy-in tournament on June twentieth are two of the ways to win. Palladium Lounge members also have a separate VIP points race for WSOP for Life packages. This is one of the most unique promotions we’ve ever seen from an online poker site. Win your way to the WSOP for life by visiting PartyPoker today… assuming you’re allowed to!
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