On the Daily Deal, we will talk about David Benyamine bullying Daniel Negreanu on High Stakes Poker, get an update on online poker traffic on the major sites, and discover who won the NAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty Shootout.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to you by PokerSource.com.
Full Tilt Poker pro David Benyamine pushed Daniel Negreanu off of a winning flush for a massive $265,500 pot on Sunday’s episode of the GSN cash game franchise “High Stakes Poker.” The first session of a new group of players featuring Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey buying in for $500,000 each, the most at the table. They joined the likes of Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Mike Matusow, and newcomer Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier. Negreanu folded a middle flush to Benyamine’s check-raise for the largest pot of the night. Next week, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond will join the table. New episodes of “High Stakes Poker” air at 8:00pm ET on Sunday nights on GSN.
PokerScout.com released its weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, which showed an increase of 12% in online poker traffic worldwide since last year. The biggest gainers were Full Tilt Poker with a 42% traffic increase year over year, followed by Betfair with 35% and PokerStars with 27%. But for those sites to grow, others had to lose players. The biggest loss was sustained by iPoker Network, which saw a 33% reduction in traffic, along with Party Poker, which went down 22%.
When we return, we will go over the final table of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty Shootout.
The $25,600 two-day NAPT High Roller Bounty Shootout saw 35 players battle for a place in the winner-take-all final. Each of the six table winners received $60,000, while the remainder of the prize money went the winner. Heading into Tuesday’s final table, each player began with 150,000 in chips except for Luis Vazquez , who received 125,000 because of his five-handed table on Monday. The rest of the final table players were Sam Stein, Jason Mercier, Matt Glantz, Shawn Buchanan, and Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka.
In the end, Jason Mercier defeated Sam Stein to win $350,000. Mercier eliminated seven players overall for an extra $35,000 in bounties and won a trip to the next NAPT High Roller Bounty Shootout. The NAPT begins airing on Monday night on ESPN2.
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