On today’s Daily Deal, Tom Dwan hoovers it up at High Stakes Poker, PND interviews Victory Poker’s Dan Fleyschman, we bring you the weekend’s poker tweets, and the final eight of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship are set.
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, brought to you by PokerSource.com.
The Season Six finale of “High Stakes Poker” aired on Sunday night, with Doyle Brunson’s streak of fifteen straight wins in televised cash game sessions on the line. Doyle could not hold up his winning streak. Instead, it was Tom “Durrrr” Dwan who cleaned up at the tables, including a pot for over a quarter-million dollars that prompted Doyle to tell Dwan, “You’re like a vacuum cleaner.”
Victory Poker’s Dan Fleyshman tells PND about his plans for WSOP domination: “We have nineteen pros now, so at the WSOP, we’re going to smother the place… Right now in the $25,000 event, we have three or five percent of the field. We have grinders like Paul Wasicka, Lee Markholt, and Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little who will play every day and every event. We’ll definitely come up with a party. We might also end up doing a charity event.”
Fleyshman also disclosed an exciting TV project: “We’re going to be choosing the next Victory Poker pro. People will submit 60 second videos and the winner gets $10,000 in buy-ins, a fully furnished condo in Panorama Towers, a car, a watch, clothes, and will live and learn from us for a year. It’ll be like “The Apprentice” for poker. We’ll start with twenty-five players and every week, we’ll eliminate someone.”
When we return, we will bring you the best poker Tweets of the weekend and find out who are the last eight players standing at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
This weekend’s Twitter was dominated by Jennifer Harman’s charity poker tournament benefiting the National Kidney Foundation, which drew an impressive number of poker pros. Harman herself was impressed, Tweeting, “Wow, huge turnout for my charity event for the National Kidney Foundation. Thanks to everyone for coming.” Jeff Harrington ultimately took down the title.
Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth tweeted enticingly about the upcoming Fox cash game show “The Big Game.” Hellmuth started by saying, “A hand came up in The Big Game that was so sick I dare not talk about, ever! I guarantee it will be talked about worldwide.” Negreanu agreed: “I’ll second that. One of the sickest hands ever on TV. Best poker show I’ve ever done today, people are going to flip!”
The Tweet of the Week went to Doyle Brunson for one of his trademark blonde jokes, aimed at poker journalist and hostess Amanda Leatherman: “For you Amanda… What do you give a blonde who has everything?… Penicillin.”
Finally, Sunday’s broadcast of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship featured a clash of the titans, as the newest Full Tilt Poker pro Annette Obrestad squared off against Doyle Brunson. Prior to the two-thousand and eight WSOP Europe festivities, the pair tangled in a best-of-three match in London, with Brunson winning two to nothing. This time, Obrestad quickly found herself behind again and Brunson advanced to the round of eight. Two thousand and seven WSOP Main Event champ Jerry Yang’s A-Q of spades held against Barry Greenstein’s 10-9. Also advancing was Dennis Phillips, who outlasted cash game pro Eli Elezra.
These are the matches for the Elite Eight, which will air this Sunday, May sixteenth, on NBC:
Erik Seidel versus Peter Eastgate
Scotty Nguyen versus Jason Mercier
Dennis Phillips versus Doyle Brunson
Jerry Yang versus Annie Duke
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