The Finnish online high-stakes player and chatbox trash talker took on a bigger (or atlest fatter?) opponent. See who won:

Toronto Maple Leaf legend Mats Sundin is the new star at Pokerstars. The 38-year old swedish hockeyplayer has a huge fanbase in Canada and Scandinavia and joins the other Pokerstars athlete Boris Becker.

Torontosportsmedia has a brief mention here

In case someone didn’t catch the ESPN broadcast of the WSOP 50K Horse Event: Scotty Nguyen, the so-called “prince of poker”, made a real bad impression. There has probably never been an ESPN poker broadcast this censored as the f-word and other insults constantly was spewed out of Scotty’s mouth. Check the youtube clip below to catch the highlights of Scotty’s bad behavior:

Scotty’s rage was for the most part directed towards 23-year old DeMichele but also Erick Lindgren got tired and told DiMechele to “take him down” after he busted out. It wouldn’t go this way and Scotty Nguyen ended up taking down the event together with 2 million dollars and the Chip Reese Trophy.

Later, Scotty publicised an apology (scroll down to find it) in the cardplayer forums saying he was sorry for his bad behavior. “Where’s the f%cking coctails?”

The craziest guy in poker can’t seem to stay out of the poker gossip. Some poster at twoplustwo claimed Dutch Boyd bid $31K for a bunch of domains at sedo but was unable to pay.

Dutch Boyd said he had been in the mental hospital for the last two days and was literally crazy when he bid on the domains. Therefore he should not pay for the domains.

You might sell him some domains but you better not mess with his doo-rag!

Michael Wax needs a bath real bad. Full Story.

Twoplustwo user sublime posted a very interesting story about WSOP 2004 runner-up David Williams being slapped real hard twice (!) at this years WSOP and calling the security for help.

Apparently, Williams had acted like a real d-bag and the unknown slapper gave him what he deserved. This all happened at a club in Vegas.

David Williams is also known for starring in an infamous foot porn video.

Jimmy Chagra, big time drugrunner and poker player, died at the age of 63, at the 25th last month. Jimmy (Real name Jamiel) was known as one of the biggest losers at the poker tables in Vegas back in the days. Having a love for gambling, and a lot of money, Chagra lost millions of drug money to top players such as the late Chip Reese and Doyle Brunson in high-stakes cash games. Jimmy Chagra was a big time marijuana supplier and served decades in prison. He was released in 2003 due to health issues.

Okey we are back with another poker site review. This time we take a closer look at the poker portal www.beatthefish.com. Our first impression was that this site was your regular poker review and bonus site, only designed to grab new poker players. We were wrong. Beatthefish.com delivers a massive amount of relevant poker information. We took a look at the poker strategy section and wow, that’s a lot of content! Over 90 quality poker articles and a number of poker book reviews and player profiles make sure the visitors stay glued to the site.

What is also really helpful is the different deposit related information. If you are a US player, beatthefish.com gives you an overview of US poker deposit methods and lists a lot of information regarding the different deposit methods such as eWalletXpress and ePassporte. Neat information for the UIGEA victim trying to find his or hers way around the different deposit road blocks online.

What we always do in these reviews is to check the google rankings of the site. Having a good position in google usually means your site is trusted and relevant to the visitors. It is also a good indicator that your site is not a shitty spam site. Beatthefish.com ranks on page to in google for the popular keyword online poker room reviews.

Job well done beatthefish!

We write about this guy alot, but how could we really not do it when he never dissapoints. This time he is ranting in his blog. Main event is over and Hellmuth feels it is not fair how he went out in forty-fifth.

I feel like I deserve better than a forty fifth place finish at the 2008 WSOP main event. In six days I never faltered, I played one coin flip for over 50% of my chips, and I didn’t have any double up hands (my A-A vs. their K-K or Q-Q) for the last three days. I cannot say this about any other tournament that I have played in my life. The amateurs killed me when they called big pre-flop raises with Q-10 both times in heads up pots: once, I turned a set (J-9-6-8-2) and check called fourth street; the other time I made aces up with A-2 (J-9-2-8-A). I finally played a coin flip when I moved all-in for $405,000 (blinds were 20k-40k) with A-Q under the gun seven handed, and was called by J-J. It was my last hand.