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Henson eyes homecoming
Gavin Henson wants to return to Wales to play for the Ospreys after the World Cup, after admitting his move to Saracens was a big mistake.
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Oblique View of Warm Season Flows in Newton Crater
An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars' Newton crater. Sequences of observations recording the seasonal changes at this site and a few others with similar flows might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Evidence for that possible interpretation is presented in a report by McEwen et al. in the Aug. 5, 2011, edition of Science. This image has been reprojected to show a view of a slope as it would be seen from a helicopter inside the crater, with a synthetic Mars-like sky. The source observation was made May 30, 2011, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Color has been enhanced. The season was summer at the location, 41.6 degrees south latitude, 202.3 degrees east longitude. The flow features are narrow (one-half to five yards or meters wide), relatively dark markings on steep (25 to 40 degree) slopes at several southern hemisphere locations. Repeat imaging by HiRISE shows the features appear and incrementally grow during warm seasons and fade in cold seasons. HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft.
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The Dark Side of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 23, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers) away from the giant asteroid Vesta.
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2011 November Nine Profile: Eoghan O’Dea
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Name: Eoghan O’Dea Age: 26 Hometown: Dublin, Ireland Online Handle: intruder123 Poker isn’t a hobby in the O’Dea family. It’s a legacy. Irishman Eoghan O’Dea followed in his father’s footsteps by reaching the final table of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event in July. The 26-year-old poker pro from Dublin amassed 33,925,000 chips in the first eight days of the tournament, placing him second among the nine players returning in November. O’Dea trails chip leader Martin Staszko by just over 6 million. Eoghan’s father, Donnacha, finished sixth in the 1983 WSOP Main Event (won by Tom McEvoy) and ninth in 1991 (won by Brad Daugherty). He won his first bracelet in 1998, defeating Johnny Chan heads-up to win the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event for $154,000. Now, Eoghan gets his own shot at a bracelet. O’Dea is no newcomer to Texas Hold ‘em. The Irishman has several big scores under his belt, including a victory in the iPoker European Championship of Online Poker III for $315,000 in 2008 and a second-place finish in the Ladbrokes Poker Million for $260,000 a few months later. He then took second in the World Poker Tour stop at Marrakech in 2009 for $378,227, which was his biggest score until locking up a minimum of $782,155 as a member of the November Nine. A victory in the WSOP Main Event would net him more than $8.7 million and move him past Andy Black as Ireland’s all-time money winner. Eoghan currently ranks 18th on that list; Donnacha is ninth. HOW HE GOT THERE: Day 1: 35,975 chips Day 2: 186,600 Day 3: 319,000 Day 4: 449,000 Day 5: 929,000 Day 6: 2,535,000 Day 7: 19,500,000 Day 8: 33,925,000 KEY HAND: O’Dea had a steady climb through the Main Event. That is, until Day 7, when his stack grew into a tower of Irish power. Most of his 19.5-million chip stack came in a pot against Andrew Hinrichsen at the end of the day. The hand pretty much played itself, but it was a huge boost to O’Dea’s momentum heading into the most important day of his career. With the blinds at 80,000/160,000 and a 20,000 ante, Ryan Lenaghan raised to 350,000 from under the gun and O’Dea called from the hijack seat. Action folded to Hinrichsen in the small blind, and he put in a three-bet to 900,000. The big blind and Lenaghan folded, and O’Dea then made it 2 million to go. Hinrichsen wasted no time moving all-in for close to 8 million, and O’Dea quickly called: Hinrichsen: Ad-Kc O’Dea: Kh-Ks The board ran out all hearts, giving O’Dea a flush and the 16 million-plus chip pot. Hinrichsen was eliminated in 23rd place. WHY HE CAN WIN: O’Dea has cut his teeth playing high-stakes poker tournaments for years and his experience showed late in the Main Event. Poker may run through his veins but Eoghan has also put countless hours in at the table honing his skills. He’s aggressive, he’s fearless, and he has a big stack. That’s a formula for success in November. More... |
The Nightly Turbo: AGCC on Full Tilt Poker, Mizrachi's New Sponsor, and More
The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day's top poker news stories including the latest from the AGCC on Full Tilt Poker, Michael Mizrachi's new sponsor, and more.
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EPT: Kaiser Leads, Kelopuro a Contender in Tallinn
Kelopuro is fresh off a deep run in the WSOP Main EventDay 3 of the European Poker Tour’s season opener in Tallinn, Estonia was a make or break day as the 63 survivors came into the day knowing that only 24 of them would survive the day and 23 of them would be going home [...]
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Epic Poker League: What Will Be Considered a Success?
http://cdn.wickedchopspoker.com/wp-c...annie-duke.jpg Annie Duke is betting that Epic Poker's success will be thiiiisss big.
The Epic Poker League holds their first Main Event on Monday. Giving credit where it’s due: going from a PowerPoint concept to an actual real, living event with a (time-buy) TV partner and palpable enthusiasm from aswath of players in one year is a major achievement. But getting there is one thing. Making it a success is another. With that in mind, what will constitute a success for Epic, from the public’s perspective? In talking with a number of people in the industry, we’ve condensed the general consensus for what would be considered Epic success… Overall Participation On the low end, we’ve heard about 110 of the 252 eligible pros will play. On the high end, we’ve heard 150. The most consistent expectation though we’ve heard is around 120. So we’ll set the line at 121.5, which would equate to around 40% of the overall eligible “roster” (and for what it’s worth, we’ll take a slight over on that line). Some pros we spoke with mentioned that, given post-Black Friday poker economics, the buy-in was a problem. They no longer have $20k “sitting in the cushions” of their sofa. While many pros were bankrolled through the WSOP, with so much money still stuck on Full Tilt and no sponsorship dollars coming in, a $20k drop is just too steep. Getting backers is an issue too. As one pro put it,despitethe overlays, with money as tight as it is now, given the quality of the field, there “isn’t a lot of value” in putting their horses in. In the past, getting TV exposure was absolutely crucial to landing sponsorship deals, which led to more entrants. However, there aren’t any online poker sponsorship deals domestically any more. And the number of mainstream deals out there are few and far between (Vanessa Rousso, a woman, who went to Duke, with Go Daddy being one of the only examples). Some of the issues are travel related. A number of pros who qualified for Epic are European-based, and having just spent the summer grinding WSOP events, many are back home. And some top (and not as well known) pros have stated off-the-record that one reason they’re sitting this out is because they simply don’t want to support an Annie Duke league. She’s burned too many bridges. People don’t want to support her. Our Take: Expect most of the top new, young players to enter. They’re lured by the possibility of good exposure that has escaped many of them in the past. Expect more of the top “name” pros to not play. They’ve seen these leagues come and go, and they’ll take a wait-and-see approach. Big Named TV Pros To follow up on the previous paragraph, the Epic management team is desperately trying to convince some of the top guys to play. One of the Holy TriumvirateTM, Daniel Negreanu, has publicly stated that he’s out. Phil Ivey won’t be playing either. Phil Hellmuth hasn’t committed yet but we’d be surprised if he actually sat this out. Of the remaining big names that the general public knows, that would leave Doyle Brunson, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson,Scotty Nguyen, and Annie Duke (give or take a Johnny Chan, Chris Moneymaker or Erik Seidel). We know Annie isn’t playing. Matusow was looking for a backer and is now trying to qualify via the Pro-Am. Whether Doyle or Scotty plays remains to be seen. If none, or one, of the most recognized and marketable pros don’t play, yeah that’s a problem. There’s a reason why ESPN consistently puts Negreanu, Hellmuth, and Ivey at featured tables. They bring in viewers. Our Take: If Epic is truly trying to elevate the profile of lesser known top pros, then NOT having the big names in the event would theoretically be a good thing. It removes the top names as a crutch. However, that may not bring in the casual viewer. NBC Heads-Up is a greatcomparable. It pulls in big numbers because they do a great job of sucking in viewers by showcasing known pros and celebrities. They can then build a story around the lesser known pros if needed. If Epic simply can’t do that–the public may not even give it a chance. Players First? Epic’s tagline is Players First. Sounds good. And some players have clearly bought into it. We’ve heard Mike Matusow rail against the WSOP for not taking care of the players. They believe the WSOP takes much rake. Players only get $10 food comps. You name it. What players like Mike fail to realize is that without the massive, insane amount of exposure they get from the WSOP (the WSOP has about 600 hours worth of reairs on ESPN channels during a year), guys like him wouldn’t have (or had) their juicy sponsorship contracts. The WSOP built fortunes for players, which had a trickle down effect in that either site operators (like Full Tilt) or sponsored players were able to back more people and put more up-and-comers in events, building many new careers. Players also believe that they’ll get a slice of whatever revenue Epic generates. But zero percent of zero is zero. With a time-buy broadcast and no advertisers, where is the money that the players are going to split coming from? Our Take: It’ll be years, at best, before Epic generates income for the players. And while having no rake, juiced tournaments is great for the players, it’s not a sustainable business model. It’s something that, economically, can’t last. It’s a nice sentiment to cut the players in on those revenues, but again, what revenues? Ratings, Ratings, Ratings In real estate, it’s all about location location location. In TV, it’s ratings. Ultimately, the success of the league will be dictated by how well the broadcast does. It was a smooth strategic decision by Epic management not to announce the time their time-buy will air. Maybe they still haven’t negotiated the slot yet. Or maybe it’s just not a good slot. Also, as we saw with Full Tilt’s Face the Ace, just because you’re a time-buy doesn’t mean you’reguaranteedair-time. If the show pulls poor ratings, CBS will pull it. And then Epic is just left with the Velocity channel, which hasn’t even launched yet, and when it does, it’ll only be in around 40M households. Our Take: Maybe with David Neal and 441 behind it, Epic will capture the public’s imagination like the early World Poker Tour broadcasts did. If so, huge win. If not, well, you know what kind of a failure it would be. Survey Says… People think we’re Epic haters. But when it comes to WCP, we’re more like Epic realists. Jeffrey Pollack and Rogers & Cowan have spun a great story for the league. They’ve built (and bought) great buzz. But when the rubber meets the road, there are some harsh realities around the broadcast and business. If Epic exceeds expectations, and this first event is a success, it could build momentum and be great for the players and for the poker media, who Epic has admirably hired many of during trying post-4/15 times. If the first event isn’t a success, Epic will spin it that this is a marathon, not a sprint. And they may be right. But with such small margins for error, the first event needs to come out the gate strong, build momentum, and build a future for the league. * Image credit from PJStar. Related Posts
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Weekly News In Brief -- Alex Rodriguez, Tobey Maguire, French Poker and FairPlayUSA
Not everyone has the time to stay on top of all of the news that breaks daily in the poker world, but that doesn’t mean you have to be out …
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Juno Lifts Off on Mission to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Juno will make a five-year, 400-million-mile voyage to Jupiter, orbit the planet, investigate its origins and evolution with eight instruments to probe its internal structure and gravity field, measure water and ammonia in its atmosphere, map its powerful magnetic field and observe its intense auroras. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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