For a record 31st straight week, Alex Foxen is the top-ranked poker gamer in the world according to the Global Poker Index. Fedor Holz, during his insane run of substantial scores in 2006, previously held the record at 30 successive weeks.

Foxen, a previous football player at Boston College University, is just one of the game’s top rising celebrities. Whether he’s the very best gamer worldwide is subjective provided the GPI’s positions are based upon subjective solutions. But he’s without a doubt a skilled pro with remarkable advantage.

His partner, Kristen Bicknell, is likewise a first-class texas hold’em pro. She’s a two-time protecting GPI Female of the Year champion and funded by Partypoker.

Move Over Fedor

Fedor Holz had an unforgettable run in 2006. He cashed that year for over $16 million, third greatest single-year incomes in history. Throughout that sick heater, he set a document with 30 successive weeks atop the GPI world positions. But documents are made to be broken.

Alex Foxen, who currently has over $11.6 million in profession live tournament revenues, has been placed # 1 the previous 31 weeks. Throughout that period, he’s turned into one of online poker’s most consistent no-limit hold ’em tournament mills.

Considering That December, Foxen has $5.3 million in money, a lot of in hold ’em events. That includes a runner-up coating at the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl V for $2.16 million. With April, he already has 7 six-figure scores this year, and also the WSOP hasn’t even begun.

Is He Really the Best?

The Global Poker Index uses a point-based system to rate the gamers. While the GPI is credited with having one of the most trustworthy texas hold’em gamer ranking system, as well as deservedly so, establishing the most effective player is subjective due to the fact that the formula used will constantly be subjective.

As well as each year it seems there is a different gamer the texas hold’em community calls as the “best.” In 2015, Steve O’Dwyer and also GPI POY victor Byron Kaverman were considered as the leading gamers. The next year, Fedor Holz held that title although David Peters wound up winning POY. In 2017, Adrian Mateos, Bryn Kenney, and also Stephen Chidwick, were unstoppable.

And afterwards in 2015 Justin Bonomo had perhaps the greatest year in online poker background with $25 million in cashes. Bonomo has actually because cooled down a bit and also currently numerous think about Foxen to be the best gamer worldwide. Maybe, he is. It’s difficult to refute that factor offered his uniformity in high rollers the past year or so. But the debate is subjective and also, for that reason, difficult to come to a definitive verdict.

Heading right into the final day of the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica Monster Stack event, Maurice Hawkins put on a Nike sweatshirt with the company’s renowned motto Just do it. As well as Hawkins did it … again. The Florida-based gamer won last evening a record-breaking 13th gold ring from the series, going beyond Valentin Vornicu on the leaderboard for the most gold items from the WSOP Circuit ever before won.

Hawkins has already cemented himself as one of the finest Circuit gamers, but he clearly has no purpose to decrease.

The two-day Monster Stack event brought in 432 entrances who conveniently crushed the $100,000 warranty and also produced a prize swimming pool of $142,560.

There were payments for the top 45 contenders, min-cashes starting from $644. Of course, every person was considering the leading reward of $31,372 and the going along with gold ring, however it was Hawkins that scooped those after rather the work. The player’s profits from the series hence swelled to more than $1.7 million.

Hawkins won his 12th gold ring to link with Vornicu nearly 3 weeks ago at Harrah’s Cherokee. He had held a previous record for the most gold rings ever before won, however Vornicu had bettered his achievement to hold the lead in this prominent race for a while.

The Monster Stack Finale

Hawkins was among the chip leaders throughout the final day of the Monster Stack tourney however his time truly came when the informal final table of 10 was developed. The player got in that shutting phase of the game with a chip lead.

Action was off to a slow beginning. Hawkins kept an excellent stack throughout the last table to secure his area among the last two.

The currently record-breaking WSOPC gold ring victor encountered Hamid Izadi from Atlanta, Georgia heads-up. The two-handed battle started with Izadi holding the chip lead. The gamer maintained his edge for a while, but the title avoided him eventually.

Hawkins after that found a chance to grind his opponent’s chips away and also he truly took the best feasible advantage out of that possibility.

A pre-flop all-in conflict in which Izadi’s.
[As] [4h] clashed into Hawkins’ pocket jacks sealed it for the latter. Izadi went out in 2nd area, good for $19,381.

Hawkins had tons of praise for his last challenger. He told WSOPC team later that their duel was a great deal of enjoyable as Izadi maintained altering his design and the eventual champion needed to adjust to those adjustments regularly.

Of his very own game, Hawkins claimed that he has actually made a lot of effort to play far better, be extra concentrated and worth all the oppoprtunities he has actually been provided.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Players Come First has complemented its recent move to the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) by signing Felipe Ramos.

Declared on April 17, the offer will see Ramos give the online poker start-up a global presence. In addition to a Latin American fanbase, the Brazilian is referred to as a combined games professional.

In between his fondness for non-Hold ’em variations and also a profession that extends greater than a years, Ramos has actually racked up $2.5 million in live revenues.

Ramos to Connect with Community

In his brand-new role as Players Precede ambassador, the guy referred to as Mojave help to support the website’s player-friendly focus.

Although Players Preceded Online poker is getting in an open market, it’s aiming to capitalize on a recurring trend. Following complaints about how particular parts of the market have progressed, player power has held.

In January 2019, Partypoker introduced a “gamer panel” to enhance its links with the area. Making use of high-profile players such as Isaac Haxton, the driver has taken on board remarks from gamers and also shaped its innovations appropriately.

Players Come First Facing Tough Test

Looking to maximize this player-centric dynamic, Athletes Come First will use Ramos to build bridges. These bridges might be important as the website’s new network is about to lose one of its biggest brand names.

After 13 years of service, RedKings Poker lately introduced it will certainly stop procedures on April 28. Although it hasn’t said why, dropping revenue is most likely the factor.

As it stands, MPN is ranked 15^th in the world by daily traffic reports. This, coupled with tighter margins for online poker, has caused the longstanding brand to reassess its options.

Indeed, with RedKings Gambling enterprise remaining open, the implication is that MPN might not be as rewarding as it when was.

For its component, Players Come First currently has an online casino and also sportsbook. It likewise prepares to roll out an online bingo platform in the near future.

However, it will certainly also be hoping Ramos can connect with the casino poker neighborhood to help develop a site players want to be a part of.

The Day 1 trips of the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event are currently in the books as well as leading the way after the initial 17 levels of play is two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Calvin Anderson. Anderson already has over $1,000,000 in WSOP incomes but has yet to discover a WSOPC ring yet. He might include that to his collection with a win below in this event. Anderson started grabbing steam early in the day and he never let off the gas pedal, getting rid of several gamers near the end of the night to do with simply under a million chips with 959,000.

Anderson will certainly sign up with Day 1A chip leader Mike Vanier atop the chip counts. Vanier got 773,000 which was good sufficient for second area overall. Both will certainly be adhered to by previous World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Greg Raymer that bagged the third largest stack in the competition with 723,000 chips.

Various other notables that will be returning for Day 2 activity include Allen Kessler, Jared Jaffee, Dapo Ajayi, Lakisha Slaughter, Timothy Burden, Michael Perrone, Blake Whittington and also Brett Apter who all landed on Day 1B. Several remarkable players will certainly be joining from Day 1A too with the likes of Damjan Radanov, Nitis Udornpim, T.K. Miles, Tyler Patterson, Marshall White, Ryan Van Sanford, Krzysztof Stybaniewicz, Warren Sheave and also Ralph Massey all making it via to Day 2.

For every single notable who did make it with though, there were 2 who fell. Amongst those that weren’t able to hike on Day 2 were Maurice Hawkins, Justin Harvell, Ryan Phan, Aaron Massey, David Bach, Max Young, Brock Wilson, Loni Harwood, Brett Murray, Ben Keeline, and Roland Israelashvili just among others. Hamid Izadi was one more circuit routine to fall on Day 1B. Izadi obtained most of his stack in with a straight versus Ben Diebold who turned 2 pair with a flush draw. The flush was available in on the river which was completion for Izadi who was gotten rid of.

Ultimately, an overall of 136 gamers advanced to Day 2 with 50 players making it through from Day 1A and 86 survivors from Day 1B. This puts gamers simply 21 places away from the money. A mincash will certainly be worth $2,701 for the occasion but players will undoubtedly be trying to find the starting point prize of $300,536 along with the seat to the Global Casino Championship. Any individual that makes the last table in case will take residence a minimum of $29,807 for 9th location.

Activity is readied to return to on Sunday, April 21 at 12 p.m. with the final 136 players going back to play 10, one-hour levels. Gamer will return in level 18 with blinds of 3,000/ 6,000 and also an ante of 1,000.

Pot-limit Omaha enthusiast Joe Ingram may soon settle a year-long dispute with the CEO of Americas Cardroom. Or, maybe not. The popular podcaster will have Phil Nagy on his YouTube show April 29 to discuss concerns over bots flooding ACR.

Ingram has long accused ACR of refusing to eliminate the bots and colluding players. He claims bots flood the PLO cash games and many real players collude to create unfair games.

Nagy has always disagreed with the podcaster until recently when he admitted his site has a bot problem. But there’s no doubt the two have some bad blood to resolve or the interview could get vile.

‘Steps in the Right Direction?’

Joe Ingram said in a recent YouTube video that he’s optimistic Nagy and ACR will take some “steps in the right direction” towards eliminating the bots. But he doesn’t know what to expect from the upcoming conversation.

Regardless of the outcome of the podcast, Ingram admitted in his video that he’s “excited” for the opportunity. He’s called out Nagy numerous times over the past year for refusing to take action. And he believes now is the time to put a stop to it.

Ingram built a spreadsheet of ACR players he claims are bots. He’ll likely share that list with Nagy on the podcast. The Americas Cardroom CEO recently said his company will reimburse those affected by the bots. He hasn’t said exactly how much money will be refunded, however.

Stopping Online Poker Cheating

Americas Cardroom isn’t the only poker site that has a problem with bots and collusion. But Ingram spends so much time criticizing Nagy’s site because it is one of the few busy US-facing poker sites.

In another Ingram podcast with Doug Polk on Thursday, a bot discussion came up. Polk suggested bots could eventually take over online poker sites.

PokerStars and others have taken steps to minimize cheating. And, hopefully, Phil Nagy will take the same precautions after his conversation with Joe Ingram.