Weekly Turbo: Felipe Ramos, PokerStars and Third-Level Thinking

We’re officially over halfway through November. So if you’re already cranking the holiday tunes and spending time with family, you may be ahead of the rest of us. If not, and you need a little pick-me-up, check out this week’s poker news roundup.

The Winner’s Circle

Tom Middleton won the 2016 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event, collecting £56,255 after a three-way deal with Tom Hall and Richard Kellett. Middleton walked away with £56,255.

Greece’s “tzeskobar” was by far the biggest winner in online poker circles this weekend, walking away with the title of Sunday Million champion at PokerStars, a finish worth a colossal $149,645.28. This and more in the Sunday Briefing.

Dan Wagner went wire-to-wire, winning the 2016 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event Monday for $64,882.

Mohamad Tareg takes the $1,100 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty and Dan Vigderhous won Event #13: $330 5-Card PL Omaha at the Playground Poker Fall Classic. Read about it here.

Adam Goldberg and Anna Antimony chopped the opening event of the Borgata Fall Poker Open.

Carl Carodenuto won his third MSPT in less than a year, taking down MSPT Golden Gates for $114,072.

Croatian Ivan Banic won the 2016 WSOP Circuit Rozvadov Main Event for €232,241.

Timothy Cavallin won the $1,675 World Series of Poker Circuit Caribbean Main Event for $84,000.

John “FizzEdJohn” Cosgrove Jr. shipped the Sunday Special for $10,225, “njindal” won the $13,500 top prize for the $50,000 Ultimate Warrior and David Coleman makes four final table. More in this week’s New Jersey Online Poker Briefing.

The Game Changers

Could Amaya go private? David Baazov spearheads a group of investors that proposed to purchase the company.

The world’s largest poker roomPokerStars recently unleashed a new Sit-&-Go-style game dubbed “Beat the Clock.” Focusing on chip accumulation (not survival) is preferable when playing PokerStars’ Beat the Clock. The games are high variance but reward skillful play.

New Jersey voters rejecting casino expansion outside Atlantic City may save poker’s east coast home. #goodforthegame

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