Author Archive for LifeFish

Full Tilt Pay AGCC Overdue Licence Fees

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has given Full Tilt Poker players some fresh hope with the release of their latest official statement. They have revealed that FTP has paid the reported £250,000 they owed in back dated licence fees. US players have been waiting for their money since the DoJ action on April 15th, while [...]

EurekaKid Short Going Into Day 3 – APPT Melbourne Main Event

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

EurekaKid has managed to stay alive in the APPT Melbourne Main Event and make it to Day 3. He has 87,600 in chips and blinds will start at 2,000/4,000 with a 400 ante. 38 players remain in the event with the top 28 paid and they will play down to the final table today. Links [...]

EurekaKid Survives Day 1 – APPT Melbourne Main Event

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Our very own EurekaKid has made it through the first day of the inaugural Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Melbourne main event. Eureka will be looking to continue LifeFish’s great success rate in live tournaments this year. David ‘LacieK’ Menz finished 12th in the Aussie Millions where Michael ‘Newmanmi’ Newman also cashed. Zachary ‘zachvac’ Hall [...]

Revealed: Ivey & Benyamine’s Transactions with Full Tilt Poker

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD) has published an article on his fast growing Subject Poker (S:P) news site. NoahSD claims to have raw data (albeit with a few gaps), which shows transactions between Full Tilt Poker and both Phil Ivey and David Benyamine. The article basically details that Phil Ivey borrowed around $10million dollars from FTP over [...]

Full Tilt Poker AGCC Hearing Synopsis

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

On July 26th, 2011 the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) held a hearing over the license of Full Tilt Poke (FTP). FTP players were hoping that the date would bring some good news of a new investor and that FTP’s license would be re-instated. At the end of it all though we were left none [...]

Hold ‘Em Manager 2

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Everyone should note that the Hold ‘Em manager 2 Beta program is open for applications. We haven’t yet received our code, but when we do we’ll provide a more detailed analysis. For now, all that we can share is some of the features they have made public. New features include… – Better performance with faster [...]

Zachvac on the Verge

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Our very own Zachary Hall is having a very impressive World Series of Poker. He’s poised for another big cash in event #43 ($1,500 NLHE) after already cashing for nearly $27,000 already this series. In the last 10 days he’s come 56th in a $1,500 NLHE event and 34th in a $2,500 NHLE event. Going [...]

Wombat Poker is here!

Monday, April 18th, 2011

With the death of FullTilt and PokerStars and the assistance of copious amounts of weed, Pete the beat presents Wombat Poker: This post is a fake, made for http://quadjacks.com, If you’re affected by the removal of the sites at all, go there. They have had a great live cast going now for fifty hours which [...]

Unique Skills of LifeFish – EurekaKid’s Speed Eating

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Welcome back to our series that takes a look at some of the unique skills of the LifeFish. Today’s clip comes from a prop bet from a few years ago where EurekaKid had to devour 3 Big Macs in a time limit of 5 minutes. For the record, he made it with over a minute [...]

Equity Calculator

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

I recently developed a small, lightweight equity calculator that I’ve decided to share with the community. Although not the most complicated application in the world I think that it will at least help some people to a certain degree. The application is fairly self descriptive (essentially taking a measure of your pot odds and letting [...]