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The Snowie bot’s average win rate is 22.18 bb/100 after a total of about 1.5 million hands played.

Starting with a backgammon coaching program, Snowie Games launched its assault on poker last July and they introduced the PokerSnowie brand with the Poker Coach software, a No Limit Hold’em cash game Game Theory Optimal education application for subscribing FR, SH and HU players.

The first major tournament of the year, the PCA 2014 $100,000 Super High Roller brought about Fabian Quoss’ victory. The German pro won $1,629,940.

Day 3 of the PCA 2014 $100,000 Super High Roller saw the seven-handed Final Table with Dan Shak in the chip lead (stack: 3,700,000), slightly ahead of Vanessa Selbst. Antonio Esfandiari and Quoss were not far behind, unlike Matt Glantz, Tony Gregg and Ole Schemion, all under 10 BBs in chips.

Dan Shak is accompanied by Vanessa Selbst, Antonio Esfandiari, Fabian Quoss, Matt Glantz, Tony Gregg and Ole Schemion in the seven-handed finale for the $1,629,940 first prize.

With the $100,000 Super High Roller event, the first major live poker festival of the year, the PCA 2014 started on 5 January. 45 players registered in a total of 52 entries and with registrations on Day 2, they accumulated a prize pool of $5,433,120. Current world champion Ryan Riess, as well as Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, John Juanda, Steven Silverman, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Watson, JC Alvarado and Keith Lehr got eliminated. Of them, Negreanu was out twice but announced to enter on Day 2 as well nevertheless. He was eliminated on Day 1 by one of the best heads-up players of today, Daniel ‘mrGR33N13’ Colman.

The Global Poker Index has determined that PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu is the best live tournament player of the past decade. Runner-up on the top list is Erik Seidel.

The Global Poker Index has started publishing a list of the best live multi-table tournament players of the past decade. Late last week, the top two finishers were finally revealed: according to the GPI calculations, Daniel Negreanu tops the list with 7,377 points.

Niklas ‘Ragen70’ Heinecker has proved unstoppable, once he entered the online high stakes field in 2013. The biggest loser was Gus Hansen.

Niklas ‘Ragen70’ Heinecker topped the online high stakes field in 2013 with $6,190,599 in profits in 65,577 hands. The German ace appeared at the high stakes tables of the re-launched Full Tilt Poker in May, which means he accumulated his winnings in just eight months. In comparison, Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky took down the year 2012 with an annual total of $3,595,666 in profits.

‘Ragen70’ won the most of his money in draw games: $4,188,244 in 41,459 hands, but he also dominated the NLHE play with $2,149,223 in winnings in 20,546 hands.

The Global Poker Index has published a list of the best live multi-table tournament players of the past decade, according to their calculations. Finishers 3rd to 9th have so far been revealed of the top list.

In 2011, Federated Sports & Gaming (FS+G) introduced the Global Poker Index (GPI) to determine on a mathematical basis a top list of poker players in a given period, taking tournament field size, buy-ins and individual results into consideration. The calculations of the GPI are widely considered the best and most realistic currently available, which rendered the GPI Player of the Year one of the most prestigious awards in the live poker community.

On 9 January, one of iPoker’s most reliable skins, Everest Poker hosts an exclusive Rakerace.com tournament. There are 10 Samsung Galaxy tablets up for grabs guaranteed in the $1 tourney!

The turnout in the tournament is expected to be low, around 80 to 150 participants, which gives you an excellent chance to win one of the ten tablet devices!

The single requirement to participate in the event is to register at Everest Poker via Rakerace.com. If you have not done so yet, you can register right away here.

The 10 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s are worth a total of $2,000, an extreme added value!

In the sixth and last part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from November and December.

November

23-year-old Ryan Riess became the first ever World Series of Poker Main Event champion born in the ‘90s. He defeated the rest of the November Nine for $8,361,570 in prize money.

In the fifth part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from September and October.

September

The European Poker Tour Barcelona stop provided the majority of topics in the poker media and for the community in September. The most notorious issue was the hacking of the laptops of leading poker professionals. First, PLO pro Jens ‘Jeans89’ Kyllönen reported the trojans and then PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones confirmed the news.

In the fourth part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from July and August.

July

In July, the mystery surrounding one of the best online high stakes players, ‘Odd_Oddsen’, was solved. Norwegian poker pro Ola Amundsgard revealed his true identity and that he was behind both the ‘Odd_Oddsen’ and the ‘no_Ola’ screen names.

In the third part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from May and June.

May

The European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event was concluded by the victory of Steve O’Dwyer for the €1,224,000 first prize.

In the second part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from March and April.

March

On 10 March, the heads-up clash between the Full Tilt Poker Professionals and Team PokerStars Pro took place. The PokerStars pros won the event 3 to 0 with an individual heads-up games total result of 8 to 1.

In the first part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from January and February.

January

On 13 January, the PCA $10,300 Main Event Final Table took place with eight participants. Jerry Wong had a slight lead ahead of Joel Micka but eventually, Dimitar Danchev came back from the 6th position of the chip counts and took down the championship for $1,859,000.

The High Roller event of the PCA was concluded by the victory of Vanessa Selbst. The $1,424,420 first prize raised the pro’s lifetime live tournament winnings to 7,004,036, which gave her the lead over Kathy Liebert ($5,855,655) as well as the title of the most successful female poker player ever.

In less than 20 minutes, the French National Assembly rejected the ARJEL-supported proposal of the opposition to join a common regulated market with Italy and Spain.

French online gambling regulatory body ARJEL recognized the inability of the 2010 regulations to meet the expectations as far as online poker is concerned a long time ago. After the segregation of the market, player numbers started dropping instantly, resulting in an ever diminishing income for rooms and, consequently, the state. French players are only allowed to play in .fr poker rooms and the lower liquidity resulted in a further drop.

A Challenge feature got introduced to the Game Theory Optimal coaching utility software PokerSnowie and so far, players do not seem to be able to beat the bot.

Snowie Games started out as a backgammon coaching software writer company but started expanding into the poker market earlier this year. They launched PokerSnowie and their first product under the brand was PokerCoach, a utility programme to teach NLHE cash game optimal theory (GTO) to subscribing FR, SH and HU players.