DAILY BUZZ: Hans Lund Dies, Ivey’s Fortune, Negreanu/Antonius II

Jason Kirk | November 6, 2009

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Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Hans Lund dead at 59

Hans “Tuna” Lund, a fixture at the World Series of Poker and other tournaments for more than two decades from the 1980s through the 2000s who nearly won the 1990 Main Event, died this morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 59 years old.

Lund won his first WSOP bracelet in 1978 playing no-limit hold’em and would win another in 1996 playing ace-to-five draw, and he also won the 1983 Super Bowl of Poker for a $275,000 payday. His biggest money finish came in the 1990 WSOP Main Event, though in most disappointing fashion; he finished in second place to Mansour Matloubi after getting all-in and turning an ace for top pair, only to see Matloubi river a set. All told, he won more than $2.9 million in tournament in his lifetime.

The man known as “Tuna” had not been extremely active in recent years playing tournaments, with his last major cash coming in the 2007 WSOP Main Event, where he finished in 319th place. Nevertheless, he maintained ties to the poker community. A number of players and other poker personalities noted Lund’s passing on Twitter today.

Jonathan Little: Rip tuna. He called me a young guppy a few times in LA.
Phil Hellmuth: Fond memories of trveling poker tour w Tuna in 80’s + 90’s-will miss him
Alex Outhred: RIP Hans ‘Tuna’ Lund… Always impressed w/ the time you took to make critical decisions, and you were always a gentleman. Truly a pleasure.
Matt Savage: Hans “Tuna” Lund passed away this morning. Hoping @JeffreyPollack can say something at WSOP Final Table!

Fortune-ate son Ivey going mainstream

Phil Ivey has made the cover of Bluff and basically every other publication in the world of poker, and earlier this month he appeared on the cover of ESPN: The Magazine as well. Now he’s getting a chance for some heavy exposure in the pages of mainstream financial publication Fortune Magazine, though the cover story will have to wait until after he wins the Main Event on Tuesday. The November 23 issue of Fortune, which hits newsstands tomorrow, is a feature article by Scott Cendrowski titled, “Will Phil Ivey be poker’s Tiger Woods?”

For a bit more Ivey entertainment, go check out some of the comments on this blog from a bunch of people who clearly know nothing about poker talking about how beatable Ivey is and how half the players in a home game could beat him regularly.

(Poker Giant Phil Ivey Graces the Pages of Fortune Magazine - PR NewsWire)

Negreanu comes back on Day 2 to beat Antonius - at golf

Yesterday I told you about the big high-stakes golf match between poker stars Daniel Negreanu and Patrik Antonius taking place at the TPC Summerlin course outside of Las Vegas. After Day 1 Mantonius and his team held a slim one-stroke lead, but on Day 2 Negreanu and his squad came roaring back with a four-stroke win, partially thanks to Negreanu himself improbably sinking three eagle putts. Wicked Chops says that some members of Antonius’ team think Negreanu and his guys underrepresented their skill level, though there was no such complaint from the Finn himself.

RawVegas caught up with Negreanu after his win for an after-action report; you can watch the Day 1 video here.

LOL dealaments

There are good deals, and then there are great deals - and FTOPS XIV Event #1 winner Kory “s00tedj0kers89” Kilpatrick got himself a great deal by anyone’s measure. In a thread at 2+2 right now he relays the tale of how he managed to get a $110,000 share despite only holding enough chips to be worth $83,000. As he tells it:

When we started discussing a deal, I said that I wanted 100k and didn’t care who else got what, so I wasn’t paying much attention to them making the deal/working out numbers etc. I got them to give me control of the deal, cause they couldn’t figure out how to work it somehow, and when they did, I typed in the amounts for everyone that were being discussed. When I put everyone’s amounts in, they all said that they accepted the amount they have. I didn’t realize until I couldn’t submit the deal that there was 10k left out (I thought it was the 10k that we were leaving to play for). When I realized this, I proposed that I got the additional 10k, since everyone else was happy with the number they had, and everyone accepted.

I didn’t click their accept buttons for them. All the numbers were right in front of their face for them to look at, review, and agree to. I proposed a deal and they accepted it.

Anyone questioning my character/ethics/etc., can gtfo

The thread continues with posts from all over the spectrum from “screw ‘em if they can’t do simple math” to “calling you shady is far too light,” as well as a response from fourth-place finisher taaffey (“that was shady as f.*ck. i lost 3k from ICM but sooted just shipping in an extra 10k after agreeing to 100k is so dbaggish”). After some thought Kilpatrick decided to tack a Hollywood ending onto this story and ship another $2,500 to each of the other three players in the deal, getting him a few virtual pats on the back in the forum (and maybe a little positive karma for the rest of this FTOPS).

(SWEAT DEVO NOW, FTOPS - 2+2 Multi Table Tournaments forum)

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