Zynga Poker Rigged 2018
They rig a lot of things to make you go bust:. The standard buy-ins are way too high for your bankroll. The rake is very high. The rake is subtracted from your bankroll, not from the money at your table.
- Two years ago, Zynga hired a new CEO, and he pledged to dump unpromising parts of the business and focus on the company’s core games including Zynga Poker, Words With Friends and the car racing.
- Zynga Poker Is Rigged September 14, 2014 So Zynga Support has liked this site so that they could inform some of our fans that they need to re-confirm their account to avoid being blocked.
The 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is down to its final nine, and while some compelling storylines came to an end on a thrilling Day 7, others have endured through to the final table of poker's most celebrated tournament.
There was also the single most dramatic end to a day in World Series history as pocket aces went up against two pairs of pocket kings in two players' hands to end proceedings and leave us with a final table.
There's no question who will occupy centre stage tomorrow: Joe Cada, the 2009 WSOP Main Event champion, is returning to the scene of his greatest triumph and will have the chance to better his $8,547,044 victory from nine years ago. No player can ever really expect to make two WSOP Main Event final tables, and certainly not in the modern era of fields of many thousands of players.
Joe Cada: Former champion on for unprecedented double
But having defeated a 6,494-strong field, aged 21, to become the youngest ever champion, Cada, from Shelby Charter Township, Michigan, is now still in the last nine of this 7,874 player field. The first prize is $8.8 million this time around, and Cada is in the middle of the pack with a stack of 23.7 million.
The other standout storyline is that of John Cynn, who finished a heartbreaking 11th in 2016 but has already now completed the first stage of his redemption. Cynn has this time made it to the final nine and will go looking for the first title of his career over the three days of final-table play that begin tomorrow at the Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
There are players from four countries represented at the final table, with Ukraine's Artem Metalidi joining Alex Lynskey, an Australian who was born in the UK, France's Antoine Labat and five Americans in the last nine. The chip leader is Nicolas Manion, who won an enormous pot just before midnight to surge to 112.8 million and get the Amazon Room rocking.
This was an extraordinary climax, the kind of thing that would be described as rigged if it happened in the online game. China's Yueqi Zhu was first to get his full stack in. It was followed by that of Manion and then Antoine Labat.
Nicolas Manion waits for the dealer to confirm his chip leading victory
Zhu had K♥K♠ and was up against Labat's K♦K♣ and Manion's A♠A♥. There was no miracle on the board and Manion tripled up, eliminating Zhu and ending the night.
Zynga Poker Rigged 2018 Results
No player has previously entered the Main Event final table with more than 100 million chips, but this time there are two. Manion's massive late win put him ahead of Michael Dyer's 109.2 million.
All nine remaining players are now guaranteed at least $1 million. The full line-up is as follows. The payout schedule is below.
| Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Manion | USA | 112,800,000 |
| Michael Dyer | USA | 109,200,000 |
| Tony Miles | USA | 42,800,000 |
| John Cynn | USA | 37,100,000 |
| Alex Lynskey | Australia | 25,900,000 |
| Joe Cada | USA | 23,700,000 |
| Aram Zobian | USA | 18,900,000 |
| Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 15,500,000 |
| Antoine Labat | France | 8,100,000 |
Final nine (l-r): Artem Metalidi, John Cynn, Alex Lynskey, Tony Miles, Nicolas Manion, Aram Zobian, Michael Dyer, Joe Cada, Antoine Labat
| Place | Payout |
|---|---|
| 1 | $8,800,000 |
| 2 | $5,000,000 |
| 3 | $3,750,000 |
| 4 | $2,825,000 |
| 5 | $2,150,000 |
| 6 | $1,800,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
The final table was set at around 11.40pm local time when that major collision took place. By that point, 16 of the 26 who returned overnight were already on the rail, including Sylvain Loosli, who missed out on his own attempts to return to a WSOP Main Event final table. Loosli previously finished fourth in 2013 for $2.8 million, but had to make do with $375,000 for 18th this time.
Frederik Jensen, of Denmark, was unable to add a WSOP final table to his EPT Madrid title. Jensen finished in 12th ($575,000). The quickfire departures of Brazil's Paulo Goncalves and Argentina's Ivan Luca in 21st and 20th, respectively, ended South American hopes.
Zynga Poker Rigged 2018 Presidential
Elsewhere on a hectic day at the World Series, Phil Hellmuth extended his lead at the top of the all-time WSOP bracelet winner's list with his 15th career triumph.
Hellmuth won Event #71, the $5,000 no limit hold'em turbo, defeating 452 players and winning $485,082. Hellmuth has now won five more bracelets than anybody else, pulling him further clear of Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson, who have 10 apiece.
Phil Hellmuth shows off his new jewellery to Ali Nejad and Nick Schulman
Hellmuth was the beneficiary of a huge slice of fortune when he doubled up during heads-up play against Steven Wolansky. Hellmuth's K♦T♦ was dominated by Wolansky's K♥J♥ but a ten on the river kept the Poker Brat alive. He sealed the title soon after when his pocket threes flopped a set against Wolansky's A♦9♣.xz
Yaser Al-Keliddar won the $3,000 limit hold'em event, beating Juha Helppi into second place. Al-Keliddar won $154,338 and his first WSOP bracelet after prevailing from a 221-strong field. Three-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein finished sixth.
The first stage of the Main Event final table plays out tomorrow from 5pm PT, with the field due to be cut from nine to six. They will then play down to three on Friday, with the winner crowned Saturday night.
Selected previous 2018 WSOP coverage:
Two Miles: Jim and Tony
Is Hellmuth closing in on bracelet #15
As England departs World Cup, a new hero emerges
From the archive: Kassouf is finally silenced
Short stories of long nights at the poker table
The payout process
Then and now: Jake Cody
From the archive: K.L. Cleeton's inspiring run
Inside the ideas factory: Jason Somerville's Run It Up Studios
Stop, start, break, start, bubble for Matt Hopkins
Then and now: Barry Greenstein
A comprehensive guide to the WSOP bubble
Untangling the cake riddle to discover the key to Liv Boeree's heart
Meet Muskan Sethi: India's presidential poker ambassador
Then and Now: Daniel Negreanu
A flippin' fantastic way to enter a poker tournament
Jeff Gross: A momentary pause in the perpetual motion
From the archive: Stages
Moneymaker surveys the world he created
Negreanu continues preparations for PokerStars Players Championship
Then and Now: Andre Akkari
Then and Now: Maria Konnikova
WSOP photos by PokerPhotoArchive.com.
Zynga Poker had a strong first three months of 2018, according to financial data supplied by the company this week.
The San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. said that poker accounted for 23 percent of its total “online game revenue” of $162 million during the Q1 of 2018. That amounts to $37.2 million. In Q1 of 2017, poker accounted for 23 percent of revenue of $153 million, or $35.2 million. Poker revenue increase 5.7 percent year-over-year.
Zynga Poker, which is free to a limited extent as it does provide in-game purchases to enhance the playing experience, had $144.3 million in revenue in all of 2017.
The company said that Zynga Poker’s revenue from mobile devices was up 13 percent year-over-year in Q1 of this year. The firm continues to make its break from Facebook.
Poker is Zynga’s cash cow game. The next best game for the company in terms of revenue in Q1 of this year was CSR Racing 2, which accounted for 12 percent of the $162 million.
Back in February, Zynga Poker announced an upcoming partnership with the World Poker Tour, a subsidiary of the Chinese gaming company Ourgame.
“We’ll be introducing new competitive features [to Zynga Poker] as we prepare for the introduction of our World Poker Tour tournament experience in the second half of the year,” Zynga said in a press release.