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Grey Raymer did extremely well to secure the spot in the next round of the Event 13 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. The event drew 1,440 players, including Greg Mueller, Barry Greenstein, Justin Bonomo, Eli Elezra and David Williams, which bested last year’s total by three players.
It took approximately eight hours to complete round one and Daniel Negreanu, Nam Le, Lex Veldhuis, Greg Raymer, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Eric Baldwin all secured a spot in tomorrow’s action.
Maria joined hands with Greg Raymer as the promoter of the WinStar World Casino. Maria will be seen promoting the casino in ad campaigns, as well as playing in several poker tournaments and satellites, including their annual The River Poker Series, running from May 15th to September 5th, 2011. With an enticing re-entry format and a $3,000,000 guarantee, The River’s $2,100 Main Event has started drawing big fields over the last few years. . Last year, The River Poker Series main event drew 1,436 participants with $646,690 for first place.
Grey Raymer has signed a new deal with Full Tilt. Railbirds and pros alike knew that Raymer, who is a spokesman for the Poker Players Alliance and the Champion of the WSOP Main Event in 2004, probably wouldn’t be left in the cold for long. Not surprisingly, Raymer appears to have inked a new (though perhaps temporary) sponsorship deal with PokerStars’ primary rival: Full Tilt Poker.
Greg Raymer looks set to depart from PokerStars after disagreements between the two parties.
To us, Raymer’s departure seems to tell a bigger story about the current state of the online poker industry. This isn’t some online phenom shuffling out the door of a 2nd-tier network – it’s one of the most recognizable WSOP champions exiting from the largest online poker room in the world.
Greg Raymer lost at the EPT Deauville in a shocking poker match. There were a number of familiar faces present including top poker players such as Vicky Coren, Bertrand Grospellier, Jude Ainsworth, Peter Eastgate, Freddy Deeb, Rob Hollink, Joe Beevers and Isabelle Mercier to name just a few. They didn’t all survive the day however, and Vicky Coren made an early exit as if to prove that she and Deauville just don’t work; she has never been in the money at this event. Also busted were Joep van den Bijgaart ,Greg Raymer and previous winner Mats Iremark.
Annie Duke is one of the few stars who can claim to have played alongside Greg Raymer. Duke was the last person standing in the inaugural WSOP Tournament of Champions, an invite-only, winner-take-all tournament that featured 10 players. Duke banked $2 million for the win and received nearly instant poker fame. Her company at the Tournament of Champions table included Chip Reese, Main Event champ Greg Raymer, Doyle Brunson, Lederer, and former UB.com colleague Phil Hellmuth, who was the runner-up. This year, Duke bested Seidel in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which aired on NBC.
Greg Raymer has extended his support for online poker laws. The most recent and serious attempt to overturn the UIGEA took place this past summer. 2004 WSOP Champion Greg Raymer, along with the Poker Players' Alliance and many other writers, players, and activists, have lobbied representatives for passage of such a bill. It came out of the House Financial Services Committee by a vote of 41-22, but did not come to the floor for a full vote.
Greg Raymer has offered advice to next WSOP champion. So they might be wise to listen to the advice offered by Greg Raymer, who won $5 million when he won the Main Event in 2004.
Greg Raymer will be competing in the EPT London Poker Festival. Other highlights at this season's Festival are the European 8-Game Championship, three Ladies' events and the £20,000 High Roller.
A host of Team PokerStars Pros will be competing in London, including former world champions Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer. Also there will be Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Dennis Phillips, Vanessa Rousso and Daniel Negreanu, as well as new Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst and David Williams.
When the announcement was made that WSOP gold bracelets would be awarded to the winners of the three scheduled events in London that fall, there was some initial debate over the bracelets' legitimacy. Would these bracelets, the first ever to be awarded outside of Las Vegas, be regarded as "real" bracelets?
2004 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Raymer acknowledged the issue during an interview with PokerListings at the 2007 WSOPE. "A lot of people are debating whether it's a real bracelet or not," said Raymer. "I'm on the 'It's a real bracelet' side."