The World Series of Poker Main Event final table has been set and the most famous player in modern history failed to make the grade by a cat’s whisker.

The number 11 has been seared into the heart of Daniel Negreanu by a branding iron that will burn for a long while yet. That’s the position he fell in his attempt to win the 2001 Main Event, and history repeated itself yesterday as the poker community was preparing itself for a Main Event without the most famous face in poker.

The Holy Grail of poker attracted 6,240 players, and after seven days of scintillating action, only nine remain. The clock has been stopped, the chips have been stowed, and the players sent to do their thing until being recalled on November 8th where they will compete for a $7.6m first prize.

Here is the run down of exits, eliminations and evictions.

Sean Winter wins the Bellagio Cup XI trophy and top prize after a four-way chop involving Dominik Nitsche, Byron Kaverman, and Nick Petrangelo.

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Sean Winter overcame a table full of titans to walk away with the $562,772 first prize in the $10,400 Bellagio Cup XI at The Bellagio in Las Vegas yesterday.

Whilst the whole world was watching Daniel Negreanu trying to reach the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table, 301 players were concentrating their efforts on one of the biggest prize pools of the year.

After six weeks of World Series of Poker diaries, Lee Davy gets back to his usual bitchiness and complaints in his bog standard confessions column, this week slathering on about how hard life is. Poor Lee.

I look around the room. I don’t know what to do. Life is being squeezed out. The machismo part of me won’t accept that I am affected by depression. But what else can it be? There is a feeling of weightlessness. I could float. There is nothing inside. No bones to anchor. The slow seduction of solemnity sickens me.

Music?

Video Games?

PokerStars launch their 11th installment of MicroMillions with 100 events spread over 11 days of action and containing $5m in guaranteed prizes.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has ended. Sure, we still have the final table of the Main Event due to take place in November. But for now nobody cares. The momentum has been lost, and Daniel Negreanu busted anyway.

Whilst it’s sad to shout ‘Timber!’ on that particular phase in our lives, we have to move on, and what better way to do so than to ignore the wife, lay waste to the kids, and play a shit ton of online poker.

MicroMillions 11 starts tomorrow, and I for one will be shutting everyone out of my life so I can play in it. There will be 100 events with buy-ins ranging from between $0.11 and $22. And unless you live in a retarded nation like the US then everyone can get involved.

The threat of ad blocking software is capturing headlines across all digital industries, especially online media companies who earn the majority of their revenue through ads.

Today I wanted to investigate how ad blocking software will impact iGaming, an industry that uses online ads to attract new players.  Both iGaming affiliates (or publishers) and operators (or advertisers) could be affected by the development of more sophisticated ad blocking software. Lets begin with how this technology will impact iGaming affiliates.

Impact on Affiliates/Publishers

Affiliates will have to make changes if they are currently driving the majority of their traffic to operators via banner ads hosted on affiliate program banner farms.

Social gaming developer Plumbee says its flagship Mirrorball Slots app has exceeded the 10m download mark.

Plumbee launched Mirrorball Slots on Facebook three years ago, which was followed by the release of standalone mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. Since then, Plumbee says players have spent over 107m hours playing the app, which has generated over $50m in lifetime revenue for the company. Plumbee CEO Raf Keustermans said the stats put the title “in the upper tier of game franchises.”

Meanwhile, social casino operator GSN Games has launched its new GSN Grand Casino app. GSN says players can indulge in slots, bingo, card and table games on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch as well as Android devices. GSN has licensed a number of familiar properties for the app’s slots offering, including Deal or No Deal and Wheel of Fortune.

GSN chief marketing officer Kevin Frisch told VentureBeat that social casino operators were “increasingly moving away from just aspiring to copy the land-based model, and are now developing experiences that can only be offered in a virtual environment.” GSN Grand Casino assigns players a “personal VIP concierge” named Heather who delivers a fully customized experience for each player.