Poker News Roundup for December 5, 2011

by Dougie Goguen | Dec 5 2011

Poker play in Prague proves perilous for some; provocative, pretty Poonam Pandey presents poker for phones.

Prague
It seems like there's a new World Poker Tour stop every week lately, but if the action stays as interesting as what we saw in Prague this weekend, we're not complaining. Day 3 of this layover in the Czech Republic's capital saw a field of 63 get reduced down to a final table of six with some brutal play that left a few raised eyebrows along with some heartbreak, especially as chip leader Martins Adenlya found himself going from first to the sideline in 19th place. Also eliminated were Eugene Katchalov in 60th, Casey Kastle in 38th and Jamie Rosen in 24th among many, many others.

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Here are the chip counts and seat assignments for Monday's final table, which kicks off early afternoon local time with a bit of a delay to allow players to recover from the previous late night. Blinds will begin at 25,000/50,000 with an ante 5,000:

Seat 1: Adria Balaguer (1,315,000)
Seat 2: Andrey Pateychuk (2,310,000)
Seat 3: Benjamin Polak (4,865,000)
Seat 4: Russell Carson (725,000)
Seat 5: Stanislaw Kretz (6,300,000)
Seat 6: Sigur Eskeland (1,575,000)

India
We'd never heard of Poonam Pandey either, but it turns out that she's one of India's biggest stars, a ravishing 20-year-old who quickly established herself as one of the highest-paid models on the continent. She's posed in a bikini and bent barriers in a culture that tends to like its women to stay as clothed as possible, even offering to strip naked in front of a stadium crowd if India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup. (When they did, she didn't, citing lack of permission from the Cricket Board Of Directors or whoever.)

In other words, we like her and are happy to hear that Pandey has signed a deal with a software developer for a strip poker game to be offered on the Android and iOS platforms. She made the announcement on Twitter, where she wrote:"Yes, I've signed a contract with an American company. This game is like 'Teen Patti.' They will run my video first, then, as the player crosses each level, I will shed of my clothes. I don't mind doing so but to what extent will I shed them off, I can't tell you now."

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Poonam, we'll be among the first to download copies of it. For game testing purposes only, of course.

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