Alex Goulder challenges Rob Yong to a table tennis match at the WPT UK Festival; partypoker launch Twitch channel; Beata ‘WildHungarian’ Jambrik joins the team.
Did you know that Rob Yong was a dab hand at ping pong?
Apparently, he is a former five-time county champion in Nottingham, and that’s not good news for Alex Goulder, who had one too many and challenged him to a match with each of them putting up £10k in cash.
According to the Blonde Poker Forum Goulder challenged Yong to a first to 21 point match after getting a little razzled with Simon Deadman. The pair will get it on as part of the World Poker Tour (WPT) UK festivities taking part at DTD Oct 22 – Nov 6. The money will go to charity.
Here is Goulder warming up for the event.
Preparing for the big charity match vs Rob Yong. Let’s just say I’ve already written the cheque. pic.twitter.com/ZRUUCvJ3zv
— Alex Goulder (@cambridgealex) October 11, 2016
Rob Yong, 44, is so confident of whipping Goulder’s ass with his ping pong paddle, he has even given the 27-year old a 10-point start. Goulder doesn’t think it’s enough.
“I’ll be lucky to get a single point,” said Goulder.
At least Goulder will lose some weight during the bet. According to Weight Watchers, table tennis fish can expect to burn between 200 & 350 calories per hour.
Goulder is a former DTD Monte Carlo winner, beating World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, Matt Perrins, heads-up to take the £77,513 first prize in 2011. He is also a WPT National winner after picking up the title in Prague back in 2014 for €105,000.
The WPT UK Festival will contain £3m in guaranteed prize money with the marquee events being the £550 buy-in WPT500, £2,200 buy-in WPT Main Event, and £5,300 buy-in Devilfish Cup.
Partypoker Launch Twitch Channel
The team at partypoker started their official Twitch Channel on Tuesday night. The stream picked up over 4.5k views as partypoker Ambassador, Patrick Leonard, took charge of proceedings on the opening night.
There are few better than Leonard when it comes to breaking down the game in an educational sense. The Geordie has earned over $2.7m playing online tournaments and is a former Pocket Fives World #1.
For the time being the schedule is set to stream on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays with Adam ‘IT5PAYDAY’ Neal and partypoker Ambassador Natalia ‘N4talB’ Breviglieri expected to host a few sessions.
Here is the link to the channel: https://www.twitch.tv/partypokertv
Partypoker Sign Beata ‘WildHungarian’ Jambrik
The trend of online poker rooms sponsoring female poker players continues after partypoker welcomed Beata ‘WildHungarian’ Jambrik to the fold.
Jambrik only started playing poker in Jan 2015, but quickly moved up the ranks, including becoming a regular Twitch streamer, so you can expect to see her making an appearance on the online poker rooms new Twitch channel.
The signing of Jambrik comes days after partypoker signed the former 888Poker sponsored pro, Jackie Glazier. The pair join Roberto Romanello, Natalia Breviglieri and Carl Froch making it a stable of six. WPT employees Tony Dunst and Mike Sexton also wear the partypoker patch when they get down to business.
