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View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for Rob Yong. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. — Rob Yong (@robyong) January 5, 2020. MILLIONS Invitational. The third idea would be a MILLIONS Invitational event which would run prior to the Triton Poker series in London this August. The proposed tournament would feature a buy-in of £5,300, and would be exclusive only for qualifiers. It would not allow late registration, with no.

‘Loose lips sink ships’ as they say, and Sam Trickett’s slip of the tongue may just have given away the fact that Australian poker pro Matt Kirk has 66,000Bitcoin to his name, making the young high-roller’s net worth about $600million at today’s prices!

Rumours doing the rounds that ‘a high stakes Australian pro’ is swimming in the best-known cryptocurrency were given a lot more credence after Kirk faced off with fellow high-rollers in partypoker’s ‘Big Game’ last week in Montreal, Kirk and Trickett joined by casino owners Leon Tsoukernik and Rob Yong among others for an epic three-day PLO fest which saw some of the biggest pots of recent years.

With Kirk leaving the game almost $3.9million down, questions were being asked how he could afford to play and lose so much in a weekend – and then the ‘66,000Bitcoin’ question made much more sense, with one eagle-eyed 2+2 poker forum poster doing a bit of detective work to follow the rumour up.

“There was something very interesting that happened in the game,” wrote dan_polk, referencing a Reddit thread discussing the moment Kirk shushed his fellow high-stakes pro Sam Trickett…

From the Reddit thread:

'During a hand, Matt Kirk had complained about how stuck he is, as he was doing the entire night. This warranted a response from Sam Trickett who stated 'Bitcoin just went up so you're pretty much even'. Sam also added 'it just went up $100', the camera pans to Matt Kirk where he makes a gesture of 'keep your lips shut', even John Duthie had to comment on the odd moment.'

The 2+2 poster did the maths on the Bitcoin rumour, explaining:

“At the current price of BTC, if he does indeed have 66,000 of them, it puts the value at $592,034,190...yeah, a hair under $600 million! And when it was at its peak of ~$19.5k in December 2017, his (rumored) holdings would have been worth a staggering $1,287,000,000...$1.287 billion on the nose!”

That, of course, would go a long way to explaining his ability to play at the live nosebleed stakes, but doesn’t quite equate with the legal wranglings Kirk and Tsoukernik have been embroiled in over the past year.

Although the pair seem to have kissed and made up judging by the past weekend’s Montreal Big Game, it was pretty much accepted Kirk was back by Bobby Baldwin for his heads-up encounter with the Kings Casino owner - which ended in serious acrimony after Kirk came out $3million up but was forced by his mysterious backer to reject a deal.

If Kirk does indeed have 66,000 or so Bitcoin to his name, there are a few good reasons he’d want to keep it quiet - with tax and fear of being targeted by robbers top of the list. It would also put him close to the top of the list of the world’s wealthiest poker players, only mega-wealthy amateurs such as Guy Laliberte, Bill Perkins and the like coming close.

Today Rob Yong shared on his Twitter account that he will create his club with his own rules instead of asking partypoker to implement changes that many won't like.

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partypoker launched Club Games in late May 2020, as an exciting solution to offer private games with great features like rakeback and specific rules. Rob Yong shared the rules that will govern his club on the site.

The interesting idea behind the text shared by Yong is that he is sharing a vision 'from an amateur player' who, ultimately, is who that all the poker rooms are trying to protect.

Real names

Real names are becoming a common requirement for high stakes games. The idea behind this is that you may want to know if you are playing against a skilled player or not.

Flops

An interesting concept. Rob says he likes to see all the community cards (flop, turn, river), get a chance to bluff, bet, etc. and avoid the excessive 3-bet and 4-bet preflop.

Third-party tools

partypoker has taken action on this. Tracking software and HUDs were banned last year. Yong says that he doesn't have to use a tool, and that he doesn't want to use it because it feels like a job

'I don't want poker to feel like a job — I play poker to forget about my job!'

Multi-accounting, ghosting, bots, solvers

A common belief in all poker rooms: all T&C specifically prohibits the use of tools that provide 'unfair advantages.' Rob says that ghosting is offensive practice, and all other illegal aids kill the game. Yong also referred to 'tools to call river bluffs.'

'If someone has the time to study with solvers, why hell would I want to play against this person when I'm working my ass off at work 24-7 and he is studying all the time.'

Table etiquette: tanking, bumhunting, table selection

Rob says that it is not his problem that a grinder is playing 12 tables, and as a result, he takes a long time to make decisions. Therefore, tanking should be eradicated from the tables.

He also considers other practices like bumhunting or strategic sitting out against poker table etiquette that you must follow in a live game.

Short Handed games

Another interesting sight. Rob says that an amateur tends to do other things while playing poker, so short-handed games are not an ideal solution because they demand constant attention.

Poker's community reactions

Such a statement got several reactions from the poker community. We highlight the following ones:

• Jaime Staples recalled that some TV shows had pot-limit preflop games;
• Minimum VIP tables (like PokerBros), sitting out rule from 30-45 mins like MGM Casino, chat, Bomb Pots;
• Real names across the entire site and not only big MTT series. Rob said he'd need about 90% of player support to request this feature;
• Antes, mandatory straddles, the winning hand must show one card.

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It's exciting to see which of these ideas will be implemented on a major scale. While some sites focus on enforcing their terms and conditions, some people highlighted that many solutions could be implemented via software, which will be more transparent that hunting down players for circumventing an unclear term.

Surprisingly, Rob deleted his tweet just as we were writing this article, so we may not know if those initiatives will be implemented soon. We also noticed that his profile no longer says 'partypoker partner', and his assistant got a Dusk Til Dawn e-mail address. Are more changes comming?

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