Dearfoams will be the sponsor of the 2011 WSOP and will provide free slippers for all entrants. Apparently 2010 WSOP Main Event Winner Jonathan Duhamel inspired the team-up by wearing flip flops throughout his championship run. WSOP Vice President Ty Stewart explained in a press release, “we have partnered with Dearfoams – who make the world’s most comfortable slippers – so players can now feel truly comfy as they pursue their dreams of winning the WSOP and going on to live a life of leisure where it will be appropriate to wear Dearfoams slippers 24/7.”

I bet the players hope next year will be sponsored by La-Z-Boy and Heaven on Earth massage parlour.

Cole South and Viktor Blom posted successful weeks, racheting up their earnings by besting “Esvedra” and Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane, respectively. The top online earners list now looks like this: Gus Hansen with $3,993,460, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates with $1,952,000, Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane with $1,789,000, NoPasaran with $1,616,000, Matt Hawrilenko with $1,440,000, bixiu with $1,406,000), Phil Ivey with $1,336,000 and Patrik Antonius with $1,157,000.

Tom Dwan has the unfortunate honour of topping the year’s loser list, with $2,474,000.

League founder and Commissioner Annie Duke will serve on the committee as a non-voting member, and the seven voting members will be prosEric Baldwin, Andy Bloch, Chad Brown, Joe Hachem and Nick Schulman, Poker Tournament Director Matt Savage and Stephen Martin, a professional ethics advisor.

The Committee Members will be responsible during their two year term for  monitoring the league’s admission process and league member qualification procedure, developing the league’s tournament rules, the continuing eligibility of players, maintaining credibility and integrity and overseeing and enforcing the league’s Code of Conduct.

The WPT title is Seidel’s second, and it goes along nicely with his eight WSOP bracelets. The win was made even more impressive by the company at the final table, which included Daniel Negreanu, Vivek Rajkumar and Justin Bonomo. Usually hall of famers kick back and enjoy the fruits of their labour, but for Seidel, he’s obviously nowhere done yet.

“I wanted to let you know that Daniel Cates decided to do something really nice. He is buying one person into the Main Event. He will be tweeting (@junglemandan) his location around Vegas at least once per week starting next week and running through June 25. People will pick up a ticket from him at each location and a winner will be drawn. It’s free to join, no sign-ups or anything and the only stipulation is that they can’t have played in the Main Event before. He is also throwing in lessons and best of all, not taking a percent from any of the winnings.”

This will no doubt start an enormous growth in Cates’ twitter followers!

1. You consider yourself running “light dead” when stuck in traffic.

2. You introduce yourself as your GR88 online handle.

3. You call time on someone who takes too long to tell a story.

4. You refer to a date as being “heads-up.”

5. You accuse the cashier at McDonalds of bluffing you.

6. When asked how your day is going, you say you are feeling “a little on tilt.”

7. You mute the TV and provide your own commentary for High Stakes Poker.

8. Playing the lottery, you wait until the last number to see how it will “play out on the river.”