All those hardcore NHL fans that play at PokerStars will have the unique opportunity to attend one of the biggest hockey events of the year, the NHL Awards. PokerStars has made it simple to participate and take a chance to hang out in Sin City and share time with other fans and NHL players. The… Read more »
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Upcoming Promotions at Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker offers a large variety of promotions throughout the year and thousands of customers participate in most of their promotions. The latest promotion was the Double Guaranteed week, and there was a great influx of players that took advantage of the boosted prize pools. The guaranteed tournaments have returned to their regular payout… Read more »
Isildur1 Makes a Small Appearance at Full Tilt
Isildur1 is an mysterious player who has been able to capture the attention of the poker community. He had an incredible run in the last months of ’09, his behavior at the nosebleed stakes was fearless and he managed to outperform most of the players at those limits. On Saturday he made a short appearance… Read more »
UB Awarding Packages to the LA Poker Classic
Ultimate Bet wants to have a strong representation at the felts in the LA Poker Classic, for that reason there will be many packages at stake at the different super satellite events taking place on every Sunday in February. Each package will include the $10K buy-in plus $2K for traveling and accommodation expenses. The main… Read more »
Nosebleed Limits Heating-up at Full Tilt Poker
The first month of the year is behind and millions of dollars have switched hands at the Full Tilt Poker tables. Some pros have started the year with a twist of luck regarding their results in ’09; a clear example of this is Patrick Antonius, who finished the year up a little less than $9… Read more »
Ultimate Bet Pro Freeroll Challenge
Ultimate Bet is challenging all their pros in a unique promotion that will have them competing against each other. Each pro will be assigned a freeroll with a $2K prize pool and each one of them will be in charge of promoting their tourney by adding an extra prize for the winner of the tournament.… Read more »
DoylesRoom $250K Monthly Guaranteed
The normal payout in DoylesRoom biggest guaranteed tournament on Sundays is $125K, but once a month DoylesRoom takes it up a notch and doubles the guarantee; this happens on the last Sunday of every month. This upcoming Sunday all DoylesRoom players will have the opportunity to participate in the tournament and see their balance increase… Read more »
Jump Out of a Plane with Joe Sebok
All Ultimate Bet players will have the unique opportunity to enter an exclusive freeroll that will have $2K in cash prizes, but since that doesn’t seem too special after all, the first place prize will also include the opportunity to Skydive with Ultimate Bet Pro Joe Sebok in the Nevada desert. To enter the tournament,… Read more »
Two Party Poker Qualifiers make it to the Aussie Millions Final Table
After seven days at the tables outplaying seven hundred and thirty eight players, the final table is set and will be played out in several hours from now. The players that made it to the final table are the chip leader Sorel Mizzi, Stephen Shelley, Annette Obrestad, Tyron Krost, Frederik Jensen, Kosta Varoxis, Peter Jetten… Read more »
Full Tilt Promotions for this Weekend
Full Tilt Poker has made important announcements in the past two weeks. First was the release of the Rush Poker tables, which has created some controversy among players. Some love the fast paced action and some more methodical players believe that not being able to analyze the style of play of their opponents takes their… Read more »
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is Crushing Opponents at Full Tilt
Ziigmund is a well known high stakes player, despite of his young age he has been around for some time and he certainly has the chops to play against the best players in the world. He ended ’09 with a profit of around $3 million, despite the fact that in November of 2009 he was… Read more »
UBOC Events Have Been a Complete Success
Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have put together the fourth edition of the UBOC tournaments, and the players’ response has been great. The final events will follow in the next days and there will be $1.3 million guaranteed at stake. This past weekend was the first $1 million guaranteed tourney and it reached a total… Read more »
Titan Poker Rewards their top Performer in the ECPokerTour Barcelona
All Titan Poker players will have additional motivation to play at the ECPokerTour in Barcelona. Two of the options to enter the tournament are to buy-in directly or to win a seat by playing at the many satellites available each day at Titan Poker. There will be stage one satellites running each day for as… Read more »
Aussie Millions Events
The Aussie Millions festivities kicked off in Australia and thousands of players from all parts of world have taken on the challenge of trying to become a new millionaire in one of the most important tournaments in the world. Stewart Scott is a Party Poker sponsored player and also the defending champion at the Aussie… Read more »
PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Sets Goals for 2010
ElkY has accomplished outstanding feats since his first cash in a live tournament at the ’05 French Open – part of season one of the European Poker Tour – where he finished in ninth place. His earnings at live tournaments for ’06 were modest, but in ’07 he won more than half a million dollars… Read more »
First UBOC Weekend
All Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet players will get the chance to play at the fourth run of the UBOC championship this upcoming weekend, there will be more than $1.5 million in guaranteed cash prizes distributed among four tournaments. The first tournament on schedule is a heads-up event with a $1K buy-in, the guaranteed prize… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan Faces Tough Competition
Durrrr has been at the high stakes tables for about nine hours and recorded more than twenty five thousand hands. When his session started he quickly managed to pick up a profit that exceeded $100K, playing at the $100/$200 limits his opponents were DrPill and 603lucifer. Durrrr faced other opponents after the two previously mentioned,… Read more »
PokerStars EPT Deauville Day 2
Before day two started, day 1B had a total of 429 players registered and after nine levels of play the field was reduced to 225 players. Day 1A had a total of 339 players so the grand total is 768 players which helped the total prize pool reach some impressive numbers. The total money gathered… Read more »
UBOC Championship Kickoff
The Cereus Network is hosting the UBOC events for the fourth time and the first events have been successful: there has been a great influx of players, thousands of dollars have been awarded and there’s more money on the line in the upcoming events. A minimum of $4 million will be awarded in the 18… Read more »
Tony G Joins Party Poker
Tony “Tony G” Guoga has had a close business relationship with Party Poker for many years as an affiliate, and he has finally signed with them and will represent them in tournaments and cash games world wide. In previous years Tony G has participated in the Premier League tournament and has managed to finish in… Read more »
Titan Poker Introduces the Last Man Standing Promotion
Titan Poker wants to reward their loyal players with cash and a package to the WSOP Main Event as the grand prize. All players can participate in the promotion and all they have to do is play poker like they normally do. The promotion consists of accumulating a certain amount of points per day for… Read more »
PokerStars EPT Deauville
The PCA ended a few days ago and poker players from around the world have flown to Deauville, France to take part of the first event in the European Tour for 2010. Several PokerStars players registered for day one but only four of them started playing at once, while Peter Eastgate, Dario Minieri, Jude Ainsworth… Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Gus Hansen Wins More Than $590K
Putting aside the terrible ’09 that Gus Hansen had, he has been having ups and downs during this month and he recently managed to have a big winning session in which he recorded winnings that exceeded $590K. He played a bevy of different regulars at the Full Tilt tables and if things keep going at… Read more »
PokerStars Announces the WBCOOP Events
PokerStars likes to reward players for their efforts at the tables with notable prizes at stake in each tournament. One of the most important parts about poker is the players, but poker is a combination of people working together and an important information tool are blogs. Since there area lot of people doing an outstanding… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Innovates with Rush Poker
Full Tilt Poker has been a trendsetter since its inception, and its constant strive for innovation has benefited players with better poker clients, more stable software platforms, large tournament series with outstanding guarantees, daily guarantees with notable prize pools, the ability to multi-table and much more. The latest innovation that Full Tilt has announced is… Read more »