Spotting theASHMAN103 at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt is nothing new, he was been giving some of the best players in the world a hard time at the tables, and despite his young age he has demonstrated to have the skill to sit at the nosebleed tables against players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan,… Read more »
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Titan Poker is Awarding Packages to the GUKPT
Titan Poker is offering the opportunity to participate in the tournaments that will be hosted at the Grosvenor Casino in Walsall, England. The tourneys are part of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour tournament series that will be taking place across the UK. The festivities will start of February 20th and will extend until February 28th,… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Sunday Recap
Full Tilt Poker had another very successful weekend with their large guaranteed tournaments. Thousand of players took a shot at winning a percentage of the large prize pools that were at stake. There were several poker pros that made deep runs into the Sunday Million; Allen Cunningham finished in 9th place for $17K, while Jeff… Read more »
DoylesRoom hosts Beat the Brunson Ten tourneys
DoylesRoom has added a new tournament to their schedule and it will be played on the first and third Monday of each month. The tournament will be played out as a knockout tourney, each player in the field will have a $10 bounty on their head, and in addition to that each Brunson Ten member… Read more »
PokerStars Weekend Recap
The biggest online guaranteed tournaments brought thousands of poker players to the PokerStars tables and once again each guarantee was met and exceeded. The most popular tournament is the Sunday Million and for this weekend a total of 8,885 players had taken on the task of making it to the money, the total prize pool… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Double Guarantees
All Full Tilt Players will be able to participate at the double guarantees that will be available for only one week. Starting on January 25th and ending at midnight on January 31st, players will be battling at the tables for twice the payouts. All tournaments will remain on their normal schedule, the only thing that… Read more »
Cake Poker Doubles Donations for Haiti
Helping others when they are facing difficult times is something that we should all do: we all share the world, and at some point in your life you might need some help from a person or charity that will extend you a hand when you are facing a difficult situation. We help when we can,… Read more »
Absolute Poker Enables New Satellite Buy-in Options
All Absolute Poker players will now have the possibility to pay the buy-in fees into satellite events by choosing one of three different methods. The options available will be: cash, tournament dollars or AbsolutePoints. Players will be prompted to choose the type of payment they prefer when registering for the tournament, and methods can be… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Aid for Haiti Fund Raising
Full Tilt, the second largest online poker room in the world, wants to help those in need at Haiti by gathering funds through player transfers to a specially created account named “Aid For Haiti”. For those players that want to avoid doing players transfers and instead would like to donate a set amount of money,… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker High Stakes Tables Heat Up
It took almost two weeks for the Full Tilt Pros and high stakes regulars to start moving large chips stacks around, but the wait was well worth it. Railbirds were able to witness a lot of action at the high stakes tables and the best part was the large number of players that were eager… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event Final Eight
The remarkable field of eighty four players that registered to the PCA high roller event had plenty of the world’s best known pros. Among the field were previous EPT, WSOP and WSOPE winners and it looked like the tournament would have lots of exciting moments. Luckily it did not disappoint. Day three started with Dario… Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Patrick Antonius Starts the Year with Big Losses
After a cold start at the Full Tilt tables this year, some pros finally took the time to visit the high stakes tables and that led to large amounts of chips changing hands. Gus Hansen recorded a win that exceeds half a million dollars, which will probably motivate him for the year – if he… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event Day Three
The High Roller tournament began three days ago and the field has been dramatically reduced, the action today kicked off with the PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri on the chip lead even though with his style of play he is used to leaving tournaments in the early stages. The current chip lead is held by the… Read more »
Everest Poker Live the Dream Winners
Everest Poker offered something that all poker players in the world desire: a sponsorship from a poker room. Everest Poker believes in creating new opportunities for normal players, thus they offered $100K sponsorship deals to 10 lucky winners. A total of two hundred players qualified for the promotion, and he elimination process involved live tournaments… Read more »
Ultimate Bet Leaderboards with a total of $1 Million in prizes for 2010
Ultimate Bet has beefed up its leaderboard prizes, and top performers will receive entries to some of the biggest tournaments worldwide and online. There’s a total of one million dollars in prizes for the players who reach the top of the weekly, monthly, and yearly leaderboards. The multi-table tournament leaderboards received the largest benefits in… Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Gus Hansen Starts 2010 with Positive Numbers
After finishing ’09 with some terrible numbers Gus Hansen took some time to re-think his entire strategy. After all, recording a loss that exceeds $5.5 for one year’s play has to hurt even the players with the deepest pockets. Gus Hansen’s online numbers are not good he has ended the last three years in red… Read more »
Barry Shulman Wins $1.3 Million at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event
The largest PCA event has made history and some players have come down to the Bahamas to make history as well; that is the path that Barry Shulman has followed in the Atlantis Resort casino. He has been on the spotlight in several articles at major poker news sites in the past months and he… Read more »
Joe Cada is among the Top Positions in the PCA High Roller Event
The high roller event started with an impressive field of players, there are past WSOP champions and past PCA winners just to mention a few major events that the different players in the tournament have managed to take down in the previous years. The current world champion Joe Cada entered the tournament and his performance… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Weekend Recap
Full Tilt Poker awards millions of dollars each weekend: besides the regular tournaments it also offers special tournaments which add to the overall amount at stake each weekend. This past weekend was not the exception as there was a Big Little tournament added to the tournament rotation. The addition of this type of tournament brings… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Plays Down to Final Table
At the biggest PCA event ever, competition has been incredibly tough and many poker pros have ran into PokerStars qualifiers that have shown very sharp skills, despite the fact that many PokerStars pros made deep runs, only one of them remains in the tournament: John Duthie, who is the founder of the European Poker Tour… Read more »
UBOC 4 Promotions
Ultimate Bet will be hosting the UBOC tournament series starting on January 20th ; there will be eighteen events and a total of $4 million will be at stake. Some of the variations played will be Hold’em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E., Heads-up, Pot Limit, No Limit and Snyper. There will be two tournaments that will have a… Read more »
PokerStars Weekend Recap
Even tough the PCA is taking place at the Bahamas, players have taken the time to play the biggest guaranteed tournaments that PokerStars offers every Sunday. The Sunday Million had a total of 8,721 entries which made the total guaranteed prize pool grow from $1.5 million to a remarkable $1.7 million. A total of 1,260… Read more »
Titan Poker will Award Five Packages to the WSOP
Titan Poker has a very strong image in most European countries, and it has earned the trust of many thousands of player’s world wide. Titan Poker belongs to the iPoker network which currently stands as the biggest poker network in the world. Only the biggest poker rooms in the industry have the ability to award… Read more »
Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Was Hit During the Holidays
The last days of the year are fairly important for most people around the world and the main reason is that most people visit their families and try to spend quality time with their loved ones, but along with the holidays comes a lot of free time that can be used for many profitable activities.… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Tour Payouts have a Different Structure
PokerStars has managed to do it again, breaking all previous records at the current PCA. But there is one record that will stand and that has created some controversy among the players participating in the tournament. The payout structure has been modified and more players will be receiving money after their performance at the main… Read more »