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Archive for the 'Online Poker News' Category
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The Full Tilt Poker Series (FTOPS) is believed to generate a $17 million prize pool across the 27 scheduled events varying in some way.
Each season the tourney starts with qualifiers and offers seats for the main event. Most of the events are for high rollers and skilled players. The buy-ins range from $100 up to $2,500. This time the buy-in comes to $500 which is rather decent. In any way, high buy-ins help yield a prize pool a chunk of which both pros and amateurs have a chance to take home.
For more information, please, visit the Full Tilt site.
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Teams from 16 nations (from the US, Canada, Macedonia, Australia and England, etc) have a chance for the next six months to participate in the Team World Poker Cup launched by TheFreePokerRoom.com.
The ultimate winners will be crowned in June.
A moderator and one of the event organizers for TheFreePokerRoom.com league said: “It is amazing to see how people are bonding together in TheFreePokerRoom.com league, which is a normal team league that has been organized for a few years. With the new TheFreePokerRoom.com Team World Poker Cup, people from all over the world will come together just to play a game of poker and to chat. Personally, I find that fantastic”.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Party Poker has recently added pot-limit Omaha games, so much requested by its gamblers. Loyal to Party Poker players will have access to $25/$50 pot-limit Omaha games alongside with regular offerings on the site.
This Omaha turns out to be the first time offer of a high-stakes pot-limit game on Party Poker’s site. Demand for action and high stakes, and need of a better test of gambling skills finally lead to this incredible offer.
It needs to be remembered that games at Party Poker are available for non-US gamblers only.
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Eric Baldwin is reported to have joined the poker pro team of UB.com, a top internet poker gaming site licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.
Baldwin, known as “basebaldy” earns money playing poker online. In the past year he is believed to have won approximately $1.5 million. His success and prominence are growing, and that is why UB.com invited him to join their poker pro team.
UB.com’s poker pro team consists of the biggest budding stars, and Eric Baldwin will naturally compliment the already existing base of players and will probably redefine the UB’s predence on the international poker gambling market.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
In January Pala Casino Resort and Spa’s poker room is running its regular No Limit Hold’em poker tournaments. The tournament will be held daily at 11 am and 7 pm, except Saturday, January 30 when Annie Duke will host the $25,000 Annie Duke Free Roll Poker Challenge tournament.
All 11 am tournaments will have a $25 buy-in and a $5 entry fee. Each player will start with $3,000 in chips and there will be a $1,000 guarantee. In addition to that, on Tuesdays, the room will offer a $10 re-buy for $1,500 in chips. The 7 pm Saturday tournaments will have a $65 buy-in and a $10 entry fee. The players will start there with $5,000 in chips and have one optional $15 re-buy purchase of $2,500 in additional chips prior to the fourth blind level. The 7pm tournaments on Sundays will offer a $15 buy-in, a $5 entry fee with an unlimited $5 re-buy for the first three blind levels and a $10 add-on. All the players will start with $1,500 in chips.
For more details about the tournaments, visit the webpage for Pala Casino Resort and Spa’s new poker room.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
There are lots of online sites offering gambling tips and recommendations. Ace Hoyle is the recently launched poker information portal offering a bit of a laugh along with the reviews, warnings, strategies and more. Having an interactive approach, Ace Hoyle encourages visitors to come back.
In the highly competitive online gambling market where sometimes it is so hard to find a unique and fresh approach to collaborative poker information and sharing sites, the site is believed to become a success.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
November’s issue of Bluff Europe is now available at newsstands and card rooms across Europe.
The front cover of the magazine features Barry Shulman, the CEO of Card Player magazine, who defeated Daniel Negreanu for the coveted title of the WSOPE winner. Inside the magazine you’ll also find an exciting life story of five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen. In addition to that Bluff Europe offers a great variety of live tournament reports from WSOPE, EPT and English Poker Open. Besides, November issue of Bluff Europe provides its readers with top-quality news, reviews and features from the biggest names in poker, not to speak about an exclusive freeroll for the readers.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Fourteenth tournament of FTOPS is announced to start in a few weeks. The guaranteed prize constitutes $16 million dollars. There will be approximately 25 events during the whole tournament. You may already see advertising campaign online telling some basic fact that you will be most interested in.
The buy-ins are $0.50 of 50 Full Tilt points which might seem to be a very small prize to pay for chance to win $16 000 000. Six times you will have the chance to win $1 000 000 as six events have been prepared with main prize of $1 mln.
FTOPS XIV is planned to set off with a $216 6-max hold’em on the fourth of November with approximately $1 mln in cash prizes.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Its time for the regular weekend tournament from Titan Poker to set off in a few hours. The guaranteed revenue constitutes $250 000 and you still have some hours to search for the satellites in case you are not willing to pay $300+$20 to sign up for the event.
All the participants will be playing a No Limit Texas Hold’em with 5000 starting chip stack and 10 players per each table. Blinds will be moving with interval of 15 minutes.
To gain more information please visit Titan Poker official web site and register to take part in the tournament. Registration is free and doesn’t take long.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The Main event of the Fests al Lago WPT underwent changes in the structure of the tournament with the $15 000 of the revenue for the most skilled player. The new structure provided each player with 60 000 chips to start playing and another innovative step was to allow new players to register in the tournament till the middle of the contest. The second day brought another 35 players to participate in the even, making the total number of the gamblers equal to 275.
Despite the fact that the tournament is not that big, the number of players, who are still coming to the event, has greatly increased and is much greater than the managers have expected. This fact is mostly the result of a strong advertising campaign all over the net.
The prize pool has been raised up to $4 000 000 by the quantity of the players. Most active players will be awarded with a worthy cash prize. The winner will take home $1 218 225 and other will be illegible for a $23 855. The exact quantity of the winners is limited by 27 persons.
Third day even started today at 12 00 at the gorgeous Bellagio.
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