PokerStars is once again innovating with their new Baltic Festival packages. Players will have multiple chances to qualify to the event, which will take place from October 28th through the 31st. There will be satellites running every day for as low as $1.10, those satellite events will award seats to the tournaments that will give… Read more »
The first big guaranteed tournament of the day is the Daily Thirty Grand that starts at 2 pm ET, the buy-in is $10 + $1 and late registration will be open up to 60 minutes after the tournament starts. The Daily Eighty Grand will start one hour later, the buy-in is $50 + $5. Extended… Read more »
The official schedule of the 2009 WSOPE had Event two as a three day event, but due to the number of players who have exited the tournament, the last players were asked if they wanted to play until there was a final winner. They all agreed and they are now playing until a winner is… Read more »
The 2007 Aussie Millions main event winner and Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen has hit a rough downswing that has damaged his bankroll with a loss that exceeds $2.9 million. His EV turned to the negative numbers in March and since then he has lost a significant amount of money each month. He has… Read more »
The entire series of events at the WCOOP was a complete success; players from all over the world wanted a chunk of the groundbreaking prize pools, most of which exceeded the guaranteed prize pool. The last events were held this past weekend; event 43 was a No Limit Hold’em tourney with a prize pool of… Read more »
Party Poker is one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world and because they want to keep been a favorite among poker players they have created a new promotion that will award millions of dollars – all players have to do is play poker. Players will earn points when playing cash games, every… Read more »
The Full Tilt Poker miniFTOPS final events brought in thousands of players that wanted to make big money with the small buy-ins. The player fields were massive and the game was fierce, as all players wanted to make it to the money. On Saturday a two day No Limit Hold’em 6-max event took place and… Read more »
There are technical issues at Cake Poker, which are still affecting its performance. Cake Poker will be taken offline tomorrow for an estimated 60 minutes, so players should be aware that at 9 am ET their software will lose connection to the Cake network for about an hour. Cake Poker announced that they will be… Read more »
Players worldwide have been playing in the ECOOP events since 2007 when Titan Poker offered a record $2.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The series of tournament has grown, and the prize pools along with it. Titan Poker will have the ECOOP V events starting on November 23rd through December 6th 2009. The total prize… Read more »
Ultimate Bet had more than $805K on the line in their wide variety of tournaments spread throughout the week. The biggest guaranteed tournaments were the following: $30K Sniper won by “MWCSTR8NUTZ”, $150K Guaranteed taken down by “WILD DUCK”, $80K Sniper won by “NICHOLASJ”, $25K Sniper on Thursday won by JAOIJEROME and the $25K Sniper on… Read more »
The World Series of Online Poker has come to an end at PokerStars, and it was a complete success. A high percentage of the tourneys had more players than expected, which led to bigger prize pools; at some tournaments the prize was doubled, even tripled. PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier had an outstanding performance in… Read more »
Being a Full Tilt Poker Pro and also considered one of the best poker players in the world could be enough for some people but not for Phil Ivey. He is one of the November nine players that will be in a fierce battle for the WSOP 2009 main event bracelet. His performance at the… Read more »
Having live tournament earnings that exceed $6.9 million says one thing: PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein is a tough competitor. His poker career has been very successful – for instance, he has had forty-four money finishes at the WSOP, and three of those earned him WSOP bracelets. Barry Greenstein has also had plenty of success at… Read more »
Ultimate Bet will start to offer this Sunday $3K packages that will have players flying to the beautiful Costa Rica in Central America for the first Poker Hispano Tour Event. Satellites will have a buy-in of $200 + $15 and at least one package is guaranteed per tournament. Each package includes the $1.5K entry fee… Read more »
The miniFTOPS have been a success at Full Tilt Poker; thousands of players have registered to each event and the player that had the best performance walked away with extra money. Full Tilt Poker has a busy tournament schedule for this weekend. Starting on Saturday at 1 pm ET the miniFTOPS schedule has a 2-day… Read more »
PokerStars is the leading poker room worldwide and their tournament schedule for the weekend is quite impressive. The biggest and boldest events are the WCOOP tournaments. September 18th will have a one million prize pool that will be played out in a No Limit Hold’em tourney at 2:30 pm ET. In the evening, a $400K… Read more »
Finnish player Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is considered one of the most aggressive high stakes players at Full Tilt Poker. He usually likes to trashtalk when he is playing live, but claims that he does it only for entertainment. The player that introduced Ziigmund to the game of poker was his friend and also Finnish player… Read more »
PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the European, Latin American, Asian and Australia-New Zealand poker tours. They have done an outstanding job with the live events and have offered hundreds of satellites that have given players the satisfaction of playing in some of the largest poker tournaments in their part of the world. The Italian… Read more »
Gus Hansen is a very successful poker player, and is currently the only player who has won three World Poker Tour open tournaments. His live tournament earnings exceed $7.2 million. He also started a website that became successful and was eventually sold for millions of dollars. Hansen has been known for having money problems in… Read more »
Peter Eastgate has been quite busy traveling and playing poker, participating in several live tournaments this year, including the recent EPT Barcelona in which he did not do very well. After returning from his trip to Barcelona he registered to the WCOOP High Roller Match Play event on September 13th. The first match he had… Read more »
Absolute Poker will host several big guaranteed tournaments today. The first big prize pool will be played out in a $50 + $5 $15K No Limit Hold’em re-buy tournament at 7 pm ET. For players who like deep stack tourneys Absolute Poker will have a $20K prize pool tournament at 8 pm ET, where each… Read more »
Players at Full Tilt Poker had some crazy action with all the guaranteed prize pools during the weekend, including numerous MiniFTOPS events. The Sunday Brawl had 2,413 registered players and a prize pool of $100K guaranteed, and it took “Tannina80” almost ten hours at the tables to take down the first place prize of $98K.… Read more »
The World Championship of Online Poker tournaments have had a bigger success than expected by PokerStars, with most of the guaranteed prize pools exceeding their target numbers with ease. Today, Wednesday September 16, PokerStars will host two WCOOP tournaments. The first one will be a No Limit Hold’em with big antes at 2:30 pm ET… Read more »
Absolute Poker is one of the largest poker rooms currently taking action from US customers, and because they want to keep their reputation as one of the best online rooms out there, they have put together a bevy of guaranteed tournaments for this weekend. To warm-up for the weekend Absolute Poker will be hosting a… Read more »
The popular MiniFTOPS events have just kicked off and have already been a great success so far. Event #1 exceeded the guaranteed prize pool by more than 50%. The second event started yesterday and the guaranteed prize pool was exceeded by 29%. There were a total of 1,296 players battling for the $38,880 prize pool.… Read more »
