Nick Chappell

The Second event on the Asian Poker Tour this year will begin next week, August 12th in Macau. The tournament will feature a buy-in of 34,400 HKD (roughly $4,500 USD) and the eventual winner is expected to earn around half a million dollars. Last year’s champion, famed online professional Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko defeated a field…

This past Sunday Ultimate Bet hosted its $530 Super Satellite for their 8th Annual Aruba Poker Classic tournament that will be held October 3-10th.

InterPoker is now running a promotion called “Sounds of Money”, a series of August Freerolls that will be giving away over €7,500 in prizes. All you have to do to participate is play the required number of raked hands and it’s free to enter. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday there will be a freeroll tournament…

DoylesRoom is now running qualifiers for the first ever English Poker Open, a new European poker tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The tournament will take place from September 15th-17th, 2009 at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Room in Nottingham, England. It is a state of the art facility that features 45 tables,…

Starting tomorrow, August 4th, PokerStars will begin implementing a synchronized break schedule to better accommodate players who play more than one tournament. For years those who enjoy playing more than one tournament at a time have been left running to the bathroom between hands or losing blinds while they go to get a drink. However,…

Over the years, online poker tournament payout structures have differed greatly. Some are very steep paying only 10% of the field; some are much flatter, paying up to 25%. There are events that only payout the final table, and remarkably there are even winner take all tournaments. However, UltimateBet is hosting a $5,000 Freeroll tournament…

DoylesRoom is now running qualifiers for the first ever English Poker Open, a new European poker tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The tournament will take place from September 15th-17th, 2009 at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Room in Nottingham, England. It is a state of the art facility that features 45 tables,…

With their latest software update, Full Tilt Poker has implemented a new automated deal making system that is enabled at all final tables. With this new system, if all players agree, they are able to enter a separate Full Tilt window where they can pause the current tournament, and negotiate new payouts. Prior to this…

PokerStars’ newly founded Australia New Zealand Poker Tour continued this week in Queenstown, New Zealand and when all was said and done a local man, Danny Chevalier, walked away with the top prize and championship trophy. The $2,500 Main Event drew 135 entrants for a combined prize pool of $303,750, paying out 18 positions. Chevalier,…

The online poker site CD Poker has begun running satellites to the yearly Irish Winter Festival, a tournament series to be held in Dublin, Ireland in October. CD Poker is offering a variety of ways to win one of their $4,000 packages; the packages include $1,025 for airfare and spending money, €360 for four nights…

Absolute Poker has signed on as an official sponsor of the upcoming Sports Legends Challenge to be held September 14-17th. This unique competition allows for fans to not only visit with legendary athletes, but provides them the opportunity to compete with them head to head. Throughout the four day competition participants will compete with their…

Starting on August 2nd Titan Poker will be hosting the Scandinavian Titan Championship, a competition that allows for players in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland to play for cash prizes and a prestigious title. Titan Poker is offering multiple opportunities to qualify for the final tournament in December, where 50 players will play for…

The online poker room Betsafe is stepping up their normal promotions and offering an enormous $150,000 in race promotions to their players throughout the month of August. Betsafe’s race programs are unique in that they appeal to all players; those who play tournaments and cash games will both have an opportunity to win lucrative cash…

Joe Cada, the youngest member of this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event “November 9” continued his incredible month this past Sunday while reaching the final table of UltimateBet‘s $500 buy-in $100K Guaranteed tournament. While his 5th place finish at the final table yesterday was not much in comparison to the over $1.2 million…

Full Tilt Poker experienced another successful Sunday as all of their major ‘Guaranteed’ tournaments far exceeded expectations. The flagship Sunday tournament, the 6:00pm EST $750K guaranteed boasted the largest prize pool it has seen all summer, with 4,401 players putting up the $200+$16 entry fee in hopes of taking home the $155,434 first prize.  Full…

Playing under the name Wu_Wizard, Kevin MacPhee (known as ImaLuckSac on PokerStars) was able to maneuver through the field of 487 players that entered the tournament to ultimately claim the $25,000 top prize; his second Bodog $100K victory this month.

Matt “ch0ppy” Kay claimed his second win in a PokerStars Million Dollar Guaranteed tournament this past Sunday by taking first place in the monthly PokerStars Turbo Takedown.

Tired of having an Ace flop every time you get dealt Pocket Kings? Players on RedKings Poker won’t be scared of that Ace any longer with the new $500 Bad Beat Bonus promotion. Through the end of the year, RedKings Poker will be offering $500 to anyone playing on their site that gets dealt the…

Full Tilt Poker is currently running online satellite tournaments to its new Live Tournament Series in Spain. The series of four tournaments played throughout Spain began last month with the €1,500 + €150 buy-in freeze-out. The winner, Ruben Merino Velasco walked away from Casino Gran Madrid in Torrelodones, Spain with $139,439 and the prestigious event…