10.07.10 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
This Sunday 11th July 2010 you can secure yourself a place in the 2010 Croatian Poker Series. All you have to do is get yourself to Hollywood Poker where you can enter the satellites that are running every Sunday till the 25th July. The direct buy-in to the satellite is $300 + 20 or you can get a place in the satellites thro...
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09.06.10 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
William Hill Poker have launched a great series for their poker players this summer. William Hill are giving their poker players the chance to combine to great past times, football and poker, and win prizes and cash in the process. There are two great offers up for grabs. The first one ends today.
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08.06.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Jackson Zheng made history in New Zealands Skycity Casino over the weekend by winning the NZ Poker Open 2010 and pocketing $37,110.00 prize. Having a local win the tournament really shows the ever increasing standard of poker coming from Auckland and builds on last years victory by fellow Aucklander Jamie Kristov . The NZ Poker Open 2010 f...
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17.05.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Theo Jorgensen started the last day with a massive chip advantage and looked like the favourite to take this €633,902 prize at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. The Danish player has not won a major tournament of this size before but he does have a long record of money finishes. The French were not going to let a trophy leave their backyard without ...
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02.05.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The PokerStars.com 2010 EPT Season has finished in Monte Carlo. The grand final winner was as predicted in the last report Nicholas Chouity. He entered the final day with a huge chip lead that he would not surrender. The stubborn mentality paid off for this online qualifier as he went home with €1.7 million. The EPT High Roller Event saw Tobias ...
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29.04.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Day 4 is now finished in Monte Carlo. The 24 poker players who started have been whittled down to the final 8 players. The chip leader is Nicholas Chouity. He holds 40% of the poker chips going into the last day. Chouity comes from Beirut and he started on the EPT circuit a couple of years ago. This time last year he was knock...
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29.04.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Pokerstar.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final Day 3 is now finished. The floor has gone from 116 down to the last 24 poker players. The play on days 3 was fast and furious in places. We saw a lot of big names leave. Victoria Coren, poker beauty and journalist left with €40 000. Coren has done great things for poker especially with...
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28.04.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Day 2 of the Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final is over. There are only 116 poker players left in this tournament. 1st place will be taking home €1.7 million so picking up their bar bill at the end of the tournament won't be an issue (you would hope!) There was some tense moments through the day that saw some big name p...
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27.04.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
After the completion of days 1a and 1b at the Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final, the real meat of the competition is about to begin. The Pokerstars.com EPT tournament started two days ago with just over 800 players and now we 413 left. Thye tournament is still littered with the big names in poker. Celebrity player Teddy Sheringham has over 100k in EPT...
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25.04.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The 2010 Pokerstars.com EPT Grand Final has begun in Monaco. Millions are for grabs over the next few days. Poker pro's from around the world are battling it out for supremacy. For those of you who have never been to Monaco let me enlighten you. I was lucky enough to visit last year as the F1 race was taking place. This s...
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16.03.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The WSOP have annouced this week that their Tournament of Champions will have 20 out of the 27 seats awarded by the votes of poker fans. This is a new move by the WSOP in an effort to engage its fanbase and give them some ownership of the tournament. The tournament of champions is a $1 million dollar event.
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14.03.10 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
William Hill are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of Cheltenham Race Week. To compliment the week of Horse Racing they are not going to neglect their poker players. So they are running daily tournaments for players to go through to a final that gives you the chance to win a seat at the Irish Poker Open...
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10.03.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Betfair are getting in early with their offer of free places to the 2010 WSOP. The super betting site is giving away three levels of packages to poker players who qualify. Essentially you need to play your socks off at the Betfair tables over the next three months and start gaining Betfair points. The more points you...
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09.03.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Annie Duke is one of the biggest stars in modern day poker and showed this winning the National Heads Up Championship. She has not won a significant tournament since 2004 when she bagged $2 million in the WSOP Tournament of Champions. Annie has instead been focusing on her celebrity career which needs no real introduction following her stormy run in...
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08.03.10 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
The €1,000,000 first prize at the Berlin Leg of the European poker tour was won by American Online Poker qualifier Kevin Macphee. Unfortunately for this talented player who qualified for the event through top rated online poker room. Pokerstars , all of the Headl...
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28.02.10 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Jose Barbero aka Nacho, won the LAPT main event. The Poker Tournament was held at Punta del Este. Barbero fought through a field of 307 players. It took 4 days to battle it out and become the LAPT Champion. Barbero is one of Pokerstars Pro players and is known at the table as 'Nacho'.
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24.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The National Heads Up Championship is back at Caesars Palace 4th March - 7th March and Huck Seed will be there to defend his poker title. The organisers have now released the invitation player list. We know the Mr Brunson has said he will be giving the event a miss due to his health. NBC, the massive television network sponsor this event so you ...
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23.02.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The NAPT 2010 Main Event is down to 32 players at the time of writing this report. Out in front is Eric Blair. Pokerstars have a healthy number of pro players on the chase. One of those being Vanessa Rousso, who gets the vote as hottest person left in the main event. Having made that bold statement I just noticed Ch...
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22.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The Anton Wigg, 22 year Swedish Poker Pro from Stockholm took home 3675000 Danish Kroner ($676,000) at the EPT Copenhagen. Wigg really had to show some determination as he was stuck in a heads up situation with Francesco de Vivo for the best part of 3 1/2 hours. Copenhagen Casino came to a stand still as they wanted to see a winner ...
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22.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The Amateur Poker Association and Tour have picked up a major sponsor in Betfair. The unique betting platform is now backing the Association over the next season. APAT is in its 4th season and they are expecting this one to be its best yet. Having Betfair behind them will add that bit of magic to the mix as Betfair's...
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16.02.10 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Paddy Power Poker team are rubbing their hands in anticipation over this years Irish Open. The Dublin based Poker Tournament is the longest running in Europe and the second oldest after the WSOP in Vegas. This years Irish Open promises to be another spectacular event. The event is being held at the Burlington Hotel, in the middle of the beauti...
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15.02.10 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Full Tilt Poker has the Big Little Tournament series running on Sundays in February. This is one of Poker Sharks favourite tournaments because the buyin is $2 + .20 and the winner is guaranteed $18000. The total prize pool has $200k guaranteed so you stand to make some massive money if you keep your cool. There are two more scheduled one for the 21st Feb ...
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14.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Phil Laak is on fire at the PartyPoker Premier League IV heats. He has won both the first and second heat. Laak has had some of the best competition in the game against him. Rolande de Wolfe, JC Tran and Phil Hellmuth to name but a few poker greats. On day one Laak had a slightly easier day as he managed to fend his way to the top spot a...
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13.02.10 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Hollywood Poker are running daily satellites for the 2010 Irish Open. The Irish Open runs from April 2 - 5 in Dublin, Ireland. Every day for as little as $1 + .20 you can play in a satellite that could lead you to the Irish Open Final along with some great perks from Hollywood Poker.
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13.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Full Tilt FTOPS XV Events 2 and 3 saw some great action by some of the best poker players in the business. Event 2 was the PL Omaha Hi/Lo - Knockout it had 1,349 players. The Buy in was $240 + $16 and had a guarantee of $250,000 and the actual prize pool was $269,800.
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12.02.10 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Full Tilt has been really busy this week with the launch of FTOPS XV. We have had the first two events played but at the time of writing this we are still waiting for the information on Event 2 to reach Shark HQ. We do have the results for the tightly contested Event 1 No Limit Holdem Event which had a $200 + $16 buy in.
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10.02.10 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Any FTOPS event is a big deal and the Full Tilt Poker Pro's are preparing to host their events over the coming days. For those of you who are new to FTOPS ( Full Tilt Online Poker Series) then here is a little recap to keep you in the loop.
FTOPS started in August 2006, at the start of the Poker boom, with $1 million in guaranteed prizes. Fa...
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06.01.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Day1a at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure main event is over. 669 players battled it out to reach the next stage of the PCA 2010. Day 1b begins tomorrow with a similar number of people in attendance. Out of the mist at the end of the day came a number of Pokerstar Pro's who have given themselves a good starting platform. Chris Moneymak...
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08.12.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Aaron Benton will be smiling all the way home today as he heads back to New South Wales. He won The Pokerstars APPT Grand Final in Sydney. It was a gruelling tournament that lasted four days. That is a marathon effort from Benton. Benton played in all the stops of this seasons Pokerstars APPT. He saved the best till last. &nbs...
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5.12.09 tagged in Live Tournaments, Other News,
James Akenhead is one of Poker Sharks favourite poker players because he doesn't give up. He took home today with a 6 figure haul after winning the Full Tilt Poker Million VIII. It was only a matter of time before the WSOP big hitter took a sizeable first place. He was not the favourite with the bookies today. The chip leader at the start of the...
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23.11.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Amer Sulaiman has won the Pokerstars.net LAPT Playa Conchal main event taking away $175,095. This main event had 259 players and a buyin of $2500. Not bad for spending four days off the beautiful Costa Rican beaches. Poker in Latin America is growing rapidly in popularity. Mainly because of major tounaments like this drawing in...
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22.11.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The EPT Pokerstars.com Vilamoura Main Event has been won by Antonio Matias. Any main event is stressful because so much is at stake. The main event came staked with a massive prize pool - €1,561,700 Over the past 5 days 322 top players from around the world battled it out in one of the most glorious poker locations. P...
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22.11.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The EPT Pokerstars.com Vilamoura Main Event has been won by Antonius Matias. Any main event is stressful because so much is at stake. The main event came staked with a massive prize pool - €1,561,700 Over the past 5 days 322 top players from around the world battled it out in one of the most glorious poker locations. ...
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22.11.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The EPT Pokerstars.com Vilamoura Main Event has been won by Antonius Matias. Any main event is stressful because so much is at stake. The main event came staked with a massive prize pool - €1,561,700 Over the past 5 days 322 top players from around the world battled it out in one of the most glorious poker locations. ...
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02.10.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
It took Barry Shulman 17 hours of play in the main event of the WSOPE to claim what would have to be his sweetest of victories. Shulman from the USA has had a number of wins on the pro scene and prior to this event, his earnings were at $1.6m. By beating Daniel Negreanu in the early hours of October the 2nd 2009, Shulman will top that up by another &pou...
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02.10.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Barry Shulman was has just won an epic WSOPE Main Event battle to be crowned the 2009 Main Event winner. Shulman took home this morning £801,603 and Daniel Negreanu £495,589. Getting to final tables is a family trait with the Shulman's as Barry's son James is awaiting next months WSOP Final Table to start in Las Vegas.&n...
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30.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
John Tabatabai, runner up in 2007 went out of the WSOPE main event in the last action of day 3. With a pair of aces in hand, Tabatabai was duly sent home by Peter Gould who had pocked 7’s that lead to a full house over 10’s. For Peter Gould it means that day four is a reality and he has also confirmed his place in the money. For poor old John, our thoughts...
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28.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Day 2 of the WSOPE Main event has been and we still have plenty of big name players competing for the title. Ian Munns will be taking the biggest chip stack into the 3rd day (528k) but will be looking over his shoulder for the likes of Liz lieu (180k) Markus Ristola (205k) Jason Mercier (203k) and WSOPE day 1b leader Steve Zolotow (190...
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28.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Day 1b of the WSOPE main event in London saw some famous faces and some impressive pots. Amongst those going for the bracelet were Daniel Negreanu , Peter Eastgate and Scotty Nguyen but it was the “bald eagle” Steve Zolotow that finished the day on top. The American has won over $1.8 million in ...
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27.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Cake poker is one of the poker-shark.co.uk top 10 rated poker rooms and they have now started their qualifying events for the Aussie Millions. One of the most popular Live Poker Events, the Aussie Millions 2010 is expected to have a prize pool of around $10,000,000.&n...
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27.09.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Day 1a of the WSOPE main event closed at the felt last night with 79 of the original 156 remaining hopeful in the tournament. These guys will resume their play on Monday. Now there were some set backs for some of the Big Gun poker players as day 1a of the WSOPE Main Event waved goodbye to Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Huck Seed and Dario Minieri. ...
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26.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Its a good day to be a European Poker player as a crack shot team of European poker players showed the American's a thing or two at the felt. The Caesar Cup tournament will be televised on ESPN over the next 12 months. The teams were as follows:-
Europe
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26.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
PKR is gearing up for one of its biggest live poker events of the year. The Heads Up Poker Grand Slam has four packages available for PKR players to win that gives them $12,000 to enter the Grand Slam Tournament that is being held in London on the 8th October. Within that $12,000 package is $2000 of expenses that you can use.
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25.09.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The 3rd event of the WSOPE came down to a gruelling headsup battle between Jani Vilmunen and Howard Lederer. Both players fought hard through the early rounds and at one point it looked like it would be an all Finnish finish. Jani Vilmunen walked away with £204,048. The poker tournament is heating up nicely for the ...
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25.09.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Olivier Busquet made one of the most dramatic turn arounds in poker history to win the Borgarta Poker Open. The online poker genius managed to carry his game plan across to a live game situation and win the main event. Busquet won $925,514 in the most exciting way, at one point in the game he was short stacked to 1.5 million chips compared to Jeremy...
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23.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Russian online poker player Yevgeniy Timoshenko has won the 2009 WCOOP main event, pocketing $1,715,200 in the process. The biggest online poker tournament is held by poker-shark.co.uk top rated room Pokerstars, with 45 events taking place over 18 days. The 2009 wsoop was so big ...
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23.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Event two of the 2009 WSOPE has been won by Canadian player and Full Tilt Poker Pro, Erik Cajelais. Erik takes his first bracelet in this series after seeing off the challenge of Mats Gavatin and taking the first prize of £104,677.
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23.09.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Event 2 of the 2009 WSOPE the $2500 Pot Limit Holdem/Omaha has nearly come to an end with Mat Gavatin in pole position with 448,000 chips at the end of day 2. This tournament fielded158 players and we are down to the final 5 players. The field was a tough one with the poker heavy weights coming in to sling their aces around. ...
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22.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
JP Kelly is the first Brit to win the coveted WSOPE bracelet. The three day No Limit Holdem event came to a close with JP Kelly winning the heads up battle with Fabian Dunlop with a lovely little King High Flush. Kelly walks away with £136,803. JP Kelly took his first WSOP bracelet in this years Pot limit Holdem Event in Vegas and is finding some re...
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19.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
WSOPE 2009 is underway and the action at the tables is already heating up in the first half of event 1. The great thing about an event like $1000 No Limit is that it attracts the best of the poker talent in the world. So far the event has knocked out 499 players. The last 100 players will fight tooth and nail to make it to the money and try and win a seat at t...
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15.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
With two more events before the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final, we here at Poker-Shark.co.uk thought it would be a great time to see how things are shaping up so far.
Leg 1 – Brighton, Bernard Litman wins £70,520
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01.09.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Chris Mason was cool under pressure at Dusk Till Dawn last weekend in the APAT World Amateur Poker Championship. Mason was crowned World Amateur Poker Champion after clearing away a field of 157 players. The action came down to Mason vs Jamie Reeve in the heads up battle. Reeve on paper was the slightly stronger player. Both pl...
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01.09.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Poker Stars is looking for ladies to win their seat in the Poker Stars EPT London Ladies Event. If you make the top ten of the Poker Stars freeroll final you will get your seat paid for in the EPT Ladies Event, a night in the 5 Star Hilton Metropole Hotel and £100 spending money.
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31.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
If you want to qualify for a major live poker event then look no further! Hollywood Poker, one of the top rated poker rooms here at Poker-Shark.co.uk are offering three more chances to qualify for the Rigged in Riga live poker event!
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30.08.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Dermot Blain showed true grit and determination to emerge victorious from a field of 429 opponents. The Poker Stars APPT Macau main event lasted 4 days and Blain leaves with a very tidy sum of $541,089, not to mention the massive trophey that will not fit in his hand luggage on the flight back to Ireland. Blain&n...
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30.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Vladimir Geshkenbein has just won the APPT Macau High Rollers Event. Day two was always going to be a tough day for the 'Russian Bomber.' It was clear that Geshkenbein was going to burn out rather than fade away. He held a chip lead for a large portion of the day, this was due to his aggressive play that left many opponents stunned.&...
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29.09.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Betfair Poker are giving some lucky Poker Player the chance to win $1 Million in their Free Million Dollar Event. The set up to this tournament is simple and if you are not currently playing Poker with Betfair then this is the time to switch because this tournament is open to new Betfair Poker players. Betfair are running Daily Freerolls that put th...
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24.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Another major Poker Tournament and another newbie pro winner. Adrien Allain AKA zlatan35 won his place into the Asian Poker Tour (APT) with a win in a $5.00 Satellite tournament at PKR. Adrien Allain is only 23 years old from Rennes France. This is not the fi...
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17.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
The WSOP is the biggest Poker Tournament in the world and as expected it has a massive following of Poker Junkies that need their thirst for poker quenched. ESPN, the collosal US sports media company, currently have the rights to broadcast the WSOP event from Las Vegas. The tournament is held in two stages. The main event in November and every...
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17.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Tom Durrrr Dwan is offering a new challenge to the world. He wants a Million Dollar Heads Up Poker tournament. Each player is to stake $500,000 and the blinds are set at $500/$1000. Tom wants the game played over 4 parts, each part having 500 hands. A player cannot quit the match until they have played a full set of 500 hands or lost all...
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4.08.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Biggest First Deposit Bonus Ever!
Poker Stars are now offering a 100% up to $600 first deposit bonus for PokerStars.com players.Participants may make up to three deposits in total to claim the full bonus amount, but they must be made within 60 days of the first deposit.
Players will have...
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30.07.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The 2009 Irish Winter Festival is already being spoken about by hardened poker players. This is because they know its good to book your seat early for the October bank holiday event which Paddy Power is hosting. The Irish Winter Festival or IWF takes place in the Citywest Hotel in Dublin. This hotel has been the venue for the Irish Open and the 2008 Irish Wint...
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24.07.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Paddy Power Poker want to give one of their players to live the life of a Poker Pro for a year. Paddy Power is a well known and trusted online Poker and Sportsbook site. What Paddy want in order for them to consider you as Poker Pro material is for you to sign up to Paddy Poker if you aren't already! Then play enough to qualify as a 'General' in thei...
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20.07.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Antoine Saout has taken the WSOP main event by storm by becoming Frances only member of the November Nine. Antoine was born in Morlaix France. Saout has quickly mastered the art of poker after only playing the game for 18 months and soon became one of the best French Poker players in the country. He got his poker education from playing online an...
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15.07.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The WSOP 2009 Main Event Final Table has been set. The final nine players, known as the 'November 9' will gather together in November and fight it out to the last man. Looking at the WSOP 2009 final table it is scattered with Pros, most notably Phil Ivey. Even when he isn't chip leader there is a certain hush around the table when he decides to ...
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07.07.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The WSOP Main event is underway(57). The $10000 NLHE mainevent finished the day on Monday with Troy Weber in front with 200000 in chips. There is still a long way to go in this competition that has a Prize pool of $61 million. The tournament pays out the top 648 spots.
There is always a litle controversy with WSOP and this year was no different w...
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29.06.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Full Tilt are about to start two of the most talked about Poker Events of 2009. Poker Millions and Late Night Poker, and you could win a seat to walk away with a serious amount of cash and kudos. Televised poker coverage will be shown on Channel 4.
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17.06.08 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Ladbrokes Poker Pro Jeff Kimber came undone in $2500 PLO WSOP event. Jeff Kimber wasn't the only Brit at the table as he was joined by Hendon Mob man Ross Boatman. Ross left the table in 4th place after having a good game across the borad. Britain missed out as well from John Duthie in the Heads up $10000 Championship. It was a best of 3 event ...
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15.06.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
One of the UK's best players, Roland de Wolfe, made history today by taking a Bracelet in the WSOP $5000 Omaha Hi-Lo event. This means that Roland de Wolfe has now won titles in the WSOP, EPT and WPT. This Poker Triple Crown has only be...
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09.06.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Bwin is beginning its Poker Island 2009 tournament . The Poker Island is running a series of qualifiers throughout June. The idea of the tournament is this :-
Enter a Poker Island qualifier - win (you wont get there by losing!)
The top 5 players each week are jetted to the ...
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11.05.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
The poker youth cleaned up at the Venice leg of the WPT. The event was held in Casino de Venezia. Italy has never held a leg of the WPT before and 400 players came and entered the poker tournament for 4000 euros. WPT Venice was a huge success and attracted some of the b...
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06.05.09 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Titan Poker are giving first time depositors entry to massive freerolls throughout May 09. Titan Poker is the largest cards rooms on the iPoker network. New Titan Poker players will recieve free seats in a series of Texas Holdem Freeroll tournaments that have a massi...
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6th May 2009 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
Hollywood Poker are giving away WSOP packages throughout May 09. It may well be your dream to appear at the WSOP in Las Vegas. The glitz, the glamour, the money! It’s certainly an ambition of mine! It’s now very popular for Online poker rooms to provide players with seats...
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05/09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Full Tilt have signed a three year sponsorship for the Match rooms Sports Poker Millions Tournament. The competition that was previously sponsored by Ladbrokes. The change of sponsorship has meant a change in the size of the winning prize. Many of us wouldn't complain at $600k but it is a significant drop from the one million dollars prev...
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29.04.09 tagged in Industry News, Live Tournaments,
Celebrities turned out in droves (as my dad would say) to begin the first European Ante Up for Africa. Princess Zara Philips was looking very Bond Girlesque in Monaco. The principality is known for it glamorous night life in its idylic Medditerranean surroundings. The buy-in was 4000 euros and was won by the poker hottie Isabelle Mercier. Over 300000 ...
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27.04.09 tagged in Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments,
All Ladbrokes players can now enter a Freeroll Texas Holdem event every Monday at 2230
From the freeroll the top ten players guarantee their seat in the Tuesday 1930 Daily Final. This is their chance to get a package to Vegas and play in the WSOP.&nbs...
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27.04.09 tagged in Live Tournaments,
Thanet in Kent is holding a fantastic Poker Tournament across the Bank Holiday (1st - 4th May).
G Casino's are hosting the event and are running entry qualifiers through out the week. You must be 18 and over to enter the tournament. You can pay your way into the ...
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12.12.08 tagged in Industry News, Poker Rooms, Live Tournaments, Other News,
Friday 12th December, Mince pies in the oven and one of Europes biggest Poker tournament finals to entertain. Poker-Shark HQ was a hive of activity once again as we settled into a crate of Belgium’s finest! Having seen Chase the Chair winner, Svein Nielsen secure a place in the final, excitement grew as we prayed for one of the online qualifiers ...
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