Finally, the four-month break is over and the famous WSOP 2008 November Nine returned to Las Vegas to resume their race for the WSOP Main Event bracelet. All the players came to the guaranteed $900,670 table (which already had been paid in July), but they all were hungry for the top prize of $9.1 million. Read the rest of this entry »
Paddy Power Poker just announced they will give out a special €100,000 cash prize at the 2009 Irish Open. Their new promotion is called €100,000 Sole Survivor and no doubt is a great way to attract more poker players to their 2009 Irish Open.
Second event of currently on-going LEOCOP IV - European Online Poker Championship from Ladbrokes has been played. This time it was $50 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold’em Rebuy event. Even though this event saw many high-profile online poker players, another player from Scandinavia took the first place - player MrHanky111.
LEOCOP IV (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) has recently has started last Sunday. Already, first event has been played. Event 1, with a $150 buy-in attracted 440 players from all over the Europe, with Swedish player Hefaistos taking the first victory and winning first event.
WSOP Academies will soon enough teach us how to play poker the professional way. They do seminars where they teach people to play professional poker. Seminars usually consist of: hand demonstrations, poker odds, all sorts of tactics and strategies and many more. Recently they announced two-day camps in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Ladbrokes just announced, they will be adding cash prize boost to their upcoming LEOCOP IV. With the recent prize boost of $500,000, LEOCOP IV (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) is becoming a premier online poker tournaments, for all European poker players.The added prize pool will definitely bring more action and hopefully, more poker hands.
Famous Las Vegas casino returns with fresh poker schedule they came up with for November. The so called upcoming Mega Stacks at Caesars Palace will be hosted in November, in Las Vegas with lots of cash prizes, action, luxury in the most expensive and biggest casinos in Las Vegas - famous Caesars Palace.
23-year-old online poker pro, Andy Teng, used his chance and had beaten 226 other poker players at the G Casino on the Isle of Thanet in Kent last wekend. By the way, this was This was 8th leg of the Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour. No doubts it was a hard fight for Andy, as he also had beaten his fellow poker mate Jamie Brown during the heads-up, to become the 18th U.K. Poker Tour Main Event winner!
Phil Ivey no doubt has a good time right now. He haven’t seen so much wins for a long time. Most of the time, he spends with the titans, like David Benyamine, Tom Dwan ‘durrrr’, ziigmund and many others. They usually play on high stakes tables, where enormous huge sums of money are being dealt every night. This time, Phil won $160k, playing online poker.
You don’t know Italian? Well, neither do I, but besides knowing that Italians have awesome pizza and pasta I know that poker is now allowed in Italy! Awesome news for every online poker player, as they can now play poker on localized PokerStars Italian version site. PokerStars is already welcoming all Italian players. PokerStars announced they launched PokerStars.it, which is open for all hungry Italian people wanting to play some online poker!
