Archive for the ‘Tournaments’ Category

Mansion Poker July Freeroll

Mansion Poker is very generous when it comes to freerolls and now they are throwing up another exclusive and private freeroll. The prize pool is also pretty big for a freeroll. This time it is $500. Are you ready for some action?

Now, the best thing about this freeroll, is that you don’t any buy-in points. So basically, you can participate in this freeroll with 0 buy-in points. The $500 private freeroll will start on 26th of July 2009 at 20:00 GMT.

To be eligible for this freeroll, you have to sign up with Mansion Poker first. To do this, just click HERE and follow the sign up process. When you are signed up, login into your account and find a tournament named $500 private freeroll. There you go. You’re done and ready to play. Now you just have to wait for the 26th of July. Good luck!

2009 WSOP Players to Watch

WSOP 2009 is nearly upon us, and it’s time to start speculating about which players are going to make all the headlines this year. There are so many famous players now it’s tough to call out a select few to emerge as the big winners. One can’t avoid mentioning the obvious names like Hellmuth, Brunson, and Chan; they’ve all earned that right. But besides the big three, who looks like they’re poised to play well at the right time this year? Read the rest of this entry »

2009 WSOP Announces More Chips, Better Structure

This year’s edition of the World Series of Poker will be structured in a deeper stack format a little more than it has been in the past. With the natural aggression of the internet player changing the tempo of the lower buy-in events, the small chip stacks were not providing players with enough room to operate, and many felt that the events forced the action too early in the tournament. To change this WSOP tournament director Jack Effel announced that players will receive 3x the buy-in as a starting stack for all events. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 10 Reasons for Playing in the 2009 WSOP

1. Bigger chip stacks. The 2009 WSOP will be giving players three times the buy-in amount as a starting stack. Last year the stacks were two times the buy-in. There will also be extra blind levels added to many of the events. These changes will allow players to go deeper into the tournament, therefore getting more from their buy-in.
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Asian Poker Tour Expands Macau Offerings

The Asian Poker Tour has announced it has received government approval to expand its offerings at APT Macau. As a result, the 2009 APT Macau event coming this August has been expanded from six days to 12 and has been renamed the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival. The event will run August 12-23 at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The APT also sponsors the poker room at the StarWorld.

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Full Tilt Announces FTOPS XII Schedule, Adds MiniFTOPS

Full Tilt Poker today released the schedule and assorted other details for the site’s upcoming twelth Full Tilt Online Poker Series. FTOPS XII is scheduled to run May 6-17, 2009, and will again feature 25 events across a variety of poker disciplines, as with other recent FTOPS series. The collective guarantee for the 25 events will be $18 million, highlighted by the final-day Main Event ($2.5 million guarantee) and the star-packed two-day high roller event, which spans the final weekend of the series and features a $2,500+120 buy-in this FTOPS. Read the rest of this entry »

Largest Online Poker Tournament At PokerStars

It seems, that PokerStars decided to end their year with an record attempt. That’s right, they even will have a Guiness team to verify their record attempt, as they are trying hosting the world’s most largest online poker tournament, this Sunday (28th of December).

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WSOP 2008 Main Event Final Table

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 Will Give €100,000 Prize to Survivor!

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.

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LEOCOP IV Event 2 Played

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.

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