Pokerstars Puts Professional into Lower Staked Sit and Go’s
April 29, 2009
Bertrand Grospellier, 3rd place finisher at the recently finished WPT Championship 2009 announced that he was going to make a bid to play a record number of sit and go’s within one hour.
Grospellier decided that he would play $6.50 sit and go tournaments, multi tabling as many as he could within one hour.
The decision to take this challenge meant that players with a smaller bankroll could place themselves up against one of the leading names in the poker industry at the moment, with Grospellier cashing a career total of more than $5.7 million.
With the increased standard within the tournaments that the pro will be playing, Pokerstars the site behind the professional, has revealed that all players who buy into the sit and go tournaments alongside the professional will be offered entry into a $1,000 freeroll tournament.
The players bid to make the record books shouldn’t be too hard due to no record been held for the task to date, so no matter how he does he will make history.
Although there is no record set for this task i have recently read about a player who played at Pokerstars and laid out a bet that he could make $100 into $10,000 purely by playing as many sit and go tournaments as he needed within the hour time scale he set himself.
The amatuer player took bets against him to succeed in his task but in front of the eyes of all who watched his webcam feed, he succeeded.
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Team PKR Pro Member Karl Fenton Takes First Title
April 23, 2009
Karl ‘discomonkey’ Fenton, a member of the newly formed ‘Team PKR Pro‘, this week took down his first title as a pro team player winning PKR Live II.
The tournament which was hosted at London’s Loose Cannon Club over the last weekend, with 150 players qualifying via PKR’s 3d poker room.
The tournament boasted a $75,000 prize pool with Fenton taking home $20,000 as his winning share of the money.
This is Fenton’s first win as a PKR pro after been selected while playing on the PKR online poker room.
The future is looking very bright for Team PKR Pro too, they were placed into action also, playing 4 games to try to make a clean sweep for the tournament day.
The team came close, winning 3 titles out of the 4 on offer, with Andrew Teng just missing out on the final table after his pocket A’s were cracked.
Overall this was a great showing for the recently created professional team, and its looking like the members are going to cause a big splash in upcoming tournaments, we hope to see more of you guys!
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EPT San Remo Breaks Player Record
April 22, 2009
The European Poker Tour currently been held in San Remo broke the record for hosting the most players ever.
The first day of the tournament 1A hosted under 500 players who joined professionals alike at the felts, with the second starter day 1B offering a massive 600 player boost to the numbers.
The participation figures for day 1B took the final number of players to 1,178 players, breaking the previous record for participation numbers for the European based tournament.
With such a large turn out for the live tournament, the prize pool grew to a staggering 5.7 million euros, with first place taking 1.5 million euros home.
The tournament featured a huge array of players with poker greats, professionals and bracelet holders gracing the felts.
With such a mixed ability level taking their seat at the felts, there was bound to be some shocks and exciting action for the spectators to see.
One of these shocks was watching Dario Minieri moving all in with A/Q only to come up against A/A.
As the hand played through Minieri found himself behind as the flop fell, hitting a Q, little did he know that the hand was covered at this point, with the hand ending with his opponent taking the pot due to an ace high flush, narrowly missing out on an ace high straight flush.
As with many of the live tournaments, events happen that are unforeseen, with Minieri been hottly tipped to build on his final table finish last year.
One thing is for sure, watching this tournament will give all poker fans and fanatics a racing heart, watching the game unfold.
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PKR Introduce First Pro PKR Poker Team
April 17, 2009
PKR have this week annouced that they have signed 6 players to their professional poker playing team.
The 3d poker room has revealed that they have chosen 6 of their top players to represent the site, sponsoring them to travel to major live tournaments.
The six chosen players all have a reputation within the poker industry, with main event finishes to their name, making them an easy choice for the PKR team.
The players who have been chosen to represent the new generation poker room are :
Ashley Hames
Andrew Teng
Kai Danilo Paulsen
Raymond O’Mahoney
James Sudworth
Henrik Eklund
The chosen players won’t only represent the poker room at live events, they will also be placed into online tournaments and into games that will be covered on PKRtv.
This will enable the PKR owners to create new tournaments within their schedule, adding the likes of Bounty Tournaments and giving members of the site the opportunity to play real money ring games against the chosen few.
Marketing Director, Simon Prodger tells how the site have been considering making the move into a professional team for a while:
We’ve been following our initial ‘Team PKR Pro’ members for some time and are convinced that they all have the game and personality required to be genuinely world class poker players. They are also among the most recognized and respected players within the PKR community so are guaranteed to have over two and a half million people cheering them on every time they play.
The move to create the Team PKR Pro will be one that can only improve the name and reputation of the site, with many of the other leading poker rooms having professional teams, but featuring some of the biggest names in poker.
Special thanks to PKRcode.net for this post.
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World Series of Poker 2009 to Award 4 Bracelets
April 15, 2009
It has been annouced that the European World Series of Poker 2009 (WSOP) will award 4 winners bracelets at this years tournament.
The organisers revealed that the tournament held by Harrah’s Entertainment and the brand World Series of Poker, is to hold 4 events with bracelets up for grabs for the wiiners.
Within the schedule there is a new addition for this year that has never before featured, the pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha tournament will offer a new player base for the already hugely popular live poker event.
The schedule has been released for players to see, lining up like this…
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009: Event No. 1 (£1,000+£60) — No-limit hold’em (three-day event/two start days)
Monday, Sept. 21, 2009: Event No. 2 (£2,500+£150) — Pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009: Event No. 3 (£5,000+£250) — Pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009: Event No. 4 (£10,000+£350) — Main event (five-day event/two start days)
The tournament will take place in a casino based in English capital London, with Empire Casino been chosen from a list of possible venues.
The commissioner for WSOP, Jeffrey Pollack said:
The World Series of Poker Europe has quickly established itself as the most prestigious tournament outside the United States
Winning a gold bracelet is recognized globally as the top prize in the sport, and we look forward to awarding four more bracelets in 2009 at the Casino at the Empire in London.
Registration isn’t limited to the English capital either, with not only any London Clubs International venue open to registration but also at the Rio Casino based in Las Vegas.
Participation numbers are expected to be high, with the tournament already been well established within the poker world.
Will you be trying your skills at the Empire felts?
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Irish Open Poker Championship Organisers Show Unneeded Concern
April 13, 2009
Due to the recent economical events happening across the world, the organisers of the well attended Irish Open feared for its participation figures this week.
The recession has hit alot of tournaments and companies all over the world, reducing the income that they would usually receive.
The organisers were expecting a drop in the participation figures in the tournament, with 667 players turning out for the tournament last year.
But as the tournament opened it became clear that their concerns for the figures were uncalled for, with 701 players turning out to take their seat at the felts.
The registration of the 701 players means that the prize pool for the tournament reaches €2.2 million.
The reason behind the great turn out for the tournament was the work that the dedicated team of organisers placed into the setting up of the tournament after one told of how much work they had to place into the promotion of the tournament to avoid disappointing numbers.
But the turn out was something that even they didn’t expect with Paddy Power host Paul Burke saying:
A lot of poker players don’t have the same disposable income they had this time last year. If we had got 600 players we would have been very happy.
Almost half of the entered players were from overseas, showing that the attraction to play in the tournament was great to even players from the likes of Canada, with one car sales man taking the trip to buy into the tournament.
When asked why he had been attracted to travel the distance to enter the tournament, he simply said that the thrill of playing poker is the winning.
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71 Year Old Boots Takes Home Poker Victory
April 10, 2009
Most pensioners play cards down at their local working mens club or card room, placing tiny wagers if any but not this pensioner.
Boots Batson developed a liking for Texas Hold’em while on a visit to the Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas.
Batson developed a strong interest in the game, leaving behind all of her previous favourites, taking up taxas hold’em poker as her preferred game.
Batson found joy as she entered into a ladies only $1,000 buy in no limit poker tournament on an unexpected visit to Las Vegas.
Boots admitted that she isn’t the best poker player in the world, saying she likes to play the game as it keeps her sharp of mind.
Her skills aren’t totally useless as this victory shows but other players in the tournament picked up on the lack of cutting edge thought that you see in many of the high level tournaments these days.
One fellow poker player said
She is a pistol
An absolutely sweet lady who is a good player
Her ability to do well despite her dyslexia is amazing
Batson has won a seat into the main event for the World Series of Poker due to winning the tournament, something which she was going to take a back seat from due to the $10,000 buy in to enter.
We would like to congratulate Boots on her victory and hope to see her at the final table in the main event!
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Poker Legend Chip Reese’s Son Dies Aged 20
April 9, 2009
Poker fans all over the world were dealt a shock Tuesday been told the news that poker legend Chip Reese’s son had died.
Casey Reese, son of poker legend Chip Reese was reported to have died Tuesday with the exact cause of death not confirmed at this moment in time but rumours are circulating surrounding a possible drug overdose been the cause of death.
Casey was a known baseball talent who had the ability to progress into the higher standards of the sport, was a college lad who had placed the sport on the back burner to allow for his education.
Reese had recently won a scholarship to attend the University of Nevada.
The news of his death travelled quickly with professional poker players Doyle Brunson and Daniel Negreanu both moving to show their shock of the news in their blogs.
Casey Reese was a name that many knew through the name of the great Chip Reese who has also passed away.
Chip was admitted into hospital with pneumonia in December 2007 aged 56, where unfortunately he passed away leaving a family without a father figure and the poker world without one of the most versatile poker players to date.
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Misclick Proves Costly Even For The Professionals
April 7, 2009
Daniel Negreanu, one of the highest regarded players at the poker tables this week tells about how he was playing in a $1000 No Limit poker tournament and he lost out due to a misclick.
It just goes to show that even the poker ‘greats’ sometimes experience their fair share of bad luck.
Negreanu tells how he was playing poker from the comfort of his sofa at home and then the worst thing imaginable happened.
Negreanu was sitting in 4th place in a $1000 no limit hold’em poker tournament when he was dealt suited connectors 3/4 of spades, seeing the pot raise past what he was prepared to wager on the hand he got up from the sofa, only to see that on his movement from the sofa he had accidently placed all his chips into the pot, all 330,000 of them!
Knowing that this wasn’t going to end well all Negreanu could do was watch as two other callers entered into the pot.
The flop sealed his hands fate as one of his opponents reveals A/K diamonds, seeing the flop his three diamonds.
The crushing blow didn’t spell the end of the tournament for the poker professional but did leave him in a position that he didn’t want to be in, time to fight back he decided.
Then lady luck really took a hold on Negreanu as he walks with his laptop to the bathroom after 12 hours of poker play.
On his way back to the safety of his sofa the connection to the poker client freezes leaving Negreanu sat out through the blinds, costing him almost half of his remaining chips.
Once back connected to the client he finds himself at 32nd in the tournament with only 34 remaining.
With Negreanu feeling let down by lady luck at this point, he sees his 66,000 chip deplenish into a visit to the rails.
Just goes to show that all those times amatuer players experience the same fate, professionals get it too.
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Cake Poker Offers World Series of Poker Entry Seats
April 7, 2009
Cake Poker, an online poker room has launched a promotion to allow some of its players the opportunity to gain entry into the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
The promotion is the only one of its kind, offering entry into the tournament to players who are playing real money cash games.
The ‘Golden Card’ promotion offers players who are playing real money ring tables the opportunity to fall lucky, with the chance to win a gold card just for playing at the table.
The player doesn’t even have to place a stake into the pot, just be dealt into the game and on the show down or winning of the pot the software will randomly generate a gold card, granting access into the tournament.
So there are no entry tournaments, no freeroll’s just good old reward for players who are placing a wager over their virtual felts.
The cards are generated by the software dependent on the rake received by Cake Poker, so for the best chance of getting one of these much sort after cards players should play as higher stakes as they can afford as the more rake the room makes, the more cards there are for that stake level.
This is going to shake up the online poker room promotions surrounding this huge tournament with what is thought to trigger a huge give away from many of the other poker rooms on the internet.