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Pokerstars Increase $2000 Freeroll Series

Pokerstars, the world’s largest online poker room has announced that they are going to increase their latest promotion on freeroll tournaments, taking the $2,000 prize pool tournaments right through until December 2009.

The series of tournaments has been named as the $2000 Freeroll Series and means that players on the site can guy into tournaments for 150 VPPs in order to take part in the large prize pool freeroll tournament.

With the buy in for the tournament set so low, there is always a full field that you have to battle against but with the promise of a $2,000 prize pool for the investment of points that are given by just playing the tables and generating rake, you can hardly complain.

Entry into the tournaments is a simple as downloading the Pokerstars client via our download link, generating 150 VPPs by playing on the real money tables or within real money tournaments and then just exchanging the points for entry.

This is a great way for players with a small bankroll to be able to enter into a tournament that is going to offer a huge reward should you reach the final table.

The tournament schedule sees the series of tournaments been played 4 times a month, meaning that you have the opportunity to obtain points inbetween the weekly tournaments to make sure that you are entered into the tournament.

Making the tournaments even more appealing to you, Pokerstars have decided that instead of the usual 4 tournaments that would take place this month, they are going to throw you another one too!

This means that the month of October will offer you 5 chances to enter the series, more importantly giving you the opportunity to win a share of the $10,000 that will be placed up for grabs!

Tournaments in October will be played on 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st October and if you have the points to enter then they want to see you there!

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Katchalov Wins WCOOP Heads Up Event

Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker is well underway and this past weekend has seen some huge action at the world’s biggest online poker room.

The highlight of the weekend has to have been the heads up victory that Eugene Katchalov registered, showing that he had the strength to out last the field, even though the players were offered deep stacks on registration.

The tournament ran for a total of 11 rounds, with most rounds taking as much as 2 hours to complete due to the high number of players and the chips that were given from the start of the tournament.

By the time that the final 2, made up of Katchalov and Jakus Khan were locking horns, 21 hours of play had already passed.

Katchalov finally managed to get a strong hold of the tournament, eventually beating out his opponent as he hit 2 pairs on the flop against a flush chase.

The tournament was a $500+$30 buy in tournament, with $1 million up for grabs by the 256 paid places within the tournament.

A total of 1,564 players bought into the tournament, placing their wager on their No Limit Texas Hold em Heads Up ability.

The final table placed like this:

1. Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov — $140,000
2. JakusKhan — $120,000
3. joe E scar — $55,000
3. imashokU — $55,000
5. William Thorson — $27,500
5. pilsuhng — $27,500
5. Leo “Pechorin” Wolpert — $27,500
5. Dokosoko — $27,500

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Party Poker Monthly Million Approaches!

The time is almost here that all online poker players who play their hands at Party Poker have been waiting 4 weeks for, the next Party Poker Monthly Million tournament, which will be played on 6th September 2009.

The tournament falls on the first Sunday of every month and offers the sites top online poker players the opportunity to buy a place within the tournament for a buy in of $600 + $40.

The buy in for the tournament buys your place into the start of the tournament and covers the fees that the site places onto the game for their running costs.

Each player will begin the tournament with twenty thousand poker chips and the game will be played in levels that last twenty minutes per round before the blinds increase.

The $1 million prize pool for the tournament is guaranteed, so getting into the tournament has a huge draw factor for any poker player out there.

Not got $640 to place into a buy in fee? Well don’t worry just yet, you will be glad to know that you can buy into satellites that will be priced at a lower fee in which you can win entry into the main tournament.

More great news for online players at Party Poker is that they have announced that they want to be able to reward loyal players over the month of September, creating a new promotion named ‘Cash Machine’.

The promotion is aimed towards getting players to stay active over the time that the promotion is active, having to obtain a minimum of 10 points while playing at the tables per day.

The site will then calculate the number of points that players have obtained over their highest 10 days of the month, matching the points total to cash, paying out $1 per point earned.

This will be great news for any player at the site, especially the big hitters that sit at the $5/$10 tables on a daily basis.

World Poker Tour Rights Could Be Sold

WPT Enterprises Inc., the parent company to the better known World Poker Tour are set to take negotiations regarding a sale of the companies assets.

The deal is been thrashed out with Peerless Media Ltd, a division within the better known PartyGaming plc company.

The deal will see PartyGaming PLC taking over the ownership of the World Poker Tour brand in a $12.3 million purchase but within the deal WPT Enterprises Inc. will still recieve 5 percent of the monitory figures that are achieved from trade names, branding, tangible personal property as well as intellectual property rights.

The deal comes as the World Poker Tour is set to have its first televised tournament placed onto air, featuring a tournament being held at Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg, Ind.

The deal owill mean that the previous offer of $9.075 million from Gamynia Ltd. will be dwarfed and ruled out with PartyGaming PLC looking the likely company to take control of the brand.

Steve Lipscomb, President of WPT Enterprises issued a statement saying:

“The Board of Directors has determined that PartyGaming’s acquisition proposal is financially superior and we look forward to working with one of the pioneers and leaders in the poker and online gaming markets to provide a strong vehicle for the WPT brand to continue its global expansion and return to online gaming.”

Both of the offers that have been tabled for the company offer nothing compared to the offer that was made by Doyle Brunson back in 2005, with the professional poker player offering $700 million to take control of the company and its assets.

FTOPS XIII Events Get 2 Winners

Last Saturday saw alot of action happening at Full Tilt Poker due to their ongoing popuar tournament FTOPS Series.

The tournament has been a very popular series of tournaments with some of the worlds biggest poker professionals locking horns with amatuers in a bid to take the huge prize pools that are on offer for the winners of each event.

Saturday’s action saw event number 6 and 7 played out and there was some very interesting clashes at the virtual poker felts.

FTOPS XIII Event #6 Final Table Payouts

1. Smouse156 - $76,232.75
2. zelik - $71,000
3. countrymac - $41,650
4. thewood503 - $31,654
5. NoPasaran - $22,491
6. blend84 - $14,369.25

The sixth event within the FTOPS tournament schedule was the $535 six max Pot Limit Omaha tournament which pulled in a player field of 833 players, all looking to get their hands on the title of FTOPS champion and the huge payout that came with the honour.

With figures expected to be lower for the number of players who were looking to enter into the tournament, the prize pool offered an increase amount of over $400,000 up for grabs, shared between any players that placed in the tournament.

The pro rank players in the tournament saw that their chip stakes were reducing quickly and soon found themselves ‘heading to the rails’ with professional poker player Johan Storakers finishing the highest of the pros that bought into the tournament, finishing in 12th place with a cashing of $4,914.70.

FTOPS XIII Event #7 Final Table Payouts

1. guilhermeosa - $126,632.27
2. mralan2950 - $107,289.72
3. blackjack9 - $68,237
4. hmiester - $51,526.20
5. j0lfa - $36,207.60
6. BeanzMcGriff - $23,674.20
7. 37ofhearts - $16,014.90
8. pracaka - $11,140.80
9. SteveyMoney - $8,355.60

The second event of the day to be played was that of Event 7 - $109 No Limit Hold’em with rebuys.

No limit poker is often one of the most popular variants of poker that is played within the FTOPS series of tournaments due to its ever increasing popularity across the globe, with this tournament offering no less than 2,316 players.

Due to the huge player field and the ability to purchase rebuys should a player have the funds, the prize pool was guaranteed to become a large one, with $696,300 placed up for grabs due to the number of buy in and rebuys that were made during the tournament.

The professionals at Full Tilt Poker offered a poor showing within this tournament, with the highest placed Leandro Brasa finishing in 62nd place and winning $1,253.34 prize money.

So far it seems that the professionals are been schooled on their weaknesses by the amatuers, could that be the way that the tournament is going to play out this year or will some of the bigger names in world poker begin to appear and show winning status?

Poker to Become Harder to Play Online

With the legal case still being battled out within the legal court rooms, online poker is set to become harder for players to play due to the banks set to roll out a new tougher stance on internet gambling, in line with the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act.

The governments are seemingly overlooking the potential for taxation purposes should they have opted to tax the online gambling companies, instead deciding that they were going to make it harder for online gamblers to stake their own money at the virtual tables.

The 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act was passed in October 2006 and sees the transfer of funds for online gambling within the United States of America become illegal.

Currently the only country that is been affected by this act is the United States but this will have a huge effect on the public based within the country due to the huge number of online poker players within the country.

Texas Hold’em Poker has been about since the early 1900’s and after research was done into the game and its history the Texas State Legislature recognised that Texas was the birth place of the game that is proving to attract millions of players every year.

Many U.S. players and online poker rooms have been looking to create new ways in which they can transfer the funds into the players accounts that will keep both the site and the player within the legal legislation set out in the act.

This could become increasingly more difficult once the full compliance deadline is reached on 1st December 2009.

Although the act was passed back in 2006, a 1,000,000+ strong team known as Poker Player Alliance has fought hard for the game not to fall within the guidelines of the act, claiming that the game is more skill based than luck, something that is outlined within the act.

The Miami Herald wrote:

The poker alliance, meanwhile, has launched a legal counteroffensive to the ban. Last week the group staged a massive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill aimed at tweaking the nation’s gambling laws to make on line poker completely — and clearly — legal.“John Pappas, executive director of the alliance: “Internet gaming, particularly Internet poker, is an industry that’s not going away.” Pappas’ pitch to lawmakers is this: don’t lump poker into the same “gambling” category as other casino games, and use legalization to both protect U.S. consumers and raise tax revenues for the federal government.

Pappas’ group has spent $400,000 in the past three months on lobbying efforts. Last week’s intense legislative push included more than than 100 meetings with members of Congress and their staff, as well as a charity poker tournament in which some lawmakers took part. The alliance says it has assembled a petition with more than 375,000 signatures supporting on line poker.

The Poker Player Alliance seems to be getting heard too in their fight for exception, with the U.S. congress having to look over 2 bills that will keep the online poker industry available to the players based within the United States.

One bill would see that poker is made exempt from the act  and the other would see that the bank’s full compliance deadline is extended, creating more time for online players to be able to play the game.

The legal case that is still ongoing has definitely drawn alot of attention, with the news that 2 of the major banks within the United States were willing to withhold funds that players had withdrawn from any online gambling site until the case comes to a close after been asked to do so by the government.

Until the court case comes to a close and the final ruling is made on the future of online gambling, online gambling sites and players must continue to jump through hoops in order to keep their games alive.

What are your thoughts on the matter?

Do you feel that the government should be able to restrict how you are about to spend your own money?

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World Series of Poker 2009 Shows Poker Skill Proveals Over Luck

Well the American Federal Government will be watching the World Series of Poker a whole lot closer than they would have been that the beginning of the well known live poker tournament.

Players who have been testing their abilities within the various games and styles of poker on offer against some of the biggest names on the poker scene aiming to raise above the rest and get their hands on the large prize money pots and the infamous WSOP Winners Bracelets, something that offers the player respect from any player if they are holding one of these to their name.

Legal officials were investigating into the possibility of poker been a game that is more based on luck than skill, meaning that the game would fall into legal legislation that places a ban on US based players from playing poker online as a form of gambling but this years tournament will give them something else to think about.

This years World Series of Poker tournament has offered a number of players who have successfully mananged to reach their goals, winning tournaments and the bracelets that come with the victory.

A number of players have seen their successes reach an all time high, winning more than one tournament that they have entered into.

History books were having to be updated too with this years World Series of Poker offering a player who was managed to win no less than 3 WSOP winners bracelets, something that hasn’t been done since 1973.

Poker fans all over the world who have been pushing a petition that is de to be passed to the US Government stating their support to keeping online poker legal within the country, showing their examples of their proof that the game requires more skill than luck.

With the tournament still to have tournaments to complete, the possiblity of players further increasing their winnings is extremely high so keeping an eye on the big hitters from this year’s tournament is a definate must.

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World Poker Tour World Championship Day 1 Part A

The WPT World Championship is often thought to be one of the biggest tournaments of the poker tournament calender.

This year featured the same breakdown as the original tournament featured, breaking the starting day into 2 days, part A and part B.

Part A started today, featuring a disappointing 126 players entering the tournaments buy in. It is thought that part B will feature more players than its earlier part, but still participation numbers are expected to be well below last years turn out.

Although there was a disappointing number of players who turned out, the deck dealt out some hands that made the excitement surrounding the felts alot more intense.

There was a straight flush and a set over set dealt out today, with crushing blows been dealt to players all day.

The straight flush fell to Andy Bloch, taking down a huge 185,000 chip pot,with his final re-raise of a ‘all in ‘ call left his opponent so sure that he was beaten that he folded leaving him with only 17,000 chips.

On the ‘fold’ call Andy Bloch let his opponent know that he had done the right thing, turning over 2/3 diamonds, which sat into the community cards offering Bloch one of the best hands possible.

Many others saw their treasured hands fall to better hands with a number of pocket aces been over turned by its lower counterparts and sets been beaten by stronger sets.

The might have been a small turn out for the tournament but the drama was not to have been missed!

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PKR Introduce First Pro PKR Poker Team

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

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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