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Full Tilt Poker $50,000 Guaranteed Tournament Today

The world’s second largest online poker room, Full Tilt Poker, is set to begin their turbo $50,000 guaranteed tournament today at 6pm EST.

The tournament offers a minimum prize pool of $50,000 and will be played within a turbo environment, meaning that the action and duration of the tournament is faster than standard tournament play.

With the blinds set to increase every 5 minutes, trying to sit tight in this tournament simply isn’t going to cut it and that will have a huge impact on a number of players who usually look to sit and wait for their premium poker starter hands before entering into the action.

Full Tilt Poker has a huge tournament poker following and the number of players expected to participate in the tournament are huge, meaning that if you want to get involved in this tournament in order to try to win your share of the $50,000 minimum that is up for grabs, you have to be heading to the site as soon as the registration opens to avoid disappointment.

The entry fee for the tournament is set to $200 + $16 and should you be able to last the field and take the victory, you can be well assured that you are going to see a vast return for your investment.

If you want a slice of the action but simply don’t have the bankroll to be able to enter, head to the online poker room now and try to win your way into the tournament through a number of satellites that are on offer for a fraction of the cost. These satellites will be running until a few hours before the 6pm start time.

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Pokerstars to Air High Stakes Cash Series on Fox

The world’s biggest online poker room, Pokerstars has finally made the move into marketing the brand one step further, announcing that they are going to be holding a high stake real money game series televised on the Fox network.

The game will be free for Pokerstars professionals to enter but will allow professionals from all the online poker sites to enter the high stake game which will feature blinds of $200/$400 and an ante of $100.

The online poker room recently posted on their blog that they had not made the step over into high stake televised action as yet and that they were considering the move, now creating the series been named ‘Big Game‘.

The action on the series will definitely leave poker fans rushing for their remotes, with the minimum buy in for players wishing to take part being set to $100,000.

To increase the popularity of the series within the online poker world, Pokerstars have announced that they are going to run qualifers for the series, allowing non professional players the chance to get into the action via a strict audition process that will see only players who make it into the top 200 places within the qualifying rounds being able to submit an audition tape to the casting crew at the online poker room.

High stakes poker is something that Pokerstars is already building a name for its self within, with Pokerstars professional Daniel Negreanu hosting a high stakes show already for the brand, named Did You Know.

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Lock Poker Decide To Leave Cake Network

Lock Poker, an online poker room that currently resides within the nest of the Cake Gaming Network has this week announced that they are to leave the network with Merge Gaming Network the targeted location for their new home.

The US friendly poker room was only forged 24 months ago but since making a stand for the acceptance of US based online poker players at a time when the US government were clamping down on the playing of online poker, making it harder for US based players to play online, the site has seen their members base grow significantly.

Founder of Lock Poker, Jennifer Larson who also carries the title of Chief Executive Officer spoke out about the decision, saying that their new home within the Merge Gaming Network was perfect for the site, saying that the network that they were leaving for was “aggressive, innovative and progressive in design and development”.

The move means that members of the online poker site will now be offered a wider range of gaming selection with the addition of Badugi and Triple Draw Poker been added to the lobby, something that the Lock Poker brand thought was in the interest of both the site and its members.

Anthony Taylor, the Chief Executive Officer for Merge was also happy to comment about the newly forged partnership, saying “We are thrilled to be working with such an innovative and experienced marketing group. This deal will bring even more liquidity to the network and aid our continued growth.”

Announced: Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XVI Tournament Dates

Full Tilt Poker is the worlds second largest online poker room and with that title they have managed to create one of the most popular online poker tournament series to date, the FTOPS.

The FTOPS series of tournaments has meant that online poker players who have accounts with Full Tilt Poker are able to participate in a tournament that places millions of dollars in prize money up for grabs with tournaments that cater for every player.

FTOPS XVI (16) has been announced to be scheduled for April 23rd 2010 and will feature a number of tournaments between then and the main event that will be played May 2nd.

The upcoming tournament series has already set the poker community talking with a huge $18 million been placed up for grabs over the 30 tournaments within the plans.

With 30 tournaments been created within the tournament schedule, the interest in the series will further increase, with FTOPS XV boasting one of the best online poker series participation figures to date and Full Tilt Poker will be looking to further increase that interest.

We will be documenting the whole tournament schedule right here on ThatsGambling so be sure to check back to see which tournaments that your interested in playing!

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Tony G Challenges Isildur1 To Appear At Big Game IV

News has hit the media that Party Poker are looking to host Big Game IV, a tournament that will be based on a 48 hour cash game over a 3 day period.

The tournament will feature a twist from the previously popular games as this year the game will feature “evictions” which will be decided by players around the table being able to nominate their rivals to be replaced with the player with the most votes been replaced every 2 hours.

With the news that the tournament is set to take place April 11th until April 13th, Party Poker professional Tony G has spoken out in a recent blog post that he made on the sites official blog, saying that he is challenging Full Tilt Poker phantom player ‘Isildur1′ to appear at the tournament.

Tony G said in his post on the poker blog that he is even willing to pay for the flights, hotel and to stake the player for the length of the game, meaning that all Isildur1 has to do is agree to feature in the game.

The aim of Tony G was to call Isildur1 out into the public eye but with Party Poker still wary that the player could still be looking to keep his identity a secret, they have moved to say that should the player want to remain secretive, they would allow him to do so and would use any power they have to keep his identity out of the public eye.

We’re not sure that the player will take the bait on the call out by Tony G but should he do so we believe that we can expect to see some sort of disguise used as the mystery surrounding the player is seen as one of the players best fear factors to other high stake players.

When Isildur1 broke into the online poker scene at Full Tilt Poker a number of months ago, rumors were been circulated about the player been a possible ex professional player who has recreated their image.

The list of players who are looking to enter into the Big Game IV schedule is growing quickly, with some of pokers biggest names placing their name into consideration to participate in the game.

Will Isildur1 respond to the call out by showing his attendance or will the player ignore the attempt to bring him into the public eye in order to retain his air of mystery?

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Tournament Heist Mastermind Caught By German Police

Its been one of the biggest poker news stories in months that a live poker tournament that was been hosted by a casino hotel in Berlin as part of the German aspect of the European Poker Tour was held up by a group of armed robbers who stormed the building leaving staff and players shocked.

The group of five men burst into the casino while the tournament was still playing, just at the time that the prize funds were been escorted to the casino’s main holding safe for protection of the winnings.

Armed with rifles and hand guns the robbers bust into the venue and demanded the prize money from staff, amounting to over $1.3 million.

Recent days have seen members of the gang begin to be brought into police custody and today we can reveal that German police are proud to announce that they feel that they have captured the fifth member of the gang, believed to be the mastermind behind the robbery.

German police issued a statement saying that they had caught the 28 year old Lebanese man on Sunday night and they are sure that the suspect is the final member of the armed gang as well as the man who created the plan behind their heist.

The incident took place on March 6th, proving to be very similar to the heist that was depicted in the box office film ‘Oceans Eleven‘ where a group of robbers planned a heist from a casino.

Investigators who have been working with the German police are still trying to locate $358,000 of the stolen prize money and will continue to search for the funds until their leads dry up surrounding the matter.

The tournament continued after the raiders took off with the winnings and with over 1 million Euros paid out for first place, the field were determine to try to outlast each other, with American online poker player Kevin MacPhee taking the title and the first place payout.

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EPT Berlin Poker Tournament Suspect Released

News that the European Poker Tour Berlin Poker tournament was robbed is something that was revealed into the poker media very quickly after a group of robbers bust into the tournament location and made off with a haul believed to have been worth more than $1,000,000.

We can reveal that a suspect who was been questioned in regards to the robbery by local police has been released without charge due to a lack of evidence that places the suspect at the scene of the robbery.

Police are looking to locate a fifth person who is believed to have been the member of the gang that was carrying the firearm that was used to threaten the staff into revealing where the money was located.

Details about the robbery are leading officers to think that the robbery is somehow related to an insider due to the fact that the robbers hit the location within the 2 minutes that the funds were been transported from the main safe, any earlier and they would have had to leave the venue empty handed.

Questions are been asked regarding the matter that the tournament sponsors Spielbank Berlin had placed unarmed security onto the protection of the funds, with many feeling that security guards who are handing such amounts of money during its transportation should at least have a member of the team that carries a side arm.

Maybe this will lead the tournament organisers of poker tournaments all over the world think about how they are going to better protect both players and prizes from what seems to be a growing trait, holding up poker tournament locations.

If your interested in seeing a little of the CCTV footage from the incident, you can do so here.

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PartyPoker Set to Merge?

The weekend is a time where most online poker players spend hours of their time playing at the virtual tables of their chosen poker room but players at Party Poker and Bwin Poker were given the news that their sites could be set to merge into one poker room.

A merge between the two online poker rooms could see the value of the joint business hit $3 billion, a huge addition to the online poker community.

Initial reports have indicated that PartyGaming Chief Executive Jim Ryan is leading the bid to merge the two companies after having spent time over the past summer weighing up if the merge would be a good move for both companies involved.

PartyGaming online poker division PartyPoker has been a step decline in profits over the last few years after removing themselves from the US based player market in line with the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) back in 2006 but the hit has only meant that their player base reduced from the US rather than worldwide, leaving the brand still one of the biggest online poker rooms on the internet.

Bwin is better known for their betting area of internet based gambling and so a merge between the two companies would mean that they both have alot to offer each other after the PartyGaming owned PartyBet seemed to flop on release.

A spokesman for Bwin told media that the company is not involved in any advanced talks with PartyGaming at the present moment, issuing a statement that said “We are always talking to everyone, because we believe that there will be more consolidation in the sector. (But) we are not in any advanced talks, including with PartyGaming.”

The news of the merger has also lead to the shares of both companies raise in price, with many people looking to buy into the two companies before any deal is conducted in the hope that they will see a good return of investment.

PartyGaming shares saw an increase of more than 4% with Bwin stock also seeing an increase of 2.5% since the news was broken into the international media.

Bwin have been in the news already about a possible merge with another big name gambling company with the stories linking the firm with a merge with 888.com.

At the present moment the news seems to be nothing but rumors but with the PartyGaming company already making steps to improve its business within the online gambling industry, acquiring both the rights to the World Poker Tour (WPT) and capturing the bingo company Cashcade, its thought that they will be looking to capture the Bwin signature in order to place themselves into the biggest names within the online gambling brands in the world.

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Priest Wins $100,000 in Poker Game

A priest has shown that its not all about staying in at home and reading the bible when he’s not conducting a service at his parish.

The South Carolina based priest entered into a poker tournament with his hopes set firmly on taking the $1 million first place prize money with the view to donate it back into the church.

Reverend Andrew Trapp entered the Pokerstars.net Million Dollar Challenge in a bid to help Saint Michael Cathlic Church reach their $5.5 million fundraising objective that they have set themselves to pay for a new facility.

Trapp said that he was also looking to strike a public relations blow for priests all over the world, showing that been a priest is not just about studying the holy book in their spare time.

The assistant pastor said that even if he didn’t win any prize money, he hoped that his participation would remove the tag that priests were boring and that they too could have fun and pass their spare time like everyone else.

The first place payout went to a retired New York Police detective but Trapp took $100,000 from the prize pool that will be untaxed profit and placed straight into the churches fundraising account which already contains $4 million in funds after 4 years of continued fundraising.

In his Sunday Mass the priest told his visitors that God had given him the gift of playing cards and that he was really excited that he could use his hobby and interest to aid the church in their goal to build a new facility for the church.

The church congregation will head to the church on Sunday to see a televised version of the game that saw their assistant pastor cash in the hugely popular tournament.

To get into the final of the poker tournament, Trapp had to finish within the top 10 players in a tournament that saw over 10,000 hopefullys take to the virtual felts. After finishing within the top 10 places the priest then had to submit a two minute audition tape to the tournament organisers to be considered.

Trapp revealed that he knew that if he could reach the top 10 players within the tournament to win a chance to audition for the poker final that he would be a certainty for selection as a poker player priest would attract a huge amount of attention and viewers.

Taking to the live poker table he entered wearing his priest attire, saying that he was so used to wearing it that if he didn’t wear it he would have felt uncomfortable.

The assistant pastor told Pokerstars.net that the fact that he was playing in the tournament was not a gamble as it was at no cost to him nor the church so there was nothing on the line for the priest to lose.

Trapp finished his interview by saying “It’s a question of moderation — just like anything else,” he said. “We believe it’s fine to enjoy a beer or glass of wine, but not to abuse it to get drunk.”

Poker Pro Peter Murphy Aims For Double

Peter Murphy is known for making a public challenge to himself that could be seen by players on Doyle Poker.

The challenge that the player has set himself was that he could deposit $100 into the site and increase his inital stake by 1000%. You could be thinking that this is something that is seem across a huge number of sites but never talked about but this poker professional didn’t believe in giving himself much margin for error, laying down the challenge across a set time limit of 10 days.

The rules were that the player had to earn his money through playing on the site, so no donations or heads up action on real money tables was allowed as well as if he did not hit the target of $10,000 or higher within that time scale he would fail.

The player went on to succeed in the challenge and meant that many players where now ready to take the online poker professional seriously.

Once news travelled of the players success more and more players began to lay themselves the same challenge, with the site seeing an increase of players funding their accounts by $100 and hitting the tables from the off.

Many of those players of course failed to hit the target of the $10,000 with some losing their inital stake within the hour of placing their funds into the site but others successfully managed to do just as Murphy had done.

Most noticably Adrian McCarthy, who saw Murphy playing on the site and thought that he too would be able to echo the professional players successes.

On McCarthy’s attempt, he had no idea just how well he would do from an inital stake of $100, seeing himself win 6 straight victories within the $20 sit and go tournaments which offered a jackpot. This meant that the player had successfully generated more than $10,000, infact earning $35,000 as a jackpot payment from Boyle Poker.

With days left to spare, the player decided that he would look to further raise the bar set by Murphy, entering into a guaranteed $2.5 million tournament in the hope that he would place within the money, after all he had nothing to lose as he had already topped the professionals achievement.

After playing in the $2.5 million guaranteed tournament, McCarthy placed in 6th place, boosting his bankroll by a further $100,000.

This meant that within the time scale that professional poker player Peter Murphy had set himself to make $100 into $10,000, McCarthy had made his $100 into $135,000!

Murphy commented on the success of McCarthy saying that he wanted to offer the player his congratulations but this would not be something that would trigger him into making higher bets in terms of increasing funds by the amount that the player had done.

Now that the achievements seem to have fallen into the hall of fame for players online, Murphy is back and this time he is looking to offer the challenge that he can generate $40,000 from the $100 in a period of 11 days.

Keep an eye out for the result of the challenge but one thing is for sure, anyone playing against Murphy on Doyles Poker will have to tread with caution as he is a man on a mission.

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