Looking out the window you can tell that this is going to be a great summer. The weather is great and great destinations are waiting all around the world. Usually this is the part of the year when many poker players feel the same way, thus the drop in most poker room’s traffic during the [...]
After an extremely poor showing last week, PokerStars managed a huge comeback this Sunday, crushing guarantees in their five biggest tournaments. The Sunday Million saw a huge rebound, with nearly 9,000 players joining the weekend’s largest tournament. With the WCOOP starting in a few days, let’s hope the tournaments keep getting bigger and better! First [...]
Popular online poker room Titan Poker will give out more than $140,000 in a competition targeted at Omaha Pot-Limit players. Poker players who prefer the Omaha variety of the game will be rewarded at TitanPoker.com, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network. Titan Poker will launch the latest season of its highly popular Omaholics [...]
$250,000 Guaranteed Sunday, August 30, 2009, at 19:00 GMT+1 Buy-ins = $300 + $20 Satellites available. Win part of a huge guaranteed prize pool for an amazingly low buy-in! New Players $2000 Freeroll Sunday, August 30, 2009, at 20:10 GMT+1 Free entry to players who earned more than 100 Points between August 23 and August [...]
The World Cup of Poker (WCP) is back! Represent your country, win a package to play poker in The Bahamas and compete for a share of a $290,000 prize pool – here’s how. STAGE I – Qualify for your National Team Regardless of where you are from, every PokerStars player has the chance to play [...]
RACE YOUR WAY TO LADBROKES.COM IRISH POKER FESTIVAL! Ladbrokes Poker is offering it’s VIP players the chance to participate in a rake race to win Ladbrokes.com Irish Poker Festival packages in the next four weeks. This opportunity is ONLY available to Ladbrokes Poker VIP players and provides them with a chance to qualify for one [...]
Featuring some of the biggest names in poker is the 2009 Lido International Dutch Open in Amsterdam, Holland. Last year, Freddy Deeb, Surinder Sunar, Sorel Mizzi, Rolf Slotboom and Danny Ryan all made an appearance at the European event, where eventual winner Jan Sorensen took home a first place prize of €623,100. This year, Bodog [...]
This past Sunday saw a sharp drop-off in major tournament attendance since the conclusion of FTOPS XIII. Many of the tournaments that had been crushing their guarantees lately failed to even come close to enough entrants, forcing PokerStars to pay-out nearly $40,000 in overlay in the Million and Sunday500 combined. Two sponsored professionals made final [...]
The once ailing World Poker Tour has been undergoing something of a resurgence in the past few weeks. As I reported a fortnight ago, the tour’s parents company WPT Enterprises Inc. had agreed to sell the majority of their assets to mysterious investment company Gamynia Ltd. Although it seemed that the deal was complete for [...]
FlopTurnRiver.com’s forum members are in for a special treat as Everest Poker has awarded them an exclusive $100 freeroll! The freeroll comes as a prize for FlopTurnRiver’s 3rd place finish in Everest’s Forum Challenge Summer League. A special thanks goes out to FTR members ._Curumim_., respectrez, vil1ain, damtsang, Blacksun2, only_bridge, and jokerkris, who finished highest [...]