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 [...]
Qualifying online satellite tournaments start as low €1+0.10 for an estimated total prize pool of €1,000,000. TitanPoker.com , the leading online poker room in Europe, and the official sponsor of Europe’s most exclusive live poker series, has launched a series of satellite tournaments to determine the winning players that will participate on its behalf at [...]
Poker Heaven is heating up July with a few angelic promotions! First, Poker Heaven is giving away some fantastic prizes via their WSOP giveaway. The Main Event is fast approaching so Poker Heaven will test your knowledge with daily trivia questions. Answer the questions correctly and you could be walking away with an iPod Touch [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the new Bodog Mini Poker Series. For only $11 ($10 + $1), players will be able to take their pick from 13 different events, each with a substantial guaranteed prize pool. Don’t want to spend the cash? Bodog is also offering satellites featuring a 100BPP buy-in, each of which will give away at least five seats, guaranteed. Registration is already open, having begun on June 23. The first tournament event kicks off on July 5th, with events running all the way until the 17th.
Week 2 of the “Big Game”, sponsored by PokerStars.net, is in the book! The “Big Game” is a high stakes cash game boasting a minimum buy-in of $100,000. Every week, an amateur Loose Cannon, staked $100,000 by PokerStars, vies to profit versus 5 poker sharks. The Loose Cannon gets to pocket every dollar he earns [...]
The good news keeps flooding in for Full Tilt Poker, with two more of the site’s FTP Red Pros winning bracelets at the World Series of Poker over the last week. Scott Montgomery and Gavin Smith won the $1,000 No Limit Hold’Em and the $2,500 Mixed Hold’Em events respectively, each player securing his first ever [...]
The presence of the 2010 WSOP has put a big dent in online poker tournaments lately. PokerStars and FullTilt have both felt the effects of the world’s biggest tournament series and yesterday was no exception. With the $1,000 NL Hold’em Event #47 running alongside the $1,500 NL Event #49 there were a lot of people [...]
Greenstein, Cada Run Into Tough Loose Cannon Friday, June 25, 2010 – A poker legend faces off against the new kids on the block, and the most aggressive Loose Cannon yet takes a seat with the pros as The PokerStars.net Big Game moves into its third week. The PokerStars.net Big Game continues on Monday, June [...]
FlopTurnRiver is quickly approaching the one million posts mark. As you may have noticed when logging into the forums, the top banner reads “Over 997,000 Posts!” (at the time this article was written). This is no small task. FlopTurnRiver has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years. With so many quality posters, [...]
One of the most exciting tournaments for online poker players is the PokerStars Turbo Takedown, hosted on the last Sunday of every month with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000. Not only is there a huge amount of straight cash up for grabs, there are also bonuses for consecutive cashes, bonuses for eliminating any Team [...]
Dean Hamrick isn’t used to being one of the older men at the table. But he was this past Friday, with a first place prize of $604,222 on the line in the the Event #42, a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament. In a final table which held three recent college grads, the tournament’s eventual winner would use his maturity and experience to nab his first WSOP victory.