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Posted on March 14th, 2010 by kdollar
UB.com has canceled its annual Aruba Poker Classic. Despite that, UB is increasing its presence at other live events and plans to expand the available online tournaments.
“It is with great regret that we are announcing that the Aruba event will not run this year, but 2010 is going to be an exciting year for UB and its players,” said Tokwiro COO Paul Leggett in a press release. “Over the last year we've been redefining the UB brand in every way. We love the Aruba Poker Classic event but we think we can do a lot more for our players by investing in new events and rewards.”
Last year, Brandon Hall took down a field of 475 players in the Aruba Poker Classic Main Event. He collected a $753,000 first prize award. The original prize pool of $5,500 swelled to more than $2 million as hundreds of online poker players arrived at the Radisson Aruba Resort and Casino to take part in the annual event.
Instead of hosting that large tournament this year, UB.com will focus its efforts on expanding both its online and live tournament schedules. At the online poker tables, a monthly $500,000 guarantee award is currently in the works. Right now, UB.com and its sister site, Absolute Poker.net, host a weekly $200,000 guaranteed event that brings in more than 1,000 entrants regularly.
Although UB is not hosting its annual Aruba event, it will continue to qualify players for other real-world tournaments such as the World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker, which begins in late May.
Poker Stars F40
Posted on February 13th, 2010 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com (www.Pokerstars.com) likes to celebrate milestones and this February is no exception. The poker site will be celebrating 40 billion hands dealt by offering many cash prizes to players and great value tournaments.
The site is calling this promotion the F40; the focus is on thanking the many players who have made Poker Stars the standout poker playing website that it is. Including cash prizes, the site is offering guarantees, milestone rewards, and many freerolls, as well as a special VIP club instant cash credit.
In the cash games category, one of the most exciting games will be the F40 milestone hands. This is a bit complicated, but here’s how Poker Stars is awarding cash. Players who are dealt into every millionth poker hand will be awarded money based on their play in the previous 40 hands played at that table. Every player playing at that table during the millionth hand dealt will be eligible to win this extra cash.
Let’s use the Poker Stars example to explain how this will work. If you’re playing at a table and you get dealt into a milestone hand, Poker Stars will automatically calculate how many VPPs you have earned at the last 40 hands at that table. As an example, let’s say you earned 31 VPPs. Every player in that millionth hand will be awarded one extra VPP. Now you have a total of 32 VPPs. Every player is awarded at least $40 per VPP just for playing in that millionth hand.
If your win is $40 with 32 VPPs, you would win $1,280. The player who wins the hand at that millionth table will see his or her winnings doubled, so using the same 32 VPPs scenario, that player will now be awarded with $2,560.
Once the 40 billion mega milestone is reached, every player dealt into that 40 billionth hand will be awarded $400 for every VPP earned in the previous 40 hands played at that table. If you went into the game with 31 VPPS, and got your extra VPP (32), times $400 for every VPP, you would win $12,800 just for being dealt into that 40 billionth hand. If you were to win that hand, you would win $25,600.
The site will also offer bonuses at multi-table tournaments, sit and go’s and to members of the site’s VIP club.
Tyron Krost Aussie Millions Winner
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by kdollar
The 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship awarded its main event winner recently. Tyron Krost, a 23-year-old Australian, took home the Aud$2 million jackpot.
Krost beat out a field of nearly 750 players and outlasted the final table of eight after more than 13 hours of play.
As Krost played on, chants of “Aussie! Aussie!” went up throughout the arena. Though the tournament was on Australian soil and featured many Australian players, Krost was the only Australian in the final round. His win was particularly sweet for the Australians in attendance.
The Aussie Millions Poker Championship ran over several days at Melbourne’s Crown Casino and featured more than 20 championship events. Most players offered up AUD$10,500 for the buy-in, while some won spots in the tournament by winning events at various online poker sites. Overall, the tournament offered more than AUD$15 million in prize money.
The AUD$2 million prize pot for Krost was one of the largest prizes ever offered in a live poker tournament anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere. The second-place winner, Danish player Frederik Jensen, won AUD$1.1 million for his efforts.
Other winners of the main event tournament (and their winnings) included:
* Sorel Mizzi (3rd place) – AUD$715,000
* Kosta Varoxis (4th place) – AUD$450,00
* Peter Jetten (5th place) – AUD$350,000
* Steve Friedlander (6th place) – AUD$250,000
* Annette Obrestad (7th place) – AUD$175,000
* Stephen Shelley (8th place) – AUD$125,000
Aussie Millions Tournament
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by kdollar
The much-anticipated Aussie Millions Poker Championship has kicked off in Australia, and while the event itself is almost two weeks long, some poker players have already taken home a big prize.
The Aussie Millions Poker Championship is being held at the Crowne Casino in Melbourne. It features many players who have qualified through tournaments at major poker sites and players who have participated in various buy-in events.
The first part of the tournament was held Sunday and scored more than $200,000 AUD for the winner. That tournament was a $1,100 (AUD) no-limit Hold’em poker tournament. There were more than 1,000 players in that tournament, which made it the largest poker tournament in Australia ever.
The Aussie Millions Poker Championship attracts some of the world’s most famous poker players as well as people who are new to the game. The well-known players that are expected to play this year include Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey and Joe Hachem.
The Texas Hold’em tournament awarded winner Matthew Ephraums $200,025 AUD, but even the last finisher of the final table did well. That person took more than $13,000 AUD from the tournament.
The Aussie Millions Poker Championship is considered one of the big tournaments and the play in Melbourne during Australia’s summer is a nice respite from those coming from winter climates.
Super Bowl Poker Tournaments
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by kdollar
Poker players who are also football fans might want to get in on the Texas Hold ‘em tournaments at Absolute Poker (www.absolutepoker.net). Three winners will find themselves on the way to an all-expenses paid trip to the Super Bowl this February.
Here’s how it works: Players should get in on three Texas Hold ‘em tournaments at either of the online poker rooms. One winner will stand tall at each of the tournaments and be awarded the trip package. Tournament dates are Jan. 6, Jan. 13, and Jan. 20. All begin at 9:30 ET.
Super Bowl XLIV is Feb. 7 in Miami, Fl., and the tournament winners will get to enjoy not just the game, but other fun things. Here’s what’s included in the approximately $12,000 prize package:
* $2,000 cash to help with travel expenses like gas or airfare
* 4 nights at the Bold New Eden Roc hotel, from Feb. 4 to Feb. 8
* Transport to and from Dolphin Stadium via limousine (as well at two tickets to the game, of course)
* A dinner for two at a top Miami restaurant
* Table and VIP service at a top Miami nightclub
The prize package is for the winner and one guest.
Visit Absolute Poker.net for all the details.
Full Tilt FTOPS XIV
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by kdollar
FullTiltPoker.net, one of the internet's premier poker sites, has just announced its fourteenth online poker series. This series has serious payouts for the winning players as well as a number of different tournaments that different players can take advantage of. This series begins November 4th and has a guaranteed payout of sixteen million dollars across the twenty five separate events that make up the series.
The biggest single payout is the Main event; paying out two and a half million dollars. From there, the next biggest payout is the two-day event with 2 million dollars of prize money. This event is unique in a couple ways. First of all, the buy in is fairly high for an internet tournament at two thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars. This is then turned into 6000 chips to be used for play. The structure of the tournament is also unique; with thirty minute ante periods and two days of play before the winner is selected.
The Full Tilt Online Poker Tournament Series also offers a number of a prizes on top of the cash prizes. For the people that make it to final round tables, they get a Full Tilt jacket. Anyone that wins an event gets a jacket, as well as a gold jersey. On top of this, their site avatar gets a golden jersey as well. Full Tilt has avatars so that each person has a character on the site and only a select few get the distinction of the golden jersey. For the person that is the top player at the end of the series, they will get a fully customized Avatar, as well as entries into all of the next series tournaments, except the two-day tournament.
Full Tilt also offers mini entries. This lets someone with a small budget enter the tournament for a much smaller entry fee. The buy in is one-tenth and the payouts are similar.
Phil Ivey 2009 WSOP Main Event
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by kdollar
Phil Ivey part of Team Full Tilt Poker Net is currently deep in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Phil Ivey has lasted a huge field of poker professionals and amateur players and is currently one of 64 players left. There were 6,494 players registered for the tournament and first prize will take home a cool $8.5 million dollars.
Phil Ivey has had an impressive 2009 WSOP with 2 bracelets, 5 cashes and winning $356,994. If Phil Ivey can make the final table he will be able to add at least a million dollars to his 2009 WSOP winnings.
Other notables still in the 2009 WSOP main event are Antonio Esfandiari and Dennis Phillips who finished 3rd last year in the Main Event.
2009 WSOP Main Event Satellites
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by kdollar
The biggest tournament is soon to be played and every poker fan knows it is the World Series of Poker Main Event. Where the final 9 players become millionaires and players become overnight celebrities. The tournament will be played on July 3rd and will be the 57th event of the 2009 WSOP.
Poker Star.com has already given away nearly 1,500 wsop main event seats. FullTiltPoker.net has given 629 seats after this past sunday giving away 150 seats in one tournament!
There is still time to qualify for the 2009 wsop main event with qualifiers running through this weekend. There are a variety of ways to win your seat with buy-in's as low as $3.30!
Get your chance to go to Las Vegas, Nevada and play with elite poker players at the Rio hotel and casino.
2009 WSOP Satellites
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by kdollar
Summer is nearly here and poker players around the world are getting ready to descend on Las Vegas for the 2009 WSOP. The World Series of Poker will begin late this month and run through July.
Poker Stars has recently released their Poker Stars 2009 WSOP Satellites. They have ran their satellites for about two weeks and have already given 289 World Series of Poker Main Event seats.
Full Tilt Poker has been running their satellites for about a month and have given away 316 seats. Full Tilt Poker 2009 WSOP Satellites have some large events coming up including their popular 150 seat guarantee where in one tournament they will give away a minimum of 150 Main Event seats. This is always one of the largest poker satellite tournaments and Full Tilt has been hosting it for the past couple years.
Also running satellites are Party Poker and Absolute Poker. net. The poker satellite tournaments are not nearly as frequent as Full Tilt and Poker Stars but they usually give away about 100-200 seats every year for the WSOP Main Event. If you would like to find out about qualifiing at a less daunting poker qualifier then a great choice would be playing at Party Poker WSOP (NO US Players) and Absolute Poker WSOP.
Card Runners.net on Poker After Dark
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by kdollar
Poker After Dark a popular poker show on NBC will have a special week of poker starting on Feb. 16th. Instead of the usual $20k buy-in sit and go they are changing the format to a $100k cash game. The blinds will be $200/$400 playing No Limit Hold-em. The show will be aired in 6 consecutive episodes.
Nets vs Gents
It will be a young against old poker table with Cole South, David Benefield, and Taylor Caby from CardRunners.net. They will be up against some of the oldest and most established poker players Doyle Brunson, Gabe Kaplan and Eli Elezra.
Card Runners.net
All the net players are accomplished online poker players. They currently play at Full Tilt Poker and release training videos of their play with their own commentary. In the videos they explain why they did things and the reads that they have at the table. Card Runners is one of the most popular poker training sites with videos being released daily from the biggest names in online poker.
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