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Qualifiers Launch for Mega Nottingham 2012

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:18:16 +0000

Qualifiers Launch for Mega Nottingham 2012
Posted by Steven, January 29, 2012 A satellite tournament series launched last week at Titan Poker leading to a weekly Super Satellite event awarding winners with seats at the Mega Poker Series event in Nottingham, England. The first 80+8 Mega Nottingham 2012 Super Satellite will be staged on Monday at 20:00 GMT. The Mega Poker Series Nottingham tournament will take place at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham on March 7- 11, 2012. Winning players at Titan Pokers weekly Super Satellites will each receive a 1,500 prize package that includes the 700 +70 buy-in to the Main Event; 300 for 5 nights accommodation and breakfast for one at the Park Plaza Nottingham, March 7th – 12th, 2012; 30 for handling fees; and 400 for flights and spending. Winning players will receive a special invite to the Players Party on March 8th, 2012. They will begin play in the deepstack Main Event on Day 1A March 8th, 2012, with a starting stack of 77,000 chips. Titan Poker recently staged satellite tournaments awarding winning players with seats at the Mega Poker Series Vienna tournament, an event which took place at the Montesino Casino in Vienna last week.

CarbonPoker Exclusive $25,000 Freeroll

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:08 +0000

CarbonPoker Exclusive $25,000 Freeroll
Home>Latest Promotions>Poker Promotions An exclusive event that will get 2012 off to a great start with a lot of free real cash! Starting this Sunday, January 29th CarbonPoker will run qualifiers to their exclusive $25,000 poker freeroll to be held on Sunday February 26th at 14:00. FREEROLL Qualifiers From January 29th – February 25th inclusive there will be 3 freeroll qualifiers running each and everyday. Every qualifier will be FREE to enter and will award a seat into the 25,000 Bankroll Booster Freeroll to the top 10 finishers.Freeroll Qualifier Schedule: Daily at 13:30, 17:30 and 21:30.Format: Turbo, 5 minute blinds, 1k starting stack, top 10 advance. Please click here to visit Carbon Poker Promotion Date: 30 January 2012

First Timer’s Guide to Playing Live

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:18:17 +0000

First Timer’s Guide to Playing Live
1. 888Poker Download Read Review 2. PartyPoker Download Read Review Heinz wins 2011 WSOP Pius Heinz wins the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event over Martin Staszko. Blue Monday The second wave of U.S. indictments against online poker rooms fires out from Maryland. Player Migration Begins PartyPoker’s attempts to woo poker players away from US-facing rivals. Feds Indict Online Poker Operators News about the April 15, 2011 federal online poker indictments. Three Poker Book Gift Ideas Three Poker Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays See all Poker Articles >>

World Poker Tour in Ireland

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:36:11 +0000

World Poker Tour in Ireland
At the end of Day 1 in the 2012 World Poker Tour Ireland, the Irishman, Dave Callaghan found himself at the top of the leaderboard. The World Poker Tour in Ireland is currently taking place at the Citywest Hotel that is located in Dublin. Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Ireland started with 195 players remaining out of the original 338 players that started out playing in the poker tournament. Players are working hard to stay in the game in the hopes of winning the top prize of 202,680. While 36 players ended the day still in the running for the prize money, and knowing that they have each ended up in the money, there were other players who have fallen short of ending the 2012 World Poker Tour Ireland in the money. These players included Dave Callaghan, who had ended the first day of the tournament at the top of the leaderboard. Other notable players who have fallen short of the money include Andy Black, Sam El Sayed, Tatjana Pasalic, Toby Lewis, LeoMargets, Sam Holden, Kara Scott, and Jon Kalmer. Two former World Poker Tour champions, Jake Cody, and James Dempsey are also not in the running for ending in the money. Cody was out of the game after Andrew Wayman won a hand, and soon after, Dempsey was eliminated when Jim ONeill won with pocket queens. At this stage the player with the highest chip count going into Day 3 is Dave Shallow. The Englishman will be entering the third day of the World Poker Tournament Ireland with a 951,000 chip count. Shallow is an unknown in live poker tournaments, but has been doing very well for himself in the online poker world. Other players who are at the top of the leaderboard going into Day 3 are Franck Boyer with 873,000 chips, Steve Watts with 628,000 chips and William Dorey with 576,000 chips. Related Posts New VIP Awards Method at PokerStars Win Place to Irish Open with William Hill Poker WSOP Has a $1 Million Buy-In Tournament Winter Edition Promo from Titan Poker Mobile Poker from PokerStars Available in Italy Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…

Double Up Sit ‘N’ Go Players Join the Race

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:36:42 +0000

Double Up Sit N Go Players Join the Race
Posted by Bradley, January 2, 2012 The Sit Win Go promotion has been running for an entire month, distributing thousands of dollars in cash prizes to the top-ranking players on the weekly leaderboards. The promotion has been highly successful, not only because there is a huge interest in sit n go tournament races, but also because players are ranked based on their finishing position in each tournament. It doesnt matter if one wins or loses; leaderboard points will be received no matter what. Now, players who prefer the fast-paced action of Double Up sit n go tournaments can join the action. Sit Win Go offers a special leaderboard with $1,000 in weekly prizes just for them. Double Up players constitute a unique type of poker player, as they know that its not crucial to win a tournament in order to double up your money. The goal is to refrain from being eliminated. Your buy-in investment can be quickly doubled if you are one of the tournaments winners. The special strategy of staying alive can help players build up their bankroll, one tournament at a time. Double Up players will find their favorite tournaments have just become even more profitable. The weekly Sit Win Go leaderboard race runs from Monday to Saturday, and assigns leaderboard points to players based on their finishing position in a Double Up sit n go tournament. Finishing as one of the winning players in a Double Up sit n go tournament results in a player receiving the maximum leaderboard points in the Sit Win Go leaderboard race, so the underlying strategy remains the same = finish in the money. The Double Up race runs in parallel to the three other Sit Win Go leaderboard races, which rank players based on their finishing position in sit n go tournaments according to buy-in amounts. Double Up sit n go tournament enthusiasts need to remember one crucial thing if they want to win a share of the $1,000 in weekly prizes. They must opt-in to the promotion on the Sit Win Go page on the website in order to participate in the promotion.

The Asian Poker Tour 2009- online poker

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:18:07 +0000

The Asian Poker Tour 2009- online poker
1 February 2009 Online Titan Poker is supporting the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Philippines Main Event that is currently underway and runs until the 1st of February. It takes place as the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila. It started on the 27th of January and is a six day festival of poker with extremely lively action.It was announced by Tournament Director Matt Savage that the $2500+$200 Main Event has 262 runners with a total prize pool of US$635,500. First place will take home US$185,000 with 27 places being paid 27th will get more than double their buy-in back.Nam Le, Quinn Do, David ‘Chino’ Rheem, Steve Sung and Kwang Soo Lee are all members of the Asian Poker Tour’s elite team of ambassadors in the hunt for the title.They join a field that also includes 2008 Asian Poker Tour Philippines winner David Saab, Liz Lieu, Kasey Castle, 2009 Aussie Millions Highroller event winner David Streicke, Michael Pedley, 2009 PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship winner Rory Rees Brennan, Brian Huang, Ivan Tan , Andrew Scott and 1990 WSOP Main event winner Mansour Matloubi.The Philippines is strongly represented in the field and are led by WSOP bracelet winner Toto Leonidas with William Te Jr and Ramil Tandoc fancied to run well before the Filipino poker community.There are big contingents from South Korea and Japan, with 2008 Asian Poker Tour Philippines runner up Chris Roh and 2008 Asian Poker Tour Macau runner-up Joon Hee Yeah leading the charge for South Korea and representative from JBetPoker, Team J3PT and the Japan Poker League making up a formidable Japanese contingent that includes Yasuhiro Waki and Yoshei Watanabe.CEA of the Asian Poker Tour, Chris parker stated”Were very pleased with the field and turnout which features players from all over the world. There are so many that are returning to play again after experiencing last years event. Wed like to thank all the players for coming to Manila and hope they all enjoy the famous Asian Poker Tour hospitality.”Amongst the side event winners so far are Henrik Eklund of Sweden who took down the PKR Headhunter tournament and Francis Uy of Manila who emerged victorious in the Ray Ban Invitational. A special Filipino Celebrity Charity Event has also taken place and was won by The Playgirls who won 100,000 pesos for charity. Over 200,000 pesos in total went to various local charities.Taking place on Saturday at 19:30 is the FHM/DafaPoker Player’s Party which promises to be ”tastefully wild”, with FHM cover models as hostesses. After the party, the Asian Poker Tour and FHM have hired party buses to take players around Manila’s hotspots.DafnaPoker is the official partner of the Asian Poker Tour in presenting the Pot-Limit Omaha Hi tournament- a first for a major Asian Tour. The game is scheduled to take place at 14:00 on the 31st January. The buy-in for this tournament will be $185 + $15. On the same day at 19.00 there will also be a hugely anticipated 13 card tournament featuring a $460 +$40 buy-in. Other highlights include the worlds first GREED tournament.Coverage of this years Main Event will be televised and distributed internationally later in the year. OPN Staff All trademarks and copyrighted information contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

!P0krparty¡

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:54:08 +0000

!P0krparty
High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, Poker October 25th, 2011 !P0krparty has been on a huge heater since August 17th averaging 4000 hands a day and up $285,000.00. He is alleged to be real name Jon Eaton screen name sketchy1. Jon Eaton has $2,693,268.56 of career winnings online and has $603,267 in live winnings. Play Online Poker Poker Blog Copyright 2008 Just add chips LLCSubscribe to PokerBloggs.com

Heinz Wins the WSOP

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:54:06 +0000

Heinz Wins the WSOP
Poker fans the world over had been waiting for some time to see which poker player was going to win this years World Series of Poker Main Event. While the WSOP takes place earlier in the year, the Main Event is only played in November. Of the nine players that made it to the final table of the Main Event, five of the players were European, and three of the players were from the United States. Soon after play began, it became clear that the next WSOP Main Events champion would be from Europe. Two out of the past four Main Event champions have come from Europe. This year, Pius Heinz from Germany, was the poker player to win the World Series of Poker 2011 Main Event. The final battle was played out against Martin Staszko, from the Czech Republic. It was a heads-up duel that lasted for six hours. After his win, Pius Heinz said: I can only imagine. I don’t know. I’m going to get a lot of attention. I’m just going to wait and see what happens there. It’s going to be crazy for sure I think.” Although Heinz might have no idea how things will be when he arrives back home to Germany, he is excited and honored that he is the first Main Event champion coming from his country. Heinz had the following to say: I’m definitely proud about being the first German to win. It’s just an amazing feeling and the support from back home has been great with people following me and supporting me and wishing me the best of luck. Before the Main Event, Heinz had said that online poker is very popular in Germany, and that the market is growing. He does not know if his winning the WSOP Main Event will increase the popularity of poker in Germany or not. Related Posts The United States and Online Poker Regulation Two New Poker HOF Members Announced Time Tourney Games from PokerStars Merge Poker Back in the US Nominees for Poker Hall of Fame Announced Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…

Interview with Vanessa Rousso

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:36:08 +0000

Interview with Vanessa Rousso
by Steve Marzolf As a lawyer, poker pro and self-described “huge dork,” Vanessa Rousso has made a name for herself in tournament poker, earning more than $3.7 million since 2006. Lately, she’s been repping for PokerStars and running poker “boot camps” to raise up the next crop of winning players. We called Vanessa up to talk about her tactics for surviving – and thriving – in the high-pressure world of large-buy-in tournaments. So you’re primarily a tournament player? I would say I’m only a tournament player. I can play a cash game or two. But to be honest with you, I play so many tournaments as it is, that if I play cash games too, it’s just too much poker. I like to have balance in my life, and there just aren’t enough hours in the day to play tournaments, cash games and do all the other things I like to do. Mike Matusow was complaining to us that high-buy-in tourneys have gotten too risky to profit on – what do you think of that statement? My results are skewed toward high buy-ins. I find that in the smaller buy-ins, I don’t do as well. The higher the buy-in, the more pressure and the better I play. I guess my own particular strategies are more suited to high-buy-in events against better players. So, for me, I’d rather play fewer events that are higher buy-in. What do you think it is about your style that matches up so well with those events? I think it’s probably rooted in logical ability. Basically, the higher the buy-in, the deeper the chip stacks, right? So, there’s more opportunity for telling stories with your bets and raises, and there’s more opportunity for tricking and trapping your opponents. In smaller buy-ins, you have to play more ABC optimally and just exploit the mistakes your opponents are making. At the higher levels, you’re not really waiting for your opponents to make errors – you’re more trying to trick and trap them. So it’s a little bit more of a mind game. I guess I don’t have the patience to play the ABC right way that I should in the smaller buy-ins, and then in the bigger buy-ins, tricking other thinking opponents is enough of a challenge that I give it my A-plus effort every time. But you cut your teeth playing sit-n-go’s, right? Well, I started off playing on the internet for free when I was in college, and then when I turned 21, I started playing live – that was when I was in law school in Miami. The first casino I played at was the Seminole Hard Rock down there, which had sit-n-go’s. I’d play on the weekends, and that’s how I built up my first bankroll. Why did sit-n-go’s work for you? They really had a definable, optimal strategy. Once you figure them out, there are only so many dynamics that can come up in one 10-person, set-blind-structure, $150-buy-in game. There’s just not that many ways it can go down. It took me a couple weeks to figure it out, but once I did, it was a formula that I could apply to that situation. And it was pretty consistent at making money. For beginners who want to follow in your footsteps, what sit-n-go advice do you have for them? I’m really big into reading the books and preparing for poker the same way you would for any money-making opportunity. People don’t just jump into investment banking without any schooling about it. I read like 30 books in a couple months before I started. Also, you need to be a lot more patient than people think you need to be. People come in to play, and they try to take advantage of the low blind levels to play hands that are a little more speculative. But really, the chips are worth next to nothing when the table is still 9- or 10-handed. For instance, many people may find that they double up or even triple up early on in a match, but then don’t even make the top three. Because that early on, those chips just aren’t worth anything. Therefore risking chips to accumulate those early chips isn’t worth it. It’s profitable to play much, much tighter than you think in the early stages. Once your career got moving, was there a moment when things really came together for you? I think it was when I came in 7th in the $25,000 buy-in WPT main event back in 2006. It was the first time I’d taken a shot on the pro circuit, and it worked out. I won a quarter-million dollars, and that pretty much launched my career. It gave me the confidence to continue playing the circuit. Then later that year I won another 400-some thousand in various events. So 2006 was really the big year for me. Can you describe the processes running in your mind when you’re at a game like that and trying to get a read on your opponents? Getting a read all boils down to two categories – are they comfortable or uncomfortable? Because, if they have a good hand and they’re an experienced player, that’s a situation where they’re going to be super-comfortable. Good players have had aces a million times, so their hands aren’t trembling at aces anymore – it’s just something that makes them feel confident. Whereas even a good player can get nervous when they’re in on a big bluff, because that’s a situation that’s less in their control. On the flip side, inexperienced players will be a lot more uncomfortable with good hands because they’re not used to getting aces, kings, queens. The adrenaline’s been released. And since beginners tend to think poker is a lot more about bluffing, they can actually look pretty comfortable holding nothing. Good players, though, know how easy it is to get caught bluffing. So, if you can put your opponent into the comfortable/uncomfortable category, and then determine whether or not they’re an experienced player, it can really help you decide whether they have a hand. Is this the kind of stuff you get into during your poker boot camps? Yeah. I break down tournament strategy into a logical formula and give people guidelines to follow. Rather than vague principles, I give them specific strategies to follow. Mostly, I try to simplify the extremely complex game of tournament poker. Some of the things they can expect to learn are how to use “M” in hand selection; I cover some advanced reading techniques; I cover some game theory and poker stuff, as well. If anyone’s interested, they can get more info at www.bigslickbootcamp.com.

Black Friday Saves One Player’s Money & Relationship

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:18:11 +0000

Black Friday Saves One Players Money & Relationship
published on 04/23/11 at 8:54 am One person who will be saving money after Black Friday, is Steve Street3 Carse. Known to have wasted thousands of dollars on online poker sites, the recent federal take over of Full Tilt Poker will have a positive effect on Mr. Carses financial statements. Angel Valdez, of the Online Poker Team, fires some questions at Oklahomas number one degenerate. How much money have you saved since Online poker got shut down?I transferred my last $80 on FTP to Angel to bet on black at the casino. He informed me that I lost. So, I would have naturally deposited another $50 and in turn, ran that up to around $55, then lost it all. Then I would have reloaded again. I would guess since Friday, I have saved around $450. But, since I dont have online poker anymore, i am extremely bored and have since spent over $1500 on various illegal endeavors. Those intruders in their homes have names? Some call them Kids, and others call them Mom/Dad/HoneyHonestly I am scared to death about what this question means and wonder how much meth the interviewer has inhaled to come up with such a psycho question. I live with my girlfriend Kelly and I have not seen any intruders in my home. When they stepped outside did the sun melt off their skin? Did they get the vampire effect?Again, another scary question that makes about as much sense as a gaggle of coked up geese selling cookies to gimps. Is their ability to make money playing online poker myopia equal to lets say Charlie Sheen thinking hes normal?I dont know what myopia means and Im too fucking lazy to google it. Charlie Sheen has Goddesses, cocaine, no teeth and millions of dollars. I have Kelly, teeth and tens of dollars. You tell me. Why is chicke nmeth so addictive, especially among online poker players?A bit of history, Chicken meth was introduced in Arkansas by Jeremy Allen. Its a combination of meth, chicken shit and feathers. It gives one the ability to 5bet shove 73o into AA and see a 773 flop. Or at least thats what chicken meth benders will trick your mind into seeing. On the evolutionary poker scale, where would you place IBGPN?I would place him at the bottom of the scale. Somewhere between a single celled organism and tadpole. While he can swim with the sharks, hes often overlooked as his bank roll rarely goes above the $1 mark. His most frequent sightings have the word (OBSERVER) after his name. I just had a cup of tea and a grilled cheese sandwich. Comments?You must be gay or British. Related posts: Best Kept Poker Tip: Rakeback Saving You A Lot Of Money Rakeback Saves the Day GI Joe Assaults Online Poker, Refrigerated Beer, Noobs