1 January, 2010
Last Sunday, which happened to be the last one of ‘09, PokerStars attempted to surpass its own Guinness World Record for the most players entering an online poker tournament at once. This particular tournament was a $300,000 guaranteed tournament with a ridiculously low buy-in of only a buck.
By the time registration closed, 149,196 players has signed up. This is over twice the number of players in the record they were trying to break, set in July ‘09. And that is more than plenty to cement PokerStars’ position in the Guinness Book under this category for a while to come. (Until, presumably, they try to beat it again.)
This is the 3rd time PokerStars has set this record in the course of a single year, the first entry taking place December 2008, the second (as mentioned) July 2009, and of course the one set last Sunday. Winner of the record setting tournament was Oskar69.
18 December, 2009
Bodog Poker is having a big 12 Days of Poker celebration for the days leading up to Xmas 2009, with a ton of great prize being awarded, including big screen TV’s, laptop and desktop computers, digital cameras, GPSs, and more. During the Twelve Days of Poker event, Bodog Poker will also be giving away 100 free seats in its celebrated $100K Guaranteed tournament.
Winning any of these great Xmas gifts from Bodog Poker involves collecting as many Bodog Poker Points as you can during the promotion period of December 16 – 27. Collect BPPs by playing at Bodog Poker’s cash tables and in BodogPoker tournaments – the more you play, the more points you collect (regardless of how well you do in the given games/tournaments). Raffle tickets will be awarded for every 25 BPPs and again for every 75 BPPs a player earns.
Then each day of the 12 Days of Poker, there will be two big drawings, a Low drawing of tickets worth 25 BPPs and a High drawing of tickets worth 75 BPPs.
27 November, 2009
So that oppressive law with the long-winded name (UIGEA for short) that will officially let the punishing begin of online poker operators still serving U.S. customers, is a little further at bay than it had been a moment ago. Reports have been coming out left and right that the U.S. Treasury Dept. plans to delay the intended Dec. 1 deadline that poker operators had to tweak their systems to comply with these demands (namely to make sure its software didn’t let a U.S. payer slip through).
This is probably in large part due to the delay in voting on the many bills facing congress right now that would either countermand the UIGEA or make it moot. So, in other words, the Treasury Dept. wants to save itself a lot of trouble and potential lawsuits by giving it 6 more months to see if Congress makes it legal to play online poker in the U.S. again.
11 November, 2009
Newest member of Team Full Tilt, the home of the best poker bonus online, the team of poker professionals representing Full Tilt Poker, Tom Dwan, made big headlines online and off with his highly publicized Durrrr Challenge, a 50,000-hand contest with a $1 million prize (which is only halfway through now, with the opponent being Patrik Antonius). Well now he’s just pulled another similar publicity stunt…we mean – posed another challenge to poker community.
This one is for $500,000 and will take place in London with, among other notable poker celebrities sure to turn out to try to take a bite out of Tom Dwan’s ego, Ilari Sahamies reportedly confirmed to be competing. It’s a heads-up challenge, though, like the $1 million challenge, and so each challenger will have to wait his, or her, turn.
The rules of this challenge are that the challenger (in other words, not Dwan) gets to pick what game they’ll play (Sahamies will probably pick PLO, even though it’s one of Dwan’s strong suits too), and that they can’t break until at least 500 hands are played, or the $500,000 minimum buy-in has been lost.
Full Tilt Poker is home to these great fun challenges as well as one of the best poker bonuses available to online players today.
20 October, 2009
At this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table (sponsored, by the way, by Everest Poker), the Poker Hall of Fame will announce Mike Sexton, The Ambassador of Poker, as the only person to be honored with induction into the Poker Hall of Fame for 2009. Mike has 1 WSOP bracelet, 1 of the top 10 in WSOP cashouts, and has a lifetime poker winnings of more than $3,700,000.
It’s fitting that Mike is the only honoree this year as he received about seventy-five percent of the people’s votes. And that’s another thing that makes this honor so special – that “the people” were permitted, for the first time, to have their vote counted too. That means fans, fellow poker players and poker stars, and even people in the media, all collectively agreed that Mike Sexton deserves to be the singular 2009 Poker Hall of Fame inductee.
The induction ceremony will take place on November 7 at some point during the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table.
7 October, 2009
Whether you prefer cash games or tournaments in your online poker experience, Titan Poker has an October promotion for you. It’s called the Titan Turbo and it promises to, be a top casino signup bonus, as well as award at least $50,000 in cash prizes and free tournament entries. Here’s how it breaks down:
For tournament players there are 4 weekly tournament player races where a leaderboard will tally each tournament player’s performance that week, awarding $1,000 each week, along with 100 spots each week in a final Titan Poker ECPoker Tour Malta Freeroll happening October 31 in which 5 players will win EC Poker Tour Malta entries as part of their $5,000 prize package.
For cash game players there are cash game player races with leaderboard results tallied for every 4-day period, a prize pool of $5,000 awarded in each period, along with 100 seats in a Titan Turbo Freeroll worth $10,000 cash, taking place also on October 31.
Both parts of the Titan Turbo promotion started October 5 and go through October 30 and you can find out more by doing an online poker search.
21 September, 2009
Satellites into the Titan Poker European Championship of Online Poker V have begun as of today, September 21, 2009. The fifth TitanPoker ECOOP starts on November 23 and runs through December 6, comprising 14 events of all different sorts, including 6-handed games and turbo games, games with rebuys and add-ons, and in addition to No Limit Holdem, there will also be Pot Limit Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo, and 7-Card Stud.
The guaranteed prize pool at the TitanPoker ECOOP V is $2.55 million, with the December 6 $1,500 + $80 main event promising a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million. Dead center in the middle of the ECOOP V schedule are two events with the next highest prize pools, the $500,000 tourneys. The first happens on November 29 and has a buy-in of $500 + $35; the second happens on November 30 and has a buy-in of $2,500 + $100.
But of course the Titan Poker ECOOP V satellites running now can get you in for a lot cheaper.
8 September, 2009
Titan Poker is sending online poker players to the Euro City Poker Tour Malta event.
Titan Poker is hosting Super Satellites with top prizes of $5,000 prize packages that include the 1500 Euro buy-in for the Euro City Poker Tour Malta Main Event on November 13. The prize package also includes 4 nights of luxury accommodations at Malta’s Excelsior Grand Hotel and 700 Euros spending cash.
The ECPokerTour Malta event will will be held at the Casino di Venezia in Vittoriosa, Malta this November. This past May there was an ECPokerTour event in Salzburg, and last year there was one in Madrid.
The TitanPoker ECPokerTour Malta is the latest in the large land-based big money events that Titan Poker host satellites awarding free seats into, with other recent TitanPoker satellites sending players to the Asian Poker Tour, the Irish Open, the Aussie Millions, and of course the World Series of Poker.
Titan Poker is also home to huge, progressive jackpot sit n’ go tournaments.
28 August, 2009
Everest Poker has some real low money ways to get in the real money game, with its Shasta promotion. With the Everest Poker Shasta promotion, players new to online poker (or poker in general), or those not quite ready to stake too much of their hard-earned money just yet, but won’t enjoy a poker game unless some actual money is somehow on the line, finally have a way to play.
For no money at all (or as the Everest folks call it: $0), you can enter the EverestPoker free Shasta Sit & Go tournaments running around the clock for a total prize pool of 10 cents up for grabs. It’s not a lot, but it’s enough to make the difference between playing for nothing and playing for something.
And that just what the Everest Poker Shasta promotion is: something for nothing, which is in tall order in the online poker world. You don’t even have tomake a deposit to play.
Plus, there’s more. But we’ll save that for the next Poker Blog Party post. Stay tuned for money low cost ways to win real money at Everest Poker.
11 August, 2009
Daniel Negreanu is one of the finalists on the short list of nominees for induction into the esteemed Poker Hall of Fame, but if he had his vote, he says, he would not be voting for himself. Instead, Negreanu endorses fellow nominee Mike Sexton for this year’s honor. It is feasible both could win, however, as there is expected to be 2 or 3 names mentioned when the inductees are announced sometime during the play of the final table at the 2009 World Series of Poker come November.
Interestingly enough, another person eligible for one of those select few spots is also eligible for a spot on the revered Wall of Fame at Binions Casino displaying the winners of each year’s WSOP main event. As one of this year’s November Nine and one of this year’s Poker Hall of Fame nominees, 2009 could conceivably land Phil Ivey in more than just poker history but several record books as well.
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