26 July, 2010
The Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XVII and MiniFTOPS XVII are coming right up, with the former on August 4 – 15 and the latter on September 8 – 19.
The FTOPS XVII is the seventeenth running of FullTilt’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series, a big money online poker tournament series that includes all sorts of events (shootouts, knockouts, speed, turbo, short-handed, heads-up) in all different types of poker (Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Draw, HORSE, Razz, etc.).
As always happens, FullTilt is running ongoing satellites into each of the 34 events comprising FTOPS XVII, with bonus prizes offered to players who win more satellites into the same FTOPS XVII than any of their fellow players. They call this the FTOPS Satellite Challenge.
There will also be a Leader Board challenge running throughout FTOPS XVII.
The MiniFTOPS XVII schedule mirrors that of the regular FTOPS XVII schedule, with the same events only at much lower buy-ins and for slightly lower prizes. Satellites will be running for MiniFTOPS XVII events at Full Tilt Poker soon.
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24 June, 2010
Tuesday, June 22 Full Tilt Poker and Channel 4 introduce The Poker Lounge and July 4 is the last chance to qualify to be a contestant on this program, Full Tilt Poker’s televised high-stakes celebrity cash game.
Set in a high-rolling UK poker room, FullTilt’s The Poker Lounge is a 6-handed No Limit Hold’em shootout to the end–a winner-take-all battle with a $20,000 buy-in. And in each episode, to air each week starting Tuesday June 22, one wild card online poker qualifier will put their mettle to the test against the best.
The final Full Tilt Poker Lounge qualifier is on July 4 at 2:30 pm for a direct buy-in of $640, but satellites into this qualifier are going on now over at FullTilt for as little as $10.
The winner of the final Poker Lounge qualifier will receive a $22,000 prize pacakge that includes the chance to play poker live against many of poker’s finest players, including many members of Team Full Tilt like Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey, for a $120,000 grand prize.
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18 June, 2010
Who will be crowned the next Bodog Poker King of the Felt? Will it be you? To find out, you need to test your mettle against the other contenders for the crown in heads-up tournaments worth $1,000 in weekly prizes.
To qualify to become Bodog Poker’s next King of the Felt, you need only place (or cash) in three Sit and Go tournaments within a single week’s time. Do this and BodogPoker will give you one ticket into a weekly drawing. Continue placing in more BodogPoker Sit and Gos and continue winning more raffle tickets.
Place in 6-8 Sit and Gos and receive 2 tickets plus entry into a $1K freeroll; place in 9 or more Sit and Gos and receive 3 tickets plus the above mentioned freeroll entry plus entry into a $500 freeroll. The following Sit and Gos do not qualify for earning King of the Felt tickets: Double Up, Heads Up, and Beginner tournaments.
The King of the Felt week lasts Sunday to Monday. On Monday Bodog Poker holds the drawing. Have your name drawn and compete against the reigning King of the Felt in a heads-up game for $1K. The longer you hold onto your King of the Felt title, the bigger your prizes.
30 April, 2010
Full Tilt Poker is running a bevy of promotions right now that are all awarding as their top prizes free seats in the 2010 WSOP main event. Here’s a quick rundown of the most notable of them
The $1 Main Event Seat with $1 satellites throughout the day every day, leading up to a weekly final in which 5 $12,000 WSOP main event prize packages will be awarded.
150-Seat Main Event Giveaway is a $600 + $40 buy-in multi-table tournament on June 20 in which 150 main event seats, worth a total of $1.8 million, are guaranteed to be given away. Players can satellite into this event for as low as 50 FTPs.
Daily Shootouts running now through June 27 with twice daily 81-player shootouts, a WSOP Main Event prize package awarded at each one. Satellites into these events start with buy-ins as low as 50 FTPs or $1.
Direct Qualifiers, five of them per week, with one to five WSOP Main Event prize packages awarded at each.
15 April, 2010
As are most other online poker rooms, Everest Poker is holding satellite tournaments with top prizes of free entries into the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Everest Poker is also holding satellites awarding free seats in the 2010 WSOP Side Event #54.
Furthermore, Everest Poker is offering up a $1 million bonus to be awarded to one ore more players (split evenly between them if there are more than one) who qualify for side event #54 or the main event through Everest Poker. They call it the $1 Million Match and you get your share of the $1 million bonus for simply qualifying for one or both of these events. It doesn’t even matter (relative to the bonus) how you perform in the events, so long as you won your seat on EverestPoker.com.
In 2009, more than 50 players qualified for a free WSOP Main Event seats through Everest Poker and cumulatively cashed in for a total of almost $20,000.
11 March, 2010
Big poker news is usually about what’s going on in the world of poker; rarely is it about what’s not going on. But in this case, it is. What’s not going on in today’s big poker news story is the G4 television series, “2 Months, $2 Million”. After one mediocre season of the poker reality series, the show has not be renewed for a second season.
The series “2 Months, $2 Million” ran from August to October of 2009 and featured Emil Patel, Brian Roberts, Jay “Krantz” Rosenkrantz, and Dani Stern attempting to live together as they collectively earned $2 million by playing poker in a 2-month period of time.
The show should have gone over big—at least in theory. No one can factor in execution but the idea worked. Get a high-stakes condensed peek into a high-stakes lifestyle that appeals to G4’s exact demographic: 18-34 year-old men.
Part of the show’s failure was due to its time slots and competing programs, but part of the problem was in the players failure to deliver on the promise of the show. How short were the 2m2m boys of their goal? How about $1,324,000 short!
They started off nicely, notching up a $200,000 profit in the first 2 weeks of poker action, they suddenly slipped into a down streak that fast became a downward spiral they couldn’t ever climb out of. By the time a turnaround occurred, in week 8, the crew had only earned an addition $351,000, making their season (and now series) finale total a meager $676,000.
16 February, 2010
Ever thought of playing online poker as a team sport? If you have (or if it sounds good to you now) then you should check out Poker Room (pokerroom.com) and their TeamPlay program.
TeamPlay at PokerRoom.com lets players enjoy the strength in numbers by playing along with their friends and sharing in all tournament buy-in costs while improving their overall online poker game.
Poker Room has a full TeamPlay Guide with all the details, but the gist of it is as follows:
- First you create or join a team
- Then you recruit the rest of the team members
- Fund your team balance so you can enter tournaments
- Find and register for a TeamPlay tournament and play your heart out
You won’t ever find yourself sitting in at the same tournament table as one of your teammates, which is how PokerRoom can provide this service while preventing collusion.
6 February, 2010
Win a share of a €100,000 grand prize and bragging rights for your home country at the Everest Poker European Cup.
The 2010 EverestPoker European Cup (EPEC) takes place this May in Southern Europe, and EverestPoker is giving its members ample opportunity to be there for the Live Finale.
To win a seat at the 2010 EPEC Live Finale, you must compete in one of EverestPoker’s Direct Entry tournaments, four held each week for each participating country (see the site for the list of 15 participating countries).
15 winners from each of the 15 countries will with a €2,000 prize package that includes a trip to the Live Finale. Performance will be judged as a team, and the best performing team will split the €100,000 top prize.
Satellites are running daily for free entry into the weekly 2010 EPEC Direct Entry qualifiers. Otherwise, you’ll need to pay 100 Summit Points to enter.
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.