21 November, 2008
Starting soon, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) will be joining the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the European Poker Tour (EPT) as well as the World Series of Poker (WSOP) as the newest major land-based poker tournament series to be delivered players through promotions offered by online poker room.
Everest Poker, Party Poker, and poker rooms on the iPoker Network will soon be hosting freerolls, satelite qualifiers, and contests to offer their players opportunities to win seats in various Asian Poker Tour events. This will boost attendance and popularity of the Asian Poker Tour tremendously as these are the world’s 6th, 4th, and 3rd largest internet poker rooms.
Additionally, smaller online poker sites 888, World3Dpoker, PokerTrillion, JBetPoker, and PKR as well as the National Poker League and the Microgaming Network will also be providing the Asian Poker Tour similar support.
With this new support, organizers of the APT expect that they’ll now be able to expand their events considerably, soon being able to offer more events to a larger pool of players with bigger prize packages awarded.
18 November, 2008
An organization named “LifeofSports” has partnered up with popular online poker site Cake Poker to present the North America Online College Poker Championship.
This unique internet poker tournament is open to college and university students only, and only those residing in North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico). According to LifeofSports it is the only tournament like it currently in existence in North America.
The top prize is a year’s free college tuition along with a bonus vacation to Cancun, Mexico, a grand prize worth about $20,000.
Cake Poker will be hosting regular freerolls to award contenders seats in the main event. The 3 top placers in each freeroll tournament will win a shot in the May 2009 finals.
13 November, 2008
The GSOP, as its known for short, is Hollywood Poker’s annual online poker tournament features a $2 million guaranteed prize pool.
The 2008 HollywoodPoker GSOP schedule of events is as follows:
- I: Nov 21 – NL Texas Holdem
- II: Nov 22 – NL Texas Holdem
- III: Nov 23 – NL Holdem Deepstack
- IV: Nov 24 – NL Holdem Shorthanded
- V: Nov 25 – PL Omaha
- VI: Nov 26 – NL Texas Holdem
- VII: Nov 27 – PL Omaha
There are several ways for contenders to win their way into the Grand Slam Finals on December 7:
- daily Hollywood Poker 2008 GSOP satellite tournaments – all NL Texas Holdem tournaments, held from Nov 21 – 29 at 3 pm and 8 pm EST, with buy-ins considerably lower than those for the direct GSOP events
- the Grand Slam Finals leaderboard tournaments - following the above-mentioned events will be 3 Grand Slam leaderboard qualifiers on December 6 where the top 100 players on the Grand Slam leaderboard will vie for 1 Grand Slam Finals seat
- direct Grand Slam Finals qualifiers -regular, Turbo, and Omaha qualifiers with buy-ins ranging from $7 + $1 to $20 + $2
The 2008 GSOP is not to be confused with Hollywood Poker’s ongoing Grand Tournament, a monthly event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool taking place on the last Friday of every month.
6 November, 2008
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