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22 December, 2008
PokerStars is attempting to set a new world’s record and it wants your help in pulling it off.
The record PokerStars is looking to set is for the largest player field ever for an online poker tournament. The tournament in question—a $500,000 Guaranteed Tournament with an $11 buy-in—will be held on December 28 at 3:30 pm ET.
The player pool will be capped at 35,000 players—a number which, if reached, would land PokerStars in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The multi-table event, which has over 2,000 players registered so far, will include as many as 3,500 tables running at once. Blinds will increase “Turbo”-style, meaning that they will go up every 10-minutes.
If successful, PokerStars will break its own record, set last year, of 20,000 players in a single online tournament.
To register for the $500K World Record attempt, just login to the PokerStars Tournament lobby and click the Special Tournaments tab.
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21 October, 2008
There’s been movement in the contentious battle against Kentucky governor Steve Beshear to seize the domain names of 141 internet poker rooms, including some of the most major sites online (like Full Tilt Poker, Doyle’s Room, Ultimate Bet, Cake Poker, and PokerStars), and it hasn’t been movement forward.
The fight taken up by organizations like the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMega), and the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), took a severe hit last week when a Kentucky district court judge refused motions to dismiss the case. This leaves the sites 30 days to do what’s necessary to block “illegal” gaming activity coming from online poker players in Kentucky or else be shut down for good.
Meanwhile, the owners of the 141 seized domains have been ordered to appear before the court for a forfeiture hearing on November 17 to prove that they each have effectively blocked online traffic from Kentucky players.
24 September, 2008
Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Bodog, and Doyle’s Room – 4 of online poker’s biggest and most popular poker rooms are at risk of losing ownership of their own names, as the governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, masterminds what’s being called a “hostile takeover” of the sites in order to protect his state’s thoroughbred horseracing, charitable gaming, and lottery interests.
The total list of online poker rooms that the Democratic governor hopes to remand to government control, according to the Franklin County Court civil suit he filed, amounts to 141 poker sites. Others include:
• Cake Poker
• Ultimate Bet
• Absolute Poker
• Microgaming
The state charges that these sites are in violation of the law by offering their gaming services to its residents. Rumor circulating the web currently is that if Beshear is successful in his aims, he intends to shut down said sites. Whatever he does with ownership of these popular domains, though, if this passes it will no doubt come as a huge blow to the online poker industry.
26 July, 2008
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Poker Marketing Code is, if nothing else, the internet’s top PokerStars referral site. If you’ve ever even considered joining PokerStars, then this is the place to get your PokerStars referral from. That’s because you can’t find such a great PokerStars Promotional Code anywhere else.
Though we’re not going to reveal the actual PokerStars referral code you’re given at Poker Marketing Code, we’re happy to share with you the rewards that this code grants you. What you get with the PokerStars Promotional Code are:
- a 100% matching bonus on your first deposit match, up to a maximum of $50 in free money on PokerStars
- free entry into a private freeroll tournament called the “Weekend with Daniel Negreanu”, an event that promises the winner $17,000 in prizes and free money on PokerStars.
The matching bonus on new PokerStars players’ first deposits is more easily obtained than many competing poker rooms’ first deposit bonuses as Poker Marketing Code not only gives you the code you need to enter for a chance at claiming the bonus, but it instructs you in precisely how to clear that bonus, a necessary piece of information that far too many poker bonus portals neglect to mention.
Whomever wins the Weekend with Daniel Negreanu private freeroll will be sent, for free, to Las Vegas, Nevada where they’ll get to spend $2,000 in free money from PokerStars, plus the chance to hang out with the legend known as Kid Poker, receive private poker tutelage from the multi-time champion, and gain a free seat in an eighteen-player poker tournament that guarantees $270k in cash winnings.
Poker Marketing Code also makes sure that, since online poker is, after all, an international game, players everywhere can enjoy the benefits of the PokerStars referral code as the site has been conveniently translated into the native languages of over 12 countries.
Remember, PokerStars is the poker room that discovered consecutive WSOP main event champions Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer. And their arsenal of true-life poker celebrities keeps growing all the time. Learn from them, play against them, even win extra free money on PokerStars by knocking them out in special Bounty tournaments.
Even players from the U.S. are welcome at PokerStars, a claim that many leading poker sites simply can’t make.
The current PokerStars promotional code is good for the rest of this year, after which point Poker Marketing Code will issue a new and improved PokerStars referral code for new players to enjoy. But this Poker Marketing Code is just one of the many advantages of playing online poker at PokerStars, as the site is always chock full of new and exciting promotions with ever-larger prize pools. If you like online poker, there’s really no other place to play than PokerStars. And if you’re new to the site, then there’s no better place to receive your welcome than from Poker Marketing Code.
7 July, 2008
PokerStars, producer of several of the latest World Series of Poker winners (including consecutive main event champs Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer), has just announced the schedule for its 7th annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP).
Most exciting is the announcement of the event’s prize pool, double the size of last year’s at a whopping $30 million. Every event promises an enormous prize pool, with some events touting $2 million and more in guaranteed winnings.
The WCOOP features 33 different online poker tournaments, and more than just Texas Holdem, spanning the gamut of popular poker games, including:
- Omaha
- Stud
- Razz
- HORSE
- 2-7 Draw
The event also introduces several new events, like:
- High-Roller NL Holdem
- 8-Game Mixed tournament
- 4-Max NL Holdem
- Mixed Holdem
- PLO w/1 rebuy & 1 add-on
- High-Roller Heads-Up NL Holdem
- 6-Max Mixed Holdem
- NL 2-7 Single Draw
- 6-Max NL Holdem w/rebuys
The World Championship of Online Poker will last 16 days, running from September 5 to September 22, beginning with a $215 buy-in No Limit Holdem tourney and leading up to the $10 million Guaranteed Prize Pool No Limit Holdem Main Event.
21 May, 2008
No, not “chumps” - that’s no typo - it really is a charity event for chimps, as in chimpanzees.
Full Tilt Poker, in cooperation with FullTilt team member, poker pro Lee Watkinson, is hosting a $5 + $5 No-Limit Texas Holdem Tournament to benefit chimpanzee rescue organization, the Cortland Brandenberg Foundation.
Half of the money raised at the event will go to Cortland Brandenberg, in part to help fund a new wildlife sanctuary slated to open in Washington state in June. The other half will comprise the prize pool for those players who finish the event in-the-money. The first place winner, in addition to the largest chunk of the prize pool, will also win a Curtis & Co. watch.
The “Save Captive Chimps” fundraising event will take place on Sunday, May 25th at 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time.
What’s more, new players can sign up now at FullTilt using promotional code “ANIMALLOVERS” and help ensure that future funding continues for animal shelters.
25 March, 2008
This past Easter Sunday, thousands of players stood up the Easter dinner table to sit down instead at the poker table, gathering online for a whole different kind of feast. Multiple top online poker sites hosted big tournaments with big prizes and, as always happens at such events, some players celebrated later that night several thousand dollars richer.
The PokerStars Sunday Million saw 7,445 players logging in for their share of the pot, with a player named Tsipor taking the big prize of $147,561.00 away from chip leader Maluko0, who still walked away with an undisappointing second place win and $122,670.00 for his efforts.
Meanwhile, Sunday Bodog Poker following up its recent Bodog Poker Open with its weekly $100,000 Guaranteed tournament finals that attracted but a meager 603 players, but still managed to generate an impressive $39,000+ overlay. The winner, MONSTER_DONG was the big $25,000 winner, with RonnDough taking a sweet $14,300 second.
At Full Tilt Poker, 3,784 battled for the top prize of $133,991.44 in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed Tournament, and nine hours after it started, a player going by CapTinBisKuiT claimed it for himself.
So, clearly, even though Easter Sunday typically sees a slowdown at the online poker rooms, that doesn’t make it any less of an opportunity for those everyday folks who do show up to win big.
21 February, 2008
A lot has happened in the last couple of days in Copenhagen. The sold out event saw the field widdled down to 170 players in the 2 part day 1’s series. The starting field of 460 players had stiff competition from many of the PokerStarts Team of poker pro’s.
Noah Boeken is still in the event, but not fairing well in chip stack ratio - he is holding a mere 9, 400. His PokerStars Team mate, Bill Chen, is fairing much better with more than 40 thousand to start day 2. Just to put in a good face for Team Poker Stars, Luca Pagano, is among the chip leaders with 56 thousand on hand for the start of day 2.
With a number of Team Poker Star’s Pro’s still in the running for the Copenhagen EPT pay out of 21, 086, 400 Euro’s, this will be a competition worth watching.