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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28 July, 2009
Happy 5th Anniversary Everest Poker! Yes, Everest Poker is 5 years old, and in honor of this occasion, the site is holding not 1 but 5 special promotions:
1. $5,000 Refer-A-Friend Freeroll: A $5,000 Freeroll with exclusive entry to anyone who refers at least 4 new players between the months of July and August (that’s 4 friends + you = 5).
2. Daily 5: Another $5,000 Freeroll, this with exclusive entry to anyone who earns at least 5 Summit Points (that’s the currency for Everest Poker’s player loyalty and rewards program) per day, every day, for a full month.
3. 5 Billion Hands: A special $5,000 bonus for players participating in the 5,000,000,000th (that’s 5 billionth) hand abd another special bonus for players participating in the 5,555,555,555th hand.
4. $500K Guaranteed: A $500,000 Guaranteed Tournament, to be held live in Vegas. Qualify for a trip for two plus free entry.
5. 5 to 55% Savings: At the Summit Points Store.
This Everest Poker event is one 5-year celebration to take advantage of. If not, you can take part in some great internet casino games at any of the top online casinos.
17 July, 2009
The final table of the main event isn’t the only remaining part of the 2009 World Series of Poker that people are awaiting with baited breath. There’s also the matter of the induction ceremony for the Poker Hall of Fame. The inductees have not been determined yet, but in a twist on tradition, the public was invited to vote on who they think should be nominated for induction. Public voting on that has now closed, and the top 10 names have been submitted to the World Series of Poker as official nominees for consideration to be among the one, two, or three (they say) people honored this year.
The names on that list are:
- Mike Sexton
- Erik Seidel
- Daniel Negreanu
- Scotty Nguyen
- Men Nguyen
- Tom McEvoy
- Phil Ivey
- Dan Harrington
- Barry Greenstein
- Tom Dwan
The public nominated 41 people in all.
The Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council will “vett” these names (whatever that entails) and release the official list of nominees (there’s no set number). Then the 15 surviving members of the current Poker Hall of Fame will cast the final vote on who will be added to their ranks.
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27 June, 2009
Ville Wahlbeck is having quite a year. Such a year, in fact, that he’s decided it’s his last, as far as professional poker is concerned, at least. In a clear case of knowing when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away, and when to run, this Finnish wunderkind is quitting while he’s ahead. And ahead big, at that.
Wahlbeck became the first Finn ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet when he won the $10,000 Mixed Game World Championship and this year’s 2009 WSOP. Then he managed to come in runner-up in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship and third place in the $10,000 7-Card Stud World Championship.
What’s more, he placed twelfth in a $2,500 Razz event and thirteenth in the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship.
With of $900,000 in 2009 WSOP winnings, this is hands-down Ville’s best year in 6 years of “grinding” in the cutthroat poker world. And he’s a contender for the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Award (POY). So this is the perfect time to cash in his chips. He admits that he may still play a tournament or two now and again, but as for cash games, he’s out.
I guess this means that he will be missing out ont his years EMOP and wont be a contender for the Euro Poker player of the year award.
9 June, 2009
Former Magic card game champion Brock Parker has taken the 2009 WSOP bracelet for Event #14, $2,500 6-handed Limit Holdem, snagging it from favorite Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu who was hoping to make this his third WSOP Limit Holdem bracelet, tying the record Phil Hellmuth holds for the most WSOP bracelets held in Limit Holdem. But it wasn’t to be for Negreanu, this being the third time in his World Series of Poker Career that he was runner-up in a WSOP Limit Holdem event.
Parker, meanwhile, a 27-year-old from Silver Springs, Maryland, is now $223,697 richer, making his total live poker career winnings $417,583. Parker is better known in poker circles for his online game, going by the menacing username “t_soprano”. This marks his second appearance in a WSOP final table and his fifth time cashing-in in a WSOP event. No doubt we’ll be seeing a lot of more of Brock Parker’s Magic ahead, and in the meantime, Kid Poker’s quest for that all-elusive third Limit Holdem bracelet continues.
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25 May, 2009
According to the odds placers, the man to beat at the WSOP Champions Invitational, a special 2009 World Series of Poker event open solely to previous Main Event winners, is Phil Hellmuth, representative of Ultimate Bet Poker, renowned bad attitude poker brat, and the youngest player to have ever won a WSOP Main Event (this back in 1989).
The 2009 WSOP Champions Invitational is a non-braceleted event taking place on May 31. Not only will the winner receive a special Binions Trophy and a new car, but legend Jack Binion himself will be on hand to congratulate the “champion of champions”.
Over the course of 39 years worth of WSOP Main events, there have been 33 or 34 winners (depending on who you ask), 25 of whom are still alive to be eligible for the competition. The event will air on ESPN on August 4 at 8 pm ET, making it one of only 4 2009 WSOP events to be televised.
11 May, 2009
Sunday, May 3, Bodog Poker finished up another weeklong Bodog Poker Open, and this time around (the event’s third incarnation now) the big winner was one “Biffsworld”. The Bodog Poker Open II Main Event had a player pool of 279, a buy-in of $500, and a $161,130 prize pool that included an added $30,000 from Bodog.
For winning the Bodog Poker Open III Main Event, “Biffsworld” is now $40,282.50 richer. This is his biggest takedown so far, but not his first. This 23-year-old from Pennsylvania has been playing on the site since October 2007 and has won his share of events, showing that this win was indeed no fluke.
Second place went to ShuMoneyTonite, who won $26,989 for his (or her?) efforts. Mr Walcott took third, and its $17,885 prize.
Throughout the course of the week’s events, Bodog gave away $606,741 along with bonus bounties worth T$12,150. 4,800 players turned out to compete for these winnings.
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25 April, 2009
Poker Stars has introduced a new event into its famed European Poker Tour Grand Final Week, and it’s a charity tournament no less. The charity is the current crisis in Darfur, and the event is the Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. The event, a EUR 4,000 buy-in, No Limit Texas Holdem shootout tournament is scheduled for April 27th at 6 pm ET, the day before the Season Five PokerStars EPT Grand Final Main Event takes place.
Poker pros from Team PokerStars will be in attendance, including “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu, WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, and GoDaddy spokesmodel/up-and-coming poker sensation Vanessa Rousso.
The winner of this Ante Up For Africa Europe charity tournament will receive prize package centered around free entry into the January 2010 Season 6 EPT Bahamas event.
So far, the Ante Up For Africa organization has raised more than $2 million to provide aid to the survivors of the violence in the Sudan.
All PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final events will be held in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
10 April, 2009
Thanks to two great poker sites–Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars–Mac users can now get in on all the best poker action, including satellites and qualifiers into the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, and the World Series of Poker.
Both Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker have downloadable poker software clients, making them stand out from all the rest of their peers whose best offering for online poker players using a Mac is a cheaper, uglier, slower, pared-down, web-based No Download version of the software written in either Flash or Java. This lack of support elsewhere precludes Mac players from participating in many of these other sites biggest promotions, not least of which are those satellites and qualifiers for free entry into some of the biggest-money live land-based and online tournaments.
But on Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker, Mac poker players can now sit in at the felt with their PC-owning online poker peers. And players on a Mac can win their way into the FTOPS, the PokerStars Spring Championships Of Online Poker, the 2009 WSOP, and many other exciting live events just like everybody else.