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The winners of these ’mini’-tournaments can get a seat in Big Tournaments. For example, you can pay $225 and try your luck playing in Super Satellite. |
Once more the players crowded the virtual card room of Party Poker this past weekend to put up their money and play in the renowned Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed event. There were 1,443 players at the party, putting up almost enough to cover the guarantee, but leaving a bit of an overlay for Party Poker to pick up. |
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While we are not really sure who coined the term "blogosphere", we don’t think they had poker in mind. Depending upon what your interests are, when most people think of blogging it has more to do with politics, dating, relationships, and things that may or may not be legal with members of other species. It is true though, blogging has become a big part of the culture of poker. From this computer based culture comes the new innovation in tournament play: The World Poker Blogger Tour. |
They can write about the game of poker, but can they play? That is the question that started the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, an online poker tournament that anyone can play - as long as they have a regularly updated poker blog. This year more than thirteen hundred players showed up and battled it out for $40,000 worth of prizes that included iPods, Xbox consoles, and a lot more. |
More than $2.5 million is on the line for participants in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, commonly referred to by the acronym FTOPS, and event one fulfilled the promise of hot action online, followed up by sizable payouts for the winners. |
When you have to put up $50 or more for a poker tournament, you want to make sure you have a good chance at winning a sizeable profit, so when Mansion Poker decided to add some value to their events during the month of December, they were doing everybody a big favor, including themselves. |
For those who love to mix college and poker, the Victor Chandler Student Poker events are a must play. |
Full Tilt offers a weekly tournament that has a pretty hefty guarantee, and although the room was forced to lower the top figure down from $350 grand to $300 grand, the attendance was pretty solid. |
When Bodog makes a guarantee, they make it for real. Normally the $100,000 Guaranteed Weekly Tournament draws quite a crowd, and having an overlay is not common. On Sunday January 28, 2007 Bodog not only held their normal Guaranteed Weekly Tournament, but they doubled the guarantee without raising the buy in. |
When Full Tilt’s end of the year guarantee event dipped in attendance, was it a bad sign for the industry? Not at all, it just represented the same thing every year - more folks were out celebrating the New Year! |
While the name of the event at UltimateBet wasn’t titled "the Overlay Event" it might as well have been, as only 729 people showed up to play in this Super Bowl Sunday. |
There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the upcoming FTOPS III Main event with Chris Ferguson - the huge prize pool guarantee, the chance to make it big in an online tournament, and the chance to face Chris "Jesus" Ferguson without the risk of injury from flying cards. |
When a web site offers a guaranteed event, they are often safe from having to pay out of pocket, but that was not the case for Party Poker with their Party Poker’s Sunday 200K Guaranteed. |
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series didn’t slow down by event number three, in fact the action continued to ramp up as Erick Lindgren hosted the event. |
Another record breaking Sunday took place recently for online poker super site Poker Stars. |
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series III was a huge hit. The first time out of the gate the series did well, but the FTOPS II was plagued with overlays and a general malaise on the part of the players. |
Running up against the Full Tilt Online Poker Series didn’t hurt the weekly PokerStars Sunday Million tournament too much. |
For those interested in catching one of the last chances to be in an EPT event, online poker room Noble Poker is offering weekly tournaments with winners getting one step closer to the Dortmund event. |
While there are a lot of reasons that players love Full Tilt Poker, last Sunday’s $200,000 Guarantee was not a prime example. |
Last Sunday there was certainly no overlay at Poker Stars, as their Sunday Million event brought in enough players to skyrocket the prize pool over $1.7 million. |
It was no joke when Kid Poker won the Poker Stars Sunday Million, but it wasn’t the Kid Poker you may think. |
Full Tilt’s $400,000 Guarantee continued to pick up steam as more than two thousand players dropped in to play, putting over 350 players in the money. |
There was a lot going on Sunday, April 8th, not the least of which was the fact that it was Easter, but more than seven hundred poker players managed to find time away from church services or egg hunts to sit down and log on to Bodog Poker in order to play the weekly Sunday $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament. |
Despite being held on Easter Sunday, the Poker Stars Sunday Million drew a huge crowd of 6,637 players, even though that was lower than the crowds that usually gather on Sundays for the event. |
The online event with at least a hundred grand in the prize pool draws Bodog players, old and new, but it was definitely a Veteran who had the chops in the event held April 15th. |
Ultimate Bet could not quite draw enough players to make the goal during their Ultimate Bet $200,000 Guaranteed event, but as the name states they still paid out $200,000 in cash prizes to the winners. |
The online poker room Ultimate Bet continued to bet on enough players to cover the Sunday UltimateBet $200,000 Guarantee, and they almost made it. |
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is known for putting on a great weekly Guaranteed event, and two recent Full Tilt Guaranteed events were no exception, especially for one player. |
When Lee Jones announced that he was leaving the role of poker room manager for PokerStars it was not without regret, but his new role would keep him within the organization, just performing other duties. |
Some sites offer guaranteed poker events every week that range into the six figures (i.e., $100k) and then some sites offer double that. Party Poker makes it triple, and this past Sunday was no exception as 1,547 players took part in the event, pushing the guarantee up to a hefty prize pool of $309,400. |
Yet another weekend passed and another Everest Poker $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament took place, without fail. |
A victory in a Round 3 Avalanche gets you a ticket right in to the $5,000 + $300 Avalanche Online Final, which will play on September 15th at 15:00 GMT. Once a final table of 10 players is reached, the event will pause until the Live Finale can begin. |
The World Series of Poker Europe is coming up pretty quick and one online poker room is offering a final shot at winning a free seat to the party. |
Full Tilt Poker is at it again, with yet another Full Tilt Online Poker Series. This is the sixth installment, kicking off early next month on November 7th, and it will run through November 18th. Like all the previous installments, this online poker series boasts pro poker players hosting each event, as well as huge, ever increasing prize pool guarantees. |
Pub poker is not a new idea. As long as there has been poker, people have been playing it in pubs, and the idea of organizing these games into a league has been around for a while. Online poker isn’t new anymore, either. What is new is a live pub poker league moving online, and that is just what The Nuts Poker League has done. |
For years mankind had a dream to climb mount Everest, a dream that was finally realized in 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary made it to the top. Since then some 4,000 people have lived the dream, and online poker room Everest Poker has a dream of its own they want you to share in. |
It was a long time coming. Online poker room Everest Poker had been teasing and enticing for nine long months about their Everest Poker Avalanche event, and they wouldn’t even tell the players where the final event was to take place. It turns out it wasn’t going to happen just in one place, but in a traveling tournament aboard a Costa Cruise ship in the Mediterranean. |
The world of online poker has a lot of attractive qualities, and one of the biggest is the opportunity for a poker player to participate in a World Series of Poker style poker series from the comfort of their own home. The latest such series is the one posted by Titan Poker, the European Championship of Online Poker. |
The Ladbrokes Poker Million at Ladbrokes is a very popular event in Europe that pits players from the site against one another in a live setting, something they may not be used to. |
The big poker boom started in the United States (although it owes a nod to Europe for the idea of showing the players’ hole cards on TV) and then echoed out to Europe. From there the Oriental world picked up the action, and now it looks like Africa is gaining ground. |
Online poker has produced a lot of great players, and a lot of interesting nicknames, and both are combined in the man known as Imper1um, or by his given name - Sorel Mizzi. Mizzi has topped the online poker world for some time, and a recent victory in a unique event has helped to solidify his position as one of the best online players - even though this event was live. |
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