The PokerStars Sunday Million had 7,557 entrants last night, making for a total prize pool of $1,511,400, just $11,400 more than the guarantee. Those numbers were down slightly from last week, when numbers had already been the lowest that the Sunday Million had seen since July 6. The winner of the event could expect to pocket at most $186,000 should no deal be made at the final table.

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Comments (0) Aug 26 2008

Playing middle pairs can be a tricky proposition, especially when the board pairs or anovercard comes, but if you figure out what specific bets mean from specific players, you can make the most of a so-so hand.

At the $15,000-buy-in Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Las Vegas’ Bellagio in 2007, Erick Lindgren picked up pocket 9s under the gun. With blinds at $800-$1,600 plus a $200 ante, Lindgren, an aggressive pro, raised to $4,500.

“I was raising to thin the field and mix it up,” said Lindgren, winner of two World Poker Tour titles.

Three players in late position called, as did Raymond Davis in the big blind.

“When I got four callers,” Lindgren said, “I wanted to flop a 9.”

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Comments (0) Aug 01 2008

Kansas City’s Grant Hinkle won $831,462 in a regional World Series tournament in Vegas last month, more money than you or I will make in, well, let’s not even go there.

You can watch how Grant did it tonight on ESPN at 7 p.m. You can also see the promo for the event right below. Grant is in the green button-down shirt.

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Comments (0) Jul 30 2008

Just when it looked like the Game Show Network would shift to a pokerless schedule, it has been announced that High Stakes Poker will be back for another season. HSP will begin filming Season Five episodes in September.

“GSN has picked up the option on the fifth season of ‘High Stakes Poker’ and continues to enjoy poker on its air,” said GSN Director of Public Relations Jennifer Minezaki.

Both Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza are set to return as hosts. Any additional information, such as schedule, time slot and roster, will be released at a later date.

HSP’s future on GSN looked bleak, as word of a possible shift by the network spread, putting gaming programs on the chopping block. In the end, it seems GSN realized that HSP has spent the last four years as one of the network’s most popular programs.

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Comments (0) Jul 24 2008

LAS VEGAS - It takes plenty of confidence and oodles of cash just to play in the World Series of Poker main event, but the world’s best rounders are making things even spicier by raising the stakes against one another.

Gold bracelets command respect for winners of series events, but big-time poker pros Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey added an extra $200,000 incentive for each other to win one or more of the 55 events this year, Negreanu said.

Negreanu’s limit Texas Hold ‘em win earlier this month got him $204,874 in prize money, but his bet with Ivey has nearly doubled that. Ivey can even the score if he wins the main event, a no-limit Texas Hold ‘em tournament that will mean millions of dollars for the winner and certain poker fame.

Comments (0) Jul 07 2008

Bonus and Promotional Offerings

Right now Joyland casino is offering a $25 NO DEPOSIT for all new players signing up. This gives you a chance to play all the games in real money for no risk to you. They also have excellent first time deposit bonuses and also random bonuses that you will receive from time to time if you are playing here.

Comments (0) May 01 2008

Online poker site adds even more new promos days after announcing revamped and enhanced tournament schedule

Days after igniting excitement in the online poker community with a groundbreaking tournament schedule, UltimateBet today introduced two more lucrative promotions, destined to attract a herd of poker players to the site.

“We’re continuing to invest time and resources in creating promotions and events that solidify UltimateBet as the most exciting, most lucrative place to play Texas Hold’em,” stated UltimateBet spokesperson George MacLean. “The addition of these promotions is evidence of that.”

First, the bullets will be flying in the site’s brand new Sniper tournaments where players can fight for the top daily or weekly sniper title in a variety of events for a shot at free tournament entries. Players are awarded a bounty for each player they take out of the tournament and each takedown accounts for rank in the sniper of the day/week titles. http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/sniper-tourney

The action lives on with the new $1 Pro Rebuy Madness Bounty where bounty hunters can earn the amount of money UltimateBet pros used for rebuys just by taking them out of a tournament. With the recent addition of Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian to a list of pros that includes Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, the online poker site’s $1 Pro Rebuy Madness Bounty promotion has instantly become a star-studded event. http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/pro-rebuy

These new promos arrive on the heels of the online poker site announcing its new tournament schedule and hiring Annie Duke as its Cardroom Consultant, two moves that hammer home UltimateBet’s commitment to delivering exactly what poker players want.

Full details on all three promos are available at UltimateBet.com.

Comments (0) Apr 29 2008

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, is offering an exciting prize package to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this July. The Executive Package is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any poker player. It includes a $10,000 buy-in to the Main Event as well as registration fees and a 14-night accommodation (July 3rd - July 17th) for two in a luxury suite along with money for flights and spending.

For the ultimate World Series of Poker experience, Titan Poker will also include executive perks such as two tickets to the “Blue Man Group” show in the Blue Man Group theatre at the Venetian Resort, dinner for two at the exclusive “SW Steakhouse” at the Wynn Hotel, and limousine pick-up to and from the Las Vegas airport.

Players who win four consecutive WSOP Executive Sit ‘n’ Go tournaments, staged round the clock at Titan Poker, will win the WSOP Executive Package to Las Vegas, valued at $20,000. This prize package is in addition to the Main and Side Events Super Satellite Series, each offering prize packages worth $14,000 and $6,500, respectively.

As Titan Poker grows rapidly, the popular online poker site will continue offering players with creative and exciting prize packages to live poker events throughout the world.

A company spokesperson adds that “we are thrilled to offer a prize package of this magnitude. We want our players to have the experience of a lifetime while being a part of poker’s most premier yearly event.”

Titan Poker is sponsoring the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open this May and has sent players to the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. In addition to awarding players seats to the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic later this year, Titan Poker will host the European Championship of Online Poker II (ECOOP) this May where skilled poker players will compete for a share of $3,600,000 dollars.

Comments (0) Apr 27 2008

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Saturday, May 3, 2008, at 20:05 GMT+1
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