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Full Tilt Weekend Tournament Results
Posted on September 21, 2009
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Full Tilt Poker had several tournaments taking place this weekend but the two highlights of the weekend were the $1 Million Guaranteed tournament and the MiniFTOPS Main Event. both tournaments saw very good turnouts and offered large prize pools for those participating.
The MiniFTOPS Main Event was a no limit hold’em tournament with a $50 plus 5 buy-in. a huge number of players competed in this event, 14,428 to be exact. The field created a prize pool of $721,400 and paid out to 1,890 spots.
McFugu and noitall611 would strike a deal during heads up play so even though noitall611 earned the win he did not walk away with the largest prize. McFugu earned $94,076 for second and noitall611 earned $89,982.
Final Results:
noitall611 – $89,982
McFugu – $94,076 *2-way deal
BlueFocus – $52,302
Shihai911 – $37,513
mdfgreat1 – $26,692
takeithard_23 – $19,117
paulique – $13,707
PassTheRoxi – $10,100
fishfinder22 – $7,142
The $1 Million Guarantee event is a No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $500 plus 35 buy-in. 2,476 players competed to up the prize pool from $1 million to $1,238,000. 351 spots would earn a pay day with first place earning just over $227,000.
Heads up play would see online players gdluck and Pocketownage420 competing for the first place prize. the difference in first and second place was quite significant, at just over $87,000. Both would fight hard but it would be gdluck who would take down the final pot to earn the first place win.
Final Results:
gdluck – $227,111
Pocketownage420 – $139,399
BONCELA – $91,241
rubenrtv – $72,794
NEONPILS99 – $55,091
kwob20 – $39,616
bentebabe69 – $29,093
KaKeTKa – $22,779
dubbeemin – $17,332
UltimateBet Offering Steps Tournaments to Aruba Poker Classic
Posted on August 31, 2009
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The eighth annual Aruba Poker Classic is set to begin this October and UltimateBet is giving their players a chance to earn a seat at their annual event by offering special steps tournaments. The step tournaments give players a chance to buy-in to a tournament for next to nothing and work their way to the top tournament for a chance to win a seat to the Aruba Poker Classic.
The Aruba Poker Classic is offering a $10 million prize to any player who is able to qualify via a $.10 step tournament and win the Aruba Poker Classic. This means that if your average poker player earns a seat to the Classic via the steps tournaments and wins the Classic, dominating over pros and other players, that person will earn $10 million from UltimateBet.
UltimateBet is offering this special prize to their members in celebration of their tenth anniversary of operation. Players who compete in the ten cent steps tournaments and work their way to win a package will earn an $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package. The package includes the $5,500 Main event buy-in and $3,000 for travel and accommodation expenses.
Really think about it for a second. If you earn a seat this way you could win $10 million. If you earn your seat elsewhere or buy-in directly you could still win but it will be nowhere near $10 million. Players still have about nine weeks to compete in the steps tournaments. The Classic will take place from the 3rd to the 10th of October at the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino and Spa and you could be enjoying the surroundings and rubbing elbows with the top names in poker as you compete for your shot at $10 million.
Poker Pro Gets Beat in Full Tilt Poker Monday Tournament
Posted on August 24, 2009
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Every day at Full Tilt poker, players can find tournaments to compete in with various buy-ins to meet their bank roll. Sometimes in the higher buy-in tournaments average Joes get to compete against professional poker players, especially at Full Tilt. The latest Monday $1k tournament saw an online player defeat a Full Tilt Poker pro for a nice first place prize.
The Monday $1k has a buy-in of $1,000 plus 60 and three hundred and thirty two players registered bringing the prize pool up to $332,000. Thirty six spots would be paid with the top spot earning just under $30,000 more than second.
Now I don’t know if poker pro David Pham was online for fun or practice or a little of both but of course being the pro he is, Pham landed himself in heads up play. Pham would face off against online player JBlaze20 after subiime was eliminated in third place. JBlaze20 is no stranger to winning or doing well but going heads up against a poker pro, in my opinion, would be very stressful not to mention nerve racking.
One would expect the pro to take the small tournament easily but that would not be the case. JBlaze20 would play well and when he gained the chip lead he would make his move and Pham would call. JBlaze20’s cards would hold up better than Pham’s and he would take the win from the pro.
Final Results:
JBlaze20 – $83,000
David Pham – $53,120
subiime – $39,840
des-er-ray – $30,710
pepe11 – $23,240
jackuup888 – $16,600
joaoMATHIAS – $10,790
cransbard – $8,300
BARNIBUS – $6,640
Ultimate Bet Hosting Special Aruba Poker Classic Satellites
Posted on August 3, 2009
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Ultimate Bet Hosting Special Aruba Poker Classic Satellites
The annual Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic is set to take place from October 3rd through the 10th which is not so far away. So because the poker tournament is arriving soon the online poker room has begun giving out seats to the event. Ultimate Bet is offering players a chance to win a seat to the event every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The online poker room is also holding a special day of giveaways which will see twenty five players walk away with a seat to the competition, all in one day.
On Sundays players can compete in the $530 Aruba Super Satellite which guarantees at least three $8,500 packages to the tournament. On Tuesdays players can compete in the $215 Aruba Super Satellite which will offer at least one package. On Wednesdays players can participate in a $109 re-buy which will offer at least one package as well.
On August 30th Ultimate Bet will be holding a 25 Seat Aruba Guarantee which will have a $530 buy-in. Players can also participate in lower buy-in satellites to earn a seat to the $530 event. so at least 25 seats will be given away on the 30ths and those who win one of the seats will earn an $8,000 package. The package includes the $5,500 Main Event buy-in plus $3,000 in spending money that can be used for hotel and airfare.
Below is a full schedule of events for the Classic with local time frames.
Saturday, October 3rd
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 3:00pm
$650 Single-Table Satellites for Main Event – 3:00pm
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 3:00pm
$500+40 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament – 7:00pm
Welcome Banquet – 8:30pm
Sunday, October 4th
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 12:00 Noon
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 12:00 Noon
$650 Single-Table Satellites for Main Event – 12:00 Noon
$500+40 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament – 7:00pm
Monday, October 5th
Aruba Poker Classic Main Event Day 1A- 12:00 Noon
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 12:00 Noon
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 2:00pm
$650 Single-Table Satellites for Main Event – 2:00pm
$500+40 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament – 7:00pm
Tuesday, October 6th
Aruba Poker Classic Main Event Day 1B – 12:00 Noon
$440 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Wednesday’s $2,000+100 event – 2:00pm
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 2:00pm
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 2:00pm
$500+40 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament – 7:00pm
Wednesday, October 7th
Aruba Poker Classic Championship Event Day 2 – 12:00 Noon
$440 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $2,000+100 Event: 11:00am
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 1:00pm
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 1:00pm
$2,000+100 Two-Day No Limit Hold’em Tournament Day 1 – 3:00pm
$500+40 No Limit Hold’em Tournament – 7:00pm
Thursday, October 8th
Aruba Poker Classic Championship Event Day 3 – 12:00 Noon
$225 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $1,000+60 Event – 11:00am
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 12:00 Noon
$1,000+60 No Limit Hold’em Tournament – 3:00pm
$2,000+100 Two-Day No Limit Hold’em Tournament Day 2 – 3:00pm
Friday, October 9th
Aruba Poker Classic Championship Event Day 4 – 12:00 Noon
$120 Continuous Single-Table Satellites for Today’s $500+40 Event – 11:00am
$120 Cash Sit and Gos – 11:00am
$2,000+100 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed Tournament – 2:00pm
$500+40 No Limit Hold’em Tournament – 3:00pm
Saturday, October 10th
Aruba Poker Classic Championship Final Table – 12:00 Noon
Awards Banquet – TBD
Americas Cup of Poker Tournament Series Announced by PokerStars
Posted on July 27, 2009
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PokerStars is known as the number one online poker room for many reasons. They offer large guaranteed tournaments, they have the best poker pros on their team and they offer several land tournaments each year for player’s enjoyment. The list could go on and on but let’s focus on tournaments.
PokerStars recently announced a new tournament series called the Americas Cup of Poker or ACP. The new series will begin on the 27th of July and see players from thirteen countries located throughout the Americas and three wildcard teams competing for big money.
The countries eligible for the new series are the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Canada, Columbia, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The point of the series is to split players up into teams by country. Each country will be split up into four groups with each group having four countries in it.
The teams will then face off against each other in daily free rolls which will be $.20 and $5.50 tournaments. The top 100 individual finishers of each tournament will earn points for themselves as well as their team. Tournaments that players buy-in to will offer more points than the free rolls. For example a first place finish in a free roll is worth 600 points while a $.20 player will earn 1,500 points for first place.
The top two countries in each group will move on to the live final. Each team in the live final will have one PokerStars pro and then the five players who earned the most points for their team during the online qualifiers.
The live final will take place at a ski resort in Bariloche in Argentina. The top eight players will be paid at the live final. Fifth through eighth place will earn $10,000, fourth will earn $20,000, third earns $30,000, $60,000 goes to second and first earns $100,000 and their country will be named the winner of the Americas Cup of Poker.
Rocker to Host Online Home Game on UltimateBet in August
Posted on July 20, 2009
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Scott Ian, best known for being the rhythm guitarist for heavy metal group Anthrax, is an avid poker player. So much so, if Scot is not working on music then he is online at UltimateBet working on his poker skills. Scott has hosted an online “home game” at UltimateBet once before and now has announced he will be holding his second “home game” this august.
Scott has announced that an Aruba Poker Classic package will be up for grabs for the winner of the online “home game” so more players are expected to try for a seat to the rocker’s event. Scott also mentioned how supportive the UB players were for his first home game.
The tournament will have eighteen players with eleven seats available for online players. The other seats will be taken by Scott, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Vinnie Paul of Pantera,, Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne as well as Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke of UltimateBet.
An exclusive qualifying tournament will take place on the 18th of August and will have an entry fee of 10,000 UltimatePoints. But if players do not have that many points they can enter in daily multi-table tournaments that have buy-ins as low as 1,000 UltimatePoints.
The UltimateBet “home game” will take place on August 19th at 9:30pm and Annie Duke will be hoping to defend her title as champion as she won the first home game back in March. Scott finished in eighth place so he will be working to stay in longer this go round. It should be very interesting to see which type of player will earn the win this time. Will it be a rocker, poker pro or online player who earns the first place finish?
Pacific Poker Offering Satellites to APT Macau event
Posted on July 13, 2009
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The Asian Poker Tour is a very popular tour in the poker industry. The next event on the APT schedule is just a month away so many online poker rooms are beginning to offer satellites to their players to hopefully win a seat to the event. One such poker room offering seats is Pacific Poker.
Once a week, Pacific Poker is running satellites so their players have a shot at going to Macau to compete in the APT events. The buy-in for the satellite at Pacific Poker is $275 and players will be competing to win a prize package worth $6,500. The package includes the Main event buy-in, accommodation and transfers.
Those who do not want to pay the large buy-in amount for the satellite can participate in sub-satellites that start as low as $2. Those players will have to work their way toward a seat but it would cost less than the $275 buy-in.
The Asian Poker Tour Macau event is set to take place between August 12th and the 23rd. the Macau leg of the APT is one of the more popular stops as Macau has become a popular destination for gambling.
The Macau stop will have thirteen designated side events that range in buy-ins from HK$2,640 and HK$8,800. The main schedule will include eight and six max events, a bounty tournament, a heads up tournament, a shoot-out and multiple teams’ events. There will also be a high rollers event which will have a HK$168,000 buy-in.
The Main Event of the APT stop will have a buy-in of HK$34,400 and will take place over four days with two day one flights. Players will begin with 10,000 in chips and blinds will increase every hour. Over four hundred players are expected to compete so this would generate a nice size prize pool.
Players interested in competing in the satellites for a seat to the Main event should visit Pacific Poker and get started!
Online Qualifiers Begin at Full Tilt Poker for Face The Ace Television Show
Posted on July 6, 2009
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NBC and FullTiltPoker.net have created a new poker television show called Face The Ace which puts online qualifiers against poker pros. Full Tilt Poker is offering the qualifiers at their online poker room for players to try their luck and possibly get on the show.
Each contestant has the chance to face up to three different poker pros in head to head competition with the possibility to walk away with $1 million if they last the entire time. The show will begin filming on July 9th in Las Vegas and begin airing on NBC on August 1st.
The show was first announced this past April and was described as part game show part reality show. The new show will be hosted by Steve Schirripa, of Sopranos fame, and will see several poker pros, or ‘Aces’ as they are called on the show. Those included are: Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harmon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Phil Gordon, Allen Cunningham, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Andy Bloch, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.
The show will begin with the online qualifier facing four smoked glass doors. Behind each door is an ‘Ace’ and the qualifier gets to choose which door they want to face. If the player beats the ‘Ace’ then they can take the money they earned or they can face another ‘Ace’. If the online qualifier wins all three matchups and risks the money each time they will win one million dollars.
Players can participate in the qualifying rounds at Full Tilt Poker to win their seat on the show. Players must first win Round 1 free roll and then move on to round 2. Round 2 winners earn an entry to a Face The Ace final qualifier tournament. The top ten finishers in each final qualifier tournament will win a free prize package which includes a trip to Las Vegas to audition for Face The Ace.
PokerStars Supporting PPA by Offering FreeRoll
Posted on June 30, 2009
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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a nonprofit organization that supports gambling as a form or entertainment in the United States. The PPA recently announced the dated for National Poker Week (July 19th through the 26th) and along with that announcement, the PPA stated they have a new website where players can help support the right to play games of skill like online poker. The website is called PokerPetition.com and players can log on and sign the petition which will be sent to president Obama on July 22nd.
To help support the PPA’s petition efforts, PokerStar.net has announced they will reward petition signers with one entry into a $3,500 free roll. Anyone who signs the petition through the special PokerStars link will earn a spot at one of five free rolls. The link for players to earn the entry is www.PokerPetition.com/pokerstars.
The free rolls will take place on June 27th, July 4th, July 11th, July 18th and July 25th, all at 14:30 ET. Each tournament is limited to 20,000 players and the top finishers of the tournaments will split the $3,500 prize pool.
The petition is short and sweet but it gets to the point. It reads:
President Obama – Poker is Not a Crime
I am a voter and a fellow poker player asking for your support of my right to play games of skill like poker on the Internet.
This issue is not lost on the American public. We recently made our desire for this liberty known through your Citizen’s Briefing Book website. Of the thousands of proposals submitted, a proposal supporting Internet poker rights was the number one issue on technology policy.
What’s most important to me is your support for my rights. Please: 1) exempt poker from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and 2) license and regulate internet poker in the US. 3) Respect the rights of law-abiding Americans who love to play this great game of skill.
Most poker players will be signing the petition anyway so signing up through PokerStars is a great way to earn a little extra cash while supporting the right to play poker.
Full Tilt Poker Offering Seats to WPT Cyprus Classic
Posted on June 30, 2009
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Full Tilt Poker is a top online poker room for many reasons but one of those reasons is they offer their players chances to qualify for several live events. Full Tilt is currently offering players a chance to earn a seat to the World Poker Tour Cyprus Classic 2009.
Full Tilt Poker is hosting weekly WPT Cyprus Qualifiers and players can earn a seat to the live event by competing in these qualifiers. The World Poker Tour Cyprus Classic 2009 takes place from September 6th through the 12th and those who win a seat from Full Tilt will earn a $12,500 prize package to the event.
The package includes the buy-in for the WPT Cyprus Classic 2009 which is worth $10,300. The package also includes an eight day stay at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino and $500 in spending money.
The WPT Cyprus Classic 2009 has been estimated to have a prize pool of $4 million so the lucky package winners are sure to earn a nice prize if they play well. Winners can also enjoy the luxury of the Merit Hotel which offers a swimming pool, wellness spa, private beach and much more.
The qualifying tournaments take place at Full Tilt on Saturdays at 13:00 ET from now until August 22nd. One $12,500 prize package will be given away per tournament. Players can buy-in directly to any WPT Cyprus Qualifier for $300 plus $22 or play in satellites to earn a seat to the qualifier for as little as $1 or 50 Full Tilt Points.
This is an excellent opportunity for online players to earn a spot at a World Poker Tour event. Whether you have a small bank roll or large you will find a satellite fitting your needs or just pay the buy-in to the qualifier to start on your way to the WPT Cyprus Classic 2009.
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