William Reynolds Wins PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event
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The $25k PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller tournament was an exciting event in the Bahamas. Eight four players posted the large buy-in to compete for four days to try and win the $500,000+ first place prize. In the end it would be William Reynolds who took down the title.
Several top poker pros participated in the event which included Greg Raymer, Mike Matusow and Daniel Negreanu. But the most recognizable poker pros would not make it to the final table. Reynolds would be a notable player but he is not as well known as other poker pros.
Reynolds has been very successful over the past few months with a 4th place finish at the 2009 EPT San Remo. Reynolds is a regular player at PokerStars and he is a frequent winner during tournaments at the top poker room.
Reynolds commented on his recent win at the PCA by stating: “It was the most roller coaster of a ride I’ve ever been on. I was all in so many times at the end of Day 3 it looked I was going to be the final table bubble. I ended up doubling up four times in a row and making it to the final table, chipping up, winning some key hands and taking it down.”
Reynolds would have to face Will Molson in heads up play before he could claim the title. In the end the two would compete for about three hours before the final hand would take place. Reynolds had earned the chip lead when he went all in A-10 against Molson’s K-9. The flop was 5-7-9 and J-A was no help on the turn and river for Molson so Reynold’s earned the first place win.
Final Results:
1st: William Reynolds – $576,240
2nd: Will Molson – $322,075
3rd: Adolfo Vaeza – $218,150
4th: Michiel Brummelhuis – $154,350
5th: Lisa Hamilton – $133,770
6th: Tobias Reinkemeier – $108,045
7th: Matt Marafioti – $87,465
8th: Dmitry Stelmark – $66,885
PCA to feature Celebrity Tournament
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This year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is going to be very exciting with all of the various events taking place but one event is extra special. PokerStars has been working with amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS research, to create a high profile charity poker tournament. The tournament will feature top poker pros, sports stars and celebrities, playing poker to raise money for the cause.
The tournament will have a buy-in of $5,250 and will take place at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island on January 8th, 2010. Half of the total prize pool will be going to amfAR to help support their research and help raise awareness to HIV/AIDS.
PokerStars sponsored sports stars Mats Sundin, the NHL Olympic gold medalist, Boris Becker the Tennis legend and French rugby star Sebastian Chabal are all members of Team PokerStars pro and expected to participate. Other PokerStars pros are expected to participate as well.
Daniel Negreanu commented: “PokerStars is bringing a truly innovative and fulfilling cause to the PCA this year through their partnership with amfAR. As a member of Team PokerStars Pro, I feel very lucky to be able to participate in, and contribute to, such a worthwhile cause in the name of AIDS research.”
PokerStars will be running special online qualifiers for players to be able to win their seat to the event. Players who win seats will earn a trip to the Bahamas and be able to rub elbows with the sports stars, celebrities and poker pros while they support the great charity.
Gregory Boroff, amfAR’s vice president and director of development commented: “amfAR is grateful for PokerStars for providing this opportunity to bring AIDS awareness to a new audience and to raise critical funds for AIDS research.”
Americas Cup of Poker Tournament Series Announced by PokerStars
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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.
PokerStars Supporting PPA by Offering FreeRoll
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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.
PokerStars Announces Fifth Leg of ANZPT
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PokerStars brought poker fans a new poker tour this year called the Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT). The new tour kicked off in February in Adelaide and since then has gone to Sydney and Melbourne with another stop scheduled for July in Queenstown. PokerStars has now released information on the fifth and final leg of the ANZPT which will take place in Queensland.
The end of the ANZPT will take place in Queensland in early August beginning on the 5th and continuing until the 9th. The Queensland tournament will have a unique format as it will take place at two different venues, the Conrad Jupiters and Conrad Treasury.
The tournament will be capped at 280 players as well as 20 alternates. At each venue two day one flights will take place and the schedule, breaks and announcements will be synchronized. On day three all the players will come together from both venues. Players from the Conrad Treasury in Brisbane will be transferred to Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast.
The Queensland tournament will have a buy-in of $2,500 and no fee will be charged. So every dollar of the buy-in will go toward the prize pool so the players competing will be able to earn the most they can.
PokerStar will now begin running satellites so online players can compete to win packages to the Queensland tournament. Players should check at PokerStars tournament lobby for upcoming details on the satellites offered at the online poker room.
Schedule of events for Queensland Tournament:
Wednesday August 5th
$2,500 Main Event – Day 1 Flight 1 – Treasury Brisbane – 12:30pm
$2,500 Main Event – Day 1 Flight A – Jupiters Gold Coast – 12:30pm
Thursday August 6th
$2,500 Main Event – Day 1 Flight 2 – Treasury Brisbane – 12:30pm
$2,500 Main Event – Day 1 Flight B – Jupiters Gold Coast – 12:30pm
Friday August 7th
$2,500 Main Event – Day 2 – Treasury Brisbane – 12:30pm
$2,500 Main Event – Day 2 – Jupiters Gold Coast – 12:30pm
Saturday August 8th
$2,500 Main Event – Day 3 – Jupiters Gold Coast – 12:30pm
Sunday August 9th
$2,500 Main Event – Day 4 – Jupiters Gold Coast – 12:30pm
2009 WSOP Satellites Now Running at PokerStars
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As the 2009 World Series of Poker draws near, more and more online poker rooms will begin to host online satellites for players to qualify for various WSOP events. PokerStarsrecently began offering satellites for their players to gain entry into the Main Event. Players have three ways to qualify: FPP Qualifiers, Steps Qualifiers and Cash Qualifiers.
The FPP Qualifiers will offer the least amount of options to get a WSOP Main Event seat. Three seats a week will be given to players during the FPP WSOP Qualifier Saturdays which will begin at 4pm EST. daily super satellites will also be available on the site.
The Steps Qualifiers will give players the opportunity to work their way through a tiered tournament system which has six levels. Each tournament will award a ticket to the next step to the top players of the tournament. A few of the runners up will earn a ticket to repeat the step they were on or they will move down a step. Either way, the players will still be in contention to move up a step if they play well.
Players participating in the Cash Qualifiers will find they can enter two open cash qualifiers each week. A $650 qualifier will take place on Sundays at 6pm EST while a larger buy-in qualifier, $1050, will take place on Fridays at 8:30PM EST. If players do not want to pay the large buy-ins they can participate in super-satellites which will lead to the large buy-in qualifiers.
Each type of qualifier can be found on the PokerStars.com website by clicking on the events tab and then WSOP. Players will then be able to choose which type of qualifier they would like to participate in. With so many options to choose from, it should not be hard for players to find the right kind of satellite qualifier for them.
If you want to practice first, check out PokerStar.net – the PokerStars play money site.
Playgirl555 Wins PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
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Yesterdays Sunday Warm-Up at PokerStars saw a good number of players competing even though many have been busy playing in the Spring Championship of Online poker. 3,622 players competed in the $750K guaranteed tournament which has a buy-in of $200 plus $15. It was online player, Playgirl555 who would take the first place prize of just over $100,000.
Five hundred and forty players competing would cash out though those who made the final table would really earn the big bucks. Finishing in seventh or better guaranteed a prize in the tens of thousands.
When heads up play began it would come down to Playgirl555 and enjoyin_nyc. Both played well in the competition and managed to outlast the others to get to the top to compete against each other. It would not be long before Playgirl555 made a move and took the win from enjoyin_nyc and become the winner of the $750k guaranteed tournament.
Final Results of the PokerStars.com Sunday Warm-up:
1. Playgirl555 — $101,250
2. enjoyin_nyc — $71,250
3. polonezas — $48,750
4. cnew27 — $38,265
5. Try_An_Hit — $30,750
6. canny86 — $23,250
7. nolan24 — $15,750
8. bonya37 — $9,750
9. Hass — $6,750
Phenomenal Win for “StefanProdan” At PokerStars Sunday Million
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Once again, the PokerStars flagship event – the Sunday Million – attracted an enormous field of online poker players. And once again, the already sensational $1.5 million guaranteed was trumped, this time worth $1,732,800.
Unlike most of PokerStars Sunday Million tournaments, this time around, the winner is taking home an astounding 1st place prize like he’s never witnessed before. “StefanProdan” earned more than $200k for the victory, with his largest recorded tournament cash up to this point being a 76th place finish in the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl, worth $772.52.
The action got underway with 8,664 players converging on the tables. The top 1,260 players would see a piece of the lucrative prize pool. As the players dwindled, the final table was eventually formed.
One by one, the virtual rails became packed. The 3rd place exit of “Bob Vitis” resulted in heads-up play between StefanProdan and young American Joel “jbrown04″ Brown.
These two players have a lot in common, neither having earned a significant prize in online poker tournaments. Brown’s largest cash was for $4,470 in January of 2009, being the only 4-digit cash recorded on his roster. No matter what happened, both would walk away extremely happy men.
As fate would have it, it was StefanProdan that would take the 1st place victory and the impressive payday of $209,842. Brown was easily consoled with a $141,223 cash for the 2nd place finish.
PokerStars Sunday Million Final Table Results
1st – StefanProdan ($209,842)
2nd – jbrown04 ($141,223)
3rd – Bob Vitis ($96,170)
4th – wywrotX ($77,976)
5th – WlkRambo ($60,648)
6th – IRENE666 ($43,320)
7th – Princess480 ($30,324)
8th – G6Dragon ($19,927)
9th – Vincent Eley ($12,130)
PokerStars Sunday Million Pays $200k+ To Winner “livelikunger”
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The PokerStars.com Sunday Million, awarding a guaranteed prize pool of at least $1.5 million on a weekly basis, has clearly become the hot spot for online poker tournament fans. This weekend, the massive tourney at PokerStars drew enough participants to increase the guaranteed prize pool, once again, to more than $1.65 million.
Already claiming the number one position in the online poker industry in regards to active player volume for quite some time now, PokerStars grew even larger in the final quarter of 2008; especially in the month of December. In fact, according to last week’s reports, PokerStars now maintains about 35% of the entire online poker industry’s traffic. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that PokerStars is avoiding overlays at every turn of the MTT schedule.
Last Sunday, PokerStars attracted 8,504 entrants to its largest weekly guarantee, the $1.5m Sunday Million. With a $200+$15 buy-in, those numbers boosted the prize pool to an intimidating $1,653,600. As the action got underway, the participants knew that 1,260 of them would finish in the bubble.
Just making the prize pool is one thing, but earning a seat in the final table was the honor of nine highly skilled competitors. One by one, the table dwindled, each claiming their respectable purses as they made their way to the virtual rails. Finishing in 3rd was Kappe85, whose $91,775 payoff effectively eased the pains of elimination.
Heads-up play ensued between “livelikunger” and “dxu05”, both worthy of their positions after displaying talented longevity in the online poker tournament. At some point, the Sunday Million had to come to an end, as it always does; and thus “dxu05” suffered the wrath of Lady Luck with a 2nd place finish, earning $134,768. “Livelikunger” was crowned the victor, walking away with an impressive 1st place prize of more than $200k.
PokerStars.net $1.5M GTD Sunday Million Final Table Results
1st – livelikunger ($200,251)
2nd – dxu05 ($134,768)
3rd – Kappe85 ($91,775)
4th – U_TILT_ME ($74,412)
5th – chicokim ($57,876)
6th – g0lfa ($41,340)
7th – Sir_winalot9 ($28,938)
8th – Tophandler ($19,016)
9th – Mexxximum1 ($11,575)
PokerStars Rings In The New Tournament Year With Caribbean Adventure
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PokerStars will help ring in the New Year in style as the 2009 poker tournament schedule gets set to kick off with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, of the European Poker Tour. The 2008 PCA received incredible attention, turning out to be one of the biggest live events of the year aside from the World Series of Poker, and the 2009 PCA is expecting even bigger and better things.
The PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure will feature another complete roster of tournaments to whet the appetite of those who travel to the Bahamas’ this January. The Atlantis Resort & Casino will once again set the scene for a range of events, beginning Jan. 5th and running through the 10th.
The PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure will waste no time in delivering the action, kicking off the Main Event on Day 1 and lasting the full length of the PCA calendar. The Main Event features a $10k buy-in, played as a NL Hold’em Freezeout that continues until the Final Table is set on the 10th.
The PCA side tournament will begin on January 7th, including day 1 of the $25k High Roller Event that is expected to bring out many of today’s biggest professional poker names, along with a 2-day $2k NL Hold’em Freezeout event.
Another 2-day, $2k tournament begins on the 8th, deemed the Battleship Event, followed by a 2-day $5k NL Hold’em Freezeout. The $25k High Roller Event will conclude on January 9th, with the PCA Main Event Final Table wrapping up on January 10th.
PokerStars will also be hosting its PokerStars Poker Camp at the Caribbean Adventure this year, featuring instructional poker training from former World Champions Chris moneymaker and Greg Raymer, along with 4-time WSOP Bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu. These adept pros will be offering indispensable advice as to how players can get deep in the money at multi-table tournaments. There will also be plenty of juicy cash tables running to keep early eliminations engaged throughout the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
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