WCOOP Event #6 Winner: A Familiar Champion
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Greg Raymer, better known as FossilMan, has once again reached the top of the poker mountain at Poker Stars WCOOP event #6. Fossilman triumphed in the 772 player, $320 Pot Limit Omaha rebuy event on September 18th. Raymer was credited with $168,362.40 in his Poker Stars account!
Fossilman began the final table with a dominating chip stack and held strong to take down the World Championships of Online Poker Event #6. One particularly humorous event occurred when Raymer actually lost his internet connection during the final table. Maybe Fossilman should invest in a dedicated internet line for the next WCOOP event. 
Players can still qualify for WCOOP events at Poker Stars now for as low as $8.80!
Poker Stars WCOOP Begins
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The annual Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker began last Friday and now we already have our first 4 WCOOP champioins of 2007. The WCOOP kicked off on Friday with Poker Stars player samh133 outlasting 4,610 other playres and winning $172,875.00 in priz money. The top 534 players were able to take home some winnings as well.
Event #2 was won by spielraum at and was awarded $42,850. This pot limit 5 card draw event featured 6 players max at each table and spielraum.at beat out 857 other players to take home the WCOOP Event #2 bracelet.
The third WCOOP event was won by jalla79 and $73,738.08 was awarded as first place prize money.
Event #4 had 649 players and Donald was able to take home 1st place and $32,450.
Event #5, the $2 Million Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em Event is running now at Poker Stars and has 6025 total players. As of the time of this post there is only 2935 players left battling it out for a $3,012,500 prize pool. The winner of tonights WCOOP event #5 will be cashing in at over $433,000.
Satellites are still running at Poker Stars for the remaining 18 WCOOP events. Players can qualify directly for any of the remaining events at Poker Stars for as little as $8.80.
Poker Stars APPT Winner
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The first winner of the Poker Stars Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) was crowned in Manilla, Philippines and it was not one of the usual poker pro suspects. Instead, unknown Brett Parise from BodogPoker, USA outplayed 255 other poker players, 65 of whom qualified via a Poker Stars Satellite Tournament,to be crowned the first winner from the Poker Stars APPT.
Parise not only now holds the distinction of being the first ever APPT champion, but he also holds a nice first prize of $179,775. The first place winnings is one of the largest cash prizes ever awarded in Asian Poker history.
Parise’s next stop? Perhaps theParadise Seoul Casino at the Walker Hill Hotel in Seoul, South Korea. This is where the second leg of the APPT will take place.The event is scheduled for September 26-30 and satellite qualifiers are running now at BodogPoker.com and Poker Stars.
At the time of this post 49 players had already won their way to event #2 of the APPTin Seoul via a satellite tournament at Poker Stars. Players can play their way into the APPT event in Seoul for as little as $8.88 or 350 frequent player points at Poker Stars.
Sit N Go Satellite to Poker Stars Sunday Hundred Grand
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I sat down on Sunday afternoon to play in a sit and go satellite tournament at Poker Stars that awarded the top 6 finishers seats at the Poker Stars Hundred Grand Guaranteed tournament. This event was a $2.20 buy in and started when we had 36 players seated at 4 tables. To gain entry to the Poker Stars Sunday Hundred Grand, the direct buy in is $11. So gaining entry to this tournament directly is not out of some players grasp.
I jumped out to a great start within the first 2 hands by completing a King high straight to all buy knock out one player and then flopping the nut flush on an other player to bring my initial $1500 in chips up to almost $4k. However, my play slowed down dramatically for me after that. I didn’t want to continue to rely on the luck of the table so I went into a tight, conservative role. By luck I don’t mean I was sucking players out either. I was making the correct plays, but just getting lucky in completing the better hand.
Play was quickly reduced to 3 tables as the initial10 players exited the tournament within the first 5 minutes of action. Then within the first 20 minutes we were down to 2 tables and I was sitting in 5th chip position and looking like I had a great chance to qualify for the Hundred Grand Guaranteed Tournament!
After play was reduced to 2 tables, it seemed that every player at my table switched into the extremely conservative role except for one, mr.dier. Mr.dier was able to take advantage of everyone else’s seemingly inability to play their game out of fear of being knocked out at this point. This some what included myself as I tried to avoid confrontations with this player since his enormous chip stack could easily push me off hands if I went to the flop with him. However, this in combination with the fact that I went extremely card cold widled my chip stack down to about $2k before we even hit the first break.
My luck in the first two hands of the poker tournament had seemingly worn off and I was in danger of falling out of this tournament. I then picked up 2 huge pots and found myself back at the top of the leader board with over $6k in chips. The first hand I had a 5-2 in the hole and had made 2 pair on the board with a possible flush on the board as well. I went all in on the river to semi bluff down the pot. The very next hand I landed 77 and went all in against a reraise and out raced my opponents A J. A few hands later I ousted one player with A J after flopping an ace, then beat out an other player with KK against his AK. This put me in first position with over $12k in chips.
I entered the final table about 4th in chips after I bluffed off about $3k in chips the last hand before the final table was established. I made a play at a pot holding pocket 6’s with a potential flush on the board. I put the other player all in and he made a great call holding A-9 with an ace on the board. At this point, all that I needed to do was to finish ahead of 3 more players and the seat at the Sunday Hundred Grand was mine!
I knocked out the first player with A-7 of clubs against their 8-9 offsuit. No one made a hand so my Ace high held up. Player #2 got knocked out when his Kings ran into someone else’s set of 8’s. The last player, who was ate up by ante’s and blinds, finally was forced into a showdown with his 5-2 against an other players 99. The 9’s held up and my ticket was handed to me to the Sunday Hundred Grand! Let’s see if I can bring home the big prize now.
Poker Stars in Asia
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With the growing success of the European Poker Tour, Poker Stars has launched its next great poker tour, the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT).
The inaugural tour will have 3 stops across Asia and the Pacific which will include tournaments in Manilla, Phillipines, Seoul, Korea and Sydney, Australia.
The first event in Manilla will take place on August 24 - 26th and will feature newly minted Poker Stars endorser Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu is one of pokers top players and has been featured on many poker television shows such as Poker SuperStars on Fox and High Stakes Poker on the GSN network.
As usual Poker Stars is offering up multiple chances for players to qualify for these APPT events via online poker satellite tournaments. Poker players can enter $22 satellites, which run daily, to try to win their $5,000 buy in package to any of the 3 APPT events.
Get your Poker Stars account now and start winning your way to the Asia Pacific Poker Tour today!
EPT Satellites at Poker Stars
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The European Poker Tour, or EPT as it is more widely known, is set to begin the 2007-08 edition August 28th, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. This season the EPT is scheduled for 10 events culminating with the EPT Grand Final on April 12th, 2008 at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort in Monaco.
While direct buy ins to EPT events range from 5,200 Euros all the way up to 10,000 Euros, players can qualify for these events for much less via online satellite tournaments.
Poker Stars is the home of the online poker satellite tournament, qualifying season 3’s Grand Final winner, Gavin Griffin, who took home almost $2.4 million in winnings in the Monte Carlo Final.
Players can qualify at Poker Stars now for the first 3 tour stops via satellite tournaments for as low at $8. EPT event qualifiers win an EPT package which includes tournament seat, luxury hotel and $1,000 in spending money.
Poker Stars satellite tournaments are now open to the following EPT events:
EPT Barcelona Open
EPT London
EPT Baden Classic
At the time of this post, 79 players had already qualified for these 3 events via satellite tournaments at Poker Stars. Your name could be added to this list soon!
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Poker Stars WCOOP
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The Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker are set to kick off on September 14th, 2007 and this year there is a guaranteed $18.5 million in prize money to give away!
The best part about getting into the WCOOP is that you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to get into one of the 23 main events. You can qualify via a satellite tournament at the home of poker satellite tournaments.
WCOOP 2007 Schedule
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EVENT No |
DATE |
DAY |
TIME |
EVENT |
BUY-IN |
GUARANTEE |
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| 1 | Sep.14 | Friday | 15:00 | NL Hold’em [6-max] |
$215 | $400,000 |
| 2 | Sep.14 | Friday | 16:30 | PL 5-Card Draw |
$215 | $100,000 |
| 3 | Sep.15 | Saturday | 15:00 | PL Omaha [6-max] |
$215 | $200,000 |
| 4 | Sep.15 | Saturday | 16:30 | 2-7 Triple Draw |
$215 | $100,000 |
| 5 | Sep.16 | Sunday | 16:30 | NL Hold’em |
$530 | $2,000,000 |
| 6 | Sep.17 | Monday | 15:00 | PL Omaha w/Rebuys |
$320 | $400,000 |
| 7 | Sep.18 | Tuesday | 15:00 | Limit Hold’em |
$215 | $100,000 |
| 8 | Sep.19 | Wednesday | 15:00 | Limit Omaha H/L |
$530 | $300,000 |
| 9 | Sep.20 | Thursday | 15:00 | NL Hold’em w/Rebuys |
$215 | $1,000,000 |
| 10 | Sep.21 | Friday | 15:00 | NL Hold’em Match Play |
$320 | $500,000 |
| 11 | Sep.21 | Friday | 16:30 | Razz | $215 | $100,000 |
| 12 | Sep.22 | Saturday | 15:00 | HORSE |
$215 | $200,000 |
| 13 | Sep.22 | Saturday | 16:30 | PL Hold’em |
$530 | $400,000 |
| 14 | Sep.23 | Sunday | 16:30 | NL Hold’em |
$1,050 | $2,000,000 |
| 15 | Sep.24 | Monday | 15:00 | 7 Card Stud |
$320 | $100,000 |
| 16 | Sep.25 | Tuesday | 15:00 | PL Omaha H/L |
$320 | $200,000 |
| 17 | Sep.26 | Wednesday | 15:00 | NL Hold’em [6-max] |
$320 | $400,000 |
| 18 | Sep.27 | Thursday | 15:00 | 7 Card Stud H/L |
$530 | $200,000 |
| 19 | Sep.28 | Friday | 15:00 | PL Omaha |
$530 | $300,000 |
| 20 | Sep.28 | Friday | 16:30 | NL Hold’em Triple Shootout | $530 | $200,000 |
| 21 | Sep.29 | Saturday | 15:00 | HORSE |
$5,200 | $500,000 |
| 22 | Sep.29 | Saturday | 16:30 | Limit Hold’em | $1,050 | $200,000 |
Satellite Tournaments are running daily and begin at an entry fee of $2.20 + rebuys.
Poker Stars runs satellite tournaments a little differently then other online poker rooms. All of their satellite tournaments lead directly to the main events. So there are no playing through multiple tournaments just to make it to the event you are trying to qualify for.
Sign up at Poker Stars today and start playing your way into the WCOOP main events today!
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