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Phil Ivey is one of the worlds premier poker players. At the 2-7 lowball no-limit event he showed it. With a tournament field of 147 he players, he out played all of them to win his 6th bracelet. Going into the final table with a dwindling chip stack and few hopes of winning his 6th bracelet, he made his charge. Monnette at one time was the large chip leader, [...]
The Main Event at the World Series of Poker is the most prestigious, exciting, and dramatic tournament there is to be played in. With a huge prize pool, an extremely strong field, and a grueling tournament format that even pros whine about, why wouldn’t you want to play in it? Ohthat’s right, its the MAIN EVENT.
If you can’t afford the nice $10,000 buy in and don’t want to put [...]
The final tournament to win your brand new Porsche is coming soon. Pokerstars has announced that their 10th and final Porsche that they will be giving away is going to be included in the May31st tournament. This tournament is a turbo takedown with a $1,000,000 prize pool. On top of the money that the first place winner will take, they will also receive a Porsche Cayman S. The incentive [...]
Shortly after the main events for the FTOPS and the miniFTOPS, FullTiltPoker has announced their annual $25k Heads-up Championship. With the set up very much like the NBC Heads-up championship, players will play though out the field for the first place prize. Most top pros that play on FullTilt will be playing such as Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Mike Matusow and Huck Seed. Throughout the next week, FullTilt [...]
Many of the online poker players don’t play online for a living. They have jobs, pay taxes, and hate uncle Sam taking their hard earned money. Although, this is the time of the year to bolster your bankroll, and take the next step into making your wage playing poker.
The refund especially helps the lower stakes players that need a little support in their games. Typically, they are nailing and [...]
The 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic final began with five players and took over eight hours to get down to heads-up play. The crowd favorite Amnon Filippi had eliminated all three players from the tournament and found himself with a slight lead (4.1 million to 3.7 million) over his opponent, Vadim Trincher.
But 10 hours after this poker game began, Fillipi found himself all-in with the best of it. His [Jc 4d] [...]
The televised final table of the 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic will not feature the World Poker Tour’s traditional final table of six players. In what turned out to be a double-bustout bubble hand, Vadim Trincher’s bullets in the hole [Ad As] held up against William Botchis’s wired pair of Nines [9c 9d] and Joe Raposa’s pocket Jacks [Jc Js]. Botchis took home $68,235 for his seventh place finish, while Raposa earned [...]
Full Tilt poker recently have announced the new FTOPS schedule. The tournament will include different games for the poker specialist in you. Once again will there be 25 events but this time the prize pool of all the tournaments is a whopping $18,000,000. The event will be concluded with the $2.5 million No-Limit Hold’em event. This event usually features all types of top pros.
The biggest change players will recognize in this FTOPS [...]
Pot Limit Omaha Hi – Where the real cash is at.
Ever since Chris Moneymaker decided to beat top pros at the 2003 WSOP main event, the NL Hold’em games have become flooded. Before, online Hold’em was a lucrative game and a very rewarding game for players to make a living at. But once the boom happened, all the big name pros have moved on to bigger and better [...]
After failing to sign the much sought after World Series of Poker Main Event Champion for the past two years, PokerStars was able to acquire not only the 2008 winner, but the main even runner-up as well. Peter Eastgate, 2008 WSOP Main Event winner, and Ivan Demidov, 2nd place finisher in the event, were announced on Thursday as official members of Team PokerStars. They seems to be a perfect fit to [...]
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