Archive for February, 2007

Hellmuth Leads Premier League at Mid-way Stage

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
As the Party Poker Premier League enters the half way stage, "Poker Brat" Phil Hellmuth leads the field while early favourites Devilfish and Tony G. have struggled in their opening heats. Today we are going to cover this event hand for hand!

Becoming Accepted as a Poker Player: Part 1

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
UK PokerNews' features writer Barry Carter takes a look at what it takes to become accepted by friends and family as a poker player. In part one of this three piece feature Barry discusses his gambling days and misconceptions about the skill in poker.

Playtech’s iPoker Forges Ahead

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Playtech Limited, the Cyprus-based gaming software developer, revealed strong financial results, thanks in no small part to Playtech's continuing success in expanding its iPoker network and an aggressive policy of acquiring brands.

Titan wants to see some poker faces

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

The poker room is awarding one or more players with a seat at the tournament, scheduled to run at Binion's Horseshoe and Gambling Hall in Las Vegas May 13.

Titan Poker will grant one Pokerface 2007 package at each super satellite for every 40 players. The $14,000 package includes event buy-in, flights and accommodation.

The satellites get underway March 18 and run April 1, April 15 and April 29 at 8 p.m. (GMT).

Direct buy-ins to Titan's Pokerface 2007 satellites cost $350+$30. Players can also win their seats at the site's ongoing sit-and-go satellites or at one of its multi-table qualifiers.

Second-tier satellites are also available starting at $1.50+20¢.

The ultimate winner of the Pokerface 2007 tournament wins a $200,000 professional poker player package, including tournament buy-ins, travel expenses and a monthly salary.

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Empire strikes back with $300K Sunday guarantee

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Show starts every Sunday at 12:45 p.m. (EST), with No-Limit Hold'em the format and $200+$15 the buy-in.

Multi-table and sit-and-go qualifiers run throughout the week, with players allowed to win only one entry to the tournament and the prize pool paid out according to Empire's standard structure.

For more information, visit Empire Poker.

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InterPoker.com extends Reload Revolution

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

The Reload Revolution will run for four weeks to see who will top the Revolutionary Leaderboard and claim a Main Event seat.

Players have two more rounds to go before the Revolution is completed. Each round lasts for a week and rewards top players with prizes including Oakley sunglasses and Nintendo Wiis.

Of course, the ultimate prize that everyone is hoping for is one of the two WSOP Main Event seats. The first seat will go to the player who tops the leaderboard after four weeks of play.

As a consolation, the top 40 players after the fourth week of the Revolution will also have a tournament to win the second $10,000 seat to the WSOP and a piece of a $2,500 prize pool.

The leaderboard is determined by My Player Points accumulated by players at InterPoker.com. Players who make it through each round start again the next week with a clean slate of points and jockey for position once again.

Those players who don't move on to the next week receive a consolation freeroll.

The Revolutionary Leaderboard is updated daily at 9 a.m. (EST) and will show positions of players as of 11:59 p.m. (EST) the previous day.

To check out the leaderboard or get in on the poker fun, visit InterPoker.com.


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Dot.com logos to be allowed at 2007 WSOP

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Pre-registration for the 2007 WSOP opened Feb. 26, and according to World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, people will find the restrictions regarding player apparel far more liberal and accomodating this year.

"In recognition of the endorsement agreements that provide income to many poker players, we've liberalized our policy to allow tournament entrants to wear apparel with multiple logos and patches," said Jeffrey Pollack in a Harrah's Entertainment release.

"We encourage all players and their sponsors to review the rules well in advance of the tournament." said Pollack.

PokerListings.com has done just that - reviewed the 2007 World Series of Poker Tournament Rules, and this is what we found:

"Tournament participants will be allowed to promote dot.com gaming sites as long as the gaming site in question does not conduct business with U.S. residents. Last year, dot.com logos for gaming sites were not allowed at all."

Dot.net logos will be allowed as well. It is, however, stated in the rules that "all logos, patches, and promotional language for any dot.net Web site must contain a clear and visible 'dot.net' suffix at least the same size as the site name."

The entire 2007 World Series of Poker Tournament Rules can be found on the official World Series of Poker Web site.

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T-Mobile to Launch Mobile Poker

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
T-Mobile, one of the UK's giant mobile telephone providers are set to launch poker on mobiles. Real money poker will be on offer to T-Mobile customers via multi-player games on their handsets.

Paddy Power Poker gets a Makeover

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
The boys at Paddy Power Poker have clearly spent too long watching 10 Years Younger on television of late. The Irish bookmaking giants have given their poker pages more than a lick of paint!

GNUF gives you its guarantee(s)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

How do you want it: Daily, weekly or monthly?

That's the question GNUF throws at you on their Web site, with a fairly extensive schedule of guaranteed tournaments to back it up, including a weekly $150,000 tournament on Sundays.

To wit: Here's a partial schedule.

$250,000 Guarantee No-Limit, Monthly, $100+$10 buy-in, 8:30 p.m.

Monthly $250,000 Qualifiers

  • $10+$1, every day, 12:00 a.m.
  • $10+$1, every day, 2:15 a.m.
  • $10+$1, every day, 12:15 p.m.
  • $10+$1, Mon-Sat, 7:15 p.m.

$150,000 Guarantee No-Limit, Weekly, $200+$5 buy-in, every Sunday, 8:30 p.m. except when $250,000 Guarantee is run.

$150,000 Weekly Qualifiers

  • $5+50¢, every day at 4:30 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 3:45 p.m., 9:00 p.m.

$45,000 Guarantee No-Limit (15 minute blinds)

  • $25+$2.50, every Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

$40,000 Guarantee No-Limit (15 minute blinds)

  • $25+$2.50, Mon-Tue & Thu-Sat, 8:00 p.m.

Lots of guarantees at $20,000 and less run daily and weekly as well, and for more info, visit GNUF.

Note: All times listed are (GMT).


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