Get BoDog[ged] on Superbowl Sunday!
January 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Poker Rooms
One of the Super Bowl weekend tournaments is a Special Flight Club Semifinal that will award packages to the LAPT Punta del Este. First, on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 4:00 pm EST, Bodog will host a $125 + $10 buy-in Special Flight Club Semifinal that will award one $6,000 LAPT Punta del Este package for every 48 players who enter the tournament, with at least one package guaranteed. The $6,000 Flight Club package includes the $3,700 buy-in to the LAPT Punta del Este Main Event and $2,300 for travel and accommodation.
On Superbowl Sunday at 4:00 pm EST, Bodog will also host its Super Bowl Special tournament with $20,000 in prize money added. By juicing the prize pool of this $100 + $9 buy-in event with an extra $20,000 in prize money, your buy-in becomes worth more the instant you sit down at the table.
Bodog will also host a Media Day Combo Qualifier on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 9:43 pm EST. The $27 + $2 buy-in No Limit Holdem qualifier will have players suiting up for their chance to win a seat into both big tournaments over Super Bowl weekend. The top two finishers will each be awarded a guaranteed seat into both the Special Flight Club Semifinal and the Super Bowl Special with $20,000 added plus another package will be awarded for every additional $244 in the prize pool.
Name: Special Flight Club Semifinal
Date: Saturday, January 31 at 4pm ET
Buy-in: $125 + $10
Prizes: 1 player for every 48 entries will win a $6,000 Bodog Flight Club Prize Package to the LAPT Event in Punta Del Este, Uruguay from March 18 to 20. Prize package includes $3,700 buy-in to the Main Event and $2,300 for travel and accommodation. 1 prize package is guaranteed!
Chips: 3,000
Levels: 15 minutes
And on Super Bowl Sunday, Bodog will replace the “$100,000 Guaranteed” with:
Name: Super Bowl Special – $20K Added
Date: Sunday, February 1st at 4pm ET
Buy-in: $100 + $9
Bonus: Bodog will add $20,000 to the prize pool
Chips: 2,500
Levels: 15 minutes
Bodog will also run a “combo qualifier” during Super Bowl’s Media Day where winners will get an entry into both of these Super Bowl specials. Here are the details for this qualifier:
Name: Media Day Combo Qualifier
Date: Tuesday, January 27th at 9:43PM ET.
Buy-in: $27 + $2
Payout: 1 player for every $244 in the prize pool will win a seat to the “Special Flight Club Semifinal” and the “Super Bowl Special – $20K Added”.
Chips: 1,500
Levels: 12 minutes
Note: The guaranteed prize pool will be T$488, meaning at least two T$244 prizes will be awarded.
Doyle’s Rewarding U.S. Players $5,000
January 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Poker Rooms
Celebrate the launch of Doyle’s Room new software with a free seat in a $5,000 guaranteed tournament.
There is no fee to enter, you only need to download their new software.
Registration opens on Thursday at 5pm ET and they are allowing a maximum of 4,000 entrants so don’t miss out.
From the tournament lobby:
Tournaments > Freeroll > $5,000 Launch Party FREEROLL
Tournament ID 4112545
Tournment Begins Saturday, January 31st, 5pm ET.
Make sure you get your seat early!
Doyle’s New Bounty
January 27, 2009 by admin
Filed under Poker Rooms
THE FIRST BOUNTY ON OUR NEW POKER NETWORK
Join the Legends Wednesday (To)night at 9:30 ET
Take your $25,000 shot at the legends!
Take on Doyle Brunson, Mike Caro and Hoyt Corkins in the exclusive Doyle’s Bounty.
First time Bounty players get a 100% refund of their first $25+2.50 Bounty buy-in, win or lose! Just buy-in, enjoy the tournament, play and chat with the legends, then have your $27.50 refunded to your account..
Were raising the stakes by offering the most generous Bounty structure in poker. Knock out any one bounty and get $500. Knock out two legends and we’ll make it $5,000. Master the legends by knocking out 3 and you’ll be $25,000 richer and have the poker story of a lifetime.
We want to make you a legend!
Whoever wins the Bounty tournament is welcome to return the following week as a guest bounty to stand alongside Doyle and the pros to take on all challengers.
From the poker lobby go to:
Tournaments> Scheduled> Doyleʹs Bounty> Tournament ID: 4118835
Doyle’s Big Return
January 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Poker Rooms
Back in the USA!
Along with many online poker players, we here at Big Daddy Poker have been long awaiting the anticipated return of Doyle Brunson’s poker room back to the U.S. Players were disappointed across the country, when the online cardroom had announced it was no longer accepting U.S. players when Microgaming, the poker rooms software provider, announced it’s withdrawal from the U.S. market.
It is now rumored that the online cardroom will likely move over to Cake Poker. Cake Poker’s network is quickly becoming popular with US players although blocking online players in Kentucky; players from any of the other remaining 49 states are welcomed.
The move by Doyle’s Room is one that several poker rooms are making due to the new administration in the US, these poker rooms believe that regulation of the online gambling industry is right around the corner in the US and are hoping to step forward in regarding the U.S. market once again.
An exact date for the integration of the new poker network software at Doyles Room is not known, but is estimated to be on or around the 25th of January.
PokerStars Sunday Million
January 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Poker Rooms
It topped the best there was, and is, at least for now, the best there ever will be!
The biggest weekly online poker tournament once again was the PokerStars Sunday Million, with 8,500 players vying for a shot at a prize pool of exactly $1.7 million, and with a buy-in of $215 someone was guaranteed to walk away with a huge payday! After a three-way chop, the top three players made more than six figures. For first place, jnic00 from Canada, won a cool $178,788.
The final table:
Seat 1: i_lv_beer (14,751,124 in chips)
Seat 2: jnic00 (13,538,955 in chips)
Seat 3: Flamarion (5,232,648 in chips)
Seat 4: Kris Merlot (14,146,860 in chips)
Seat 5: LastChance11 (3,150,250 in chips)
Seat 6: calytry (2,732,379 in chips)
Seat 7: rebel1100 (3,877,560 in chips)
Seat 8: PaperLamp (6,068,750 in chips)
Seat 9: marmotte21 (21,501,474 in chips)
Sunday Million Results for 01/25/09:
1st place: jnic00 ($178,788.86)*
2nd place: i_lv_beer ($127,284.55)*
3rd place: marmotte21 ($132,696.59)*
4th place: Kris Merlot ($76,500.00)
5th place: calytry ($59,500.00)
6th place: PaperLamp ($42,500.00)
7th place: LastChance11 ($29,750.00)
8th place: Flamarion ($19,550.00)
9th place: rebel1100 ($11,900.00)
International Team Poker League
ITPL
Award winning talk show host and poker player, Montel Williams has “thrown in his hat” and is the latest celebrity to endorse poker. The ITPL show slotted as a one-hour TV series, the show will air each week for a season and offers high profile strategic partnerships and affiliate activity for both the casino and remote gambling industries.
The event will start in March with a number of satellite tournaments and build up to the televised segment from November 2009 which will incorporate both game play and reality TV style elements covering the major names in the poker industry and the poker community.
Creator, commissioner, and CEO of ITPL, Montel Williams comments, “I love poker – it’s a game that has everything, played by kings and leaders and regular joes alike. It crosses boundaries and borders, now, thanks to technology and the internet, a global phenomenon that brings people of different ethnicities and origin together around the world.”
He added, “It is truly international, and the time is right for the International Team Poker League to take poker to a new level and a wider audience.”
We’ll be watching, will you?
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Stewart Scott: Aussie Wins Millions in 09′
When the 2009 Aussie Milions Poker Champioinship $10,500 AUD no-limit hold’em main event began today , eight players sat down to make history and stake their claim at a first-place prize worth $2,000,000 AUD.
When the final table began here is how the chips stacked up!
Seat 1: Zach Gruneberg – 1,355,000
Seat 2: Barny Boatman – 349,000
Seat 3: Elliot Smith – 1,120,000
Seat 4: Richard Ashby – 658,000
Seat 5: Stewart Scott – 4,520,000
Seat 6: Peter Rho – 2,420,000
Seat 7: Rajkumar Ramakrishnan – 2,050,000
Seat 8: Sam Capra – 1,161,000
But after a slow start it was Aussie Stewart Scott, the first ever Australian ever to win the Aussie Millions, besting out a total of 681 players over 5 days for the $2,000,000 AUD First Prize and Main Event Title.
Maybe this first was accomplished with help from fellow Aussie and poker player Joe Hachem. Opening day of the event, Joe Hachem through out a challenge to his mates hoping to inspire and ingnite a fire under their seats…
Quoting Joe,
‘I think it’s about time an Aussie took home the title,’ said Hachem. ‘Get your acts together!’.
After playing a marathon session at the Final Table that lasted 12 hours, 36-year-old Scott from Northern New South Wales walked away the largest prize ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.
2009 40th Annual WSOP
January 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Tournaments, WSOP
WSOP 09'
The announcement of the 2009 WSOP schedule comes on the heels of what may be a hard to beat 2008 record setting year. Truthfully, it is times like these were many poker players are definately feeling the blow of our crumbling economy and the sting of the U.S. government to ban online poker.
But as we sit here and reflect back at last years 58,000 who vied for the $18 million prize pool, will we see the dawn of a new day at this years events? Will the draw and excitement, the glitz and glamour of online poker once again give way to a new breed of players emerging yet again in these troubling times?
Starting Wednesday, May 27, 2009 and ending at the final tables on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, a total of 57 events will award gold bracelets in 2009, 2 more than 2008 which awarded 55 bracelets. Harrah’s also increased the number of $10,000 buy-in World Championship events from 8 to 10, and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 2009 WSOP, a special one-time only $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event will be held in the opening days of the WSOP.
Jeffery Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker says, “Whether you play poker around the kitchen table or consider yourself a professional, you will find a comfortable seat at the 2009 World Series of Poker. “This year’s schedule offers more variety than ever before and we look forward to welcoming players from around the world to the Rio for our 40th annual extravaganza this summer.”
Let’s just hope this years events will have more highlights of classic poker filled with rich tradition and memorable moments showcasing the true grit and integrity of poker!
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Las Vegas, NV US
800-752-9746
EPT: Deauville, Moritz Kranich Wins!
January 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under EPT, Featured, Tournaments
Just six months after getting married, Moritz Kranich, the 28-year-old online pro from Hamburg beat off competition from 644 players from 50 countries including PokerStars-sponsored WSOP champion Peter Eastgate and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier to capture EPT Deauville for $851,400 after winning his seat in a €650 satellite on PokerStars.
Moritz Kranich first started playing poker four years ago, kicking off with freerolls then progressing to $5 Sit and Gos. Within four months he was up to $100 SNGs. In August 2006, the 28-year-old IT student started focusing on MTTs and last September hit the big time – with 3rd place in the $1,050 WCOOP Second Chance for $77,000. He has also won the S109 Rebuy tournament. In live events, he has made three final tables including the German Poker Championship. He had his biggest live cash two weeks ago in the $5k side event at the PCA, where he finished 12th place for $19,100.
WSOP Circuit Event: Event #2
Event #2 – No Limit Hold’em
Perry Ernest
Winnings: $32,448
Buy-in: $340
Bluff-ESPN Power Ranking: 3182
Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $105,020
WSOP Bracelets: 0
WSOP Cashes: 0
WSOP Earnings: $0
Circuit Cashes: 3
Circuit Earnings: $105,020
