$2010 in Daily Prizes to Mark Start of New Year at Titan Poker

The popular poker room will award more than $120,000 in total prizes in a two-month series of races, tournaments and special promotions celebrating the New Year.

To celebrate the coming 2010 New Year, Titan Poker, the leading poker room in Europe, is awarding its online poker players with $2010 in daily prizes as part of its 2010 New Year Promotion, which will run during December and January.

More than $120,000 in total cash prizes is on offer, and there’s something available for every type of player, including cash game enthusiasts, multi-table tournament regulars, and sit n’ go tournament fans. TitanPoker.com will stage races during the two months based on player activity at the tables, in addition to special nightly tournaments and events, each awarding $2010 in prizes to the top players.

Newly signed-up players can also win their share of the prize money, as some of  Titan Poker special 2010 activities will be targeting only recently registered players. To participate in the action, players are encouraged to download the user-friendly and graphically pleasing Titan Poker software (and start playing as soon as possible.

Titan Poker stages innovative and exciting promotions and tournaments, and awards seats to the major poker tournaments around the world, including the World Series of Poker, the Asian Poker Tour, the ECPokerTour, and the Irish Open.

In addition, Titan Poker is preparing to launch the fifth season of its extremely popular European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP V), a fourteen-night online tournament series starting November 23, awarding a total of $4,550,000 in guaranteed prizes and culminating with a $1,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Main Event tournament on December 6, 2009. Poker players, veterans and novices alike, are still able to win their ECOOP seats at any of Titan Poker’s ongoing qualifier satellite tournaments, being staged round the clock with buy-ins starting as low as $1+$0.10.

Two Billionth Hand

Chilipoker will soon see its Two Billionth Hand dealt and to celebrate they’ve prepared a stunning promotion giving away up to $170,000 to participants. All you have to do is be on the right table at the right time!

The countdown promotion to the Two Billionth Hand will start on cash table hand ID 1,990,000,000 and will share prizes according to the following:

Two Billionth Hand: The Two Billion Hand will share $100,000 worth of cash prizes and an amazing poker pro package!

The winner of the Two Billionth Hand will be entitled to a prize worth $60,000 consisting of:
•WSOP 2010 Main Event package (worth $13,000)
•Irish Open 2010 package (worth over $7,000 )
•$40,000 cash prize
Moreover, the winner will also split the partcipant’s cash prize and will receive a ticket to the Monthly Million Guaranteed Tournament on January 10th 2010 (value of $535).

Even more exciting, if the two billionth hand will be dealt no later than December 5th 2009 at 23:59 GMT, the winner will also receive a ticket to the ECOOP V Main Event, on December 6th 2009 (value of $1,580)!!!

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EPT Dortmund: Sandra Naujoks

EPT Dortmund S5: Final Table Winner

Sandra Naujoks, a member of the prestigious PokerStars.de ShootingStar team and Europe’s current Leading Lady, has won EPT Dortmund for €917,000. The 27-year-old from Dessau is only the second woman to win an EPT after Victoria Coren, now Team PokerStars Pro, won EPT London in season three.

Naujoks – known online as the “Black Mamba” – started playing live last year and almost immediately had her first big result – winning the European Championship at the Casinos Austria Poker Tour. She was elected Europe’s Leading Lady at the European Poker Awards and joined the ShootingStar team at the PCA in January.

Naujoks was the third German EPT winner this season after ShootingStar Sebastian Ruthenberg won EPT Barcelona and Moritz Kranich won Deauville.

The tour heads to San Remo next month.

The final result was as follows:

1. Sandra Naujoks – €917,000
2. Holger Kanisch – €533,000
3. Marc Gork – €307,000
4. Johan Storakers – €237,000
5. Mike McDonald – €197,000
6. Luca Pagano – €153,000
7. William Thorson – €116,500
8. Cengizcan Ulusu – €83,500

EPT S5 Copenhagen: Jens Kyllonen Wins!

For what seemed to be the fastest played action in years the season 5 EPT Copenhagen crowned a new champ, Jens Kyllönen, from Finland and PokerStars player, wins the coveted crown and takes home the DKK 6,542,208 ($1,141,474) top prize! Day one brought two quick exits, with Denmark’s Jonas “slaktarn” Klausen in eighth (DKK 598,774 / $104,473) and France’s Eric Larcheveque in seventh (DKK 842,728 / $147,038.

Kyllönen was one of the relative short stacks at the start of play, but there was a rare focus to the Finn and seasoned observers noted early on that if he was to get chips, he could be very dangerous indeed. The two massive overnight stacks — Langset and Nielsen — clashed in a 700,000 pot early in the day, crippling Nielsen and vaulting Langset clear at the top.

Langset, was able to sit back and relax as Peterson perished in fifth, before Jussi Nevanlinna and Kyllönen went to battle.

Then there was the tournament-defining hand. Kyllönen and Langset had largely stayed out of one another’s way until the gloves came off in a whopping all-in pre-flop clash. Langset had pocket eights and the chance to eliminate his closest opponent; Kyllönen had Kd-Qh and the opportunity to get right back in it.  However when Kyllonen hit his overcard and his flush for good measure for the first time Langset was on the ropes.

One further hand between the two and it was all over for the Norwegian: Kyllönen’s As-8s flopped the nut flush and picked off Langset’s bluff.

And so Hedlund and his enthusiastic supporters went heads-up with Kyllönen, Kyllönen found jacks as Hedlund had A-J. The board ran out in favour of Kyllönen, and that was the end of that.

 
Watch EPT Copenhagen S5: The Winner – Jens Kyllonen on PokerStars.tv

“I definitely didn’t expect anything,” Kyllönen said. “I came in as the short stack and tried to play the best game I could. It turned out well.”

Karl Krautschneider Wins ANZPT

PokerStars Qualifier goes all the way to win AUD$170,215 at Australia’s biggest poker tour. Karl Krautschneider has taken the inaugural PokerStars.net ANZPT title at the SKYCITY Casino in Adelaide.

Karl Krautschneider has taken the inaugural PokerStars.net ANZPT title at the SKYCITY Casino in Adelaide. Krautschnieder, from Melbourne, rarely let the lead slip during the final table, eliminating most of the other finalists himself. His reward for outlasting them and the 214 others overall, is $170,215.

The heads up challenge was decided when Karl Krautschneider rivered a club flush holding 8c-9c against Dunst’s Kd-2d. A flop of Kc-2s-4c gave Dunst two pair and Krautschneider moved all in for Dunst to call. Dunst saw a brick hurled at Krautschneider on the turn with a 3d before the 7c appeared on the river.

ANZPT Adelaide has been a spectacular success by recording one of the highest opening fields for a first stop on a Season 1 PokerStars.net tour. A total of 215 players attended generating a prize pool of $586,950.

The next stop on the tour is ANZPT Sydney which starts on April 30.

Kai Landry: Wins WSOPC Tunica

The shy and modest spiky haired Kai Landry is our new champ as he took down the $5,150 championship event of the WSOP Circuit tour at Harrah’s Casino Tunica. His victory gives him a nice earnings of $183,974, a gold-and diamond trophy ring, and a $10,000 seat into this year WSOP championship event, plus $1,000 expense money.

Here were the starting chip counts:

Landry, from Biloxi, Mississippi, started the day with $300,000 and competed well for a man stating, ”I’m no pro”. In heads-up  action, Landry and Dao were very close to even in chips. Dao pulled ahead, but then lost most of his chips after re-raising all in with pocket 4s. He ran into Landry’s queens, losing after the board came 6-6-2-2-7.

On the last deal, the board showed 4c-Kd-10d-Ad. Landry had a straight (Js-Qh), and bet out. Dao had draws to a royal flush (Jd-7s), and raised all in. He missed when a 6s hit the river, making Kai Landry the new champ.

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.

EPT: Deauville, Moritz Kranich Wins!

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.

PCA 2009 Champion

Poorya Nazari wins $3,000,000 and the title of PCA 2009 Main Event Champion. The 22-year-old Richmond Hill man literally played his cards to become a multi-millionaire, Poorya and dont let his name fool you, spent about $700 to enter the competition and knocked out over 1,000 people to win the cash. He spent months climbing the poker charts, jumping from an online game to a gut-wrenching Texas hold ‘em tournament in the Caribbean.

Nazari admitted he spent many late nights glued to his seat, looking at his cards. He said the best way to get through it is to play within your comfort level and have a support system behind you.

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