Barcelona, March 2010

Play to win your share of €500,000 Guaranteed this March in Barcelona!

The satellites are underway now – view the software for dates and times.
Between March 19th and March 21st, 2010, the ECPokerTour will hit the Catalan capital for what will surely be a memorable weekend of tournament poker action.

Our €4,800 prize packages* include:

- €2,500 + €250 buy-in to the Main Event, March 19th – March 21st, 2010

- €1,200 for 4 nights accommodation at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Barcelona, March 18th – March 22nd, 2010

- All rooms are double occupancy with breakfast included for the qualifying players and a guest

- €100 for players Welcome Party and dinner

- €50 for registration fees

- Approximately €700 for flights and spending

ECPT Barcelona Super Satellites (Sundays, Mondays, and Wednesdays) provide an excellent chance to qualify for the live event, and with €500,000 GUARANTEED in the prize pool, it’s more than worth a punt!

* The first prizes are non-refundable, non-transferable and cannot be converted to cash. You must play or forfeit the seat.

* By playing or winning the ECPokerTour Barcelona super satellite you declare that you are ready and able to travel to Barcelona, Spain, in order to play at the ECPokerTour Barcelona Main Event. This includes any and all documents required for travel to the destination.

$4,550,000 Guaranteed

The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is an action packed online tournament series where skilled poker players compete for a share of millions of dollars. The tradition lives on with ECOOP V, where players will once again have the chance to play for a share of a whopping $4,550,000 in prizes! Play Now

Titan Poker has staged four hugely successful Championships since we gave away $2.5 Million in 10 days at the inaugural ECOOP I in December 2007 and European Poker has never been the same since. Play Now

The ECOOP V will run from the 23rd of November to the 6th of December 2009. Players will have a variety of their favorite games to be a part of, in addition to all of the wonderful prizes at stake. So don’t miss out on your chance of taking home a piece of this breath-taking amount of $4,550,000 in total prizes.

Satellites begin on September 21st, so be sure to check the software for all of the times and best of luck to you. Play Now

Sunday’s $50,000 Guaranteed

If you’ve played PDC Poker’s $50,000 Sunday Guaranteed, then you know it’s the best value tournament online. If you haven’t, then this is your chance to get your feet wet and win as much as $13,000 for your effort!

For a limited time only, PDC Poker is giving a FREE $109 entry coupon to Sunday’s $50,000 with any deposit of $250 or more.
That’s right, simply make your deposit between now and this Sunday 14:45 (PDC Time) and you’ll automatically receive your entry coupon.
It’s never been so easy to turn PDC Poker’s biggest guaranteed tournament into your own freeroll.

What: Sunday’s $50,000 Guaranteed
When: Every Sunday @ 15:00 (PDC Time)
How: $109 Coupon, Cash Buy-in or VIP Points
Where: Tournaments >> Scheduled >> Special

Titan Poker Player Wins First European Championship of Online Poker Tournament

In the first tournament of the 14-day, $4.55 Million Guaranteed Prize series, a 21-year-old TitanPoker veteran from Canada displayed his considerable poker skills.

A 21-year-old student from Canada pocketed $52,500 and first prize at the opening event of the fourth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV), which kicked off on May 25 at popular online poker room TitanPoker.

Player “ch0ppy”, a two-year veteran at Titan Poker, outlasted 1,125 other avid online poker players in the $250,000 Guaranteed Prize No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament. The ECOOP IV event was the first of 14-nights of online poker action, which culminate with a $1,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Main Event on June 7. A total of $4.55 Million in prizes is guaranteed to winning players over the two weeks of online poker tournaments at Titan Poker.

Qualifying satellite tournaments for the ECOOP IV events are being staged daily at TitanPoker. The ECOOP IV tournaments (ECOOP IV) offer a wide variety of poker games, including Texas No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. Poker buy-in amounts vary to meet every player’s budget.

TitanPoker’s first ECOOP series was staged in December 2007 and players competed over ten days for their share of $2,500,000 in cash prizes. In May 2008, ECOOP II was staged with a grand total of $3,600,000 in guaranteed prizes at the ten nights of tournaments. Staged over fourteen days between November and December 2008, the third ECOOP tournament series distributed more than $4,150,000 in prizes to winning online tournament players.

“Ramux” Wins Bodog Sunday $100k Guaranteed

Online poker player ‘Ramux’ took down Bodog Poker’s Sunday $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament on Sunday night. 

Smack in the middle of Memorial Day weekend in the US, 558 online poker players took a break from their grill outs and drinking games (like Cornhole) to pony up $100 + $9 to play in Bodog’s Sunday $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament. Getting almost double the value for his buy-in due to Bodog’s generous overlay, Bodog regular Bolivar “ramux” Palacios walked away with the $23,600 first-place prize.

A fixture at the top of leaderboards across the Bodog Poker room, Palacios has now racked up more than $250,000 in career tournament winnings on Bodog.com. As well as success in online tournaments, he has had success in live tournaments as well, like the LAPT Mexico, and will most likely be roaming the halls of the Rio this Summer for the 2009 WSOP.

1.Ramux – $23,600
2.ionlyplayAA – $13,600
3.illcallyou – $9,100
4.soul ripper – $7,000
5.hotmax9 – $5,700
6.amaru34 – $4,500
7.chinaman9 – $3,300
8.bigbman29 – $2,200
9.jasdell – $1,300

Qualifiers for the Sunday $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament start for as little as $1, and there is an incredible selection of online poker tournaments available for your daily fix of action and many different poker promotions to make your money work harder for you.

FTOPS Host: Eric Lindgren

Erick Lindgren opens FTOPS XII with a $1 million NL Hold ‘em event on May 6th. WPT Bay 101 winner Steve Brecher hosts Event #12, the $1.5 million 6-max tournament with antes from the start. Howard Lederer’s HEROS Event #14 has a new format, Patrik Antonius hosts the $2 million Two Day Event and Jennifer Harman ends FTOPS XII with the $2.5 million Main Event. Choose your event from the full schedule.

Each pro hosts a matching MiniFTOPS XII event, where you can play for just 1/10th the regular FTOPS buy-in.

In other FTP News:

Play the $200K Stimulus Qualifier

At least 80 players in the $200K Stimulus Qualifier will win a $2,500 prize package to WSOP’s Event #4, including the $1,000 entry fee and $1,500 for expenses.

Event #4, the Stimulus Special, is likely to have the largest starting field outside of the Main Event and a prize pool of $5 million.
Buy your way in for $30 + $3 or satellite your way in for as little as $1 or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Carbon Poker – $50,000 Guaranteed

CarbonPoker veteran bullitpete has taken down the first $50,000 guaranteed tournament in true style. The new $50,000 guaranteed which runs every week, is one of the best value tournaments available online, so if you missed out this week, I seriously expect you to be there next Sunday!

Seriously! If you don’t…I’ll be more disappointed than your mum would be if you bought her a case of your favorite beer for her birthday. Anyways, this Sundays tournament was a grueling poker exercise with some very heated competition. Running for a marathon 5.5 hours despite only a small field of 194. Now if the significance of this is yet to dawn on you then I’m going to educate your lacking poker mind. ….back to junior high maths…

$50,000 Guaranteed at $100 buy ins = 500 players
194 players = your playing for a prize pool that has been made up of 500 buy ins. So your getting a shot at loads of money with a relatively small field. Comprende?

Anyways, congratulation to bullitpete and all players who managed to cash! Well done and enjoy your winnings!

Liv Boeree Wins Major European Poker Tournament

“I’m utterly over the moon about winning the European Ladies Championships,” stated Liv Boeree. “It was a fantastic tournament with a great sense of camaraderie and a really tough final table that I enjoyed playing from start to finish. This is also a great boost to my confidence going into the World Series of Poker* which is drawing ever closer.”

The land-based poker tournament, held on May 3rd and 4th in London, featured some of the best female poker players on the continent including Annette Obrestad, the winner of the WSOPE Main Event. Liv Boeree placed first in the tournament, securing a commemorative trophy and $30,000 in cash.

Boeree began her poker career on the television series UltimatePoker.com Showdown in August 2005. There, she learned some valuable tips from Annie Duke, one of the poker world’s best female players, and caught the attention of popular online poker site Absolute Poker.

In a little over two years, Liv has amassed several top-10 finishes in Texas Hold’em tournaments across London including multiple first place wins.

LAPT Mar del Plata: Boris Becker

Joining Becker and Moneymaker in today’s field are a number of familiar faces on the Latin American Poker Tour. Fabian Ortiz, who took down the title in Vina del Mar is playing today, as is Argentinian native Damian Salas, who finished that event in third place. Team PokerStars Pro J.C. Alvarado, fresh off his victory in the SCOOP Main Event is playing tomorrow, but stopped in to chat with fellow Mexican Christian de Leon, while at the other end of the room, two of the brightest female stars from South America, Martha Herrera and Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck are seated across from one another.

Mayrinck has already jumped out to an early chip lead after flopping the nuts on the very first hand. Holding A-T, she saw a K-Q-J flop, led out for 300 and got one caller. The turn came the [3d] and she fired out another 500, earning another call. The [7s] hit the river and she made a 750 chip value bet, her opponent, who revealed top two pair with K-Q, paying her off a third time. Maridu dragged the pot and her stack is already up to 13,000.
“Be afraid of the black nails!” she joked, referring to her very goth-looking mani-pedi.

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Bodog Poker $20,000 Easter Sunday Special

The $20,000 that Bodog added to the prize pool increased each players buy-in by 51% as soon as the cards hit the table, bumping their buy-in from $100 to $151 and the prize pool from $38,700 to $58,700. Taking full advantage of this value was online poker player “zurswierding,” who took down the $14,675 first-place prize. The Bodog regular is no stranger to final tables and this win is just barely his largest single cash in the Bodog Poker room. His career earning at Bodog now exceed $80,000 in just over two years.

Here are the full final table placings and payouts:

1. zurswierding – $14,675.00
2. bunkesty – $9,392.00
3. fin2win – $5,928.70
4. KrayZeeZ – $4,696.00
5. cardsharkk13 – $3,287.20
6. polaris769 – $2,641.50
7. MosMom – $2,054.50
8. kid_poker5 – $1,291.40
9. Nauti Sea Dog – $997.90

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