Canadian Casino News November 22, 2008
B.C.’s casino operators choose to play it safe in a risky economy
If Las Vegas is any kind of barometer, B.C. gambling operators should brace themselves for slower growth.
The U.S. recession has cut visitation to Sin City by an estimated 15 to 20 per cent and the fire sales are on. Rooms at the ultra-luxurious Bellagio — normally $300 and up — have been slashed to $149.
Harrah’s recently scrapped plans to build a $500-million resort in Kansas and casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. avoided bankruptcy this month with a share offering that raised $2.1 billion in badly needed capital.
B.C. gambling officials say Metro Vancouver casinos won’t automatically feel the same pain because they depend largely on the local market, not national and international visitation like Las Vegas.
But B.C. Lottery Corp. vice-president Kevin Gass said they’re not immune from economic realities either.
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Vancouver Canucks team up with River Rock Casino
The River Rock Casino in Richmond will become “the official casino of the Vancouver Canucks and General Motors Place” under a new partnership announced Thursday between the Canucks and Great Canadian Casinos.
The deal will also see the club section of GM Place becoming “the River Rock Club.”
Great Canadian said in a news release that River Rock will host “two VIP road trips and VIP hosting nights” as part of their promotions this season.
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Canada Eyes Legalized Sports Betting
The Toronto Star reported that the federal and Ontario governments in Canada are quickly moving towards legalizing Las Vegas style sports betting. Revenues in Canadian casinos have declined as they have in the US casinos and the casinos are looking for ways to increase business. Legalized sports betting would be especially beneficial in the casinos that border the US in Niagara Falls which attracts players from New York and Windsor which attract players from Detroit.
Currently the Canadian casinos offer a government run sports lottery called Pro-Line which is similar to the parlay cards where you must choose three or more teams. The new proposal will let players bet on individual sporting events.
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Global Payments Announces Agreements With Nine Casinos Throughout the U.S. and Canada
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:
GPN), a leader in both payment processing and gaming cash access services,
today announced agreements to provide nine U.S. and Canadian casinos with
its comprehensive suite of cash access products and services.
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The gaming establishments have signed contracts to utilize a number of
Global’s innovative VIP LightSpeed(R) products including: PlayerCash
@dvantage(R) credit and debit card cash advance services, VIP Preferred(R)
check-cashing services, and ATM Cash @dvantage(R), which allows patrons to
initiate electronic check transactions at ATMs without casino cage
assistance.
Global will provide services to the following U.S. casinos: Mardi Gras
Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado; Player’s Club Casino in Ventura,
California; Running Aces Harness Park in Forrest Lake, Minnesota; Hoosier
Park Racing & Casino in Anderson, Indiana; 7th Street Casino in Kansas
City, Kansas; Bodine’s Casino in Carson City, Nevada; and Wind River Casino
in Riverton, Wyoming. Services in Canada will be provided to Flamboro Downs
in Hamilton, Ontario and Georgian Downs in Innisfil, Ontario.
Poker News November 21st, 2008
November 22, 2008
Gambling in Great Falls
The drive down 10th Avenue South in Great Falls looked a lot different twenty-five years ago. Casinos started to spring up in the mid-80s and now you’ll find ten of them on the main drag alone. So what effect does the gaming industry have on our community nearly 25 years after the Video Poker Machine Act was passed? Jane Yonkin says she had a hidden addiction that consumed her life for fifteen years. “It was horrible, suicide was there…it was one of the options because I let my life go so badly…I didn’t feel I had anywhere to turn,” she said. The darkest hours of life were spent in front of the flashing lights of an electronic gaming machine. “Almost from my very first time, there was a problem. I lost like only a dollar, but I wanted to win it back like me versus the machine.”
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Card Player Player of the Year Update
A handful of players made progress on the Card Player Player of the Year leader board during the past two weeks, but two of them made moves near the top 10, as Michael Binger and Dario Minieri added to their point totals. Binger won the third poker tournament of his career when he beat 131 opponents to win the title at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. For his victory in the $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event, he took home $181,379 and 624 points. This took his point total up to 4,416 and put him in sixth place, ahead of David Benyamine.
This was the 10th final table of the year for Binger, who has won $1,005,846 during the course of 20 cashes in 2008. This was the seventh time that he has cashed for more than $100,000 in any one tournament since he started competing on the tournament trail in 2006.
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High-est Stakes Poker Ever
Two hundred thousand dollars. That’s the minimum for how much players will have to buy in for on the fifth season of High Stakes Poker.
The unprecedented amount highlights the newest season of the poker series that regularly features the richest cash games in television history.
In all prior seasons, the series began with players buying in for “only” $100,000. However, by the end of last season, the amount was upped to $500,000 per player.
“High Stakes Poker, by a wide margin, has become a must-see on Game Show Network for poker players and poker fans all over the world,” said Henry Orenstein, an executive producer of the show.
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JC Tran to represent Team PKR in Premier League III
PKR.com, the next-generation poker room, has today announced that leading pro poker player JC Tran will be representing Team PKR playing in the forthcoming PartyPoker.com Premier League III.
JC Tran is one of the world’s most feared tournament players and is the #1 ranked player in the ESPN-Bluff power rankings. He has over $6.8m in career tournament winnings, and is one of a select few to have scooped both a World Series bracelet and a World Poker Tour title. Over the past five years, JC has recorded 23 WSOP cashes (including seven final tables) and 11 WPT cashes (with five final tables).
The $75,000 buy-in event will take place in London from November 21 – 30 and will feature an all-invited field of 12 of the world’s finest poker players battling it out for a share of the $1.25m prize pool. Players include Roland de Wolfe, Phil Hellmuth, Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, Annette Obrestad and 2008 WSOP main event winner Peter Eastgate.
While representing Team PKR in this event JC will wear PKR branding and will also provide an interview that will be featured across PKR’s online TV station (PKR.tv) and its customer magazine (Stacked).
Simon Prodger, Marketing Director at PKR said: “We’re honoured to have the world’s best tournament player represent PKR at this year’s Premier League. It’s a great format, and our association with JC will help introduce PKR to a whole new audience of poker fans”.
Winning with RakeBack While keeping your Bankroll Even
Rakeback offers provide online poker players the opportunity to receive a percentage of the rake they contribute to each pot back at the end of every month. These rakeback offers vary by online poker room, but they all have one thing in common. You don’t have win in order to make money while playing your online poker rake back account.
Yes, this is the truth. Online poker players are playing every day with the objective of winning money at online poker tournaments and ring games without understanding the fact that by just playing you are generating money for yourself via the rakeback offer you have signed up for.
Rakeback is as simple as this: Your Rake Back = Monthly Gross Revenue X Rakeback %
Now we need a couple definitions.
1. What is rake and how is rake calculated:
The rake is the fee that every online poker player pays to the “house” or in this case the online poker room for playing in a hand at their online poker room. This fee is different from poker room to poker room. The rake is calculated in one of two ways, the dealt method and the contributed method. The dealt method is calculated by totaling up all of the rake in a hand and then dividing that amount between all players who were dealt cards in the hand. The contributed method is calculated based on the total amount each player pays into the pot. The dealt method gives an edge to those players who play fixed limit games. While the contributed method can add up to greater rake for No Limit poker players and thus earning greater rakeback.
2. What is Monthly Gross Revenue (MGR)
Monthly Gross Revenue is the total amount of rake you generate while playing at the online poker room. This amount includes all rake contributed while playing ring games as well as tournament entry fees. Some online poker rooms do not pay rakeback on tournament entry fees so you should check with the poker room before signing up. So now that we have these rakeback definitions down, we can calculate how much theoretical rakeback you can earn in a month. A player who generates $1000 in MGR over the month and is signed up to a 40% rakeback deal now will receive $400 in rakeback at the end of the month.
$1000 X 40% = $400 to your pocket.
Now this $400 is going to be paid to you wether or not you win $5,000 or lose $100 playing online poker. The rakeback is always going to be there and is only dependant upon how much you play, not how much you win. Now let’s take a look at yet an other example of how rakeback can make you a profitable online poker player.
Like all poker players you are going to go through hard times and find it difficult to even just break even. In our above example, you don’t even have to break even at the table in order to still earn a profit. As long as you generate the $1,000 in monthly gross revenue, you now have a $400 cushion to work with. So even if you happen to end the month down $200, you are still going to end the month up $200 after you receive your rakeback payment.
As you can now see, if you didn’t before, the importance of playing online poker with a rakeback deal in place for yourself. You can find many rakeback offers at Treasure Hunter Poker by visiting any of our rakeback pages.
Don’t throw your money into the muck with your cards any more. Start making money while your are making money at the online poker table today.
Winning with RakeBack While keeping your Bankroll Even
Rakeback offers provide online poker players the opportunity to receive a percentage of the rake they contribute to each pot back at the end of every month. These rakeback offers vary by online poker room, but they all have one thing in common. You don’t have win in order to make money while playing your online poker rake back account.
Yes, this is the truth. Online poker players are playing every day with the objective of winning money at online poker tournaments and ring games without understanding the fact that by just playing you are generating money for yourself via the rakeback offer you have signed up for.
Rakeback is as simple as this: Your Rake Back = Monthly Gross Revenue X Rakeback %
Now we need a couple definitions.
1. What is rake and how is rake calculated:
The rake is the fee that every online poker player pays to the “house” or in this case the online poker room for playing in a hand at their online poker room. This fee is different from poker room to poker room. The rake is calculated in one of two ways, the dealt method and the contributed method. The dealt method is calculated by totaling up all of the rake in a hand and then dividing that amount between all players who were dealt cards in the hand. The contributed method is calculated based on the total amount each player pays into the pot. The dealt method gives an edge to those players who play fixed limit games. While the contributed method can add up to greater rake for No Limit poker players and thus earning greater rakeback.
2. What is Monthly Gross Revenue (MGR)
Monthly Gross Revenue is the total amount of rake you generate while playing at the online poker room. This amount includes all rake contributed while playing ring games as well as tournament entry fees. Some online poker rooms do not pay rakeback on tournament entry fees so you should check with the poker room before signing up. So now that we have these rakeback definitions down, we can calculate how much theoretical rakeback you can earn in a month. A player who generates $1000 in MGR over the month and is signed up to a 40% rakeback deal now will receive $400 in rakeback at the end of the month.
$1000 X 40% = $400 to your pocket.
Now this $400 is going to be paid to you wether or not you win $5,000 or lose $100 playing online poker. The rakeback is always going to be there and is only dependant upon how much you play, not how much you win. Now let’s take a look at yet an other example of how rakeback can make you a profitable online poker player.
Like all poker players you are going to go through hard times and find it difficult to even just break even. In our above example, you don’t even have to break even at the table in order to still earn a profit. As long as you generate the $1,000 in monthly gross revenue, you now have a $400 cushion to work with. So even if you happen to end the month down $200, you are still going to end the month up $200 after you receive your rakeback payment.
As you can now see, if you didn’t before, the importance of playing online poker with a rakeback deal in place for yourself. You can find many rakeback offers at Treasure Hunter Poker by visiting any of our rakeback pages.
Don’t throw your money into the muck with your cards any more. Start making money while your are making money at the online poker table today.
Poker News November 15th, 2008
Winner of 623.000 Euro at Grand Final of Master Classics of Poker
Jan Sorensen Wins Grand Final at Master Classics of Poker
Jan Sorensen won the grand final of the main event at the Master Classics of Poker in Holland Casino Amsterdam. He won 623.000 euro. In the exciting final Gustav Ekerot came in second. The Master Classics of Poker is one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournaments in Europe.
This year poker players from a.o. America, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. attended the Master Classics of Poker.
About Master Classics of Poker
The main tournament in the Holland Casino Master Classics of Poker is the Lido Poker Tournament. This tournament takes place from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th November inclusive and has a buy-in of 6,000 Euros plus 200 Euros entry fee. The Master Classics of Poker comprises seven different tournaments where the types of poker played are Texas Hold’em and Omaha. The buy-in plus entry fee for each tournament varies between 330 and 6,200 Euros. The level of the prize pot for these tournaments is, of course, dependent on the number of participants. Each day the tournaments start at 2 pm except for the Lido Tournament that starts at 3 pm. More information on the MCOP and the full tournament schedule is available at www.masterclassicsofpoker.com.
‘Poker Wizards’ Reap More than $4,000,000 in Tournament Earnings in 08
‘Poker Wizards’ book contributors: Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, T.J. Cloutier, Kathy Liebert, Marcel Luske, Dan Harrington and Mike Sexton unable able to defeat the overwhelming odds in 2008 to make the recently televised WSOP final table, but as a group, they have been paid in excess of $4,000,000 for tournament winnings in 2008 even without cracking the Main Event.
In one of the years best new books, ‘Poker Wizards’, the best known names in poker explain how they make large sums of money year after year. An exclusive compilation of strategies, insights and winning tactics from some of the worlds best poker players combined in one book. Well known No-limit Hold’em champions Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Dan Harrington, T.J Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Mel Judah, Mike Sexton and Kathy Liebert, reveal the tactics and attitudes that have enabled them to make millions of dollars playing poker. The book also contains a bonus chapter on body language by world renowned body language expert Marc Salem.
Poke Wizards author available for media interviews.
Author Warwick Dunnett
Cardoza Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster and available at:
www.pokerwizards.net
Century Casinos Announces Polish Open 2008 Poker Tournament
Century Casinos, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Casinos Poland Ltd. will present the grand Polish Open 2008, a four-day Texas Hold’em No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour Season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw from November 15 to November 19, 2008.
The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a total prize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. $2,700,000. The buy-in for the tournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. $7,000. According to the official website of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop on the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to compete at the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand Final winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier.
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November 11, 2008
Poker Sites Block Balance of US States
Online poker rooms Poker Host and Eurolinx had already established that residents of certain states from the USA would not be allowed to play on their sites in keeping with local laws on poker’s legality, and now have made the announcement that all of the US is banned from play on their sites. It is believed that this action as taken in response to the actions of the Governor of one of those states, Kentucky, who sought to gain ownership of poker room domain names in an effort to shut them down.
Overlay Poker Tournaments: Gaining buy-in Advantage in a Guaranteed Tournament – CelebPoker.com
Poker players don’t get this opportunity often, but sometimes a poker player can make a financial advantage just by registrating for a Multi Table Poker Tournament
How is this possible? The answer is within the overlays given by guaranteed prizepools offered for some guaranteed poker tournaments
An example: On Sunday the 02/11/2008 the 250.000 Guaranteed Tournament at CelebPoker had a 320 Buy-In. 613 players registered for this tournament. Now the calculation fun begins!
First a player has to divide the offered Prizemoney with the number of players who registered. In this example: 250,000 / 613 players = 407.
This means that a players ticket is worth than 407. As your ticket costs 320, you are automatically gaining the equivilent of an extra 87 to pay for your entry (407-320 = 87). Ok, players don’t get the cash in the bank, but poker players do get it as an advantage for the buy-in as a player have less players to compete for the prizepool with.
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More students betting future at online casinos
Addiction comes in many forms, and while alcohol and drugs get most of the attention, university and college students are not immune to one of the fastest growing and expensive vices– gambling.
According to the Responsible Gambling Council’s Poker Poll and 2005 Prevalence Study, 6.9 per cent of young adults in Ontario have a moderate to severe gambling problem.
Online poker playing by young adults has grown by nearly 300 per cent, and 16 per cent of Ontarians between the ages of 18 and 34 believe that online poker is a good way to earn extra money.
Amanda Stokes, project co-ordinator for Know the Score, the Responsible Gambling Council’s travelling gambling awareness exhibit, said her organization’s goal is to educate students about the risks of gambling.
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Online Poker News and Rakebacks
November 11, 2008
Poker Sites Block Balance of US States
Online poker rooms Poker Host and Eurolinx had already established that residents of certain states from the USA would not be allowed to play on their sites in keeping with local laws on poker’s legality, and now have made the announcement that all of the US is banned from play on their sites. It is believed that this action as taken in response to the actions of the Governor of one of those states, Kentucky, who sought to gain ownership of poker room domain names in an effort to shut them down.
Overlay Poker Tournaments: Gaining buy-in Advantage in a Guaranteed Tournament – CelebPoker.com
Poker players don’t get this opportunity often, but sometimes a poker player can make a financial advantage just by registrating for a Multi Table Poker Tournament
How is this possible? The answer is within the overlays given by guaranteed prizepools offered for some guaranteed poker tournaments
An example: On Sunday the 02/11/2008 the 250.000 Guaranteed Tournament at CelebPoker had a 320 Buy-In. 613 players registered for this tournament. Now the calculation fun begins!
First a player has to divide the offered Prizemoney with the number of players who registered. In this example: 250,000 / 613 players = 407.
This means that a players ticket is worth than 407. As your ticket costs 320, you are automatically gaining the equivilent of an extra 87 to pay for your entry (407-320 = 87). Ok, players don’t get the cash in the bank, but poker players do get it as an advantage for the buy-in as a player have less players to compete for the prizepool with.
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More students betting future at online casinos
Addiction comes in many forms, and while alcohol and drugs get most of the attention, university and college students are not immune to one of the fastest growing and expensive vices– gambling.
According to the Responsible Gambling Council’s Poker Poll and 2005 Prevalence Study, 6.9 per cent of young adults in Ontario have a moderate to severe gambling problem.
Online poker playing by young adults has grown by nearly 300 per cent, and 16 per cent of Ontarians between the ages of 18 and 34 believe that online poker is a good way to earn extra money.
Amanda Stokes, project co-ordinator for Know the Score, the Responsible Gambling Council’s travelling gambling awareness exhibit, said her organization’s goal is to educate students about the risks of gambling.
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Poker News November 11th, 2008
November 11, 2008
World Series of Poker has youngest champ ever
A 22-year-old Danish poker professional won the World Series of Poker early Tuesday, turning a wheel straight on the last hand to become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event.
Peter Eastgate hit an ace-to-five straight on the turn and instantly called an all-in bet from Ivan Demidov on the river to win the title and $9,152,416. Demidov held two pair, twos and fours.
The previous youngest champion was 11-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won the tournament in 1989.
“It feels good to beat Phil’s record,” Eastgate said after taking pictures with stacks of $100 bills and his new gold bracelet. “I was not focused on the record that I could break, I was just focused on the game.”
Eastgate said he got a call from Hellmuth wishing him luck before the more than three-hour session.
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Perth player misses making poker final
The final of the World Series of Poker, with its $9.15-million U.S. first prize, will be televised tonight with Scott Montgomery no more than a spectator.
The 27-year-old professional player from Perth reached what organizers labeled the “November Nine” in Las Vegas, but he bowed out Sunday night and missed last night’s final, which was taped for broadcast tonight (TSN, 10 p.m.).
“I certainly wanted to finish better than fifth,” Montgomery told reporters later.
This year has been referred to as his “breakout year” as a poker player, with more than $1.3 million in tournament earnings heading into the World Series, and he more than doubled that with his $3.1-million prize for placing fifth.
Montgomery started playing poker about four years ago, while teaching English in Japan, using his down time to play and study the game.
His great 2008 run began in February at the World Poker Tour’s Los Angeles Poker Classic $990,000 No-Limit Hold ‘em championship. He made it to the final table, which included eventual winner Phil Ivey, and won $296,000 for finishing fifth.
You gotta know when to Texas hold’em at UMSL
Are you good at card games?
If you are (or even if you are not), the University of Missouri-St. Louis holds annual poker games and this year was the “Texas Hold ‘em Tournament!”
The tournament is usually played with a 52-card deck, and needs at least two players with no more than 11 players.
The Texas Hold ‘em Tournament was held on South Campus in the Provincial Hall from 7 -11 p.m. on Thursday night and officially started at 7:15 p.m.
The event drew in 46 players.
Charlotte Caeys, graduate student, business administration, came here from France and said she learned to play poker here, and has loved it from the first time she played. “I found out [how to play poker] on the Internet,” Caeys said.
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strip poker News November 8th, 2008
Posted on November 8th, 2008. Filed Under Poker (Edit Post)
Harrah’s slashes costs amid slowdown
Harrah’s Entertainment is continuing to cut jobs and capital expenditures as well as costs in corporate, marketing and purchasing to combat a decline in customer spending, company executives said Friday.
The world’s largest casino company by revenue on Friday posted a third-quarter loss due to the gaming slowdown on the Strip, decreased visitor numbers across the company’s 50 casinos and the closure of properties in the Gulf Coast because of hurricanes.
“To the degree revenues continue to decline, costs will have to continue to come down,” company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman said during a conference call to review the company’s earnings. “To the degree we see further erosion of revenue, we’ll continue to aggressively respond with cost reduction.”
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UltimateBet’s Online Poker Tables Get Dangerously Hot with Launch of Femme Fatale Fridays
UltimateBet is rewarding players for knocking out a Hollywood knockout. The online poker site today announced the launch of Femme Fatale Fridays to its lineup of tournaments, a new promotion that rewards players who take down Hollywood-actress-turned-poker-player Tiffany Michelle at the Texas Hold’em tables.
Tiffany Michelle, a recent addition to UltimateBet’s Star Players team, has quickly become one of poker’s most recognizable female pros. The seductive poker player has appeared in a variety of popular Hollywood films as well as episodes of popular American television series including ER and Nip/Tuck and was the last female left standing in the Main Event of the 2008 World Series. Her 17th place finish earned her an impressive $334,534 plus the respect of the international poker community.
During Femme Fatale Fridays, Tiffany Michelle will be playing in two Texas Hold’em poker tournaments simultaneously. The player who knocks Tiffany Michelle out of Friday’s $20,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack tournament will win a seat in Sunday’s $200,000 Guaranteed Texas Hold’em tourney. The player who takes her out of the $6,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack poker tournament will secure a spot in Wednesday’s $15,000 Guaranteed event. Both tournaments kick off at 8pm ET.
If the same player successfully knocks Tiffany Michelle out of both tournaments, he or she will win a Nintendo Wii console.
Femme Fatale Friday gets underway every Friday night at 8pm ET.
GamblingPays is Pot Limit Champ as he Wins $19,470 in Ladbrokes Online Poker Festival
- Last night, Ladbrokes Poker paid out over $70,000 in prize money in their 12 th Festival event the LEOCOP Pot Limit Championship. One hundred and sixty one players competed for a first prize place of $19,470 which was won after over seven hours of play by ‘GamblingPays’ from Essex, UK. ‘Jvsky123′ from Espoo, Finland came second winning $12,655.50.
Satellites for the last four of the 16 money added online festival events which include Second Chance Plus 2, Short Handed Championship, Heads-Up Championship and the Main Event are still running on Ladbrokespoker.com, which means that players can still qualify for all including the festival finale, the Main Event for as little as $1. With a massive $250,000 added to the $1000 + $100 NL HE tournament it really is worth a try!
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Poker News November 10th, 2008
November 10, 2008
It’s down to Russia’s Demidov vs. Denmark’s Eastgate for $9.15M WSOP title
Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate emerged from a marathon session early Monday morning at the World Series of Poker and will meet later in the night to settle the $9.15 million title.
Eastgate, a 22-year-old poker professional from Odense, Denmark, eliminated the last American in the field with a set of threes. Dennis Phillips, who tried to bluff Eastgate with a 10 high, shrugged his shoulders and nodded his head when Eastgate made the call that eliminated him.
“I just want to be alive on the river,” Phillips said before an ace came on the turn, officially eliminating the 53-year-old trucking account manager who started the final table with the chip lead.
Phillips, of Cottage Hills, Ill., won $4,517,773 for third place.
Eastgate held 79.5 million chips, nearly 22 million chips more than Demidov, a 27-year-old semiprofessional poker player from Moscow.
“My hands held up all the time — that’s the key factor,” Eastgate said.
Those big hands, including two full houses and a set, helped Eastgate end the tournament for four players.
Ylon Schwartz finished fourth and won $3,774,974 after failing on a bluff, giving Eastgate a lead over Demidov. Scott Montgomery watched Eastgate hit a full house on the river, after Montgomery picked up three aces on the turn.
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One Day Fundraiser for Poker Players Alliance
Poker author Mitchell Cogert has decided to donate the proceeds from one day of sales of his poker book, “Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves”. The book is for sale online at Amazon.com, and everyone who buys a copy on November 11 will be sure the proceeds from the purchase will go towards the fight to keep online poker legal via support of the grassroots organization the Poker Players Alliance. The date was picked to run along side the airing of the World Series of Poker main event final table on ESPN, an event months in the making.
Amsterdam Poker Capital of the World
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 8 — Yesterday, November 7th, the 17th edition of the Master Classics of Poker started in Amsterdam. The Master Classics of Poker is one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournaments in Europe. Last year the total prize pot added up to more than 3.7 million Euros. This year the total prize pot will add up to almost 5 million euro. Between Friday 7th and Saturday 15th November the best poker players from all over the world will be pitted against each other. Amsterdam will be the poker capital of the world this week.
ANP news video with feeds live from Amsterdam:
http://pubstr.datiq.net/perssupport/HCPokerINT.wmv
Last year poker players from a.o. America, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Pakistan, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. attended the Master Classics of Poker.
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