Can Get Into the Main Event with Just One Hour of Play

For a freeroll tournament eligibility, what usually, most of the casinos’ promotions need you to do is spending somewhere about 40-80 in their poker room for a month or two. And post this; you need to win this freeroll tournament to get a considerable amount of money. But this time, Wynn has decided to offer something different.

With an attempt to promote its annual Wynn Classic exclusively, the Wynn has will offer 13 free entries to an assortment of its events, together with a seat in the $10,200 main event. The promotion is very much in process, and players can start trying their luck now. A player is supposed to earn an electronic ticket for 13 drawings, for every hour he logs at the Wynn Poker room.

From Feb. 16 to 18, each day will have four drawings where nine seats to one of the Wynn’s $1,060 events will be awarded, along with three seats to the Wynn’s $2,080 event planned on March 13 will be arranged. On Feb. 19, the final drawing will take place for a $10,200 seat in the main event, scheduled to start on March 16. To collect the prize, players have to be present for the drawing.

Starting on Feb. 26, The Wynn Classic will come to an end on March 19. Along with the Main Event, there are four $545 events, nine $1,060 events, one $1,575 event, and one $3,100 event. Most of the tournaments will be no-limit hold’em, however, there are two events in Omaha eight-or-better and one rebuy event in pot-limit Omaha.

Preceding year, around half of the events in the Wynn Classic witnessed over 100 players compete, with the Classic’s biggest tournament field of the year upcoming on Feb. 28 with 621 players. At the 2008 Wynn Classic main event, Chris Moore won about $700,000 after beating out 182 other players.

Can Get Into the Main Event with Just One Hour of Play

For a freeroll tournament eligibility, what usually, most of the casinos’ promotions need you to do is spending somewhere about 40-80 in their poker room for a month or two. And post this; you need to win this freeroll tournament to get a considerable amount of money. But this time, Wynn has decided to offer something different.

With an attempt to promote its annual Wynn Classic exclusively, the Wynn has will offer 13 free entries to an assortment of its events, together with a seat in the $10,200 main event. The promotion is very much in process, and players can start trying their luck now. A player is supposed to earn an electronic ticket for 13 drawings, for every hour he logs at the Wynn Poker room.

From Feb. 16 to 18, each day will have four drawings where nine seats to one of the Wynn’s $1,060 events will be awarded, along with three seats to the Wynn’s $2,080 event planned on March 13 will be arranged. On Feb. 19, the final drawing will take place for a $10,200 seat in the main event, scheduled to start on March 16. To collect the prize, players have to be present for the drawing.

Starting on Feb. 26, The Wynn Classic will come to an end on March 19. Along with the Main Event, there are four $545 events, nine $1,060 events, one $1,575 event, and one $3,100 event. Most of the tournaments will be no-limit hold’em, however, there are two events in Omaha eight-or-better and one rebuy event in pot-limit Omaha.

Preceding year, around half of the events in the Wynn Classic witnessed over 100 players compete, with the Classic’s biggest tournament field of the year upcoming on Feb. 28 with 621 players. At the 2008 Wynn Classic main event, Chris Moore won about $700,000 after beating out 182 other players.

Las Vegas Casinos Both pick the month of February for their Tourney Series

Is it really a coincidence?
Well! Once again both The Venetian and Caesars Palace have chosen the same month for their huge poker tournament series. However, Jim Pedulla, Caesars’ poker room manager, smartly answers this coincidence and says, “When we schedule these things, we look at what’s in the best interest of the company and what’s in the best interest of the players. He further adds, “We think that when you look at the competitors, and their price range is in one person’s pocketbook or bankroll, we think that it’s appropriate to go against them and have a lower-priced product, which I believe is higher caliber.”

Of late, Caesars declared the schedule of its third Mega Stack tournament series, which is expected to run from Feb. 1-26. On the other hand, The Venetian had announced course of its Deep Stack Extravaganza V series preceding week. The very popular Extravaganza will have 24 tournaments running from Feb. 2 to 25.

Last time, the two major poker events the last Deep Stack Extravaganza and Mega Stack tournaments collided in the month of November.

The Venetian’s Deep Stack series hosts around 17 $330 buy-in events, by and large in no-limit hold'em. However, in the series, it also features single Omaha eight-or-better, H.O.R.S.E., and pot-limit Omaha tournaments. The main is priced at $2,500 with the higher-priced events are at $550 and $1,070.

With Caesars’ Mega Stack series, players will have16 $225 buy-in events, all in no-limit hold'em. On 14 February, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, one of those events would be a couple’s tournament. The higher priced events at Caesars are at $330 and $540 and its main event is fixed at $1,070.

As far as the most affordable tournaments of their respective series are concerned, at Caesars, players will have a chance to start with 12,500 in chips at Caesars and 12,000 in chips at The Venetian.

On talking about last year, Mega Stack had attracted approximately 100 players for its highly inexpensive tournaments, whereas Deep Stack Extravaganza repeatedly, hosted tournament fields of more than 300 players and registered a peak of about 452 players challenging on 20th of November.

EPT Bahamas: Poorya Nazari grabs the 2009 PCA title

At the Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Canadian poker player Poorya Nazari clutched $3 million and the title of PCA winner. Known as one of the most conspicuous tournaments in the sphere, this year, PCA recorded to earn the ever most setting 1,347 players.
On PokerStars.com, meeting the criteria for a major poker tournament goes on to pay bonuses. With the glad success of the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas, Poorya Nazari shaped up a $33 rebuy outpost tournament triumph into $3 million.
Nazari started the final table of the European Poker Tour event second in chips following Alex Gomes, however, when Gomes eliminated in fourth position, the game develop into Nazari’s tournament to lose. After bearing with a short stack through the last stages of Day 3 and initial beginnings of Day 4, Nazari realized that his chances of winning this game rely solely on the final table start.
Post his victory, Nazari said. “It was only today that I started thinking about winning. At one point yesterday I was down to virtually nothing but I got off to a good start today and at that point I thought I might have a shot.”
After eliminating Tony Gregg on the final hand of the night, Nazari acquired the $3 million first place prize and of course, the first most important championship of this year. For his runner up show, Gregg took home an amount of $1,700,000.
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul getting eliminated as the first player from the final table was quite disappointing for online Poker fans. Late on Day 5, Saul was crippled with no chances left for any sort of comeback. He received $234,000.

Club Titan brings prolific rewards

With the launch of Titan Poker’s rewards program Titan club, players, from all levels hope to receive substantial perks.
Titan Poker’s recently commenced rewards Program Club Titan holds bright chances of being the first incentive system to proffer significant perks to all players.
The program is not limited to the elite online rounder only and would feature a variety of remunerations for all skill levels.
According to Titan poker,” Club Titan's reward system is simple and easily understood and rewards are available to all poker players, both first time players and big time enthusiasts who regard poker as a career choice.”
Titan Poker's Web site cites that they are the only one on the web to offer reward tiers whereas, everyone else, makes player points at the same rate, relying on the rake in a particular hand. Well! For every $1 in tournament fees, Tournament players take home a flat rate of 17 points.
However, this is not all! Here, players can also earn a loyalty bonus by accomplishing the set target in points acquired per month. Players can rack up a bonus in accordance with their player point total percentage. Moreover, maintenance of same point rate over multiple months can result in much higher percentage. These points finally get converted into cash and tournament tokens. 2,000 points mean $10 in cash, on up to $120,000 for 7 million points.
Titan Poker declared,” Poker players will easily see the benefits available to them at Club Titan, which increase in magnitude the more they play and players can potentially earn tens of thousands of dollars if they dedicate themselves to regular game play."

Is Poker more a game of skills than luck?

On Feb. 13, a South Carolina judge will hear arguments on a very dubious statement- Is poker a game of skill rather than luck, as he considers whether or not, the five men caught up in a poker raid are guilty.

Preceding month, handed a victory to the defense team of the players when Municipal Court Judge J. Lawrence Duffy, Jr. ruled that he would allow evidence and proof that are capable to convince him that poker is more a game of skill than luck.

Moreover, the decision would not only get the unlawful gambling charges sacked off, but it would also let the legislators elucidate the antiquated anti-gambling law that prohibits any game played with dice or cards. The case would be first of its kind, in the America, where poker would be lawfully ruled a game of skill.

The incident took place almost three years back in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,
when Bob Chimento, Scott Richards, Michael Williamson, Jeremy Brestel, and John Taylor Willis got charged with illegitimate gambling for playing small-stakes tournament poker.

Like the other several dozen poker players charged with illegal gambling in April 2006, they too had a way out by making a nominal fine. However, for the spirit of the game, they decided to stand against the charges in the hopes of dissolving the antediluvian law that law officials use to charge poker players there.

Last summer, Judge Duffy turned down the idea of dismissing the case, but the charged players took it as a break when the judge decided to allow the skill-versus-luck argument to be made.

Phil Ivey confirms to take Durrr challenge

Phil Ivey confirms that he will take on his million-dollar online poker challenge along with David Benyamine and Patrick Antonius
Phill Ivey has come up like a solid answer to all those people who believed that nobody would dare to take the durrrr million dollar challenge. On PokerRoad Radio, he confirmed that he has already mentioned it to Tom "durrrr" Dwan that he is all set to go for his million-dollar online poker challenge. Also, he informed that Benyamine will be the fisrt to attempt the challenge while Antonius waits in the wings for a shot at it.
For your information, according to the durrrr challenge, Dwan is ready to put up $1.5 million to a challenger's $500,000 playing four tables at a time heads-up with least $200/$400 stakes.
The game is quite complicated as they all have to bear a minimum of 50,000 hands, and in case the challenger ends up with even a dollar more than where he started in the beginning of the match, he wins durrrr's $1.5 million. On the contrary, if durrrr wins, he will have the player's $500,000 including the amount they won while playing. Except for Phil Galfond, anyone can take this challenge.
Phil does acknowledge that admits durrrr will at the start have the edge as he tunes to playing four tables straight away, but he is primarily depending on durrrr not comprehending how many hands 50,000 hands really is. Thereby, he will get time to catch up and it is quite probable that someone will go penniless in this deadly challenge.
"You know what, the funny thing is he probably does have an edge," Ivey, on PokerRoad has said. "But you know, like, I don't know, it's just something tempting about that million and a half to that $500,000."

Irish Poker Championship final table set

The PartyPoker Irish Championship final table has been set, following the exhausting two days of play at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Galway, Ireland.
The pompously daring title of 2009’s first crucial poker tournament, with 298 players counting famous players like Ciaran O'Leary, Robert Williamson III, Padraig Parkinson, Jon Kalmar, Marty Smyth, Marcel Luske, Noel Furlong, Mike Sexton, Steven Wong and Dutch pop star Maud Mulder and Polish television personality Aga Rylik. As of now, remaining eight players remain are playing for the first place that would offer £180,000.
Keith McFadden of Donegal is the chip leader with €698,000 whereas Michael McCool of Nottingham is declared as one among the short stacks. However, he surely does have one great poker name. It is clear that the end of the night will have enough reasons for the Irish to celebrate.
Poker lovers would be able to catch the sight of this tournament on RTÉ television in February. The Irish Poker Championship has been the first crucial sponsorship in Ireland by the site. Moreover, the experience the Irish Poker Open would also make Poker quite popular in the land of potatoes and shamrock.
In the tournament, celebrities participated and played for a good cause. Mike Sexton, who is also a part of this tournament, has said “Padraig Parkinson and all those who extend a hand to help the unfortunate should take a bow and be proud of their willingness to help others. Fortunately, many poker players are joining in and giving time and money to worthwhile charities.”

Bahamas will welcome the PCA Stars once again

With heavy breezy strokes of winter come the high-stakes tournament circuit to the south this week, landing in the Bahamas for the heat, excitement and complete package of poker action that is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
January 5th, 2009 will witness, the EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure starting at the Bahamas. Widely accepted as one of the biggest poker tournaments other than the World Series poker, the PCA boasts about its potency of attracting more than 1,000 players to the Atlantis Casino on Paradise Island. Moreover, 750 competitors qualified online on PokerStars, reserving their place in the $10,000 buy-in main event.
However, the main event is not the only attraction happening in Nassau this week. Several other such as the Battleship of Online Poker, the World Cup of Poker Final and a wide range of Sit and Go, Satellite and side events have also been planned. In addition to this, a $25,000 high-roller tournament will also begin on Jan. 8. The tournament is expected to draw some of the leading names in the game.
Suitably planned and programmed, many experts could catch a halfway stop on the Bahamas on their way to Australia, where the important events of the Aussie Millions will begin shortly.
Primitively, a segment of the World Poker Tour, the PCA is now a stop on the European Poker Tour. This means that this time, PCA will showcase schools of fishy North American online qualifiers having the same shark infected waters as the menagerie of Eurodonks that runaway from the cruel winters of this continent in quest of a sunnier and much warmer weather.
Preceding year, a large field of 1,136, together with 845 PokerStars qualifiers, made the record for PCA turnout. However, this time around, the insiders anticipate a much bigger main event.

Tennis champ Borris Becker plans to play poker

After winning six grand slam tennis events on the tennis court, Borris Becker is now thinking to take over the game of poker as well. He is expected to take on a succession of online qualifiers when the unique "Battleship Poker" event gets in progress at the forthcoming PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Nassau, the Bahamas. Accepted as an amusing part of the PCA, the event has been held annually since 2006. It presents two players squared off against each other heads-up with their laptops remain displayed in the classic board game style. The four online qualifiers ready to play against Becker are Josh Miloy of Oley, Itsik Oknin (Ontario), Keith Anderson (Quebec) and Michel Dion (Quebec).

Becker says, "Battleship poker gives you all the fast play luxuries of online poker, but also allows you to look your opponent in the eye. It's an exciting game to play and I'm really looking forward to competing against these players."

Since years, poker has been a captivating recreational activity for Becker and now, he is all set to be as fine with poker as he was with tennis. “When I was still playing professional tennis, I started learning to play poker casually in-between games because it helped me to improve my concentration,” Becker has said. “Now I want to develop my poker skills and challenge myself to become really competitive at the highest levels in poker.”

Becker has already started poker training program for knocking out his champion's drive as he eyes on some of the major poker tournaments around the globe. According to Becker, he would be first seen on the European Poker Tour at Dortmund in his native Germany and the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next spring.

2009 Irish Poker Championship to present Bonus Events

The PartyPoker Irish Poker Championship (IPC) will start from 2nd January at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Galway, Ireland. This year, event organizers have also arranged for bonus events in the form of a singing contest, categorized under the heading of “Main Event” of different kinds along with the serious play at the tables. The three day long tournament will showcase Simon Cowell trembling in his boots as the Devilfish, Jon ‘Skalie’ Kalmar and Kenna James catch up to the microphone.
“The Radisson SAS Hotel on Galway Bay is soundproofed and ready to go. We’re just surprised that there is no sign of Marcel Luske yet,” a PartyPoker spokesman has said. He further adds, “In all seriousness, however, this promises to be a fun spectacle. Skalie used to be the lead singer of a punk band, the Devilfish is well known for his excellence in tickling the ivories, while James has recorded his own material and received great reviews. We suspect that no matter how good they are, though, whoever steps up to sing the first Irish song is likely to get the best reception!”
The Irish Poker Championship Main Event is the first main poker tournament of Europe this year. The main event is a €2,000 buy-in event and is anticipated to exert a pull on many top players of the world. Some of the latest confirmations for the Main Event are Julian Gardner, Mike Sexton, Padraig Parkinson, Surinder Sunar, Noel Furlong, BoylePoker pro Marty Smyth, Ciaran O’Leary, and Andy Black.
Besides the Main Event, many side events and satellites have also been planned. “We’re moving to Galway for this event and are very grateful for all the support we’ve had from our sponsors,” Parkinson, co-organizer of Poker for the Homeless. “Local homeless charities will benefit directly from this event and, as usual at an Irish tournament, we plan to have some fun along the way.”