One of the great things about online poker is that it runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it doesn’t close for the holidays. And when a site like Full Tilt Poker has games at every level and tournaments with a variety of buy-ins running whenever you want them, that can give a certain amount of peace during the hectic holidays. Whether you’re unable to travel or simply need a break from the family, Full Tilt Poker is waiting to provide that getaway.
And Full Tilt is offering some holiday incentives, doling out a few extra gifts in the form of cold hard cash as 2008 winds down and heads into 2009.
The big promotion is the 3Xmas Happy Hour. D Read full
A private Tucson, Arizona poker club whose opening served as a challenge to that state’s gambling regulations has agreed to close in the face of legal pressure. Club Royale, opened by former judge Harold Lee and Donna and Johnny Ray Rogers, agreed to shutter its doors to resolve a civil suit brought by Arizona’s Pascua Yaqui nation. The Pasqui Yaqui operate two of the four state compact-regulated casinos in the Tucson area.
The battle featured the viewpoints of the outspoken and maverick Lee against the state and the tribes, who insisted that they had the exclusive legal right to spread poker in Arizona, which in total offers 22 casinos run by 15 different tribal nations. Read full
Open your gift from Pacific Poker and get ready to play – even though the qualifying period started on the 20th of December, the great opportunity to freeroll into cash and fun are far from over.
The time zone is GMT, The tournament is PokerNews $100K Satellite Freeroll, with a prize pool of $140 on each freeroll tournament and the opportunity to make a lot more money before the last hand is dealt. This is a Pacific Poker and PokerWorks (in an exclusive partnership with PokerNews) $100K Holiday Promotion, designed to give you an opportunity to fill your new year with a lot of extra cash and the fun of winning it in a freeroll series that awards seats into Pacific Poker’s $100K Guaranteed Tournaments.
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It is that time of the year again, when one year winds down and the poker industry looks at the accomplishments of the players of the exiting year. Though the actual awards won’t be held until January 15, 2009, the nominees have been announced for the 2008 European Poker Awards.
Last year, the big winners at the ceremony of recognition were 19-year old Annette Obrestad as Tournament Performer of the Year, Russian Alex Kravchenko as Player of the Year, and Katja Thater for Europe’s Leading Lady, and Soren Kongsgaard for Rookie of the Year. A Read full
An uptick in player turnout marked action in the Sunday online majors, with Full Tilt running a special $1 million guarantee with a $500+35 buy-in, and PokerStars drawing over 8,000 players to its rich Stars Sunday Million event. The night’s biggest prize went to Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder, who started the final table in the Full Tilt $1 Million in seventh but stormed to the title and a payday of more than $200,000. Here’s how the night’s action went:
PokerStars Sunday Million
The PokerStars Sunday Million drew its biggest field in the last several weeks, with 8,015 entrants creating a total prize pool of $1,603,000. Read full
March brought both a smattering of major poker events and plenty of news on the legislative front on both the state and national levels. Chris “Jesus” Ferguson won the most prestigious title of the month in capturing the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, while Michael Schulze took down one of the spring’s largest paydays at the EPT Polish Open. America’s UIGEA was under attack throughout the month, and a controversial Massachusetts casino bill went down to a narrow defeat. These were the biggest stories of the month:
Ferguson Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
The third time was the charm for Chris “Jesus” Ferguson in early March as the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship reached its conclusion. Read full
Sportsbook Poker is definitely one place where you’ll always have the opportunity to win lots of cash in poker tournaments. That’s because Sportsbook gives out $5 million in guaranteed tournament money every month. And if a tourney prize pool fails to reach its guaranteed amount then Sportsbook Poker will make up the difference.
To start with Sportbook Poker offers a $250,000 Guaranteed tournament at least once every month. And if this isn’t enough, the room also holds a $100,000 Guaranteed tourney every single week. The great thing about the $250K and $100K Guaranteed tournaments is that a person can register 15 minutes after they start. You can start playing in these tournaments right away and earn a 100% deposit bonus up to a $1,000 by downloading Sportsbook Poker through PokerWorks.
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It's Not All About The Cards
In the previous article , I talked about one critical component you must evaluate when it comes to the end of the tournament and short-handed play. However, that is not the only thing that must be looked at when making a decision. Stack dynamics, or the relation of your stack size in comparison to your opponents, is just as, or maybe more important than depth of money dynamics. Specifically, it affects what hands you can play and against whom you can play them.
There are three distinct relationships between stack sizes. Read full
Mid-December means that the holidays are in full swing, if you couldn’t tell by the swarms of people descending upon the malls and department stores of the world these days. Planning gifts for family and friends is difficult enough without battling the crowds, and it is even more challenging when trying to figure out what to get a poker players for the holidays. Well, Full Tilt Poker has the answer, and it requires nothing more than logging on to the site to order gifts.
A Full Tilt Poker gift certificate works on so many levels. For your poker playing friends, there is no better holiday gift than some funds in their Full Tilt account that they could literally turn into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read full
Earning nearly $6 million in tournament poker in only two years doesn’t take a rocket scientist — but when it comes to Michael Binger, it does take a theoretical physicist. A scant two months before his third-place finish in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, he became Dr. Binger, earning his Ph.D from Stanford. Though he was little-known in poker circles before then, Binger was no rookie sensation, having earned a living on the felt for several years already. Nor was he a flash in the pan, following up his splashy ’06 debut by breaking WSOP records in ’07, and making a mind-boggling amount of final tables in ’08.
Michael Binger was born 32 years ago this week, on December 20, 1976 in Delray Beach, Florida. Read full
