3/06/2010 11:27:19
Filed Under: General by: sxnetworks

Spanish sensation at WSOP Las Vegas

Three Madrid students are being the sensation at the World Series of Poker 2010 by getting extraordinary results playing against some of the world best poker players. These three players are part of a group called From Flop Turn The River and they meet to play poker and to improve their poker game very often. Their favorite poker variant is Texas Hold’em.

These guys spectacular performance and their poker skills made possible that three of the four group members got prizes in this poker tournament. Javier Martínez Gil and brothers Pablo and Luis Ubierna got own light shine thanks to their exceptional results which kept Spanish poker community in suspense during days. They survived hour after hour eliminating their opponents with a faultless game while thousands of players of all around the world were falling.

Javier Martínez Gil is a civil engineering student and is 27 years old. This year is the Spanish player who has gone further in the WSOP 2010 by reaching place number 90 among 7.000 poker players from all around the world and taking home $80.0000. Besides being the last Spanish player standing at this poker competition, Javier played a major role in other championship events.

Pablo Ubierna is 27 years old and is considered one of the best Spanish poker representatives. This architecture student has stopped his studies while he becomes a real champion at poker world and during the WSOP he has shown the reasons why he is one of the most recognized poker players. With a solid game survived to the last days of the competition and fell in the position 375 taking a $36.500 prize.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

Third day of the WSOP Main Event

The third day of the WSOP Main Event started with 2,557 poker players, all that is left of the initial 7,319 field. Day three was the first day in which all players played together in the same room, since the first two days of competitions were divided in several calendar days due to the big number of players. David Assouline started the day as chip leader.

The winner of this year’s $10,000 buy-in Main Event will take home a prize of $8,944,138 and the nine players who make it to the final table will receive prizes of more than one million dollars. Some of the players who reached day three of the poker competition were Jesper Hougaard, Jim Collopy, Evelyn Ng, Barny Boatman, Johnny Chan, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Johnson, Dragan Galic, Patrik Antonius and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

Only 1,240 poker players went through to Day 4 after the action during Day 3. James Carroll is the leader with 803,000 and his closest rival is Imari Love with 741,000 in chips. It was also a great day for former poker champion Johnny Chan, known as The Orient Express, who ended in the top ten and was chip leader several times.

Some of the players who were out of the tournament during day three were Scott Seiver, Phil Laak, Jennifer Harman, Chris Moneymaker, David Williams, Erik Seidel, Kara Scott, Bill Chen, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso and last year’s Main Event winner Joe Cada. Michael, Robert, Eric and Danny Mizrachi made it to the fourth day of the poker tournament.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

First deposit bonus in Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker is a renowned online poker room with international popularity that offers new poker players a fabulous poker promotion. Visit the virtual poker room and learn all about their poker tournaments and games and the 100% first deposit bonus up to $600 you can win if you register and make your first deposit in the site.

At Full Tilt Poker you’ll find a wide variety of poker games, including Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Cards and 7 Cards Hi/Lo, Razz and HORSE. The poker site offers different table limits like no-limit, fixed limit and pot limit with poker bets that go from $0.05/$01 to $1,000/$2,000. If you like poker, here you’ll certainly find the perfect game for you.

You’ll also have the chance to play poker with professional poker players and legends like Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey, among others. Besides, at Full Tilt Poker you’ll have the unique opportunity to play poker with real money or just for fun. You’ll also find useful information about poker rules, glossaries, poker hands, as well as a fabulous poker school.

In order to cash you bonus, you’ll have to earn Full Tilt Poker Points. You’ll win one point per each dollar you bet and you’ll also receive seven points per each dollar you pay in poker tournaments rakes. You’ll have 120 days to cash your Full Tilt Poker bonus. Visit Full Tilt Poker now and learn to play like a pro to become a poker winner.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

South Africa 2010 in Titan Poker

Titan Poker, one of the most popular online poker sites in the market, invites poker players to play poker and watch the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The poker site is giving away $1,000,000 and many other prizes that can be yours just by taking part in this fabulous poker competition. Hurry up and register today to be a winner!

In order to win, all you have to do is play poker during the World Cup matches. Just play as many ring poker games or poker tournaments as you can and you’ll win betting tokens. You’ll have the chance to win one token per day and to know their value just check the tables you’ll find in the poker site. Winning is really simple with Titan Poker.

Once you have the betting token, you’ll have the chance to choose between three special one hand heads up SNGs for each day’s match. Each SNG corresponds to a possible result and you need to register depending on the token level you won and your match prediction. After you register, you have to play poker in the SNG in Titan Poker in order for your bet to be placed.

Take into account that you can place one bet for each day of the football match schedule. The more bets you place the more you’ll be able to win and once you have guessed 7 correct results, you’ll start winning prizes. If you love football and poker, then Titan Poker is the perfect online poker site for you.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

Sammy Farha wins his third World Series of Poker bracelet

Sammy Farha, one of the poker players responsible for the 2003 poker boom, has won another World Series of Poker bracelet after a marathon heads up battle with James Dempsey. Farha played in the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split/8 or better event and he took home a large prize of $488,237. He is considered one of the best Omaha poker players in the world.

This is the first World Series of Poker bracelet Farha wins since 2006 and he has won his three bracelets in Omaha tournaments. Up to this day and after this event, Farha has won more than $2.8 million in career tournament winnings, also building a solid career and reputation in the poker world.

The heads-up match with Dempsey lasted almost four hours and was pretty exhausting for both poker players. “I didn’t get frustrated,” Farha commented. “That’s not normally me. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep so I was surprised that I won’t getting frustrated, which is good.”

James Dempsey is now the leader in the WSOP Player of the Year Race and he has already won a World Series of Poker bracelet this year. Dempsey is a British poker player who so far has won $694,878 in poker tournaments. He started playing professional poker in 2003 and he finished first in the 41st World Series of Poker 2010.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

Vegas 2010 in Everest Poker

Everest Poker, the most popular online poker site in the market, invites poker players to the biggest poker tournament in the world. Qualify for the tournament to have a chance to share in the cashes of all the qualifiers in Everest Poker. Last year, more than 50 poker players won almost $20,000 each.

If you qualify for the Main Event or the $1,000 Side Event #54 playing poker in Everest Poker you could win a share of the fabulous $1,000,000 jackpot. You can qualify online or through a live poker promotion. Everest Poker has decided to expand the $1 Million Match to give players more chances to win.

The $1 Million Match works in a very simple way because Everest Poker matches the total amount casino players win in the Main Event and in Side Event #54, up to $1,000,000. The money will be divided among all the poker players who qualified for the tournament through Everest Poker and deposited in their poker accounts.

Prizes will be divided proportionally, according to the event each player qualified for. The higher the buy-in you paid, the bigger the prize will be. Poker players who qualified for the Main Event will win ten shares of the $1,000,000 prize and poker players who qualified for the Side Event #54 will take home 11 shares of the prize. Join Everest Poker today and be a poker winner.

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Filed Under: Tournaments by: abel

WSOP 2010 - $50k Players Championship Final Table

The Player’s Championship Final table have two poker players with the surname Mizrachi, they are Brothers; Robert and Michael, the first one being the eldest and having the poker tournament chip lead and Michael with 500.000 chips less, still in the battle.

Can you imagine that, going with your brother to a millionare poker tournament!! Would you share your earnins with your BRO if you came out heads-up against him? Who will get the bracelet?

It must be so goooood to be there, don’t you wanna become a professional poker player?

Anyway…Here’s some info about the Players championship Final Tables

The following poker players finished in the money bubble but came up too short for the final table:

9th: Nick Schulman ($152,739)
10th: Alexander Kostritsyn ($152,739)
11th: Abe Mosseri ($129,957)
12th: Lyle Berman ($129,957)
13th: Brett Richey ($113,030)
14th: Allen Bari ($113,030)
15th: Ilya Bulychev ($98,330)
16th: Andy Bloch ($98,330)

Seating and counts of chips for the final table are:

Seat 1: David Baker - 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev - 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda - 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000

QUALIFY TO THE WSOP ME

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Filed Under: Poker Players, Tournaments by: abel

Party Poker Big Game have a winner!

VIFFER an US Professional was undoubtedly the major winner at the Big Game IV organized by Partypoker dot com. The dude’s full name is David ‘Viffer’ Peat which finished nearly £150,000 in profit, a record for the Big Game

Viffer said at the end of the 48 hour marathon, “I am still ready to play, can’t we go on for longer?”. It made me laugh.

Another new innovation was the player walk-ons (when the dudes comes into the play scene..) with Tony G’s ‘Bicycle Race’ entrance and Roland De Wolfe’s howling ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ curtain raiser particularly memorable. The rest weren’t as funny as this two.

The Big Game gets bigger and even more huge every year. As you know the Mysterious online high stakes legend Isildur1 pulled out of the Party Poker Big Game, Tony G said he was a pussy, basically.

Name Profit/Loss

Paul Marrow -15,000
Jennifer Tilly 32,975
Laurence Grondin 20,725
Dusty Schmidt -11,925
David Viffer Peat 146,225
Isaac Haxton -6,775
Neil Channing -24,725
Andreas Ruiz -5,000
Oscar Pardo -750
Dixie Dean -10,000
Roberto Romanello -20,000
Guy Steele 1,050
Paul Zimbler 12,650
Barny Boatman 3,825
Andrew Feldman -8,900
Phil Laak 21,925
Luke Schwartz -55,000
Ellis Reuben 25,225
Simon Munz -24,900
MB Mahmoud -27,200
Robert Williamson III 10,450
Bodo Sbrzesny 17,450
Sam Trickett 24,825
Tony G 11,500
Dan Fleyshman -2,675
Roland De Wolfe -60,000
James Mitchell -2,175
Justin Bonomo -43,025

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Filed Under: Play Poker by: abel

Support your squad at South Africa 2010 WC

Participate in a poker tournament called “Support Your Squad” and Raffle to win your favorite team’s official football shirt!!

May 12 – June 11, we will be counting the days down to the Soccer World Cup to be player at South Africa (2010) and we are giving away the big ammount of 180 authentic football jerseys.

If you are good with math you already noticed that we’re giving away six official football shirts every day.

You can choose a shirt from any team, even those that don’t participate of the World Cup and also Club’s shirts (Bercelona, Inter, Real Madrid, Boca Juniors, etc). Show your support for the squad at the poker tables!

There are Two ways to win

1. Play the Support Your Squad Tournaments from May 12 – June 11 every day at 20:00 GMT.

The Top 5 players of each tournament will be awarded a coupon code that can be redeemed for one official football shirt of their choice from the Summit Point Store.

Note:The Support Squad Tournament has a buy-in of ($2 + .20) or (500 + 50 SP) and may be found under the Special tab in the Scheduled Tournaments section of the Everest Poker lobby. VERY CHEAP.

2. Join the Support Your Squad Raffle for another shot, maybe u got lucky.

everest poker support your squad

Enter bonus code FOOTBALL into your Everest Poker account and start playing raked hands, if you happend to earn 25 summit points in one day you have qualified. On the following day a random player will be choosed as the winner of the soccer shirt.

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Filed Under: Poker Players by: abel

Poker Players: Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and more

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan is one of the best poker players around, actually he might be the best online poker player, no doubt.

    This guy is really sharp and always follow the plan a very good pro.

Anyway, let’s stop hailing Durrrr and start telling u the story, he lost $2.500.000 in one week, yeah, we’ll explain how. Anyway this is just variance for him, he is still in the green numbers with like $3.6 millons this year, so yeah cool.

The battle was against jungleman12 and Phil Ivey. Durrr played near to 8000 hands against jungleman12 in a six table heads-up $200/$400 no-limit hold’em session. At one point Dwan was like half a million up but jungleman12 turned it around and ended the game (quited) with $584,000 as a winner.

Then Tom Dwan aka Durrrr decided to go battleground against Mister Phil Ivey, playing $500/$1000 pot-limit Omaha match. only in 462 Durrr lost $423.000 against ivey, ROFLMAO. I hate this guys.

The rest was eaten by Antonius and URnotINdanger2 among the whole week.

This week…Pro Players earnings/loses

This week’s biggest winners (4/26-5/3): Luukie21(+$666,000), Patrik Antonius (+$639,000), Observer84 ($523,000)

In the red: Tom “durrrr” Dwan (-$2.51 million), URnotINdanger2 (-$908,000), MicahJ (-$659,000)

Top earners
, April 2010: Patrik Antonius (+$2.56 million), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (+$1.37 million), Phil Ivey (+$908,000)

Wanna be like this PRO poker players? Why not start playing on the best place,
partypoker.com ?

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