Whether you take advantage of the Carbon Poker bonus code or the one for Titan Poker, you’ll find many similarities between the sites. Both have an active player pool filling their tables and tournaments all day and night long with plenty of heavy-hitting real money poker action. Both offer satellite tournaments into live events in [...]
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PokerHub on September 24th, 2009
Aced Poker (Aced.com) has satellites running daily all year long. When it’s not for free seats into an upcoming major land-based poker tournament, then it’s for a guaranteed prize pool or VIP points or both.
Year-round, Aced runs daily satellites for whatever World Series of Poker is next (even if it’s 11 months away); these take place at 1:10, 3:10, and 5:10 pm “Aced Time” and have a $10 + $1 buy-in. Current $10 WSOP satellites are for the 2010 WSOP.
Aced also runs $5 Sunday Guaranteed satellites several times daily, as well as ongoing $2 Sit-n-Go’s into a $15,000 guaranteed finals. For Aced VIPs (which is all Aced Poker players enrolled in the site’s loyalty and rewards program), there are Daily VIP Satellites and a $50,000 Guaranteed VIP Satellite every day at 6:50 pm “Aced Time”. And among Aced.com’s Daily Sit ‘n Go Satellite Tournaments are 10-seated, 6-seated, and heads-up tourneys with VIP points for buy-ins.
TourneyMan on September 14th, 2009
The Poker Stars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is still raging and after a power-packed weekend, there are several online poker players a heck of a lot richer. For example, one Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is $140,000 richer after taking down Event #24, the $530 Heads-Up event. He beat out JakusKhan, who took the $120,000 second prize. The thing is, Katchalov already has over $3 million in poker winnings, including a World Poker Tour title.
In 2007 Katchalov, hailing originally from Kiev, Ukraine and more recently from Brooklyn, New York, won the Bellagio Cup III and its $118,785 top prize. But he won most of his nearly $3 million in December of 2007 with an almost $2.5 million win at the World Poker Tour Season 6: WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
The WCOOP HU event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and was the first at this year’s PokerStars WCOOP to have an overlay (1,564 players came up short $218,000.
PokerHub on September 9th, 2009
It’s time for another Grand Series of Poker over at Hollywood Poker. The 2009 Grand Series, otherwise known as Grand Series of Poker III, starts at the end of September and runs through mid-October, and this time is worth a guaranteed $3,100,000.The Hollywood Poker Grand Series of Poker III has 15 events, running September 27 – October 11.
Hollywood Poker has a satellite structure scheme awarding free seats in the GSOP III main event, otherwise known as the Grand Slam Final which happens on October 18. From September 27 to October 11, Hollywood Poker is running GSOP III Leaderboard Tournaments and GSOP III Grand Slam Qualifiers for getting into the big event at low cost (as low as $11). There’s also one Last Chance Qualifier taking place the day of the big event itself.
There’s also a GSOP side-bet going on over at HollywoodPoker, for any player wishing to pay an extra $1,000 into the pot for a chance at some higher-stakes action on top of the $3 million guaranteed prize pool.
TourneyMan on September 2nd, 2009
This past Sunday, August 30, in stark contrast to the unfortunate overlays of late, so many people registered for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up that the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool increased to $820,000 – making the first prize $128,000 which went to CucbKu after chopping the pot with the runner-up Jarfish, who got a respectable $101,000 for his showing.
Meanwhile, 8,933 players turned out for the PokerStars Sunday Million bring the prize pool to $1.7 million. In that event 1,350 players cashed, and the final 5 players chopped the pot, CesarSPA who had the chip lead, and so took the nearly $209,000 lion’s share even though he only came in second, and angiebug4 coming back from the short stack to win the event and take hom nearly $127,000.
Meanwhile, don’t forget, the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) starts tomorrow, with $40 million guaranteed is cash prizes.
PokerHub on August 24th, 2009
It’s not too late too win a free seat in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. Every evening at 7 pm ET Poker Stars is running a WCOOP Challenge freeroll tournament in which, at each freeroll, the site is giving away 9 seats in a September 12 final qualifier, in which the top 3 finishers will will $5,200 seats in the 2009 WCOOP Main Event.
Players have an additional chance – many chances, actually – to qualify for the September 12 final, in which, also at stake are prizes of other WCOOP seats with values ranging from $27 to $1,050, for buy-ins ranging from just $1 to $10.
The only catch to all this: these WCOOP Challenge events are only open to players from Ireland and the U.K..
With 45 events over 18 days, the WCOOP is set to be one of the year’s biggest online poker tournaments – again.
TourneyMan on August 19th, 2009
Poker Stars is launching its very own television show. Reminiscent of Full Tilt Poker’s “Face the Ace”, it’s called “The PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge” and it’s a heads-up poker series where players cycle through increasingly tougher sit-downs against increasingly skilled celebrity Team PokerStars Pros, until they reach their final ultimate opponent in Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu, currently on the short list for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame this year. Beat Dan and you win a cool $1 million.
To qualify to compete on the show, login to your PokerStars lobby and enter the daily Million Dollar Challenge freerolls. If you finish in the top 10, you become eligible to submit a video in which you explain why you should be on the show. Those selected will get to bring a couple of their poker loving friends along with them to witness the excitement.
The show will be broadcast on FOX television.
PokerHub on August 13th, 2009
In January of this year we told you about the exciting World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars each year. Well, the time is almost upon us for the next running of this rewarding series.
The buy-ins for the 33 events in the series range mostly in the hundreds of dollars, but you can get yourself into the running much cheaper by entering one of the site’s Extreme Satellites. These satellites will each award either 50 or 100 seats of a particular value. For example, the top 100 placers in one Extreme Satellite may each win a $215 buy-in that they can then apply to any 2009 WCOOP event with a $215 buy-in.
What’s more, the site is running a Satellite Challenge to see who can notch up the most number of satellite wins during the promotion.
Visit the PokerStars site for all the scheduling and details, but hurry. The first deal of the 2009 WCOOP comes on September 3.
PokerStar on August 5th, 2009
PokerStars has announced that it is finally stepping up their game when it comes to new players first deposit bonus match. Stars will now offer new players a 100% deposit match up to $600. One of the more unique facets of this bonus is the fact that players can make up to three qualifying deposits in 90 days (up to a total of $600) – this is the perfect way to take full advantage of the 100% bonus.
Once you make a deposit the bonus match is released in $10 increments. These $10 increments are released when the player earns 170 frequent player points (FPP). Players have up to 6 months to release the total of their deposit bonus.
PokerStars offers this bonus just as they are getting ready to release a PokerStars software update that will allow players to play in Euro’s, play mixed Hold’em/Omaha cash ring games as well as allowing tournament players to take a simultaneous 5 minute break from all the tournaments they are in.
CLICK HERE to sign up for your PokerStars account and then enter PokerStars bonus code STARS600 to claim your deposit match.
PokerStars is also serving up over $1 Million in 2009 WCOOP tickets.
TourneyMan on August 4th, 2009
Rumor has it a new PokerStars software upgrade is on the way, and not a moment too soon as rival site Full Tilt Poker has already released new software last week, which includes the PokerStars-inspired “tournament chops” option in which players at the end of a tournament can choose to make a deal rather than play out the cards.
The new PokerStars cashier will no doubt feature support for Euros, and the new PokerStars lobby will see Mixed Hold’em/Omaha cash ring games (now that the event has made it onto the 2009 schedule for the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker).
A feature tournament players are particularly hoping to see in the new PokerStars software is synchronized breaks, a feature already pleasing the masses at FullTilt. This will allow all PokerStars tournament players to take a simulatneous 5 minute breather once-an-hour.
Also expected is for the Private Tables option to be extended to players at lower stakes.
PokerHub on July 28th, 2009
PokerStars has announced its America’s Cup of Poker. This will be a a team-based series where Poker Stars players from all different countries will compete in several rounds of matches in order to crown the Americas Cup of Poker Champions.
Satellite freerolls will be held on Poker Stars’ free, play-money, training site PokerStars.net open to players from 16 countries– Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela + 3 determined by preliminary freeroll–offering the most successful among them a place on their country’s team in the live finals.
Teams have been divided by country into groups that will face-off from week to week. Players attempt to win points for their team by placing in the top 100 in the competition’s freerolls.
At the end of this round, the 8 most successful countries (the 2 with the most number of wins from each of the 4 groups) will fly to a Bariloche, Argentina ski resort for the live finals from September 4 – 6. Players have a second chance at making the finals team too, by being one of the top scoring players during the group stage.
Prize pool is $250,000 and top prize is $100,000.
