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Aced.com Has Multitudes of Daily Satellites

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.

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PokerStars Releases WCOOP 2009 Schedule: Includes $10 Million Main Event

TourneyMan on July 6th, 2009

PokerStars has released the schedule for the latest installment of its annual World Championship of Online Poker. The 2009 WCOOP will commence on September 3. The number of poker tournament events comprising the series has jumped from last year’s 33 to 45 this year, with events not only in Holdem but in Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2-7 Triple Draw, and Badugi.

The 2009 WCOOP Main Event, of course, will be in No Limit Holdem, a $5,200 two-day event with a whopping $10 million guaranteed prize pool. Satellite qualifers for free entry into this event are running now at PokerStars.

More than a dozen of the events in the 2009 WCOOP boast prize pools of over $1 million, including:

• Event #1: September 3, $215 six-max No Limit Holdem for $1.25 million guaranteed
• Event #10: September 6, $10,300 No Limit Holdem High Roller for $2 million guaranteed
• Event #11: September 6, $530 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed
• Event #28: September 13, $1,050 No Limit Holdem two-day for $3 million guaranteed

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