Posts Tagged ‘main event’
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 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
PokerHub on April 10th, 2009
Want to know all the places running satellite qualifiers for seats in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event? Well look no further. For your convenience, we’ve listed below the hottest free tickets to the 2009 WSOP running. Check all the schedules and then schedule your time accordingly so as to participate in the most number of chances to win your way in that you can.
Full Tilt Poker: They’ve got $10 Million Main Event Mania, a 150 Seat Guarantee, Weekly Cash Qualifiers, regular Main Event Shootouts, and a 100 Seat Giveaway. Full Tilt Poker 2009 WSOP Satellites
Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker: These sites run corresponding Series 2009 Promotions, 3 opportunities each to win–through the 10-step STEPs Tourneys, through daily satellites and weekly $500 +$30 Sunday Super Satellites, and through a June 21st Guaranteed Tourney.
All 3 of the above sites are giving away a bonus $10 million if one of their players wins the 2009 WSOP main event.
PokerHub on March 27th, 2009
The second instlalment of Hollywood Poker’s Grand Series of Poker is coming up soon (April 12 – May 3 to be exact) and that means its time to get ready for the qualifiers for the May 3rd Grand Slam Final main event.
With an estimated $3 million prize pool, this promises to be the biggest Hollywood Poker Grand Slam yet. Starting on April 12, players have 3 ways they can try and satellite their way into the big event. From April 12 to May 2 there will be an ongoing leaderboard running for the 16 GSOP II events leading up to the main event Finals.
While the winner of each event (barring event #13, the special Grand Tournament Finals) will win a free ticket into the May 3 Grand Slam Final, 2nd through 10th place finishers will compete for another free ticket, as will 11th through 30th place finishers, and those placing 31st through 100th, making 4 tickets in all available through this route.
In addition will be qualifiers running every day of the series at 3 pm ET, with varying buy-ins as low as $10 + $1, the winner of each one guaranteed a free ticket into the main event.
And finally, 3 more tickets will be made available through a $50 + $4 Last Chance Qualifier on Sunday May 3, the day of the main event itself.
PokerHub on February 23rd, 2009
Jamie Gold, winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, has just been signed by AcedPoker (at Aced.com) as the site’s latest celebrity poker pro endorser.
Gold, who prior to winning the big prize in the 2006 WSOP was a successful Hollywood talent agent and producer, signed a multi-year contract with Aced.com. The reported deal, somewhere in the range of $2 million, includes buy-ins at many of the most prestigious live poker tournaments around the world. Rumor has it that this is the most lucrative endorsement contract between a poker pro and online poker room in the history of internet poker.
Sponsoring Gold was a big move for little-known Aced Poker, who has only been hosting live poker tournaments since last September as is one of the flagship sites of the up-and-coming Merge Network. Gold has been patiently waiting for just the right sponsorship opportunity to come around, turning down numerous endorsement offers since winning the $12 million top prize in the 2006 WSOP main event and, shortly thereafter, parting with former sponsor Bodog.
