Archive for 2010-02-01
February 1, 2010
The 2010 Irish Open will once again give players the opportunity to compete for a €3,000,000 prize pool, spend a week in the beautiful and historic city of Dublin, and play alongside the likes of poker pros like Dan Harrington, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Roland de Wolfe, and Andy Black. Since the Irish Open is such a big event, you might be interested in checking out the satellites that SportsBook Poker is currently running for Europe’s oldest poker tournament.The cheapest poker satellite is the Irish Open Semi-Qualifier R&A, and the buy-in for it is $3 + $0.30.
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February 1, 2010
I have been particularly interested in writing the story of Shaun Deeb for quite a while. Watching him go from one of thousands of grinders online, to one of the most popular players of our era has been one of the highlights for me as I’ve covered poker. You can imagine my surprise when I read a few months ago that Deeb had announced his retirement from tournament poker. I was well aware that Deeb did very little outside of grind online poker tournaments, most likely playing more tournaments than anyone else who has ever played the game.
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February 1, 2010
To say that it was a big Sunday would be a gross understatement. While each set of Sunday majors offers millions upon millions of dollars for online poker players, the January 31st events offered so much more. Not only did Full Tilt run a promotion that doubled its weekly guarantees for the entire week, making the Sunday guarantees simply amazing, but the Sunday Million offered a $2 million guarantee instead of its usual $1.5 million, but so many players came out for the festivities that the prize pool soared to nearly $4 million.That’s a BIG Sunday.
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February 1, 2010
This is the month of Valentine’s Day and to celebrate, PokerWorks is bringing you some super sweet FreeRoll promotions! Plus our team has been working hard to partner up with even more of the best online poker sites to bring you even bigger and better free cash opportunities - so watch for exciting new FreeRolls to be added to the PokerWorks schedule very soon! In the meantime, mark your calendars for these super upcoming FreeRolls!PokerStars $2,000 PokerWorks Cash FreeRoll - February 6th, 13th, 20th and 27thThis is it - the last month of the amazing $2,000 FreeRolls at PokerStars!
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