Archive for 2010-02-06
February 6, 2010
TSN is Canada’s leading sports news and information provider, and the announcement that they teamed up with PokerStars.net, the world’s leading online poker website, is a match made in the winner’s circle. The two major entities joined forces to bring more poker to sports fans in Canada, where the game is growing as fast as anywhere in the world.The TSN Poker Club, located at poker.tsn.ca, is a custom-built online poker space that launched on February 3. Online freeroll tournaments will give players the chance to play poker for prizes, and the software is simple to download.
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February 6, 2010
SportsBook Poker already holds some of the biggest weekly and monthly poker tournaments in the industry. But their big tournaments are only getting bigger since both the $100,000 and $250,000 Guaranteed have grown!For one thing, the $100,000 Guaranteed is no longer the $100k since SportsBook has added $25,000 to the prize pool. Now it’s known as the $125,000 Guaranteed, and this poker tournament takes place every Sunday at 5:00 pm.
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February 6, 2010
The month of December started off pretty horrendous for me on the online felt. To make matters worse, no matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to win a package into the PCA tournament being held in January. I was beginning to think that there was no way I was going to end up going, despite the fact that it’s the tournament that all the online players show up at and people were telling me that I was crazy even considering not going.
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February 6, 2010
The Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) has been a force in Canada but recently made some moves to become a more recognized live tournament circuit. Its recent purchase by Headsup Entertainment was followed by an announcement of the launch of Canadian Poker Player Television and the signing of Lacey Jones as the “face” of the tour, and the intent to be more of an established stop on the global poker scene is unmistakable.
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