Archive for 2010-02-25
February 25, 2010
For the first time ever in the world of online poker, the Online Cash Game Championships are about to begin, courtesy of PartyPoker. Here’s your chance to prove that you have what it takes to be an online poker champion in a battle of wills and poker skills - known as the 2010 Online Cash Game Championships.This unprecedented event is open to anyone with enough poker savvy to come out on top and claim the crown. And it doesn’t matter a bit if you are, or are not, a regular high-stakes player!
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February 25, 2010
There are a lot of new developments at PokerStars, starting with their multi-currency options for real money players. Calculating exchange rates for poker sites has been difficult, thanks to the big swings of the value of the US dollar, Euro, and most other global currencies over the last two years. Players across the globe have been left frustrated and feeling they weren’t getting fair rates. But PokerStars hopes to curb that problem by using the current exchange rate reported by Reuters, to make conversions more stable as they are automatically credited in player accounts.
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February 25, 2010
The $10,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool Tournament taking place at Poker770 this Sunday is one you won’t want to miss! This fantastic series is running throughout 2010 but it only happens every other month, so now is the time to secure your seat in the next whopping $10,000 guaranteed event! The prize pool is huge, but the other great news is the buy-in is so cheap anyone can afford to play! That’s right, just a mere buy-in of only $5+0.50 will get you a seat to battle it out for your share of $10K!
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February 25, 2010
When the newly-formed PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour (NAPT) was announced at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January, the buzz was serious. The PCA Main Event was the first stop on the tour, and winner Harrison Gimbel became the first NAPT champion. Only two more stops were announced at that time, the next being the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza; the $5,000 buy-in Main Event, was to be the second NAPT event.The time went by quickly, and February 20 arrived as the first day of the NAPT Venetian in Las Vegas.
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