World Series of Poker Main Event Begins Today on ESPN
August 8, 2010
On July 5, 1,125 poker players took their seats to compete in Day 1A of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. Today, ESPN unveils the highlights of that day to the world.
Main-event coverage of the World Series of Poker is finally here. After a combined four weeks of coverage on the $50k Players Championship and the WSOP Tournament of Champions, ESPN will be airing Day 1 coverage for the next four consecutive Tuesdays.
One player who received quite a bit of coverage in ESPN’s first few episodes of the season and is guaranteed to receive much more is Michael Mizrachi, aka the Grinder.
After Mizrachi won the $50k Players Championship with ESPN’s cameras rolling, he sat down on Day 1A and got off to a great start to the main event, improving his 30,000-in-chips starting stack to over 100,000 by the end of the day.
As most poker fans are well aware, Mizrachi would not squander that great start, taking those chips and steadily improving throughout the event to become the most recognized player remaining in this year’s November Nine.
The Grinder isn’t the only big name who competed on Day 1A, however. Greg Raymer, Barry Shulman, Scott Seiver, Chino Rheem, John Hennigan, and Maria Ho all also decided to play in the first starting day of the world championship.
Major pros aren’t the only ones who will likely get ESPN airtime. Amongst the sea of amateurs were a few celebrities on Day 1A, including comedian Ray Romano and the NBA’s Shawn Marion.
As the network will do for the next several weeks, ESPN will air two consecutive hours of coverage on that day’s play on Tuesday night, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
For more information on the 2010 WSOP, check out CardPlayer.com’s news archives and Card Player TV for special videos from the Rio.
PokerStars Invites all Ladies to Join the Womens Poker League
August 6, 2010
PokerStars is giving a shout out to all the ladies to play to win cash and event packages every month in the PokerStars Women’s Poker League! Not only is this the perfect venue for the gals to get together for some fun and poker competition, but they can make new friends with other ladies from around the world and win fabulous prizes too!
With buy-ins starting from just $5.50/€5.50, even ladies who have a small bankroll can afford to get in on the action and it doesn’t matter what your schedule is, because there are tournaments on the schedule every day! Here is how it works: Every time you play in a League tournament, you will be awarded League points. The more tournaments you play in, the more points you will earn, and you can keep track of your League standings by viewing the table on the Rankings page which is updated on a regular basis. Points will be tallied up at the end of each month and again at the end of each year. The players with the most points each month and each year will win cash and valuable PokerStars Ladies’ Luxury Events prize packages!
For all of you ladies who haven’t tried PokerStars yet, this is the perfect time to start by signing up to PokerStars here on PokerWorks! When you register for your new account, you will get a welcome first deposit bonus of 100% up to $600! It is simple to do, just download the free poker software and follow the onscreen instructions and use the Marketing code: POKERWORKS upon registration and Bonus Code STARS600 when you deposit. Ok ladies, now that you have your PokerStars account you are ready to play in the Women’s Poker League!
Ladies tournaments run every day and the league is divided into two separate divisions: one for those who play in dollars, and one for those who play in Euros. To register in a Ladies Event, go to the PokerStars lobby and click on the ‘Tourney’ and ‘All’ tabs to find these tournaments:
USD Division: $5.50 Buy-in at 21:00 ET Daily and Sundays at 20:10 with a $55 Buy-in.
Euro Division: $5.50 Buy-in at 13:10 ET Daily and Sundays at 12:10 with a €55 Buy-in.
Cashing in any tournament earns you five (5) points and you get one (1) point just for entering. Then when you make it to the final table you will earn points as follows:
1st Place: 20 Points
2nd Place: 18
3rd Place: 16
4th Place: 15
5th Place: 14
6th Place: 13
7th Place: 12
8th Place: 11
9th Place: 10
Points leaders at the end of each month will win these cash prizes:
1st Place pays USD Division $300 and Euro Division €200
2nd $200/ €150
3rd $100/ €100
4th $80/ €70
5th $60/ €50
6th -10th $40/ €40
11th -25th $20/ €30
26th -50th $10/ €25
The yearly cash and prizes awarded are as follows:
1st Place: $1,500 + Ladies Luxury Event package/ €1,000 + Ladies Luxury Event package
2nd $1,000/ €700
3rd $500/ €600
4th $400/ €500
5th $300/ €400
6th – 10th $200/ €300
11th -25th $100/ €250
26th -50th $50/ €200
These Ladies Only Poker League events are just some of the many promotions that PokerStars has on tap just for the ladies, so log-in and check out the ‘PokerStars Women’ page today!
Be the Next Tourney King at Carbon Poker
August 4, 2010
Here is your chance to claim your crown by earning your way onto the throne in Carbon Poker’s new Tourney King promotion. During the month of August just play in all your favorite online poker tournaments at Carbon Poker and you could end up being King of the Tournaments!
Every time you play in a tournament, Carbon Poker will track your points so that you will be awarded points for your performance in accordance to the Carbon Poker High Limit or Low Limit leader board based on calculation by a unique formula. When you manage to keep your performance up to a grand scale, you will be in the running for a spot in the Leader Board Grand Final! The Grand Final tournament is what you want to shoot for because it will have a combined prize pool value of more than $20,000 that will take place on the August 12th.
During the promotional period, there will be two separate leader boards running. One will be a Low Limits leader board for tournaments having buy-ins of up to $19.99 and the other will be a High Limits leader board for tournaments having buy-ins of $20 or more. There will be a Leader Board Grand Final for each leader board where the winners of each win not only the first place cash prize, but also the title of Tourney King to be given in the form of an accolade to be proudly displayed to their ‘subjects’ at the Carbon Poker online poker tables!
How it will work is that your top 20 scores will count towards your leader board total. When you finish in the top 250 places for your chosen leader board, you qualify for the associated monthly Leader Board Grand Final tournament. For the Final, you will be assigned a unique chip stack based on the number points you manage to accumulate during the month of the promotion. In addition, you will be eligible to compete in each Grand Final tournament for which you qualify, meaning that you can go for the gusto on both the High Limit and Low Limit leader boards to have a shot at the huge cash prize pool in both Grand Finals!
With a combined value of over $20,000 in prizes that are paid to winners instantly in their player accounts, it can pay off big if you qualify to play in both the Low Limit and High Limit grand finals! And being presented with the Tourney King accolade to accompany the cash winnings, will be icing on the royal cake. Both The Leader Board Grand Final tournaments will run concurrently and will kick off at 13:00 on the second Sunday after the end of the month of August. Qualifying players will be issued an entry coupon for the tournament(s) once each tournament has been created and is displayed in the Carbon Poker Lobby.
Don’t miss your chance at royalty – start playing your way today to become the next Tourney King at Carbon Poker!
durrrr Challenge: A $2 Million Dwan Lead
August 2, 2010
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius were back at it again last night with their second post-WSOP durrrr challenge session in as many days.
This time the action lasted less than an hour and just 182 hands, but it was enough to push Dwan’s lead up and over the $2 million mark with just a little over 10,000 hands remaining in the 50,000-hand challenge.
In total, Dwan took a whopping $459,961.50 from Antonius on Full Tilt overnight Tuesday, leaving the Finn down $2,059,719.50 overall with 39,436 hands now in the books.
The two played five pots weighing in at over $100k and Dwan won every single one.
Although both post-WSOP sessions have been short, with Jungleman12 waiting in the wings to take on Dwan next, it appears the two combatants are now intent on finally finishing the challenge, more than one year after it began.
But with 10,564 hands still to be played, Dwan and Antonius will need to put in a few lengthy sessions before they’re through.
Check out the two largest pots from this latest session below, hit up our Poker Stats page for more and keep it locked on PokerListings for all your durrrr challenge news as it happens.
durrrr Challenge by the numbers:
- 342,257,728.50: total dollars wagered in the durrrr Challenge
- 2,059,719.50: total amount Dwan has won
- 39,436: number of hands played
- 5 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes: time played so far
- 567,641: number of people who live in Las Vegas
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