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Englishman Barry ‘Jack 8 Potato’ Denson is aiming to break the Longest Marathon Playing Poker By An Individual world record when he sits down at midnight on Sunday, July 1, this year at the G Casino in his home town of Manchester for what will be five gruelling days. Denson plays the majority of his live poker in The Nuts Poker League – which is a British-based pub tournament – and has teamed up with Help For Heroes, which is a charity that was set up to assist the servicemen and women wounded in Britain’s recent conflicts, to raise funds while hopefully setting a new Guinness World Record
American poker superstar Phil Ivey looks destined to enjoy a double celebration over the next few days as his 36th birthday on Wednesday should also see his imminent return to the Global Poker Index (GPI) 300 after four months in the wilderness. The Californian already has much to celebrate with his spectacular start to 2012 after enjoying a highly profitable Aussie Millions – his first major event since November’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau – in Melbourne, where he took the top prize of $2,058,948 for winning the AUD$250,000 buy-in Super High Roller not long after being knocked out in 12th place during the AUD$10,000 buy-in main event for $102,947.
According several reports, the first of which was published Monday by Poker Player Newspaper , Gabriel “Gabi” Campos Woslovsky is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of PokerStars . No replacement has been named. Wendeen Eolis first wrote in Poker Player Newspaper that the initial word of the change surfaced last Friday at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure , the latest stop on the European Poker Tour (EPT) . The publication verified the rumor with a PokerStars “insider” later in the day. PokerNews has also corroborated the story, receiving a statement from “top officials” at the world’s largest poker room which read: “PokerStars announced today that Gabi Campos has decided to step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer, effective Feb
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier continues to lead the way on the Global Poker Index (GPI).
Russian Leonid Bilokur took down the $25,000 High Roller early Sunday morning at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. He outlasted a field of 148, including an elite final table, to pocket …
Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least $10 million scheduled to be awarded.
Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond has won $400,000 over the past seven days at the high-stakes pot-limit Omaha tables on PokerStars.
Players at PokerStars will find several changes beginning on January 1, 2012 as the site announced a major change to their rake calculations, which in turn will have a severe impact on the site’s VIP Loyalty Program, according to a 2+2 forum post by PokerStars Steve. Beginning January 1st, PokerStars will make the move to the “weighted” model when determining precisely how much a Read Full Article Related posts: Party Poker makes changes to rake calculations On August 24, 2011 Party Poker will be moving from..
With the assault on the online poker industry from the US Department of Justice in April (forever to be known as Black Friday in the annals of poker history) the online poker action came to a screeching halt, and just as things started to pick back up again Full Tilt Poker went black, leaving the game’s high-stakes players without a home, and many deprived Read Full Article Related posts: Ilari Sahamies wins largest pot in PokerStars history With Full Tilt Poker shut-down since late June, the nosebleed… Sahamies on massive heater at PokerStars high-stakes tables After a horrible 2010 online poker campaign, at one point…
It would seem that even Black Friday will not be able to slow down the appeal for online poker sites to sign a November Niner, as it was announced that PokerStars has added the young German Pius Heinz to their Team PokerStars Pro roster. Heinz is one of the longer shots to win the Main Event (coming off at 11-to-1 according to Matchbook.com) but Read Full Article Related posts: PokerStars EPT San Remo final table set Final table set at PokerStars EPT Grand Finale Countdown to the 2011 WSOP final table: Good or Bad
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November 7, 2011 in Poker Tagged article, bad, ept, good, grand, PokerStars, pokerstars signs, pokerstars signs november niner days before final table, posts, san
With poker stars it concerns the worldwide biggest poker supplier on the net. The biggest poker rooms and a high player number, make Pokerstars.co.uk a highlight in the online poker sky.
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October 27, 2011 in Poker Tagged big poker players, biggest online poker, biggest poker room, biggest poker supplier, online poker plays, online poker site, poker, PokerStars, pokerstarscouk 8211 where the big poker players are
PokerStars surprised the players in April with two new regional tournament series, there will be in Portugal and the Belgian Poker Series. The tournaments attract a relatively low buy-in of 700 to 800 euros.
win cash each month and event packages! PokerStars Women’s Poker League is fun for poker players in competition with other participants from around the world and the chance for some incredible prices. Every day held tournaments with buy-ins starting at $ 5.50 / € 5.50 offer all players the opportunity to be there.
Play heads up against Isildur1! Isildur1 is the most famous and most discussed name in the high stakes online cash game – and now you can see playing the Phantom of the poker scene exclusively on PokerStars. But that’s not all: The superstar showdown is Isildur1 compete against any challenger who dares to heads-up on [...]
were well attended, the two major Sunday tournaments on PokerStars last weekend and the prize money guarantees have been even slightly exceeded.
In 2010, you can register with the 150-point tickets for the remaining $ 2,000 cash freeroll at PokerStars.
Joe Hachem was on 3 November, 1966 Born in Lebanon in 1972 and moved his family to Australia, where he studied and became a chiropractor. Today, Joe lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Jeanie, and his four children, Anthony, Justin, Daniel and James. After a few year round playing poker only in passing, he [...]
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August 25, 2009 in Poker Tagged Joe Hachem, No Limit, Poker After Dark, PokerStars, Texas Hold'em