Monday, 9 August 2010
The world’s largest regular online poker tournament series returns for its ninth run on September 5, this time bigger and better than ever.
In the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, 62 events will guarantee $50,000,000 in prizes; an average of over $800,000 per event.Over 23 days, dozens of tournaments involving every imaginable form of poker will take place at the world’s largest online poker site. It kicks off on September 5 with a $200 + $15 NL Hold ‘em 6-max tournament and the highlights of the series will include a $10,300 High Roller 8-game event and the now trademark 2-day $5,200 Main Event with a $10,000,000 guarantee."Players across the world re-arrange their calendars around the WCoOP schedule," said Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. "It is the biggest and best online poker tournament series - and draws in tens of thousands of players, with the deepest structures and a wide variety of events. I can't wait to play this year’s series!"Last year, more than 40,000 players from 140 countries around the world competed in the WCoOP with Yevgeniy Timoshenko winning $1.7m for his Main Event victory. This year multiple events offer a seven-figure prize pool and satellites for peanuts are running now at PokerStars.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
$200 GTD ‘East of Eden’ Poker Tournament Monday night at Intertops Poker will be a freezeout tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
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