Galic Rules
As the field thinned from 469 all the way down to just 124 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo Main Event, some big names went home, some big stars made it through the day, and everybody spent the day looking up at Dragan Galic’s name atop the leader board. The Croatian chip magnet started Day 2 as the chip leader and continued to accumulate chips and notches on his gun belt as he finished Day 2 with a massive lead over his nearest competitor.
As Galic started strong, several of the shorter stacks busted right after the opening bell. Jason Mercier, last year’s champion of this event, moved the last of his stack into the middle with A-7 after an open-shove from the small blind. He found himself facing A-8, and when nothing out of the ordinary happened on the board, Mercier was done just moments into Day 2. Other early eliminations included Liam Flood, Marcel Luske, and the ebullient David Saab, who busted just before the dinner break. The early going also claimed Katja Thater and Isabelle Mercier, making the poker room just a little less lovely a place by their absence.
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Some survivors from Day 2 included Team PokerStars Pros Alex Kravchenko and Marcin Horecki, along with Bill Chen, who moved into a seat just beside Kravchenko just before the end of the day. Other notable survivors included Arnaud Mattern, Benjamin Kang and 1983 World Champion Tom McEvoy.
With so many players eliminated on Day 2, the story of the day was Dragan Galic. Coming into the day with the chip lead, Galic was a bulldozer all day long, flattening opponents as he built a huge lead going into Day 3. Just before a break, Galic sent three more unfortunate players to the rail. He got two opponents in one hand when his pocket kings held up on a queen-high flop against A-Q and A-8. Then Galic shoved all in with pocket nines and found himself racing against an opponent with K-Q. Not content to merely have his hand hold up, Galic gave up the lead in the hand when a king flopped, but then crushed his opponent’s dreams when the turn brought a nine to make his set.
Late in the day, Galic actually lost a hand when Emanuele Rugini doubled through him with {6-Diamonds}{10-Hearts} on a board of {5-Hearts}{Q-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}. Galic’s {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} was no good to Rugini’s flush, and a small dent appeared in his mountain of chips. But things returned to normal on the next hand, when Rugini shoved again with A-K. Galic looked down at pocket aces, and Rugini was at risk again. The flop brought Rugini a gutshot Broadway draw, but no help came on the turn or river, and Galic claimed another victim, moving his stack over the half-million chip mark, well ahead of his nearest competitors. As the day drew to a close, the Croatian led all runners as the survivors numbered just a few off the money bubble.
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Pokerstars Holding Poker Camp
PokerStars, one of the famous online poker rooms, is going to run a second poker camp since the first poker camp was very successful. The second camp is going to be held in the coming year between 7th and 9th January in the Caribbean. The event has the name ‘the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’. The Atlantis Hotel and Casino, the Bahamas will host the camp. The first poker camp was in Barcelona at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in July, 2008.
The poker camp will be held three days; players that will have been qualified will participate in poker modules, morning and afternoon. Famous poker players from Team PokerStars will lead each module. They are Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Vanessa Rousso. When it comes to these gamblers two of them are former WSOP Main Event champions, one is the top female world’s poker players, and one of them also a four time bracelet winner. In addition to them first-class poker instructors will be ready to teach these modules that will learn some tricks of the trade from the best of best in poker.
At the end of the learning modules, all the participants of the camp will be able to implement all they have learned in a unique tournament which is available to PokerStars poker camp participants only.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure qualifiers’ guests are eligible to take part in the poker camp that means family members and friends accompanying the qualifiers can take part in sessions open to an audience. Some sessions are only for the qualifiers.
New gambler wins “Bad Beat” jackpot at UltimateBet
As for a two-day old poker network this could not be much more fitting. The Internet Texas Holdem gambler, who has been registered with UltimateBet many days ago, this gambler, has got over 250,000 dollars gambling Texas Holdem Poker at tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Jackpot.
Because of the significantly enlarged gambler CEREUS’ base, the Bad Beat Online Jackpot at the poker site had been $789,827.72 by Thursday morning before a poker gambler holding a straight flush in his hand playing Texas Holdem was lost.
The similar loss at usual Texas Holdem tables would make any poker gambler devastated. However, the tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Online Jackpot pay for losing.
Such Jackpots are like usual Hold’em poker in the company of an additional jackpot component. Plus to rake, $0.50 is gathered from qualifying online poker hands and put into a pot that grows regularly until somebody wins the jackpot. When a hand is lost by the online poker gambler with four eights or something better, jackpot’s 65 per cents is divided just among Bad Beat Jackpot gamblers (for the next jackpot 25 per cent is put in the pot and 10 per cent is taken as administrative fees). All gamblers at a Bad Beat Jackpot table have the similar game type and limit as where Bad Beat happened also hit jackpot’s piece.
On Tuesday, UltimateBet made known that it had already completed UltimateBet’s transition to the CEREUS Poker Network, giving online poker gamblers a mass of new traits and giving a promise of higher Bad Beat Jackpots, hotter promotions, and bigger tournaments.
Results of the Investigation Concerning Ultimate Bet
An independent inquiry concerning the cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet poker rooms has been completed in accordance with an official statement that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission released. Frank Catania, former New Jersey Gaming Commissioner, conducted the investigation and in the end the mentioned investigation has really answered some main enquiries that the online poker community brought up for some time.
The main thing that people have wanted to know is the names of the perpetrators who were involved in the cheating scandal that had been taking place for 36 months and caused more than $60 million in deceitful poker playing. After everyone had known about the cheating scandals, Kahnawake Gaming Commission answered that a “former employee” was involved in it.
According to the report made by Catania, Russ Hamilton, the former owner of Ultimate Bet and World Series of Poker champion, is in the center of the cheating scandal. Actually the Commission named Hamilton as the “chief perpetrator”. Hamilton is sure not to be the only one engaged, so he must know all about the cheating actions that took place.
Many will be surprised after hearing such news. But, somebody suspected Hamilton to be involved in the Absolute Poker scandal that preceded the Ultimate Bet scandal.
As regards Kahnawake’s answer to the report, they are claiming that all the players who were affected by the scandal will have been fully refunded by 7 November, 2008. Ultimate Bet has already returned $6.1 million to date. Moreover, the Commission demands Ultimate Bet to dismiss any employee who is deemed “unsuitable”. UB must prepare a daily written report to the Commission concerning player activity, submit all software and transaction logs whenever needed and pay out a $1.5 million fine. Otherwise, the company loses its license.
PKR Poker Starting Oktoberfest
One of the most famous and attended poker sites, PKR poker is hosting the Oktoberfest celebration. The poker site hosts the Oktoberfest for the second year. The celebration is starting on 17 October, 2008 after PKR’s Super Series and PKR poker is offering participants of the celebration over $260,000 in prizes.
There will be 12 events that will last twelve days on the PKR’s available poker rooms. A PKR Masters and a Tournament of Champions event will crown the celebration. The top ranked players from the Oktoberfest series will gather together at the Tournament of Champions event in order to win $5,000 and the champion title. Neil Wright, card room manager at PKR, says that the last festival was very successful, and it will be larger and better this year. They expect to achieve the largest prize pool ever in the PKR Masters event.
This year the Oktoberfest prize pool is a $260,000 that is nearly twice bigger than the guaranteed prize in the 2007 Oktoberfest. Players will compete in their favorite games for a part of the prize pool. The events are purposely designed to suit players of different skill levels and bankrolls. Moreover, there will be speed and deep stack tournaments that are scattered throughout the Oktoberfest schedule. According to one of PKR’s press releases, there will also be Terminator and bounty tournaments.
Players interested in the event can play in satellite tournaments for all the events. The variety of satellite events is huge, giving everyone a chance to win a seat in the tournament schedule. Furthermore, players will be able to take part in lotteries as an additional way to win a seat in the Oktoberfest.
New Payment Method from Chili Poker
Online casinos and poker rooms are always seaching for new ways to make easier for their players to play at many sites. One of such ways is to offer multiple e-wallet sites. One of the first online poker sites to offer their players UKashout is Chili Poker. UKashout is a MasterCard endorse prepaid card parented by UKash. UKashOut should make the payouts for players quicker and easier. Of course, Chili Poker members are eager to try out this new payment method.
UKashOut is a state-of-the-art payment method. UKashOut will let players access their funds quickly and easily irrespective of as the funds were deposited on the online account. With UKashOut online poker rooms have no need to issue expensive checks, bank transfers and other more payment methods.
The gaming operators will directly issue the UKashOut card for the players. The players will be able to select the amount of money they want to withdraw from their account and it is credited to the card at once. Then the player can withdraw his money from an ATM or used at any place where MasterCard is accepted all over the world. First Chili Poker will issue their cards for their VIP consumers for free. There are high rollers who play at the online poker site in thirty countries. By adding the UKashOut card to their portfolio, Chili Poker hopes to attract new players and increase the retention ratio of their customer base. The UKashOut cards use the advanced UKash integration system that makes the adoption process simpler. The websites that want to go to this option should just add a technical interface and managed service on the site backside activities.
UKashOut is expected to be used by other online poker sites which are seeking different and more efficient payment methods.
Titan Poker Running the Third European Championship of Online Poker
In November Titan Poker, online casino poker site will host the European Championship of Online Poker for the third time. This year championship is expected to be better and bigger than two preceding years and those who participate in the online tournament get the opportunity to get $4.15 million in guaranteed prizes. The championship is scheduled to last for two weeks.
The Titan Poker ECOOP of 2007 lasted only ten days and guaranteed prize pools was made up of $2.5 million. The winner of the World Championship of Online Poker was ‘wkllkllu’ who won a prize of $220,000 as he took first place in this online poker tournament.
Titan Poker held the second ECOOP this May and it was also ten days long. The poker championship had a range of various poker games and mini-tournaments. The guaranteed prize pool first was $2.5 million and then it grew up to $3.6 million. World’s top online poker gamblers took part in the second ECOOP. ‘Jeanss89’ won the main event; he earned an ECOOP bracelet, one of the popular prizes in the poker world and $415,000.
The third ECOOP will again feature a lot of tournaments for gamblers to get pleasure from while they are competing to earn part of the $4.15 million guaranteed prize pool. A Titan Poker spokesperson said the tournament lasted 14 days thus additional Titan Poker gamblers could ‘show their skill and play to get the sensational reward’. The ECOOP III is scheduled to be held from 24 November through 7December, 2008.
Mac Download Software from Poker Stars
The users of Macintosh computer have always had few download options for internet casinos and poker rooms. But, at present the situation has started to change. So that a higher number of Mac users will be able to gamble online poker rooms such as Poker Stars, the largest one, are charging themselves with developing their own download software bundles compatible with Mac. If you do not know, Poker Stars has launched one of the only Macintosh computer poker rooms on the Web.
Recently the top online poker room has announced that it has finished tweaking its poker software compatible with Mac and that the gamblers in the creative community have already started using their media friendly devices, for example G4/5 and Mac Air notebooks. Though the release took more time than they expected, the end product was worth waiting.
Online poker champion, Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier said that a Macintosh computer compatible software platform is the thing that the poker community has wanted for some time. When more and more members of the Poker Stars began to ask for Mac compatible software, the team that was responsible for creating original software platform started to act.
Whilst the computer is still the major thing of internet casino software platforms, and it is the means with the help of which Poker Stars gets most of its traffic, there isn’t denying of the popularity of the Macintosh computer especially with the younger generation. We have already mentioned that Poker Stars is the biggest poker room on the internet, with approximately 15 million members. Nobody knows exactly the number of players who own Mac’s, but it is exactly worth having a download poker room compatible with Mac.
More Fun on DoylesRoom Casino
The name of Doyle Brunson is famous in the global poker community. Today The DoylesRoom Casino was launched, and casino players have already rushed to the site powered by Microgaming.
The DoylesRoom casino site offers their players the best online casino games that Microgaming is famous for. Such games as video poker, 3 and 5 reel slot games, arcade slots, baccarat, blackjack, and many live dealer games are offered to players. The games are in European and American table versions especially for different types of players. The online casino site is designed to improve the gambling experience of everybody who starts playing on the new poker room.
The intensity of the new casino is stricken. If you know something about Brunson’s online empire and especially about its poker side, you will be happy to see anybody of his team or Doyle himself play against you. The online casino poker site will feature the first-class promotions as well.
In addition, the new casino offers some of the biggest progressive jackpots in the world. At the moment there is more than $6 million that players can win and this amount is growing every moment. For example, the Mega Moolah slot machine offers the progressive jackpot and if somebody wins this jackpot, it will be immediately replenished and you will be able to win one more $1 million guaranteed jackpot at least.
Bets range in DoylesRoom are from 10 cents up to $1,000 and players can play the wagers and games they like most. Moreover there are lots of rewards and bonuses the site their players.
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