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September 28, 2010

Fifty up!

Its taken just a little more than nine years but PokerStars dealt its 50 billionth hand last week, giving away more than $950,000 in the process. The 50 Billion hand promotion rewarded players with cash prizes as every millionth hand ticked away on the way to the landmark hand. Then at 10.37am ET on September 22, with 220,000 players playing on 33,000 tables at PokerStars.com, tbvle, from Germany, on table Ornamenta (a $0.02/$0.05 no-limit Holdem cash table) won the 50 billionth hand, collecting $56,140 in the process.

The other five players at the table also scooped between $2,990 and $3,070 each just for being there, a sum based on the number of VIP Player Points they had amassed at the table over the previous 50 hands. As an additional bonus each player at the table also received a WCOOP Main Event ticket worth $5,200. As with previous promotions of this type it was an exciting time, with the table frozen prior to the deal to allow railbirds time to log-in and watch. The entire promotion paid out $952,239.50 to PokerStars players. Thats history made. Now on to the 60 billionth!

EPT London

The British leg of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour starts on Wednesday, September 29. London will mark not only the third stop of season seven, but the last tournament of a long and successful first season of the UKIPT. The EPT London Poker Festival is one of the highlights of the global poker calendar, attracting thousands of players for 37 events, including featured heads up, high-roller and ladies events, as well as a charity tournament benefiting cancer research. Last year Aaron Gustavson took down the EPT London Main Event, winning 850,000 in a thrilling heads-up duel against former world champion and Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate. The event attracted 730 players, making it the biggest tournament ever held in the UK. This year organisers expect no different, with players and media from all over the world descending on the capital for 37 events spread over eight days, including the 5,250 Main Event, the 20,000 High Roller, three ladies events and the 2,000 European 8-Game Championship. For more details go to the EPT

website:

http://www.ept.com. EPT London Charity

A special feature will highlight this years PokerStars.com EPT London Poker Festival. A Charity Event aimed at raising money for Cancer Research UK will hope to raise thousands of pounds for one of the worlds leading charities dedicated to beating cancer through research. The fund-raiser, with a buy-in of 100 + 10 + 10, will be held at the London Hilton Metropole Hotel from October 2-4, and features a guaranteed prize pool of 100,000, with 10 of every entry going directly to Cancer Research. In addition PokerStars will match both the 10 charity contribution as well as all additional player donations. PokerStars regularly commits to raising large amounts of money for good causes. In January this year, stars such as R&B singer Kelly Rowland, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash and hip-hop star Nelly helped raise more than $150,000 for AIDS research charity, amfAR, at a charity poker tournament during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Other events have raised money for Ante Up for Africa as well as the Royal Marsden Cancer hospital in London. Players can register online for the EPT London Cancer Research event on PokerStars. They can also start donating funds online by transferring chips to PokerStars user ID cancerUK. Further details can be found on

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/ept-charity/. Womens Poker League

The first season of the Womens Poker League one of the new innovations from PokerStars that went live on August 1 this year has now come to a close. A total of 7,316 players took part in the league with thousands of dollars awarded in prize money. The league featured Team PokerStars Pros, as well as professionals and amateurs alike. After a successful first year the Womens Poker League will be back for a second season in January 2011. For more details go to:

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/wplNow to the shores of the South Pacific

PokerStars is returning to the Philippines, wading ashore on the beaches of the South Pacific Island of Cebu, one of the highlights of last years PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour season. The event, which is set to take place at Shangri-Las Mactan Resort and Spa from November 12-16, presents players with an opportunity to play world class high-stakes poker in one of the worlds most beautiful locations. With a Main Event buy-in of 100,000 Pesos (approximately $2,165 USD), the regions best players are expected to attend to compete for another prestigious APPT title. Side events will include the Cebu Cup, a Ladies event, a Pot-Limit Omaha event (one of the first PLO tournaments ever run in Asia), a High Roller and a live satellite to APPT Sydney. Last year, 319 players created a prize pool of more than $630,000, in an event won by Koreas Dong-bin Han, who collected $156,722. For more details on what is likely to be an even bigger event, go to

http://www.appt.com.Over the border and into Slovenia

Luca Pagano has more cashes (16) than any other player in the world on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, and now the Team PokerStars Pro is on the brink of making a big impact on home turf. The Italian leads the Nova Gorica leg of the Italian Poker Tour going into the final day. Pagano, with 508,000 chips, is the tournament leader with just 36 players remaining. Sandro Mazzei (478,000) and Antonio Ranaldi (416,000) are the players closest to Pagano, as they vie for the winners cheque of 190,000. Results from the final day will be available on the PokerStars Blog when the event concludes.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com. Down south

Season three of the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour came to a close yesterday as Peruvian PokerStars qualifier Martin Sansour won the Grand Final in Rosario, Argentina, and a first prize of $322,280. A field of 254 had made their way to Rosarios City Centre Casino for the event, creating a prize pool of $1,176,200. Bolivar Palacios from Panama finished second. Austrian Matthias Habernig also reached the final table, following his win at LAPT Florianopolis earlier in the year. The Brazilian leg was one of three new events in the LAPTs third season, along with Lima and Rosario. Read the full story of the latest season on the PokerStars Blog:

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/lapt/season-3-1/argentina/Up north

As the LAPT came to a close in Rosario, and IPT Nova Gorica moved into its final day, the French Poker Series was concluding its Divonne-les-Bains leg, where Frenchman Serge Didisheim collected 108,894 for first place, ahead of runner-up Yann Pelletier. A field of 399 players had assembled in the shadows of Mont Blanc, creating a prize pool of 421,344. Divonne-les-Bains was the second leg of the new French Poker Series which now moves to the third leg in Saint Amand from October 16-17. For more details go to:

http://www.francepokerseries.fr/en/

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