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PokerStars weekly roundup: 7 December 2009

Charity on the beach
This year the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (http://www.caribbeanpokeradventure.com/) will be a two week
long 50-event festival of poker on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. They’ll be sun, sea, sand and high stakes poker
for the thousands of players who descended on the Island every January, but they’ll also be chance to give a little
something back. Having been supporters of AIDS research charities for several years PokerStars
(http://www.pokerstars.com ) has teamed up with amfAR (http://www.amfar.org/) to host a fundraising charity
tournament during the festival. The $5,250 buy-in tournament will donate half of the prize pool to amfAR and will
include players such as NHL Olympic gold medallist Mats Sundin, tennis legend Boris Becker, French rugby star
Sebastian Chabal and members of Team PokerStars Pro (http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars). For more
information on a charity qualifier on PokerStars later this month see the amfAR charity event page.
(http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/amfar/)

Home town hero wins in Prague
It was one of the longest final tables in recent EPT memory but provided a thrilling climax to what has now become
one of the best destinations on the European Poker Tour (http://www.ept.com ). Ahead of 586 players it was local
hero Jan Skampa on top in EPT Prague (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2009/ept-prague-jan-skampa-skittlesall-
comer-062214.html ), defeating Eyal Avitan from Israel in a three hour heads-up battle. Not only did Skampa
become the latest home country winner but he also becomes the first player to make back to back final tables
since season one, following Skampa’s fourth place in Vilamoura two weeks ago
(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2009/ept-vilamoura-local-hero-antonio-matias-061600.html ). Skampa won
€682,000 and a seat at the grand final in Monte Carlo
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/montecarlo/) next April.

Pagano Power
Jan Skampa may have won the title, the lion share of the money and the grand final seat but one player was
setting more records, or should that be extending his own. The Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano
(http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/luca-pagano) made the final table in Prague – his sixth EPT,
extending his own record, and following his fourth place finish in Warsaw in October. His sixth place in Prague was
his 13th EPT cash (http://www.pokerstars.net/Scripts/tours/database_results.htmls?id_player=41&lang=en&tour=1)
– extending yet another record – and keeps him rooted firmly to the top of the tour’s tournament leader board, with
tour earnings now amounting to more than $1.1 million.

Aussie wins grand final down under
While there was excitement in Prague it was a similar story on the other side of the world where the three day Asia
Pacific Poker Tour (http://www.appt.com ) grand final was playing to a finish at Star City Casino in Sydney,
Australia (http://www.starcity.com.au/dir013/internetpublishing.nsf/content/intro ). The biggest payout of the year
went to the PokerStars qualifier Aaron Benton who won the title and AUD$594,000
(http://www.appt.com/news/index.html ), ahead of a total field of 396. The final featured seven Australian and is the
third year in a row that the event was won by a native. The five stop tour has so far created more than US$6 million
in prize money in this its third season, and now links up with the European (http://www.ept.com ) and Latin
American Poker Tours (http://wwwlapt.com ) and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
(http://www.caribbeanpokeradventure.com/) in the New Year.

Another broken record
You might have heard this same opening line before but PokerStars (http://www.pokerstars.com ) has broken
another record – or at least one of its most fanatical players has. One day a Russian player sets a new record for
the number of hands played on PokerStars within 24 hours – a massive amount set at more than 40,000. Then, a
few days later, someone else smashes that record in even less time. A player going by the name “ChicagoJoey”
played 50,470 in only 21 hours and not only that he managed to record a profit as well, something the previous
record holder was unable to do. After his long day at the office “ChicagoJoey” made $800 profit on the 10c/25c
tables, not to mention the even bigger prize he won in a side bet with a friend.

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