Archive for July 2008

WSOP 2008 Updates Part 9 at www.pacificpocker.com

Event 41 $1,500 Mixed Holdem Event at www.pacificpocker.com. This event started out with 731 hopefuls from all parts of the globe and took 3 days to decide.

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It was left to Frank Gary and Jonathan Tamayo to fight it out at the end though, and they duly did, with Frank Gary proving victorious to take home $219,508 and his first ever World Series bracelet.

Event 42 $1,000 Seniors No Limit Holdem Event at pacificpocker.com. Dan Lacourse and Dale Eberle were left at the end of this tournament after many distinguished verterans and gentlemen of the game had been eliminated. Lacourse made a set of 9’s on the final hand and allowed Eberle to do the raising with his two pair kings up. Lacourse managed to get all the chips in the middle and went away $368 832 richer along with the all important bracelet.

Event 43 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha hi/lo. After 3 days of play Martin Klaser emerged the winner over 719 players in this event overcoming his opponent Casey Kastle in the final test. He takes home $216,249 a gold bracelet, and the adulation of the pocker masses for his efforts in this event.

Event 44 $1,000 No Limit Holdem Event With Rebuys. It was the youthful Max Greenwood who was triumphant in this event defeating Rene Mouritsen heads up who was unlucky to find his (K,J) top pair outkickered on the final hand against Greenwoods (A,J). All credit to the champion of this event however, as he outlasted 879 players to win his first ever World Series bracelet and $693,444.

Event 45 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E World Champioship Event. The main event aside this was the biggest event on the calender, a true test of the greatest all round poker player. Many of the finest pros in the world lined up to take part, and the final table saw a few great names in the game with Barry Greenstein, Erick Lindgren, Huck Seed and Scotty Nguyen all making it to the last 7 players. After a gruelling battle that saw Huck Seed fall in 7th, Greenstein 6th, and Lindgren 3rd. It was left to the young upstart Michael DeMichele to battle it out with poker legend Scotty Nguyen. Eventually however it was experience from www.pacificpocker.com that won the day as Scotty became the only player ever to win the Holdem World Championship Event and also the 50K HORSE Event.

His (A,10) bested DeMicheles (A,3) on the final hand in Holdem, to give Scotty one of the most prestigous braclets at the World Series and first place prize money of $1,989,120 for first place.

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How to participate in Tourneys at Coral Pocker

Coral pocker run a number of eye catching tournaments which go on throughout each day, week and month of the year.

On the daily schedule they have the ‘Royal Tournament’ which is a $15k gauranteed tournament with a very reasonable $10 buy in fee.

Also running at www.coralpocker.com is the ‘Lucky Dollar’ tournament which is only one dollar to enter and offers a great prize pool with $2,500 added.

Alongside these excellent value online poker tournaments are many other gauranteed tournaments and freerolls to catch a players interest and they are extremely easy to participate in. All tournaments are listed in the lobby which is easy to find your way around.

There are tournaments in many different games at coralpocker.com, so simply scroll down the list until you find the game which you wish to play a tournament in. Click on that tournament, then register.

You are always randomly assigned seats in online pocker tournaments and the table should appear when the tournament begins. As always the Big and Small Blinds will move clockwise around the table and the blinds will start off as being very small.

From there it is simply a case of playing the cards you are dealt as well as you can. Participating in tournaments should be an enjoyable experience and each one contributes to your learning curve as a player.

Finding the correct tournament for you at www.coralpocker.com shouldn’t prove to difficult as there are ‘Multi Table’ and ‘Single Table’ options at varied different buy in levels, and as you can see, participating in these tournaments is very simple indeed.

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Doylesroom.com

Getting started at Doylesroom.com firstly involves downloading, this doesn’t take too long and you should be playing poker in no time. As far as depositing goes, Doyles Rooom is safe and easy to use too.
Players making their first deposit will receive a minimum of 25% bonus up to $100, which isn’t the largest bonus around but it is reasonable enough to help a new player get started.

This fee is released in one payment which is helpful too, and there are bonus tournaments onsite especially aimed at players who are new to the site.

Other tournaments include a daily $40,000 gauranteed tournament, and a massive $175,000 monthly tournament along with bad beat jackpot SNGs to keep every player happy, both new and old.

The lobby at Doyles Room is especially easy to use and find your way around for new players, and if Texas Holdem is your game of choice then there will always be a game to be had. Other games do not have quite the same traffic flow which is unfortunate, but hopefully this will improve as the site continues to grow.

New players onsite will also find a functional points system in place which gives the option to exchange points for mechandise or buy in to tournaments. If you happen to be from another country and English is not your first language, then do not be worried about joining Doyles Room as there is the option to change language settngs if you so choose.

There are some aspects of Doyles Room which I feel could be improved if I am being honest. An increase of player traffic in time would be helpful too, but overall it offers a perfectly reasonable site for new players to join and play poker on.

Celeb Pocker review

Celeb pocker offers a few very good offers, including, a number of different variant poker games to cater for all types of players and their needs.

Customer support is reputed to be very helpful and competent and www.celebpocker.com has it’s own areas designed solely to help new players improve their game, with tutorials and other tools to help the beginner.

The first time deposit bonus at celebpocker.com is reported to be at 200% up to an amount of $500 which is extremely competitive.

The graphics used on celeb pocker are very crisp and look good, as does the software.

Transactions onsite are smooth and without problems, and there is a decent level of player traffic beginning to flow through too. One point to note is that celeb pocker does not accept U.S players unfortunately due to the change in U.S law, but there aren’t any other major problems with the site other than this I feel.

In terms of online pocker tournaments there are many large ongoing Freerolls and also gaurantee tournaments available, also www.celebpocker.com has a good rakeback scheme which sends the accrued extra money straight into the players account.

There is no point accumulation, or VIP system in place on www.celebpocker.com which is perhaps another small point which could be worked on further. But on the whole these minor points, are easily outweighed by the easy to use toolbars, good atmosphere, and the other previously mentioned plus points.

All sites have their small flaws but they don’t really take anything away from the online poker playing experience offered at celebpocker.com.

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