Epic Poker Tour on Facebook

Today begins the first event of the Epic Poker League. And television professionals for that matter. The next step is just as consistent.

You must be present on Facebook.

Similar to the principle of game play money poker giant Zynga is the Epic App. allow its members to build multimillion-dollar bankrolls in virtual dollars.

It costs nothing the matter, and who is “like me” is clicked on, may also play a couple of real prices.

Like all free offers can also recommend Epic poker and compete in tournaments or cash games and can run through a few times between the integrated Daddelmaschine while you wait.

At times, more than 1,000 active players.

The Epic Poker League, where you may participate by invitation only, and only participate with a rather large bankroll can has, since its Foundation at the beginning of the year already caused quite a stir.

Unlike some other projects of the past two years, heralded a success here.

Dialogue initiated by the league was Howard Lederer’s sister, Annie Duke, and former WSOP spokesman and now head of the Federated Sports & Gaming Jeffrey Pollack.

The main criterion for membership is the specially developed “Global Poker Index”, which you also in our current poker world rankings . find

The premiere of the series takes place tonight at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. The main event will end on 12 August.

Bodog leaves the United States and already has an official license from UK

Bodog announced yesterday that stop offering their services in the U.S. before the end of the year.

As reported PokerNewsDaily, his license Morris Mohawk Gaming -Which, as feature on its website, Bodog exclusively licensed to the U.S., are located in Kahnawake (they in turn are licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission) to 10-15 minutes from downtown Montreal and a bus that drops you at the door of the offices- 2011 and expires this do not plan to renew.

A few days ago, Bodog announced that had obtained a license from the UK Gambling CommissionThe British government’s regulatory power over gaming to announce its intention to tougher measures on licensing for operators in the country. Thus, Bodog would have already exceeded the legal requirement that will soon be met by companies wishing to provide services in the UK, he stands in an advantageous position.

Bodog also wants to focus on their products in Asia, as the brand that already enjoys Bodog88 success in this emerging market.

It seems clear that the big brands have already realized after Black Friday that leave the United StatesAnd wait for better winds blow in the country, is the only option.

Finally we leave you a paper chart except: an image of the negotiating team with the UK Bodog Gaming Commision. As you can see, went to meetings with the regulator well armed with arguments expeditious … Sticks! FTP should perhaps take note.

Silvia Gil wins the tournament WPT Gandia

Good news and we continue our past successes wherever they go.

This time it’s the WPT tournament in Casino de Gandia Following distributing prizes among participants. At last year gathered 89 players, generating a prize pot of € 10,620.

The player skill Silvia Gil rose victorious from the tournament after beating the final heads-up to Sunday Córdoba Rico.

Silvia took a first prize of 3611 euros Levantine land.

Congratulations!

Play Online Poker with Leo Margets

Leonor Leo Margets is one of the hottest poker pros around. The Spanish beauty is originally a resident of Barcelona who picked up the game 4 years back being introduced by her boy friend. From then on she started improvising her skills by playing in various local clubs. The University Championship was the first major turning point in her life which took place in Barcelona. Long before she entered online poker, she had started getting recognized as a live poker player. It was her earliest live event that brought her the winner’s trophy. Since then, there was no looking back and very soon she got a lucrative offer from 888.com. They proposed to sponsor all her world trips which she would be taking to participate in different international poker tournaments. Today Leo is the official ambassador of 888.com.

The prime highlight in Leo’s career came 2 years back in 2009 when she won the WSOP (World Series of Poker) Main Event. There she was the longest staying woman which earned her the “Last Woman Standing” Cup. Besides, she also got a cash prize of $352K. Here, her opponents were the stalwarts like Andrew Feldman, Eric Liu, Sammy George and Andy Black. Her next biggest prize was in “No Limit Hold’em Six Max” tournament in the Aussie Millions. She got the third position with prize money of $54K. In “Full Tilt Poker” event, held in 2009 in Malaga, Spain, Leo was one of those few players who could make to the finals. There she got the 6th position with prize money of $15K. Leo made her prime most Television appearance in 2010, April.

Today, Leo is quite happy with her position in the poker world. She is full on support and strong admiration for the fellow female players too, According to her, their unusual poker career is both unique and full filling.

Online poker players will be happy to know that Leo is available online too. The special online poker event is called “A Por Ella”. It’s held each Thursday at around 19:00 GMT. The players are charged with a nominal entry fee of $11 and the prize money varies between 250-1000 dollars for anybody who can eliminate her. The 1000$ bounty is for the earlier Thursday of any month and the 250dollar bounty is for the other Thursdays. You can even play free poker games with Leo via the “A Por Ella” tournament. Free poker games are highly useful for the amateurs and Leo’s site provides excellent free-roll offers.

Annie Duke Poker Professional League – Schedule announced

It was not a duck: The professional league, which was developed by Annie Duke and former WSOP spokesman Jeffrey Pollack should go already this summer at the start. Four events are planned so far.

Each event consists of three tournaments: a mixed Pro-Am Event, A Charity Event and $ 20k Main EventThat is, however, played in various formats. Add a championship event comes as a big finale. Annie Duke was the league announced a month ago.

As Venue was the glamorous Palms in Las Vegas selected. Each event will last about a week. The main event is always set to four, in one case in five days. The same applies to the Pro-Am tournaments.

The main event will, as has been known well, not always as full ring NLHE be played freeze outs. Rather, we will also experiment with 6-max, heads-up and other formats. As a bonus for the pros, for the Man Events deducted no entry fee, to increase the value of the tournaments.

200 players to be included in the league. The evaluation key has not yet been published. The editors have therefore schonmal a preselection.

Annie Duke explained to the structures of the tournament: “In the main event is played at least four days. With a starting field of 200 players, we are likely to have the player-friendly structures that are possible. In addition, there is no rake, and, while generous overlays. So we celebrate the best tournament players in the world. ”

When Championship Event is it a $ 1,000,000 freeroll for the best 27 players of the table.

The best nine of the Pro-Am events will get a “Temporary Card League” and therefore, access to the main event in the same week.

The schedule for the first season:

Event No. 1
Pro-Am event on 12-15. August
Charity Event: 14 August
Main Event: 16-19. August

Event No. 2
Pro-Am Event: 30 Sept. – 3 October
Charity Event: 2 October
Main Event: 4-7. October

Event No. 3
Pro-Am Event: 1-5. December
Charity Event: 4 December
Main Event: 6-10. December

Event No. 4
Pro-Am Event: 20th-23. Jan.
Charity Event: 22 Jan.
Main Event: 24-27. Jan.

Championship Event: 29-30. Jan.

New player for free money at PartyPoker

Anyone who logs on to PartyPoker now get, nor to money.

The Online poker rooms gives every new player who logs on now poker time, $ 10 Special Bonus.

The promotion runs for players from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Canada and Russia. The first 3000 new registered get the money credited as tournament dollars if they are up to 28 February login.

Within 24 hours after registration you will automatically receive $ 5 tournament dollars to your account. If your first deposit of more than $ 25, you get more $ 5

Thus profits are paid, a deposit must be made (in any amount).

Party Poker Tournament Dollars can be used for all tournaments of the agent used, apart from STT and MTT heads-up events.

All players who make a deposit during the special action, are also on for two first Freerolls March qualified, where you can win ten tickets to the monthly million.

Two German in WPT final in Paris

Today, instead of the final table of the WPT Paris. Tobias Ingo Wagner and Paul compete for € 240,000 first prize. High Roller Sam Trickett also at the final table.

At 15 clock begins the fifth and final day of the WPT Paris. Day four was a particularly unusual: Ten players – from an original 188 – met to play off the last eight. This is only Sam Trickett was almost worse than Bubble Boy Nichlas Mattson.

Trickett has this year won the Aussie Millions $ 100K Challenge and was days later at the same place second behind Erik Seidel in the $ 250k Super High Roller Challenge. He also won last year, the PartyPoker World Open VI and reached the final table at EPT Portugal.

A year of so, but on his way to the WPT final table in Paris, he doubled to four on day three opponents. It took only minutes to the Gameday 90th He began with almost 900,000 chips and is now seventh in the final day.

encouraging from a German perspective: with Tobias Wagner and Ingo Paul, we still have two irons in the fire. After good results in the Spanish Poker Tour in 2010 and the main event of the German Championship of Poker ten days ago Wagner now faces his greatest success.

Ingo Paul sielte to last year’s WSOP Main Event in the money and won $ 36,500. In Paris, he would reach number 7 in order to reap a higher sum. He won a Riesenpot against Jean-Francios Tyczynski, who was with 12 players still had the chip lead.

The final table shaped like a skating exhibition by the way the (smaller) poker rooms.

Wagner was engaged only in January of Everest Poker, after he prevail in the “Live the Dream” promotion could. Sam Trickett plays for Titan Poker, while the main sponsor of the WPT continues to PartyPoker.

But apropos skating exhibition. For all the joy of the Germans and Ingo Tobias Wagenr Paualus and the Englishman over the current red-hot Sam Trickett, most eyes will be on Natalia Nikitina be directed from Austria, although the sponsor is not at all so far.

Chips at the final table of the WPT Paris:
1 Benjamin Pollak 1.251 million
2 832 000 Ingo Paul
Tobias Wagner 3 748 000
Natalia Nikitina 4 688 000
5 Jean-Louis Tepper 470 000
6 Alexandre Brivot 203 000
7 191 000 Sam Trickett
Nicolo Calia 8 176 000

NBC Heads-Up Championship 2011

Next month there will be a new edition of the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The world elite has announced its arrival.

64 of the best players on the planet will compete in the seventh edition of the annual Heads-up Championship. The tournament will be from 3-6. Held in March, and first prize will reach the unprecedented level of $ 750k.

“We are proud that the National Heads-Up Poker Championship to present for the seventh consecutive year our viewers so they can pursue the most exciting poker game ever,” enthused Jon Miller, program director of NBC Sports and Versus. “You never know what battles there will be at the tournament. But it is every year-follow exciting to see who beats whom, where the best compete against each other. ”

Annie Duke will be back there to defend her title. To wait prominent names such as Vanessa Rousso, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Chris Ferguson, Huck Seed, Daniel Negreanu, the current WSOP champion Jonathan Duhamel and former champions Peter Eastgate, who just its Coming out of retirement has announced.

“Every year I look forward to measure myself against the big players in the world and to a heads-up tournament match, the fans can follow the world on TV,” said Duke. “I will again compete with the intellectual and technical abilities of my fellow poker, this will undoubtedly create the day.”

Leeann Tweeden, host of the Poker After Dark, Will act as moderator. She is accompanied by Craig Hummer and Ali Nejad to be transferred to NBC.

The first round of the Championship will be knocked out on 3 March under the “Draw Party” at PURE Nightclub draw. A set list as in major football tournaments, there will be no.

Liv Wins Sunday Warm-up

In the early morning hours Sunday ended a remarkable Major on PokerStars. EPT Champion Live Boeree was ultimately successful. Two German at the final table. Daniel Negreanu entered the Top 25, Isildur into the money.

The Sunday tournaments on PokerStars are known to be the largest in the network. In most cases, the finals are dominated by unknowns, which is not surprising when you consider how many players in it. A Phil Ivey is after all not every year at the final table of the WSOP.

4710 were this time at the Sunday Warm-up here, which, as always, began 3 ½ hours before the Sunday Million. About five clock in the morning several big names had reached the final three tables.

Pieter de Korver, winner of the EPT Grand Final in 2009, finished the tournament in 24th place, demonstrating once again that he is not a One Hit Wonder.

Daniel Negreanu was able to stay a little longer and eventually finished in 22nd place It’s only a matter of time before he even enters a title online.

At the final table were finally Martin “Goral” Horecki and Liv Boeree two Team PokerStars players. “Bjoerni89″ and “Aduobe4″ the table made from a German perspective to a very successful.

While Horecki had to leave the table in eighth place, the two Germans even reached the fourth and three. In heads-up met Liv Boeree finally mig.com. In the previous game they won with a pair of sevens against A-6. A deal was not negotiated.

Also, Isildur is on the point to score in the tournaments. In the warm-up last night it reached a respectable 306th Place. In contrast, the best German professional – Sebastian Ruthenberg – only 1018th.

The 30 Sexiest Poker players

There are times a year, because you almost every day with new lists of the Sexiest Poker Player the Blue Planet supplies. And so it is again today so far. The online sports magazine BleacherReport.com has published its “Hot 30″ ranking. The winner is Tina Wallman.

In Germany it is rather unknown, but in the U.S. has long been a Star: The 29-year-old fashion model Tina Wallman. She became famous for her role as spokeswoman for the online poker room “Carbon Poker”. By choosing the sexiest poker player in the world of the dark-haired beauty is now in Germany to pay due attention.

To the other poker players: World Poker Tour and Poker After Dark “bracelet spokeswoman Shana Hiatt (8th), European Poker Tour San Remo winner Liv Boeree (13th), World Series of Poker winner Jennifer Tilly (14th), Team PokerStars Pro Member Vanessa Rousso (18th), Betclic’s Isabelle Mercier (19th), “Amazing Race” competitor and Team UB Member Tiffany Michelle (21st) Full Tilt Poker per Jennifer Harman (22nd), Team Member PartyPoker Kara Scott (26th), and Team UB Member Annie Duke (29th).

This is a cause for despair, no German poker player has made it into the top 30.

1. Tina Wallman, 2 Chantel McNulty, 3 Shannon Elizabeth, 4 Joanna Krupa, 5 Tatjana Pasalic, 6 Erica Schoenberg, 7 Tara Rice, 8 Shana Hiatt, 9 Lacey Jones, 10 Kimberly Lansing, 11 Sabina Gadecki, 12 Jennifer Leigh, 13 Liv Boeree, 14 Jennifer Tilly, 15 Liz Lieu, 16 Evelyn Ng, 17 Clonie Gowen, 18 Vanessa Rousso, 19 Isabelle Mercier, 20 Helen Chamberlain, 21 Tiffany Michelle, 22 Jennifer Harman, 23 Laura Prepon, 24 Beth Shak, 25 Erin Ness, 26 Kara Scott, 27 Jean Gluck, 28 Veronika Larsen, 29 Annie Duke, 30 Lily Elviro.

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