09 3rd, 2010
Day 3 ended Thursday at the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair with 18 players left and PartyPoker.it pro Giovanni Safina on top.
Safina, a 44-year lawyer from Palermo, finished third in the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV, cashing for $156,000 and winning a $100,000 Team PartyPoker.com contract after qualifying for the event online.
However, his run is just the lede. The real story is 21-year-old Swede Kristoffer Thorsson sitting third in chips.
Kristoffer won the Amsterdam Master Classics this past November for €636,120 and qualified online for WPT London, meaning that if he wins, he’s entitles a part of a $1 million bonus from .
Kristoffer would earn $500,000 and the other PartyPoker London qualifiers would share the other $500,000.
“There is still a long way to go but knowing about the extra $1 million payout has given me extra pressure,” he said. “I know the other players are desperate for me to win and I will be doing my best!”
While names like Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey and Huck Seed all dotted the leader board early in London, the final 18 is filled with a group of lesser known players.
Perhaps the most recognizable is 2010 EPT Deauville champ Jake Cody, who currently sits fourth in chips.
London drew 171 players creating an £820,800 prize pool. A total of 16 places will be paid with £273,783 reserved for first.
Play resumes at 12 p.m. London time Friday. A winner will be crowned Saturday.
In the meantime, the £15,000 televised high rollers event starts Friday at 3 p.m., with registration open until 9.30 p.m.
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09 3rd, 2010
“I’m pretty happy at the moment” he said. “This title means a lot to me.”
Banking the €467,836 first-place prize was no easy feat for the Southampton native, who overcame a final table that included EPT Season 1 Grand Final champion Rob Hollink, English football legend Teddy Sheringham and 2010 Aussie Millions runner-up Frederik Jensen.
Lewis, whose largest previous live cash was a final table appearance at PokerStars IPT Venice, actually moved into the lead taking a rather large pot off rising Swedish star Martin Jacobson on the tournament’s penultimate day, then beat the Swede heads-up to take the title.
“I was disappointed not to win IPT Venice, but this means even more,” he said. “It wasn’t easy - Martin was a very hard player to beat.”
A total of 384 players entered the €5,300 main event creating a prize pool of €1,862,400, making EPT Vilamoura the largest poker tournament ever held in Portugal.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano achieved a record-breaking 16th EPT cash in Vilamoura, busting in 52nd place for €7,263.
Next up for the European Poker Tour is London and the first of Season 7’s major poker festivals. The main event runs Sept. 29- Oct. 4.
Below are the final table payouts for Vilamoura.
1. Toby Lewis €467,836 2. Martin Jacobson €297,985 3. Jason Lee €186,241 4. Sam Trickett €139,681 5. Teddy Sheringham €93,121 6. Frederik Jensen €74,496 7. Rob Hollink €55,872 8. Sergio Coutinho €37,248
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For those in the world of poker that weren’t involved in tournaments, the Emmy Awards on Sunday night provided a bit of a respite over Twitter. “Oh Crap! The Emmys,” Joe Reitman Tweeted as the show began. “I totally forgot 2 star on a show, hire a publicist & wear a tux so I could go 2 the awards & b judged on my looks 2nite.” Poker scribe Jess Welman was less than impressed when she chirped after the show’s start, “Not a good sign when we’re ten minutes into the Emmys and I’m already counting the minutes that could easily be shaved off the broadcast.”
The duo were able to find something to agree about during the Emmys, with both congratulating particular shows on the cable channel AMC that they enjoyed. “Big congrats to fellow USC Cinema School Class of ’05 alum Erin Levy for winning a frikkin Emmy for Mad Men,” Welman Tweeted in kudos to a friend. Reitman was proud for a former employee: “I am so happy my boy Aaron Paul of @breakingbad just won. I cast him in my short ‘LEO’ 5 years ago. He is the best actor of his generation.” ’s Scott Ian also piped up about the run of the actors from “Breaking Bad,” Tweeting, “Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul both won Emmy’s for Breaking Bad. You need to watch this show.”
Someone who had a memorable night for the Emmy Awards was online superstar Justin “Boosted J” Smith. “At Courtney Cox + David Arquette’s house in Malibu watching the Emmys on TV,” Smith Tweeted on Sunday evening. “Actors and producers here these guys are wild watching it! LOL.” Smith went on to describe the reactions of those in attendance: “It’s like watching European football and when an Emmy is awarded its like a GOALLLLLL!”
As the night wore on, Smith continued to channel his inner with his Tweets. “Gave Jennifer Aniston a 4 hour poker lesson last night,” Smith recounted after the party on Monday. “If she learned a little bit more about who acts first and stuff, she’d be real good!”
There was plenty of action for those who were away from the television and on the felt over the weekend. The Circuit event in Council Bluffs saw two prolific Tweeters, and Blair Hinkle, making deep runs. “Money bubble broke – 27 players all in the $ – I have 450k,” reported Lee from the tables yesterday.
Both players continued their assault on the top of the leaderboard as the afternoon moved into the evening. “Unbelievable! After getting down to 275k, I sucked out again,” Lee Tweeted to his followers. “My 10-10 vs AA – 10 on flop – back up to 470k (aver 386k) – 13 players left. Play would be stopped soon after that with Lee reporting his stack as “339k.”
Hinkle had a slightly different adventure than Lee at the Iowa tables. “Ugh super crazy guy squeezes with 88 I shove with AT he calls I flop ace but he flopped 8 turn 8. 70k still,” he Tweeted during play on Monday. Although he didn’t detail how he did it, Hinkle was able to turn things around by the end of the night, Tweeting at the end of play, “Down to 13 players done for the night… 243k blinds starting at 2000ante 5-10000.”
Across the Atlantic, many top players were in the running at the European Poker Tour event in Vilamoura, Portugal, with – at first – having the time of his life. “I got 44 and shoved ak calls fours hold to break the bubble. 965k 56 left,” Cantu reported to his followers early Tuesday morning before the game took a fateful turn. “Unbelievable,” he Tweeted soon after the bubble burst. “331k aq with the ace of hearts vs 99 flop q32 all hearts turn 9… That’s the worst beat I have ever taken.” A couple of hours later, Cantu sounded the death knell by Tweeting, “Ak vs 99 ace in the door 9 to follow – out – most frustrating day I have ever had an indescribable feeling actually.”
To soothe his defeat, Cantu may want to head to Cannes for the Partouche Poker Tour’s event starting Thursday. Tweets were flying as many top poker pros announced their plans to head to the Mediterranean coast to play in the event. Eric Mizrachi (“Today is my last day in Israel, have a flight to catch in 8 hours to Romania then off to Cannes, France for main event!”), (“Cannes is gonna be effing insane. Vitamins to. Lots and lots of vitamins”), (“Vegas for less than 24hrs. Had the best time celebrating @DanFleyshman’s bday in 3 cities. Next stop… Cannes!”) and (“Back in London for a couple days before heading to Cannes”) are just a few of the top pros who will be in France for the tournament.
For the best Tweets of the weekend, we have to start with “Hollywood” Dave Stann’s reports from his efforts in the Online Championship, or UBOC. “I like a challenge,” Stann Tweeted on Sunday. “Immediately out of 200k running my QQ into AA, then in UBOC main ran my QQ into KK for half my stack. Thanks for the memories, #UBOC. Should stand for Ur Bigpair Obv Cracked.”
Two players offered up their thoughts regarding Paris Hilton’s arrest in Las Vegas over the weekend for cocaine possession. “Really?,” ’s Tweeted. “The only thing that happened while I was away is Paris H is arrested for cocaine? SHOCKER! Drugs are gross. Especially if you’re 30.” found the potential reason for his youthful indiscretions: “Paris thought the blow was gum. Now I know why I was so damn hyperactive in high school. Teachers, I TRIED to stop talking! I’m sorry!”
Finally, Jennifer “” Leigh decided to step away from the tables, Tweeting, “Laying out for a bit… Cyprus got me addicted to sun! Definitely not going to miss my monitor tan!”
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08 28th, 2010
This week players will want to pay special attention to the weekly $1,000 Titan Poker freeroll today and the $500 888poker freeroll on Tuesday.
The following freerolls are open to all PokerListings.com players. Qualify in the specified qualification period, and then take your seat to potentially win baskets of free cash.
If you’re not a PL.com registered player on any of the following sites, click on the site’s name in the list to sign up.
Titan Poker is running weekly $1,000 freerolls for PokerListings players that cost just one Titan Poker Point to buy into.
Date: Aug. 28
Value: $1,000
Qualify with: Use 1 Titan Poker Point.
New depositors on 888poker will have a shot at four different $500 freerolls.
Date: Aug. 31
Value: $500
Qualify with: New deposit
PokerStars is running an exclusive $25k WCOOP freeroll for PokerListings players next week.
Date: Sept. 4
Value: $25,000 in WCOOP tickets. First place will receive entry into the $5,200 WCOOP ME while places 2-93 win $215 tickets.
Qualify with: 250 Frequent Player Points
Qualify between: July 1-30
All of August, PartyPoker will be offering a series of cash-added low buy-in tournaments for new players who sign up through PokerListings.
Date: Aug. 29
Buy-in: $10+$2
Value: $1,500 added cash
Qualify with: Top 20 finish in one of the earlier $5+$1 PartyPoker tournaments
Qualify between: Aug. 1-31
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08 25th, 2010
On today’s Daily Deal, unleashes a brand new September promotion, and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger dominate the Doubles Poker Championship, and PKR issues a major software upgrade for its fourth birthday. Sit back, relax, and enjoy today’s edition the Daily Deal…
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily.
In September, PartyPoker will hold the Snowball promotion, dishing out up to five thousand dollars in cash and one hundred thousand dollars in freeroll entries per person. PartyPoker officials have established fifteen different points levels for play between September 1st and 30th. As PartyPoker players move up in levels, they’ll keep everything they’ve earned in previous levels, making for a potentially lucrative payday. A total of five freerolls will be held and the Snowball promotion is open to every member of the site.
Also on the horizon for PartyPoker is the September running of the Monthly Million, which is slated to occur on the fifth. The tournament marks the first Monthly Million held since July Eighteenth as part of a revamped schedule in July and August. Qualifiers for the Monthly Million start as low as a dollar and the marquee PartyPoker event comes with a six-hundred forty dollar price tag. You can find it in the site’s lobby on the first Sunday of every month. As a reminder, PartyPoker does not accept real money action from the United States.
The Doubles Poker Championship rolled on over the weekend on GSN. Another two regular season matches were held beginning at nine o’clock PM Eastern Time on Saturday night. During the second half-hour of coverage, Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger partnered with Huck Seed. Interestingly, Seed won the Main Event in Nineteen Ninety-Six when Lichtenberger was just eight years old. Lichtenberger and Seed defeated and Justin “Boosted J” Smith heads-up.
In the first match of Saturday’s Doubles Poker Championship coverage, and edged out and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. Players bought into the unique team tournament for fifty-thousand dollars apiece and a regular season will take place before the playoffs. Catch the show weekly on GSN.
Finally, the online poker site PKR.com celebrated its fourth birthday on August Seventeenth. As part of the birthday celebration, PKR.com launched version Two Point Oh of its visionary software, which features an overhauled lobby that allows players to use a game finder wizard to locate the games and tournaments they want. Also included in the upgrade is a multi-table enhancement that allows users to play up to nine tables at once.
In even more PKR news, the site announced the dates and location of its popular PKR Live event. PKR Live Five returns November Twelfth through Fourteenth and will take place at a new home, the Fox Poker Club in London, England. The five-hundred dollar buy-in Main Event gets underway on November Thirteenth with an estimated prize pool of seventy-five thousand dollars.
That does it for today’s edition of The Daily Deal and be sure to catch us tomorrow night as I report from the Final Table of the ‘s Legends of Poker event. Be sure to catch our twitter feed at twitter dot com slash poker news daily. I’m Sean Gibson and thanks for watching!
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08 24th, 2010
In September, , an independent online poker site, will hold the Snowball promotion, dishing out up to $5,000 in cash and $100,000 in freeroll entries per person. Why is it called the Snowball, you ask, when winter in many parts of the globe has not yet set in? Text found on PartyPoker’s website explains the wintry name: “The Snowball gives you the chance to pick up a huge amount of prizes as you gather momentum.”
PartyPoker officials have established 15 different points levels for play between September 1st and 30th. As PartyPoker players move up in levels, they’ll keep everything they’ve earned in previous levels, making for a potentially lucrative payday. The minimum point level is five, which will earn its achievers a $5,000 freeroll entry. When a player hits 25 Party Points, they’ll leap to a $10,000 freeroll entry; plus, they’ll still be able to vie for $5,000.
Point levels exist at five, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, and 50,000. The granddaddy of prizes – given out to players who can accrue 50,000 Party Points in September – is $5,000 in cash plus entries into $100,000 worth of freerolls. Cash prizes kick in at the 500-point level, with a minimum payout of $20 up for grabs. Palladium Lounge players are more than welcome to participate in the Snowball promotion.
The $5,000 Snowball freeroll will take place on October 4th. The next day, a $10,000 freebie will play out. On October 6th, a $15,000 freeroll will be held, while on October 7th, the prize pool will jump to $20,000. The largest freeroll, totaling $50,000, will take place on October 8th. Each freeroll will issue its starting command at 14:30 ET.
Also on the horizon for PartyPoker is the September running of the Monthly Million, which is slated to occur on the 5th. The tournament marks the first Monthly Million held since July 18th as part of a revamped schedule in July and August. Qualifiers for the Monthly Million start as low as $1 and the marquee PartyPoker event comes with a $640 price tag. You can find it in the site’s lobby on the first Sunday of every month.
Every day, PartyPoker hosts a $70 buy-in Monthly Million qualifier that offers up at least 19 seats. On Fridays, look for a $55 Mega Friday Satellite that guarantees 20 seats to the $640 spectacular. Two other qualifiers, each with a $35 buy-in, take place on Saturdays, one at 09:00 ET and the other 14:30 ET. Combined, the Saturday qualifiers guarantee 18 seats.
Daily points qualifiers and country-specific freerolls can also stamp your ticket to the Monthly Million on PartyPoker. The tournament offers a Championship blind structure and its field boasts some of the top players that Europe and other areas outside of the United States have to offer.
PartyPoker, once the largest site in the industry, features a team of sponsored pros that includes host and Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2009 inductee , bad boy Tony G, and “High Stakes Poker” hostess . Its parent company, Party Gaming, is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and will likely merge with rival site .
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08 21st, 2010
We have four $1,000 added freerolls and rebuys in September and October courtesy of Bodog. These events are open to all, the only thing you need is a deposit and the password.
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08 21st, 2010
This week you’ll want to pay special attention to the PokerStars EPT Steps freeroll on Sunday. PokerListings players will have the opportunity to win $25,000 in steps tickets to the European Poker Tour.
Also worth looking into is the Titan Poker weekly $1k, which kicks off today and the PartyPoker $500 added on Sunday.
The following freerolls are open to all PokerListings.com players. Qualify in the specified qualification period, and then take your seat to potentially win baskets of free cash.
If you’re not a PL.com registered player on any of the following sites, click on the site’s name in the list to sign up.
Titan Poker is running weekly $1,000 freerolls for PokerListings players that cost just one Titan Poker Point to buy into.
Date: Aug. 21
Value: $1,000
Qualify with: Use 1 Titan Poker Point.
New depositors on 888poker will have a shot at four different $500 freerolls.
Date: Aug. 21
Value: $1,000
Qualify with: New deposit
PokerStars is running an exclusive $25k EPT Steps freeroll for PokerListings players this week.
Date: Aug. 22
Value: $25,000 in European Poker Tour Steps tickets
Qualify with: 250 Frequent Player Points
Qualify between: July 1-30
First time sign-ups and existing PokerListings players who earn 50 points will have access to the bwin Poker monthly $2,000 freerolls.
Date: Aug. 22
Value: $2,000
Qualify with: Sign up or generate 50 points before Aug. 22
All of August, PartyPoker will be offering a series of cash-added low buy-in tournaments for new players who sign up through PokerListings.
Date: Aug. 22
Buy-in: $5+$1
Value: $500 added cash
Qualify with: Sign up for a real-money account on PartyPoker through PokerListings.
Qualify between: Aug. 1-31
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