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Comes the Everest Poker European Cup IV

We came a press release Everest Poker , in which we announce the fourth edition of the Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC) .

It is a good chance that promotes the hall between the novice players from different countries, through which you can sort to play for a pot of nothing more nor less than € 100,000 , representing his own country in a great and unique European event.

To go to the EPEC 2010 as ambassador to Spain. room players have to compete for one of the 15 seats that are in each of the fifteen countries that have this year with opportunities to participate. The countries are Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland .

From this February to April, 15 players will qualify, it will be a combination of online qualifiers and live, and finally conclude with a live finale in May, as in previous years held in cities such as

Barcelona , Vilamoura or Sardinia .

A good opportunity to play poker and represent the country where you reside, drawing packages

2000 € to the end of the EPEC , in a wonderful weekend to be held in South .

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Another record for PokerStars: the largest Sunday Million history

Ended the celebrations on PokerStars and made it big. The tournament’s fourth anniversary of the Sunday Million, with a guaranteed 4 million, achieved a prize pool of $ 7,233,800 through the 36,169 players who dared to play the event . To put things in perspective, the winner will NAPT Venetian $ 827,000, while the top spot in the Sunday Million reached $ 1.1 million.

At the final table there was no attempt to make a deal, and ‘RichieRichZH’ who won 29 of the 33 hands of heads-up, took full first prize of . Leaving aside the WCOOP main event is the largest amount that PokerStars has delivered since it began operations. ‘RichieRichZH’ represented his country (Switzerland) on the World Cup of Poker in 2008, but this is his best result to date.

The nine members of the final table were mostly unknown. The exception was Erik “lirarerik” Friberg , who finished eighth in the WSOP main event in 2006. Friberg Sunday Million ended in fourth place and took home $ 282,000.

1. RichieRichZH – $ 1,141,510
2. lankeshwar – $ 754,775
3. petinvest7 – $ 506,366
4. lirarerik – $ 282,118
5. WNYCEC – $ 151,910
6. DerHenker666 – $ 86,806
7. Jaggy42 – $ 57,870
8. highplaya – $ 43,403
9. Amoneymagnet – $ 28,935

Andreas Hoivold leaves High Stakes Poker and requests to re AJ Benza

On Sunday they issued the second episode of the sixth season of High Stakes Poker . After the hasty departure of Phil Hellmuth, it seemed that we would have a little more calmly, but again another player, this time the Norwegian Andreas Hoivold lost his $ 200,000 buy-in and decided to terminate its participation in the schedule.

Hoivold ends its participation in high stakes poker

Hoivold never could begin to deploy your game and missed most of the hands that were involved. His last hand was with A Q and with the community cards were 3 10 6 Q

faced a bet of $ 11,000 Gus Hansen with 6 3 . Hoivold rose to $ 50,000 and announced that he would not leave his hand. Hansen responded with a all-in which, of course, Andreas paid, creating the biggest pot of the night: 190.000 $ . Both players agreed to partition the fifth card twice and the Norwegian was unable to improve his hand on any occasion. In the next episode will be Jason Mercier, a member of the PokerStars team of professionals who take the place of Hoivold .

Furthermore, the user ‘UFO1947′ has started a topic on the forums of 2 2con a petition to get the program back AJ Benza. Apparently there are many viewers who think that the Kaplan-Benza duo worked well and there was no need to introduce Kara Scott, much less at the expense of Benza. For now, there has appeared no representative of NSG (the chain that transmits High Stakes Poker) but

are already over 400 users who said they had sent the petition .

PokerStars announced the schedule for the SCOOP

PokerStars announced the complete schedule of the second edition of Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) , one of the most anticipated events of the room. In total are 33 tournaments, each with three levels of buy-in , which will be played from 3 to 16 May and that, overall, are 36 million guaranteed .

The SCOOP includes at least one tournament for each form of poker that offers PokerStars. Two events are called wide attention: the Heads-Up tournament $ 25,000 entry and the main event $ 10,300 to buy-in with 5 million guaranteed . Undoubtedly, there will be two tournaments that attract some of the best players in the world.

The full calendar is as follows :
SCOOP May 3, 14:00 ET:

• Event 01-L: 5,50 $ NL Hold’em [6-max rebuy] guaranteed $ 250,000
• Event 01-M: 55 $ NL Hold’em [6-max rebuy] guaranteed $ 500,000
• Event 01-H: 530 $ NL Hold’em [6-max rebuy], $ 1,000,000 guaranteed

May 3, 2010, 17:00 ET:

• Event 02-L: 16.50 $ FL Badugi, $ 25,000 guaranteed
• Event 02-M: 162 $ FL Badugi, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 02-H: 1.575 $ FL Badugi, $ 75,000 guaranteed

May 4, 2010, 14:00 ET

• Event 03-L: 11 $ PL 5-Card Draw, $ 25,000 guaranteed
• Event 03-M: 109 $ PL 5-Card Draw, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 03-H: 1.050 $ PL 5-Card Draw, $ 75,000 guaranteed

May 4, 2010, 17:00 ET

• Event 04-L:: 16.50 $ NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 04-M: 162 $ NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 04-H: 1.575 $ NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 4, 2010, 20:00 ET

• Event 05-L: 11 $ NL Hold’em, $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 05-M: 109 $ NL Hold’em, $ 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 05-H: 1.050 $ NL Hold’em, $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 5, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 06-L: 22 * Mixed Hold’em (6-max] $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 06-M: $ 215 Mixed Hold’em (6-max] $ 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 06-H: 2.100 $ Mixed Hold’em [6-max] $ 400,000 guaranteed

May 5, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 07-L: 33 $ 7-Card Stud, $ 25,000 guaranteed
• Event 07-M: 320 $ 7-Card Stud, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 07-H: 3,150 $ 7-Card Stud, $ 100,000 guaranteed

May 6, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 08-L:: 22 $ PL Omaha (Heads-Up), $ 25,000 guaranteed
• Event 08-M: 215 $ PL Omaha (Heads-Up), $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 08-H: 2.100 $ PL Omaha (Heads-Up), $ 200,000 guaranteed

May 6, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 09-L: NL Hold’em (To be defined), $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 09-M: NL Hold’em (To be defined), $ 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 09-H: NL Hold’em (To be defined), $ 300,000 guaranteed

May 7, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 10-L: 16.50 $ NL Hold’em (Ante Up!), $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 10-M: 162 $ NL Hold’em (Ante Up!), $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 10-H: 1.575 $ NL Hold’em (Ante Up!), $ 200,000 guaranteed

May 7, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 11-L: 55 $ FL Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event March 11th: $ 530 FL Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 11-H: FL $ 5,200 Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 250,000 guaranteed

May 7, 2010 20:00 ET :

• Event 12-L: 16.50 $ NL Hold’em [2X Chance, turbo], $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 12-M: 162 $ NL Hold’em [2X Chance, turbo], $ 500,000 guaranteed
• Event 12-H: 1.575 $ NL Hold’em [2X Chance, turbo], $ 750,000 guaranteed

May 8, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 13-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em – Quadruple Shootout [10-max] $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 13-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em – Triple Shootout [10-max] $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 13-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em – Double Shootout [10-max] $ 200,000 guaranteed

May 8, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 14-L: 16.50 $ PL Omaha [6-max rebuy], $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 14-M: 162 $ PL Omaha [6-max rebuy] guaranteed $ 250,000
• Event 14-H: 1.575 $ PL Omaha [6-max rebuy] guaranteed $ 500,000

May 9, 2010 13:00 ET :

• Event 15-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em [big before], $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 15-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em [big before], $ 750,000 guaranteed
• Event 15-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em [big before], $ 750,000 guaranteed

May 9, 2010 17:00 ET (2 days ):

• Event 16-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em, $ 500,000 guaranteed
• Event 16-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em, $ 1,500,000 guaranteed
• Event 16-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em, $ 2,000,000 guaranteed

May 10, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 17-L: 16,50 PL Hold’em / PL Omaha, 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 17-M: 162 PL Hold’em / PL Omaha, 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 17-H: 1.575 PL Hold’em / PL Omaha, 300,000 guaranteed

May 10, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 18-L: 33 $ NL Hold’em [4-max] $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 18-M: 320 $ NL Hold’em [4-max] $ 300,000 guaranteed
• Event 18-H: 3.150 $ NL Hold’em [4-max] $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 11, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 19-L: 11 $ Triple Draw 2-7, $ 25,000 guaranteed
• Event 19-M: 109 $ Triple Draw 2-7, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• -H Event 19: $ 1,050 Triple Draw 2-7, $ 75,000 guaranteed

May 11, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 20-L: 22 $ 7-Card Stud Hi / Lo, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 20-M: 215 $ 7-Card Stud Hi / Lo, $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 20-H: 2,100 $ 7-Card Stud Hi / Lo, $ 150,000 guaranteed

May 11, 2010 20:00 ET :

• Event 21-L:: 11 $ NL Hold’em, $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 21-M: 109 $ NL Hold’em, $ 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 21-H: 1.050 $ NL Hold’em, $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 12, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 22-L: 22 $ Razz, $ 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 22-M: 215 $ Razz, $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 22-H: 2.100 $ Razz, $ 150,000 guaranteed

May 12, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 23-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em [2 rebuys, 1 add-on], $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 23-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em [2 rebuys, 1 add-on], $ 300,000 guaranteed
• Event 23-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em [2 rebuys, 1 add-on], $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 13, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 24-L: 33 $ 8-Game, $ 75,000 guaranteed
• Event 24-M: 320 $ 8-Game, $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 24-H: 3,150 $ 8-Game, $ 250,000 guaranteed

May 13, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 25-L: 11 $ PL Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 75,000 guaranteed
• Event 25-M: 109 $ PL Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 150,000 guaranteed
• Event 25-H: 1.050 $ PL Omaha Hi / Lo, $ 300,000 guaranteed

May 14, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 26-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em [1 rebuy, 1 add-on], $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 26-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em [1 rebuy, 1 add-on], $ 500,000 guaranteed
• Event 26-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em [1 rebuy, 1 add-on], $ 1,000,000 guaranteed

May 14, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 27-L: 55 $ FL Hold’em [6-max] $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 27-M: 530 $ FL Hold’em [6-max] $ 200,000 guaranteed
• -H Event 27: $ 5,200 FL Hold’em [6-max] $ 300,000 guaranteed

May 14, 2010 20:00 ET :

• Event 28-L: 22 $ NL Omaha Hi / Lo (turbo), $ 50,000
  guaranteed
• Event 28-M: 215 $ NL Omaha Hi / Lo (turbo), $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 28-H: 2.100 $ NL Omaha Hi / Lo (turbo), $ 200,000 guaranteed

May 15, 2010 14:00 ET :

• Event 29-L: 55 $ PL Omaha, $ 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 29-M: 530 $ PL Omaha, $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 29-H: 5.200 $ PL Omaha, $ 500,000 guaranteed

May 15, 2010 17:00 ET :

• Event 30-L: 22 HORSE, 50,000 guaranteed
• Event 30-M: 215 HORSE, 100,000 guaranteed
• Event 30-H: 2,100 HORSE, 200,000 guaranteed

May 16, 2010 13:00 ET :

• Event 31-L: 22 $ NL Hold’em [6-max] $ 200,000 guaranteed
• Event 31-M: 215 $ NL Hold’em [6-max] $ 750,000 guaranteed
• Event 31-H: 2.100 $ NL Hold’em [6-max] $ 750,000 guaranteed

May 16, 2010 15:00 ET (2 days )

• Event 32-L: $ 270 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 250,000 guaranteed
• Event 32-M: 2.600 $ NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 500,000 guaranteed
• Event 32-H: 25.500 $ NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] $ 750,000 guaranteed

May 16, 2010 17:00 ET (2 days )

• Event 33-L: 109 $ NLHE Main Event – L, $ 1,000,000 guaranteed
• Event 33-M: 1.050 $ NLHE Main Event – M, $ 3,000,000 guaranteed
• Event 33-H: $ 10,300 NLHE Main Event – H, $ 5,000,000 guaranteed

NAPT follows PokerStars live from internet

The first stop on the North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas is being a great success. 872 players registered for the main event and the first prize of 827,000 $ dollars , one of the largest that has been delivered in the U.S. in a tournament that does not belong to the WSOP.

Today also starts the event High Rollers A shootout $ 25,000 dollars in registration with a bonus of 5,000 for each player and the $ 100,000 reward for anyone that PokerStars will have removed more competitors . The drawing of seats was held yesterday and certainly no simple table.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton, Peter Eastgate, Jason Mercier, Phil Galfond, Daniel Negreanu, JC Tran, Di ‘Urindanger’ Dang, Bernard ‘ElkY’ Grosspellier and Barry Greenstein are some who will be present stars in this tournament.

Recently it was announced that ESPN would be responsible for transmitting the events of NAPT. Fortunately, PokerStars announced that . A luxury that we can enjoy many hours of good poker.

The broadcast schedule is as follows:

• Feb. 23 – 11:00 ET (20:00, Madrid time). Bounty Shootout. Day 1
• February 24 – 11:00 ET (20:00, Madrid time). Main Event Final Table
• February 24 – 11:00 ET (20:00, Madrid time). Bounty Shootout final table

The transmission will begin promptly at NAPT TV .

Announces the agenda of the second edition of the Full Tilt Poker Series

Through a press release we learn that is already defined dates and stops for the second season of Full Tilt Poker Series Spain . The main novelty is the appearance of the Casino de Peralada in Girona , which will be the first stop of this year FTPS. The following are three tournaments in Malaga, Madrid and Barcelona.

This is the calendar with four events that make up the second edition of the circuit:

• 23 to 25 April in Gerona
  Casino Castell de Peralada
  Buy-in: 1,500 € 150 €
  Guaranteed: 150.000 €
• 4 to 6 June in Malaga
  Torrequebrada Casino
  Buy-in: 1,500 € 150 €
  Guaranteed: 150.000 €
• 27 to 29 August in Madrid
  Casino Torrelodones
  Buy-in: 1,500 € 150 €
  Guaranteed: 150.000 €
• 2 to 5 December in Barcelona
  Casino de Barcelona
  Buy-in: 3,000 € 300 €
  Guaranteed: 550.000 €

In March, the satellites begin at Full Tilt Poker for the first tournament. Like last year, the satellites will be played daily and three finals (Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) with at least a guaranteed package worth 3.200 € which also includes entry to the event, and lodging expenses . Surely this season will surpass the success of last year, which were distributed over a million euros .

EPT Copenhagen Day 2: A Spanish remains

At day 2 of the EPT in Copenhagen players and 243 returned after six levels of play only 79 remain in the competition. Of the four Spanish were still in the tournament, Christian Miralles is the only day again today . Miralles is below average with 74,400 chips, but with good chances of entering awards.

The chip leader is Hungarian Csaba Toth to 561,000 points , the only one with over half a million in his possession. Interestingly, Andrew Pantling, Ilkka Koskinen and Sebastian Ruthenberg , who occupied the top three early in the day, were eliminated before reaching the break for dinner .

Csaba Toth, chip leader

Peter Eastgate (302,000), Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (8243,800), Juha Helppi (126,200) and Annette Obrestad (107,400) are some professionals still in the race to find the title of this EFA.

On the other side of the scale, who ended their participation throughout the day was Luca Pagano, Dario Minieri, Arnaud Mattern, Ruben Visser and Johnny Lodden , to name a few.

With only 79 players remaining the bubble will break today on the top levels of the day. It will play six levels or until 24 players, whichever comes first. The blinds will start in 1500-3000 with an ante of 300.

Good luck to all and especially to Christian Miralles, who is now a bit closer to the final table .

This Sunday marks the 4th anniversary of the PokerStars Sunday Million

We came a press release PokerStars about another initiative that the Board has undertaken as part of celebrations for the F40 and that will take place next strong> Sunday 21 February.

At 16:00 ET, beginning on Sunday Million 4th Anniversary Special , a tournament will have a very good prize amounting to four million dollars guaranteed , over a million and a half typically made in this tournament, and with the magnificent finale of a first prize of nothing more nor less than a million dollars for the victor.

To register for the satellite qualifiers, you must go to the program PokerStars , the section ‘Tournaments’ and ‘Cable’ and there are entries from 2.22 $ or 25 FPP . Then there are the Sit

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The domain Poker.org sold for a million dollars

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February 19, 2010

We found out via the sale PokerNewsDaily Poker.org domain for anything less than a million dollars, the highest figure so far is paid for a domain of this type (. Org). It was sold by the advertising agency National A-1 and the new owner is the people behind PokerCompany.com.

PokerCompany is a company that works with online casinos, poker rooms and other sites related to gambling world. At this time, the domain redirected to the PartyPoker Web site and for now there is no information on what the plans for Poker.org. However, PokerCompany believe it is a safe investment.

“The purchase of poker.org form integral part of our growth strategy and will pay off now and in the future,” said a representative of PokerCompany. Other sites that belong to the company are EveryPoker.com, BlackJack.org, Craps.net and Rakeback.org.

Before Poker.org acquiring the most expensive domain that was sold was $ 198,000 engineering.org for dollars, a figure far behind that paid by Poker.org

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WPT returns to the Spanish land

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February 19, 2010

The WPT Spanish Championship will host a new edition in the Casino Barcelona from 19 to 23 May . The main event will have an enrollment of 3,500 €, but also covered several satellites and two super satellites to the days before the tournament starts. In addition, daily events will alternate with less buy-in .

This is the fourth occasion that marks the Spanish Championship since it was added to the tour in 2007, although so far not been crowned a champion Spanish. This year, besides the cash prize, the winner of the tournament will be an entry of $ 25,000 for the WPT World Championship.

” Casino Barcelona has been a great partner. The attention given to every detail of the event is unmatched. No doubt will remain a key partner in the expansion of WPT in Spain, “said Rohin Malhotra, president of WPT .

It is expected timing of the WPT Spanish Championship:

17 May
15:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 800 € 80 €
20:00 – Super Satellite. No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 200 € 20 €. Rebuys (100 €) Add-on (100 €)
18 May
15:00 – Super Satellite. No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 200 € 20 €. Rebuys (100 €) Add-on (100 €)
16:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 800 € 80 €. Final Table.
19 May
15:00 – WPT Main Event No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 3,200 € 300 €. Day 1A
20:00 – Super Satellite. No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 200 € 20 €. Rebuys (100 €) Add-on (100 €)
20 May
15:00 – WPT Main Event No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 3,200 € 300 €. Day 1B
21 May
15:00 – WPT Main Event No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 3,200 € 300 €. Day 2
18:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 1,500 € 150 €.
22 May
15:00 – WPT Main Event No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 3,200 € 300 €. Day 3
16:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 1,500 € 150 €. Final Table.
18:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 500 € 50 €.
23 May
15:00 – No Limit Hold’em, Buy-in: 500 € 50 €. Final Table.
17:00 – WPT Main Event No Limit Holdem. Buy-in: 3,200 € 300 €. Final Table.
18:00 – No Limit Hold’em Buy-in: 300 € 30 €

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