Poker News May 20th, 2008

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by admin

Following on from the outstanding response to the first European Championship of Online Poker in December 2007 Titan Poker have announced ECOOP II!

The second European Championship of Online Poker begins on the 23rd of May with guarantees of $3.6 Million this series promises to be one of the most exciting events on the online poker calendar. The quality structures will entice skilled players who will be provided with ten days of fantastic poker.

The ECOOP II Schedule is as follows :

DAY ONE - Friday May 23 - ECOOP NL Hold’em $200+$15, $250,000 Guaranteed
DAY TWO - Saturday May 24 - ECOOP PLO Hi-Lo R/A $100+$9, $100,000 Guaranteed
DAY THREE - Sunday May 25 - ECOOP NL Hold’em $300+$20, $500,000 Guaranteed
DAY FOUR - Monday May 26 - ECOOP PLO Rebuy $100+$9, $150,000 Guaranteed
DAY FIVE - Tuesday May 27 - ECOOP NL Hold’em $750+$50, $300,000 Guaranteed
DAY SIX - Wednesday May 28 - ECOOP NL Hold’em 6 Max $200+$15, $200,000 Guaranteed
DAY SEVEN - Thursday May 29 - ECOOP Limit Hold’em $200+$15, $100,000 Guaranteed
DAY EIGHT - Friday May 30 - ECOOP NL Hold’em Rebuy $100+$9, $300,000 Guaranteed
DAY NINE - Saturday May 31 - ECOOP PL Omaha $250+$18, $150,000 Guaranteed
DAY TEN - Sunday June 01 - ECOOP MAIN EVENT NL Hold’em $1,000+$60, $1,500,000 Guaranteed
MVP FREEROLL - Wednesday June 04 - ECOOP MVP Freeroll NL Hold’em $50,000

As well as having the chance to win a share of a MASSIVE $3.6 MILLION, players can also win a seat in a $50,000 Freeroll! The top 100 players on the special ECOOP II leaderboard will be eligible to play in this Freeroll.

All top 100 players will be eligible to play in the $50,000 GP Freeroll, which will be staged 72 hours after the Main Event.

If your bankroll isn’t big enough for those events you can win a seat in one of Titan Poker’s qualifying satellites. The chance is there for a big payday for a small outlay!

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Poker, heart to heart

Fans rush to get into game that even professionals say is hard on health

THIS MAY NOT COME as a complete surprise, but it turns out that playing poker is not all that good for your heath.

Slot machines? Same thing.

Dave Scharf of Saskatoon has been playing poker “seriously or semi-professionally” for about 12 years and is the author of Winning at Poker: Essential Hints and Tips.

He said the poker players we see on TV — heavy, inert — are pretty typical.

“Gaming and the lifestyle of too much booze, high-fat food and no exercise — those two seem to have a hugely overlapping demographic,” Scharf said during a visit to Halifax.

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Poker Player Bernard Lee Celebrating One-Year on Rounders Radio

Professional poker player, media personality and poker instructor Bernard Lee will celebrate the one-year anniversary of The Bernard Lee Poker Show on 1510 AM The Zone in Massachusetts with a slate of special guests throughout the month starting with May 6, the day the show premiers on Rounders Radio, the largest streaming poker radio station in the world.

Lee, a Wayland resident, catapulted into the poker spotlight after he finished 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and became the top New England finisher. Lee has won more than $1.3 million and two titles on the tournament circuit, been named an instructor for the well-known World Poker Tour (WPT) Boot Camp, as well as become a poker commentator and poker columnist for the Boston Herald and ESPN.com. Lee will release in June his first book, The Final Table, Volume I, a compilation of his Sunday Boston Herald poker columns of the same name.

21-Year-Old Tyler Smith First Live Poker Tournament

Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith

New Orleans, LA – The thirteenth event on the 2008 Bayou Poker Challenge schedule was completed today as Tyler Smith won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition. The tournament was hosted by the Harrahs New Orleans Casino and Resort. First place paid $88,154. Smith was also presented with a gold ring, presented to all World Series of Poker Circuit winners here in New Orleans.

Ashland poker club shut down

A state agency’s ruling that a poker club’s activities violated state law led to the shutdown of the gaming business.

The Oregon Department of Justice’s Charitable Gaming Unit said that some membership dues and fees charged by The Downtown Poker Club were outside the rules established for social gaming clubs. Following that ruling, the Ashland Elk’s Lodge, which owns the building on Will Dodge Way, declined to renew the poker club’s lease.

The club was funded by each member paying nightly table fees of $20, which were collected by taking a small percentage of each pot played, also known as the “rake.” Any money collected in excess of $20 per player was placed in a player’s fund to be redistributed among the players through parties and refreshments.

Because the club was not making a profit from these fees, and only paying for rent, expenses and improvements, Russell Bjerke, co-owner of the Downtown Poker Club, had previously said he felt the practice was legal.

The state disagreed.

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FTOPS VIII Main Event; Online Poker Tourney Ends, Paying Over $15mil

The long-anticipated Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS VIII) has finally come to an end at Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker room. When all was said and done, FTOPS VIII - originally guaranteeing $10 million throughout the 24-tournament series - paid out a whopping grand total of $15,378,400 to its combined winners.

Yesterday, the FTOPS VIII Main Event was played out, bringing about the end of Full Tilt Poker’s most lucrative online poker event. But before we get into the details of the big finale, let’s take a brief glimpse into the results of Sunday’s first tournament, Event #23.

FTOPS VIII – Event #23
The afternoon began with a $240 + $16 NL Hold’em Knockout, with 6-max re-buys and a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000, hosted by Full Tilt Pro Roland de Wolfe. The turn-out became a massive field of 3,149 players, the third largest throughout FTOPS VIII thus far, raising the guaranteed value to $629,800.

Only one of Full Tilt Poker red-tagged players finished in the enormous bubble that paid the top 348 positions. David Pham snagged a 235th place finish, collecting $346.39; enough to cover the buy-in fee and purchase a nice dinner for two – maybe even take in a movie.

The final table came down to heads-up play between “elheroe” and “Panamatony”. In the end, it was “elheroe” taking the 1st place prize of $124,020.22, along with his brand new FTOPS VIII jacket and custom gold avatar. “Panamatony” earned $78,221.16 for the second place finish.

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