Estrellas Poker Tour: the newest PokerStars’ Spanish poker tour

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Satellites for the first event of the brand new PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour (or Spanish Poker Tour) are now available for free or 11 $. Open an account here and play poker in the Mediterranean.

During the last two years, PokerStars has expanded its arms around almost all the world, launching tours in very different corners of the planet. The ANZPT in Australia and New Zealand, the IPT in Italy, the UKIPT in the United Kingdom and Irelant, and the NAPT in North America. Within others.

One of the countries that was forgotten, where poker is very popular, was Spain. But Spaniards can’t complain anymore as PokerStars has announced a brand new poker tour that will be hosted this April and will be called Estrellas Poker Tour (Stars Poker Tour in English, or you would prefer to call it Spanish Poker Tour).

The first season of this brand new Estrellas Poker Tour is formed by 4 events that will be hosted in Malaga, Alicante, Madrid, celebrating the Grand Final in Barcelona during the the celebration of the EPT Barcelona of the 7th season of the European Poker Tour.

The poker events will have a buy-in of 1.000 EURO and you already have satellites going on in PokerStars for as low as $11 and you have freerolls as well.

One of the points of this brand new tour is that it will be broadcasted by one of the most popular televisions in Spain, Antena 3 TV. So, poker is prepared to experience another boom in the touristic country. Remember, the first event starts on the April 11th, so qualify now and enjoy a vacational-poker trip to the Mediterranean!

Rush Poker: Full Tilt presents a brand new poker game

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Action, action, action and more action. This is the newest and innovative poker game that presented Full Tilt Poker yesterday. Are you ready? Rush Poker is here.

Rush Poker?, maybe you are wondering. Yes, this is the name that the Full Tilt Poker crew decided for the new poker game they invented. As we can read on their website, this sort of poker is designed to avoid the delays between hands and keep you in a frenetic action all the time.

Read what Full Tilt claims on their website:

Warning: Rush Poker* is extremely fast paced – prepare yourself for the most intense poker action in the world!

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In this new poker format, you won’t join a pre made table and play all the time with the same players. Instead of that, you will face a different table of opponents every hand. When you fold, you’ll be moved (or rushed) to another table and a new hand will start within seconds.

And there’s more. You can play even faster. There is a Quick Fold that you can use before the action is on you. Clicking that button, you will be able move to next hand (and table) inmediately while the rest of players won’t see you have folded until it’s your turn.

We have already tried it and it’s really awesome. Another super great idea of Full Tilt Poker, that keeps innovating day after day. But is also for sure we will need to adapt our game to this new poker format if we don’t want to lose money in the try.

Anyway, we recommend you to give it a try. It’s fun, frenetic and you will play more hands than you have done before.

¿Are you ready for the action? Be prepared for Rush Poker.


If you want to try Rush Poker we recommend you to visit Full Tilt Poker from this link and you’ll receive a 100% up to 600$ for free.

 

2010 PCA: Harrison Gimbel wins 2,2 million in the Caribbean

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The most important event in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is now part of history, as is the goal that Harrison Gimbel has achieved after seven though days of competition in Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Gimbel, 19 years old, is now the youngest champion of the PCA since it started seven years ago with that cruise-based tournament won by Gus Hansen.

“I feel like a young rock star,” Gimbel said.

And it’s not for less. The youngster claimed the Main Event of the biggest poker festival ever held outside Las Vegas and he is now 2,2 million dollar richer and owns one of the most coveted trophies in the poker world.


Harrison Gimbel, 2010 PCA Winner
After busting Barry Shulman (the owner of Card Player magazine) on third, Gimbel reached the heads-up against Ty Reiman, who owned the most part of the chips. But not for long. Gimbel would overcome his deficit and then bluff out Reiman in another spot where Reiman had flopped the nut straight (although the river completed a possible flush) to claim the lead. He never let it go.

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Barry Shulman
On the final hand, both players ended all-in with a pocket pair. Tens for Gimbel, eights for Reiman. A ten on the flop left Ty with the only option of runner-runner quads. But, hey!, another eight fell on the turn, opening the miracle for the American. A jack on the river ended the whole thing.

Reiman will be content tomorrow with his 1.750.000 $ second place prize. Harrison Gimbel claimed the trophy, the 2.2 million, and his place in poker history books for being the youngest champion of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

2010 PCA Main Event Results:

1 — Harrison Gimbel, USA, $2,200,000
2 — Tyler Reiman — USA — $1,750,000
3 — Barry Shulman — USA — $1,350,000
4 — Benjamin Zamani — USA — $1,000,000
5 — Ryan D’Angelo — USA — $700,000
6 — Aage Ravn — Norway — $450,000
7 — Zachary Goldberg — USA — $300,000
8 — Thomas Koral — USA — $201,300

Foto del ganador cedida por PokerStars

2010 PCA: the poker festival is about to start

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This is going to be a trip to Paradise Island that will be difficult to forget.

The countdown for the PCA main event has ended. The countdown for the 50 side events scheduled for this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Advendure is history. The PCA is around the corner and will start tomorrow January 5th at noon (ET). The main event already has more than 1,100 people signed up and in-person registration has just started.

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The story of the PCA started back in 2004 and It happened in a cruise. Since then, the biggest poker tournament in the Caribbean has only growed. On 2009, it seemed there was no end to the growth. Last year, 1.347 entrants created a prize pool of $12,674,000 and a first prize of $3 million. Poorya Nazari claimed the trophy the event was over.

The first cards go in the air tonight in the annual live super sat to the Main Event. After that, it’s another 49 events over 12 days. For sure it will be fun, and we will bring you full coverage beginning Tuesday at noon ET.

Happy new year to all and good luck if you play on the PCA this year!

EPT Prague: local victory for Czech Jan Skampa

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Czech student Jan Skampa is the new EPT Prague winner for a first prize of €682,000.

Skampa, who came fourth only two weeks ago at EPT Vilamoura, beat Israeli Eyal Avitan in three-hour heads-up duell. He had already broken records by making two great EPT finals in a row after finishing fourth in Vilamoura two weeks ago.

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Skampa, 23, who is studying economics at St Charles University in Prague is now the first Czech champion in EPT history.

A total of 584 players took part in the €5,250 Main Event creating a prize pool of €2,842,100. Jan Skampa, talked after his victory and said: “It feels great to win. It’s my fourth EPT and I won it in my home town – that must be one of the greatest accomplishments you can have in poker. It was tough when we were three-handed but once Stefan Mattsson was out, I felt confident I could win.”

So, it’s over in Prague. Congrats, Jan.

APPT Sydney: Aaron Benton is the new Grand Final champion

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It’s over!

For the third year in a row, the APPT Grand Final championship trophy is staying in Australia! Having worked his stack back to as much as 2.3 million in the final heads-up, Ernst Hermans called a pre-flop button raise from Aaron Benton of 325,000 to see a flop of 7d-9c-7s.

2009 PokerStars.net APPT new grand final champion Aaron Benton
Hermans checked, Benton fired out 375,000 and Hermans called. The dealer discovered the Qc on the turn and Benton checked; Hermans shoved and Benton just called, good with Kd-Kc against Hermans 9d-8d.

Benton’s supporters were excited; the dealer burned and the last Star City snap echoed through the Sports Theatre, bringing the river 6c and eliminating the Dutch in second place. Having satellited into every season three APPT event on PokerStars, it’s fitting that Aaron Benton has found gold here at Star City!

Congratulations, Aaron!

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APPT Sydney: Leo Boxell claims the lead

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The biggest field of the tournament is definitely going to play tomorrow at the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final Day 1c. And they will be trying to get into the pack of 68 players who survived day 1B (out of 109 starters). At the moment the total field is 190, and 119 have already advanced to day two.

When the lights were switched off at the tournament room. Veteran Leo Boxell, 2000 Australasian Poker champion, was at the top of the hill with 147.700 on chips. Tom Grigg is on the pursuit with 141.500. Near enough we find a couple of local players: Joel Cohen (137,700) and Stewart Davidson (121,700).

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Leo Boxell, the current leader

Some other names that will come back on Day 2 are: Brendon Rubie (101,700), Phillip Willcocks (95,000), David Steicke (88,200), Jackie Glazier (45,900), Michael Guzzardi (45,900), Japan’s Wooka Kim (39,000), Amanda De Cesare (38,900), Kristian Lunardi (38,800), Aaron Benton (34,700), Letitia Rowlands (29,300) and Tino Lechich (28,900). Also the winner of APPT Auckland Simon Watt (27,500) will return, and two players that are willing to repat an APPT Grand Final final table: the champion, Martin Rowe (22,000) and the 6th, Frank Saffioti (42,900).

The cards are now on the air on Day 1c at the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. Many good names are in the field, included Joe Hachem, WSOP 2005 champion and Grand Final, APPT winner back on 2007.

So, we expect a new dosis of extreme poker on the felt at the third day three of the event. Tomorrow is going to start the real thing.

Until then… have fun.

EPT Prague: Marc Gork and Rui Coa share the lead on Day 1a

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The EPT Prague is underway and day 1a is history. The task yesterday was to play eight levels, all finished by now, that saw how 100 players out of the 219 who took their seats at noon lost all chances to leave the event with some money to fill their pockets.

At this moment two players are leading the pack with almost the same chip stack. First is Marc Gork, Dortmund based, with 169.200, while only with one chip less, with 169.100 we find the Frenchman Rui Coa.

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Marc Gork leads at the end of Day 1a

Other known faces that have survived this first assault to EPT Prague fortress are Florian Langmann (108,700), Arnaud Mattern (86,000), JP Kelly (77,000), Sandra Naujoks (71,700), Marcel Luske (54,200), Marcin Horecki (49,000) and Katja Thater (38,000).

All them will return on thursday for day 2, but the scene will be very different by then, since there’s a day 1b waiting to be played. And we all expect a massive field for the second day one of the event.

Play resumes today at noon with 8 levels more of impressive poker. After those, our report. Come back by then.

APPT Sydney: Tony Dunst “bond18″ leads the pack at the end of Day 1a

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The live poker scene is burning. Not only we have the EPT Prague going on the Chzech capital, but in the other side of the globe, the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final has just kicked off at the Star City Casino.

A total of 81 players played on day 1a, and we lost 30 of them during the day: only 51 of them will return on friday for day two. A lot of known faces have attended the tournament as the poker pro Eric Assadourian, the PokerStars player Lee “Final Table” Nelson and some of the region thoughest competitors.

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Tony “bond18″ Dunst leads the pack at the end of Day 1a

Within the entrants we found the names of Aussie players Jason Gray, Jamie Pickering, Michael Pedley, Kent Hunter, Mike Ivin, Graeme “Kiwi G” Putt, Peter Aristidou, Joel Dodds, Steve Leonard, Julian Powell, Julian Cohen, Tony Dunst, Daniel Kochan and Donna Ciric. We will see what happens to them in the following days.

But there were not only locals on the field today, as Casey Kastle, Dennis Waterman and PokerStars Supernova player Dustin Dorrance-Bowman took their seats on Day 1a.

After seven and a half hours of play, the American (borned in Australia) Tony “bond18″ Dunst seats at the top of the hill with 104.300 in chipss. But some others are following him at the top of the leaderboard, as the australian Carmelo Graziano (104.000) or the british Alan Brown with 99.300.

EPT Prague: the cards are on the air

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A new edition of the PokerStars EPT Prague kicked off today in the Hilton Prague Hotel, and more than 200 took their seats and will try to advance to Day 2.

Some of the best names in the game are competing in the 5.250 € event as, Pieter De Korver, JP Kelly, or the EPT5 Dortmund winner Sandra Naujoks “Black Mamba”. Also the winner of first ever EPT Prague, celebrated back in 2007, Arnaud Mattern is playing today.

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Nobody wanted to miss this new EPT stop. For instance, we have also playing the PokerStars passport winner Shaun Deeb, Gino Alacqua, also a very known player here in Prague, and the pros John Kabbaj and Julian Thew, from the United Kingdom, within others.

Italian player Salvatore Bonavena won the Maint Event last year, taking home €774,000 por his efforts. No other italian player has won an EPT tournament after that, neither before.

The Golden Prague Casino, located in the the Hilton Prague Hotel, is hosting the event from December 1 – 6. If you don’t want to miss what’s happening on EPT Prague this week, stay tuned at Live Poker DB.