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Democratic Convention Charity Tourney Results

August 27, 2008

On August 16th we brought you the news of a charity poker tournament that was going to have over 200 professional poker players and celebrities in attendance.  The reason that this charity tourney got so much attention was that it was held at the Democratic Convention.

The Poker Players Alliance hosted the tournament and the proceeds went to the Paralyzed Veterans of America.  Since it was a charitable event the PPA could host the tournament and lobby for online poker at the same time.  Besides professional poker players and celebs there were also lawmakers, aides and delegates that played in the tournament as well.

Pokerstars Banner The tournament was held at the Club Level area of Coors Field and Ben Affleck managed to outlast the rest of the competition to become the winner.  He started out with that goal set in his mind and according to John Pappas, Affleck said he was “in it to win it”.

All 100 poker players started out with 5,000 in chips for the tournament that was expected to play for around 4 hours.  Affleck outlasted celebrity players Seth Meyers from Saturday Night Live, Sarah Silverman, Montel Williams and Richard Dreyfuss.  He also had to take out professional poker players to win the event so maybe he should consider a side career?

There were new ethic rules and laws put into action in 2007 to make it harder for lobbyists to buy their way in.  But this charity tournament got the okay from the Congressional Ethics Committee because all of the proceeds from the tournament were going to charity.

The tournament wasn’t the only entertainment at the Democratic Convention, there was also a live performance from Kanye West, drinks and cigars and some got to play ball at the Coors Field and all was provided by different lobbyists.

The charity tournament did two things it helped to raise about $60,000 dollars for the Paralyzed Veterans of America and it might have changed the thinking of our lawmakers, who knows.  The Poker Players Alliance is far from done however as they will be holding another tournament next week at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota.

If you want to know more about what went on at the Democratic Convention you can read the previous article, PPA Parties with the Democratic Party to Legalise Poker.

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    Written by Rebecca Rosales · Filed Under Gambling Events, Poker News, Poker Tournament Results 

    Titan Poker Hits $7M Mark In SNG Jackpot Payouts

    August 27, 2008

    Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, happily announced today the pay out of more than $7,000,000 in Sit’n’Go Tournament Jackpot prizes.

    Titan Poker was launched in 2005, and it wasn’t long before the online poker room introduced its now famous Sit’n’Go jackpot tournaments. Since that time, the popularity of these tournaments has grown enormously.

    Robin Steel, manager of Titan Poker, commented on the inspiring growth of Titan Poker and its SNG tournaments. “This shows that Titan Poker’s jackpot tournaments are very popular, and
    are continuing to grow at a fast rate.”

    Titan Poker offers 4 SNG Progressive Jackpot tournaments - the Fort Knox, the Rio, the Maui and the Dirty Dozens. The favorite, by far, is the Fort Knox, with the highest Sit’n’Go Progressive Jackpot, starting at $50,000. The buy-in at a Fort Knox 6-seater SNG is $50+$9. Any player who manages to win 6 of these tournaments in a row will release the jackpot of $50k, which continues growing until a jackpot winner is revealed.

    The Rio SNG Progressive Jackpot starts at $25,000. Also a 6-seater Sit’n’Go, the buy-in for the Rio SNG is $20+$3.50. Again, 6 wins in a row releases the $25k+ progressive jackpot.

    The Maui SNG Jackpot is also a progressive, starting at $15k. The buy-in is only $5+$1, entertaining a full table of 10 players. Since there are more participants, you’ll only need to win 5 of these Maui SNGs in a row to release the jackpot.

    Last is the Dirty Dozens SNG Jackpots, with a buy-in of $2+$.40 and two 6-seater tables (12 players). The progressive jackpot starts at $2,000, requiring 4 wins in a row to release the jackpot.

    With more than $7,000,000 awarded thus far in Titan Poker’s progressive jackpot Sit’n’Go tournaments, it’s no wonder they continue to draw such large numbers.

      Written by Donna Norman · Filed Under Online Gambling News, Poker News, Poker Tournament Results, Titan Poker 

      Titan Poker Satellites Reward Twofold For Online Poker Player

      August 22, 2008

      Titan Poker has been promoting some major tournament Satellites of late, and Austrian online poker player Michael Schwaiger has made the most of it, not winning just one exceptional Satellite competition, but two.

      Schwaiger has landed himself an all-expense paid trip and buy-in to the illustrious Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament in South Africa, as well as a seat in the most lucrative online poker tournament in the history of Titan Poker; a $2.5 million guarantee. Both events are scheduled to kick off in September.

      Palace of the Lost City Hotel, Sun City, South Africa

      Palace of the Lost City Hotel, Sun City, South Africa

      The $10,500 prize package to the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament includes the Main Event buy-in, seven-night luxury hotel accommodations at the Palace of the Lost City Hotel (pictured), ranked among the world’s most extraordinary hotel lodgings. A week’s free entry to the hotel’s Spa is included, along with a few other perks, like golfing, a hot air balloon ride and tickets to ‘Let There Be Rock’. $2,500 of the prize package is provided for travel expenses and extra spending cash.

      “A dream became complete with this win!” exclaimed an elated Michael Schwaiger after his triumphant victory. “To participate at the biggest poker tournament in Africa is, for me personally something very special. To stay in one of the most beautiful hotels in the world is almost inapprehensible.”

      Upon returning from this impressive vacation package, Schwaiger’s thrill ride continues as he will attempt to battle it out with the best of the online poker world by competing in the Titan Poker $2,500,000 Guarantee, the largest prize pool in the history of the online poker room.

      “Thanks to Titan Poker for affording me entry to these events,” Michael very appreciatively - and surely still in awe of his new-found situation - expressed. “More than this, congratulations to Titan Poker that it has such a large assortment of tournaments to offer.”

      Some of the Titan Poker tournaments Schwaiger was likely alluding to would be the upcoming Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) and the 2008 Australia Poker Cup in October. Satellite and qualifiers to these stupendous live poker events are held daily at Titan Poker.

        Written by Donna Norman · Filed Under Online Gambling News, Poker News, Poker Tournament Results, Titan Poker 

        FTOPS IX Rides Into The Sunset: Full Tilt Poker Series Recap

        August 21, 2008

        It was a short, but intensely thrilling 11-days at Full Tilt Poker as the ninth installment of the 25-event Full Tilt online poker Series (FTOPS IX) has closed its final chapter, locked the door and ridden off into the sunset – at least until FTOPS X rolls around next year (and the crowd goes wild!).

        The largest kudos of the series has to go to ‘dubbeemin’, who took down the FTOPS IX Main Event on the final day. Battling it out with ‘valleyho’ in heads-up, dubbeemin held the clear lead of more than 3-to-1 in chips when the final hand played out. The Flop - 9c-7c-6d – gave both players a strong Flush Draw, with valleyho hiding Kc-10c and dubbeemin the Qc-Jc. The Turn brought Ad, no help for dubbeemin, but when Jd fell on the River, he paired up to take the pot, the 1st place prize of $432,400, and the esteemed FTOPS IX Championship Title.

        The FTOPS IX Main Event victory was certainly an admirable accomplishment, but the MVP of the entire Full Tilt Poker series went to Kevin ‘GetPWN4D’ Saul, winning the FTOPS IX Leaderboard competition by 61 points. Saul started things off with a 4th place victory in Event #12, followed by a 10th place finish in Event #16 and 2nd place in Event #17 to give him the clear lead throughout the remainder of FTOPS IX, ending with 500 points.

        Saul’s only rival on the FTOPS IX Leaderboards was Yuval ‘yuvee04’ Bronshtein who gave an astounding performance worthy of the record books by becoming the first player in Full Tilt Poker history to win back-to-back FTOPS events. Bronshtein finished 1st in Events #14 and #15, which – even more amazingly – started on the same day, at the same time. The latter being a turbo style tournament, you simply have to commend such devout concentration. Bronshtein earned 200 Leaderboard points for each win, boosting him to 439 as the series came to an end.

        Last but not least, we have to mention the biggest single-cash prize winner of FTOPS IX who was not the winner of the FTOPS Main Event, as one may reasonably assume, but rather ‘hAAydon’, winner of FTOPS IX Event #22. With a $2,500+$120 buy-in, the 2-day event saw 942 entries trumping the original $2mil GP to $2,355,000 – enough to pay a top prize of $541,650 to hAAydon for routing the competition.

        Congratulations to all of you FTOPS IX winners out there who earned a combined total of well over $15 million. As the excitement slowly flickers like a candle flame with depleting air supply, we say a fond farewell to FTOPS IX; and to Full Tilt Poker, please do hurry back with the next, anticipated installment of the Full Tilt online poker Series.

          Written by Donna Norman · Filed Under FTOPS IX, Full Tilt Poker, Online Gambling News, Poker News, Poker Tournament Results 

          FTOPS IX Day 9, ‘jobless23’ Finishes On Top

          August 15, 2008

          Full Tilt Poker hosted 3 FTOPS IX (Full Tilt online poker Series) events yesterday, rather than the originally scheduled Events #18 and #19. Due to a multiple hour laps of ‘Voided’ tournaments earlier in the week, Event #13 was postponed until yesterday. Boosted prize pools included, Full Tilt Poker paid out more than $830k in FTOPS IX prize money.

          Among the FTOPS IX events winners, ‘jobless23’ had the biggest day, taking down Event #18 for nearly $70,000. Event #19 went to ‘Rizz13’ for $63k, while the first prize in un-regularly scheduled Event #13, $45k, was awarded to ‘Dukatos’.

          FTOPS IX Event #13 - $216 PL H.A., $200k GTD
          Hosted by Max Pescatori, FTOPS IX Event #13 got underway at 3:30pm as 913 players joined in the action. Switching from PL Hold’em to PL Omaha at each blind increase, the tables slowly shrunk until the final nine remained. It took less than 7 hours to finalize heads-up play as ‘Dukatos’ and ‘Allin4Narnia’ duked it out for the top prize. ‘Dukatos’ finally prevailed, claiming $45,000 for the 1st place victory. The 2nd place prize of $28,500 went to ‘Allin4Narnia’.

          FTOPS IX Event #13 Final Table Results
          1st – Dukatos - $45,000
          2nd – Allin4Narnia - $28,500
          3rd – PostflopAction - $21,100
          4th – ChipSteela - $16,500
          5th – SwoopAE - $12,500
          6th – RubbishPlayer - $9,000
          7th – pokerded - $6,000
          8th – sun2 - $4,500
          9th – mross03 - $3,200

          FTOPS IX Event #18 – $535 NL Hold’em Shootout, $300k GTD
          A field of 662 converged on the tables of FTOPS IX Event #18 as host Andy Black was on hand to watch the action unfold. The $300k GTD jumped to $331,000. Another relatively quick tournament ensued, lasting a mere 6 hours before ‘m_reed05’ and ‘jobless23’ wiped out ’zelik’ to battle it out in heads-up. When the smoke cleared, ‘jobless23’ was left standing to pocket the 1st place prize of $69,510 – the largest purse of FTOPS IX Day 9. ‘m_reed05’ took home $46,340 as the 2nd place victor.

          FTOPS IX Event #18 Final Table Results
          1st – jobless23 - $69,510
          2nd – m_reed05 - $46,340
          3rd – zelik - $33,100
          4th – AlexB81 - $24,825
          5th – Catenaccio - $18,205
          6th – zekulya - $13,240
          7th – mreki88 - $9,268
          8th – jonpijonpi - $6,289
          9th – MattSuspect - $4,468.50

          FTOPS IX Event #19 - $322 Mixed Hold’em (6-Max), $300k GTD
          In the final FTOPS IX event of the evening, hosted by the unsullied poker skills of Full Tilt Pro Erick Lindgren, a respectable field of 1,019 took to the tables; just enough to boost the $300k GTD by an extra $5,700. The longest event of the day, it took little more than 9 hours to reveal a winner as ‘Rizz13’ routed his heads-up opponent, ‘castellimich’, to take the 1st place purse of $63,738.

          A notable 4th place finish went to Team Full Tilt’s David Chui, 4 time WSOP Bracelet winner. In 2008, Chui came back to defeat Full Tilt Pro Gus Hansen for the 2008 WTP World Championship title, worth $3.4 million.

          FTOPS IX Event #19 Final Table Results
          1st – Rizz13 - $63,738.45
          2nd – Castellimich - $42,492.30
          3rd – LegacyRik - $30,264.30
          4th – David Chui - $22,621.80
          5th – nevadabob0 - $16,202.10
          6th – Stubblefield - $10,398.80

            Written by Donna Norman · Filed Under FTOPS IX, Full Tilt Poker, Online Gambling News, Poker News, Poker Tournament Results 

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