During last few years, Full tilt Poker has practiced exponential growth and now the second largest online poker room in the world. It is hosting over 50,000 poker players at any time of the day.

This Sunday’s tournament ended in chaos and was different than other Sundays for poker lovers, round the globe. As the site’s server got crashed in between of the day’s heaviest traffic.

All the players had to face this problem they were unable to log back in and get a message “Unable to connect to Server”. This crash occurred at 7:45pm ET; put Sunday’s major tournament, on early ending, the $750k guaranteed along with a number of extra events.

Therefore Full Tilt added “Unscheduled Maintenance in Progress: We recently experienced a network outage. We expect to be operational shortly. As stated on their site. As players were unable to get back up to the running tournaments, Full Tilt canceled all the tournaments. So Full Tilt Poker soon announced those players who are still in the tournament are refunded their buy-in along with their tournament fee; while the remaining prize pool is distributed according to chip count. According to Full Tilt Poker’s re-buy policy players get their initial buy-in plus tournament fee back and the remaining prize pool is distributed according to chip count.

At Full Tilt, in such sort of tournaments which award non cash prizes like live tournament packages; a cash values is assigned to the prize and the money is distributed on the basis of chip count. While in cash games, the hand in progress at the time of the stoppage is considered dead and all bets are returned.

The server problem was just for few hours in Sunday but by Monday morning everything at Full Tilt Poker.com was going normal as before.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 30th, 2009

The Poker Stars are getting prepared to host one of the largest online Poker tournaments and to break their own records once again on the 27th of December. Read more!

The Poker Stars already hold the record for the largest online poker tournament that is mentioned on the Guinness Book of World Records. The previous tournament was held in July that included around 65,000 participants.

This time the Poker Stasr aim to break their own records, this new tournament will be held on the 27th December at 14:45 ET with a $300,000 prize pool for players to grab. The tournament has a $1 buy-in. Since this tournament will occur during the holiday season and the huge guaranteed prize will definitely motivate the Poker Stars.com to split their own old record. Around 49,796 people have already registered themselves to this huge Tournament and there are just three days left for it to start.

With the total prize money of worth $300,000, by assuming that if the tournament at the end does not register all the 300,000 entrants, the first winner will win $50,000 while the second one will win $30,000 and the third finisher will get $20,000.

This will be one amazing event to see how these participants compete with each other. The top 30,000 spots will pay. Initially the players will start the game with 2,000 chips and the blind levels will increase after every 5 minutes.

There are many satellites into this tournament if you don’t have the cash in your account to buy in directly. There are currently $0.10 and 5 FPP satellites running. If you want an opportunity to increase your bank account, then you have a great chance to try your luck and initially win about $50,000 from just $1 investment.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » December 28th, 2009

At this point of time when diverse opinions are running on in the gaming market of European countries about potential buyouts and mergers, Mangas Gaming is highly expected to get a good deal for buying Everest Poker by the start of 2010 gripping the worth of $100 million.

It is being hoped by the gaming market that, this trade is projected to be tied up quite soon and Everest’s parent company, GigaMedia will be paid by Mangas Gaming in swap of 60% shares of the company.

As mentioned by Dow Jones in his article, this deal would come to its final phase in 2012 when the remaining share of money will be handed over after the re-evaluation of company’s market worth. Here, it is essential to know that GigaMedia is a widely traded corporation on NASDAQ Stock Exchange where it comes beneath the banner of “GIGM”. An alternative option for GigaMedia does also exist to permit the company for purchasing Everest Gaming in 2013.

This French-based company does not appear as a very proverbial but the title ‘Mangas’ has got a list of renowned and recognized sites like BetClic, Expekt Poker, and Bet-At-Home that work under its identity. Mangas also signed its name in World Series of Poker (WSOP) in addition to brokering the Everest trade. Along with this, it signed up bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen as an Expekt spokesman in the start this year and presented former Team PokerStars Pro Isabelle Mercier as a BetClic spokeswoman at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio.

Everest Poker is appeared to put a lot of efforts to amplify its silhouettes in the French market and this deal seems to fulfill their efforts by making it valuable. As a subsidizing member of WSOP, the company marked its name in the deal with Antoine Saout, the member of November Nine after his making the Main Event final table and added up Fabrice Soulier to its record of experts last month.

On the deal, Isabelle Parize, Chief Executive Officer of Mangas Gaming stated his thoughts in an official press release whilst declaring about their achievement that company’s authorities feel proud to have Everest as a part of Mangas. According to Isabelle Parize, Everest is a reputed brand with outstanding awareness in the world of poker. It is distinguished from its contemporaries because of Everest’s proficiency, reliability as well as strict policies. He further commented that Mangas Gaming is fully emphasizing in making its place as foremost European player in the world of both online poker and betting market.

Mr. Arthur Wang, CEO of GigaMedia spoke up his thoughts, said that GigaMedia were looking for a reference association and partner with the complementary activities. Additionally, he said that company’s actual policy is to take its part in the development of inventive and vibrant industry in Europe and GigaMedia feels glad to carry this mission out by joining their hands with French leading sports betting and online gaming group.

It has been reported by Poker News Daily that right after the deal completion; all of the Mangas’ players of other online poker rooms will be moved to Everest. It is being assumed in the market that Expekt is predicted to get vanished out for good by the end of coming year. Most of the regular customers of all of the groups and companies will be transferred to Everest this way.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 27th, 2009

This festive season, a leading online Poker room UB.com is making available $1million to grab for online poker lovers. This provides a chance to every casino player to win the amount in a site’s yearly tournaments “UBOC Satellites” and “STEP tournament”.

Almost every player has already signed up for these fantastic tournaments and this room has achieved a highest number of tournament entries. This tournament also has some shiny new competitions like “Simple Event Satellite” and “Super STEP Contest”.

Since the party is never ending, it has some other treats as well. UBC.com is also launching great promotion called “Bubble Burst” which is open to all the UBOC participants. Players simply need to cash in 2 or more UBOC events in order to win anything from a $10,000 free roll entry to the $1 million price.

They are also offering a line of other great tournaments as well. Players can win seats on smaller investments. Other great side contests have also launched for rewarding the participation in the contests.

Single Event Satellite

This Satellite is about finding the king of the cards. For receiving two lines for the buy-in we needs to win the most Satellite entries for any single UBOC event. Player who wins the second most entries will win one extra buying tournament dollars. Any player can also avail the chance of winning the special bonus in Deep Stack NLH 6-Max $2500+100 buy-in UBOC Event stand to pocket extra tournament dollars.

An extra bonus that include the two times buy-in and a slicing scale of tournament will be awarded to the top six multiple satellite entry winners for the Deep Stack NLH 6-Max  $2500+100 buy-in UBOC Event stand to pocket extra tournament dollars

The All-U-Can Satellite Contest has a prize pool of $15,000 along with three freerolls entries of $5000. If we wins at least two UBOC events then we can qualify for Freeroll A, if we wins three UBOC seats then we will qualify for Freeroll A and B, and four seats won means the triple entry seats in Freeroll A.B and C.

The Super STEP Contest has the largest prize pool of $1 Million Guaranteed. The participation of players in this tournament will also lead them to get free tournament entries, 25 Seat Guaranteed Freeroll for the UBOC Championship event and opportunities to bag a buy-in for the 2010 Aruba Poker Classic.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » December 25th, 2009

This week a big news roaming around the world of poker is that 60% of the market have been acquired by the popular online poker giants Poker Stars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com.

This news is tracked by the independent online poker tracking site “Poker Scout”, according to them both the sites have obtained the online poker traffic of about 0.2%. Since, there are almost 500 operators in the whole poker industry but this has been a remarkable achievement for the two popular poker sites that they have acquired the 60% of the market combinely. However, it seems that a large number of players are converting from small poker rooms to the current giants of the poker industry “PokerStars” and “Full Tilt” .This has been a tremendous accomplishment for the two giants.

Another important aspect of this figure is that, both the poker sites accept U.S players and this has become a plus point in terms of player numbers. Although analyst do not term this the only reason which is making them the best poker play site, because there are so many other factors involved in it like good service, huge bonuses, Customer satisfaction, fair play and fantastic promotions.

Though, this should not been a bad news for other poker sites as they are also sharing the overall growth of 12% of the poker industry.

It was not long ago, that these two giants were considered “toddlers” for the poker world but with their dedication and on going hard work they are now on top of the list from all other poker sites. Infarct, a year ago “Poker Star” and “Full Tilt” were claiming for acquiring the half of the poker traffic to their names.

Since the two company’s weekly event shows that PokerStar have acquired $1.5M GTD known as the PokerStars Sunday Million, Full Tilt Poker’s biggest weekly is the Sunday $750k GTD and Party Poker, with a $300k GTD each week.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 22nd, 2009

DoylesRoom is a very popular online poker room in the poker arena. It has been assumed a very user-friendly U.S poker room. This month they are offering extra cash as “Wednesday’s Bounties” which is great news for all poker lovers.

The two Wednesday bounties for this month are “Family Christmas Bounty tournament” and “weekly Wednesday bounty tournament”. This will held on 16th and 23rd of December, respectively.

Refund policy for the new players has also been added to the bounty tournaments and the top 100 finishers will receive the autographed copy from the “Godfather of the poker”, Doyle Brunson. The Bounty’s winner will also land $500 in Doyles Casino chips. Each bounty begins at 9:30 pm Each Wednesday.

The “Family Christmas Bounty” has some great added bonuses that include a grand prize of $50,000 and it will be awarded to those players who can oust three bounties from the Doyle Room tournament. A $1000 bonus will be rewarded as a regular bounty and players who succeed in knocking out two bounties will see their bankroll grow by $10,000. Read more!

The excitement will continue on 23rd December when the “Wednesday bounty tournament” will held on virtual world and the members of the pocketfives.com will take on the field guns of Brunson10 like Amit amak316 Makhija, Zachary CrazyZachary Clark, and Chris moorman1 Moorman.

This tournament have a regular bounty of $1000 and an amazing “supplementary bonus” of $100 will be rewarded to pocketfive.com members if they will succeed in knocking out the Brunson 10 in this tournament.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » December 20th, 2009

Launched in 2001, Poker Stars has now become a very popular site for playing online poker games with more than 28,600 real money ring game players. Poker Stars is considered the industry’s current leader as it also created the concept of “Satellite” Tournaments, which means that the winner of an online tournament gains entry to a real “Poker” tournament.

Poker Star is in a limelight again by introducing “Team Pro Tuesday” and now this week they are having their second installment of it.

Poker Stars also introduced a pair of “Outlast the Pro” tournament for playing with pros in cash games. Each tournament has a buy-in of $11 and a $1000 in cash added to the prize pool. And a prize of $1000 will be added into the funds for those pro`s who will remain longer in each tournaments than others.

This season Poker Star team includes the victor of the “World Series of Poker (WSOP)” tournament, Joe Cada, who won the $1000 buy-in tournament in November and became the youngest winner ever for that tournament. Chris Money Maker, who defeated the established Pro Sammy Farha in a feature tournament in 2003, is also a part of this team.

Other member include Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Humberto Brenes.Poker Stars also includes top female pros as well like Maridu Mayrinck, who was introduced in this year’s “WSOP” main event. The team also has Vicky Coren, Barry Greenstein, Chad Brown and Gavin Griffin.This year Poker Star team has also signed Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem as their ambassadors for this game. More Poker Stars Pros!

The experience of playing with such experts is similar to the main rival of online poker site called “FULL Tilt”. This tournament has two separate time blocks each Tuesday. One is from 12:00 to 15:00 ET and other is from 19:00 to 22:00 ET.You can find out online pro`s on the “Team Pro Link”, located at the bottom of the Poker Star lobby. You also can find a Poker player by hitting “Find a team Poker star player”.

But as a whole, it will be a great opportunity for all the players for having good experience with great winnings. Another good thing is that they are also accepting U.S players. So now U.S players have a chance to try their luck as well.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Pro Players | No Comments » December 17th, 2009

Party poker is a very popular poker room in poker world with more than 70,000 players and many joining everyday to take advantage of exclusive bonuses codes. Party Poker has been rated as one of the “largest online poker rooms in the world”.

This weekend, party poker offered 25 Aussie Million Prize Packages. That means a chance for a poker player to win one of the 25 seats in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event for just $600.From 13th December, the site is hosting two separate online satellite. Both will feature a $600 + $40 buy-in.

This Tournament packages can classify mainly into two groups. One is for only-Aussie residents and the other for “other than Aussie” residents. The Aussie-only Tournament package includes AUD $10,000 Aussie Millions Main Event, hotel accommodations and $500 to be put towards travel expenses. Whereas “open field” tournament offers more benefit for the players. It will reward seats to top 20 finishers. This package include buy –in, hotel accommodations and a $3500 travel expense.

On the contrary, if a player from Australia or New-Zealand wins one of the $1500 packages, they will still receive the full $3500 to cover their travel expense. But achieving the “Aussie” title is itself a proud for a poker player and could be the highlight of any poker player’s career.

These packages are providing great opportunities for the poker lovers to play in these huge tournaments. Through these kinds of tournaments, poker players not only enhance their experiences but also get the opportunity to avail a great chance of huge winnings. The tournament will begin at 2:45am ET whereas the open tournament will begin slightly late in the day, at 2:30pm ET.

During November Party poker gave away 96 seats to the Aussie Millions as part of the sites Gladiator Promotion. Players with 1000 party points earned per day in November made their way into the event.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 16th, 2009

Full Tilt is up with some poker treat again for its players. This time Full Tilt’s immensely popular FTOPS series is a chance for big players of online poker to wager in their money and take advantage of the great offer at hand.

However when it comes for the smaller range players Full Tilt Poker has something for them as well. Being the leading poker providers on the internet with a fine reputation, Full Tilt are always looking to give everyone a shot at the big time which is why they are once again running their Mini FTOPs. This will mainly cater to the smaller poker players.

This updated version of the FTOPs began yesterday and will offer players 25 different poker events, all with an entry fee equivalent to 1/10th of the main FTOPS, to try their luck at. The highlights of the schedule being the $250 plus 16 two day event and the Main Event with a minimum of $600000 guaranteed.

As if the money minting of thousands of dollars and reigning supreme as champion wasn’t enough, Full Tilt are furnishing each winner with a classy FTOPS jacket and exclusive avatar so they can enjoy their gaming even more. For the top performer across the entire series a fully inclusive package to every FTOPS XV worth over $7500is is on offer.

As it has been seen the tournament roster is dominated by Hold’em events but for those of you with a fondness for variety there’s a liberal sprinkling of poker variants, including a $50 PLO tournament and poker’s version of the Krypton Factor a $50 HORSE event.

With so much value on offer the chance to strike it rich is huge and the probability of having fun is even greater!

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » December 14th, 2009

Yet again PartyPoker is entertaining its players with the Full House promotion, now a three-in-one winning combination. Also the Monthly Million tournament is back from Sunday, December 6th.

The Full House promotion features a $50,000 Cash Game Race, the Jackpot Hunter, and $1 Million Multi-Table Tournament Jackpots.

The first component of the Full House promotion is the $50,000 Cash Game Race. Open to Bronze, Silver, and Gold PartyPoker members, the Race began on December 3rd and ends on the 23rd. The top 500 positions on a leaderboard will finish in the money, with the minimum payout being $10. The Cash Game Race’s top prize is $3,000 and the top seven players will walk away with at least four-figures. The leaderboard is based on the number of PartyPoints accrued at cash games only; tournaments are not tracked and members of PartyPoker’s Palladium Lounge are not eligible to participate.

The Jackpot Hunter is running all month long on PartyPoker and $160,000 in prizes will be given. There is a $50,000 jackpot up for grabs for players who compete in single-table tournaments with $55 buy-ins and up.

PartyPoker’s website says “Once you’ve won five consecutive STTs at a particular level, e-mail your account name to info@partypoker.com immediately.” Three $20,000 prizes are available for $12 to $54 buy-in sit and gos, while five $10,000 jackpots are there for players in $3 to $11 buy-in sit and gos. All sit and gos won to claim a jackpot must be at the exact same buy-in, so choose wisely, and only 10-seat, non-Double or Nothing events are eligible.

Finally, the $1 Million Multi-Table Tournament Jackpot will run from the 1st to 31st of December. All players need to do is use 20 Party Points to buy into $5,000 prize pool tournaments that run Monday through Saturday. Finish in the top 200 in any event and you’ll qualify for a $250,000 Grand Final that will take place on Sunday, January 3rd at 14:00 ET. You can also buy into the Grand Final for 1,000 Party Points if you don’t qualify. Take down any two of the $5,000 prize pool tournaments and you’ll earn a $100,000 prize.

This Sunday at 12:45 ET, play in the Monthly Million on PartyPoker.com. The tournament boasts a $640 buy-in and takes place on the first Sunday of every month. There is a $1 Million Super Satellite Saturdays with a total of 18. In addition, 40 seats are on the line in special Friday tournaments so enjoy.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » December 13th, 2009