The World Series of Online Poker has now brought a change for its poker players. The Hold ‘em Legend is here and lets you play online poker wherever you can carry your iPhone with the application. Hold ‘em Legend is the official poker game of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) The Appstore now also offers the online poker game Mobile Birdline where players are welcome to run for the most wanted bracelet of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker.

With this fabulous poker version the ‘Hold ‘em Legend’ on the Apple iPhone you can play in the poker rooms of the world against the greatest of poker players. With the new application of Mobile BirdLine you can also use your own style and study the reactions of the other players during play. You can even watch a flashback of the most recent match. In Hold em Legend poker game up to 9 players can play at one time and that also a live online poker match, or the online poker heads-up match that can be found with a Bluetooth application. In the heads-up match players can also play an online ‘poker pal’.

For those crazy dedicated pro poker players the Hold em Legend game is perfect. If you carry a cell phone, then there is no reason why you too can’t take your chances and look up this application and try your hand at some good classic online poker.

This poker application is going to give you just about every option and opportunity that you would receive from sitting at home and playing. Especially for people who do not have extra time for leisure, the Hold em Legend on the iPhone is just the thing they need because all they have to do is flip open their phone and start up their application.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » November 22nd, 2009

Every year the World Series of Poker makes winners who set benchmarks for the participants in the coming years. So in Australia, the popular winner of the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Joe Hachem, is set to feature in a new reality television program called The Poker Star giving amateurs the chance to win a year-long professional contract.

The Poker Star Joe Hachmen is set to debut on one this Saturday with the eventual winner getting to travel with Team PokerStars Pro Australia for a year alongside a cash prize of $87,500 so as to add a greater incentive.

The proud winner, Hachem revealed that research conducted by leading online poker room PokerStars.com led him to become involved with the new program which will also be available on PokerTube.com for non-Australian viewers.

According to the Lebanon born former chiropractor and now the poker star, “The older generation is really starting to embrace poker, turning to it as a mental exercise to keep their minds active post retirement,”

He further said that “Women are coming to the game in hordes, almost matching their male counterparts for participation, particularly in online spaces. It’s encouraging to see the sport’s ranks opening up and the field of competitors becoming increasingly diverse.”

Joe Hachem also revealed that he carefully handpicked the majority of the contestants, who represent all ages but share a passion for the sport and a will to succeed, so the players were at least in the same frame of mind before the game.

“The contenders reflect the new face of the scene from Ron, a 60-year-old war veteran who took up poker in his retirement, to Sally, a 24-year-old former ballerina,” said Hachem. The former winner expects this reality television program to be quite successful and feels it is a chance to encourage more people to acquire interest in poker.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, WSOP | No Comments » October 9th, 2009

During the four-month break of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) last year, the aim was to give the event some publicity. Another reason was to give the nine final table members the chance to ink endorsement deals with online poker rooms-in exchange for wearing a room’s logo during televised final table play, the final table member earns a fee. The event now resumes in November and 8 of 9 tables have had deals.

From Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com) Eric Buchman, will be on the final table andhas the second-largest amount of chips; Joe Cada, who is fifth in chips and Kevin Schaffel, who is sixth.

From Full Tilt Poker (www.FullTiltPoker.com) will be Phil “Poison” Ivey, who is seventh in chips at the final table, Steve Begleiter, who is second in chips and James Akenead, who is ninth.

Antoine Saout, who is eighth in chips, has signed on as a paid mouthpiece for online room Everest Poker (www.everestpoker.com).

Jeffrey Shulman, fourth in chips, is editor of poker magazine Card Player (www.cardplayer.com), which owns online poker room Spade Club (www.spadeclub.com).

The only member of the table without an endorsement deal with an online poker room is final table chip-leader Darvin Moon, who says he doesn’t play online poker. Despite that, numerous online poker rooms still want to hire him to endorse their rooms, but he said he is not interested in the offer.

Last year 8 out of 9 tables had deals, so wanting to spread the endorsement wealth a little more in ‘09, the WSOP instituted a new rule this year limiting the number of final table members who could endorse the same room to three. The rule is clearly a restraint of trade, and probably unconstitutional, but the WSOP doesn’t care-it needs the publicity.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, WSOP | No Comments » September 23rd, 2009

The World Series of Poker is at it again in the challenging world of online poker. Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment and 888 Holdings reached an agreement where 888’s Dragon fish division will provide online poker and casino software to Harrah’s in an attempt to enter the online gaming market.

“The intent is to be in the online gaming space, wherever it’s legal,” said WSOP Communications Director Seth Palansky. “We’ve partnered with 888 to develop a platform.”

Both the WSOP and Caesars Casino brands will definitely have an online presence along with Dragon fish providing ePayments, VIP services and Customer Service to help develop both brands.

888 Holdings is significant in the online gaming market in Europe, but not as well-known in the U.S. due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) passed in 2006.

The 888.com acts as a portal to popular gaming sites like Pacific Poker, 888sport (sports betting) and Reef Club Casino.

“This is a ground breaking deal for 888.com and demonstrates our ability to provide real value to globally renowned, land-based casinos and their leading brands,” said Gigi Levy, CEO of 888.

The online presence of WSOP might be a conflict of interest with live event sponsors like Everest Poker and Betfair Poker.

Palansky says “I really don’t think there’s anything for anybody to worry about,” he said. “The WSOP will remain a premier live poker destination. Our offline events are great opportunities for our sponsors.

“If all this goes through and we do develop an online gaming site then we would be competing in some of the same markets. We would still have relationships with the other sites, however.”

According to Mitch Garber, the CEO of Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment “As we develop and roll out our interactive strategy, we have chosen to work with 888, primarily for their world-class technology, scalability and strong commitment to compliance and responsible gaming,” said Garber.

The 888 deal seems to be as controversial as any other poker deal drama, but it is for the players to wait and watch what this evolves into.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » September 17th, 2009

The Bodog casino, like all online casinos aims to create a platform, from which it becomes recognized among the casino industry. Recently the leading casino Bodog.com has become one of the first sites to hand out a seat in next summer’s World Series of Poker held in Las Vegas after recently completing their Mini Poker Series promotion.

There were 13 events before the ultimate grand final and the Bodog customers managed to earn a place in the last tournament of the series by either placing in the semi-final tournament or by getting a position in the top ten of the competition’s overall leaderboard.

Overall, 82 runners took part in the fabulous series’ curtain-closer and in the end it was regular online player John Ormsby, a regular online player who emerged on top and won himself a $12,000 package to next year’s World Series.

John Ormsby, aged 25 and residing in Michigan is an experienced poker player especially in the context of the Bodog’s site, having spent the past four years digging out a profit on the limit Hold’em cash tables, although the seat in the 2010 WSOP will be the first time that Ormsby has ever played in a Series.

“I hope to go out there early and play in a couple of other events first,” said Ormsby of his preparations for Main Event. “I was in Vegas years ago when I was younger, but it was before I played poker. I know there are lots of juicy cash games around town to play in during the WSOP and I’m looking forward to it all.”

Despite winning his seat in next year’s Big One, Ormsby was keen to stress the fact that poker would remain nothing more than a just his leisure time activity. “I think it’s every poker player’s dream to win a WSOP bracelet, but I don’t see myself playing poker professionally. I would rather keep it as a hobby at this point,” he stated.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WSOP | No Comments » August 6th, 2009

Another dedicated and now contented Poker Player Joe Cada makes money by taking second place in a $150-rebuy online tournament through Full-Tilt Poker on Sunday and winning $45,000. Cada, aged 21 and belonging to Shelby Township, also recently won a seat at the final table at the World Series of Poker Texas Hold-em Main Event which is going to he held in Las Vegas on Nov. 7th.

When asked about winning the poker tournament the blissful player stated “I planned on taking a little break from poker, but I always play on Sunday,” He went on “I had to play and just so happened to have won a little bit of money.”

On Cada’s arrival to his home town in Shelby Township from Las Vegas he was greeted with a massive gathering of friends and family who were there to celebrate the victory. The 57-event series of Poker Tournaments in the World Series Poker event lasted for four months during which Cada was residing in Las Vegas, where it was taking place.

He managed to corner $28,214 placing in two small events and won a large amount of $1,263,602 for making the final table at the Main Event. The famous “November Nine” are said to be playing for a first-place prize of $8,546,435 making the event even more appealing.

On coming back to Michigan Cada exclaimed “My phone has been ringing off the hook — mostly with numbers I don’t even recognize,”.

Cada stated that he will continue to play online every Sunday and is listed to play in a couple large poker tournaments before the Main Event final table in November. He also plans on playing at the Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif., on Aug. 22-26 as part of the World Poker Tour, and will play in an another event in Barcelona, Spain, in September.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WSOP | No Comments » July 21st, 2009

Interesting news for the poker lovers at the 2009 WSOP Main Event was the official announcements that, the top 648 players were guaranteed at least $21,365 in prize money. By Day 4 of the grand event, only 407 players remained in the Main Event and PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, was proud to have an estimated 77 online qualifiers and sponsored players in the event. The winner of 2009 will collect an $8.5 million grand prize and the title of WSOP Champion.

The 2005 World Series of Poker Champion and Team PokerStars Pro member, Joe Hachem stated that “I am not surprised that we have so many players left,” He further went on to say that “PokerStars has the best online poker players in the world. It was just a matter of time before they started to dominate the live events as well. After having six of final nine players last year on our side, I was expecting another dominating performance by PokerStars.com.”

Initially PokerStars had 1,100 online qualifiers, sponsored players, Team PokerStars Pro members and celebrities. Five of the top 20 players in Day 5 qualified to the WSOP through PokerStars, along with the Pro member Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, PokerStars-sponsored Austrian pro Bernhard Perner and three more.

More Poker Stars Pros!

The PokerStars players represented 17 countries. The United States had 44 players, followed by the Netherlands with six, United Kingdom with five and Canada, Australia and France had 3 each.

Some significant PokerStars players that were present, are Grospellier (1,253,000), Perner (1,426,000) actor Lou Diamond Phillips (607,000), Noah Boeken (499,000), Joe Hachem (490,000), Dennis Phillips (419,000), Peter Eastgate (397,000), Thierry van den Berg (270,000) and Benjamin Kang (254,000).

It is believed that the top 407 players at this year’s WSOP are sure to win $27,469 in prize money. The nine players on November’s final table will each earn a minimum of $1.2 million. Those players qualified for the WSOP on PokerStars will receive a once-in-a-lifetime chance and experience the full Las Vegas lifestyle while preparing to play at the most exalted live event of the year.

The prize package offered to PokerStars’ players included the $10,000 Main Event buy-in, $1,000 for travel and expenses, eight nights accommodation at the Palms Hotel, PokerStars player bags, shuttle bus service to and from the Rio, and a VIP Invitation to the July 9 PokerStars Party at the Palms club Rain featuring hip hop star Nelly.

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

The magical, action packed and enticing world of Poker has attracted thousand of players globally. One special Poker player Kent Senter, fighting blood cancer, and struggling for life sees the chance to play at the World Series of Poker, as a dream come true!

Residing in Pittsburgh and aged 55, Senter interacted with top poker pros and made it to the second day of the Main Event even though he is a beginner. Kent Senter was exclusively interviewed by ESPN, and was visited by Nelly the recording artist which added to the excitement of his children.

According to Senter, who says his doctors have give him six months to a maximum of three years to survive his multiple Myeloma”It’s been unbelievable,”. … Now, I’ll just play it by ear, take it day by day and do what the doctor says.”

Senter was given special dealing and a full ‘expense paid’ package of accommodation, food and traveling by the Poker starts (online gambling company) and Bluff Magazine, as well as a $10,000 buy-in for the Main event.

Having discontinued his job at Lowes recently, Senter, finds online poker a good distraction as his inability to walk alot because of the tumour in his spine, hampers his work.

“Even just playing in this tournament, it takes everything out of me,” he says. “It’s hard to walk around for more than 10-15 minutes without being in a lot of pain.”

Playing free online, Senter tried to win a trip to the World Series. He says he came especially close once but could not make it. “It was just so depressing,” he says. After his wife disclosed his situation on a forum on Bluff Magazine’s Website, they were contacted by Bluff, which arranged the connection with PokerStars.

In a tournament with initally 6,494 entrants, Senter began with 30,000 chips and made it through his first day of play last Sunday. In his second day Wednesday, he got his total up to about 67,000 chips, but he lost a big pot when a flush didn’t fall for him, and he was later eliminated.

“I really haven’t played poker. I watch it on ESPN,” he says. “So to be sitting there when a lot of these pros had already been knocked out was unbelievable.”

Senter had recently undergone chemotherapy and he expects later this month to have stem cell transplantation. PokerStars says it was the ailing man’s wish to make the trip by car and was taken care of by his wife who drove them to and from the event, to which he said “I never saw out West, so it’s been great. I get to see the country side,”.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, WSOP | No Comments » July 10th, 2009

This year the 4th of July holiday created a buzz around the Poker world. The officials at the World Series of Poker have said that they experienced a strangely low turnout at the event. The $10,000 no-limit Texas hold ‘em World Championship drew 6,494 entries, officials said after figures for the four-day opening round were added up Monday night. That was 350 fewer players than a year ago.

However, the reason for the low strength was somewhat different. More than 500 potential participants were turned away Monday on the final opening day because the Rio had already reached its seating capacity. Due to this players competed on tables set up outside of the Rio’s tournament poker room inside the convention pavilion.

Harrah’s Entertainment Vice President Jeffrey Pollack, who serves as the commissioner of the World Series of Poker said “There is no question that our strong preference was to have a bigger main event this year if possible”. He further clarified “We tried to accommodate every player we could, so it was disappointing in that sense. We simply ran out of space.”

In his defense The Vice President stated that the event was a success and that any flaws that occurred will be examined for future events. “We never want to be in the business of turning people away,” he said. “There was plenty of opportunity to play in the main event.”

On Monday, 2,809 players took part in the tournament. Among the more than 500 players rejected were some top professional poker players, including five-time gold bracelet winner Ted Forrest and six-time gold bracelet winner T.J. Cloutier, along with hundreds who just patiently waited to be accommodated.

On Friday, 1,116 players, but only 873 signed up to play on Saturday, July 4th. The tournament was expected to sell out on Monday. This year’s champion in the main event will take home almost $8.55 million. Last year, 22-year-old Peter Eastgate of Denmark won $9.15 million.

Pollock believes that the nine players who reach the final table in this year’s main event will each take home more than $1 million. This year’s main event will pay 648 places. The final table of nine will be determined July 15, and the players will return to the Rio in November to play for the title. On Tuesday, the past winners competed and fourteen former champions of the World Series of Poker, including Eastgate, survived the first day and will advance to the next round.

Moving into the second day of competition is CityCenter Chief Executive Officer Bobby Baldwin will play in the main event. Baldwin won the World Series of Poker in 1978 when he was known as “The Owl,” the quiet and studious professional poker player from Oklahoma. When he won the title at Binion’s Horseshoe, he beat a field of 42 players to win $210,000.

Baldwin has won four World Series of Poker bracelets. In 1994 he finished 24th in the main event, winning $16,800. Baldwin had 70,900 in tournament chips, the 305th best of Monday’s competitors. Among celebrities still alive in the main event were actresses Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth, actors Brad Garrett, Jason Alexander, Lou Diamond Phillips and Marlon Wayans and Jordan Farmar of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WSOP | No Comments » July 8th, 2009

Over 500 seats have already been won by players on Full Tilt Poker for WSOP 2009. Players like the Mini Series of Poker, where they can get in on big tournament action with buy-ins of only 1/100th of the corresponding WSOP event.

Anyone who has been to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas or watched the coverage on ESPN is aware that Full Tilt Poker always maintains a solid presence at the Series. In addition to the Team Full Tilt members and any number of other sponsored pros in the Full Tilt family, there are numerous other players wearing the gear and representing the site. How did they get there? The answer is obvious.

Full Tilt Poker.com is one of the online poker websites that awards the most seats to the various WSOP events throughout the summer, and the current year is no different. As of the penning of this article, Full Tilt has given away 519 seats to several events at the 2009 WSOP, including main event entries worth $10,000 each.

There are numerous ways to win said seats and travel to Las Vegas for the experience of a lifetime. Shootout tournaments run daily on Full Tilt Poker, and cash qualifiers are on the weekly schedule. But in the $10 Million Main Event Mania, there are events throughout the week that give players from all over the world the chance to win. And keep in mind that the $10 million refers to the amount of money that the main event winner will receive on top of the already hefty prize money if that person qualifies through Full Tilt and goes on to win the 2009 WSOP main event. A $10 million bonus!

With 519 seats to the WSOP already awarded and many more on the line in the coming weeks, it is now or never to win your trip to Las Vegas. The opportunity to participate in the most prestigious and exciting tournaments on earth is only a few clicks away.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Uncategorized | No Comments » June 29th, 2009