Archive for the ‘EPT’ Category

PokerStars.tv

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

PokerStars.tv

PokerStars.tv

PokerStars.tv covers poker tournaments from across the globe with live webcasts, TV shows, and video blogs. Currently highlighted on PokerStars.tv are the PCA, EPT, and WCOOP tournaments. The videos on PokerStars.tv show highlights and interviews from the world largest tournaments along with live video coverage that you can’t get anywhere else.

In addition to great tournament coverage PokerStars.tv also offers interviews and tips from some of the biggest names on PokerStars.net. Once on the site click the Team PokerStars Pro tab and you can learn more about players like Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, and Luca Pagano. Whenever looking for the latest  PokerStars news, be sure to check out PokerStars.tv.

Peter Eastgate part of PokerStars.net

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Peter Eastgate has won the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event and is now part of team Poker Stars.net. Peter Eastgate lasted a field of over 5000 players. He is now the youngest player to ever win the world series of poker main event at the age of 22. Beating the previous record of 24 held by Phil Hellmuth.

The final table was delayed 3 months and was later dubbed the “november nine” after the nine players waited for November 11th when play would be resumed. Peter Eastgate had 4-1 odds going into the final table but was able to pull off the victory against Ivan Demidov and took home $9,152,416 for his efforts.

You can now find Peter Eastgate playing at Poker Stars.net as well as live poker tournaments around the world. Eastgate is originally from Odense, Denmark and has played in the EPT and Irish Poker Tour poker tournaments as well as the World Series.

Poker Stars Million Dollar men

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Poker Stars Million Dollar Men Freeroll

Poker Stars Million Dollar Men Freeroll

To celebrate the six Poker Stars players who made it to the final table of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP), PokerStars.net is throwing daily freerolls where participants will have the chance to go up against the 6th WSOP finalists and take home as much as $100,000 for first place. The daily freerolls start September 27 and will continue until October 17. The big prizes will be rewarded to anyone who can make it to the final table, but for those less fortunates numerous other cash prizes are dished out along the way.

When the WSOP continues later this year, the 6 Poker Stars players to watch are Dennis Phillips, Ivan Demidov, Peter Eastgate, Ylon Schwartz, Darus Suharto and David ‘Chino.’ To learn more about these 6 finalists and Poker Stars freerolls go to Poker Stars.

EPT 3 more events untill Monte Carlo

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The EPT(European Poker Tour) still has three more events until the grand final in Monte Carlo, Monaco on April 12-17. The next upcoming event, the Scandinavian Open, gets kicked off today in Copenhagen, Denmark. The buy-in for the event is 50,000 and can it can be watched live on EPTLive.com.

460 players chipped in to create the biggest poker prize pool in Scandinavian history. The large buy-in and nearly €3 million prize pool has attracted some big names to the event. The pros coming from pokerstars.net include Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Katja Thater, Tom McEvoy, Bill Chen, Noah Boeken, Luca Pagano and Dario Minieri.

To learn more about this or other EPT tournaments check out PokerStars.net, or check out our EPT page.