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.

Poker Star’s pros Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein are currently second and third on the World Series of Poker player of the year chart. Daniel Negreanu is in second with 170 points, 15 points behind leader Eick Lindgren, with one braclet and 4 cashes. Just below him Barry Greenstein has 165 points with one braclet and 3 cashes. Together the two players have combined for a total of $769,001 WSOP earnings.

Daniel Negreanu 2008 Finishes:
* 7th place on 6/14 at Event 28 Pot-Limit Omaha $123, 437
* 1st place on 6/10 at Event 20 Limit Hold’em $204,874
* 11th place on 6/7 at Event 14 Seven Card Stud $33,417
* 22nd place on 6/3 at Event 5 No-Limit Hold’em $16,496

Barry Greenstein 2008 Finishes:
* 1st place on 6/13 at Event 26 Seven Card Razz $157,643
* 46th place on 6/12 at Event 23 No-Limit Hold’em $7,582
* 3rd place on 6/9 at Event 18 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball $225,552

For more information go to www.worldseriesofpoker.com

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.

Poker Stars is currently running a poker promotion called Poker Stars Passport. They are giving away $250,000 dollars in live tournament packages and also cash prizes to poker players that rank in their tournament leader board.

The top 100 players will play in a poker tournament with the winner receiving a PokerStars Passport to ten big buy-in poker tournaments running from January 2008 to January 2009! Second place will get a EPT Monte Carlo Package and 3rd-9th get $10k, $5k, $3k, $2.5k, $2k, $1.5k and $1k respectively.

They will also have tournaments for players that are 101-200th, 201-500th and 501-1000. They will be playing for a EPT Monte Carlo package and $15k in cash. The tournaments will take place on January 13th at 13:00 ET.

To qualify you will need to play at any poker stars real money poker tournament and rank in the top 1,000 on their December leaderboard.

Due to the shutdown of Full Contact Poker, Daniel Negreanu has decided to join the team at poker stars.net. Although rarely online, Daniel promises to start playing more now that the 2007 WSOP has completed. He said all the promotions that players enjoyed at Full Contact Poker will be a part of poker stars. At Full Contact Poker they will continue to offer forums and video blogs by Daniel Negreanu. Daniel Negreanu also mentioned in the video how Poker Stars.net has over 9 million players which makes it the largest online poker room.

There was a campaign earlier this year for the Poker Stars Moneymaker Millions Poker Tournament. Poker Stars.net had commercials for it showing Chris Moneymaker’s old boss and friends. This is the first commercial that they aired showing where Chris Moneymaker use to work.

Greg “The Fossilman” Raymer got 42nd place in the Sunday Millions tournament. For his effort he received $4,531.50. He played very well throughout the tournament and was nice enough to talk to fans while playing, answering their questions and comments.

As I type this post the tournament is still being played, it just went over the 10 hour mark. The final table has not been set yet as 12 players remain.

Here is the hand history of Raymer’s last hand in the tournament…

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Greg Raymer also known as Fossilman is currently playing the sunday millions and 4 hours and 30 min into the tournament he is currently in second place. Greg Raymer has 332,666 chips while the average stack in the tournament has 73,147. Dedin888 is currently in the lead with 332,820 chips. The blinds are currently at 1500/3000 with an ante of 300.

Update

At the 4:38 mark, Greg Raymer took the lead for a couple hands before being bluffed out of a hand and losing the lead falling back to second.

Notable Hand

Here is a hand history from the tournament that I thought was an interesting hand that Greg Raymer was involved in.

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