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Poker Stars – Million Dollar Challenge

hansel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:47:39 +0000

Poker Stars latest promotion, the Million Dollar Challenge, gives players a once in a lifetime chance to compete heads up against team Poker Stars pro Daniel Negreanu. The first prize winner will get the opportunity to compete against Daniel on TV for a chance at winning up to $1,000,000.

The best part about this promotion is that it cost no money to enter. To become qualified, all you need to do is play in one of the daily Million Dollar Challenge freerolls (tournaments run four times per day) and finish in the top ten. The top ten winners will then need to submit a two minute video where they can make a claim for why they should be chosen to star in the new poker show.

Any player lucky enough to be chosen will get sent to the TV studio along with two friends, where he or she will get to compete in a series of heads up matches against team Poker Stars pros and other celebrity poker players for large chunks of money. To help you advance, Daniel Negreanu will also be offering player’s expert advice along the way.

To find out more about this poker players fantasy go to Poker Stars and find read about the Million Dollar Challenge under the promotions page.

Poker Stars Monte Carlo

kdollar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:19:46 +0000

PokerStars.net will be holding a PokerStars Poker Camp in Monte Carlo. Many of the top Team PokerStars Pros will be at the camp helping players with strategy and will be hosting multiple instruction sessions. Topics will include the differences between online and offline play, final table strategy and how to analyze hands while playing live poker.

Play at Poker Stars and get a 100% deposit up to $50.

Team Poker Stars Pros that will be teaching the sessions include Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker. This is your chance to have some of the best poker coaching from top poker players who have made a living from playing poker.

You can qualify at Poker Stars.net for your chance to be apart of the poker camp for as little as $11 dollars. If you are a serious poker player and would like to buy in directly, this is also an option. To check out the Poker Stars Poker Camp satellites go to tourney>satellite.

The camp will start with a welcome party on April 25th and the training sessions will be held on the 26th and 27th. Players that qualify via Poker Stars will be given three nights hotel accomodation, camp entry as well as a gift bag and $1,000 dollars spending money.

PokerStars.tv

hansel — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:37:10 +0000

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.

Negreanu and Greenstein in Top Three for POY

hansel — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:19:30 +0000

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

EPT 3 more events untill Monte Carlo

hansel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:24:09 +0000

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 Passport – $250k in Poker Tournament Packages

kdollar — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:55:34 +0000

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.

Daniel Negreanu Joins Team Poker Stars.net

kdollar — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:54:32 +0000

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.

Poker Stars.net Commercial #1

kdollar — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:49:42 +0000

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 Raymer goes out in 42nd

kdollar — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:41:46 +0000

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…

PokerStars Game #11211181234: Tournament #56058775, $500+$30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XXIII (12500/25000) – 2007/07/30 – 00:43:07 (ET)
Table ’56058775 89′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Xaston (522294 in chips)
Seat 2: bodog4life (1361276 in chips)
Seat 3: cantbeat (547779 in chips)
Seat 4: VuaXi`Tô’ (266146 in chips)
Seat 5: Asprin1 (276432 in chips)
Seat 6: margy (70216 in chips)
Seat 7: sacker (1029129 in chips)
Seat 8: FossilMan (702195 in chips)
Seat 9: Dsavo (726718 in chips)
Xaston: posts the ante 2500
bodog4life: posts the ante 2500
cantbeat: posts the ante 2500
VuaXi`Tô’: posts the ante 2500
Asprin1: posts the ante 2500
margy: posts the ante 2500
sacker: posts the ante 2500
FossilMan: posts the ante 2500
Dsavo: posts the ante 2500
Dsavo: posts small blind 12500
Xaston: posts big blind 25000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
bodog4life: folds
cantbeat: folds
VuaXi`Tô’: raises 38000 to 63000
Asprin1: folds
margy: folds
Xaston said, “Im pretty much a tourney expert”
sacker: raises 963629 to 1026629 and is all-in
FossilMan: calls 699695 and is all-in
Dsavo: folds
Xaston: folds
VuaXi`Tô’: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qd 6s 4h]
VuaXi`Tô’ said, “djf98gwt784tyq98wyf0ywq98u4ro8awy8ty uir”
*** TURN *** [Qd 6s 4h] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Qd 6s 4h 8c] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sacker: shows [As Ks] (a pair of Kings)
FossilMan: shows [Td Ts] (a pair of Tens)
VuaXi`Tô’ said, “0e89rut98q3u3er987b9q38uht98yr98uewioygriuehoiruyioeurgoiueyo78gh3qoiugoiueoiug”
VuaXi`Tô’ said, “ioergoje3gr”
sacker collected 1522390 from pot
VuaXi`Tô’ said, “ioduiougyheopjngonwuqwponirtuvn93q8yt93qt\3y94tb29t7033b67tv2570yuigher”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1522390 | Rake 0
Board [Qd 6s 4h 8c Kc]
Seat 1: Xaston (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: bodog4life folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: cantbeat folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: VuaXi`Tô’ folded before Flop
Seat 5: Asprin1 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: margy folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: sacker showed [As Ks] and won (1522390) with a pair of Kings
Seat 8: FossilMan (button) showed [Td Ts] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 9: Dsavo (small blind) folded before Flop

Greg Raymer Sunday Million July 29 2007

kdollar — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:07:38 +0000

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.

PokerStars Game #11210862478: Tournament #56058775, $500+$30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XXII (10000/20000) – 2007/07/30 – 00:18:27 (ET)
Table ’56058775 89′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: thewh00sel (393643 in chips)
Seat 2: bodog4life (687638 in chips)
Seat 3: cantbeat (689779 in chips)
Seat 4: VuaXi`Tô’ (828323 in chips)
Seat 5: Asprin1 (597963 in chips)
Seat 6: margy (138360 in chips)
Seat 7: sacker (670629 in chips)
Seat 8: FossilMan (450875 in chips)
Seat 9: Dsavo (520681 in chips)
thewh00sel: posts the ante 2000
bodog4life: posts the ante 2000
cantbeat: posts the ante 2000
VuaXi`Tô’: posts the ante 2000
Asprin1: posts the ante 2000
margy: posts the ante 2000
sacker: posts the ante 2000
FossilMan: posts the ante 2000
Dsavo: posts the ante 2000
Dsavo: posts small blind 10000
thewh00sel: posts big blind 20000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
bodog4life: folds
cantbeat: folds
VuaXi`Tô’: folds
FossilMan said, “yes, I graduated from Parkway S.”
Asprin1: folds
margy: folds
sacker: folds
FossilMan: raises 34000 to 54000
Dsavo: folds
thewh00sel: raises 337643 to 391643 and is all-in
FossilMan: calls 337643
*** FLOP *** [Jd 2d 6h]
*** TURN *** [Jd 2d 6h] [Kd]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 2d 6h Kd] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thewh00sel: shows [Qs Tc] (a pair of Kings)
FossilMan: shows [9h 9d] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
thewh00sel said, “gg”
FossilMan said, “whew”
FossilMan collected 811286 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 811286 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 2d 6h Kd Kc]
Seat 1: thewh00sel (big blind) showed [Qs Tc] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: bodog4life folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: cantbeat folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: VuaXi`Tô’ folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: Asprin1 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: margy folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: sacker folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: FossilMan (button) showed [9h 9d] and won (811286) with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 9: Dsavo (small blind) folded before Flop