For the next couple of days Poker Stars will be hosting a free tournament that gives players the chance to win a trip to the Caribbean where they will be able to play poker with poker star Daniel Negreanu. The prize package includes an $8,000 buy in, 7 nights accommodations at the Atlantis Resort and Casino, $1,000 cash for travel, and poker training with Daniel Negreanu. The tournament is hosted twice daily once at 6:30 and then again at 9:30PM ET. Along with the grand prize their will be $110,000 up for grabs in cash prizes ranging from $1-600.Once again the tournament is free to enter and all you need to do is go to http://www.pokerstars.net/millions/ and sign up.

In the world of poker it looks like we will have something new and exciting to look forward to after the WSOP. In Card Player Magazine, Doyle Brunson announced that ESPN will be televising a high stakes golf tournament featuring top poker pros. According to Brunso,  there will be two different setups at the event. The first event will comprise of two man teams, with a buy-in of $200,000 per team. The payout for the event will be: First – $1 million, Second – $500,000, Third – $250,000, Fourth – $150,000, Fifth – $100,000.

In the second event of the day, which will begin immediately after the completion of the first event, they will raise the stakes to a $3 million buy-in per player. A total of nine players will be competing in this event on three different teams. The format the players are going to follow is a combination of skins and best ball. There will likely be lots of ties on the course, but for each hole a team is able to win they will receive $500,000.

Many of the players competing at this event will be representing online poker rooms. Doylesroom will of course be represented by Doyle Brunson along with Dewey Tomko, and Al DeCarlo. Full Tilt will sponsor David Grey and Huck seed, and as you would expect Poker Stars is sending Daniel Negreanu.

The only handicapping for the tournament will be tee off positions, and that will be decided by the players who know each others power and skill. Overall, with the amount of money at stake and the ridiculous side bets that will  take place, this should be a fun and exciting event to look forward to.

It may be hard to become a good poker player, but if you practice and master these simple chip moves you could at least look like you are good.

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.

The Poker Stars Sunday millions has just finished with 6567 players registering for the tournament. The tournament paid 900 players with a prize pool of $1,313,400. The tournament went for 10 hours. The respected payouts are 188, 866, $98,373, $70,792, $55,162, $42,160. Although the top 4 finishers made a deal and split the money so each player got 107k, 103k, 90k and one 80k (approximation). I forgot the exact breakdown but it was close to that.  At the time of the deal Omoneyman0 (Westminister) was in 4th place and got the 80k but then by winning the tournament got an additional 30k.

Top 5 Finishers

1.Omoneyman0 (Westminister)
2. tilerman(march)
3. Guesty001(helsby)
4. tetergold(Decatur)
5. Dsnyder9521(Mt Juliet)

Poker Stars Sunday Millions Bubble

Well it looks like stealurmoney (Upper Malboro) missed the money by one spot! He finished in 901th place missing a pay day of $262. He is the pstars bubble boy for the week…looks like whoever got him out stole his money.

sw6977 (redwood valley) takes home the worst performance in the tournament. Finishing dead last and wasting $215 in near record time. Congrats, maybe try a different hobby.

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.

The Poker Stars sunday million results are in, the tournament went for 11 hours and 30 min. The buy-in to the event was $530 and the prize pool was $1,510,500,000 with 3021 players registering. Poker notable Greg Raymer did well and at times was in second place throughout the tournament he finished in 42nd. The top5 places were paid: $263, 582, $133,075, $95,614, $75,525 and $59,211.

Top 5 Finishers

1. Zutzman (Edmonton)
2.Pehtoori (Helskinki)
3. lb6121 (london)
4. Garbanzito (Mexico)
5. plasticard (guthenborg)

Poker Stars Sunday Millions Bubble

Mylo (Carmel Valley) just missed the money finishing in 487th place and being the bubble boy in the tournament… $604 would have been nice…

The biggest loser of the tournament is Kalidh (Vastervik) who did a great job of being the first player out in the tournament. He got 3021 place and a spot on our blog post…I probably spent more time writing this blog post then him in the tournament. Congrats!

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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There were 6,959 entrants in the July 22, 2007 Sunday Millions. The prize pool was $1,391,800 with the top five taking home $196k, $98k, $69, $55k and $41k.

Top 5 Finishers

1. 5902838181 (Oelstykke)
2. chipsncheese (Newport)
3. Tecknowledgy (Covina)
4.Princess13 (Maumee)
5. EC10 (Clermont)

The tournament ran for a little over 10 hours.

Poker Stars Sunday Millions Bubble
BONCELA (Sarnia) lost just before the tournament began paying, finishing in 1081 place….Missing out on $278.

The biggest loser of the day was PINKY77 (Downtown) losing $215 in no time and being the first player out.