There are still qualifying seats available for Scandinavia's first televised high-stakes cash game. PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters - The Game will take place in London between August 13 and 17.
Two semi-final packages worth $11,000 are still up for grabs at Party Poker. The packages include buy-in, hotel and travel expenses. Two six-player semi-finals and cash-game final will be played in front of TV cameras in London. Play $500 match poker bonus.
The two winners of the semi-finals will play against 12 of the top Scandinavian players & women poker champs in a high-stakes cash game called 'The Game.' Among the pros that will part take in The Game are Mats Rahmn, Patrik Antonius, Martin de Knijff and Tore Lagerborg.
The two winners of the semi-finals will get the $50,000 entry fee to 'The Game' paid by Party Poker. The other ten semi-finalists will play for their share of $20,000 in a runner-up poker tournament. 'The Game' has no given prize pool, but each player has to buy in for an initial $50,000. The high-stakes cash game will then continue as long as there is money in play or until it reach a set time limit.
Party Poker still arranges qualifiers to the event, which is open only for Scandinavian players. There are daily freerolls, daily qualifiers to a weekly satellite, but it is also possible to buy in directly to a weekly satellite where seats to the semi-finals are awarded to the winners. Two seats are still up for grabs at Party Poker. Play route 66 poker.
The event will be televised in Scandinavia in the fall of 2007.
Civilian contractor scores $285,000 in World Series; comes back to job
What has longer odds? That a U.S. Forces Korea employee could place in the World Series of Poker or that he would come back to work after winning $285,000?
Vegas oddsmakers haven’t figured it out yet, but USFK civilian contractor Ronald Kluber did both.
Kluber returned to work at the USFK intelligence office Monday after spending six days in Las Vegas, where he placed 29th in the World Series of Poker’s Main Event.
“I did not expect to get that far into the money,” he said during a phone interview Monday. Online poker.
After winning the money, he sent an e-mail back to his boss at Yongsan Garrison to say he would be back in time for a big training exercise.
Kluber beat more than 6,000 other Texas Hold ’em players for the right to call himself one of the best. Among his opponents were some of professional poker’s star players & women poker players.
Despite sitting next to stars like Gus Hansen, Huck Seed and Scotty Nguyen, Kluber said he wasn’t worried about his chances.
“I wasn’t intimidated at all,” he said. “I know how to play poker.”
He said the game is more about skill than luck. Knowing how to read people and anticipate what cards might come are crucial skills.
Kluber said his faith also was crucial to his playing — he plans to donate 10 percent of his winnings to the Village of Jesus Church in South Korea.
“This was one of the most nerve-wracking events of my life, and I’ve been in four combat zones during my military career,” said Kluber, a retired Army colonel. “It wasn’t luck that got me through this. It was God’s grace.” Download poker wallpapers.
Kluber earned his way to Vegas by playing in the Korean Professional Poker Tour.
Tour organizers paid for his trip to Vegas — and his $10,000 buy-in — after Kluber won the Korean championship at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill casino on June 16.
He earned a chance to play the Korean championship by competing in a six-month series of games.
Kluber took the championship after catching the last of his opponents in a bluff.
Kluber’s next poker tournament will be the Asia Poker Tour, where he will be competing with 250 to 300 players for $250,000.
In the meantime, Kluber, from Aurora, Ill., said he’s willing to give lessons to anyone who wants to learn how to play poker.
“Bring $1,000 to the table,” he joked. “I’ll teach you to play.” Stay tuned to our poker blog for latest updates.
The infamous PURE nightclub at Caesars Palace - captain of the monosyllabic Vegas club scene and home to some of the bustiest and most spectacularly orange women you've ever seen - has hosted its fair share of hip and celebrity-packed events.
Phil Hellmuth's Fantasy Camp Opening Party. The Penthouse Swimwear Party. Uhh, Ryan Cabrera's 25th birthday. Play route 66 poker.
And now, another sure to be star-studded and likely graced by the Hall of Fame Hellmuthian presence: the Official Launch Party of the World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com, set for Monday, July 16 at 9 p.m.
Also critically on the agenda at Caesars Palace Monday: satellites and pre-registration for the inaugural WSOP Europe poker tournament, set for Aug. 6-16 in London, England.
Single-table satellites will run at various times throughout the day, with $2,200 buy-ins and seats to the £10,000, 750-player Main Event being awarded, along with a free ticket to the launch party at PURE. Women poker players.
Pre-registrations for the WSOPE will also be accepted at the main cage in Caesars Palace.
Currently, pre-registration is open outside the WSOP at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and at www.worldseriesofpoker.com. Stay tuned to our poker blog for more updates.
Both 2006 WSOP Main Event winner Jamie Gold and Hellmuth have already committed to play in London, the first-time ever a WSOP bracelet will be awarded outside of the U.S.
A Renton, Washington lawyer celebrated the start of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker last Friday by filing a lawsuit challenging the Washington state ban on online poker, also called Internet poker in the media, according to reports in the Seattle Intelligencer newspaper.
Lawyer Lee Rousso (49) filed his complaint claiming that the 2006 ban on Internet poker is a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution' commerce clause, which prohibits individual states from enacting laws that discriminate against interstate businesses. Play $500 match poker bonus.
No one has yet been prosecuted under the Washington law.
Rousso, who is the Washington state representative for the Poker Players Alliance, and has experience in both live poker as well as online poker tournaments, said his "first legal challenge to the law also should be the last." The lawyer also told the Seattle Intelligencer that he believed his chances of winning his case were "darn good."
The state ban, which was passed in 2006 on Bill SB 6613, prohibits Internet-based card games such as Texas Hold'Em that poker players & women poker players in Washington (Rousso among them) have used to qualify for large prize pool tournaments played both live and online.
Rousso noted, for example, that Washington residents who won seats for the Main Event of the World Series of Poker likely did so through qualifying on online tournaments, even though it now is a Class C felony to do so.
This has the same penalty as possessing child pornography, stalking, drive by shootings, threatening the governor, family abandonment, heroin possession and unauthorized abortions. Persons convicted of a Class C felony face a maximum of 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Download poker wallpapers.
Washington's Internet Gambling law also bans online sports gambling. Lawmakers claimed the ban was passed to make the state compliant with the Federal Wire Act. Originally approved in 1961, the act specifically called out only sports betting and was a federal effort to limit betting on sports over the telephone at a time the government was targeting mafia-run sports betting rings.
Rousso says the ban doesn't put the state in compliance with the Federal Wire Act as it claims to do. He claims that instead, it protects Washington's own in-state gambling industry, which includes live card rooms and casinos that contribute to state revenues. Play online poker.
The complaint details seven points illustrating why the Washington State law is unconstitutional. It also calls out that the author of the original Internet Gambling bill, State Sen. Margarita Prentice, received contributions from the Washington casinos, alleging that these companies "were the intended and/or actual beneficiaries of SB 6613."
Rousso is seeking a declaratory judgment against the bill, which would render it void and unenforceable.
Susan Arland, spokeswoman for the Washington Gambling Commission, said commission lawyers have not seen the lawsuit and would comment only after they had read it. "We don't have anything to say just yet," she said.
Rousso's effort to challenge the state Internet Gambling ban for online poker follows an earlier effort this year by Washington State Rep. Chris Strow, R-Whidbey Island to exclude internet gambling played from a person's home from being a felony.
He introduced House Bill 1243 on Jan 15, 2007 which has not gone farther than its first reading in the House, according to Washington State Legislature records.
If you missed your chance to bust out one of the infamous members of the Hendon Mob at the World Series of Poker, rest assured: your time will come again.
Like, say, the end of July.
Hosted by Full Tilt Poker, the "Hendon Mob Shootout" will run from July 26-29, with a shot at $500,000 in prize money, each of the members of the Hendon Mob and an exclusive $8,000 prize package.
One event will run per day, each hosted by a different Mobster.
Joe Beevers gets Thursday, July 26, with a 2 p.m. (EDT) $100+$9 No-Limit Hold'em poker tournament with a $125,000 guarantee.
Ram Vaswani gets Friday, July 27, with a 2 p.m. (EDT) $100+$9 HA tournament with a $50k guarantee.
Ross Boatman is your host on Saturday, July 28, with a 2 p.m. (EDT) $50+$5 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys tournament with a $75k guarantee. Play route 66 poker.
And the elder statsmen of the Mob, Barny Boatman, wraps the shootout up on Sunday, July 29 with a No-Limit Hold'em poker tourney. Buy-in is $300+$22 and action goes at 2 p.m. (EDT), with the guarantee at $250k.
The winners of each tournament then meet in a four-player shootout at 2 p.m. (EDT) on Sunday, August 5. Download poker wallpapers.
The champ there walks away with the Shootout title and the $8,000 package, which includes a $5,000 (£2,500) buy in to the Great British Poker Tour Main Event in Bristol, England, $3,000 in spending money, dinner with the Mob in London before the event and a private limo to bring you to and from Bristol.
If you're not in the mood for buying in to the daily tournaments, you can also satellite in for as little as $4+40¢ or 50 Full Tilt Points.
Poker legend Doyle Brunson and young guns David Williams and Justin Bonomo are all playing today at the 2007 World Series of Poker Tournaments.
Event #49 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em - A man with a mouthful of a name, Chandrasekhar Billavara (heretofore known as "C-Bills") outlasted the field of the third largest poker tournament in history to take home $722,914 for first place, a Corum watch, and the WSOP gold bracelet. C-Bills. Play route 66 poker.
Event #50 - $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha - We posted earlier about Doyle Brunson chasing his 11th bracelet, so check that post out for more details. Final table begins at 2pm PDT.
Event #51 - $1,000 SHOE - Final table is set and ready to go. Adam Geyer is the chip leader. Play begins at 3pm PDT. Download poker wallpapers.
Event #52 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em with Rebuys - We also wrote about this event earlier, so go read about Team Bodog's performance in the one-of-a-kind WSOP event. Justin and DW begin play again at 2pm today. Looks like the chip counts have been revised for the start of Day 2, so go check out PokerNews.com for updated results. Play $500 match poker bonus.
Stay tuned for more live updates and coverage from the 2007 World Series of Poker.
There are still qualifying seats available for Scandinavia's first televised high-stakes cash game. PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters - The Game will take place in London between August 13 and 17.
