BLUE WATER CLASSIC POKER EVENT OVERVIEW:
September 30, 2008
The Blue Water Classic Poker Event (BWC) is a six-day tournament comprised of three poker tournaments:
$150 No Limit Tournament – Tuesday, September 23, 2008
$300 No Limit Tournament – Wednesday, September 24, 2008
$750 No Limit Tournament – Thurs–Sat, September 25-27
Final Tournament - September 28, 2008
• Maximum of 100 participants per day
• The total estimated prize pool for the Blue Water Classic Poker Event is $270,000
CelebPoker.com new €250,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament
September 30, 2008
CelebPoker does it again. We have already given you hundreds of thousands of reasons to play on the hottest poker site on the internet. Now we give you 250,000 more!
€250,000 Guaranteed
On the 5th of October, we are running a €250,000 Guaranteed online Poker Tournament with a modest buy-in of €200+15. With first prize guaranteed over €53,000, this is a must play for any tournament player. Of course €215 may be more than your bankroll can afford for one tournament, therefore we have a superb satellite schedule to enable you to win your seat for very little outlay!
Flexible Satellite Schedule
Our players are our #1 priority at CelebPoker – and therefore after listening to player feedback we are running a wide variety of satellites to suit everyone’s skill and bankroll levels.
Satellites to the €250,000 Guaranteed Poker Touranment are running daily from as little as €2+.20, with a multitude of different avenues to help you win a seat. Weekly freezeout satellites are running (€32+3), with small buy-in daily rebuy satellites offering entry to the weekly final.
For tournament rebuy specialists, a weekly €20 rebuy satellite is running with 20 seats guaranteed to the €250k main event.
Remember if you can’t play the main event (or if you already have won a seat to the main event) you can win a satellite and unregister and take the tournament buy-in for future events (or just to supplement your tournament bankroll).
Over €53,000 guaranteed for lucky winner!
With more than €53,000 guaranteed for one lucky winner for one nights work, we are confident this is one event you don’t want to miss!
Paul Rodriguez to Host Poker Show at the Venetian
September 30, 2008
Debuting at The Venetian Resort, Hotel, and Casino in Las Vegas on October 22nd will be the newest show offering on the Strip: The Real Deal. Hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez, the show pits audience members against some of the top poker pros in the world with a chance for $1 million on the line.
Executive Producer Merv Adelson commented in a press release, “Paul Rodriguez was a natural choice to be the host of The Real Deal. Funny, charismatic, and engaging, he knows how to connect with an audience and keep them on the edge of their seats. With more than 20 years on the comedy circuit, Paul has a huge fan base and we’re very excited to add his level of star power to our already exciting ensemble.” The Venetian already hosts the Broadway show Phantom of the Opera, along with Blue Man Group, Jersey Boys, and Wayne Brady. It offers one of the most diverse entertainment lineups in Las Vegas.
WPT Canada premiers on Rogers Sportsnet
September 30, 2008
Rogers Sportsnet will begin exclusive broadcasts of a four-part poker series next week featuring WPT Canada, the first ever Canada-specific World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament series. Well-known Canadian sports announcer, Jim Van Horne, will host the shows alongside poker pro “Cowboy” Kenna James.
The first of the four one-hour episodes will premiere the week of September 1 across Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Ontario, Sportsnet West and Sportsnet Pacific.
The WPT Canada TV series will highlight all-new high stakes action from the WPT Canada Coast to Coast Championships, a nine-day tournament series combining seven different poker events held at The River Rock Casino in Vancouver. Almost 2,000 players and pros traveled from around Canada and North America to compete for a piece of the $1.6 million total prize pool, a WPT Canada title and a chance at poker stardom.
The WPT Canada series kicks off with a two-part final table from the Coast to Coast Championships $1,000 three-day Bounty Event which saw 439 competitors battle for a seat in the first televised WPT Canada event and the $92,120 first place prize. Viewers will also see amateurs try to knock out poker pros like Brad “Yukon” Booth, Gavin Smith, Jody Trainer, Davidson Matthew, Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari and “Cowboy” Kenna James to earn the cash “Bounty” on their heads. The first episode from this two-part show begins broadcasting Monday, September 1 followed by the second episode starting Wednesday, September 10. Check local listings for all broadcast times and dates.
Additional WPT Canada episodes will feature the Coast to Coast Championships Main Event final table, introducing six fresh faces from across North America, all vying to clinch the first WPT Canada title and the $224,100 first place prize.
Bloch Sits Atop World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Leaderboard
September 30, 2008
By the close of Day 1B, many World Series of Poker Europe Main Event participants turned their attention to Justin “BoostedJ” Smith and Daniel Negreanu, who occupied the top two spots in the chip counts after leading each of their respective Day 1’s. By the time Day 2 fired up, the announcment of the prize pool seemed to turn the focus to the task at hand.
After the second of two Day 1 flights had wrapped, just 179 players still had a place in the chip counts. When it was announced that the GBP 3,630,000 ($6,540,630 USD) prize pool would be only handed out to 36 players, players began to make their move.
Both “BoostedJ” and Negreanu bagged more chips than the night before. While they won’t be looking down at the rest of the field, they each managed to sit above the 200,000 chip mark, which is good for 8th and 9th-place, respectively.
Today was a big day for the Americans. To start day three, the four biggest stacks will sit in front of players from across the pond, while only two of the top ten chip stacks hail from outside the U.S. The biggest stack belongs to the overdue Andy Bloch. Nobody has appeared at as many WSOP final tables as Bloch without a win. He’ll enter Day 3 as the only player in the 300,000 club. Right behind bloch is online phenom Brian “sbrugby” Townsend. “sbrugby” accrued most of his chips after flopping a set of aces and taking a 250,000 pot away from a player married to his A-K.
Doug Smith
September 29, 2008
CGN: When did you decide to play poker for a living?
Doug Smith: About this time last year when I was just about done of my accounting degree at UPEI and I really did not want to go back, there was so much out in the world that I wanted to see and do, I even thought about working in the trades as a carpenter or even just traveling for a year. So I didn’t go back to school in September and worked at building a park in my home town of Hunter River until February. When my cousin from Vancouver was home for Christmas he said that if I ever wanted to move there was lots of work in Vancouver. Read more
Day 2 at World Series of Poker Europe Main Event
September 29, 2008
After a somewhat small-ish turnout for the first day of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, stragglers swarmed the Empire Casino in London for the second of two Day 1 starting flights. By the time registration had closed, 203 players had ponied up the GBP 10,000 ($18,100 USD) buy-in, a big jump from the 159 who took part in Day 1A.
But at the end of the day, everyone was looking up to Daniel Negreanu. “Kid Poker” laid low while Rosen drove the chip counts, only to sweep in during the day’s closing levels to grab the lead. Key reads and traps lead Negreanu to pick up larges pots on jacks full and a set of sixes in just a matter of hands. Those pots put Negreanu over the 100,000 mark and he never looked back.
Free Blackjack Bowl II Super Bowl Tournament
September 23, 2008
For the next 21 weeks leading up to the NFL Super Bowl XLIII, blackjack aficionados can compete in a progressive multi-player blackjack tournament challenge to win weekly and monthly Blackjack Bowl cash prizes and free seats to the main event, the Blackjack Bowl II , to be held on Wednesday, January 28th 2009 with a total prize purse of $21,000.
BookMaker.com Casino will host the real-time tournaments , producing 3 qualifiers or playoffs each week. The entry fees will build progressively throughout the week, beginning with the first qualifier set for $22, then $33, and $44 as players play to earn FREE SEATS into the weekly main round, where they’ll compete for $1,121 eachSunday night.
