Shannon Elizabeth represents MansionPoker.com
January 16, 2008
GIBRALTAR — (PRESS RELEASE) — Shannon Elizabeth will be flying the flag at the felt for Mansionpoker.com in a bid for poker fame and a guaranteed $1,000,000 first prize at the prestigious 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event, scheduled from January 14 to 20, 2008.
On Tuesday, 15 January (Day 1, Flight 2), the Hollywood actress makes her debut in the Mansionpoker.com logo ‘Down Under’ at Crown Casino in Melbourne, where the Southern Hemisphere’s richest Poker event, the Aussie Millions, will be hard fought over five days of tough tournament play.
A popular fixture on the international Poker circuit, Elizabeth first came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie.
The Texan beauty has proved that she is more than just a pretty Poker face at the Tables, having showed her Hold’em “cred” on more than one occasion.
Most recently, Elizabeth was seen on the small screen steeling her way through some formidable competition to make the semi-finals of the 2007 NBC National Heads Up Championship, claiming the ’scalps’ of multiple WSOP bracelet winners Barry Greenstein, Jeff Madsen and Humberto Brenes in the process.
Elizabeth joins forces with Mansionpoker.com to lead Team Mansion’s fighting shot at earning the 2008 Aussie Millions Championship trophy, the dollars and the glory.
New ‘Superuser’ allegations raised, this time against Ultimate Bet poker
January 15, 2008
Right on the heels of the release of the KGC report detailing the involvement of Absolute Poker in the largest reported cheating scandal in online poker history, a new set of allegations is making the rounds at the major online poker forums. This time, the room in question is Ultimate Bet, but the alleged method of cheating - a superuser account that has access to player hole card data - seems to be more or less the same.
This story is in a very preliminary stage, and lacks the blatantly obvious evidence that the Absolute story featured. Also, there’ been no official comment from anyone over at UB on this story as of yet.
The allegations center around a player with the handle ‘NioNio’, who reportedly beat several of the top online pros at high stakes no limit on UB with what would be considered an unconventional style at best. The initial allegations are summarized, along with the available data, in this thread on 2+2. Excerpt from dlpnyc21’s post:
PokerStars
January 13, 2008
PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world.
PokerStars’ satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker, as well as the 2004 champion, Greg “Fossilman” Raymer. Those two now act as spokespeople for the cardroom, as does 2005 World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem, also a regular player on the site. In March 2007, poker room manager Lee Jones announced his retirement, effective April 1. His successor has yet to be named.
Launched in September 2001, PokerStars is owned by a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises. With its company headquarters on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, PokerStars is also licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. Since relocating to the UK Crown dependency, PokerStars has been the subject of financial media speculation regarding a possible IPO or merger with a publicly listed company. Analysts estimated its market value would be approximately $3 billion (US), which would have made the company one of the world’s largest privately held gambling companies.
PokerStars overtook PartyPoker as the world’s largest online poker room at around the time the U.S. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Many sites, including PartyPoker, immediately suspended business with U.S. gamblers, while others, including PokerStars, did not. On May 19, 2007, PokerStars dealt their 10,000,000,000th hand.
PokerStars is the headline sponsor of the European Poker Tour. PokerStars sponsored an event on the World Poker Tour called the PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure. The World Poker Tour no longer stages this event, so it is now a stop on the European Poker Tour. In 2005, eGaming Review named PokerStars.com the “Best Poker Operator of the Year”.
PokerStars offers eight varieties of poker games: Texas hold ‘em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo (8 or Better), Stud, Stud Hi/Lo (8 or Better), Razz, five-card draw, and deuce to seven triple draw. HORSE and HOSE, “mixed games” that rotate through several of the above, are also offered. Players can participate in real money games ranging from $.01/$.02 (micro limits) up to $1000/$2000.
Pokerstars offers hand history files for analysis, discussion and conversion using a poker hand converter.
The home of the World Championship of Online Poker, the largest online poker tournament series in the world, PokerStars has over ten thousand players playing real money ring games daily, plus thousands more playing real money tournaments or free-play games. During peak operating times, this often adds up to over 100,000 players online simultaneously. PokerStars.com’s play money players mix with those logging in from PokerStars.net, a free play-only site without real money games. The site also hosts the Sunday Million, a weekly tournament (generally with a $215 buy-in) with a guaranteed million dollar prize pool. On July 8, 2007, PokerStars debuted a new weekly event, the $11 buy-in Sunday Hundred Grand, which regularly attracts the tournament maximum 20,000 players, making it the largest participated-in real-money poker tournament ever. This total surpassed the previous record of 10,894 players who participated in the May 20, 2007 Sunday Million tournament.
PokerStars sponsors several professional players including Moneymaker, Raymer, Hachem, Bertrand Grospellier, Isabelle Mercier, John Duthie, Lee Nelson, Luca Pagano, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, Noah Boeken, Andre Akkari, Hevad Khan, Dario Minieri, Raymond Rahme, Tuan Lam, as well as WSOP bracelet winners Barry Greenstein, Humberto Brenes, Bill Chen, 1983 WSOP champion Tom McEvoy, Daniel Negreanu, and Katja Thater.
Titan Poker Winter Poker league
January 11, 2008
Titan Poker, the largest online poker on the iPoker Network has announced its most recent addition in a series of promotions prepared to warm up the winter. Titan Poker Winter Poker League features $60,000 in total extra prize money. The Titan Poker Winter Poker League will run on January 14, 2008 and all the registered players are welcome. Four poker tournaments will be staged every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, with buy-ins limits, giving online poker players different options with equal chances to win the prizes.
Each Winter Poker League tournament will qualify five players; each player will receive points and they will be ranked on a special leader board. By the end of the Winter Poker League, the top 200 players on the leader board will participate in an exclusive $50,000 Freeroll tournament on March 30th, 2008 and the individual winners of the Winter Poker League tournaments will play in a $10,000 Winners Freeroll on March 31st, 2008.
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Enters Day 2
January 8, 2008
The European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) enters its second day today (technically its third day of play), and, for the first time during the tournament, the playing field will be combined after playing two day 1s.
events. This popular event has been a World Poker Tour staple for years. PokerStars, though, owns the EPT, and pulled this signature event into its fold for 2008.
This is by far the largest event in the EPT’s four-season history. Last year’s grand final attracted 706 players. If this event remained a WPT event, it would also have been the largest WPT event ever, beating the number of entrants at the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic by 345 (791 played in that event).
Keith McFadden Leads at the End of Day One at the PartyPoker IPC
January 7, 2008
At the close of play last night, 132 players remained at the end of an exciting first day’s play at the Irish Poker Championships which are underway in Galway. The average chip stack was around 22,578 and the overnight chip leader was Keith McFadden who had amassed over 100,000 in chips. Notable ‘big name’ players still in the hunt included Mike Sexton, Rory Liffey and Robert Williamson III, who were all well placed to launch an assault on day two.
The pre-tournament favourite, Marcel Luske, was eliminated from the tournament two hours before the end of the first day’s play, arguably paying the price for not raising pre-flop.
Warm Up with the $20,080 Added New Year’s Freezeout at MANSIONPOKER.com
January 3, 2008
There’s never been a better way to wipe away the winter blues and with New Year’s Eve done and dusted for another year, this micro-limit buy-in event is the perfect remedy for one too many “Old Lang Syne’s”.MANSIONPOKER.COM kicks off 2008 in fine form adding a stellar $20,080 to the pot and giving players thousands more reasons to celebrate the New Year. Players looking for an excuse to squirrel away indoors for a few hours should indulge their passion for online Poker with the $20,080 Happy New Year Freezeout tournament.
The January 2 tournament costs just $1+0.10 to enter, so there’s nothing to lose, and at least a share of more than $20,080 to gain - with barely a dent to the bankroll.
Players receive a 3000 chip start bank, and with 15 minute blinds, it’s a nice slow structure that should suit the more advanced online poker enthusiast.
But with only a $1+0.10 investment at risk, new players should be equally quick to dig into their loose change for the buy-in. Any player with a real money account is eligible to enter, and for less than the cost of a cup of coffee, why miss out?
On January 2, blow away the cobwebs and the last of that lingering New Year’s Eve hangover in the $20,080 Happy New Year Freezeout tournament at MANSIONPOKER. Some red hot poker action will have players warmed up in no time, and ready to face 2008 with a winning smile.
Make it a New Year’s resolution today, to play more and win more with MANSIONPOKER.
A New Year and Playing Poker for the Children
January 2, 2008
Happy New Years everyone ! I hope you all had a safe night and we wish you all a prosperous year . Today Doyles Room is kicking off 2008 with an avalanche of free money. They are offering not 1, not 2, not even 5, but 10 Freerolls throughout the day.
Try your hand at Hold’Em, Omaha, 5 Card Draw, and 7 Card Stud. They are running two totally free $500 Hold’Em Freerolls at 3pm and 9pm ET. So if you’re sleeping off last nights festivities, you won’t miss out on the full day of events. So make sure you have Doyles Room and good luck at the tables today .
I want to remind everyone too that this Saturday we have our 5th Street Charity Ball to help the Make a Wish Foundation . As most you know , this goes to helping terminally ill children .
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