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ckingusc wins the WCOOP

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A very dramatic final table took place in the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars, with many swings and bad beats taking place. The players agreed a chop with 5 players remaining. Here are the details of the agreement:

StaffBryanS [Host]: ckingusc: $1,065,432
StaffBryanS [Host]: liberace: $1,375,249
StaffBryanS [Host]: AJKHoosier1: $782,542
StaffBryanS [Host]: ShoesRDurrty: $801,153
StaffBryanS [Host]: Markush13: $961,718

They carried on playing with ckingusc picking up the win and the extra $200,000 left on the table

1st: ckingusc - $1,265,432
2nd: liberace - $1,375,249
3rd: AJKHoosier1 - $782,542
4th: Markush13 - $961,718
5th: ShoesRDurrty - $801,153

stevesbets takes down $25,500 Buy-in Event

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

WCOOP $25,500 Heads-up Event

1 stevesbets United States $560,000.00
2 ElkY United Kingdom $320,000.00
3 zivziv Israel $160,000.00
4 GavinGriffin United States $160,000.00
5 LadyMaverick United States $100,000.00
6 VictorRamdin United States $100,000.00
7 PAW717 United States $100,000.00
8 brianm15 United States $100,000.00

$10K WCOOP Event

Friday, September 5th, 2008

WCOOP Event 5 - NL Holdem

A great event to look forward to is Event 5 of the WCOOP on PokerStars on 7th Sept. This is the high roller $10,300 buy-in NLHE.  Standard table size of 9 players at a table.

Currently there are 36 entrants, 13 of which are from Team PokerStars itself.  Those entrants are as follows:

aakkari (Team PokerStars)
Allingomes
Bebop86
Born2Dogbaby
ChadBrownPRO
Dariominieri (Team PokerStars)
DOTTT
Exclusive (Team PokerStars)
GavinGriffin (Team PokerStars)
Goral
holla @ yoboy
HouseeLover
jcamby33
John Duthie (Team PokerStars)
Katja Thater (Team PokerStars)
klslcz
Kravchenko (Team Pokerstars)
LadyMaverick (Team PokerStars)
LucaPagano (Team PokerStars)
MiniTilt
Money800 (Team PokerStars)
Moorman1
nofingclue11
snake8484
stevesbets
stevejpa (Team PokerStars)
stpauli111
taktloss47
Telefonkiosk
THE__D__RY
tjbentham
Tom McEvoy (Team PokerStars)
Tulkaz
VictorRamdin (Team PokerStars)
William

Each player gets 25,000 starting chips and the blind speed is 30 mins per level, starting at 25/50

FTOPS Results

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The FTOPS on Full Tilt is in full swing. Here are the results so far:-

Event #1
Wednesday August 6th 21:00 ET
$200 + $16
NL Hold ‘em $1,000,000
Entrants : 5,779
Winner: GARFIELD25

Event #2
Thursday
August 7th 14:00 ET
$240 + $16
PL Omaha/8 Knockout $200,000
Entrants: 1,138
Winner: Teledonk

Event #3
Thursday August 7th 21:00 ET
$200 + $16
NL Hold ‘em 4 x Shootout 6-Max $250,000
Entrants : 1,296
Winner: CapTinBisKuiT

Event #4
Friday August 8th 14:00 ET
$300 + $22
NL Hold ‘em 1 rebuy and 1 add-on $600,000
Entrants : 970
Winner: ryanghall

Event #5
Friday August 8th 21:00 ET
$200 + $16
Stud $100,000
Entrants: 581
Winner: dread noughts

Event #6
Saturday August 9th 14:00 ET
$500 + $35
PL Omaha 6-Max $300,000
Entrants: 794
Winner: chipwizard1

Event #7
Saturday August 9th 16:30 ET
$100 + $9
NL Hold ‘em Rebuy $500,000
Entrants : 1,961
Winner: bizzleraises

Event #8
Sunday August 10th 14:00 ET
$240 + $16
NL Hold ‘em 6-Max Knockout $500,000
Entrants: 3,007
Winner: ryanbluf

Event #9
Sunday August 10th 16:00 ET
$500 + $35
NL Hold ‘em Heads Up $500,000
Entrants : 1,322
Winner: tedsfishfry

Event #10
Sunday August 10th 18:00 ET
$300 + $22
NL Hold ‘em $1,500,000
Entrants: 4,985
Winner: Harlindo

WSOP Steps

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

WSOP Steps on PokerStars

These are a lot of fun, and a good way to attempt to qualify for the WSOP Main Event.

Each step is a 9-seater Sit-and-go

WSOP Step 1
$7.50 Buy-in
1st = Advance to Step 2
2nd = Advance to Step 2
3rd = Repeat Step 1
4th = $1.50 cash

WSOP Step 2
1st = Advance to Step 3
2nd = Advance to Step 3
3rd = Repeat Step 2
4th = Repeat Step 2
5th = Back to Step 1

WSOP Step 3
1st = Advance to Step 4
2nd = Advance to Step 4
3rd = Repeat Step 3
4th = Repeat Step 3
5th = Repeat Step 3

WSOP Step 4
1st = Advance to Step 5
2nd = Advance to Step 5
3rd = Repeat Step 4
4th = Back to Step 3
5th = Back to Step 3
6th = Back to Step 2

WSOP Step 5
1st = Advance to Step 6
2nd = Advance to Step 6
3rd = Repeat Step 5
4th = Repeat Step 5
5th = Back to Step 4
6th = Back to Step 4

WSOP Step 6
1st = $12,500 WSOP Main Event Package (Entry and Expenses)
2nd = $1500 Cash
3rd = $1500 Cash
4th = $1000 Cash
5th = $1000 Cash
6th = $500 Cash

If you dont want to start at step 1, you can join at a later step. For example you can buy-in directly into Step 2 for $27.00

Schmidl89 wins PokerStars Turbo Takedown

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The 12,000 player entry limit was indeed met, and after just over 9 hours of play Schmidl90 took down the PokerStars Turbo Takedown for May

1st Schmidl89 $100,000
2nd Pokerguden $60,000
3rd L_Sprewell $40,000
4th biggboss120 $32,500
5th nevada_nl $25,000

A notable finish for ch0ppy in 17th (a former PokerStars Sunday Million winner), cashing $2500

The unluckiest man of the evening title goes to kendo217, who finished on the bubble in 4001st place (particularly annoying no doubt in such a wide-payment (1/3 of field) system).

None other than crosscourtbh (poker nuts will remember him) finished one further out in 4002nd place

Turbo Takedown of Stars

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The first of the planned monthly “Turbo Takedown” tournaments on PokerStars is this evening. As we speak only 500 out of the 12,000 spots are left, so it looks very likely to fill completely

Out of the 12,000 entrants, 4000 get paid. A whopping 1/3 of the field.

The buy-in is 5000 FPPs (Frequent Player Points), and there is a $1,000,000 Prizepool. The 1st prize is $100,000

As I say, this is going to be a monthly event, so if you dont make it tonight, look out for it next month

PokerStars raises money for China

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

PokerStars are very generously matching all donations by its players towards the relief effort following the recent earthquake and devistation in China. You can donate by simply registering for a pseudo tournament in the PokerStars Special Tournament Lobby. You can donate anything from $1 up to $100 using this method. PokerStars will then match all amounts donated and send the money to The Red Cross.

Some of the players who have very generously donated $100 include

DumpingKGB
aakkari
barryg1
eisenhower1
Feb19
Genius28
Iftarii
luckybacon
MattSuspect
Paolo69
pezi2000
Remi1973
SirWatts
taktloss47
Tmay420
ViennaNights
zangbezan24

Well done to those and others for the philanthropic spirit. Our thoughts are with all those in China affected.

Halfrek wins second FTOPS title

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

FTOPS VIII - Great series for player Halfrek

Halfrek wins FTOPS Event 11 ($1050 Buy-in NLHE) and FTOPS Event 21 ($2620 Buy-in NLHE, 2-day event)

FTOPS Final Table

When they arrived at the final table Halfrek was positioned ominously, but the chip lead was held be long-term chip leader philivey567.  Whilst philivey567 busted out in 4th, Halfrek was there for the full duration.  Here is the final hand

Full Tilt Poker Game #6473542521: FTOPS Event #21 (47445419), Table 59 - 15000/30000 Ante 4000 - No Limit Hold’em - 22:44:14 ET - 2008/05/18
Seat 1: Halfrek (2,681,910)
Seat 7: JRShaffy (1,813,090)
Halfrek antes 4,000
JRShaffy antes 4,000
JRShaffy posts the small blind of 15,000
Halfrek posts the big blind of 30,000
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
JRShaffy raises to 85,000
Halfrek has 15 seconds left to act
Halfrek raises to 275,000
JRShaffy has 15 seconds left to act
JRShaffy raises to 589,000
Halfrek has 15 seconds left to act
Halfrek has requested TIME
Halfrek calls 314,000
*** FLOP *** [Qs Kd 2h]
Halfrek checks
JRShaffy has 15 seconds left to act
JRShaffy bets 500,000
Halfrek raises to 2,088,910, and is all in
JRShaffy calls 720,090, and is all in
Halfrek shows [Ts Ks]
JRShaffy shows [9c Qd]
Uncalled bet of 868,820 returned to Halfrek
*** TURN *** [Qs Kd 2h] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs Kd 2h 6h] [Ac]
Halfrek shows a pair of Kings
JRShaffy shows a pair of Queens
Halfrek wins the pot (3,626,180) with a pair of Kings
JRShaffy stands up
Halfrek stands up
Cubs 217 (Observer): 2 jerseys omg!!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,626,180 | Rake 0
Board: [Qs Kd 2h 6h Ac]
Seat 1: Halfrek (big blind) showed [Ts Ks] and won (3,626,180) with a pair of Kings
Seat 7: JRShaffy (small blind) showed [9c Qd] and lost with a pair of Queens

899 Entrants - $2650 Buy-in

Result

1. Halrek $516,925
2. JRShaffy $325,887.50
3. IfHeDiesHeDies $241,606.25
4. philivey567 $185,418.75
5. binrich $140,468.75
6. ckingusc $101,137.50
7. TheStein $67,425
8. lilfishy897 $52,591.50
9. Hoss_TBF $38,207.50
A notable finish for PearlJammed in 22nd

Tmay420 wins $215 PLO

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Tim West (aka Tmay420) is one of the best young talents in online poker.  Last night he added to his increasing number of impressive tournament wins, by taking down the weekly PLO on PokerStars.  It is a $215 buy-in and 111 entrants fought it out.

1st Tmay420 $6,660
2nd Summit $4,440
3rd Afferrare $2,541.80
4th Spokey $1,776
5th RandALLin $1,443

This takes Tmay420’s tournament winnings on PokerStars up to an impressive $1,188,306 ($289,240 of which is profit).  Keep up the good work Tim.