The Dutch poker player Joeri Zandvliet, is the first to win the UK and Ireland PokerStars Poker Tour (UKIPT). Zandvliet won £ 63,200 in the poker tournament in Manchester, he also received a free place in the London event of the European Poker Tour (EPT), which is the season finale for UKIPT. Besides these 2 prizes Joeri will also get all buy-ins and expenses for the 2nd season of the UKIPT repaid by PokerStars. The 21-year-old poker online player from Utrecht came on the final table in third, it cost him 8 hours to eliminate the other nine players. The student is very pleased about his first live tournament winnings and said in an interview: “I feel very glad and happy. There were five relatively strong players at the table. What I did today, did not really work too well, but I got lucky a few times. The tournament had a very good structure and was very well organized.” There where 518 participants at the tournament among which 279 players from online poker site PokerStars. The prize pool for the event was £ 259,000.
One of the most popular and successful poker players of the United Kingdom, Julian Thew, is one of the latest to join the PokerStars family. Thew formally played poker online for William Hill, where he won many poker titles around the world, including a GUKPT title and the fourth season of the EPT Baden trophy worth € 670,000. The online poker pro from Nottingham is currently ranked 13th in the European rankings with over 2.5 million U.S. dollars in prize money to his name. Thew joins ranks with some of the best poker players in the world, including Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein and recent British PokerStars introduces Jude Ainsworth and JP Kelly. In the latest poker news he comments on his recent sponsorship, Thew said: “I’m thrilled to have been offered a spot on Team PokerStars Pro roster, and I look forward to promoting the brand on my travels throughout the year.” The number of UK poker pros that are attracted by the two major players, PokerStars and Full Tilt, has increased dramatically in the past year and with young players like James Akenhead and Chris Moorman making a name for themselves, it seems as if the future is bright for the UK poker industry.
In the latest online poker news, PokerStars has announced that they expect to have dealt 40 billion poker hands this month, they celebrate this milestone with additional rewards and added reward tournaments, including the largest ever guaranteed Sunday Million. There are cash prizes on all PokerStars cash game tables in the days preceding the 40 billionth hand. Each time a player gets dealt an one millionth hand, they win $ 40 for every Frequent Player Point (FPP) that they have earned in the last 40 hands played at that table. An additional FPP will be awarded to all players that were dealt. As an extra, the winner of the hand gets the pot doubled. When the big 40 billionth hand is dealt, all the players are rewarded with $ 400 for each FPP earned in the last 40 hands, and again the pot will be doubled. Besides the cash game prices, the PokerStars Sunday Million guaranteed prize pool of February 21 will increase to 4 million U.S. dollars.That is a record for poker online. The date also marks the 4th anniversary of the Sunday Million and will be the largest prize ever of at least $ 1,000,000 guaranteed for the first place. There will also be a $ 1 million guaranteed tournament, in honor of the 40 billionth hand. Finally, the PokerStars VIP club is also involved with the festivities, they offer their players $ 40 cash credit for only 2500 FPPs in February.
2010 Aussie Millions Main Event has a winner. Tyron Krost holds the title in Australia for the second consecutive year. The 23-year-old poker player faced of against 746 players over 5 days to take the title home. Betfair online poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi arrived in the final eight with an overwhelming chip lead of about three times more than second place Krost. However the Australian did succeed in taking out Mizzi and Annette Obrestad by finding himself on the right side of the great all-in coinflips. It was Frederick Jensen who confronted the 23-year Krost in the final heads-up. Frederik Jensen’s tournament ended when his Kr-6s was up against Krost’s Ks-9r. The two paired their king on the flop, but Jensen had a lower kicker and he found no help on the turn or river. His second place was good for 1.1 million AUD. Krost said in an interview: “This is totally unbelievable, it is beyond my wildest expectations. If it is a dream, I don’t want to wake up! It just hasn’t sunk in at all how much money I have just won. I have no idea what I am going to with it. I cashed at the World Series of poker online in 2008 but nothing like this.”
Party Gaming is one of the biggest group in online gambling industry; they own very important poker brands like partypoker and very important online casinos like partycasino and all the affclub brands. Party Gaming is a public company and the stocks lately had a great performance in the stock market itself. The fourth quarter sales of the company have raised of 32% and nevertheless trend seems to be very good still now. Thanks to the new casino online noble and many other acquisitions Party is really filling the negative gap that stroke on it at the time of the American crise.
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT) in Deauville, France is won by a largely unknown 21-year-old poker pro named Jake Cody. He defeated ‘Timex McDonald’, former WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate and Internet Poker Genie Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier in the league. He defeated a total of 767 players including many famous poker experts. Cody is from the UK and made his game playing online poker, this is the first time he played in an EPT event, a clearly delighted Cody won the first place with a prize of 730.000 pounds for his excellent victory. At the final table, East Gate was pushed back to 8th place, which continues his dubious record of never winning an EPT trophy, while “Timex” did slightly better, but was defeated in third place. Cody went heads-up against Teodor Caraba and took just under half an hour conclude the tournament. The next stop of the EPT is from 16 February to 21 February in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Full Tilt Poker has a released a new poker game this week called Poker Rush , they hope that the new variant will mean a revolution in online gambling.
The principle of Rush Poker is non-stop action. In the game, players are mixed nto a big player pool, every hand they play, they play at a new table with new opponents. If a player is dealt a sub-optimal hand, they also have access to a “Quick Fold” button that brings the player to the new table and folds the old hand automaticly. Full Tilt Pro Chris Ferguson said: “Rush Poker is the biggest innovation since poker online began on the Internet” The frenzied pace gives players the opportunity to play more hands than ever before. It is unlikely for a player to read another player, because it rarely happens you play a big hand against the same player more than once per session. Full Tilt Poker is currently offering Rush in No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha.
Bwin will strengthen its B2B division and have them adopted as a director of Peter Bertillson Bwin Poker’s subsidiary, Bwin Games AB. The former director of Boss Media has 15 years experience in the poker and gambling industry. Bertillson, the current role of Carl Klingberg take over as director of Bwin Games. Norbert Teufelberger, co-director of Bwin said: “We have convinced a true veteran of online gaming b2b business to take the challenge leading this business unit. As the market environment changes in that fast moving industry, the b2b capabilities will be key for USA and Asia but also for riding the regulation wave in Europe.” Bertilsson said in an interview: “I am very happy to take this opportunity, there have never been greater opportunities within the gambling sector than right now and bwin has a very strong position to make them happen.” Poker online will conquer the world
Glu Mobile Inc. announced the availability of their Application for iPhone and iPod of the World Series of Poker Hold’em Legend. It should hit the App store this week. Also the WSOP vice president Craig Abrahams was very happy to see the product launch. This is what he said about the launch: “We are thrilled to take the WSOP to the iPhone with Glu Mobile.” “This app is a game changer in the category and is consistent with our core strategy of taking the WSOP to all digital platforms with top production values.”
The app lets the fans of the WSOP play on their Iphone or Ipod for 25 events across Seven Casino’s. In this seven venues their are 5 Harrah’s properties so the fans will really feel like they are playing the WSOP. To make it all more realistic there are alot of features in the app. The features include, heads-up Play, hand replays, video cut scenes, listen to music from itunes and much more.
“World Series of Poker is the No. 1 brand in poker, and we are thrilled to bring iPhone and iPod touch users the most exciting, prestigious poker app available,” said Alex Galvagni, CTO & SVP Global Product Development for Glu.
“By creating a fast-paced and unique World Series of Poker gaming experience and adding new functionality with peer-to-peer multiplayer capability, the World Series of Poker Hold’em Legend App will keep players entertained for hours.” So if you want to have great fun playing poker online download the app in the apple store.
The World Series of Poker Hold’em Legend App is available for $2.99 from the App Store.
