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1 of the November 9 Wins $45,000 this Sunday at Full Tilt

Poker News Man — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:53:51 +0000

One of the 9 players in the final table for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, to be played on November 7, just won $45,000 in an online poker tournament. The player is Joe Cada, a 21-year-old from the Detroit area who plays online every Sunday. The tournament was a $150 rebuy tournament at Full Tilt Poker, in which Cada took second place. He adds this $45,000 prize to the $28,214 he won in two 2009 WSOP side events.

And this is on top of the minimum $1,263,602 Joe makes for making it to the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table. Like all of the “November Nine”, including the crowd and odds-makers’ favorite Phil Ivey, Joe is hoping for that $8,546,435 top prize

Joe says that between now and Nov 7, besides playing online every Sunday, he will also be entering the WPT Legends of Poker event at the Bell Gardens, California Bicycle Casino from August 22 to 26.

Poker Stars Hosting Charity Tournament for Africa

Poker News Man — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:20:39 +0000

PokerStars has announced that it will be hosting a charity poker event called “Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament”. This will be a star-filled event now added to the weeklong schedule of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Monaco, with the money raised to go towards addressing the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

One day before the PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final Main Event, on April 27, 2009, a slew of poker stars will come out in droves to support this great cause, including members of Team PokerStars itself, like Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso, and Daniel Negreanu. The No Limit Texas Holdem event has a €4,000 buy-in and the winner of the event will receive a free seat in the PokerStars EPT Bahamas Event in January 2010.

Ante Up for Africa, the organization running the event, has held two similar charity poker tournaments in the past, both as part of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Full Tilt Poker WSOP Satellites Begin

Poker News Man — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:03:29 +0000

Full Tilt Poker has commenced its 2009 season of World Series of Poker satellites and qualifiers.

For $200 + $16 up to 81 players at a time can compete in a twice-daily shootout (at 3:30 pm and 9:30 pm ET) with the top prize being a seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker main event. For a varying range of buy-ins and stakes, Full Tilt will also be running 5 weekly WSOP qualifiers, one each on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

There will also be ways to win one of 50 free seats in the 2009 World Series of Poker main event for free, with an ongoing series of daily freerolls. Win a round 1 freeroll and then place in the top two in a round 2 freeroll and you’ll qualify to compete in the Main Event Race Finals Freeroll held each Sunday. A $12,000 WSOP main event prize package will be awarded to the players coming in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each.

And finally, on Sunday, June 21, Full Tilt will be running a one-time only tournament awarding $12,000 main event prize packages to the 150 top finishers. Buy-in is $500 + $35.

Party Poker WSOP Satellites are also running now to give you even more opportunities to qualify for this years Main Event. Party Poker has slightly different WSOP qualifiers and you can find more about them at this post: Party Poker WSOP.