The 2007 World Championship of Online Poker is in full swing at PokerStars.com. Boasting the largest prize pool of any online poker tournament series, the WCOOP is slated to end on Sunday, September 30th, with a prize guarantee of $5,000,000 in the NL Hold’em Main Event.
So far, six of the 23 events have ended, with Greg “FossilMan” Raymer the winner of yesterday’s Event 6 — the $320 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys — beating out 771 other entrants. Other Event 6 players included Daniel Negreanu, John Duthie, and Humberto Brenes.
Event 6 Results:
1st Place: Greg ‘FossilMan’ Raymer, $168,362.40
2nd Place: O.Mustang, $97,022.40
3rd Place: MrSmits, $64,919.40
4th Place: rutasasha, $49,938
5th Place: -db-, $40,663
6th Place: PlayaAAK8, $32,103
7th Place: Rsa87, $23,542.20
8th Place: Rage of Fury, $15,694.80
9th Place: Oswaldo, $9,279.20
There are still 17 events remaining, with one currently underway. The full WCOOP schedule can be found here.
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) has come and gone, and with it, has launched a fresh face into the poker spotlight. Previously unsure of how the tournament would be received by the poker world, there are no longer doubts that it was a major success for the World Series of Poker, for host Betfair.com and for young online poker enthusiasts around the world.
If you’ve been keeping tabs on the tournament updates, you already know that it was won by 18-year old Annette Obrestad from Norway. Building up her poker savvy online, she’s become a serious force to reckon with. Beating out the top players in the game, Obrestad walked away with over $2,000,000 as the youngest player to claim a WSOP title, and first female to win the main event. Both records should prove highly difficult to beat in the years to come.
The buzz about the tournament’s success now predicts next year may be even stronger, bringing out only the most skilled of players — many of these young, new players gaining their best experience online, like Obrestad. The proof is in the pudding that just about anyone, male or female, young or old, can translate their online poker playing skills into successful real-world table play, and win big. Do you have what it takes to sweep WSOP Europe off its feet next year? You could be the next big star in Europe, competing against the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, and Johnny Chan…and winning.
Additional Results:
2nd Place: John Tabatabai, £570,150
3rd Place: Matthew McCullough, £381,910
4th Place: Oyvind Riisen, £257,020
5th Place: Johannes Korsar, £191,860
6th Place: Dominic Kay, £152,040
7th Place: Magnus Persson, £114,030
8th Place: Theo Jorgensen, £85,070
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Phil Hellmuth won his 11th gold bracelet yesterday in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. Hellmuth’s 11th bracelet puts him ahead of both Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson who have 10 gold bracelets each. The 2,700 person field was the largest tournament that The “Poker Brat” has ever won proving once again that he has a special talent when it comes to negotiating large fields of clueless amateurs. Hellmuth takes home a little over $600,000 for his efforts. Hellmuth defeated Andy Philacheck ($394,594) heads-up for the title. Rick Fuller finished third ($247,518), Morgan Machina fourth ($161,425), and Scott Clements came in fifth ($112,997).
In a classy move both Chan and Brunson personally awarded Hellmuth his 11th bracelet. I have a sneaking suscpicion that Chan and/or Brunson will get their 11th at the 2007 World Series of Poker as well. Brunson is one of the leaders after day one of $5,000 Limit Hold’em Event.
Allen Cunningham won his ffth World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $5,000 pot limit hold’em event this weekend. Cunningham outlasted 400 other players and took home nearly half a million dollars. It was a rough journey for Cunningham who had to outlast a final table that included Gavin Griffin, Humberto Benes, Keith Lehr and final table chip leader Jeff Lisandro.
Cunningham finished off secon place finisher Lisandro when he spiked a king on the flop and his K9 bested Lisandro’s pocket Queens.
The final 9 finished as follows:
1st Allen Cunningham $487,287
2nd Jeffrey Lisandro $294,260
3rd Humberto Brenes $197,348
4th Jason Lester $132,813
5th Joe Patrick $99,142
6th Travis Rice $78,565
7th Gavin Griffin $58,924
8th Keith Lehr $43,959
9th Alan Jaffray $31,800
This is the 3rd consecutive year that Cunningham has won a bracelet and he joins the elite 5 bracelet club which includes Phil Ivey, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Layne Flack, Berry Johnston, Gary Berlang, and Ted Forrest.
Full Tilt Poker is perhaps the best known of the online poker rooms. It also I prefer playing. Full Tilt Poker is one of the few options available to players in the United States. As such, the site has been growing as other sites have opted out of the United States. Full Tilt Poker is best known for its stable of professionals known as “Team Full Tilt”. Some of the best players in the world are members of Team Full Tilt Poker including “The Professor” Howard Lederer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Eric Lindgren, Phil Gordon, Erik Seidel, Clonie Gowen, Andy Bloch, and Mike “the Mouth” Matusow. This is by far the highest ranked group of players to endorse any poker room. As a “team they have earned more than thirty WSOP gold championship bracelets.
Full Tilt Poker Site Limits and Rake
Full Tilt Poker has a wide range of limits which should satisfy most players. No Limit Holdem limits start at $0.05/$0.10 and go as high as $500/$1000. Omaha High/Low, Stud High/Low, and Stud limits reach as high as $1000/$2000. Full Tilt is one of the few site with many Razz games with limits that start at $0.25/$0.50 on the low end and top out as high as $1000/$2000. For the low end $0.25/$0.50 games the rake is very respectible, with caps at only $0.50. For the $1/$2 games the maximum rake is $1. On the higher limit tables the max rake is $3.
Full Tilt Poker is a High Traffic Site
Full Tilt averages about 10,000 poker players a day with as many as 40,000 players playing at peak times on about 10,000 tables. The site is always filled with players and you can find pretty much any game you want when you want. At its busiest you may find there are some queues for certain tables but most table games/limits limit the waiting.
Tournaments on Full Tilt Poker
There are many different kinds of tournaments at Full Tilt inlcuding Sit and Go’s of the multi-table and single table variety and many many freerolls. The World Series of Poker has begun to offer mixed game tournaments the last couple of years and now Full Tilt offers mixed games in tournament format as well. You have the option of entering a mixed Holdem game or HORSE tournament.
Full Tilt Poker Software
Full Tilt Poker offers a great software package. The software is highly customizable and has a myriad of settable options. You can select your choice of avatars, background themes and color pallettes. One of my favorite software features is the clock in the lobby which helps you know when tournaments are starting for your particular time zone.
Full Tilt Poker also has a Mac option, which is great news for all of us Mac fans out there. It is by far the most stable mac option for online poker that exists today. One of my favorite features is watching members of Team Full Tilt play. The chat feature gives you the chance to talk strategy or just chit chat with the Pros.
Full Tilt Poker is extremly busy site. Fortunately the software is robust enough to handle the busiest of days. The software copes with the madness quite well and the load times are relatively quick even with the great animations. The software uses industry leading 256-bit cryptography which ensures the security of your information and the reduces cheating.
Some of my other favorite things about Full Tilt are:
Full Tilt Points which you can use on gifts fromt the FUll Tilt Store, or on freeroll tournament entries.
Hand History - The software allows you to check the last 50 hands you played.
Notes - One of the keys to great online play is to learn how your opponent plays. The quick and handy notes feature allows you to do just that.
Stats - Full Tilt provides simple to understand % stats for given situations.
Find a Player -This is great for tracking down friends or fish.
Table View - Full Tilt offers two different table views: Classic or Racetrack.
Full Tilt Poker Customer Service
Fortunately, I have not had to call the Full Tilt Poker customer service or technical support departments. There are now advertised phone numbers for either so it appears that only email contact is allowed in dealing with Full Tilt Poker support.
Full Tilt Poker Bonus & Promotions
Full Tilt offers a $600 sign up bonus, which is one of the best available. Unfortunately reload bonuses are few and far between with Full Tilt.
Full Tilt Poker does have a solid player rewards system. You can earn comp points which can be used for special tournament buy-ins, or for merchandise at the Full Tilt Store. The Full Tilt Store has lots of Full Tilt Branded merchandise, and an impressive array of poker books and DVD’s. If you build up enough points you can even get a heads up match against a member of Team Full Tilt or have a custom avatar of yourself made.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit and Cash-out Options
Deposit Options: VISA & MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, and e-/money transfer (***NOTE***Visa, MC, Neteller, Firepay, And Mycitadel No Longer Process New Transactions For US Players)
Cash-Out Options: NETeller, FirePay, credit card (for non-US players), and e-/money transfer
Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh
Jennifer’s poker career began online 3 years ago. Her meteoric rise in popularity in just three years is quite remarkable. She is recognized as one of the best female online poker players in the world. Jennifer started out with low limit $5 buyin tournaments. As her game progressed she worked her way up to the high limit $100/$200 tables. Her bank roll has continued to grow. She has established herself as a winning player on the circuit.
Her Poker Stars winnings over the last couple of years are in excess of 100k. Her best outcome was a fourth-place finish (out of 5,699 runners) in a $200 buy-in tournament last September. That earned her nearly 50K.
In live tournament play Jennifer has began to make a splash as well with cashes in the 2006 WSOP as well as the WPT tournament in L.A. The combination of model good looks and a sharp poker mind makes Jennifer a major player in the poker world. The sky is the limit for “Jennicide”.
Gus Hansen was a world class athlete as a young man and loved sports. Like Patrick Antonius, Gus Hansen was a tennis champ as a teenager. He was also one of the best backgammon players in the world. He relocated to New York in 2000 in an attempt to become a professional backgammon player. Unfortunately Gus thought the field and stakes were too small time. Gus is a self professed professional gambler. He is well known in the poker world for his prop bets. Particularly those involving physical and sports challenges.
Hansen picked up the poker bug when he attended school in California back in the early 1990’s. He is notorious for his extremely loose, any two cards (”ATC”)approach. His table image for raising or bluffing with ATC, induces many loose calls or raises when Gus does have the nuts.
Hansen’s greatest poker accomplishment is that he is only player to have won three World Poker Tour (WPT) tournaments. Gus was also the winner of the infamous Bad Boys of Poker World Poker Tour special. In 2004, Gus earned the prestigious honor of being inducted into the World Poker Tour Walk of Fame joining Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson and James “Maverick” Garner.
Gus has not fared as well at the World Series of Poker. His best WSOP finish was in the 2004 WSOP Main Event, where he cashed by ending in 150th place. In 2006 at the WSOP Tournament of Champions, Hansen made his first WSOP final table. He did not end up with much TV time however since he was bounced on the first hand when his Ace King failed to improved againg pocket 9s.
Gus won the very fist Poker After Dark (NBC) with a pay day of 120 grand. He defeated a table 6 top pro’s which included the Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth and Huckleberry Seed. In January of this year Gus outlasted a field of 747 players to win the the Aussie Millions and the first place prize $1,500,000.
Gus Hansen’s poker winnings are approaching 5 Million Dollars
Party Poker Review Summary
Party Poker used to be the biggest kid the online poker block. Party Poker remains a very popular poker room, even though it is no longer the grand poohbah of the poker world. You can still usually find anywhere from 25,000 to 60,000 poker players on the site at any one time playing in sit-n-go tournaments, massive multi-table tournaments or your run of the mill penny ante ring game. According to published reports tournament are the most popular attraction on Party Poker. That doesn’t mean that you can’t find ring games at pretty much any level from 50 cent/$1.00 all the way to the big boy games of $100 /$ 200.
There are plenty of penny ante tables novice tables at Party Poker. More than any other poker room, the style of play is extremely loose and aggressive at all limits. Unfortunately, you don’t get stats in the lobby window which show the percentage of players which see the flop at each table. Picking a table can be tricky without these stats. The software is rock solid but lacks many bells and whistles. Fortunately Party Poker spent some money on a server upgrade so they can handle the player traffic on even the busiest days. It is very rare to have connection problems.
Novice players will enjoy special areas specially designated for beginners. This makes it easier to find players that are just starting out. Party Poker also has numerous freeroll tournaments for beginning players who sign up. Regular players will enjoy the fact that loose players exist at almost every level as you move up. Hard core multi-tablers will appreciate that they can resize up to four tables to fit on their monitors.
Software
I like the the software at Party Poker. The interface has a clean look and feal. The graphics are not flashy and playability isn’t the snappiest but overall the software provides a satisfactory poker experience. For me the animated characters are annoying. Party Poker recently invested in a server upgrade so they can handle the player traffic on even the busiest days. It is very rare to have connection problems. I found the lobby very straightforward. Navigation was a cinch. Different games are displayed on the left of the screen and your options for tables are displayed on the right. One great feature is you can set up favorites for future play.
Party poker quietly released a java version of their client to open up their system to Linux and Mac poker players. Party Poker recently joined Full Tilt by releasing a complete Mac client. The Mac version is not as polished as the Mac client from Full Tilt but it is great to see the growing Mac community get a slice of the online poker pie.
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Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren’s poker career kicked into high gear in 2002 when he won his first major poker tournament at the Bellagio. Less than a year later he won his first World Poker Tour Event. He followed that up by winning the World Poker Tour Party Poker Million ruise, where he pocketed a cool one million dollar pay day.
Lindgren had his best month as a pro to start out 2005. EDog finished 2nd at the World Series of Poker Circuit Event in Atlantic City in January of 2005. The following month he made the final table and finished in 5th place at the prestigious World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic. The following week Erick won the Professional Poker Tour event in Los Angeles.
Erick must really love January because in 2006 he started out the year by making another WPT final table at the Borgata Winter Poker Open where he finished 3rd. In June 2006, Lindgren took home the 600k first place prize in the Full Tilt Poker Pro Showdown event where he dueld Mike “the mouth” Matusow, Clonie “Ms. Oklahoma” Gowen, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, and Chris Ferguson.
As of the beginning of this year EDog’s total winnings exceed $5,500,000.
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Summary of Titan Poker Review
Titan Poker is one of the new kids on the online poker block The site is part of the iPoker network. It is very similar to Noble Poker–almost the same except for Titan’s unique blue interface. Overall, Titan is a pretty decent poker room with some unique features. Of course, one of the chief downsides of Titan Poker is that it is not open to US Players.
Software
Titan Poker’s software is quite frankly not very elegant. I do like how the lobby is laid out. You can all the information you need to choose the right table including stats on the number of players who see the flop, the number of hands per hour, and the average size of the pot. The graphical interface is nothing to write home about. Decent but nothing special. Multi-tabling used to be difficult due to resizing issues but recent software updates have improved this. A glaring hole in the software is a lack of note taking functionality. Come Titan this is a must have feature. There have been updates, and the software is now much more playable. A live help window now pops up offering you special bonuses when you enter the cashier section. The games run smoother and slower than the standard due to the long times a player may take to make a decision, which is ironic because the software is quite fast. It is possible to play at eight tables simultaneously with the new software updates.
The Titan Poker software download is Windows only. The Titan Poker software works fine on an Intel Mac running parallels or booting into windows with Bootcamp. No word on when or if a Mac version of the software will be available.
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