$5.1 Million Coming Up Soon in ECOOP VI

The ECOOP VI is back due to popular demand, having a guaranteed prize of $5.1 million. It seems like most of the people is thinking of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) VI.

The event will take the staged on May 24, 2010. it will cover 14 days of exciting events. This was noted as the clash of poker game. The ECOOP I first started in the year 2007 having a prize worth $2.5 million. It only shows that the poker mania evolve marvelously every year, for the sixth season, games that will take off includes; No Limit and Limit Texas Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo and 7 Card along with the 1.5 Million Guaranteed Main Event.

Just before the ECOOP VI takes the stage again, there will be a Mini- ECOOP VI first that will happen on the 14th day of May until 23rd. everyone can get into the heat of the game. Qualifying satellites are now working 24/7 giving the chance to get into bigger on the Titan Poker.

The tournament will never be the same, as poker pros defend their titles; it is not only a battle for the prize but also for pride.

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Grab a Seat to the Largest Poker Tournament in Germany

The guaranteed first place prize is €1,000,000 and many interested poker players are on its way to take a seat.

Originally the venue of the tournament was planned to be a purposefully built glass palace however, it never went according to planned. In this regard, the tournament will take place in the ballroom at the Hyatt next door to the casino. There were 389 Main Event players who tried to fit in the limited space even with the hangover being experienced from the party hosted by PokerStars, they still managed to get down to work.

Day 1b is usually where you can find the faces of big-name pros, however in this tournament; the faces that are usually seen on day1b are now in day 1a. The following are among the pros who decided to play today Katja Thater, Ben Kang, Tom McEvoy, Vicky Coren, Arnaud Mattern, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Michhael Keiner, VladZguba, George Danzer, and Johannes Steindl. Also in participation in the day 1a were Juha Helppi, Marc Naalden, Barny Boatman, and Pranz Bansi.

Kfir Yamin of Israel ended the day1a with the most number of chips. He will continue day 2 with 213,500 with 196 players left in the game. Events in day 2 is expected to be bigger than what had been in day 1.

Foxwood Finds The Perfect Match In The Person Of Bernard Lee

Poker author, commentator, radio show host, and professional Bernard Lee linked an agreement to represent Foxwoods. The deal brought together New England’s most prestigious poker venues and the area’s top media personality.

Chiaradio told reporters that Lee’s professionalism and personality showed that a relationship would benefit both parties. Lee will be a valuable asset in bringing more energy and excitement to top poker rooms. Lee has also a vast experience from his career in business, particularly in marketing and new business development. He was a former marketing and new business manager for Fortune 500 company. Foxwoods will sponsor Lee’s radio show and as he will represent the casino’s World Poker Tour (WPT) room.

Lee is expected to appear in marketing campaigns for Foxwoods for two years. Lee made his mark in the poker scene in 2005, when he took the 13th WSOP Main Event for $400,000. Foxwood found the perfect candidate in the person of Bernard Lee. Chiaradio said that Foxwood Casino Resort is the premiere gaming destination and Lee is the top poker personality so the relationship is a perfect match. Lee has crashed tournaments around the United States. The question now is whether other casinos will follow Foxwoods’ idea of signing up with Lee to find the best match.

Full Tilt Poker Guarantees Doubles for a Week

Starting on January 25 until January 31, Full Tilt poker players can enjoy competing at different tables for twice the payouts. All players of the Full Tilt will have the opportunity to participate at the double guarantees they offer for only a one week.

The pool prize of the poker game is the only factor that has changed but the game schedule everything else remains the same. The prize at stake for the entire week will reach $25 million. Highlights if the game will include the promotion that offers $1K tournament that will happen on January 25, 2010 at around 9pm with $600K prize pool guarantee. Read more »

Daniel Alaei Grabbed the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Title

Daniel Christopher Alaei was named the grand prize winner of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker classic that ended this week. He had outdone the other 328 players who are on the field and take home an astounding $1.4 million in bag money.

He’s known specialty is the cash games in the NLHE wherein he amass a whopping $3.7 million dollars all through out his poker career. He owned 2 WSOP bracelets to be proud of and also had been successful in winning the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better tournament. He has a record of cashing in 18 events in the WSOP which gain him $1,533,917 take home pay. Read more »

Poker after Dark Present the Best of the Poker World

Poker production has no limit with regards to their poker show in NBC called Poker after Dark. They are going all out by assembling the best of poker players in the world playing high stakes game in their Railbird Heaven theme in two weeks time.

The said show have brought together some of the known names in the industry of poker. Additionally they have also invited one man who’s making a name in the online poker world in the present. Poker after Dark made extraordinary changes in the game by changing the buy in amount to $100,000 to $250,000. Read more »

Online Poker is Prone to Fraud and Manipulation

A high Federal Bureau of Investigation officer emphasized that poker in the Internet is subject to deceit and manipulation.

Sawn Henry, FBI Assistant Director have written to Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama as stated: “There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal,” Read more »

Will American Online Poker Survive?

It has been the crusade of the Poker Players Alliance or the PPA to alleviate the sufferings of online poker players in the United States by passing up legislations to react against the current UIGEA bill. It’s been definitely a long time when the UIGEA was passed and has starved the American people on their rights to play poker online. This is due to the fact that this bill classifies poker as one of pure luck gambling kind which is not true because poker is a game of skill through and through.

At present people thought that they are getting what they wanted when the Democrats took over the House in 2006, however, what happened is not the direction they wish to take. Read more »

Will The American Poker Industry See A Bright Future?

A poker group called Poker Players Alliance exists and has been trying hard to implement transformations in the poker environment in the United States especially in the Internet arena. Since the UIGEA has been submitted it has plainly wither the online poker options of the US people by classifying poker like any other variety of gambling which is not true because playing poker is more like a skill test than a luck one.

This time it seems like the revolution that poker players had been waiting for will materialize when the Democrats took the Congress over in 2006 but seems like they are not going in the right direction. Read more »

Stack Sizes

Believe it or not size does actually matter quite a bit in poker. It completely changes what you can do and how you can play. Some may tell you that your stack size should not affect your play, but that is just wrong. There is nothing you can do about it. Naturally if you have a bigger stack you are going to play different then if you have a smaller stack. Some parts of your game shouldn’t change, but a lot of it should.

The kind of game you are playing in has a lot to do with what you would do with different stack sizes. Your stack size matters a lot more in a tournament then it does in a ring game. When you start to get low and become a short stack it is time to make a move. It is hard to say when the right time is to make a move because you do not want to rush and give up your chips, but at the same time you need to have some impact in the bet you are making.

When it comes down to making a stand when you have a smaller stack, you don’t want everyone to call you. If you wait until you have almost nothing left then you are sure to lose, and even if you win you won’t win much. Your all in move needs to make an impact and make your opponents have to think about calling or not. You also don’t want to make a stand with a hand like Ace 4 or any other ace with a low card. The reason is because anyone that calls you is going to probably have an Ace with a higher kicker which gives you a very good chance of losing what is left of your stack. You want to make sure that you have live cards when you are risking your chips.

The more comfortable position to be in is the one with a large stack. A lot of people will say to you when you are the big stack that you should always call the all ins because you are the big stack. Well, that is just foolish and a quick way to lose your big stack. If you want to keep the lead and use all of those chips to your advantage then you will pick your spots.

When you are the chip leader or you have a large chip stack you should get into more hands and see more flops. The hard part however, is to balance that out with not getting into trouble. You want to give yourself the chance to take out more players and catch more hands; but you don’t want to start chasing and playing every hand down to the end. Just because you have a lot of chips don’t mean you can’t lose them faster then you got them.

Remember that poker is a crazy and unpredictable game. Your stack size can become another player’s stack size in the matter of one hand. If you are a small stack then you can easily become a large one. In order for that to happen the large one is probably going to end up becoming smaller. While your stack size should affect your play, you still must not make bad decisions just because of the size of your stack.