The PartyPoker Premier League of Poker IV may have taken ... read the rest]]> The 4th running of the Party Poker Premier League of Poker tournament has just finished up, and Frenchman David Benyamine was the winner.

The PartyPoker Premier League of Poker IV may have taken place live in Las Vegas, but it is in the UK where the Premier League of Poker television broadcast has become the most popular poker tournament on TV each year.

The PartyPoker Premier League of Poker is an annual Sit ‘n’ Go tournament with a minute player pool of 12. As a league tournament, players are awarded points depending on how they finish in 4 out of 6 scheduled Sit ‘n’ Go’s.

The buy-in for the Premier League of Poker IV was $100,000. Every point a player accumulated in the contest earned them $2,000. But ultimately, only one player could walk away with the top title, and this time it was no novice or amateur or even a cocky young gun of online poker (like PartyPoker qualifier winner Giovanni Safina—who at least managed to make it as far as the final table). No, it was poker pro David Benyamine of France who beat out Phil Laak, the tournament leader from the start, as well as Luke “Full Flush” Schwartz, J.C. Tran, and Daniel Negreanu.

The final two spots at the PartyPoker Premier League of Poker IV final table were filled by Brits triple crown winner Roland de Wolfe (for winning EPT, WPT, and WSOP event each) and Ian Frazer.

The online qualifier Giovanni Safina won his spot in a €100 buy-in PartyPoker online qualifier and wound up finishing in 3rd place for a $158,000 payday.

This years series will be comprised of ... read the rest]]> BetFair Poker, sponsor and host of the annual Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT) has just released the schedule for Season 4 of the running series.

This years series will be comprised of 31 stops in all, with 28 taking place in either the UK or Ireland and the other 3 taking lace in Europe.

Season 4 of the BetFair APAT kicks off on March 20 with the Welsh Amateur Championship in Aspers, Swansea. Other stops on the schedule include London, Austria, Estonia, Dublin, and Spain, among others.

Among the major poker events on the docket are the United Kingdom Amatuer Championship and the Amateur Championships for Central Europe, Scotland, Northern Europe, Ireland, England, and Southern Europe. The last APAT Season 4 event of 2010 is the European Amateur Championship on November 11, but it is not the last event on the APAT Season 4 schedule. The APAT 4 season actually concludes on January 29 of next year, 2011, with the United Kingdom Team Championship.

In August there are a bevy of World Amateur Championships in Nottingham in practically every poker variant, including Stud, Omaha, Six-Max, HORSE, Heads-Up, and Team poker.

BetFair Poker will be hosting online poker qualifiers for all of the events on the APAT schedule, along with the online championships for the APAT and the fixtures of the league. That includes the 7 scheduled Professional League Events, 1-day Pot Limit Hold’em events with buy-ins of £250 and the 6 scheduled Specialist Series events, also 1-day events but this time with £25 buy-ins and a mixed structure of game play.

Direct buy-in for most of the other APAT Season 4 events are £75.

Get into the Euro City Poker Tour Barcelona event, and several other EC Poker Tour events this year, including ECPT London, ECPT Malta, ... read the rest]]> Win Seats At Euro City Poker Tour From Titan Poker

Get into the Euro City Poker Tour Barcelona event, and several other EC Poker Tour events this year, including ECPT London, ECPT Malta, ECPT Vienna, and ECPT Venice all at Titan Poker.

Titan Poker, the biggest site in Europe and on the iPoker Network, is the official sponsor of the EC Poker Tour, and as such is hosting numerous satellites and super satellites into the events. The latest round of Super Satellites, being held every Sunday and Monday for a €200 + €15 buy-in, and every Wednesday for a €80 + €8 buy-in.

You can however, get yourself into the Super Satellites for much less by winning you seat through one of TitanPoker’s daily satellites, with a variety of Stage 1 tournaments running at all hours, many of them being Turbo, short stack, Speed, and/or rebuy-addon events, and with a wide range of low buy-ins. To go this route, there are 3 stages of Sit ‘n’ Go satellites to go through.

The winners of ECPT Barcelona Super Satellites will win €4,800 ECPokerTour Barcelona prize packages that include full accommodations, flight money and spending money, a ticket to an exclusive welcome event, and of course, the buy-in of €2,750 for the ECPokerTour main event March 19 – 21.

Whoever places highest in these Super Satellites will win a special top prize of tickets plus travel and accommodations for the Euro City Poker Tour events in Vienna, Venice, Malta, and London, as well as, of course, Barcelona. This special prize package, available to only one lucky TitanPoker player, is worth $25,000.

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Titan Poker Goes To Hollywood
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Europe’s top poker site, Titan Poker, is making its big screen debut this month in a new movie entitled From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction).

The leading online poker room on Europe’s iPoker Network has joined up with Luc Besson, the famed French film director of The Sixth Element (among other great movies) to have John Travolta’s character, the film’s main character, play online poker on the TitanPoker site. Besson is co-writer and producer of the film, but the directing helm for this one was taken by Taken director Pierre Morel. Irish star Jonathan Rhys Meyers will costar with Travolta in the film.

This will not only be great publicity for the Titan Poker online poker room, of course, but it will also be a great boon for the movie, since TitanPoker is dropping a bunch of its money into helping advertise and promote the film, not to mention the enormous existing player base the site already boasts, creating pretty much a captive audience for the film

To celebrate the upcoming release of this movie, TitanPoker will be running a special From Paris With Love themed online poker promotion, with prizes of tickets to the film and up to $5,000 in cash.

The title and genre (though not the story) of From Paris With Love is said to be a take on the Ian Fleming book To Paris With Love, which introduced the spy of all spies, 007 James Bond to the world, and that later developed into the film starring Sean Connery in the famed role of 007, From Russia With Love. Despite all this James Bond influence, From Paris With Love is not a James Bond film.

There will be a team ... read the rest]]> The next Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC 2010) is coming up, and the site is offering players the chance to represent their country in the €100,000 main event.

There will be a team of 15 EverestPoker players representing 15 different nations heading to compete in the largest freeroll tournament in Europe for beginners in online poker. The most successful team will receive the honorable EPEC 2010 Title.

You can qualify for EPEC live or online starting in February. And it’s free to try!

Every 2010 EPEC Live Finale Package is worth €2,000 and includes all you’ll need for your EPEC weekend in Southern Europe coming up this May.

These are the countries permitted to compete for EPEC 2010 title (listed in alphabetical order): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Everest Poker is hosting weekly Direct Entry tournaments, going on now, with 4 taking place for each of above-named countries. Each of these online Direct Entry will qualify 2 players to go to the Live Finale. All in all, 225 players will head to the Live Finale of the 2010 EPEC to play for the title.

Free daily satellites are also running now at Everest Poker to award free seats into one of the Direct Entry Qualifiers. There are 6 EPEC 2010 Direct Entry qualifiers going daily, with the top 25 from each heading on to the next Direct Entry event. Alternatively, players can choose to pay 100 Summit Points for direct entry into the Direct Entry event.

Every hand dealt at Poker Stars (and every other poker site online for that matter) ... read the rest]]> Poker Stars is counting down to its 40-billionth hand and its taking its players along for the celebration.

Every hand dealt at Poker Stars (and every other poker site online for that matter) is numbered, in sequence, for easy hand history tracking. Since its inception, the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars, has dealt out close to 40-billion hands. As that pivotal number approaches, the site is rewarding players with a slew of #40-themed promotions.

Starting at hand  number 39,601,000,000 Poker Stars will be celebrating every millionth hand dealt. Each time that goal is reached, Poker Stars will reward all the playes sitting in at that table. Every player will receive a bonus of $40 multiplied by the number of VIP points (VPP) that all the players at the table have accumulated collectively during the last 40 hands dealt. The winner of every millionth hand will also get their pot doubled.

For the 40-billionth hand, the VPP points counted will be multiplied by $400 instead of $40 (and the winner still gets his pot doubled).

For the Sunday Million at the end of this month, February 2010, PokerStars will increase the guaranteed prize pool from $1 million to $4 million and guarantee the first place winner a $1 million prize.

Throughout the promotional period PokerStars will also have a bevy of 40-related freerolls, cash games, and Sit n Go’s going with bonus prizes above and beyond the cash rewards that alredy come with playing real money online poker at PokerStars.