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Thursday, May 22, 2008

LAPT San Jose: Bodog Poker Sends Panamanians to Invade Costa Rica

Bodog online poker player Jose "head2782" Severino is one of the crew of Panamanian poker players who are in Costa Rica for the Latin American Poker Tour event in San Jose.

The inaugural season of the Latin American Poker Tour is now onto its second stop, which is being held at the Ramada Plaza Herradura Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica. Among the expected 300 players out in the field for Day 1 of the LAPT San Jose will be three Bodog online poker players who hail from Panama: Jose "head2782" Severino, Jose "papadelpoker" De La Guardia and Bolivar "ramux" Palacios.

These three can be regularly found at the top of the weekly, monthly and yearly Tournament Leader Boards in the Bodog Poker room and are expected to make a splash on the LAPT to mirror their online success. Severino cashed in the first LAPT event down in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, just a few weeks ago and will be trying to add to his resume that also includes two WSOP cashes as as a member of Team Bodog . De la Guardia has several small tournament cashes to his name and Palacios is looking to score his first major live poker tournament cash, something well within his reach.

Other notable players out in the field include poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Victor Ramdin and Isabelle Mercier, as well as TV personality Montel Williams. Play gets underway right about now, so stay tuned to the Beat for updates.

If you want to join the Bodog Panamanian crew at the 2008 WSOP along with the rest of Team Bodog, then make sure to check out Bodog Poker's WSOP satellites.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PKR to send players to APT Manila

By Sarah Polson
As Manila braces itself for the possibility of about 400 poker players heading for the Dusit Thani Manila hotel at the end of May for the Asian Poker Tour, PKR is gearing up qualifiers to send at least three players to the event.

The Manila, Philippines leg of the Asian Poker Tour begins May 27 and runs through June 1. To get a shot at taking part in the main event, players at PKR can win one of at least three seats offered at the poker site in a satellite running May 12.

The satellite has a $200+$15 buy-in and will offer up three $5,000 prize packages to the APT Manila main event. That includes the $2,500 buy-in for the event plus money for travel and expenses.

"The APT is a new and unique event. It showcases the global popularity and growth of poker," said Neil Wright, PKR poker room manager. "We are looking forward to seeing PKR players get a shot at a fantastic all round experience and a slice of the guaranteed $1 million."

Players at PKR can also get at a shot at that $1 million prize pool for even less if they want to work their way up through qualifiers into the May 12 satellite.

The poker site will host weekly qualifiers for the satellite on Mondays at 7:40 p.m. GMT. They will have a $43+$4 buy-in and award a seat in the Grand Final satellite for every five entrants.

For players looking for an even less expensive option, there are sit-and-go tournaments and daily multi-table tournaments that award seats into the weekly qualifiers.

There are two types of sit-and-go tournaments that will be available on an ongoing basis during the week. There are $4.70+40¢ SNGs that will qualify one player each for the weekly qualifier. Plus there are $2.06+20¢ SNGs that will qualify two players each for the weekly qualifier.

The multi-table qualifiers will take place at 3:15 p.m. daily and 7:25 p.m. daily (except for Mondays) and have a $9.40+90¢ buy-in. Each daily MTT will qualify one in five players for the weekly qualifier.

ESPN Giving Away World Series of Poker Seat

For the fourth consecutive year, the ESPN Poker Club is offering a trip to the World Series of Poker Main Event. The winner will receive airfare to Las Vegas, hotel accommodations during the tournament and the chance to sit down and play against the poker world's best in poker's most prestigious event.

Playing on the ESPN Poker Club free-play online poker software players will need to qualify for the Final Tournament in order to have a shot at WSOP glory. To qualify for the Final Tournament, held Sunday, June 15th, players will need to be one of the top 25 players one of three Sunday Qualifiers, held each Sunday until June 15th at 12, 5 and 9 pm EST. Players can earn their entry for the Sunday Qualifier in the following ways:
  • playing 1500 hands in a single week
  • winning 10 Single Table Tournaments
  • winning 1 Multi-Table Tournament
  • finish in the Top 20 in any Daily Big Play tournament

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Titan Poker offers ultimate WSOP experience

By Sarah Polson
There are plenty of poker sites offering ways for players to get into the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, but Titan Poker has taken it to another level with its "Executive Package."

Along with the usual $10,000 buy-in for the Main Event, the Executive Package will include 14 nights' accommodations for two in a luxury suite along with money for flights and spending.

On top of that, the packages also have two tickets to the Blue Man Group show at the Venetian Resort, dinner for two at the exclusive SW Steakhouse at the Wynn Hotel and a limousine pick-up to and from the airport in Las Vegas.

In all, the Executive Package is worth $20,000.

"We are thrilled to offer a prize package of this magnitude," said a Titan Poker spokesperson. "We want our players to have the experience of a lifetime while being a part of poker's most premier yearly event."

For a player to get her hands on one of these exclusive package deals, she must win four consecutive $20+$4 WSOP Executive sit-and-gos at Titan Poker. The Executive sit-and-go poker tournaments will be offered around the clock at the poker site, giving players plenty of chances to win a package before the promotion ends June 19.

Titan Poker also has $14,000 WSOP prize packages available to win at the poker site as well as $6,500 side-event packages.

The $14,000 prize packages will be awarded during satellite tournaments today, May 4, 11, 18, 25 and June 1, 8 and 15 at 8 p.m. GMT+1. The tournaments have a $500+$35 buy-in, but there are plenty of ways for players to win their way into the satellite for as low as $5.50+50¢.

The $14,000 prize packages include the $10,000 buy-in for the Main Event, 10 nights' accommodations, flights and spending money.

The $6,500 side-event prize packages include the $1,500 buy-ins for WSOP events 27 and 32 plus seven nights' accommodations and money for travel and spending.

The remaining tournaments for the $6,500 prize packages will take place May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 at 8 p.m. GMT+1.