Poker Room Bonus

Carsten Joh has managed to fight his way through a tough field in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event, thus winning the first WSOP bracelet for Germany since Katja Thater in 2007.

The $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament saw the remaining 30 players take their seats on Day 3 and it didn’t take long before that number fell down to the final nine players. Thibaut Durand entered the day with the chip lead and managed to fight his way through the field to enter the final table with perhaps not the largest but still respectable stack of 1,420,000.

Jason Helder had nearly 3 million in chips which made him the chip leader when the first cards were dealt at the final table, meanwhile Nathan Page and David Walasinski were swinging around 700,000 as the shortest stacks. (Read the full post about ‘WSOP Event #51: Carsten Joh Wins A Bracelet For Germany’…)

Ville Wahlbeck, Erik Sagstrom, John Hanson, Huck Seed, Vitaly Lunkin, David Bach, Erik Seidel, and Chau Giang will make up the 8 man final table for this event.

The World Championship H.O.R.S.E. event shed another 11 players on Day 4 and is now down to the final table. The lineup for the final table in order of their seat numbers will be Ville Wahlbeck, Erik Sagstrom, John Hanson, Huck Seed, Vitaly Lunkin, David Bach, Erik Seidel, and Chau Giang.

This final 8 will return for one last day to duke it out for the first place prize money of $1,276,802, a WSOP bracelet and the coveted Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.

(Read the full post about ‘WSOP Event #49: $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Determined’…)

Jeff Lisandro leads the remaining 13 players into the final day after another impressive performance in the $2,500 Razz Event, while short stacks Ville Wahlbeck and Jeff Lisandro try to make a comeback.

118 players came back for the second day of the $2,500 Razz Event. A lot of big names were left in the field – Al Barbieri, John Juanda, Eli Elezra, David Sklansky, James Van Alstyne and Dario Minieri were just a few of those still in the running for the bracelet.

One of the first to take their leave was John Racener when he got all his chips in for a raise against Chris Ferguson on fifth street.

(Read the full post about ‘WSOP Event #44: Jeff Lisandro Shows Strength Once More’…)

The $5,000 No Limit Hold Em Shootout at the World Series of Poker saw 280 players take part in a series of effectively single table satellites. The winner of their first table made the money. Making it through the 1st round were Jennifer Harman, David Pham, Neil Channing, and Phil Ivey. In order to make the official final table, however, you had to best a table of 6 in the 2nd round. Five players did so and the final table was comprised of the following (all players started each round with the same amount of chips):

Seat 1: Maxim Lykov
Seat 2: Danny Wong
Seat 3: Andrew Lichtenberger
Seat 4: Peter Traply
Seat 5: Nasr El Nasr

The first really big pot of the day took place when Andrew Lichtenberger opened on the button for 60K and Nasr El Nasr re-raised from the big blind to 175K. (Read the full post about ‘Event 41, 5K NLHE Shootout: Traply Wins 1st Bracelet’…)

As you probably know by now, PokerWorks has joined forces with the top online poker rooms to bring you exclusive weekly FreeRolls! Only available to PokerWorks readers, they are the perfect way to build your bankroll, or just kick back and have some fun while having the chance to win some real cash or just enjoy playing the game!

This week’s Freerolls will get your weekend off to a great start – especially when you win!

On Wednesday, June 24th at 20:45 GMT, Carbon Poker is the site for the $500 PokerWorks Cash Freeroll. To qualify just download Carbon Poker through our special links and use bonus code POKERWORKS. That gets you into the FreeRoll and rewards you with a 200% up to $1000 first deposit bonus!
(Read the full post about ‘Check-out the PokerWorks FreeRolls This Week’…)

One of the best things about sit&gos is that poker sites can reinvent them with new formats and structures. One such example are ’steps’ tournaments, where a small investment can allow you to work your way up the ladder to a large live tournament and maybe even a big score.

Satellites to major live tournaments have been around as long as the World Series of Poker. But with the growth of internet poker the sites themselves have started inventing new ways for players to qualify for events like the European Poker Tour or majors like the World Series, where they will wear the site’s colours. T

(Read the full post about ‘Steps Sit&gos – Steps Sit&Gos Strategy’…)

While you might want nothing more than to forget your latest bad beat or bust-out, taking time to review key hands after the event is vital for improving your game. This month I’ve reviewed a selection of key hands from deep-stacked live tourneys, with blow-by-blow analysis of the play as it unfolds. Some I win, some I lose, some I play well and some I don’t. But each presents some interesting decisions and should help illuminate some aspect of no-limit tournament strategy.

Hand 1: GUKPT Grand Final 2008

I’d flopped set under set in the first level of this event but had thankfully been let off by some extremely passive play by my opponent, and had been able to chip back up to around the starting stack. Ben G

(Read the full post about ‘Key Poker Hands – Poker Tournament Strategy’…)

Next generation online poker room PKR.com have recently announced that they have agreed a blockbuster deal with Bluff media that will see PKR.com act as the exclusive sole live broadcaster of 24 bracelet events from this year’s World Series of Poker.

With ESPN no longer broadcasting many World Series events across Europe, PKR.com will be the only place for poker fans to watch some of the biggest bracelet tournaments unfold. E

(Read the full post about ‘PKR score rights to screen WSOP 2009 – PKR to screen WSOP’…)

The second annual Dream Team Poker Event was held a Caesars Palace earlier this year, and it was such a success that the WSOP has added it to the schedule of 2009 events. The event will be held on July 12-13 after the Main Event recesses for the summer. Although this event will not have a bracelet prize as the other events do, it is expected to have a record breaking turnout.
“After seeing the terrific response to the recent Dream Team Poker tournaments in Las Vegas, we thought a team-based event would be a fun addition to the end of the WSOP,” said Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP commissioner.
If it is anything like the previous Dream Team Poker events there will be some star studded teams exchanging banter and handing out bad beats.

(Read the full post about ‘WSOP Adds Dream Team Poker Event’…)

Coral’s first British Masters Poker Tour ended on May 17th with James O’Connell of Motherwell being crowned the 2009 champion in Edinburgh.

The 52 year old electrical inspector fought hard to take the title, seeing off challenges from Eddie Lundon and Barry Burns who finished in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. O’Connell scooped a prize of £8,800 for his troubles – a lovely return from his original $ 5 online satellite entry.

Beating 104 players along the way, O’Connell now has a seat at the play off for the much coveted Coral.co.uk sponsorship deal in 2010.

Delighted with his first major tournament win, James told us: “This is fantastic. I have come

(Read the full post about ‘O’Connell 2009 champ – O’Connell takes Coral British Masters crown’…)