Archive for August, 2007

Dan Harrington Wins 2007 Legends of Poker Main Event

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Dan Harrington is 2007 Legends of Poker Champion
485 Poker Players paid the $10,000 for the World Poker Tour event at the 2007 Legends of Poker Championship Main Event in The Bicycle Casino near sunny Downtown Los Angeles, California. The prize pool was pumped up to $4,642,500 in this No Limit Hold’em freezout tournament with only [...]

CrazyZachary wins Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS V Main Event

Monday, August 27th, 2007

CrazyZachary pockets almost $400K in Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS V Main Event.
Full Tilt Poker just recently had their Full Tilt of Poker Series V (FTOPS V), which featured 14 on-line poker tournaments of different variations and buy-ins, and a total collective prize pool that hit the roof somewhere near $8.5 Million dollars - just about [...]

Brett Parise: PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour - Manila Champion

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Brett Parise is the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (Manila) Champion and $180,000 richer.  
PokerStars.net recently brew up a storm in Manila by hosting the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. One of the highlights of the tour was a Main Event, which was a three-day No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament with a buy-in of $2,500 and a prize [...]

Asia Pacific Poker Tour Final Table Kicks Off Today

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

$180,000 awaits the champion of the Pokerstars.net 2007 Asia Pacific Poker Tour Main Event.
Pokerstars.net inaugurated its Asia Pacific Poker Tour in the Hyatt Casino and Hotel in Manila just before the weekend began. The highlight of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour was the No Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event, which featured a buy-in of $2,500, [...]

PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Main Event Kicks Off Today

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

2005 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Hachem of Australia and 2004 WSOP Player of the Year Daniel Negreanu of the USA are here in Manila care of PokerStars to head the stellar cast of players vying for the estimated pool of $500,000 in the Poker Stars Asia Pacific Poker Tour starting today [...]

Grndhg25 Wins FTOPS V Event #12 & $390,000

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

On-line poker specialists Full Tilt Poker recently held a one-of-a-kind on-line No Limt Texas Hold’em tournament, which featured a two-day format. For a buy-in of $2,500 (+$120), this on-line tournament hosted by Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey was the biggest buy-in tournament ever held on the Full Tilt Poker site. Not only that, it’s [...]

Kadabra Wins $147K and FTOPS V Event#1 Title

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

It all sounds very Ali Baba to me, but Kadabra is $147,099 richer.
Maybe Kadabra really has some kind of magic spell that opens doors to loads of gold, or maybe he’s just one hell of a poker player for besting 4,165 players in the recently concluded FTOPS V Event #1 of Full Tilt Poker, which [...]

‘Novice’ Wins Big At The Bodog Sunday $100 K Guaranteed Tournament

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

This guy calls himself “Novice.” Actually, I’m not sure if “Novice” is a guy or maybe some girl. That’s just his handle in the on-line poker rooms of Bodog Poker. For the sake of no arguments, let’s call him a he. Anyway, “Novice” sounds like he might be a fish, but if they thought he [...]