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Pokerkaki.com is pleased to announce its partnership with the Asian Poker Tour for its forthcoming leg in Macau!
Boasting a huge prize pool and a field of world class players from across the globe, the Main Event of the tour’s Macau stop will run from 20-23rd August 2009, at the gorgeous Starworld Hotel and Casino.
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In another first for the excellent P & E team of Genting Highlands Sdn Bhd, an open poker tournament available to members of the public was held at the Genting International Showroom, adjacent to the Genting casino. Boasting a guaranteed prize pool of RM$200,000 and a buy in of RM$550, there was bound to be lots of value for any player making the trip. A final turnout of roughly 380 players created a small overlay for the organizers. Judging from the active presence of kakis in the International Room after the tournament however, it looked highly likely that the overlay was covered, and then some.
PokerStars has just released the schedule for their forthcoming World Championship of Online Poker. WCOOP will run from September 3rd-20th, 2009, and include 42 different events, with a total of $40 million in guaranteed prize money. Get in there and make us Asian poker players proud!
This week it was announced that a fifth and final leg has been added to the inaugural PokerStars.net Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT). The season will end in the sunshine state of Queensland in early August.
ANZPT Queensland will be a 5-day poker bonanza from August 5th-9th 2009 and will be capped at 280 players plus 20 alternates. Two day one flights will be run at each venue, with the schedule, breaks and announcements synchronized across both venues, with the players coming together for the first time on Day 3 when surviving players will be transported from Brisbane to Conrad Jupiters for the conclusion of the event.
Several “Shootout” tournaments will be held on the Texas Hold'em Facebook application, offering two players the chance to win a seat at the WSOP Main Event, and the chance of a lifetime for fame and fortune.
The prize on offer includes airfares to Las Vegas, three nights accommodations at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, a backstage tour of the WSOP venue and a day pass to the VIP player’s lounge.
The “Shootout” tournaments begin on June 8 and will run through June 22. Eighteen winners from the tournaments will be randomly selected to play in the Final Showdown on June 29-30.
Two VIP WSOP winners will be announced on July 1 where they will be whisked off to Las Vegas!
Genting Open Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament will be held on 27 (Preliminaries) & 28/6 2009 (Semi-final & Final)!
Total RM200,000 guarantee prize money will be given away. This tournament is special organized to all poker players (including non-Genting WorldCard Members).
Entry Fee
RM500 (Tournament) + RM50 (Admin Fee) = RM550
Complimentary 1 night room stay (First World Hotel- Deluxe Room)
With lots of poker regulars unable to make the trip up to play the tournaments, there were concerns that this month’s events would suffer as a result. These concerns proved unfounded, as both events managed to smash previous prize-pool records, turning the main event into the largest ever since the inception of the Battle on the High Seas.
The MV Long Jie’s got more of your favourite Texas Hold’em tournaments coming up on the last weekend of May!
With larger fields and expanding prize pools every month, there simply isn’t a better place to pit your tournament skills against the finest players in the regional community. We’ve already crowned 3 champions so far; will you be the 4th? Be sure to hop on board on the 29th of May for your share of tournament glory, swollen prize pools, and the juiciest cash games in town!
The final table of the RPT tournament in Moscow was an all-Russian affair, and it was former backgammon player Vitaly Lunkin who came out on top, beating a strong field to take home the title and $445,709 in prize money. Some of Europe’s finest players gathered in the Russian capital for the event, which ran from May 11-17 and featured a $7,000 buy-in.
