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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
$750,000.00 Labor Day Poker Extravaganza Seminole Hard Rock
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 by Phil
After getting knocked out of the Foxwoods Poker Classic main event in April after just six hours , it left a mental scar on me for quite a while. There is a night and day difference between cash game poker and tournaments. I thought that I had just been playing cash games for so long since my last tourney , I thought I might have lost what it takes to do well in a tourney. After 4 mos of self pity , I bought in to the Labor Day Tourney at the Hard Rock in Tampa.
The buy in was $1100.00 and is a strange schedule. It is a typical 4 day tourney , but each of the first 3 days (Fri , Sat , Sun) starts 250 players and play down to 25 each day , once you hit 25 your in the money and go on to Monday (championship day) Out of all the tourneys I’ve played , this one was one of the most brutal in terms of being exhausting. The tourney started at 9am and the bubble didn’t break until 11:30 pm with the dinner break being voted down by the players , it was draining to say the least.
From start to finish I felt really good about my play and made only one mental mistake that cost me $20k in chips. I tried to bluff someone that could just not be bluffed and I knew it before I did it. That being said , I ended up being 5th in chips when it was over and I go on to Monday with $86k in chips. First place is $130k , I could sure use it! Wish me luck everyone. — Matt
