PokerStars pumps up guaranteed tournaments
July 31, 2008
PokerStars has upped the guarantees on most of its guaranteed tournaments. You will notice this on more than 60 tournaments every day. Overall, the site is now hosting 483 guaranteed prize pool tournaments per week, up from 199 just last…
Best Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory
July 31, 2008
Are you in Las Vegas, planning a trip to Vegas or looking for an excuse to enjoy some live action poker in Las Vegas? Look no further than the Poker Prof’s Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to Las Vegas poker to be found anywhere. Unlike print guides that offer month old info printed in a format guaranteed to confuse the Prof’s schedules are updated daily so the information is as fresh and accurate as possible.
Need another reason to make the Prof’s Poker Tournament Directory your exclusive poker planning tool? How about the easiest to use search functions currently available anywhere? Choose your input parameters - calendar dates, days of the week, clock times, casinos, formats, buy-ins - and and then quickly zero in on the events that fit your preferences, schedule and wallet. You can even custom tailor the resultant data in an easy to understand style of your choice.
It’s time you stop squinting at the fine print of old fashioned poker tournament directories filled with out-of-date info. Use the Poker Prof’s Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory and the only squinting you’ll be doing will be recording the flash of your opponent’s hole cards.
PokerStars Macau: Macau Cup II Results
July 30, 2008
PokerStars Macau has wrapped up another Macau Cup and the results are in. If you’re not aware, PokerStars Macau opened a few months back as the first-ever live poker room in Macau. Since then, it’s been home to the biggest…
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July 30, 2008
Needless to say, a lot has happened in the past couple days here in Hammer Land.Of course, I gave my notice at work. Once I am gone maybe I’ll spend some more time writing about it, but suffice it to say that the past year or so in this job has been s…
Poker room offers at Station Casinos
July 30, 2008
If you’re in Las Vegas and play poker, it pays to sign up to the Station Casino’s player’s club.
We preferred the old Boarding Pass card to the new My Card, but that’s just cosmetic. Either way, we received a flier in the mail for $10 off our next buy-in of $100.
Just two hours of play is necessary before claiming the $10, so it’s basically $5 an hour to play a few hands.
The offer is good through Sept. 30.
You may already know about Station’s Bad Beat Jumbo Hold’em Progressive, which starts at $150,000 at quad 10s beaten, then the hand requirement reduces every week until someone gets the beat.
And when it happens, everyone playing poker in every Station casino shares in the progressive… with a minimum of $200.
(This is aside from the in-house bad beat jackpot of $10,000 for Aces full of 10s beaten.)
Another offer is $250 for every royal flush.
And, in addition to the regular $1/hour comp for playing live poker, you’ll receive $3/hour if you play between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Nothing beats playing poker on the Strip, but sometimes it’s worth taking a drive to check out the local casinos (Palace Station is the closest Station to the Strip, but our favorites are Red Rock and Green Valley Ranch).
Ladies of the 2008 WSOP Part I
July 29, 2008
Sorting and cataloging the thousands of image shot during the 47 days of the 2008 WSOP is a mind numbing chore that requires hundreds of hours. I’m reliving the 55 events frame-by-frame so thought it would be appropriate to offer up some of my favorites gleaned from the mass. As expected from an old chauvinistic photographer, my choices trend toward the small percentage of females that take a seat at the tables.
I’ve selected a dozen or so images to spice up tonight’s WSOP Poker Fest on ESPN. While you’re watching the guys shove chips back and forth check out the ladies. Many more Flipchip WSOP photos will follow in the upcoming weeks.
Another dozen photos after the jump…
PokerStars Sunday Tournament Results (7-28-08)
July 28, 2008
This weekend, the Sunday tournaments on PokerStars kicked off with a certain bang we don’t hear every week. The PokerStars 2X promotion turned the Sunday Warm-Up into a $1 million guarantee event with a second chance for people who busted…