Sunday, January 25, 2009

Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot is up to $1,000,000

Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot
Carbon Poker anounces this is the largest Bad Beat Jackpot of any poker room currently online. Any player that plays a bad beat table in the 24 hours it hits the million dollar mark will get a coupon entry into a Bad Beat Jackpot Freeroll that has a prize pool of $1000. They will also have special Bad Beat SNG tournaments running for 24 hours after the jackpot reaches $1m.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Special Superbowl Poker Tournaments from Bodog

Name: Special Flight Club Semifinal

Date: Saturday, January 31st at 4pm ET
Buy-in: $125 + $10
Prizes: 1 player for every 48 entries will win a $6,000 Bodog Flight Club Prize Package to the LAPT Event in Punta Del Este, Uruguay from March 18th to 20th. Prize package includes $3,700 buy-in to the Main Event and $2,300 for travel and accommodation. 1 prize package is guaranteed!!!
Chips: 3,000
Levels: 15 minutes
Note: This tournament can be found under the "Live Events" tab.

And on Super Bowl Sunday, we will replace the "$100,000 Guaranteed" with:

Name: Super Bowl Special - $20K Added
Date: Sunday, February 1st at 4pm ET
Buy-in: $100 + $9
Bonus: Bodog will add $20,000 to the prize pool
Chips: 2,500
Levels: 15 minutes

We will also run a "combo qualifier" during Super Bowl's Media Day where winners will get an entry into both of these Super Bowl specials. Here are the details for this qualifier:

Name: Media Day Combo Qualifier
Date: Tuesday, January 27th at 9:43PM ET
Buy-in: $27 + $2
Payout: 1 player for every $244 in the prize pool will win a seat to the "Special Flight Club Semifinal" and the "Super Bowl Special - $20K Added".
Chips: 1,500
Levels: 12 minutes
Note: The guaranteed prize pool will be T$488, meaning at least two T$244 prizes will be awarded.

Monday, January 5, 2009

PokerStars Sets World Record

Everyone was certain that PokerStars would hit the 35,000-player mark it needed to get the latest Sunday tournament into the Guinness World Records. True enough, hitting the 35,000 player cap was so easy that a lot of poker players were left on the waitlist. The PokerStars Guinness World Record Tourney is now awaiting certification and is expected to be formally listed as a record in the next few weeks.

PokerStars happily forked over enough cash for the overlay since it was a $500,000 guarantee tournament. Thanks to the online site’s generosity, 8,750 players made in into the money—a record in itself. With the Stars’ “Guinness World Record Tourney”, PokerStars defeated its old record of 20,000 players that was set during a Stars Sunday Hundred Grand tournament on July 29, 2007.