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Poker Star.com WSOP Freeroll

Poker Stars is giving away a million dollars worth of 2008 WSOP freeroll seats. They will be giving away 7 seats per week up until late June when the 2008 WSOP Main Event starts. Poker Stars is running round 1 qualifiers every hour of everyday and the top 50 players will advance to the weekly wsop round. At then end of each week they have 3 freerolls wsop rounds where they give away actual seats to the WSOP.

Poker Star.com is looking to send the next champion to the WSOP and with this promotion they are giving 80 free seats. In other wsop satellite buy-in events they have already given 671 seats and counting! You can find more Poker Stars 2008 WSOP information at Poker Splendor.

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Poker Stars 2008 WSOP Satellites and Qualifiers

Poker Stars has announced their 2008 WSOP satellites and qualifiers and they are looking to send the next main event champion. They have satellites running everyday and offer players a variety of options to qualify including cash qualifiers.

They have a 33R+ WSOP Qualifiers that runs multiple times a day and once a week run a $650 WSOP qualifier on sunday that usually qualifies around 20-30 players every time it runs.

Poker Stars also has their WSOP Steps satellites. This lets players play sit and go’s for as low as $7.50 for step 1 and make their way up to step 6 where it is a $2,100 buy-in and 1 players wins a seat to the wsop.  One great thing about the wsop steps program is second place usually gets the same prize as first or in the case of step 6 gets $2500. Third and forth get buy-ins to the same event.

The last way to qualify for the 2008 WSOP with Poker Stars is to use your fpp and cash them in to play satellite tournaments. If you are a frequent player then you have the chance to get your seat at Poker Stars for Free!

Find out more at the Poker Stars 2008 WSOP Satellite information.

Brandon Cantu is the Bay 101 WPT Winner

Brandon Cantu won the Bay 101 World Poker Tour event. The event was played at the Bay 101 card room in San Jose, California.  The tournament was played March 10-14th with a $10k buy-in. Brandon Cantu beat a final table consisting of Jennifer Harman, John Phan, Steve Sung, Mike Baker,  Noah Jefferson.

376 players entered the tournament with Cantu taking home $1,000,000 dollars. Brandon Cantu had a large chip lead going into the final table and never looked back. He also won over $400,000 dollars in bounties and was able to dominate the table even with the small blinds.

The winning hand of the tournament was when Cantu won with pocket 5’s against Steve Sung’s pocket 4’s. 

Final Table Results 

1. Brandon Cantu – $1,000,000
2. Steve Sung – $585,000
3. Jennifer Harman – $330,000
4. Noah Jefferson – $265,000
5. Mike Baker – $200,000
6. John Phan - $135,000

NBC National Heads Up Tourney

The 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has begun play today in Las Vegas, Nevada. The poker tournament is invite only with 64 of the top poker professionals and celebrity players taking part in the tournament. The tournament is being played in the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room and will continue through March 2nd.

The tournament will be aired on NBC on April 13, 2008.  The prize pool for the tournament is $500,000. Past heads up winners will compete: Paul Wasicka, Ted Forrest and Phil Hellmuth against celebrity players including Jason Alexander and Shannon Elizabeth.

Source: FoxBusiness 

Bodog Poker Open

Bodog Life will be running their first ever poker tournament series called the Bodog Poker Open. The tournament will consist of 6 events that will be played starting March 3rd and run through the 9th. They are doing it different then Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars where they don’t have any guaranteed money.  They are just adding to the prize pool, every tournament at Bodog Poker will have $10k added until the main event on the 9th which will have $25k added. I am guessing this is to limit their losses in the case that they don’t have many players that play in their online tournament series.  This may be a good time to play because there many not be many players and a large prize pool!

2008 WSOP Satellites at Bodog Life

Bodog Life has just released their 2008 WSOP Satellite tournaments and qualifiers. They will be sending 3 seats (per week) in Feb., 4 seats (per week) in March and 5 seats (per week) in May and June! This is about the time where poker rooms starting promoting the WSOP and unveil their qualifier schedule.

Bodog has satellites for as little as $1 dollar and direct buy-ins to the actual satellite tournament for $250+20. They also have tournaments where players can buy-in to super satellites using their Bodog Points which are earned playing in raked cash games and real money tournaments.

Gavin Griffin Borgata Classic Winner

The 2008 Borgata Classic came to an end today and the winner was Gavin Griffin who took home $1,375,609 and $25,500 seat in WPT Championship! Gavin Griffen bested a field of over 500 players and won in heads up play against David Tran.

The final hand of the poker tournament was Griffen with Jc-Qs against Tran’s Ks-8s. The flop was 9d-Ac-8d. Which Tran was in the lead but for a short time as the turn was a Qd. The river was a 10d and was no help to Tran who took second place and received $737,685.

The final 9 players at the final table in order of their finish was: Gavin Griffin, David Tran, Thomas Hare,Noah Schwartz,Lee Watkinson,Ervin Prifiti,Shane LaBounty,Justin Bonomo and Scott Blackman.

This is not the first big score for Gavin Griffen has also won events at the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour.

2008 Borgota Poker Classic

The 2008 Borgota Poker Classic part of the World Poker Tour tournament series began on the 27th and will be played through January 31, 2008. The buy-in to the event is $10,000 and is being played at the Borgota Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. The event started with 501 players with 1st place taking home a $1.4 million dollars.

Notables that have been eliminated are: Mike Matusow, Jamie Gold, Ted Forrest, Barry Greinstein and Steven Dannenmann.

American Player Robbed at Aussie Millions

Jason Potter (21) cashed in at the Aussie Millions getting 31st place and winning $30,000 dollars. Potter is a professional poker player who dropped out of school to focus on his poker career and has over $300k in career winnings. After cashing out at the cashier in the melbourne casino he decided to go to McDonalds.

It ended up being a very expensive meal when he was robbed by a man with a knife who directed him to give him his money. (It is believed that the assailant had watched him cash out and knew he was holding lots of cash).  Police are now looking for the attacker and have contacted banks to watch for someone trying to deposit large amounts of money.