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Find out who won what at the PokerEM Warm-Up!
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FREEROLL
Win a $10,000 Seat at the World Poker Open
PokerPages does it again with another exciting Warm Up opportunity - your chance to go and play at the main event at the World Poker Open in Tunica on January 2003, where there is a guarantee of $1,000,000
Warm-Up Starts September 23 - Don't delay download the software today !!!!
Even non-poker players have to agree, this is the experience of a lifetime! It costs you nothing to participate in this warm up and you could earn the chance to play against world class poker players, as well as take home part of a huge prize pool at the World Poker Open. The WPO is an internationally acclaimed poker event, famous for its players and action. Last January at the 2002 WPO main event, the prize pool was over $1,000,000! The big winner, Costa Rica's Humberto Brenes won $502,460!
So now it's your turn to get in on that action...for free! PokerPages is holding the first ever WPO Warm-Up on their exclusive software. Starting September 23rd, you will be able to play Round 1 WPO Warm-Up tournaments on the PokerPages Software. You can download it here. If you finish as one of the 15 top players of a Round 1 event tournament, then you will qualify to play in a Round 2. Be one of the top 20 to place in a Round 2 event, and you will qualify for the Final Event on Wed Jan. 1, 3pm CST. The 1st place prize is a $10,000 seat in the WPO 2003. See our schedules here.
Round 2 and Final Event Qualifications
Round Two Qualifiers List To get on this list, you must play in one of our WPO Round 1 Warm-Up Tournaments and be one of the top fifteen winners. These winners will be qualified to play in the coming weekend's Round 2 events. Each Round 2 event will have approximately 300 players. Be one of the top 20 to place in a Round 2 event, and you will qualify for the Final Event on Wed Jan. 1, 3pm CST. Go to the Round 2 qualifier list to see who has qualified so far, or click here to view the schedule.
The Final Event Qualifiers List To get on this list, you must place at least 20th in a Round 2 event. Final Event qualifiers are then qualified to play in the Final Event. The first place prize is a $10,000 seat at the World Poker Open! Go to the Final Event qualifier list to see who has qualified so far or click here to view the schedule.
Rules and conditions of Play
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The Big One II
You must be a member of PokerSchool Online in order to participate! PokerSchool membership is only $14.95 per month or $149.95 annually. Click here to join now!
The Big One II offers over $100,000 worth of Sponsorship points that can be redeemed for a sponsorship in a major poker tournament anywhere in the world. If you would like to read more about sponsorship points, click here.
If you don't know already, the Big One II is a simple concept with a million details. But here's the summary:
Play in a certain number of PokerSchool Tournaments and Satellites and be automatically placed in two different sets of leagues. One league set is for satellites and one for tournaments. Click here to read more about leagues. If you are a top ranking player in one or both leagues at the end of the month, you'll be qualified to play in a Round Two event. These events occur once a month. Top players in Round Two events are eligible to play in the Final Big One Event on Dec 21 2002. Of course, there is a lot more information you need to know than that. You can read more about the Big One II here.
Watch this space for more information about the Big One II!
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PokerDollars
Play for free on our PokerPages software and win a chance to join PokerSchool Online! Just download the PokerPages software here!
If you have registered and downloaded our software and play in the fun play cardroom of PokerPages you can Win Poker Dollars. The Top 3 players on the ranking system at the end of the month win, 3 months, 2 months and 1 month respectively in PokerSchool Online. You must play in at least 20 freeroll tournaments during this month in order to win. To see our winners so far, click here!
If you are an existing school member you can still play in the Fun Play cardroom and win Poker Dollars towards your existing school membership.
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Kevin Pratt - Reporting News
PokerPages would like to introduce the new edition to our team - Kevin Pratt. A Poker Player and Webmaster, what a delight to have both those skills all rolled into one person.
He has joined us in our European office and will be involved in many of the new projects that we are undertaking.
We are also extremely happy that he will be to contributing the Poker in America, UK and Europe sections to the PokerPages newsletter. Find out just what is happening in those poker rooms throughout Europe and America as Kevin reports on the players (most of whom he knows personally) and their successes and experiences in the card rooms.
You will be able to see the daily results from all European events updated as it happens on PokerPages, and if any of the players wish to share stories for Kevin to include in the newsletter (even bad beats) then please email him at kevin@pokerpages.com
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Poker In America
Kevin Pratt of PokerPages writes about Poker in America
I'm not sure that The Hall of Fame at Binion's Horseshoe was a success or not. The numbers seem to indicate that it wasn't but it did attract the best players from both sides of the Atlantic. Although the events had small fields, the final tables that were set up were full of household names. So it was quality not quantity that we got at Binion's.
The main event showed that the Europeans had come over in force with 3 making the final table. Peter Costa from Leicester, England proved that his wins in the U.S. earlier in the year were no fluke by taking first place and $101,520. The event attracted 54 entries with a prize pool of $253,800. Peter had a few near misses at this years Hall of Fame coming 2nd and 3rd in some of the earlier events and is truly one of the best European professional tournament players.
Since our last newsletter Event 8 was classed as perhaps the greatest final table line up ever with 20 WSOP bracelets and one World Champion. A veteran Binion's dealer said it was the best line up that he had seen. Make up your own mind by checking out the full result and report. Scotty Nguyen from Henderson took the first prize of $47,780 from 55 other entries.
Event 9 $1500 Razz went to John Juanda, which is no surprise, as he seems to excel at all games. He is obviously an exceptional all round poker player and along with Phil Ivey he always seems to feature strongly in events such as H.O.E, S.H.O.E, Triple Draw Lowball and Razz. Ivey was 4th in this event.
Estrellita Lyons won the Ladies Hold'em Event 10 from a field of only 14 picking up $3290. The field also included a six month pregnant Olga Varkonyi playing in her first tournament. Name sound familiar? Well she is the wife of current world champion Robert Varkonyi so she has obviously been given some tips as she finished 6th.
Event 11 Omaha Hi-Lo was won by Max Stern $22,210.
Event 12 Limit Hold'em was another triumph for Scotty Nguyen who made an incredible comeback from only 5 chips left to defeat Humberto Brenes who had over 100 chips. There was a great statement that Humberto made to Scotty during a lot of banter, "In Costa Rica you can only bluff your wife not your friends."
Event 14 Pot Limit Hold'em was won by John Juanda again this time winning $36,850
Event 15 Triple Draw Lowball was poorly attended with only 12 entries. O'Neil Longson triumphed wining $8,460 The $2,500 No Limit Hold'em
Event 16 showed the Americans just how good the young Brit Julian Gardner is. He followed up his 2nd place in the World Championship with wining a first prize here of $42,300. Julian comes from Manchester in England and was considered an unknown by the Americans before the World Series. He would probably be made favorite in most odds compilers list for any future tournaments.
Event 17 $2,500 Limit Hold'em had only 22 entries, which must be disappointing to the organisers. Daniel Negreanu won the event and $25,500.
Event 18 was a Media charity tournament and was won by Bob Fleck who gave the $1,500 prize to Big Brother/Big Sisters of Nevada
Event 19 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha was won by Ron Rose $56,590
The Hall of Fame at Binions proved to be very exciting but the numbers must have disappointed both the organisers and the players. From an organisers point of view large fields mean plenty of cash action as players get knocked out and this is where they earn their money. From a players point of view - especially a European's - why travel half way around the world to play against the best 50 or so U.S players with no dead money in the tournament? Large fields and big prize pools are what most of the players and organisers want and I think that Binions have to look closely at their advertising for this tournament next year to help increase the numbers.
The other major tournament that is going on at the same time is the Heavenly Hold'em at the Commerce Casino in L.A. The numbers here were obviously higher as the buy-ins were significantly lower. The winners so far are:
Event 1 $300 Limit Hold'em David Chui $60,715
Event 2 $100 No Limit Hold'em Federico Mendoza $29,490
Event 3 $100 Pot Limit Hold'em George Marlowe $22,230
Event 4 $200 Limit Hold'em Julian Levy $17,980
Event 5 $200 No Limit Hold'em Sam Sanusi $ 25,610
Event 6 $200 Pot Limit Hold'em David Akin $19,990
Event 7 $200 Limit Hold'em Hi-Lo Sam Sanusi $12,400
Event 8 $300 Limit Hold'em Joe Lim $68,484
Event 9 $300 No Limit Hold'em Ryan Hughes $22,345
Event 10 $200 Limit Hold'em Minh Lu £27,455
The next big events on the schedule are the Four Queens Poker Classic at the Four Queens in Las Vegas 18th September - 6th October and Sweet September at the Hustler Casino in California starting on the 15th September - 2nd October.
The Main Event at the Four Queens is the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em a two-day tournament Oct 5th. It will be interesting to compare the numbers at the Four Queens with those at The Hall of Fame because I feel that the Four Queens have advertised their tournament in a better way. Details of these tournaments are available daily on PokerPages and a summary will be given in the next newsletter.
By Kevin Pratt
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Poker In Europe
Kevin Pratt of PokerPages writes about Poker in Europe
The Aviation Club in France are currently holding their annual Autumn Tournament. It started on the 11th September with Event 1 which was €50 No Limit Hold'em and was won by
Sloan Martin Ceccaldi from France €2910. Event 2 €50 Dealers Choice went to a local again, Robert Cohen (the man who taunted Phil Hellmuth in Late Night Poker) who picked up €1,550.
Event 3 was a super satellite and Event 4 €500 No Limit Hold'em was won by popular Irishman Frank Callaghan or as the French have put the result "Francois" Callaghan who officially collected €21,130. Top English professionals Simon 'Aces' Trumper and Carlos Citrone finished 3rd and 4th with Simon getting the lions share of 1st prize in a deal.
Robert Cohen added weight to a point in my last newsletter when I was highlighting that players seem to have one good result followed by another. Robert followed up his win in Event 2 with a win in Event 5 €100 No Limit Hold'em taking home €2,430. Event 6 €200 Pot Limit Omaha saw Eric Sala
taking the spoils and €5680. Event 7 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em was won by Ofer Ovadia €9,430 with Carlos Citrone who is high in the European Rankings picking up some valuable points by coming second. The Aviation continues until the 22nd September and you can keep up with the results on the website.
I have recently included some new tournament schedules for Europe namely The Barcelona Open in Spain 21st - 24th November, Poker Party Casinos Austria Seefeld November 22nd-23rd , The Danish 7-Card Stud Championship November 7th-9th , and the Christmas Tournament in Estonia December 16th-19th.
On a final note, could any casino managers please send me your dates for proposed tournaments in 2003? Thanks.
Kevin Pratt
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Poker in the U.K.
Kevin Pratt of the PokerPages Team writes about poker in the UK.
As I previously pointed out in the last newsletter, the month of September is pretty quiet in the U.K. so I will take the opportunity to thank all of you that have been sending me in information about tournament schedules, results, and cash action details from around the U.K. Please keep all information coming in.
I have recently added in some tournament schedules for later in the year namely The Northern Lights Poker Series at the Grosvenor Casino in Blackpool where the main event is £250 Pot Limit Hold'em on the 26th October and the Irish Winter Tournament at The Colossus Club, Dublin, Ireland where the main event is €1,000 No Limit Hold'em on the 26th October as well.
Some of the top British players have been playing in the U.S. recently and doing quite well. Peter Costa won the main event at the Hall of Fame and Julian Gardner also won an event as well. Other notables currently playing in the U.S include Surinder Sunar, Dave 'DevilFish' Ulliott, 'Mad' Marty Wilson, Chris Bjorin, and Alan Betson.
On a totally separate note it appears that Stanley Casinos are making a concerted effort to kill off poker rooms in their casinos. They have announced the closure of the popular card room in the Torquay casino from the 24th September. On top of this Annabelles Casino in Bristol has now closed it's cardroom to accommodate a new restaurant. It appears that Grosvenor seem to be expanding on their poker and Stanley's are taking the opposite approach and are closing their cardrooms. It will be interesting to see who is right.
News just hot off the press - PokerMillion returns
You can e-mail me with any thoughts, views, or general information at kevin@pokerpages.com
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Poker Down Under
Reported by David Parlor
Who said Poker had nothing to do with luck and that it is a game of skill? Last Thursday at 7pm in The Crown Poker Room a single hand satellite was run for the 10K event in January.
The way that this tournament (or is that lottery) works is that ten players pay $10 and are dealt one hand of Holdem. The player that wins that hand progresses to the next round where entry is $102 and is required to pay the additional $2. When ten players have either paid the $102, or won there way to this stage through the $10 round, they are dealt another one hand. The winner progresses to the third and final round with a $1020 seat and a one in ten chance of gaining entry to the main event. Again another one hand game is dealt and the winner will have the opportunity to play for their share of what is expected to be a prize pool in excess of 1 million dollars.
What this all comes down to is that it is possible for as little as $12 and a lot of luck you could be sitting in the biggest event Australia has ever seen. If you are still confused, make your way to Crown next Thursday and have a closer look in person.
The weekly events at Crown have recommenced after a short break following the Victorian Championship. $60 tournaments will start at 8pm every Thursday and $100 No Limit Holdem every Sunday at 2 pm.
Finally, Casino Canberra will be commencing The October Long Weekend of Poker on October 1. Events have buy-ins ranging from $400 to $2200 including several rebuy tournaments. Part of each entry will be retained for an overall point's winner title to be awarded at the completion of the week. Accommodation packages are also available at Crowne Plaza, contact Casino reception for details.
For any other questions about Poker in Australia please email me.
-David Parlor
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Signing Off
We hope you enjoyed our monthly newsletter. If you would like to contribute to this newsletter or have any suggestions, please email tina@pokerpages.com. So until next time, be lucky!
Sincerely,
The PokerPages Staff.
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