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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 Started 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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Poker In America
Kevin Pratt of PokerPages writes about Poker in America
There's nothing better than combining a holiday with a bit of poker, so the place to head to since the last newsletter was Aruba for the Caribbean Poker Classic at the Excelsior Casino where there were 2 tournaments a day at 4pm and 9pm which is perfect if you want to laze the day away on the beach.
- Event 1 $300 Limit Hold'em had 35 entries and was won by Scott Ainger $4,580
- Event 2 $100 No Limit Hold'em was won by Mark Monogue $3,060
- Event 3 $300 No Limit Hold'em drew 48 players and was won by Russ Hamilton from Las Vegas $5,590
- Event 4 $100 Limit Hold'em was won by Wasyl Zaliwiciw from Philidelphia $2,680
- Event 5 $300 Pot Limit Hold'em unsurprisingly went to a European Kim Neilson from Denmark $3,270
- Event 6 $100 Omaha Hi/Lo went to Mary Ann Favlonnis from Egg Harbor $2,050
- Event 7 $500 No Limit Hold'em was won by Robert Sturgeon from Los Altos $7,370
- Event 8 $100 Limit Hold'em was won by Susie Isaacs from Las Vegas $3,310
- Event 9 drew only 9 players for the $500 Pot Limit Omaha so it looks as though the Americans have thrown in the towel in Pot Limit games. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot from England took the spoils and $8,150
- Event 10 was a $100 Tag Team Hold'em & Stud tournament which went to Bonnie Damiano and Chris Bigler $2,910
- Event 11 $500 7-Card Stud went to Ilari Sahamies from Finland $6,630
- Event 12 $100 No Limit Hold'em was won by Enrique Vegas $2,960
Over at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles we have had the Big Poker Oktober which drew some great fields. I will give a brief list of the winners as there is a full report on each event on the website.
- Event 1 $50 Limit Holdem Tony Abesamis $7,025
- Event 2 $100 Limit Hold'em Anthony Tran $6,575
- Event 3 $100 No Limit Hold'em Justin Westmoreland $19,255
- Event 4 $100 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo Men Nguyen $5,670
- Event 5 $100 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tom Roach $6,975
- Event 6 $200 Limit Hold'em Farhang Ebadipour $11,965
- Event 7 $100 7-Card Stud Binh Do $4,315
- Event 8 $100 Lowball Boris Kolas $5,335
- Event 9 $200 Limit Hold'em Minh Ly $12,765
- Event 10 $300 No Limit Hold'em Joe Grew $37,955
- Event 11 $200 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo Fran Pinchot $7,745
- Event 12 $200 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Van Pham $7,175
- Event 13 $100 BPO Appreciation Tournament Alvaro Vasquez $18,255
At the Canterbury Park Card Club we have had the 2nd Annual Fall Classic. The winners were:
- Event 1 $100 Limit Hold'em Steve Hannaford $7,178
- Event 2 $100 No Limit Hold'em Svetoslav Nechev $6,634
- Event 3 $200 Limit Hold'em Tom Lynch $9,312
- Event 4 $200 No Limit Hold'em John Oetker $8,303
- Event 5 $200 Omaha Ho/Lo Robert Keating $6,637
- Event 6 $200 7-Card Stud Lawrence McDowell $6,363
- Event 7 $200 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo Bob Bronemann $6,208
- Event 8 $300 Limit Hold'em Andy Rich $12,687
- Event 9 $100 Ladies Hold'em Denise Carter $1,702
- Event 10 $300 No Limit Hold'em Dave Fousek $12,338
- Event 11 $300 Omaha Hi/Lo John Olson $8,730
- Event 12 $300 7-Card Stud Tony Townsend $5,238
- Event 13 $500 Limit Hold'em Bill 'BK' Knight
- Event 14 $1,000 No Limit Holdem Joe Brodsky $50,828
- Event 15 $200 Limit Hold'em Dan Bakker $5,354
Thunder by the Bay took place between the 12th and 19th October at the Casino San Pablo in California:
- Event 1 $50 Limit Hold'em Richard Santos $16,190
- Event 2 $100 No Limit Hold'em Toru Takada $8,750
- Event 3 $100 Limit Hold'em Martin Corpuz $7,000
- Event 4 $50 7-Card Stud Carson Ballantine $5,980
- Event 5 $100 Omaha Hi/Lo Ren DeDios $7,875
- Event 6 $100 Limit Hold'em Lam Ha Hoang $7,000
- Event 7 $100 Limit Hold'em Beth Dimaya $4,920
- Event 8 £100 Limit Hold'em Steve Schulman $8,750
The Costa Rica Classic got off to a flying start with 268 players in the first event that managed a total of 5526 rebuys in this first event, bring the prize pool up to $55,145 which was won by Herb VanDyke.
The 2nd event which was also a No Limit Hold'em, attracted 238 players and the rebuys were up for this event, breaking the record of the day before with 5467, and Spider Webb took home $19,900 out of the $49,675 prize pool. The reigning World Poker Open champion won the 3rd event, and the field was much lower with 150 players and 703 rebuys, giving him a nice sum of $25,570 to take home.
The next Major Event is the World Poker Finals from Foxwoods Resort Casino between October 27th to November 17th which culminates in The World Poker Tour Main Event £10,000 No Limit Hold'em.
The player who's 'HOT' since the last newsletter is a bit hard seeing as there were so many tournaments and no one had a run of results so I'm going to elect Richard Santos from Freemont, CA who won Event 1 at Thunder by the Bay $16,190. This followed him winning Event 4 at The Four Queens $14,340.
The World Series of Poker this week announced the dates for 2003. The casino employees event kicks off on the 15th of April and starts the 34th WSOP 35 events in total without the main 5 day event. There will be a media event, and the Seniors event. The final of the main event will take place on Friday May 23rd. For more details click here.
Look out to see who's 'HOT' in the next newsletter.
By Kevin Pratt
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Poker In Europe
Kevin Pratt of PokerPages writes about Poker in Europe
The only festival going on in Europe at the moment is the Moscow Open at the Cosmos Casino in Moscow Russia. Poker in Russia is growing at a rapid pace with some sort of tournament going on nearly every day in Moscow. I was over there earlier in the year and was treated very well and found Russia an enjoyable experience.
- Event 1 drew 71 entries for the $200 No Limit Texas Hold'em and was won by Oleg Kushnarenko from Russia $11,402
- Event 2 had 63 entries for the $200 Pot Limit Omaha and was won by Akop Vardanyan from Armenia $11,020
- Event 3 $300 Pot Limit 7 Card Stud went to Englishman Shaun Hayes $10,033 who has shown a liking to Stud as he won a few tournaments in Slovenia last year.
- Event 4 $300 Pot Limit Hold'em was an English victory again as Garry Bush surged to the top of the European Rankings by winning $16,340.
There are still 4 tournament results to come from Moscow including the main Event $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Freezout and I will bring the results in the next newsletter.
As soon as Moscow is finished most of the players are heading down to the Taleon Club in St Petersburg Russia for the European Nations Poker Team Challenge. The top 4 ranked English players Jac Arama, Garry Bush, Carlos Citrone and Simon 'Aces' Trumper all failed to make the English team although they are going to the event for the supporting tournaments.
Currently the English team consists of Murray Brown, Surinder Sunar, Ben Roberts, Julian Gardner, Peter Costa and Ram Vaswani.
Other confirmed teams are from France (captain Pascal Perrault), Scotland (captain Stewart Carnegie) Sweden (captain Ken Lennard), Finland (captain Aki Pyssing) and Holland (captain Marcel Luske).
Kevin Pratt
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Poker in the U.K.
Kevin Pratt of the PokerPages Team writes about poker in the UK.
Since the last newsletter we have had the European Poker Classics at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. As always this was a well attended venue with large prize pools.
Event 1 £200 Pot Limit Hold'em always draws a big crowd and this was no exception. The Vic packed in 166 players which is probably the maximum allowed and there were 169 rebuys which produced a total prize pool of £67,000. Y. Xirotyris came in first and picked up £25,460.
Event 2 £500 Pot Limit 7 Card Stud had 88 entries and was won by F. Santos from Spain £16,530
Event 3 £500 Pot Limit Omaha also had 88 entries with G. Crawley winning £24,890 The $500 buy in No Limit Hold'em Event 4 had a great turnout of 154 players and it was left to a lady to show the way. Lucy Rokach from England won £36,765 to underline why she is the best female player in England, if not Europe. Lucy is a tremendously aggressive player who will not be bullied out of a pot easily so trying to bluff her is a foolish move as I found out to my cost once.
Top French player Pascal Perrault who has had some of his best results at the 'Vic' was back in winning ways again by taking Event 5 £200 Pot Limit Hi/Lo and £19,228.
The Main Event was the £2,000
No Limit Hold'em which attracted 107 entries and produced a prize pool of £214,000. Ross Boatman from The Hendon Mob took the honours and it was a popular success. Ross has had a few seconds this year so it was great to see him take first spot and £74,000.
The full results from each event are on the website if you want to check out the minor positions.
The other tournament that was scheduled in England was the U.K Masters, a long established festival at The Rainbow in Birmingham. Unfortunately this event was cancelled.
The next action in the U.K includes The Harbour Lights at Brighton, The Northern Lights at Blackpool and The Irish Winter Tournament in Dublin. Keep up to date with all the results as they happen by visiting the tournament results section of the PokerPages website.
Finally there is a new poker club that has opened in Dublin called Full House Poker. They are running a €100 + €10 No Limit Hold'em tournament on Sunday 8th December which they have called The Irish Masters.
Good luck to all of the Players in the U.K and Ireland over the next few weeks as there is plenty of choice as to where to play.
Don't forget that you can still win a $10,000 seat at The World Poker Open by entering The WPO warm up on PokerPages for free so tell your friends.
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
Twelve months after the closure of Poker at Adelaide Casino some of the local Poker enthusiasts have built their own club and become the South Australian branch of The Australian Poker Association (APA).
Thanks to Glen Athanassiou who has taken on this enormous task, Poker survives in the city of churches. With the help of the New South Wales branch of The APA this venture looks like being a hit with all of the local players and may even attract a few new ones.
The game will work like this. It will operate from 5pm on Sunday night and will run until 3am the next morning with each week beginning with a short No Limit Holdem freezeout tournament. Membership is required and is currently a very reasonable $20 per year. The game is located close to Adelaide city and will be a 5/10, round of each, Holdem/Omaha game. Professional dealers have volunteered their services for free and tipping is not permitted. To cover costs a nominal charge per player per hour will be charged, currently set at $5.
For more information, and membership forms, contact Glen "Gofor" Athanassio, South Australian Representative of Australian Poker Association on 0416 353 380 or 08-8460 6082, anytime. Alternatively you can email him at glengofor@pokernetwork.com.
I am sure that this South Australian experiment will be looked at very closely by many interested parties from around Australia who have talked about doing something like this for a long time. Perhaps this is the stimulus to show players that the home game is still alive and organized games can be run with a little effort.
Now, at last, I have an excuse to visit Adelaide.
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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