PokerStars Launching Live Tournaments in Mexico, Bulgaria
Not willing to settle for a dozen different live poker tours and events around the world, PokerStars has announced the creation of two more international tournaments, one in Mexico and the other in Bulgaria.
From August 19th through August 22nd, Mexico City’s Casino Life del Valle will serve as host to the First National Poker Tournament, the likes of which have never been seen in the country. The tournament will begin with a maximum capacity of 300 players, who will compete until 90 remain. Those 90 advance to the semi-finals, with the eventual top ten finishers moving on to the August 22nd grand final. The champion of the grand final will win $1 million pesos and a seat in the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final in Argentina, slated for September 22nd through September 26th.
Starting stacks will be 10,000 chips and blind levels win run for 30 minutes. This may seem short, but the tournament will be played on electronic poker tables, which will allow for faster deals, virtually no wait in between hands, and no dealer errors that necessitate calls for the floor.
Team PokerStars pro Angel Guillen, who hails from Mexico City, will be playing in the tournament. Guillen turned heads at the 2009 World Series of Poker when he finished second in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event and then a week and a half later bested 1,533 other players to win his first gold bracelet the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event. He banked over $840,000 in those two tournaments combined.
Players can enter the First National Poker Tournament in one of three ways: a) via a $10,000 + $1,000 peso direct buy-in, b) through free daily qualifiers on PokerStars.net, and c) via live daily satellites at the casino.
Just a couple weeks later across the Atlantic, Varna, Bulgaria will be the setting for the PokerStars Balkan Poker Festival. Held at the Grand Hotel Casino International at the Golden Sands resort on the shore of the Black Sea from September 2nd through September 5th, the tournament will be capped at 200 players and will feature a €900 + €90 buy-in. No details have been released on the prize structure, but PokerStars has guaranteed the winner a European Poker Tour prize package valued at €5,300. As usual, PokerStars will be running qualifiers for prize packages that include a Balkan Poker Festival buy-in, hotel accommodation, and cash for expenses. Satellites will also be held at the host casino.
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Poker slang:
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
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