2011 January 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings
We’ve got your preview of the World Series of Poker Europe on ESPN preview, a look at the Full Tilt Poker $25,000 Invitational Shootout from the Aussie Millions, and more. So get reading.
Kicking off on Full Tilt Poker on February 6th is the 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The quarterly tournament extravaganza boasts a slate of 45 events this time around and features not one, not two, not three, but nine multi-entry tournaments.
CardRunners instructor Verneer joins our newsmaker hotline to discuss his charity drive to turn a $200 bankroll on Full Tilt Poker into $10,000 and give it all away to charity. Verneer is planning to not just catalog his climb in the micro-stakes games but also make training videos to watch on CardRunners so that people can emulate his rise and grind out a big bankroll for themselves as well.
A recent sighting of 1994 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner Russ Hamilton in a Florida poker room and a verbal altercation at the tables have sparked the ire of the poker community once again.
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has announced plans for a live poker tour to land in Eastern Europe in 2011. The site confirmed this week that the Eureka Poker Tour will launch in March and offer affordable buy-ins to players residing in the Eastern Hemisphere and online qualifiers from around the world.
We take a look at the high-stakes online cash games that have been running on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. Patrik Antonius, Daniel Cates, and Bryn Kenney found success this week.
The Minnesota Vikings might have fallen woefully short of the Super Bowl, but the team’s star running back, Adrian Peterson, is hosting a celebrity poker tournament two days prior to the “Big Game” in Dallas on Friday, February 4th. The proceeds from Adrian Peterson’s All-In Celebrity Poker Tournament will benefit Peterson’s All Day Foundation, which, according to a press release, “creates educational experiences and enrichment opportunities for underserved children.”
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