GPL and UB to Jointly Host Landmark Event

The Global Poker League is an interesting organization that has started to get together the concept of regular professional poker leagues in much the same way that organized sports work to this day. UB.com is of course a well known online poker site endorsed by Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. When you combine those two things, what you have at the end of the day is a UB franchise that is willing to host GPL events in order to drum up more interest in the overall competition.

The GPL events will be both team based and individually based on the UB server. At the time of writing, dozens of different teams had already signed up with locations in Canada, USA, Russia, Germany, Spain and even Afghanistan, showing the truly worldwide phenomenon that online poker has become.

In terms of individuals, GPL events have already had thousands of different signups with primarily males in their 20s making up the bulk of the entrants into the competition. There is much diversity to be had amongst the signups though and that is why both the GPL and UB.com are excited about all of the possibilities in store for this particular online poker event.

The way the system works is simple. There are three periods to the regular season, each of which is good for 50 days. Any player ending up in the top 50% of people playing in the season is a player that will make it to the playoffs. Players that are able to enter the sit and go tournaments and play well over many of them will therefore not only receive their share of the prize pool, but will also be able to go onto bigger and better things once the playoffs come along.

During the playoffs, money that has been taken from sit and go prize pools throughout the season will be up for grabs. Because three 50-day seasons will have been involved by that time, the prize pool will be quite exceptional and it will give players the chance to play for something significantly larger than they had been playing for up to that particular point in time. Overall, this definitely lays the groundwork for what will be an interesting time had by all.

Poker Stars Encouraging Women to Satellite into PCA

The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is one of the highlight tournaments held live every year under the Poker Stars banner. One thing that makes this event such a great one each year is that there is a Main Event set aside just for women, a trend that will continue during the 2011 iteration of the event scheduled to start on January 6th and continue all the way through to the 16th.

To get into the event which will be held at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, women will need to win their way through a series of different satellite tournaments. There are $11 rebuy events taking place everyday at Poker Stars and in addition to that there are also $33 freezeout events happening on the same site. Winning any of these satellite tournaments will get you into the final satellite tournament where one seat to the tournament will be available for every $3480 in the prize pool as that is the exact value of the prize package that is being given out this year.

What makes this prize package so special is the fact that not only do you get the $1000 needed to buy into the tournament, but you can also go right ahead and get a lot of other perks such as $300 free for enrolment into a boot camp taught before the tournament by none other than Vanessa Rousso.

The powers that be in both the online and offline poker communities understand that one of the reasons that poker has not grown as much in the last five years of the 2000s as it did during the first five (after the obvious legal situations) is that the poker community has not done enough to get women to become a part of it.

This is why events like the women’s main event at the PCA are so important and it is also why several high-profile women poker professionals will also be making appearances to play. These include but are not limited to Vicky Coren, Katja Thater and the aforementioned Vanessa Rousso.

WPT France Entry Celebrated at Party Poker

The World Poker Tour has been all over the place in Europe, but one country has been notably absent from the proceedings at Party Poker This country is of course France, but recent procurements in the legal structure of the country have started to allow poker events to take place within its borders.

As a result, the World Poker Tour has added a stop in Amneville to the overall tournament tour and this in turn will allow the French population to get more directly involved in the expanding poker activities taking place all over the world.

This year, WPT Amneville will be starting on November 2nd and will run through to November 6th In order to celebrate this newfound interest in their poker tournament series, Party Poker ahs decided to pull out all of the stops and host one of the most involved satellite tournament structures available for any WPT event in their history At least, this is true relative to the size of the event in its first year.

Players that are able to wade through the satellite structure at Party Poker will receive a WPT Amneville prize package that is worth $7000 This includes not only the $4500 that is needed for a buy-in at the event, but it also includes money on top of that for you to spend on accommodations, travel and spending money during the times when you are in the city but not necessarily playing poker at one of the tournament tables.

Another thing that players will get from this prize package is the hospitality of the Party Poker online poker organization, something that has been world renowned for some time especially as it relates to their World Poker Tour festivities.

This time around however, Party Poker will be pulling out all the stops to make sure that their online poker operation goes as smoothly as possible A successful 2010 WPT Amneville festival will certainly give rise to more stops in France in the future and that of course is what Party Poker is after A good investment for the present that allows players to truly appreciate this tournament will lead to even better things down the road.

World Poker Tour Festa al Lago big at Party Poker

The World Poker Tour Festa al Lago tournament is one of the more popular ones each year, partially because of the fact that it comes with an impressive prize pool that numbers in the seven or even eight figure range and partially because it is run at the Las Vegas Bellagio, one of the legendary casinos of the world.

Whatever the reason, people do seem to take an intense liking to this tournament and Party Poker has recognized that enough to run a series of new online poker promotions that deal with the Festa al Lago.

Players can start from the bottom playing for $2 or less in tournaments that allow them to go through different steps until they get into a qualifier that allows them to win a prize package by winning the tournament. In this way, it is possible for you to parlay nothing, $2 or $9 into a seat at the event and potentially a six-figure payday if you are able to get high enough in the final tournament rankings. Players going from the freeroll and $2 qualifiers can win their way into the $9 qualifier and from that point you have a chance of exactly 10% to get into a tournament that offers one of the prize packages.

If you’d prefer to skip all of that and just take a shot at the prize package right away, you can enter the daily satellite tournament that allows you to get in for $75 + $5. The same 10% number applies here to players that get directly to the full $700 + $50 satellite taking place each Sunday which awards at least one prize package per tournament.

Any players winning a prize package will be claiming a prize worth $14,000 in value. This includes not only the buy-in for the tournament which is worth $10,000 + $300, but also an extra $2000 to spend and seven nights at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas. Overall, it is one of the juicier prize packages offered by Party Poker and there is no reason why someone can’t parlay a single-digit buy-in into one of the biggest tournament stakes in history.

Play Aces Poker Offering Players the Full Package

Play Aces Poker has become an online poker site of noteworthiness lately through not only its creation out of other online poker sites like Sportsbook Poker, but also the fact that its tumultuous creation has apparently allowed it to prosper.

Another reason that Play Aces Poker has the ability to prosper in these tough economic times is the fact that its software package appears to be rich in features. Some of these features are relatively standard in the world of modern online poker, but some of them are not.

In the standard column would be things like the bad beat jackpot, although the one with Play Aces Poker activates the jackpot at a loss with four of a kind in sevens or higher, something that is a bit lower than many other online poker websites that have been around a lot longer. The time back feature that allows you to call for time on a particularly difficult decision is another example of a great feature that is standard in the world of online poker today.

Other relatively standard features from Play Aces Poker include the ability to play poker instantly if you are not too picky about the type or the place, the ability to play more than one table at the same time, the ability to use emoticons in real player chat and the ability to take notes on the other players.

All of these features are great, but they can be seen anywhere. What really makes Play Aces Poker such a great online poker website is the fact that it has a lot of great features that are less common in the world of online poker. These features include the “deal it twice” function which allows you to deal a hand twice just like you’ve seen on television shows like High Stakes Poker. You can also go rabbit hunting, giving you the opportunity to see cards that would have come up on the board after a hand was folded before the river. If you’re looking to put an opponent on tilt, you can even choose to expose just one of your hole cards to keep them guessing.

Poker Stars Offering EPT London Prize Packages

The European Poker Tour (EPT) has many great stops but the Ladies Event that takes place during the London leg of the tour is definitely one of the highlights of the overall tour. Many women poker players have been put on the map by their victory in ladies events, two popular examples being Jennifer Tilly at the World Series of Poker Ladies Event and Vicky Coren who won this particular tournament four years ago.

Poker Stars is definitely eager to send some of its own female players to this tournament and that is why they will be holding satellite events that will have GBP 1500 prize packages available covering entry into this particular tournament.

Entry into the actual tournament with a prize package is $109 and these tournaments will be held at 1530 ET on August 9th as well as on the 16th, 23rd and the 30th. All four of these tournaments will result in the winner getting a seat to the EPT London event in question.

As is usually the case for these types of qualifiers, players that are not interested in paying that much money can go for super satellite tournaments to try and win their way into the final qualification event. In this way, it is possible for a player to pay as little as $3.30 to get into a satellite tournament and then parlay that seat through victory into a seat at the $109 tournament and eventually the main EPT London event.

The smaller qualifiers will run throughout the month of August with different qualifiers on a weekly basis draining into the final tournaments on the dates mentioned above. Furthermore, Poker Stars will also offer freeroll qualification tournaments for people that would like to pay an even smaller amount of money to beat a larger field to earn that spot in the final.

Overall, Poker Stars offers many different options for people that are interested in getting a seat at the table. That is why it is definitely a good idea for you to play online poker here for the next little while if getting to the EPT London is something you want to do.