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Poker Scene News
In this section we provide you with all the latest news from the Global Poker Scene. We keep you up to date with the most interesting and relevent poker news from the all around the world.
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PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Starts with a Bang
September 20th, 2006 | Poker News
This year’s record breaking World Championship of Online Poker which is held on PokerStars every year is underway and the first four events have been completed with $3.6million of prize money already won.
The WCOOP is running until October 1st with at least one event every day and is the online equivilent to the World Series […]
Titan Poker launches $1million Freeroll
September 20th, 2006 | Poker News
Titan Poker has launched an innovate and exciting new promotion offering a $1million Freeroll to the users of its site.
Now the thing that is different about this promotion is that the final Freeroll tournament will only have 20 entrants and the $1million prize pool will be split between just those 20 finalists. […]
2006 World Championship of Online Poker
September 13th, 2006 | Poker News
Online version of WSOP commences on Sept 16th.
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the largest poker tournament series held online. Every year PokerStars host a two week extravaganza for Online Poker Players which is dubbed the online equivalent to the World Series of Poker.
This year is no different and the 2006 […]
Online Tournaments - Weekend Roundup 10th Sept
September 13th, 2006 | Poker News
Action from Sunday 10th September
The action is complete from the weekend’s big internet tournaments. Let’s take a look at what happened at each of these tournaments.
Pokerstars Sunday Million
This was the final Sunday Million tournament for a little while as it now takes a break to make way for The PokerStars World Championship of Online […]
Online Tournaments - Weekend Roundup 3rd Sept
September 5th, 2006 | Poker News
Action from Sunday 3rd September
Another weekend passes and as usual the action is complete from the weekend’s big internet tournaments. Let’s take a look at what happened at each of these tournaments.
Pokerstars Sunday Million
The PokerStars weekly showcase Sunday Million tournament with a buy-in of $200+$15 attracted 5,699 entries this week which meant a total prize […]
Jamie Gold Wins 2006 WSOP Main Event
August 11th, 2006 | Poker News
Chip leader going into the final table Jamie Gold has followed that through by winning the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event. Gold has been at or near the chip lead ever since day 3 and he went into the final table with a chip stack of 27 million, which was more than 10 […]
$500 Prize fund for Poker Professor Private Tournament
August 10th, 2006 | Poker News
Poker Professor today announced our first Community event. We will be holding a private poker tournament for our community members on Sunday 20th August.
We’ve put together a huge prize pool for this event and the total prize fund will be a minimum of $500. We want to make this tournament available to as many of […]
Final Table – Only Millionaires allowed!
August 9th, 2006 | Poker News
There were 12 new Millionaires at the World Series of Poker Main Event yesterday. Pokers biggest ever tournament meant that the top 12 finishers all receive in excess of $1 million in prize money.
At the end of play on Tuesday the field had been narrowed from its initial entrants of 8,773 down to the final […]
WSOP Main Event down to 27 players
August 8th, 2006 | Poker News
The World Series of Poker Main Event being held at The Rio in Las Vegas finds itself in ahead of schedule at the end of play on Monday. Originally the schedule said the day was supposed to end when they reached the 75 players left mark, but as this was achieved so early play continued […]
Full Tilt Qualifiers in Hunt for $10million Jackpot
August 7th, 2006 | Poker News
Four internet qualifiers who earnt their seats to the World Series of Poker Main Event via online satellite tournaments at FullTilt Poker are still in with a chance of earning a massive $10 million bonus that FullTilt Poker have promised to them if one of them wins the Main Event.
The prize money for the main […]
