Poker News: WSOP Announces Revamped WSOP Circuit

By blogadmin on Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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WSOP Poker News: WSOP Circuit has been a slow death for years, the decline in participation due to lack of television coverage and competition with other newer poker tournaments and the different poker news. Now, the management of the World Series of Poker has responded to the modernization of the circuit with a series of modifications to make it more attractive to players of all levels and bankroll.

The 12-stop schedule for the season 2010-11 WSOP Circuit will see the standard buy-ins, textures and disbursements at each stop on the circuit. This includes a $ 1,500 buy-in main event at every stop of the circuit, down $ 5.000 for the level of recent years, and $ 10,000 in the year of the circuit is open. But four stops on the schedule – Horseshoe Hammond outside Chicago, Harrah’s Atlantic City, Harrah Rincon outside San Diego, and Harrah’s New Orleans – will sport a $ 10,000 buy-in regional championships will each receive two hours of coverage on ESPN.

Players in each event WSOP Circuit gold ring will receive points toward a new cumulative points system similar to the WSOP player of the year the points system. The first 36 players in the standings at the end of the season of the circuit will receive an invitation to play in a WSOP Circuit Championship $ 1,000,000 National at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Other players who will receive invitations to play in the case includes any player who accumulates the most points on each circuit during the off season, each circuit stop Main Event champion, and every player who makes the final table in one of four Regional Championships $ 10,000. The tournament winner will receive a National Championship World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

“We found the WSOP Circuit events needed breathe of fresh air, and we believe we have responded to steroids,” said Ty Stewart, director of the WSOP. “The new model is just the WSOP is all about; to give poker players of all bankrolls the opportunity to compete for fame, fortune and respect that comes only WSOP bracelet and a nationwide TV audience.”

World Series Poker Circuit season starts Aug. 19 at the Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa, a stop sign, which had previously suffered from state laws to prevent the use of conference centers, poker tournaments, and being planned for the dead Iowa harsh winter.

Las Vegas, The Biggest Poker Have Found A New Home

By blogadmin on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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A sign that welcomes motorists and pedestrians, and how to make their way to the air inlet says, “the core business has shifted.” And ‘maybe poker room resort’s most true, that took a large part of Las Vegas’ high-stakes cash games open all year and a half ago. Over the years, when players are tired bankrolls the highest of the tournament grind the Rio during the World Series of Poker, they made a point to compete in the biggest cash games – the Bellagio.

It is no longer so simple, so Aria hosts as pegs nosebleeds many games as his own sister MGM Resorts International. “Wow make a difference,” popular Poker Pro Daniel Negreanu has posted on his Twitter account earlier this summer. “Never before have I never remember more than a place to see if there is a match.”

Adam Altwies, manager of the poker room, reported that Aria kept playing in the city with more than six times a week before the World Series began. He said Ivey Hall station, a coffee table-high stakes, regularly ran a mixed game of poker variations with a maximum of $ 1000 – $ 2000 blinds.

A typical buy-in for a game that high would be at least $100,000.

Bellagio still has plenty of pricey action, but its highest tables are usually no-limit hold’ em exclusively. Aria has become the home of the mixed games, a favorite of most veteran poker pros. “All the big names are coming to play here,” said Jean Robert-Bellande, a poker pro and ambassador of Aria’s poker room, earlier this summer. “A lot of people follow Daniel Negreanu on Twitter and he keeps talking about playing at Aria. We’ve had games with Doyle Brunson, Chau Giang, Abe Mosseri, Johnny Chan — all the biggest names in the industry.”

One of the hot topics among regulars at both Bellagio and Aria is which room is better. Walk up to a random high stakes cash player and they’re bound to have an opinion on the matter. Even before Bellande became officially associated with Aria, he pledged his allegiance to the room. Negreanu, on the other hand, seemed to anoint Bellagio as the best all-around experience for players in a recent blog post.

“They’re both good,” said poker pro David Williams. “I’ve been treated well at both, but I don’t have a reason to pick one or the other. For me, it’s wherever the good game is at. They have the high mixed games (at Aria), so this is where I come.”

The property’s staffs don’t look at it like the players, according to Altwies. He was, in fact, an employee of the Bellagio poker room before he moved over to Aria. “We don’t see it as a competition,” Altwies said. “It’s just one of those things where we knew there could be a lot of high limits in town. We knew both places could sustain the business we’re getting.”

The presence of stars like Brunson and Chan has, in turn, helped the rest of Aria’s poker room become busier. Around the time the big mixed game began running regularly, Aria decided to add 14 more poker tables across from the room.

They are used primarily for low stakes cash games and daily tournaments. Altwies wasn’t sure if he’d keep them after the World Series of Poker ended, but said now he believed the amount of business would demand it.

“You have a standard room poker and online poker You are the target,” said Altwies. “I think what we have is a goal. If you are a novice player somewhere in the Midwest, to see these guys on TV, you really want to shoot from near the public environment.”

Brunson & Williams has recently come out of the series of World Poker Main Event. Negreanu and Bellande still alive. Bellande Day 2B will play in Tuesday as Negreanu was increased to three days scheduled for Thursday. Even if they follow the footsteps of others at the World Series of Poker, it should not be difficult to track them down – head for the new center of action. “This is the poker room Ferrari,” said Bellande. “This is what we have here. You can not beat it.”

Professional Poker Tournaments

By blogadmin on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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Some of the biggest players in the poker tournament ever. Each has made millions of dollars in live tournaments and online poker.

Poker Tournament

Chris Ferguson
Chris Moneymaker
Daniel Negreanu
Doyle Brunson
Gus Hansen
Howard Lederer
Jennifer Harman
Johnny Chan
Phil Helmuth
Phil Ivey

Most people think that becoming a professional poker player results in sets of large amounts of money, but not always the case and there are thousands of examples of people doing a professional full-time poker tournament play only. There are at least a few thousand people playing online poker tournaments full time and earn a living. In some cases, players do not even play higher limits, but play a lot of volume.

There are several steps that must be followed if you are considering becoming a pro tournament. You must ensure you have a bankroll large enough, and I do not think a few hundred dollars. If you are serious about playing poker tournaments online full time, you must have a minimum of 1-2 years of expenses recorded in the bank. The hardest thing to play poker full time is to have the bankroll to cover your slowdowns is inevitable.

You can find tournament pros online that play all types of tournaments ranging from massive multi-table tournaments to simple heads-up tournaments. If you play heads-up tournaments you need to play a lot of volume in order to make sure you’re making the most possible income. The players that focus on MTT’s play far less volume, but they also have the trouble of trying to win big cash, which isn’t easy at all. MTT’s always pay out the top 1-2% of the tournament with the majority of the money so trying to become a pro playing MTT’s only can be a tough battle.

Many poker players started out playing online poker tournaments and one of the most popular names is Annette Obrestad. She is famously known for grinding online poker tournaments before ever becoming a known poker pro on the live circuit. Hundreds of other young poker players have also made the leap from playing casually to playing full-time over the years. It takes a lot of skill, money and discipline when you’re starting out, but after a couple years you should have enough saved up that you could make your way through any type of variance.

Great for playing online poker tournaments is that you do not have to worry about buy-in for $ 10K than you would if you were playing in the WSOP. Live Tournaments are great if you already have a huge bankroll, or if you are looking to get lucky once, but if you are seriously thinking of becoming a pro poker tournament you should concentrate on mastering the online gaming tournament.