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The Onyx Cup Series, a series of 6 high buy-in and high stakes events, taking place in the United States, Europe and Asia, has created a huge buzz in the community of poker players. Anyone interested in poker is to discuss the event in the poker forums and blogs, poker pros have posted critical comments on this and poker authors have given their take on this event live poker high level.

Onyx Cup Series is believed to be the biggest poker event ever drawn up for the buy-in and prize pools. Players must buy-in tournaments these high-stakes anywhere between $ 100k and $ 250k. Champion receives a slice of a huge prize pool of $ 30 million brand-new sports car, and prizes, and the event will be televised worldwide fame 40. The series is scheduled to begin in Las Vegas, a $ 100k buy-in tournament live poker and ends in Las Vegas, the Grand Finale, where the buy-in is $ 250k. Of course, the event has attracted much interest and criticism.

Poker experts expressed their view that Full Tilt Poker has launched the Onyx Series Cup at the wrong time when a large part of the world population is still struggling to survive after the economic downturn cost them their jobs. The best professional poker playing poker tournaments with higher stakes to win 30 million dollars can be bad, experts say. However, many believe the event will be very difficult for professional poker players, giving them the opportunity to escape the boredom.

The Onyx Cup Series can also create competition and friction between Poker stars and Full Tilt Poker, triggering policy events. These places do not take kindly pro team members participate in tournaments to high stakes run by rivals. Poker stars or even prohibits team members to participate in Onyx Pro Cup Series.

Many people in the poker community the feeling that the Onyx Cup is just not made for the average player. It is an event designed especially for the players in the poker world, which have a huge fan base and a bankroll and can certainly afford to pay $ 100 thousand to $ 250k entry to these events. From Full Tilt Poker is running for qualifying for this event, we could expect some new faces too.

Tweet Monday as an expert poker Kathy Liberty hinted at changes to Poker Stars is the major poker site in the world. “I heard that Poker stars had cut many of their Pro-Team Take it or leave recompense Greg Raymer has done  …” He follow his voice, saying: “I think it is a bad business choice to cut costs, but most do not get a improved deal, then will remain.”

Raymer won the primary in 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event Poker Stars colleague and former Queen of the World Poker Tour Championship winner David Williams, a payment of $ 5 million. He added that his legacy for the popularization of the “fossil man” sunglasses and actively participate in the Poker Players Alliance, the voice of the poker industry’s main lobby. He also finished third in the event Licensee without limit $ 40,000 in the 2009 WSOP for $ 775,000.

Over on TwoPlusTwo, a conversation between Raymer and Poker Stars pro Pat Pezzin that occurred at a Poker Stars table appeared. In it, Pezzin asked the 2004 Main Event champ, “Why don’t you have red star by your name?” Raymer responded, “Long story, call me if you’d like.” Raymer’s likeness no longer appears on Poker Stars’ website and he would be the second former Main Event champ to leave the room in the last two years after Peter East gate abruptly retired last July.

TwoPlusTwo posters quickly weighed in on Raymer’s apparent separation from Poker Stars. One member wondered whether “Fossil man” would pop up at another online poker site in the future: “Wow that’s pretty surprising. Raymer is probably one of their top 5 pros and probably the best spoken of all of them. Should be interesting to see if someone else sweeps in to grab him.” Another member added, “Out of the first 5 champions of the boom era, not only is Greg clearly the best, he’s the only one you could accurately call a real poker player. He wasn’t world class and he wasn’t a full-time pro, but he was definitely a poker player.”

Longtime online poker player Cliff “Johnny ax” Josephy, who is a former sponsored pro of Ultimate Bet, gave his two cents: “I think it is pretty simple. I don’t think it is anything personal against Greg, as he has been a very good ambassador. Poker Stars has already saturated the USA and they feel there are better places to put their marketing $ to work.” A request for comment from Raymer sent by Poker News Daily was not returned at press time. Poker Stars has also not commented on the news.

Team Poker Stars Pro has seen 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel and high-stakes online poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom join its ranks in recent months. Last November during the WSOP Main Event November Nine weekend in Las Vegas, Poker Stars announced the signings Williams and North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun Main Event champ Vanessa Selbst.

Four former Main Event winner – Tom McEvoy (1983), Chris Moneymaker (2003) and Joe Hachem (2005) and Joe Cada (2009) – remain in the Poker stars’ roster Other team members are Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Dennis E. Phillips Daniel Negreanu.

Whatever the reason for leaving Raymer, a member TwoPlusTwo perhaps summarize the feelings of the community of online poker the best:. “A great player and ambassador for the game I do not remember another player doing interviews so much over the years he became champion of poker. Out” losses. “