Freeroll Qualifiers Going Now For First-Ever Baltic Festival
September 28, 2009
PokerStars is running freeroll qualifiers now for free entry into its first ever Baltic Festival. The PokerStars Baltic Festival Freerolls run every night at 1 pm ET and 3:30 pm ET through October 20, each one awarding 4 seats in the following Saturday’s $215 Weekly Finals, at each of which 10 Baltic Festival prize packages will be given away.
The live Baltic Festival tournament will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from October 28 – 31. The $2,800 Baltic Festival prize package includes the 1,100 Euros buy-in, 5 nights of luxury accommodations at the Swissotel Tallinn (where the tournament is to take place), plus $500 to spend as you like.
In addition to the daily Baltic Festival Freeroll qualifiers, Poker Stars is also running several daily Baltic Festival qualifiers:
* one costing $1.10 and starting at 1:30 pm ET, each awarding 1 seat in the weekly finals
* one costing $22 (running Sundays – Fridays) starting at 2 pm ET, each awarding 5 seats in the weekly finals
Poker Stars is also running $33 rebuy Second Chance qualifiers every Sunday at 1 pm each awarding 5 extra Baltic Festival prize packages.
WPT Champion Wins WCOOP Heads-Up Event
September 14, 2009
The Poker Stars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is still raging and after a power-packed weekend, there are several online poker players a heck of a lot richer. For example, one Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is $140,000 richer after taking down Event #24, the $530 Heads-Up event. He beat out JakusKhan, who took the $120,000 second prize. The thing is, Katchalov already has over $3 million in poker winnings, including a World Poker Tour title.
In 2007 Katchalov, hailing originally from Kiev, Ukraine and more recently from Brooklyn, New York, won the Bellagio Cup III and its $118,785 top prize. But he won most of his nearly $3 million in December of 2007 with an almost $2.5 million win at the World Poker Tour Season 6: WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
The WCOOP HU event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and was the first at this year’s PokerStars WCOOP to have an overlay (1,564 players came up short $218,000.
Big Big-Money Sunday Turnout & WCOOP 2009 Kick-Off Reminder
September 2, 2009
This past Sunday, August 30, in stark contrast to the unfortunate overlays of late, so many people registered for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up that the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool increased to $820,000 – making the first prize $128,000 which went to CucbKu after chopping the pot with the runner-up Jarfish, who got a respectable $101,000 for his showing.
Meanwhile, 8,933 players turned out for the PokerStars Sunday Million bring the prize pool to $1.7 million. In that event 1,350 players cashed, and the final 5 players chopped the pot, CesarSPA who had the chip lead, and so took the nearly $209,000 lion’s share even though he only came in second, and angiebug4 coming back from the short stack to win the event and take hom nearly $127,000.
Meanwhile, don’t forget, the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) starts tomorrow, with $40 million guaranteed is cash prizes.
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