PokerStars introduces new Turbo Fifty50 SNG with a Promo

PokerStars is currently running a promotion for introducing their new type of Sit & Go tourney, called the 'Fifty50'! This tourney is similar to the 'Double or Nothing' style except half the prizepool is a standard payout and the other half is divided among the remaining players via chip count. They want everyone to try this new format. so if you deposit at least $50 using the code FIFTY50 they will instantly credit you with a '$5.24 Turbo Fifty50 Sit & Go' entry - for free! Just deposit before January 30th!

I did my deposit today and played my ticket. Took 18 minutes to complete. ICM has a huge implication near the bubble. Otherwise, keep trying to chip up on the bubble to gain that extra equity. GL at the tables!

WBCOOP - Day 1 PLO

Today was Day 1 of the WBCOOP 2011. This year, instead of having everyone qualify for the finals, they run 6 preliminary tournaments from Monday to Saturday where the top 200 finishers in each win a seat to the Sunday Final which has a prizepool over $30K in SCOOP prizes.

Each priminary tournament has a prizepool close to $5000 in SCOOP tickets.

In the first WBCOOP Prelinary Tournament, I came 122/540 and received a free SCOOP - $11 Entry! Time to robusto it up! Thanks PokerStars!

2011 PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) is back

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 202685

A PokerStars Promotion that Delivered

I'm a man who likes his equity, so when PokerStars offered up their new Micro Mania promotion, being the equity no that I am, I jumped on it.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/micromania-north-america/

This promotion entailed the player to make a Deposit or Reload. In my case, I made a $10 reload using the promotional code 'Mania' and received a $1.10 ticket to the weekly ‘MicroMania: Sunday Million $1.10’ qualifier which has 25 seats guaranteed each week.

I finally got around to playing it this weekend after prior commitments for the past 2 weeks. I sat out the first 3-4 levels as I ran errands earlier in the day. The structure is one of my favourites, the 10-minute fast structure blind levels. All in all, it took 4.5 hours of grinding, 2000 players eliminating each other until 25 remained, a bit of luck and I was eventually one of the lucky 25 to win my $215 seat.

So while small, the promotion still worked out :) Thanks PokerStars

Congrats to ACHEN for the shippage!

I'd like to give a shoutout to my friend's brother, Andrew Chen aka achen, who took down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $5K Bounty Shootout. It worked as a triple 6-max shootout and achen made it to a tough final table against the likes of Shaun Deeb and Nick Binger. In the end, it was a beautiful AhJh on a Jxx (2 heart board) where he got them all in 3 ways and made the flush on the turn to lock up the tourney win! In total he won $10K (winning first table) + $40K (winning second table) + $213K (winning final table and tourney) + 6K (for 6 KO Bounties) for a grand total of $269K! What a sweet way to kick off the new year! Congrats Andrew, best of luck to yah!