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
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
WBCOOP
PokerStars has updated their WBCOOP (World Blogger Championship of Online Poker) Badge.
They have also informed me to tell you all to keep blogging because WBCOOP 2011 is coming up this January!
They have also informed me to tell you all to keep blogging because WBCOOP 2011 is coming up this January!
WCOOP Recap
I played a bunch of WCOOP this year thanks to PokerStar's satellite system. I was able to win my way into a lot of events on less than $300 in buyins.
In total, I played 1 x $109; 4-5 x $215; 1 x $265; 2 x $320
I think I cashed 2 or 3 times. Nothing deep, but was fun. Structure was great and stacks always seemed to be deep. Can't wait to SCOOP 2011 and WCOOP 2011. Need to work on my game to make better deep runs. glgl all
In total, I played 1 x $109; 4-5 x $215; 1 x $265; 2 x $320
I think I cashed 2 or 3 times. Nothing deep, but was fun. Structure was great and stacks always seemed to be deep. Can't wait to SCOOP 2011 and WCOOP 2011. Need to work on my game to make better deep runs. glgl all
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
SCOOP 2010 - 5 Days to go!
It just feels like yesterday when PokerStars annouced their 2010 SCOOP schedule. I plan on playing most of the Lower Tier buy-ins and some of the Medier Tier buy-ins (like the $109, $162 and $215s).
Whats great about a Series like this is that you get a great amount of variations of poker games besides the standard everyday Hold'em tournaments. Two of the different tournaments that I'm excited about is Event #4 FL Badugi and Event #29 8-Game!
8-Game is becoming a very popular game in the live and online world. It's become so popular that the WSOP has changed their $50K HORSE event to a $50K 8-Game event which is expected to be televised with an all NLHE Final Table.
Click here to learn How to Play 8 Game Mix.
I first heard of Badugi while attending the WSOP in 2006 where I saw it being played in the cash game area with the likes of Johnny Chan and Tim Phan. The game is believed to have originated in Korea and now becoming every popular in card rooms around the world, especially in the LA Area (eg Commerce Casino).
Click here to learn How to Play Badugi.
With SCOOP starting in less than 5 days away. I wish you the best of luck at the table, just not against me :)
Whats great about a Series like this is that you get a great amount of variations of poker games besides the standard everyday Hold'em tournaments. Two of the different tournaments that I'm excited about is Event #4 FL Badugi and Event #29 8-Game!
8-Game is becoming a very popular game in the live and online world. It's become so popular that the WSOP has changed their $50K HORSE event to a $50K 8-Game event which is expected to be televised with an all NLHE Final Table.
Click here to learn How to Play 8 Game Mix.
I first heard of Badugi while attending the WSOP in 2006 where I saw it being played in the cash game area with the likes of Johnny Chan and Tim Phan. The game is believed to have originated in Korea and now becoming every popular in card rooms around the world, especially in the LA Area (eg Commerce Casino).
Click here to learn How to Play Badugi.
With SCOOP starting in less than 5 days away. I wish you the best of luck at the table, just not against me :)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Getting Excited
PokerStars recently released their new 2010 SCOOP Poker Tournament schedule. The events start in the beginning of May, so I will be playing more at the tables to prepare myself for when it happens. Here are the following events I will most likely be playing:
Sunday, 02 May 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 02-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $500K guaranteed (2-day event)Event 02-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $2M guaranteed (2-day event)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 07-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [Heads-Up Match Play], $100K guaranteed
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 08-L: $11 NL Hold'em, $100K guaranteedEvent 08-M: $109 NL Hold'em, $200K guaranteed
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 12-L: NL Hold'em (TBD), $100K guaranteedEvent 12-M: NL Hold'em (TBD), $200K guaranteed
Friday, May 7, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 13-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [Ante Up!], $50K guaranteed
Friday, May 7, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 15-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [2X Chance, turbo], $250K guaranteedEvent 15-M: $162 NL Hold'em [2X Chance, turbo], $500K guaranteed
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 18-L: $22 FL Hold'em (turbo), $25K guaranteed
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 13:00 ETEvent 19-L: $22 NL Hold'em [big antes], $250K guarantee
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 20-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $500K guaranteed (2-day event)Event 20-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $2M guaranteed (2-day event)
Monday, May 10, 2010 20:00 ETEvent 23-L: $11 NL Hold'em [turbo, rebuys], $150K guaranteedEvent 23-M: $109 NL Hold'em [turbo, rebuys], $300K guaranteed
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 24-L: $11 Triple Draw 2-7, $25K guaranteedEvent 24-M: $109 Triple Draw 2-7, $50K guaranteed
Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 28-L: $11 NL Hold'em (rebuys), $200K guaranteed
Friday, May 14, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 31-L: $22 NL Hold'em [1 rebuy, 1 add-on], $250K guaranteed
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 13:00 ETEvent 37-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $200K guaranteedEvent 37-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $750K guaranteed
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 38-L: $109 NLHE Main Event - L, $1M guaranteed (2-day event)
Also, big props to the PokerStars review panel for ditching some of the cubed events for a turbo rebuy event :) My only beef is that the 2nd Chance turbo falls on a Friday night (fails). But hey, thats how Online Poker Tournament are scheduled. See you guys at the tables!
Sunday, 02 May 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 02-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $500K guaranteed (2-day event)Event 02-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $2M guaranteed (2-day event)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 07-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [Heads-Up Match Play], $100K guaranteed
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 08-L: $11 NL Hold'em, $100K guaranteedEvent 08-M: $109 NL Hold'em, $200K guaranteed
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 12-L: NL Hold'em (TBD), $100K guaranteedEvent 12-M: NL Hold'em (TBD), $200K guaranteed
Friday, May 7, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 13-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [Ante Up!], $50K guaranteed
Friday, May 7, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 15-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em [2X Chance, turbo], $250K guaranteedEvent 15-M: $162 NL Hold'em [2X Chance, turbo], $500K guaranteed
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 20:00 ETEvent 18-L: $22 FL Hold'em (turbo), $25K guaranteed
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 13:00 ETEvent 19-L: $22 NL Hold'em [big antes], $250K guarantee
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 20-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $500K guaranteed (2-day event)Event 20-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $2M guaranteed (2-day event)
Monday, May 10, 2010 20:00 ETEvent 23-L: $11 NL Hold'em [turbo, rebuys], $150K guaranteedEvent 23-M: $109 NL Hold'em [turbo, rebuys], $300K guaranteed
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 24-L: $11 Triple Draw 2-7, $25K guaranteedEvent 24-M: $109 Triple Draw 2-7, $50K guaranteed
Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 28-L: $11 NL Hold'em (rebuys), $200K guaranteed
Friday, May 14, 2010, 14:00 ETEvent 31-L: $22 NL Hold'em [1 rebuy, 1 add-on], $250K guaranteed
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 13:00 ETEvent 37-L: $22 NL Hold'em, $200K guaranteedEvent 37-M: $215 NL Hold'em, $750K guaranteed
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 17:00 ETEvent 38-L: $109 NLHE Main Event - L, $1M guaranteed (2-day event)
Also, big props to the PokerStars review panel for ditching some of the cubed events for a turbo rebuy event :) My only beef is that the 2nd Chance turbo falls on a Friday night (fails). But hey, thats how Online Poker Tournament are scheduled. See you guys at the tables!
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