Team Canada - Canada's Top Poker Player

A special promotion came across me today and as a Canadian I became really
excited to see something geared to showing off the Canadian poker talent.

Titan Poker is offering Canadians a chance to be declared "Canada's Top Poker
Player"

An introductory freeroll is set to take place this weekend followed by a series
of events each week where prize pools are expected to exceed over $2000. Each
week the player who wins will gain a seat to Titan's final table event which
will only be 50 people.

That's 50 if Canada's best players competeting to become Canada's Best Player

Team Canada Event starts Sunday June 24th with a prize pool of $350. This is a
freeroll. All you have to do is make a minimum deposit of $20 and earn 200
points.

I am an avid Titan player myself and 200 points is reachable. Plus for Canadians
Titan is about the easiest they come when it comes to making safe transactions.
There are a ton of funding and withdraw options here.

You can read all the details and times and dates on our main site here

Canada's Top Poker Player

Make sure to clear your interent cookies and use pokerriver for your bonus code
to make sure you will gain entry into this series.


......and Go Canada Go!

Last Chance For A Seat To WSOP Main Event

Carbon Poker is offering up one more chance for a player to win their seat to the WSOP Main Event. The scheduled tournament is set for this Saturday June 16 @ 15:00 server time. Direct buyin is $275 or win your way in for as little as $2. This package is worth over $12 000 so don't miss out on this opportunity!

Also keep popping in later tonight I will be doing my "WSOP week in review". Find out all the gossip, the winners and the drama that has begun to unfold.



Carbon Poker WSOP Seats

Poker Stars.com and EPT Online

Win Your EPT Seat Here!

Poker Stars.com is sending 8 players to this years EPT online where they will recieve a seat to this years live Season 4 European Poker Tour event! 24 days of non stop qualifiers packed with a ton of extra prizes along the way.

The series of $200 + $15 No Limit Texas Hold'em tournaments - each named after one of the eight EPT4 events - will be running for more than three weeks, with a host of daily satellite tournaments starting from as little as $8 + $0.80

The winner of an EPT seat will recieve the package worth over $13,000 (seat, plus travel and accommodation). This is in addition to the prize pool and are addons from Poker Stars.com

Qualifiers in the satellite tournaments receive "tickets" which can be used to enter any of the EPT Online main events - the exception being EPT Online Monte Carlo which has its own dedicated satellite tournaments, as per the schedule below.

Satellites start on May 30 at 19:00 CET (13:00 ET). EPT Online Barcelona, the first main event, kicks off at 20:00 CET (14:00 ET) on June 1. There will also be Sit & Go Double Shootout satellites running throughout the series, so you can qualify for just $6 + $0.50!

The final event - the $1000 + $50 "EPT Online - Monte Carlo" tournament - will have an $18,000 package to the Grand Final added on for the winner!

Carbon Poker Bonus, Huge Freerolls, and Aussie Millions

I know the title is long but this month carbon has got some kick ass promos in line for everyone.

First they have increased the amount of freerolls, given them new times to make them more European friendly and you now get 14 days of new deposit freerolls which are a value of $500 each. Don't think either that everyone gets in....no these are nice overlays and you can expect a minimal amount of people which of course equals free poker money and easy competition. The Carbon Poker Schedule of tournaments can be found at the end of this post. Click here for Carbon Poker Review

Next they are offering up a reload bonus

Coupon Name: PDC RELOAD JUNE
Coupon Code: PDCJUNE
Percentage of Deposit: 75%Maximum
Coupon Value: $75.00

Not to stop there, are you looking for a seat to the Aussie Millions? Want the least amount of competition to win this? Carbon Poker is well known for great overlays which mean tournaments that have a limited amount of players and great prize pool.

This summer they are sending players to the land down under through the Summer Champs.
You can win a FREE $15,000 Aussie Millions Player Pack in the Carbon Poker Summer Champs!

The inaugural Summer Championship kicks off June 14, with 32 events scheduled over 32 days. The championship provides a poker carnival atmosphere and with its schedule closely mimicking that of the World Series, there's something for everyone.
Each championship event awards leaderboard points and after event #31, the top 30 players will receive entry to the Tournament of Champions and a 1 in 30 chance at the trip of a lifetime.

Now as the added bonus. If you are looking for free poker money PokerRiverOnline.com which is our main site is offering all new Carbon Poker players free $25 in poker money. This extra bonus is on top of the already existing deals Carbon Poker has in place. Meet the minimal requirements and you will receive the extra cash.


CarbonPoker is the place to be for around the clock freerolls!

These Freeroll schedule changes commenced on Fri 25 May:

The New Weekly Freeroll Times ( Server time) are as follows:
Mon $1k NL Holdem 19:00
Tues $1k NL Holdem 13:00
Wed $1k NL Holdem 19:00
Thurs $1k NL Holdem 13:00
Fri $1k NL Holdem 19:00
Sat $2k NL Holdem 15:00
Sun $10k NL Holdem 15:00
Monthly $50k NL Holdem 15:00

The New Daily First Deposit Freerolls (Server time) are as follows:
Monday 19:15
Tuesday 13:15
Wednesday 19:15
Thursday 13:15
Friday 19:15
Saturday 13:15
Sunday 13:15

Tony G Is Happy Again!

Well that did not take long to resolve CardPlayers.com has agreed to stop all copying from PokerNews.com website in regards to live coverage and chip counts. This is a statement Tony made on his blog today and hopefully this will be the last bit of drama and we can all focus on the games

CardPlayer has contacted PokerNews and agreed to follow the guidelines of the WSOP and Harrahs in media reporting of tournament events and not use any of PokerNews’ live blogging reports. CardPlayer has also agreed to meet with me when I come to Vegas - that will be within about two weeks.
Thank you CardPlayer for respecting the rights of PokerNews and for putting a smile back on my face. Now let’s all play poker!

CardPlayer Caught Red Handed In WSOP

Tony G has posted a very interesting article on his blog pointing fingers at Cardplayer for stealing live coverage right from the PokerNews website. PokerNews has obtained exclusive coverage of this year's WSOP and as such are the only media that is permitted to be reporting "live coverage" Here is what the man himself wrote today and I am sure there will be more of this to come. If you would like you can digg this article here

Now why would CardPlayer go and waste all that money sending their "reporters" to the WSOP for "reporting" when all they have done is plagiarism. Come on now, if they wanted people to copy others especially for the WSOP, I am sure they could have found some kid out of high school willing to do it for nothing but the cost of the trip and board.

Cardplayer family stealing from me.
I have never tried to hide who I am. I am from the street. I have made many mistakes in my life, but I have always felt that I treated all people fairly and with respect. You may see me on TV giving someone the business, and feel it’s unfair, but to me it’s all part of the game. I think if you ask people if they think I am a fair person in businss and in life most would say yes.Away from poker, I have a successful business. I own a majority of the shares in PokerNews Limited.

This company owns many websites, the biggest of which is PokerNews.com. We are having our best year ever and right now we should be enjoying the finest moment of our life as a company. We are at the WSOP and are supposed to be the exclusive provider of updates and chip counts. But unfortunately over the last few days, we have been pirated and simply stolen from by many of our competitors - including Cardplayer. Cardplayer is hiding behind a legal fence that they were standing on top of just this time last year– kicking anyone who dared try to climb it in the teeth.
We put the chip counts up on PokerNews, and one minute later they are up on Cardplayer.com.

Cardplayer has no one counting chips at the WSOP, and they know that counting chips is against the rules for them since we beat them to the rights for coverage this year. But they have the counts up on their site, stolen straight from the counts we are doing live in the room at the Rio. We have paid a lot of money for these rights and a lot of money to the 40 people we have hired to cover the series.
I am from the street and when you steal from me, you are playing with fire. This is no different than taking money out of my pocket when it was all I had, which wasn’t that long ago. I’ll bet the Shulmans never thought they would be stealing from me two years ago when they were on top and PokerNews had three employees and was just getting by. I urge the Shulmans to think about what they are doing to me now. They should think about how people feel when they are robbed.

I urge the Shulmans & all of the CardPlayer family to stop this unethical activity, right now, and all will be forgiven. I’m sure they feel bad about how things have gone for them over the past year, but that doesn’t make this ok. They have fallen from their high horse, and there must be a lot of anger for them to do something like this. They must know others will not respect them and they must just not care.
This probably will have to go to lawyers for the final outcome. No one is talking about this now, but I tell the world the truth on this blog.

I haven’t been this mad about anything in years. These are my opinions, and I stand by them.

US Customers Recieving Seized Funds From Neteller

Neteller customers residing in the US have been awaiting for this day and it has finally come. Recent release from Neteller cliams that US customers will see their money. Here is a copy of a release from the company.

NETeller agrees to distribution plan for U.S. customer money

June 04, 2007
by Ryan McLane


NETeller has agreed to a distribution plan for returning seized monies to U.S. customers and hopes to implement the plan no later than mid-July, according to a press release issued today.

U.S. authorities seized up to $55 million from U.S. NETeller accounts earlier this spring.

Since than time, NETeller has been working with the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's office and financial consulting firm Navigant to develop a distribution plan and hand over financial information pertinent to the investigation.

NETeller says it will return the money as soon as U.S. authorities conclude their investigation and allow access to the seized money.

"The agreement on the distribution plan represents a milestone in our cooperation with the U.S. authorities," said NETeller President and CEO Ron Martin. "While we are disappointed not to have been able to return funds to our US customers at this point, we believe that the steps we have made in our discussions are significant and we hope to be able to announce further progress with the USAO by July 13, 2007."

The U.S. Attorney's office offered no comment.

U.S. customers will have a limited window to withdraw funds once the seized money is freed. American customers can request their money through electronic transfer or paper check.

Customers with bank accounts already linked to NETeller will need to confirm that the account is still active in order to receive payment.

Requests must be made in full. NETeller will not allow partial payment requests, nor will they allow U.S. customers to transfer money to any other destinations. No interest will be paid on account balances.

For more information visit the NETeller FAQ.

World Championship Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit (Event 1)

The first event into this year's anticipated poker tournaments is well under way with the final table being declared. To recap there were a total of 452 registered players that came from across the globe. Everyone from your favourite pro players to the average person looking for a shot at one of the bracelets paid the $5000 buyin for the first event which was Mixed Holdem. Mixed Holdem is a cross between No Limit Holdem and Limit Holdem

Jaime Gold kicked it off announcing those four famous words" Shuffle up and deal!" The start of the tournament lead to some players including Mike Matusow getting upset as Harrah's introduced new and improved playing cards called "Poker Peeks" Even the famed Doyle Brunson's comment " What the hell are these?" Johnny Chan was refusing to play and even Negraneau was questioning them. So what is wrong with the new cards?


The "pips" which are the braille used in premium cards, are smaller than normal and boxed in. The sixes and nines are confusing as the numbers that are supposed to be in the top left and bottom right can be found lower left and top right.The numbers are there but are very small and can be mistaken.

Day 1 seen a huge crowd of people and records broken for attendance, line ups for registration ran through the halls and winded down corridors to accommodate all the players who showed up. Late comers who showed up after the game had already taken place were Gus Hansen and of course Hellmouth. To recap some of our favourites who didn't make it past the first day were;

Allen Cunningham who was knocked out very early during round one when both Cunningham and the player in cutoff checked the flop (10d 5c 6h) the turn gave 2c. The player in cutoff bet 1000 and Cunningham took a stance with all his chips with KcQc for his flush draw. The other player called with his flush draw of 7c 9c and unfortunately for Cunningham hit a 7d on the river


Cunningham was not the only big name to see his chips go the opposite direction during the early stages of the game. Chris Moneymaker to felt the heat when his AA got cracked by a flop (10h 10s 9s) where he was check raised 2500 and he called. The turn was a 4s and again he called a 3k bet. The river was a 7h and he was pushed allin for his remaining chips totaling 1500. Moneymaker flipped over his A's which could not hold up to his opponents pocket 9's.

Doyle Brunson finished the game with a trap from his opponent. With a flop of 9h 5s 4 h Doyle bet out with one caller behind him. When the turn gave him the Kd, he reraised his opponent and was called. An allin on the river (7c) by his opponent which Doyle quickly called showing his two pair Kc 9c. This could not hold up against his opponent though who slow played his pocket K's and landing those trips.

The end of Day 1 could not have finished without Phil Hellmuth having one of his tantrums as he was eliminated. Between his tilting and of course infamous cursing, it was expected that his outburst would come. The only thing was when? Two hands took Phil from above average stack to the rails.

Three quarters of his stack were lost in the first hand with his JJ against QQ, needless to say his J's just couldn't hold up. Between the profane language he was spilling to his opponent who was stacking his chips he put himself allin on the next hand with two J's on board while he held pocket 10's. His opponent however had JQ and Phil was also sent to the rails.

The start of Day 2 left only 92 players in the game including a handful of WSOP bracelet holders, including Greg Muller who had the chip lead with $130 000 in chips.

Players were dropping like flies including the beautiful Liz Liue who was sent home less than half an hour of play. Isabelle Mercier also was eliminated by Todd Brunson while playing at the same table as Johnny Chan. Todd Brunson however was able to sustain his game long enough to place in the money finishing for 40 th place and bringing home $11, 648

Johnny Chan also found himself on the rails placing 31st place for $13, 778. An allin move of AJ and he was called with pocket K's, where his hand just couldn't hold up for the finish.

Two long days and some amazing poker The Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit (Event 1) finally had their final table of 9 players. This table will be taped by ESPN and broadcast sometime this summer. Look forward to seeing these players battle it out for their goal of obtaining that ever so sought after WSOP bracelet. Don't worry, you can still get in on finding a seat to this year's Main Event. Find all your info here at Bodog WSOP Seats

Seat 1
John Younger:$94,000
Seat 2
Jon Turner:$88,000
Seat 3
Fred Berger:$942,000
Seat 4
Roger McDow:$320,000
Seat 5
Greg Mueller:$683,000
Seat 6
Kirk Morrison:$512,000
Seat 7
Steve Billirakis:$562,000
Seat 8
Steve Paul-Ambrose:$771,000
Seat 9
Tony George:$546,000

It's Vegas Baby!

As the title of this post suggests it is unequivocally Vegas time!! The first event in the 2007 World Series is under way with only half of the 451 registered players remaining it's sure to be a good one. I will be making updates daily as to the outcomes of these games. Hunting for any juicy gossip and feeding everyone what we have all been waiting for and that's the winners of the greatest events since the game of poker was invented.

Find out who Matusow was calling a "Donkey" tonight, who crushed their rival and the winner of
2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit (Event 1)
Rio Hotel & Casino - Friday, June 01, 2007 to Sunday, June 03, 2007

when it's updated it will be posted here so bookmark the blog , add it to your technorati, furl it or whatever you use for your fav's and get ready for a summer of action at the poker tables. Don't forget time is running out for your WSOP seat and Bodog is adding extras to their line up.

Qualify for the WSOP

Play For Bodog Poker At This Year's WSOP* Main Event!

Bodog Poker is once again offering up some lucrative seats to this year's WSOP Main Event. Seats are becoming fewer as the world's largest poker tournament is coming near. So if you have not had the chance or oppurtunity to win yours Bodog may be the place to do so. They are a US friendly poker room, and one of the best when it comes to overlays.

Bodog’s made it easier than ever to get a shot at scoring a $12,000 World Series prize package. First off, they have doubled the number of guaranteed seats in their Main Event Semifinals running Sundays at 2:20pm ET, Mondays at 9:15pm ET and Thursdays at 9:15pm ET.

Then they added two Last Chance Quarterfinals for each Semifinal to give you more opportunities to earn your way to the Main Event for only $29. And finally they've started running Main Event Points Quarterfinals. For just the cost of 1000 Bodog Poker points Bodog Poker will be awarding T$270 (enough for a Semifinal buy-in) for every 10 players entered.

Qualify for the WSOP

Don't forget by using the link above entitles you to an instant cash poker bonus that will be credited to your account within 15 min of your deposit....oh and did a mention this poker bonus at Bodog is unlimited. Unlimited means just that if you deposit $50 you get $50...if it's $1000 than you get $1000. The only stipulkation is that you must earn 3 Bodog comp points per dollar recieved to be able to withdraw that bonus. If you withdraw before those are met than the bonus is no longer valid.

So get ready for some great qualifiers to this year's main event $29 could buy you a $12 000 dream package!

Carbon Poker could be sending you to the Aussie Millions

Want your seat to the land down under to play against the world's best? Carbon Poker has announced a great summer promotion offering up a seat to the land down under. This year's Summer Champs Tournaments is under way, and they are heading up a new battle of the leaderboard where you will be able to play in 31 events over the next month to land your spot in the top 30.

The top 30 players than move on to the grand final where the will play the ultimate championship for a seat to the Aussie Millions. It doesn't stop there, cash prizes are up for grabs so hurry and head over to Carbon Poker...this is one summer event you won't want to miss. Use our bonus code "PDCMAY200" to recieve an additional $25 FREE on top of the already exsisiting carbon bonus code.