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Cake Poker Reload Bonus

November 27, 2008

Cake Poker have announced a great reload poker bonus promotion. This bonus is available to all players who have an existing account at Cake Poker.  Players looking to take advantage of this excellent bonus must deposit between the 27th November (today) and Sunday 20th November.

The reload bonus is a fairly small at only 25%  up to $100. So a $400 reload will provide you with a $100 bonus, whilst a $100 reload will give you a $25 bonus. To receive this bonus you must enter the bonus code TURKEY. You also receive an additional 10 gold cards.

Cake Poker is US friendly and runs a weekly $100,000 Guaranteed poker tournament. If you are going to be downloading cake poker for the first time you should sign up through any link on Poker Rankings as you are given the maximum possible cake poker bonus.

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Cake Poker Satellites Announced

November 24, 2008

Cake Poker have announced they will be running satellites to the Irish Poker Open starting in December 2008. Players have the chance to win their seat at the Irish Poker Open as well as a seat in to a €1500 freezeout tournament packed full of poker pro’s and celebrity guests.

Cake Poker have offered some great satellites in the past including seats at the WPT and the Aussie Millions. If your looking to take part in a live poker tournament, you should definitely check out Cake Poker.

EPT Warsaw Results

November 20, 2008

Warsaw played host to the EPT (European Poker Tour) between the 15th and 19th of November. With a small turnout of only 217 players, entry numbers weren’t as high as expected. But with a buyin of 21,000 Polish Zloty ($7,000) the prizes were still large the winner took home over $450,000.

Suprisingly no American players made the final table. The highest finishing English player was Roland de Wolfe who came 13th. Another notable finish was Marty Smyth who came 23rd and took home just over $8,000.

European Poker Tour Warsaw Results

Below is the finishing positions for the EPT Poland event. Check back to pokerrankings.co.uk for more news on EPT results.

1 João Barbosa - $462,596

2 Nico Behling - $258,640

3 Dario Minieri - $155,184

4 Atanas Gueorguiev - $110,846

5 Arnaud Mattern - $91,632

6 Sergey Shcherbatskiy - $72,420

7 Andrea Benelli - $57,639

8 Ludovic Lacay - $41,382

9 Michael Muheim - $26,604

10 Uffe Holm - $26,604

Win your seat at EPT events at PokerStars. If your new remember to use a PokerStars Marketing Code to get the maximum PokerStars bonus.

Upcoming Titan Poker Freerolls

November 14, 2008

Titan Poker has just announced they will be running some exciting free to enter poker tournaments. Now you may think that free to enter poker tournaments are a waste of time, but you’d be foolish not to take part in these tournaments. Titan poker has a $2,500 cash tournament coming up, which is free to enter. As well as hosting a free poker tournament that has a $25,000 Aussie Millions package up for grabs.

Titan Poker $2,500 Cash Freeroll : This tournament is on the 16th November at 18:00 GMT. Players have until then to download Titan Poker, make a deposit and earn at least 1 point. This point is used to “buy in” to this exclusive freeroll.

Titan Poker $25,000 Aussie Millions Freeroll :This Titan Poker Freeroll is scheduled for the 21st November at 18:30 GMT. The top 2 finishers will win $12,500 Aussie Million packages which include main event entry, accommodation and traveling expenses. Players must have signed up to Titan Poker through PokerRankings.Co.Uk (Use This Link) and deposited at least $50. Once players have earned at least 1 point, they will be able to buy in (using that point) to this tournament.

WSOP 2008 Winner

November 12, 2008

Nearly four months after the start of the WSOP the final table was finally played out. 9 players battled it out across the felt contesting a first prize worth over $9,000,000. After hours of play the action was heads up, Peter Eastgate Vs Ivan Demidov. Eastgate is only 22 years of age although don’t think be fooled in to thinking he is inexperienced as he his far from that although even he will admit he was out experienced by his Russian opponent, Demidov. Ivan Demidov is the only player to make the final table of both the WSOP and the WSOPE (and he did this in the same year!).

Peter Eastgate entered the heads up match with a small chip lead of $79.5 million to Demidov’s $57.725 million. After a lengthy heads up battle Peter Eastgate becomes the youngest wsop main event winner ever, beating Helmuth’s record.

WSOP 2008 Final 9

1. Peter Eastgate - $9,152,416

2. Ivan Demidov - $5,809,595

3. Dennis Phillips - $4,517,773

4. Ylon Schwartz - $3,774,974

5. Scott Montgomery - $3,096,768

6. Darus Suharto - $2,418,562

7. David Rheem - $1,772,650

8. Kelly Kim -  $1,288,217

9. Craig Marquis - $900,670

EPT Hungary Results

November 5, 2008

UK poker player, Will Fry, won the PokerStars EPT event in Budapest. When his pocket Jack’s beat his Romanian opponent,Ciprian Hrisca’s, Ace-6 he was the proud winner of the event. Fry added

“They were the first good cards I’d had in ages. Up until then I’d been re-raising with rubbish but if I get good cards, I can be pretty dangerous.”

The 28 year old poker pro from Nottingham, beat of 531 other entrants to take the title, and with that won himself a €595,839 pay day. Fry has been playing poker since he was 5 years old, and for since he was 23 he has played poker professionally in online cash games.

EPT Hungary Top 8 Finishers

1 Will Fry UK PokerStars player 595,839
2 Ciprian Hrisca Romania 342,608
3 Martin Jacobson Sweden PokerStars qualifier 197,904
4 Albert Iverson Denmark 153,216
5 Marino Serenelli Italy 127,680
6 Gino Alacqua Italy 100,016
7 Zoltan Toth Hungary PokerStars sponsored player 78,736
8 Johnny Lodden Norway PokerStars sponsored player 53,200

If your looking to qualify for any Live Poker Tournaments check out our Poker Tournament page. Which is packed with tournament advice and other poker tournament information.

Find out more about the EPT (European Poker Tour) here.

Betfair Poker $10 Max Fee For All Tournaments

November 3, 2008

Betfair has continued their recent SNG $10 Max Fee promotion. And have now added Multi Table Tournaments to this promotion!

Starting 1st November through till the 31st December all tournaments will have a maximum entry fee of $10 regardless of the buy in!

This means you’ll get TONS more value from entering the larger poker tournaments, and you could save yourself $1000’s in tournament fees!

Switch To Betfair Poker Today And See How Much You Save!

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