Tag Archives: WSOP

Alexa Fisher may be well over a decade away from legally being allowed to play online poker or in  a casino, but that’s certainly not stopping her from playing wherever else she can. In fact, the 8-year-old American poker prodigy reportedly knows how to play 50 different poker games, and she has some poker tournament experience as well. The child grinder first learned how to play poker at the age of 3 when father Justin Fisher taught her the basics. After learning both the rules and strategy for holdem poker by age 5, Fisher picked up other poker games such …

After winning the most prestigious poker tournament in the world, it only seems fitting that Pius Heinz would join the world’s largest poker site. The 2011 WSOP* Main Event winner recently inked a deal with PokerStars that will make him one of their newest additions. Heinz, who was largely unknown throughout the poker community before July, certainly made a name for himself after navigating through a 6,815-player field and on towards a Main Event victory. The German battled the Czech Republic’s Martin Staszko for over six hours before a winner was declared. After winning the tournament, Heinz hauled in a …

We’re delighted to offer you another of our unique re-launch prizes this week. And this is a prize with a difference alright! It’s an amazing opportunity for one extremely lucky player to go on a Poker Tour of Asia, Europe and the USA, thanks to Carbon Poker.

If you play poker on a limited budget, yet still want a chance at WSOP fame, then Party Poker is definitely the place to be playing. That’s because they are offering players the opportunity to win free $14,000 Main Event prize packages! Up until June 19th, Party Poker will be running free satellites where the top 25 players move on to $2 Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuys. From the $2 Sub Qualifier, players have a chance to win their way into the $75 + $5 Satellite Qualifier. 1 out of every 10 players in this poker tournament will win a spot …

Nobody wants to spend a WSOP trip alone in their hotel room seething with envy over the top casino poker pros who are partying hard in Sin City. However, this is exactly what some WSOP prize packages entail, where the highlight includes waking up early to eat the hotel’s complimentary breakfast. If you’re looking to avoid spending your proposed time in Vegas like an old maid, you should visit PKR Poker because they are offering a very entertaining prize package deal. Aside from the fact that you can win $4,200 packages through this online poker room, PKR is also offering …

We’ve already discussed how Full Tilt Poker is running numerous satellites for the WSOP* Main Event. But did you know that Full Tilt is also giving away 50 free Main Event seats through their Race to the Main Event promotion? If you didn’t, then you’ll want to pay close attention to how you can win a free seat to the world’s largest poker tournament. Winning a free seat all begins with downloading the poker software for Full Tilt, then looking in their lobby for Round 1 Main Event Race SNG Freerolls. These free poker tournaments run around the clock, and …

Full Tilt Poker has joined the party in offering WSOP* Main Event seats as they are giving players numerous opportunities to win a $12k prize package to the world’s biggest poker tournament. As always, they are also offering the usual 27% rakeback deals too! Here is a look at some of the different ways you can book your ticket to Las Vegas through Full Tilt: $1 Main Event Seat – Full Tilt is running a number of $1 poker games that give players the chance to win a Main Event seat. You can pay $1 + $0.10 to enter these …

Absolute Poker is one of the latest sites to start giving away prize packages for the 2011 WSOP Main Event, with one notable twist – you can win a prize package for as little as one dime! That’s because Absolute Poker is running lots of different satellites for the world’s biggest poker tournament that will enable anybody to compete for a prize package. The cheapest way to qualify for a prize package is through the STEP tournaments where the lowest buy-in is $0.10, and you can work your way up the ladder by finishing either first or second in these …

While Full Tilt Poker pro Tom Dwan and PokerStars pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom are still busy issuing challenges on the felt, Victory Poker player Andrew “good2cu” Robl has a challenge of different sorts. Robl, who has been doing some mixed martial arts training when he’s not busy earning 33% rakeback at Victory Poker, has issued a $50,000 cage match challenge to any beginner fighter (or poker player). Robl announced the challenge through his poker blog at CoinFlip, and started out talking about his training experiences by writing, “I’ve been training MMA (mostly jiu justi) 3-4X times a week. I train …

UB Poker continues to rebuild their base of sponsored players in the wake of Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke leaving a couple of months ago. And it looks like these two could be long forgotten at UB since they re-signed one of poker’s best young talents in Adam “Roothlus” Levy. Levy is best known for his online poker play, where he’s earned over $3.6 million in online tournament winnings, which includes several huge victories at UB and Full Tilt Poker. In addition to his online poker tournament exploits, Levy has over $1.5 million in live tourney winnings. Some of his …