By Jon Barrett
They say names can influence your personality, and that seemed to be the case in our latest $300k Guaranteed Sunday tournament. After scooping the top prize, player jackrich000 was not just rich by name but also $51,664 richer by nature.
To get in the big money, jackrich000 took on 1,145 other players for seven and a half hours of nail-biting poker action. Well done to...
By Simon Young
The World Series of Poker really does seem to come round quicker each year. Perhaps time flies when you get older, but more likely the mind starts playing tricks as the old grey matter inside the head is joined on the outside by grey hairs. But enough of my rapidly approaching insanity – the madness of the Main Event in Las Vegas begins next week.
It’s the...
The first episode featuring coverage of the final table of the exciting PartyPoker.com Premier League kicks-off on Channel 4 in the UK tonight at 00.05, with a second episode concluding the event next Tuesday night at 00.25. But there’s no need to wait, you can get a sneaky preview here.
Four players confirmed their final spots from their league positions, while four more took...
By Stefano Dicembre
Where else can you get $50,000 for less than eight hours of work? And when we say work, we don’t even mean hard graft. We’re talking $50,000 for eight hours of excitement and tension playing at PartyPoker.com. Even overpaid footballers don’t get that kind of rate.
Our $300K Guaranteed Sunday is the place to be if you fancy this kind of payday, and our most...
By Stefano Dicembre
Last weekend’s $300K Guaranteed Sunday proved another rich payday with player ganjasx taking $38,302.56 from the $300,000 pot for his first-place finish.
Our worthy winner spent nearly eight hours at the table to beat 1,416 players and claim his thoroughly-deserved reward.
We were also pleased to see a familiar name in eighth spot. Mr_Daydream, who picked up...
By Stefano Dicembre
Fed up of having nothing to show after a bad beat except a tragic hard luck tale? Then get yourself on PartyPoker.com’s Bad Beat Jackpot cash tables where you could be in big money next time things go really wrong.
On our special Bad Beat tables, if you lose with a hand of four-of-a-kind eights or better you’ll take the biggest slice of the Bad Beat Jackpot...
One of PartyPoker.com’s most exotic recent promotions was sending 11 of our players to Manila for the APT Philippines, the first ever Asian Poker Tour event.
One of those to claim a dream $6,000 luxury package was Jeppe Ipsen from Denmark. He went on to finish a fine 18th from the 316 starters, winning $7,500. Not bad for getting there in a $320 satellite on PartyPoker.com! Jeppe...
PartyPoker.com player MommasBigGun was his mother’s pride and joy at the weekend after claiming top spot and $47,402.20 in our latest $300K Guaranteed Sunday.
Our big-money winner shot down 1,365 other contenders to take the largest share of the $300,000 pot in just under eight hours. Here’s what the final 10 players took home after a deal was struck:
1 MommasBigGun, $47,402.20
2...
By Simon Young
If you are the type to worry about running into strong players during a tournament, then it was probably best that you avoided the opening event of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Of the 352 runners in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em gold rush, an amazing 84 were WSOP bracelet holders. Between them they had a total of 143 chunks of wrist bling – or 20% of all...
By Simon Young
With 20,000 starting chips, 20-minute blinds and a nice overlay, PartyPoker.com’s $1 Million May Madness Finale was by far the best place to be over the weekend.
With the tasty guarateed prize pool, 1,421 players duly showed up on Saturday for the bumper, championship-style event which, even with the $640 buy-in, offered tremendous value.
After a titanic battle,...