UB.com Sending Players To 2010 WSOP Main Event
The 2010 World Series of Poker may still be months away from now, but sites like UB.com are already giving away free seats in the main event.
The top prize for the winners are 2010 WSOP Main Event seats, plus accommodations and spending money, all totalling $12,000 in value per prize package.
And unlike in many other poker sites’ 2010 WSOP satellites, UB.com lets you win multiple times. If you win more than one main event prize package, you simply receive the $12,000 prize package value in UB.com tournament dollars, to be applied toward buy-ins to other major UB.com tournaments.
UB.com is holding Sit and Go tournaments and Super Satellites both, with many of them awarding 25 – 50 seats guaranteed in the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
As UB.com intends to send numerous players to this year’s WSOP main event, these Super Satellites and Sit and Go Satellites will be running all the way up to the 2010 WSOP Main Event itself.
On top of that, UB.com will be keeping a leader board for all the players who have won at least one satellite. The 5 players who have won the most number of 2010 WSOP Main Event seats will receive additional bonus prizes in the range of $750 – $5,000 in tournament dollars. Ready to give it a try? Win your WSOP Seat at UB.com Now!
Any player who makes it to the 2010 WSOP Main Event final table can choose to accept UB Sponsorship, which pays the player a bonus cash amount based on what place they end up taking. For example, 9th place would get a $75K bonus while the 1st place winner would get a $750K bonus.
EPT 2010 Deauville Poker Champion – 21 Year Old Jake Cody
The EPT 2010 Deauville Poker Champion, Jake Cody, is one of the youngest to win the EPT poker title thus far! For his first time playing in the EPT, this 21 year old poker player proved his talent both online and off.
Today, it seems that the younger poker generation is now comfortably sweeping up the tables along with the old-school set. The most recent example of this phenomenon is Jake Cody, a 21-year-old (just like Joe Cada) who won the EPT 2010 Deauville Title in France. Never playing in the EPT (European Poker Tournament) before, Jake Cody qualified after netting $198,000 in an online win, and then finishing in the money at the UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour) 2010 kickoff event in Galway.
Other young players proving their poker game (both online and off):
- Peter Eastgate (in 2009) and now Joe Cada (in 2010) have both have successively broken Phil Hellmuth’s long-standing record for the youngest player ever to win the World Series of Poker Main Event title.
- Along with the oldest of old-schoolers, the Godfather of Poker himself Doyle Brunson, four young guns are playing in the Brunson 10 team of hand-picked online poker players.
What’s most important, however, for all you readers to take note of (whether you’re young or old) is that all of these players won live tournament seats through online poker satellites. Just like them, you could win a major title as well!
Satellites are taking place right now at PokerStars for all the upcoming EPT (European Poker Tour) events, as well as satellites for upcoming events in the UKIPT, Asian Pacific Poker Tour (LAPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), and the newest addition to the live poker series’ sponsored by PokerStars, the North American Poker Tour (NAPT).
Check out our Online Poker Room Reviews to qualify for tournaments like Jake Cody did for the EPT 2010!
Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) Awarding $17 Million In February 2010
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), one of Full Tilt Poker’s most eagerly awaited events, is running February 10 – 21, 2010. This year, the FTOPS guarantees a prize pool of $17 million, as well as FTOPS tickets, cash prizes, and even playtime to Full Tilt online poker players!
Occurring only twice a year, the FTOPS consists of 27 events. This year’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series XV includes the following events:
- The coveted high-rollers’ two-day event.
- The $2.5 million guaranteed main event.
- The Full Tilt Poker satellite tournaments, running now and throughout the entire series, awarding free tickets in to various FTOPS XV events – including the two-day event and the main event.
- In addition, Full Tilt holds a series of FTOPS XV Challenges, involving different tasks that must be met in order to win bonus prizes, such as cash and free tournament entries.
Along with FTOPS XV, a whole bunch of side events and contests are also taking place – including a leader board challenge where a grand prize winner gains free entries into every FTOPS XVI event (six months or so down the line). As well as a custom FullTilt avatar that is great for bragging rights and throwing opponents!
And, what Full Tilt Online Poker Series would be complete without the MiniFTOPS XV? Featuringthe same 27 events asthe FTOPS XV, yet with a fraction of the buy-ins (and prize amounts), the MiniFTOPS is a great way for all Full Tilt poker members to play on a lower budget.
The MiniFTOPS XV takes place exactly 1 month after the FTOPS XV, running from March 10th through 21st. The total guaranteed prize pool for the MiniFTOPS XV is $6 million.
What does this all mean? Between the FTOPS XV and MiniFTOPS XV, there is a total of $17 million at stake! Check out our Full Tilt Poker Review to find bonus poker codes, game information, strategies, and more.
SportsbookPoker And PlayersOnly Going To Merge (Gaming Network, That Is)
Most poker sites are part of a network. There’s the iPoker Network, headed by TitanPoker; there’s the CEREUS Network, headed by UB.com and Absolute Poker. And there’s the Merge Network, with sites including AcedPoker, CarbonPoker, IronDuke, PokerNordica, and ReeferPoker. The latter of these, Merge Gaming, is about to get a little bigger.
It seems the New Years resolution for the Merge Network is expansion, and they’re wasting no time, having already added PokerFantasy to their roster and about to add two new sites in a matter of a couple of months (April to be exact). Those sites are Sportsbook Poker and Players Only (both of which offer online casino gaming and online sports betting in addition to online poker).
Sportsbook Poker and Players Only Poker are making the move to Merge from the Cake Poker Network, headed (obviously) by Cake Poker, but also including many other top name sites, including the esteemed DoylesRoom (the official poker site of Doyle Brunson), as well as StryykePoker, LockPoker, and PokerHost. Seems a risky tradeoff, with Cake being the more successful of the two at the moment, but at least Merge does have a weekly running average of nearly 250 players, and upwards of 500 at peak times, which is not too shabby for a mid-size poker network.
Says Roger Whitaker of Jazette Enterprises, parent company of PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com:
“Our goal is to provide our players with the best poker experience possible, which is why we decided to make this move. We’re confident that our players will enjoy the groundbreaking features, generous loyalty rewards program, and improved overall playability that Merge’s poker software provides.”
Harrah’s Releases 2010 World Series of Poker Schedule
Joe Cada wannabes, check it out! The schedule for the next World Series of Poker, the 2010 WSOP, has officially been issued, and it looks to be the best World Series of Poker yet.
It’s got 57 braceleted poker tournament event spread out over 51 days, again at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Vegas, hosted by Harrah’s, only this time the events will take place over two rooms in the Rio rather than one. This in response to overwhelming boom in WSOP entries over the past couple of years.
This coming year sees the end of the $50,000 HORSE championship, but in its stead will be a $50,000 8-game mixed-game championship. HORSE hasn’t left the building entirely, just brought down to a $10,000 HORSE championship instead.
The other big new event on the 2010 WSOP schedule is a new high rollers event, a 6-handed No Limit Holdem event with a $25,000 buy-in.
As always, all the major (and most of the minor) online poker rooms will be running satellites galore for free entries into various 2010 WSOP events. Some of these satellites, as a matter of fact, are already underway.
The 2010 World Series of Poker is set to take place from May 27 to July 17 with the next November Nine playing out the final table of 2010 WSOP Main Event from November 6 – 9, at which Joe Cada will no doubt be fighting vigilantly to claim his seat and defend his title. Remember, he, and his predecessor Peter Eastgate, both got their seats in the WSOP Main Events they respectively won through an online poker room satellite.
