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2011 World Series of Poker Line Up

The official 2011 WSOP schedule has been announced, and the series will commence on May 31st and run through July 19th. Jack Link’s Beef Jerky will be the presenting sponsor again, and the venue will once again be the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino located in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. ESPN will have exclusive press rights, and there will be a total of 58 WSOP bracelets to be won—that’s one more gold bracelet than last year.

The opening event will take place at 5:00 p.m. on May 31, 2011 and will feature a new event—the $25K NLH event will be a heads up championship open to a max 256 player field.

The opening weekend also includes a $1K NLH event that is expected to see at least 6,000 players, as is typical of past tournaments. Following weekends in June will also offer low buy-in events popular among the general weekend tournament-goers.

The Main Event will feature the $10K NLH Championship to start on the 7th of July at noon and reach the final players on Tuesday, July 19th. At this time, play will be suspended until Tuesday, November 5th.

Jack Effel, WSOP Tournament Director for the sixth year in a row, says, “Something for everyone is the best way to describe the 2011 World Series of Poker schedule. It’s staggering to think that last year alone the WSOP hosted nine of the 17 largest tournaments in poker history. We had 44 events produce more than a $1 million prize pool, so we can’t wait to get at it again and offer players at all levels the best poker action on the planet.”

2011 WSOP Pre-registration will be available at the Main Cage in the Rio Casino and online at wsop.com starting February 7th.

Season 7 of High Stakes Poker to Air in February

High Stakes Poker, one of the most popular and longest running poker television show will air its seventh season this year. The show returns to the Game Show Network on February 26, this time on Sunday evenings rather than Saturday evenings like last season.

This will be the first season that offers more of a surprise of cast members. Although the show was filmed last December at the Bellagio in Las Vegas (the show was formerly taped at the Golden Nugget), it’s been rather hush hush as to the details, as there was no press invited. In the past, interviews with exiting cast members were allowed, but this was not the case for season seven.

One thing we can assume is that because Full Tilt Poker had boycotted High Stakes Poker due to the fact that PokerStars got the official sponsorship for the show, there will be no Full Tilt Poker representation. Another tidbit of info on the boycott is that PokerStars purchased the old High Stakes Poker episodes in which Full Tilt Poker pros weren’t shown wearing the Full Tilt logo. Therefore, Full Tilt believes that viewers watching the shows on PokerStars will become confused about player affiliates when they see Full Tilt pros appearing without logo representation.

Based on Twitter and Facebook, though, there are some confirmed players like Phil Laak, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Barry Greenstein, Haralabos Voulgaris, Jonathan Duhamel, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Mercier, David “Viffer” Peat, and maybe Scotty Nguyen. It would be Nguyen’s first appearance on High Stakes Poker.

Full Tilt Poker Referral Code January 2011

Full Tilt Poker Bonus

A new year means you need a new online poker account, and there is no better place to set up shop than with Full Tilt Poker. Here you will get the 100% new player poker bonus up to $600, not to mention access to the best promotions in online poker and some of the most innovative ways to play poker such as the Rush Poker phenomenon. Just join Full Tilt Poker using the Full Tilt Referral Code PRULESNET. Then begin playing online poker at Full Tilt for real money to earn Full Tilt Points, otherwise known as FTPs. When you play cash games, for every $1 you pay in rake, you will earn points. For every $1 you pay in tournament fees, you will earn 7 FTPs. You will earn your bonus in $20 increments, and you’ll have 120 days to meet the points qualifications.

$30 Million Double Guarantees Week

Beginning Monday, January 24th and ending Sunday January 30th, all Full Tilt Poker players will have the opportunity to win a share of $30 million in tournament prize pools. For every Weekly Guarantee during that week, the prize money is doubled, and the week will end in one of the biggest Big Money Sundays in the history of Big Money Sundays.

Multiple Entry Tournaments

During the $30 Million Double Guarantees Week, players at Full Tilt Poker will get even more chances to win with Multi Entry Tournaments. All guaranteed tourneys for that week will be converted to the new Multi Entry Tournament format, giving players multiple chances to win big by allowing players to register for a tourney numerous times. What this means is that you can multi table a single tournament. However, guaranteed Shootouts and Cashouts will not be multi entry tourneys, though they will feature double prize money. Buy-ins and schedules for these events will be the same.

Cake Poker Signup Code January 2011

Cake Poker Bonus

Take advantage of a fresh new year and a fresh new online poker account at Cake Poker where you can get a new depositor bonus worth $600—that’s 110% of your first deposit. When you sign up for your new account use Cake Poker Signup Code PBSPOKER. Then start playing at the cash game tables and tournaments to earn Frequent Player Points (FPPs). Each FPP will clear $0.06 of your bonus. You will receive your bonus in $5 installments. Not only will you use your points to clear your Cake Poker bonus, but you will also be able to spend your points in the Cake Poker Rewards Store. There you can purchase such items as Cake Poker memorabilia or electronics like an iPad.

Cake Poker New Depositor’s Freeroll

New players at Cake Poker are not only eligible for the new deposit, but will also be entered into the New Depositor’s Freeroll which features a $500 prize pool and allows all the new Cake Poker players to play together each and every Sunday at 2:00 p.m. on the dot.

Turbo Gold Cards

Now through January 23rd at Cake Poker, you can get more 2011 series Gold Cards. These rare cards will be flying to the tables twice as fast each and every day during the hours of 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. and from 8:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. You can build up your collection of Gold Cards series 2011 or buy-in to the $40K Diamond Mine. Or you can always put your cards up for auction on the Exchange and swap with other players.

Isildur1’s Identity Revealed

As promised, Isildur1made his identity known to the public last weekend, and as expected, he revealed that he was in fact Viktor Blom. It was rumored that the Swedish online phenomenon had not disclosed his identity to save himself from having to pay Swedish taxes, and now that he is a real person, he may be facing some severe tax bills.

Isildur1 made a name for himself after winning and losing millions of dollars and participating in 12 of the biggest online poker pots in history.
When the mystery player signed a deal with Team PokerStars, he knew he’d have to reveal himself to the world sooner than later. He made the decision to unmask himself at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas last weekend. Blom is only 20 years old and is from western Sweden by the Norwegian border. He is the youngest of four and currently resides in London. Blom has been playing poker since he was 14 and has an older brother who plays poker as well.

Blom explains, “In the beginning, it was just for fun,” but he was playing online poker 15 hours a day by the time he was 18.

“I deposited $2,000 (14,000 kronor) and within three weeks, I had $2 million,” he states. Extreme aggressive play style quickly got him noticed and he soon became one of the most well-known players in the business.

In November ’09, Blom had lost $3.2 million to Phil Ivey in only one week. After just a day, he lost $3 million to Patrik Antonius, only to win $2 million back from Antonius the very next day. And days like these continued with wins and losses.

“I had some rough days. But I’m not worried. I know I can always win money,” said Blom.
Now that he’s outed himself, he may be facing unfinished business with the tax authorities in Sweden. One publication suggested he may owe up to the equivalent to about $149 million, though the tax authorities wouldn’t confirm that they were interested in going after Blom.

“Internet poker is something we’re looking into and I know this poker player, but I can’t comment on whether we’ve opened a case,” Erik Boman, tax agency spokesperson, said.

January 2011 PartyPoker Bonus Code

PartyPoker Bonus

Don’t let another year go by without signing up at PartyPoker. Right now, you can get the new year bonus worth 100% up to $/£/€100. Just register a new account at PartyPoker using PartyPoker Bonus Code 500PS and make a real money deposit to claim your bonus. Then play real money tourneys and cash games to earn PartyPoints. These points will clear your bonus—just earn six times your bonus amount within 60 days. You will receive your bonus in $10 installments. If you are a beginner at online poker, check out the PartyPoker Beginner tables first.

The Million Dollar Hand

Every day between the 5th and 30th of January 2011, every player at PartyPoker will earn a random card each time he racks up 15 PartyPoints. If you are dealt a pair or better in a 5-card hand, you are guaranteed a cash prize. A straight flush will earn you $10K. Four of a kind is worth $1K, and a full house will get you $150. A flush is worth $100, and a straight will bring in $50. A hand with three of a kind will get you $20, and two pair is worth $10. Even a pair is worth a few dollars. You can’t go wrong, especially if you get a royal flush and walk away with one million dollars. If two players get a royal flush during the period, the one mill will be split between the two, and so on. What are you waiting for? Your first card is free. Simply log into your PartyPoker account and it will be revealed to you!

January 2011 PokerStars Marketing Code

Poker Bonus

January is the perfect time of year to open up a new online poker account at PokerStars. If you used PokerStars Marketing Code PSP11903 to open up an account, you’ll get the poker bonus offer that is being offered right now worth 100% back up to $600 on the first three deposits you make at PokerStars within the first 90 days of your membership. You will then have six months to clear the bonus by earning 17 times your bonus in player points by playing real money tournament poker and ring game poker. PokerStars will then deposit your bonus cash into your player account in $10 installments for you to
play poker with.

Superstar Showdown with Isildur1

If you are a fan of online poker, you have undoubtedly heard of Isildur1. He has recently signed a contract with PokerStars and is hosting a new promotion entitled the Superstar Showdown. This promotion gives everyone and anyone a chance to sit down and actually play poker with Isildur1 at a high-stakes game.

A Superstar Showdown is a heads-up single session that lasts for 2,500 hands of No Limit Hold ‘em and Pot Limit Hold ‘em at stakes no lower than $50/$100. After the required hands are over, the player with a higher profit wins his opponent’s bankroll and bragging rights.

If you are interested in playing Isildur1, send an email to showdown@pokerstrars.com. Make sure you have the bankroll to play, though, unless you want to tone it down a little and play in the mini version which features a 1/10th version.

Absolute Poker Referral Code January 2011

Poker Bonus

It’s a new year at Absolute Poker, and now is a great time to sign up, especially if you want to get in on the yearly tournament leaderboard contest. The weekly, monthly, and yearly TLB contest prizes at Absolute Poker have all been upped, and you don’t want to get in late in the game. And if you sign up now, you’ll get the 150% poker bonus back on your deposit, up to $500. Just make your first deposit and use Absolute Poker Referral Code PSITEORG. You’ll then have 60 days to clear your bonus, and all you have to do to clear it is play real money poker at the Absolute Poker cash game tables and tournaments to earn Status Points. For every 20 Status Points you earn, you’ll clear $1 of your bonus, which will show up in your account automatically in $5 increments.

Updated TLB Contests

Weekly, monthly, and yearly multi-table tournament leaderboards for 2011 have been upgraded at Absolute Poker . Monthly leaderboard contests will award the top 20 finishing players with a prize pool of $15K. The #1 monthly player will get to keep $5K all to himself, so this is a contest worth the effort. Yearly winners will share a $116K prize pool this year, so start now if you plan on going for this one. The top 100 players of the year will compete in a $50K freeroll.

Team UB pro Joe Sebok says, “Innovation and forward movement. These are two words that are synonymous with UB, Absolute Poker, and the Cereus Network as a whole. With that in mind we’ve revamped our entire Leaderboard system for 2011 to even the playing field and give every player a shot at that huge cash. With more and more of the best poker players making their way to UB and Absolute Poker, we expect them to fall in love with our improvements and this year to be one of our best ever.”

Freidman Replaces Hellmuth & Duke at UB.com

In the past, Prahlad Freidman was the victim of the UB.com super-user scandal, but it’s just that—in the past. He is now on the roster with UB.com as a sponsored pro player. It doesn’t come as a shock that UB is trying to fill in the blanks on the heels of Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke’s abrupt departure from the brand on New Year’s Eve 2010. What is in fact a surprise though is that Freidman is joining the site that scammed him.

When he once stated, “I guarantee you’ll never see me with a poker site or casino logo…I don’t know what they do behind the scenes and who they’re screwing over…The only logo I’d ever wear is some completely green cause, or some charity or No War shirt.”

Now he says, “I was happy because UB came at an angle of me having a lot of creative control and being a front-runner for the company. Whereas the other sites I’d just be like a pawn. The other sites have thousands of pros. I felt that with other sites I wouldn’t really get the forefront. I’ve always played basketball, been the point guard and always been the leader in most things that I do. I feel like I’m more of a leader than a follower so this is just a perfect fit for me.”

Despite the cheating scandal, 32-year-old Friedman, who is originally from California, has made a fairly successful poker career for himself, which includes a WSOP bracelet and well over a million dollars in career winnings.

He recently tweeted, “I said I would never sign with a poker site. Should I ever reconsider? What y’all think? I would have to get over the fact that I’m ‘selling out.’ I’m the only player in the world that hasn’t wanted a deal that I know of.”

Isildur1 to Reveal Himself Today

Could it really be? According to various sources, the world will soon know the true identity of Isildur1, recently signed anonymous PokerStars Team Pro and online poker player. Supposedly, before the day is over, the unidentified poker player will reveal himself to the poker community at the commencement of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event which will take place at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. A press conference has been scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Bahamas time.

For almost a year now, many have believed that the mysterious, unnamed Swedish character is in fact Viktor Blom, a very successful cash game player who is very well respected in the European poker circuit. Online, Isildur1 is known for the dramatic swings that involve bets worth millions of dollars. Not known in the live circuit for having high stacks of cash, attention was raised when Blom became one of 38 players competing in the $100K High Roller Event at the PCA. Once the news of Isildur1’s supposed appearance started buzzing around at the PCA, people started to make a connection.

Over the past year, Isildur1 has held his own against some of the biggest and boldest high-stakes online poker players to ever play the game. Isildur1 has swapped huge pots with such players as Patrik Antonius, Tom durrrr Dwan, Gus Hansen, and Phil Ivey at the high-stakes tables over at Full Tilt Poker before he signed with PokerStars.

And as if there wasn’t enough hype surrounding the PCA this year, Tony G has expressed interest in taking on Isildur1 for a rematch after losing against him at the SuperStar Showdown, a series created by PokerStars specifically designed for those who wished to try their hand against the anonymous player. Tony G just might get that chance at the PCA.

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