Archive for October, 2009
Kara Scott is the host of the European Poker Tour and as her long run at this year’s WSOP Main Event showed, she’s also a mean poker play, but currently she is being heavily linked to join Gabe Kaplan in the commentary booth on the new series. A new presenter was supposed to have been announced recently but nothing is in the pipeline yet.
Kara Scott has been working with match room recently on some of their UK based shows, but Karen also has close ties with the show’s new sponsor so you cannot rule it out just yet. Kara is well respected in the industry beginning her career as a sports presenter before she was asked to present the World Series of Backgammon. Poker presentation soon followed and then she took up the game with a degree of success. Keep your eyes on the situation, perhaps you may like to place a bet?
You will not be short of a poker site on the internet, but one of the most friendly has to be Pacific Poker part of the respected 888 group, which is the company behind the world’s largest online casino, Casino-on-Net. The upgraded Pacific Poker software offers players a lot such as great graphics and functionality, improved search functions and layout, integrated casino and bingo play, an always-visible cashier and improved multi-tabling abilities, with up to 16 tables which can now be tiled or cascaded at any one time.
Check out the Pacific Poker site now and see all the variations of Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo. This month, October 2009, saw 2,000 ring-game players at peak hours and 8,000 tournament players at peak hours, why not join them now?
So the waiting is over and we know the winner of the EPT London Poker Festival Main Event and a £850,000 first prize,. This is the American Aaron Gustavson beat Team PokerStars PRO and World Champion Peter Eastgate. Gustavson and Eastgate, who wins £530,000 as runner-up, started their heads-up battle straight after dinner. It lasted just seven hands when Gustavson’s A-Q beat Eastgate’s A-9.
A total of 104 players cashed and all in all, the tournament has been considered a great success. This season’s EPT London Poker Festival featured 16 different events. Side event winners included Team PokerStars PROs Joe Hachem, Jason Mercier and William Thorson. We now look forward to the next event of the EPT which is EPT Warsaw from October 20-25, 2009. Satellites are running now, as well as for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January.
All eyes will be on Peter Eastgate the current reigning World Champion who is 2nd in chips and making his first EPT final table. Eastgate has already won a massive EPT side event since taking down the biggest event in poker. This is the biggest poker tournament in the history of the game in the UK and we are now down to one table.
The only British player left in the field is Dominic Cullen of Nottingham, who sits in the middle of the pack in a very International final table. Outright leader is Aaron Gustavson a Vegas poker player who has twice as many chips as his nearest rival. However, all eyes will be on Eastgate who has all the pressure on him, watch this space!
The 2009 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Main Event is the biggest tournament ever held in the U.K. Even with a new, surprisingly flat payout structure a massive 104 places will pay out, but the vast field still managed to generate a £850,000 first prize. The show got under way and last night, the 4th October, saw two emerge from the pack.
The two leaders went head to head and Jeff Lisandro gradually built his stack and finished with a massive 236,400, but a late-surging Nikolai Senninger managed to amass 323,100, beating Lisandro and sending him into Day 2 as overall chip leader. Only 318 players from day one will be coming back for Day 2 today as of today and live coverage resumes at 12 noon.