Archive for the Tournaments category
September 20th, 2009
Upcoming this Saturday September 26th, the River Cree Marriot Resort and Casino will hold the Black and White Celebrity Poker Safari.
This tournament is sponsored by the Zebra center. This center is located in Edmonton, Canada. It is the first centre of its kind in Canada. It enables the community to respond to child abuse with a professional, compassionate and highly integrated program of healing and justice. The Zebra Centre brings together a multi-disciplinary community of professionals : Edmonton Police Service, Alberta Children’s Services, Crown Prosecutors, Child at Risk Response Teams, medical and trauma screening professionals and volunteer Child and Family Advocates. All of them into an environment that nurtures the hurt child and uses all the wisdom of its partnership to see that justice is done.
The tournament will begin at 3pm. The entry cost is 500 Canadian dollars per couples. Like said before, all the profits will go toward the Zebra Center. This includes an afternoon of playing cards with some local celebrities followed at 6pm by cocktails, comedy and the dinner at 7 pm for two.
The River Cree Casino is located in Edmonton, Canada. It has more than 35 game tables on the casino floor. One can find the Roulette, Blackjack, Craps, Baccarat plus many other exciting games.
Over 800 slot machines can be found in the casino with a variety of games.
The poker room has 12 tables offering a number of cash and tournament events. Besides the Black and White Celebrity Poker Safari, some of the events include:
- Monday Madness: Monday nights at 7:30 PM. Player Point Re-buy Tournament Conditional Unlimited $10 re-buys in the first hour and a $10 Add-On at the break.
- Edmonton Poker League: the EPL (Edmonton Poker League) is opened to anyone! On the third Sunday of the month, register for the league in the room on the day of the event and enjoy multi-table, NLTH action !
- Enoch Open Poker Classic – Every second Wednesday evening at 7:30 PM, this NLTH tournament features a $175 + $10 buy-in for 13500 chips. You also have the option of purchasing a $10 add-on from the organizers for another 1500 in chips. $20 of each buy-in goes towards a grand prize poker trip package. The Enoch Open also features a full re-buy-in if you’re knocked out in the first four rounds of action.
- Guaranteed Prize Pool Series VIII – Daily cash tournaments to qualify for the Series Final on September 27, 2009. Earn points through tournament series play, and sign up with the Houseman to earn points for cash play time. The final will feature 40 minute rounds and as many chips as you can qualify for through the series. The Guaranteed prize pool is $30,000 again. Now the winners of the finals are going to be playing for a trip to the WSOP Main Event.
The casino has a lot more to offer: hotel, restaurants, nightlife !
Be sure to take part in one of those events !
August 13th, 2009
The first tournament for the Canada Poker Tournament League (CPTL) will start on the first of October 2009. It will be held in the Maritime Provinces. For their first season, total prizes will be $500,000 in cash besides prizes like trips to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
The Quebec Poker Tournament League (QCPTL) was launched October 2007 in the province of Quebec. This league has more than 25,000 members and already had more then 250 events. This league was born from a partnership between the Corporation des Propriétaires de Bars, Brasseries et Tavernes du Québec (CPBBTQ), l’Association des Joueurs de Tournois de Poker du Québec (AJTPQ) and Gestion Poker Tour.
Gestion Poker is a company organizing poker events in the province of Quebec.
The QCPTL is a totally free poker tournament league. Anyone, aged over 18, do have a chance to enjoy themselves at poker play while learning the basics of the game. Doing such result for those with proper skills to get very good earnings.
The QCPTL has a policy to give out at least $250,000 in prizes, even as early as the first year.
The QCPTL has a network all over the provice of Quebec in more then 125 districts. Those establishments bring a lot of Hold’Em Poker players.
Lots of tournaments are possible. Ranging from daily, monthly, mega, celebrity, venue and more types of tournaments. There are also championships.
As an example, the Quebec Poker Championship is to grab the title of Quebec’s Champion. The winner will get all expenses paid entry for a major tournament throughout the world. Many other prizes are available for the other players.
Thus Gestion Poker Tour will launch a legal and highly competitive free poker circuit in October 2009 in each of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Players can already enjoy such events in Caraquet, St-Leornard, Tracadie-Sheila, Kedgwick and soon, Edmundston.
The medias are invited to be part of the official launch tour of the provincial leagues in the Maritimes. This tour will be part of the CNPTL (Canada Poker Tournament League).
Information sessions, for the venues, will be held in the morning at 10:30am while information sessions, for the players, will be held at 1pm.
Those prosent at the launch will include France Lajoie, Pierre Martel and André Boyer. The latest one being holder of a prestigious WSOP bracelet. All those people will be there to meet you and to answer any of your questions.
A random selection of 10 people, including those amongst the medias, in the afternoon will take place. The winners will play a tournament where the main winner will face the world champion, André Boyer, in a heads-up match. That lucky winner will also receive as prize an unique poker table with accessories.
The cities and dates where those different sessions will be played are:
- August 18th, Bathurst
- August 19th, Moncton
- August 20th, Charlottetown
- August 21st, St-John’s
- August 24th, Halifax
Feel free to check the QCPTL website for more informations.
July 12th, 2009
All Slots Online Casino is preparing for this coming fall a tournament having as the first prize 1 Million Euros.
AllSlots Casino was founded in 2000. It is a member of the Jackpot Factory group of Casinos. It is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and is accredited with the eCOGRA Seal of Approval.
All Slots is the biggest online slots casino in the world, offering more than 200 online slots games including 3-reel classic slots, 5-reel video slots, progressive slots, and UK-style fruit machines. All Slots also offers the full range of other online casino games, with more than 100 varieties of online blackjack, poker, video poker, roulette, craps, keno, scratch card, baccarat, and more. Every month All Slots adds more games to its repertoire.
The others casinos part of the Jackpot Factory group are: Wild Jack Casino, First Web Casino and All Jackpots Casino.
AllSlots .com will host this coming fall the Grand Slam of Slots. The first prize will be 1 million Euros. While the top 450 winners will earn 100 Euros and more. Click here to play!
Only some selected people will be able to play the tournament. To win an entry ticket to the Grand Slam of Slots, players must play and win the ticket. Tournaments are ran daily from July 1st 2009 to September 30th 2009 so players can compete to win an entry ticket.
A slight variant to play in order to win an entry ticket is to strike a pose holding an entry ticket, as a picture, and being the one getting the most votes for his pose, by September 30th 2009.
All those with an entry ticket will then compete between October 22nd and November 2nd for the Grand Slam of Slots.
Besides the first prize being 1 million Euros, there will be 449 others prizes and 32 lucky players will also win 1000 Euros each. Total prizes awarded will be 1,300,000 Euros.
The Grand Slam of Slots will take place at the All Slots and the All Jackpots Casino.
During the tournament, buying a re-buy to play the tournament over in order to get a better score will be possible. Only the highest score will count.
Since more and more people will get aware of the tournament, it is recommended to play early in order to win an entry ticket thus avoiding the last moment competition that will be expected.
Each day, there will be free feeder tournaments to get an entry ticket so players are encouraged not to miss a single one. These free-entry tournaments will be familiar to players. Each Grand Slam Qualifier will allow up to 5,000 players to spin their way to a place in the grand final.
This record-breaking tournament is not to be miss by any serious players. The final tournament has limited places so play early to secure your entry ticket !
June 24th, 2008
Vega Promotional Systems, Inc. (VGPR.PK) today announced it has narrowed the list of stops for the inaugural season of the Poker Tour of the Americas (PTA) to six cities.As a result of increased interest from cities in North and South America, Vega’s plan is to hold six tournaments during the Tour’s first year, with plans to expand to Tour to eight stops in season two.
The season one plan includes tournaments in the following cities:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Tunica, Mississippi
San Jose, Costa Rica
Cartagena, Colombia
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quito, Ecuador
The location of the season ending Poker Tournament of Champions to crown the champion of the PTA will be announced in the next few weeks.
In addition to promoting the PTA, Vega will be the Executive Producer of the video programming and plans to air the tournaments throughout North and South America. Since Vega will own the programming, the Company is currently negotiating for network airtime that would in turn, allow the Company to sell its own advertising for the programs.
The poker tournaments will be structured as invitational events with players from all over the world able to win seats via online and live local satellite tournaments.
Michael Herron, CEO of Vega stated, “This Tour will introduce the top players in the world to new audiences in South America as well as give local players the opportunity to play against poker’s best players. The response we have received from all over North and South America has been incredible. With the popularity that poker has achieved the past few years, this type of Tour makes a lot of sense. There are some very good poker players in South America and we look forward to finding the next big name. Our timing couldn’t be better. Poker is exploding in South America and Canada and combined with the popularity in the U.S., we feel the PTA will be a hit from day one.
We’ve all seen the success that other tours like the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour have enjoyed and we feel that we can produce a first class tournament. Unlike a lot of poker programming you see on television, we are not attempting to sell the rights to a programmer, we will own the programming and will contract for the necessary time slots to air the one-hour shows. This will allow Vega to profit from the advertising, sponsorships, replays of the programming, and the tournament itself.”
June 18th, 2008
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May 7th, 2008
WPT Canada (WPTC) tour kicks off today with its first stop—Coast to Coast Poker Championships, presented by British Columbia Lottery Corporation—at River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia. WPTC is the dedicated tour for Canada, a country where some of the world’s greatest poker professionals call home and poker is booming in best-in-class casino properties nationwide.
“Canada is an incredible destination for poker, which we have experienced first-hand during three successful Canadian events on the main WPT tour,” said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO. “The sport of poker has long been growing in Canada, fostering poker fans and creating world-class poker professionals. It was only a matter of time before WPT offered a tailored tour unique to Canadian poker fans, and couldn’t be more thrilled to finally launch it today.”
WPT-Canada May 5 – 13, 2008, the event features multiple tournament options including a super satellite, bounty event, and a $3,000 CDN main event where players will face pros like Gavin Smith, WPT Season IV Player of the Year; “Yukon” Brad Booth; and Canadian Poker Tour Player of the Year Jody Trainer. Antonio Esfandiari, face of the WPT Poker-Made Millionaire™ will also play in the bounty and main events, representing Worldpokertour.com. Esfandiari recently placed eighth out of 842 players at the European Poker Tour Grand Finals in Monte Carlo.
The May 11 Coast to Coast Poker Championships final tables will play down on the WPT Canada set and will be filmed for television broadcast in Canada. Poker pro Kenna James will make his WPT Canada debut as TV commentator alongside host and well-known Canadian sports announcer, Jim Van Horne. The WPT Canada Coast to Coast Poker Championships television episodes will debut in Canada late this summer.
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