PokerStars is the world’s largest online poker room so getting at least 35,000 players should be no problem. It should also prove to be a lot of fun as well.

There is also going to be a guaranteed prize pool of $500K!

You can take part in this historic event for only $11. The Tournament is going to take place on Sunday December 28 at 15:30 ET.

Click here to sign up and play in PokerStars historic event for only $11

The events run for eight days, right up until 7pm EST on Christmas Eve.  There is over $50 000 in guaranteed cash and prizes to be won and the best thing is more than half of the tournaments don’t even cost you a cent.  Five of the nine Reindeer Games events have a buy-in of between 1 and 10 gold chips rather than cash.  Check out the schedule below for the dates and times, as well as the buy-ins and prize pools of all Reindeer Games events:

Tournament   Date & Time               Buy-In                         Prize Pool

DASHER          Dec. 18^th @ 9:30pm  10 Gold Chips           1^st place - 50” Samsung Plasma
                                                                                              2nd to 10th - $100

DONNER        Dec. 19^th @ 9:30pm  $5 Rebuy NLH            5 seats to the $250K guaranteed

RUDOLPH       Dec. 20^th @ 1:00pm 1 Gold Chip                 $5000 Prize Pool

BLITZEN          Dec. 20^th @ 9:00pm  $15 NLH                   1^st place – 50” Samsung Plasma TV

DANCER         Dec. 21^st @ 2:00pm  2 Gold Chip Rebuy      15 seats to $100K guaranteed

PRANCER       Dec. 21^st @ 9:30pm  $10 Bounty NLH         $5000 Added

VIXEN             Dec. 22^nd @ 8:30pm $20 NLH                     1^st place – Two Super Bowl tickets

COMET           Dec. 23^rd @ 4:00pm  2 Gold Chip Rebuy       10 seats to Irish Open satellite

CUPID             Dec. 24^th @ 7:00pm  1 Gold Chip                  1^st place – WPT Caribbean Cruise
                                                                                                 2nd to 15^th - $100

As you can see the prizes for these events are amazing with 2 plasma tv’s, two Super Bowl tickets and a WPT Caribbean Cruise all available to be won! 

On top of all the regular prizes, the top 9 players in each of the Reindeer Games events will earn entry to the Reindeer Games $20 000 finals.  With a maximum of only 81 players, the seats are valued at around $250 a piece.  The guaranteed grand prize of $5000 makes these finals a great place for a good chance at a big payday.

If you are planning to participate in some of these Reindeer Games events and haven’t yet registered a Cake Poker account, make sure you use a Cake Poker sign up code when registering to ensure you get the best bonus possible.

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Top online poker sites pay out large prize pools

December 2, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — The major online poker websites PokerStars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com continued to attract large numbers to Sunday tournaments this week, generating impressive prize pools and high value prizes to the winners.
 
At PokerStars, Peter “twirlpro” Turmezy took down the top prize of almost $200,000, with his heads up opponent ‘fratzl‘ also taking home a six-figure paycheck worth some $132,176. The Sunday Millions tourney in which they competed attracted an entry field of 8,001 players, up 246 from the week prior, and generated a prize pool of $1.6 million.
 
Full Tilt’s $750,000 Guaranteed event also recorded increased entries with 3,668 sign-ups, but this still did not make the guarantee and FT had to put up the $16,400 balance. David “Doc Sands” Sands faced ‘andressoprano’ in the heads up, winning the event to claim the $132,787 first-place prize. His opponent collected a check for $80,250 for his second placing.

Poker pro beats five top Internet and land players to take home $300,000

December 1, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — Poker pros JC Tran and TonyG battled it out in the heads up of the five-day-long third edition of the PartyPoker Premier League, which culminated over the weekend. The tournament saw twelve of the world’s top Internet and land players pitted against each other in a series of heats leading to the final table.
 
Selected to compete was a stellar international roster composed of JC Tran, Tony G, Juha Helppi, Annette Obrestad, Vicky Coren, Tom Dwan, Andy Black, current WSOP MS Champ Peter Eastgate, Roland de Wolfe, David Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, and Nenad Medic.
 
U.S. player JC Tran entered the final of the PartyPoker Premier League III with the lead over the final table six, comprising Tom Dwan (U.S.A.), Juha Helppi (Finland), TonyG (Australia), Roland De Wolfe (U.K.) and Peter Eastgate.
 
Tran lost the lead during the heads up, but staged a great comeback to beat TonyG and take home the main prize of $300,000, leaving his opponent with a second place check for $150,000.

Cliff Josephy, better known to his high-stakes online peers as JohnnyBax, took down a tough field of 1,025 to win the Omaha Eight-or-Better event and his share of a $205,000 prize pool. A difficult final table included British pro and WSOP bracelet-winner Ram Vaswani.

In other events, the No-Limit Hold ‘em 6-max event created a $1.13m prize pool between the 1,032 players who signed up. David Pham took a hefty slice of that by finishing in third place, while other cashing pros included Chip Jett and Clonie Gowen.

The winners from Tuesday were losebigpots in Event 12, the $200$16 HA; LaTanyaWilliams in Event 13, $500$35 H.O.R.S.E.; and imabigkidnow in Event 14, $200$26 No-Limit Hold ‘em Turbo.

Starting the heads up last night at the Rio in Las Vegas, Eastgate was seriously short — to the tune of 21,775,000 — of Demidov’s massive 79,500,000 chip count, but he lived up to his reputation of cool, collected play and disciplined aggression to end the evening with around 120,550,000 in chips to his opponent’s 16,350,000!

The final drama was played out under bright television lights following a 2008 WSOP Player of the Year presentation to veteran Erick Lindgren, who looked pleased with his prize of a cool-looking Harley Davidson motor cycle. After that, it was the respected poker announcer Michael Buffer who was given the honor of making the “Shuffle Up and Deal” call, and the action was on.

104 hands later, at hand 274 the young Danish accountant-turned-poker-pro eliminated the hard-fighting Russian to become the first Dane to hold the title, and the youngest player ever to win poker’s biggest tournament, breaking a record held over the last 19 years by Phil Hellmuth. He joins an elite list that includes Brunson, Moss, Ungar, Chan, Ferguson, Hellmuth, Yang, Gold, Hachem, Raymer, Moneymaker, Nguyen and a host of other top players going back to 1970.

Demidov’s second place finish carries a significant consolation — a check for $5,809,595, and he has earned respect for his performance in reaching the final tables at both the Vegas and London editions of the WSOP.

Flanked by Vegas showgirls, Eastgate lived up to his reputation as a calm and even subdued personality, politely thanking his opponent and the sponsors and expressing quiet pride in his achievment. But a smile eventually appeared as he hefted a couple of currency bundles from the suitcase full of cash that was on display.

The 2008 WSOP final table will probably enter the records as one of the longest ever, taking over 16 hours to reach a conclusion. It will also be famous for big blinds reaching the million chip level, where some 32 hands were slugged out.

One of the world’s top poker pros, 34-year-old Monaco-based Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen,has been causing havoc in the big money online poker action at Full Tilt.com, earning a million dollars in a single day at one stage, reports the HighStakesDb.com poker information site. And playing against some of the best players around on Full Tilt, his October 2008 earnings thus far have reached $3.2 million.

On Monday night alone, Hansen won more than $589,000 at Hold ‘em, $145,000 in PLO, $152,000 in Omaha Hi/Lo, and $97,000 in a HORSEgame, demonstrating a mastery of the diverse poker styles and rules.

Originally from Copenhagen in Denmark, Hansen is famous for his loose and aggressive style of play, and started playing poker as a professional in 1997. Before that he was a world-class backgammon player who tried to make a living at the game in New York and abroad but found the pickings too slim.

In his outstanding poker career The Great Dane can boast a long record of wins in significant tournaments. He has won a record three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. His official career winnings recently topped $5,837,633, and he describes his approach to the game as: “I play the players, not the cards.”

Get set for the BIGGEST EVER European Championship of Online Poker THIS NOVEMBER!!

The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is a thrilling online tournament series where skilled poker players compete for a share of millions of dollars.

Our first ever ECOOP I in December 2007, was an incredible success - and Titan Poker gave away $2,500,000 in just TEN DAYS!!

Titan followed up with our second ECOOP II in May 2008. It was even more of a hit, with winners claiming a share of $3,600,000 in just TEN DAYS!!

But this time we’ve truly outdone ourselves! This November the excitement takes place over a record FOURTEEN action-packed days!!

The ECOOP III will run between the 24th of November to the 7th of December 2008 - and it’s set to be bigger and better than ever before!! Are you ready? Because this third European poker championship is going to award a breath-taking $4,150,000!

SEE TABLE BELOW FOR THE ECOOP III SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

You can buy-in to the ECOOP III directly or win your seat at qualifying satellites. Check Titan Poker software for satellite details.

Don’t forget that in all Titan Poker ECOOP tournaments, every event winner will also receive a special ECOOP bracelet!

DON’T MISS OUT - START PLAYING TODAY FOR YOUR SHARE OF $4,150,000!!

October 20, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — Only days after achieving licenced status with the Italian regulator Amministrazione Autonome dej Monopoli di Stato (AAMS), the giant online poker website PokerStars.com has launched its Italian offering at PokerStars.it.
 
Fabio Angeli Bufalini, PokerStars Italian manager, invited his fellow Italians to try the new website out for themselves, joining the thousands of Internet poker players around the world who use the site on a daily basis. He commented: “PokerStars is proud to be entering a flourishing market with this new product. This is a groundbreaking time for the online poker industry, and it’s very exciting that the Italian market is pioneering this move.
 
“This is the start of a global template which could potentially be adopted in other markets internationally in the next few years.”
 
Italian players will have access to the full range of services and tournaments offered by PokerStars, said Dario Minieri, an internationally respected land and online Italian pro and member of Team PokerStars. “Players on PokerStars.it will have the opportunity to win their entry into famous international poker events — like the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas,” he said.
 
“These competitions require players to have the right mix of skill, training, concentration, and luck.”
 
Luca Pagano, Max Pescatori, Jeff Lisandro, Dario Alioto, and Marco Traniello are all successful Italian players who form a powerful nucleus of role models for their countrymen interested in playing poker for real money. 

PokerStars market research estimates that during this first year of online poker being legalized in the country, up to 500,000 new player accounts will be opened throughout the Italian online poker industry, creating an estimated €400 million market.