The Poker Blog

The NFL Season kicked off this past week and what better way to celebrate at DoylesRoom than with piles of cash!

Reload your bankroll all day Saturday and Sunday and you’ll be rewarded with a 25% Bonus up to $250 in bonus cash!

Lock in your bonus by using promotion code: KICKOFF25 when you deposit into your account using one of our fast and easy deposit methods. 

At DoylesRoom, we reward our players with real cash bonuses. As soon as you earn the required Loyalty Points, we’ll credit the entire bonus, in cash, directly to your account!

Don’t miss out on Saturday’s $250k 50-Seat Guarantee at 2pm ET. The buy-in for this great satellite is only $22+2, with at least 50 players getting a seat in the September 27th $250,000 Super Saturday Main Event. 

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Pacific Poker is handing out over $69,000 in prizes, including seven $8,500 mega-packages to players to represent their country at the international 888 Poker Open V – $648,000 guaranteed prize pool! (See post below for full details).

When? 27th October – 1st November.

Where? Maidstone, England

How much? $648,000 guaranteed prize pool, with $250,000 to the top player!

$1 could win you an $8,500 package to international glory!!!

1. Join in one of your country’s exclusive weekly $1 satellites, there will be seven in all.
2. The top 5 from 11 countries will meet the 5 top players from the rest of the world every Sunday in an international clash of skills.
3. The ultimate winner each week takes one of the seven coveted $8,500 packages to the 888 Poker Open V!

Seven master poker players will get the chance to put their country on the poker map in England (almost-but-not-quite poker masters also finish in prizes)!

888.com, the world’s No.1 online casino, has announced the launch of the 888.com Poker Open V, with even more celebrities, poker professionals and online qualifiers battling it out for a place in the final to win a slice of a $648,000 jackpot.Now in its fifth year, the tournament will be filmed for Sky TV at the Maidstone television studios where filming takes place between October 27th and November 7th, while it airs between January and June 2009, every Tuesday night at 2200 on Sky Sports. The public will have a bird’s eye view of the celebrities competing against each other and the 100 other entrants for a place in the final of one of the Europe’s biggest televised poker events.

The 108 seats will be filled by 8 celebrities, including Shane Warne and Ronnie O’Sullivan, who will battle it out against 65 poker professionals and 35 888poker online qualifiers from around the world, all eager to claim the prestigious title of the 888.com Poker Open V Champion.

The Sky TV cameras will return to film the event from play-offs through to the final covering the triumphs and disappointments along the way. It makes compulsive and exciting viewing as the winners and losers demonstrate their skills and nerve in front of the TV cameras.

Matt Robinson, Marketing Director for 888.com, said “The 888.com Poker Open Championship is certainly a highlight in the poker calendar. Now in its fifth year, the competition is attracting some of the best players in the world which makes for an even more competitive tournament than last year. The TV cameras will no doubt capture all the excitement and unexpected turns from start to finish.”

It’s going to feel a lot like Christmas on the last Saturday of September.

Saturday nights might be made for mayhem, but the real party begins in the afternoon. Stay home, log on, and make history with the biggest Saturday tournament the poker world has ever seen.

Doyles Poker are pulling out all the stops and summoning the hottest celebrities for an event that will change the poker landscape forever. Pit yourself against Doyle Brunson, Shannon Elizabeth, Mike Caro, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Nicky Hilton, and other hot Hollywood celebrities and poker pros and collect your share of 10 x $1,000 bounties.

For a rock-bottom buy-in of $150+15 entrants can not only take a shot at the $50,000 top prize, but they can also experience the excitement of mingling, chatting and competing against the stars for added cash.

Europe’s longest running online Poker Championship is back! LEOCOP IV Championship comprises 16 Added Money tournaments over 15 consecutive days and culminates with the massive $120,000 LEOCOP IV Masters Event freeroll, where you could win the last remaining Poker Million VII Semi-Final Seat!

Put this date in your diary – Sunday 26th October 2008. This is the start of the biggest added money Poker Festival on the internet. In addition to winning your share of an estimated $2,000,000 in prize money you could also win a Poker Million VII Semi-Final Seat which guarantees prize money of $20,000 and a chance to walk away with the first prize of $1,000,000.

Ladbrokes will be hosting 16 added money tournaments over 15 consecutive days where the games covered are No Limit, Fixed and Pot Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, with a mixture of Freezeout and Re-buy structures. Ladbrokes Poker has made sure that there is something for all of their players.

To ensure that everyone will have the opportunity to be a part of the drama and excitement they have set up a fantastic qualifying structure for each of the LEOCOP IV Championship Events (exc Heads-Up) starting with satellites offering buy-ins as low as $1! That’s incredible value and an unmissable opportunity to take a shot at some of the largest prize money in European Poker.

The schedule of events is listed on their web site. Satellites start from as little as $1 and are available now. Please check the poker lobby for full details.