PokerStars are attempting to break their own Guinness World Record by hosting the largest online poker tournament on the 4th December 2011 as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary promotions.
The current PokerStars Guinness World Record which still stands was achieved in 2009 when 149,196 players registered in one tournament breaking all previous records set by Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars.
Players can be part of poker history in the latest attempt which hopes to attract more than 150,000 players to register for a low buy-in tournament of only $1 players can play for a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.
With no US players playing on PokerStars since Black Friday the record breaking attempt will face it’s biggest challenge with only countries outside of the USA allowed to participate.
Last night I watched the 2011 WSOP final table being streamed live online, well the first part of the final as I’m sure many others did. I hooked up a laptop to my 42 inch LED TV set up the cables and was all good to go, well at least that’s what I thought would be the case.
What unfolded was a bit of mixed feelings in regard to how the WSOP 2011 live stream was run and in general how much better coverage for the greatest poker event of the year could have been handled.
My first issue was I searched all my satellite channels which is really saying something as I have a Dreambox and access to most European TV channels via satellite which includes ESPN and ESPN America but sadly the WSOP was being shown on ESPN2 which I could not access.
My only means to watch the “WSOP 2011 live” was via a live streaming broadcast of the WSOP which was easy enough to find as we had previously posted about the 2011 WSOP Final Live on ESPN.
So after setting up my laptop TV combo I loaded the WSOP live stream only to find out that too many others had done the same thing causing the live feed to crash I then checked out the WSOP twitter feed which read “Sorry folks, we’re experiencing a minor issue with the feed. It should be up and running in 15 min. Players now on the 1st break of the day.” Read More…
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The World Series of Poker Main Event final table has played down to the final three November Nine players who will return on Tuesday to determine the WSOP Main Event Champion 2011.
The current chipleader is Pius Heinz who may just be the first German player to win a main event. Heinz has almost double the chips stack that Ben Lamb has going into the final three.
There were some pretty classic and action packed hands with the final four but the day came to an end when Matt Giannetti was eliminated shoving allin pre-flop with a weak A3 and Ben Lamb calling with pocket kings to hit quad kings on the flop.
Great news for fans of Full Tilt Poker, the former #2 venue in online poker and even better news for those who have had their bankrolls frozen at the site since Full Tilt’s worldwide closure after the AGCC revoked their gaming license.
Full Tilt Poker looks set to make a comeback deal with Groupe Bernard Tapie taking over command of the once so popular poker room, the deal which has the approval of the DOJ will include paying all outstanding players worldwide that have money suspended in their Full Tilt player accounts.
Although exact details of the deal have not been fully disclosed to date, Managing Director of Groupe Bernard Tapie, Laurent Tapie has confirmed that “payment terms are defined” and that he expects an agreement to be drafted and signed within the next two weeks.
