Archive for January, 2012

Gabi Campos Steps Down as PokerStars CEO

While it is true that sites such as the Titan Poker and William Hill Poker download are considered competitors of PokerStars, these sites don’t offer the same kind of game variety or player base. That is why PokerStars has stayed the biggest site by a large margin for quite some time now.

Despite such a strong hold on the poker market, PokerStars hasn’t been having the easiest ride the last year or so. In addition to Black Friday, they have also had to deal with losing some very key staff members.

First Thomas Kremser, the European Poker Tour director since September 2004, quit his job in May 2011. And then the creator of the European Poker Tour, John Duthie, decided to refrain from renewing his contract with PokerStars in December of the same year. It’s currently unknown what Duthie will pursue next. Trying to download Roulette and get into the casino industry is one option.

The most recent key PokerStars departure has been that of Gabi Campos, the CEO. He has been the CEO of the site for only 16 months, and he will be leaving his job on February 1, 2012. He joined the team back in… READ MORE

Randy Lew Sets Poker Record at the PCA

Randy “nanonoko” Lew has been well known amongst the poker community for quite some time now as one of the best online cash game professionals in the world. He’s been a Supernova Elite every year since 2007, collecting the maximum PokerStars rakeback possible.

His achievements caused him to become part of Team PokerStars Pro. Furthermore, he recently hit a nice score in the live arena, taking down the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau for $483,857. And now he can add a Guinness World Record to his resume.

For a while before the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Lew had been asking on his Twitter for suggestions for breaking a World Record while in the Bahamas. In the end he decided to attempt to play the most number of hands in eight hours while remaining profitable. I think it might have been easier to try to break a record involving Bingo codes!

On Sunday January 8th, he started out playing roughly forty tables of $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold‘em at one time and kept that up for the majority of the eight hour stint. During the grind he took absolutely no breaks, ate nothing and had zero trips to… READ MORE

Party Poker Brings Back Rake-Free Tournaments

Party Poker doesn’t provide poker services in the United States, but it is still one of the best online poker rooms on the Internet today. They want to continue this trend into 2012, so they have some great promotions for the New Year.

Back in August 2011, Party Poker offered rake-free MTTs, which saved tournament players a lot of money. The site has brought back this promo due to popular demand, which means that the entire buy-in for a tourney will go to the prize pool! The promotion kicked off at the start of this month and will continue until the end of this month.

To help fund your account to play extra multi-table tournaments, the Party Poker download is offering a 100% re-deposit bonus up to $100. Furthermore, you could also get into a depositors’ freeroll on Sunday February 5th at 11:00 AM EST. This tournament has a $50k prize pool.

If you love big tournaments, be sure to be free for the Party Poker Winter Million in February. This $640 event is one of four tournaments hosted every year that carries a $1 million guarantee. It comes as no surprise that Party Poker works very hard… READ MORE