As Full Tilt Poker is gearing up for its two biggest events on every MiniFTOPS season, the site has just announced that it will be hosting a special online poker tournament for charity that lets players get as good as they’re giving.
First the MiniFTOPS XV update. An exciting week of events has come and gone, but the largest shares of the $6 million guaranteed prize pool have still to be won. This week sees the two closing events of MiniFTOPS XV, always the biggest of any Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series—the two-day event for high rollers and the main event.
The high-rollers two-day event starts on Saturday, March 20 and has a buy-in $250 + $16 and a prize pool of $600,000, and the main event takes place following the completion of day two of the high-rollers event on Sunday, March 21 and has a buy-in of $50 + $5 and a prize pool of $800,000.
As for the online poker charity event, it takes place on April 4 at 2 pm ET and all the money earned will be split evenly amongst the charities supported by PokerGives.org.
The cost to enter is only $10 and besides the rewards of helping a good cause and the potential rewards of the prizes up for grabs (more on that in a moment), not to mention the natural rewards of a good game of online poker, you also get for your $10 the chance to sit in with some of poker biggest name celebrities including Full Tilt’s own Andy Bloch, veteran player TJ Cloutier, who we like to call TJ Cookier, and WPT host and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton—among many others.
The prizes up for grabs, worth a total of nearly $4,000, include Blue Shark Optics sunglasses, a DB Dealer poker home game set, 6 months of poker coaching, and a $200 gift certificate to Andrew Shirley And Company, a 1-year subscription to Bluff Magazine.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
DoylesRoom.com Adds AJKHoosier1 To Poker Site
Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis is the latest online poker pro to join the esteemed Brunson 10.
If you haven’t already heard, Doyle Brunson, the Godfather of Poker and figurehead of Doyle’s Room Poker, has been wrangling up the players he deems to be the brightest rising stars in online poker to form his own team of sponsored online poker pros: The Brunson 10. DoylesRoom currently ranks around 6th in our pick for top online poker sites and with this move to create more exposure for the growing poker room, we expect good things from Doyles Room in the future.
Alex Kamberis, who goes by AJKHoosier1 online, is a 23-year-old with an incredible $4 million in career online poker winnings. A former Card Player Magazine Online Player of the Year (beating Steve “gboro780” Gross, the runner-up, by some 1,500 points), Kameris finished 3rd in the 2008 WCOOP Main Event for a $782,542 payday.
Kamberis is the fifth member of the still-forming Brunson 10, the other four members being:
Kamberis would have been the sixth new member of the Brunson 10 had Alec Torelli not left the team earlier in the year to join forces with a competing online poker network. AJKHoosier1’s first appearance as a representative of DoylesRoom Poker and the Brunson 10 was at the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian stop, in the $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout event.
The Texas Dolly, Doyle Brunson (and son, co-figurehead of the site, also-pro Todd Brunson) has five more online poker whizzes to find and recruit for his Brunson 10 before the team is complete. He promises to find at least most of those in the course of this year. There is an interesting interview with AJKHoosier here.
If you haven’t already heard, Doyle Brunson, the Godfather of Poker and figurehead of Doyle’s Room Poker, has been wrangling up the players he deems to be the brightest rising stars in online poker to form his own team of sponsored online poker pros: The Brunson 10. DoylesRoom currently ranks around 6th in our pick for top online poker sites and with this move to create more exposure for the growing poker room, we expect good things from Doyles Room in the future.
Alex Kamberis, who goes by AJKHoosier1 online, is a 23-year-old with an incredible $4 million in career online poker winnings. A former Card Player Magazine Online Player of the Year (beating Steve “gboro780” Gross, the runner-up, by some 1,500 points), Kameris finished 3rd in the 2008 WCOOP Main Event for a $782,542 payday.
Kamberis is the fifth member of the still-forming Brunson 10, the other four members being:
- Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark
- Amit “amak316” Makhija
- Chris “Moorman1” Moorman
- Dani “Ansky” Stern
Kamberis would have been the sixth new member of the Brunson 10 had Alec Torelli not left the team earlier in the year to join forces with a competing online poker network. AJKHoosier1’s first appearance as a representative of DoylesRoom Poker and the Brunson 10 was at the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian stop, in the $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout event.
The Texas Dolly, Doyle Brunson (and son, co-figurehead of the site, also-pro Todd Brunson) has five more online poker whizzes to find and recruit for his Brunson 10 before the team is complete. He promises to find at least most of those in the course of this year. There is an interesting interview with AJKHoosier here.
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