Archive for November, 2009

Pokerstars is back with their promotion “Depositor Freerolls” with a combined prize pool of $500,000!

This promotion will be running from now until the 13th of December but you should deposit before the 28th of November to get full advantage and play all the freerolls of this promotion.

All you have to do is to deposit now with one of the following codes:

- Enter “500K” if you are already an existing real money player i.e. you have an account and have made already a deposit before
- Enter “FIRST500K” if you’ve never made a deposit before. Don’t forget that you can also take advantage of our promotion and get $25 for free + the 100% first deposit bonus up to $600, all you have to do is to follow our step-by-step guide.

There are eight freerolls per day for 15 days, each with a prize pool of $2,500. Cash in any of the freerolls and you will qualify for one of the eight $25,000 finals on December 13. One deposit gets you a ticket to all of the freerolls, which means this December there’s never been a better time to play at PokerStars.

The tournaments run November 28 – December 13 at various times during the day – 05:00 ET, 08:00 ET, 11:00 ET, 13:00 ET, 15:00 ET, 17:00 ET, 20:00 ET and 23:00 ET. You can find the freerolls in the PokerStars lobby by selecting ‘Tourney’ and ‘Freeroll’, or by typing ‘Depositor’ in the Tourney Filter.

You can make your qualifying deposit at any time before or during the promotion, but you’ll need to deposit before November 28 if you want to have your ticket in time for the first freeroll. The tournaments run around the clock and every one will pay 500 places – so you’ve got a great chance of taking home some prize money.

If you’re new to PokerStars, it’s easy to set up an account – Simply follow our step-by-step guide.

Good luck and see you at the tables!

This post is dedicated to congratulate the winner – Zadman5311 – of this last weekend Pokerstars Sunday Million and Pokerstars.com for the 2 records that were set!

This was the largest ever prize pool = $3,656,600 with the largest ever field of players = 18,283 of the Pokerstars Sunday Million with a buy-in of $215 NL Holdem.
With this amount the top 5 players would get six-figures prizes and the number one could get $365,670.77. I say… That must be a good daily salary anywhere in the world

After 11 hours we end up with the following player lineup for the final table:

Name -  Amount of chips
ZyeD3 – 22,839,804
Zadman5311 – 17,636,300
The Omaholic – 18,935,611
MATPOC28 – 18,997,596
m8675309a – 24,108,668
Guldlemmen4 – 43,419,898
waWe – 15,883,436
E-Daddie – 7,938,832
call110 – 13,069,855

When the table come down to 6 players they decided to start a discussion on how could they split the pot. Team PokerStars Pro Ivan Demidov was the host of the final table and supported during the discussion. With $30,000 set aside for the eventual winner the payouts were defined like this:

ZyeD3 (15,519,804 in chips) = $144,353.10
Zadman5311 (44,532,600 in chips) = $252,662.86
m8675309a (30,384,279 in chips) = $200,844.74
Guldlemmen4 (23,099,863 in chips) = $177,650.76
waWe (30,553,744 in chips) = $205,477.38
call110 (38,739,710 in chips) = $250,037.00

From that moment on the action continued with very good poker demonstrated by these players and end up with the following final hand:

m8675309a pushed all-in for 7,769,952 holding [Qd] [Tc], and Zadman5311 called quickly with [As] [4h]. The board came [7h] [2d] [8s] [2h] [Jh], and the ace kicker worked to eliminate m8675309a in second place.

Zadman5311 was the winner of the biggest $215 Pokerstars Sunday Million in history, claiming tournament title with a nice paycheck of $282,662.86!!!

Congratulations!!!

Today Im going to start a serie of posts where I will go through some of the best online poker players of 2009. And why dont we simply start by the number 1?

After going through some research we found out that Daniel “djk123″ Kelly is probably the best online poker player 2009!

Daniel “djk123″ Kelly is a young poker player from United States. Just mention a few of his sucesses this year he end up in 4th position in the WCOOP Main Event with a $10 million guaranted taking with him $ 643,200.00 and end up in 1st in the WCOOP 44 $10,300 Horse with $1 million guaranted collecting another $252,350.00… But do you know what really sick? We won both in the same day!!! Congratulations!!!

Here are some statistics from Daniel “djk123″ Kelly year to date:

Number of tournaments played – 2650
Number of tournaments where he end up “in the money” – 390
Number of tournaments where he finished in the top 10 – 106
Total amount in prizes – $ 1,653,950
Total Profit – $ 963,506

You can find Daniel Kelly playing mainly at pokerstars with the nickname djk123.

That is it for today! See you tomorrow for the next player in the list of the best online poker players 2009!