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Online Poker News
RSS Feeds Puts Players In-The-Know.
Poker players are to be given the chance to receive live tournament information through RSS feeds offered by Whichpoker.com. This will give the option for players to see offerings from multiple poker rooms, including receiving a feed that will allow them to see exactly when the freeroll tournaments become available.
Many top poker rooms are joining forces with Whichpoker.com to send up to the minute tournament information via RSS feeds to AOL, MSN or Yahoo homepages. The RSS feeds, which are free, allow players to find out when the next specific tournament is due without having to search the multitude of poker rooms.
Graham Edmond, of Whichpoker.com, said, ‘RSS feeds make it easy for players to find tournaments to suit them – we save players from having to trawl through every poker site by doing it for them.’ He adds, ‘With qualifiers for the 2006 WSOP starting soon the timing couldn't be better - Whichpoker's RSS feeds can send players updates for every upcoming WSOP qualifier onto their homepage.’
Bluff Poker Tour: First International Online Poker Tour.
Bluff Magazine, the world's leading poker publication, has announced the Bluff Poker Tour (BPT); the world's first international virtual poker tour. Participants of the Bluff Poker Tour compete in weekly tournaments at official BPT tour stops across the web.
"More people play poker online then they do in Las Vegas and California combined," said Jeff Markley, VP of Online Operations for Bluff Media. "With the Bluff Poker Tour, we've tapped into the venues that they play at most and arranged a unique mix of virtual poker combined with the tangible anchor of America's favorite poker magazine."
The Bluff Poker Tour's weekly online poker tournaments are all No Limit Hold'em events and allow players to be ranked online as they are in terrestrial poker. The Bluff Poker Tour also allows players a chance to compete with heavyweight poker muscle like tour host, Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi, who will be playing in many of the upcoming BPT tournaments. Players who go head to head with Mizrachi have a chance to win an additional bounty should they be lucky or skillful to felt The Grinder.
Top players at the end of the season will qualify for the BPT Championship Tournament. The BPT Champion will receive buy-in to three World Poker Tour tournaments.
"It is our goal to offer the poker enthusiast the type of excitement normally reserved for those fortunate enough to quit work and join the tour," said Jeff. "By making the BPT an online tournament, we've made professional quality tournament poker available to everyone. And by placing the winner of our online tour into three World Poker Tour events, we will give them the opportunity to live the life of a poker pro without having to give up the lives they have."
To participate in, or view more information about the Bluff Poker Tour, visit www.bluffpokertour.com
Celebrities Play The Pros At GSN's Poker Royale.
GSN has announced the premiere of Poker Royale: Celebrities Vs. Poker Pros, a seven-episode series debuting as part of GSN's weekly Casino Night, Friday, May 6 at 9.00pm ET/PT.
Not underestimating their opponents, the experienced pros put on their best game faces in an attempt to make it to the final table for a chance for the $50,000 championship grand prize.
The team of celebrities include: Lance Bass (*NSYNC), Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers), Jennifer Tilly (Liar Liar), and Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld). The professionals include Scott Fischman (Two World Series of Poker bracelets), Kathy Liebert (WSOP bracelet), Paul Darden (Winner of the 2003 World Poker Tour Gold Rush Tournament) and Kenna James (WSOP bracelet).
Shot at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California, the third instalment of GSN's Poker Royale franchise will be hosted by John Ahlers, the voice of the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who calls his first poker tournament. Joining him on Poker Royale is sideline reporter Lisa Dergan, named 'sexiest sportscaster' by STUFF magazine, and Robert Williamson III, returning as colour commentator.
In the first six one-hour episodes, three professionals and three celebrities face off. Every episode champion wins $10,000 and ten points. The player who finishes second receives eight points, third place receives six points, and so on. The players who make the final table will each receive $10,000 in chips to begin. In the two-hour finale, airing on June 17, the finale winner will walk away with a $50,000 grand prize.
'Our goal is to make our Poker Royale series better than other poker shows and this new format of the celebrities challenging the pros is totally cool,' said Ian Valentine, Senior Vice President of Programming, GSN, 'Viewers will enjoy the unpredictable action, great table talk and top notch poker on both sides.'
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