Online Poker

The 2006 Word Series of Poker is now in full swing and to give online players some fun events to play, Poker.com is holding its inaugural Championship series.

The Championship is structured to closely mimic the WSOP schedule with tournaments running for the next 29 days.

There is a tournament for everyone, with:

• Special events for European Players (Intercontinental)
• Special events forAmerican Players (North & South Amercia)
• Seniors
• Ladies
• Bloggers
• Young Guns
• Poker.com Staff
• The Champions!

But, if that’s not enough… One lucky player will be crowned as overall Champion and win the opportunity to represent Poker.com at both the Borgata Open WPT Tournament in September, and the 2007 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia.

PC01 Poker.com Staff Championship
The first event on the WSOP calendar is “The Casino Employee $500 Buy-in” and for the Poker.com staff this meant downing our work tools and playing poker... Tough I know!

However, unlike this year’s Casino Employee Event winner, Chris Gros, the Poker.com staff champion didn’t walk away with +$127,000, but something even better - A full year’s bragging rights as “Undisputed Poker.com Staff Champion” and a shiny little trophy for their desk.

Now, I understand that this may come as a little shock, but unbelievably I lost… and begrudgingly the trophy was handed to long-time Poker.com employee, Dave Drewery.

Congratulations Dave, on your well earned victory… Better watch your back Mr. Hachem, Dave his hot on your tail.

Final Standings:
1 Dave@poker.com
2 Joab@poker.com
3 DeanB@poker.com
4 Jared@poker.com
5 Justin@poker.com

PC02 Blogger Poker Tour Grand Final
The inaugural Blogger Poker Tour wrapped up season 1 with Saturday’s grand final, which was also Poker.com championship Event #2. We gave one lucky Blogger a $12,500 WSOP package.

Congratulations to EgonOlsen from EgonOlsenPoker, on your terrific win and best of luck at the WSOP Main Event in Vegas this month. I’m sure you’ll represent all your fellow Bloggers, the BPT and Poker.com proudly.

Bust Out Hands:
3rd Place - Kdollar00 wins a Poker.com Poker Table
kdollar00 is the Dealer
EgonOlsen Posted Small Blind $1500.00
OhioMike Posted Big Blind $3000.00
kdollar00 All In for $26374.00
EgonOlsen Folds
OhioMike Calls $23374.00
Flop: Js 8d 6h Turn: 7h River: 3d
OhioMike - As,Ah Vs kdollar00 Shows - Jc,Qs
OhioMike Wins with: Pair of Aces

Play began to tighten when the table went to HU.

2nd Place - OhioMike wins a 30-inch Dell LCD monitor.
OhioMike is the Dealer
OhioMike Posted Small Blind $2000.00
EgonOlsen Posted Big Blind $4000.00
OhioMike Raised to $8000.00
EgonOlsen Calls $4000.00
Flop: 6s 9c Qd
EgonOlsen Checks
OhioMike Bets $10000.00
EgonOlsen Raised to $20000.00
OhioMike All In for $50766.00
EgonOlsen Calls $40766.00
Turn: 3h River: 5s
EgonOlsen - Jd,9s Vs OhioMike - Ah,6d
EgonOlsen Wins with: Pair of Nines

Special mention goes to bloggers, Lightning36, TheBigSurprise, Skinski, Canoeg, I'mJustHere4TheBeer, PureChaos & Phreux who all won themselves a Poker.com iPod Nano.

PC03 Limit Holdem Championship
The next event held was the Limit Holdem Championship, which lasted just over 3.5 hours before Rccb25 managed to emerge victorious from the field of 124 entrants.

Congratulations Rccb25 on being crowned the first ever “Poker.com Limit Champion” and best of luck in the upcoming events… Who knows you might become the overall champion and be heading to Australia for the 2007 Aussie Millions.

Bust Out Hands:
Only 2 hands were played HU until….

rcbb25 is the Dealer
rcbb25 Posted Small Blind $10000.00
Islandgirl1 Posted Big Blind $20000.00
rcbb25 Calls $10000.00
Islandgirl1 Checks
Flop: Kd 6c 4c
Islandgirl1 Bets $20000.00
rcbb25 Calls $20000.00
Turn: 8c
Islandgirl1 Bets $40000.00
rcbb25 Raised to $80000.00
Islandgirl1 All In for $29700.00
River: 7h
rcbb25 - Th Td Vs Islandgirl1 - Tc 6h
rcbb25 Wins with: Pair of Tens

PC04 Intercontinental Pot-Limit Omaha
The first Omaha event has just wound up and Poker.com regular, Bluelips, has held off the field of 43 players to claim first place and the guaranteed prize pool. He is now the Intercontinental Poker.com Pot-Limit Omaha Champion! Now that's a mouthful....

Some people have been asking what 'Intercontinental' is too. We were going to split some events up by 'American' and 'European', but we didn't want to leave the rest of the world out. So instead, we have 'American' which comprises North, South & Central America, along with the Carribean Nations, and 'Intercontinental' which is the rest of the world, but mainly aimed at giving the European players tournaments at convenient times.

Regular Sunday Tournaments
KARjOker won the $20,000 freeroll this week, beating Sharil heads up and Fingers911 won the $10,0000 guaranteed, beating Rdnman heads up.

Good Luck at the Tables

Liam @ Poker.com