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Sirin-22 Gets a Taste of PokerIsland - By Seth Shafer

Aug 13, 2008 Last Sunday saw yet another player book a spot on PokerIsland, one of the new, unique promotions that PokerRoom is offering.

To reach the PokerIsland finals, players had to first qualify by playing cash games; once they made the finals it was winner take all, with one lucky player getting a ticket to PokerIsland where they’d try to win the ultimate prize: a poker pro sponsorship to major live events around the world.

69 players turned out for the finals on Sunday, including former Team PokerRoom members WeeFatShug (who cashed at the 2008 WSOP) and thesheep63. Sirin-22 was the leader at the second break, and still held the lead when action was three-handed:

Seat 5: Zlotypiotr1 ($25,781 in chips)
Seat 7: Sirin-22 ($60,766 in chips)
Seat 8: cedn15 ($16,953 in chips)

Sirin-22’s stack continued to grow when he knocked out Zlotypiotr1, with Zlotypiotr1’s pocket nines no good versus Sirin-22’s As Qd on a board of Td 8s Ad Jd Ac.

Sirin-22 held a chip lead of about 72,000 versus cedn15’s 30,000 when heads-up play began. It looked like he’d steamroll to victory, with cedn15 getting as low as 7,000 chips, but cedn15 managed to double up. And double up again. And double again. And again.

Lo and behold, cedn15 had fought back from the brink to take the lead himself, with about 59,000 chips versus Sirin-22’s 44,000, when the two butted heads in a battle of flushes.

On a board of Kc Kd 4c 5c, all of the chips found their way into the middle, with cedn15 flipping over 9c 7c for the turned flush, but crushed to find himself up against Sirin-22’s Ac Qc, for the nut flush and a lock on the hand.

Once again sitting on a huge chip lead, Sirin-22 sealed the deal shortly after, with his pocket queens holding up against cedn15’s As 9s. With that Sirin-22 took down the victory and locked down a trip to PokerIsland, where he’ll relax in the mansion, enjoy the fun and sun, and hopefully make a run at the top prize of a poker pro sponsorship deal to live WSOP and WPT events.

Stonedancer Waltzes to the Aussie Millions by Seth Shafer

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Ronzie99 Rolls to Victory in the Big Deal by Seth Shafer

Nov 6, 2008 The Big Deal may not get the headlines that the Grand or ChampionChip or some of the big online finals do, but the weekly tournament held on Sundays definitely packs a punch, with more than $150,000 up for grabs in prize money. November 2nd’s Big... More

Mobilfe Madness - Win a Black Nokia N82

Nov 4, 2008 Hey there poker fans. In great new promotion to celebrate PokerRoom.com's fantastic Mobile Poker Game , PokerRoom.com is giving you the chance to win a brand new black Nokia N82 . Over the next five weekends we will be running Moblife Weekly... More

Anna K. Living the High Life After November’s ChampionChip by Seth Shafer

Nov 4, 2008 The beginning of the month is always an exciting time at PokerRoom, as that means it’s time for one of PokerRoom’s biggest tournaments to kick off: the ChampionChip. With 1,500 runners and a prize pool of $525,000 up for grabs, the November edition of... More

AKauffeldt73 Takes Down an Aussie Millions Victory by Seth Shafer

Nov 4, 2008 The Team roster for the 2009 Aussie Millions keeps growing and growing, and last weekend was no different, with two more players taking down their $18,000 trip packages to the Aussie Millions on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s online finals... More