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PokerRoom.com’s Poker Race Trophy Competition Rolls into Brands Hatch - By Seth Shafer

Aug 20, 2008 The latest stop on PokerRoom.com’s Poker Race Trophy promotion was recently completed at the Brands Hatch circuit in the UK, with 8 players from PokerRoom coming together for an amazing weekend of poker, racing, and fun. The Race Trophy competition consists of 6 semi-final stops on the FIA WTCC racing circuit (Brazil, Spain, the Czech Republic, the UK, Germany, and Italy), with a private tournament for PokerRoom qualifiers held at each race track-side. Each private tournament (filmed and broadcast later by Eurosport) would send the winner on to the grand finale tournament in Vienna, Austria, where the six winners of each semi-final tournament would meet in a $500,000 guaranteed tournament with the following payouts: 1st place - $285,000 2nd place - $100,000 3rd place - $50,000 4th place - $35,000 5th place - $20,000 6th place - $10,000 Players can qualify on PokerRoom.com through freerolls or Sit & Go leaderboard competitions, with winners being flown to the race and treated to a lavish, all-expenses paid vacation while they’re there. As far as the action at Brands Hatch, a very familiar face, Marky_Crash, was still standing when the tournament had played down to heads-up action. Marky_Crash has dominated the Sit & Go leaderboard competition on PokerRoom, with Brands Hatch being the third time he’d qualified for a Race Trophy live event. He was still looking for that elusive seat in the finals in Vienna, though, and it came down to him and Balthazar73 in heads-up action with the seat in the finals on the line (which is worth at minimum $10,000). In the end it was finally Marky_Crash’s day, as with blinds escalating the players were forced to make a stand, and all the chips found their way into the middle with Marky_Crash holding A 10 and Balthazar73 holding K J. The board helped neither player and Marky_Crash’s A high was good enough to give him the victory, the seat in the finals in Vienna, and more than a few reasons to celebrate that night! If you’d like to experience some of the fun yourself, there’s still time to qualify for the last semi-final in Monza, Italy, with freerolls and Sit & Go leaderboard competitons running 24/7 on PokerRoom.com.

Stonedancer Waltzes to the Aussie Millions by Seth Shafer

Nov 6, 2008 As has been the case with all of the Aussie Millions finals on PokerRoom of late, last Sunday’s finals were yet another sold out affair, with 45 runners battling it out to see who’d end the day on top and sitting on an $18,000 trip package to the 2009... More

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