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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.

The Grand Series of Poker

Oct 15, 2008 Between the 21st and the 30th of November we will be running a series of poker tournaments (the Grand Series Of Poker). With a total of 8 events that will all count toward a leaderboard where the top 100 will compete for a ticket to our Grand Slam Final.... More

-Rex Cramer-, golsen11, and dj_stiff Book Their Seats to Australia

Oct 14, 2008 While the Team has been busy the last few weeks scattered across the globe at two different live events (the 2008 WPT Canada event in Niagara Falls and the 2008 PokerNews Cup in Melbourne), there's been plenty of action in the Aussie Millions online finals.... More

Invite a Friend - By Seth Shafer

Oct 13, 2008 PokerRoom's Invite a Friend promotion might just be the easiest $50 you ever make as a poker player, and it could make you very popular with your friends. For each friend you invite, you'll get $50 in cash to add to your bankroll! Not only that, but... More

The Bounty - By Seth Shafer

Oct 10, 2008 The Bounty offers players a ton of ways to cash in on their poker skills -- and, if they're lucky, win a trip to a major live event worth thousands and thousands of dollars! Held monthly, The Bounty provides the best of all worlds, as the top finishers... More

Team PokerRoom takes on Australia and Canada - By Daniel Batliner

Oct 9, 2008 Team PokerRoom is making its presence known at not one but two of the biggest poker events being held. In Melbourne, Australia, we'll be at the PokerNews Cup, and at exactly the same time we'll also be at the North American Championship in Niagara Falls,... More