Sunday, January 25, 2009
New Promo on I poker !!! and other stuff.
Well since my last post I have been cashing on a regular basis in the Mtts but no big cashes as yet. Last week I finished 22nd in the 250k on the big slick ( I poker) and I have qualified for that tonight for $50 !!
The other thing is that I am also running good in terms of % swaps and had 20% in my mate Joffy who finished 3rd in the 50k.
From next month I poker are running a fantastic promotion please contact me if you wish to open an account with superb VIP loyalty bonuses.
:: Febonanza Promotion
I. Cash tables race
♠ Starting February 1st, iPoker will give out a total of $400,000 to our cash table players.
♠ Players will be ranked in leader boards, by points derived from the gross revenue each player
generated in cash tables during the leaderboard period.
♠ There will be one counting period of 28 full days, starting February 1st 2009 at 00:00, ending
February 28th 2009, at 23:59:59.
♠ A sum of $400,000 will be divided between the 300 players with highest rank at the end of that
period.
♠ The leaderboard is per the above period, spanning all stake levels, game and bet types, as
detailed below.
Terms and Conditions:
1. Leaderboard Points are counted for each player who was dealt cards in a hand, and in which rake
was taken from that hand. Players who were seated out of a raked hand will not have that hand
counted towards this promotion’s leaderboard points.
2. In case there is a tie between players’ leaderboard points in paid places, all players with that
number of points will be issued an average amount of their prize (as per their positions).
3. iPoker reserves the right to refuse payment to any player which is found colluding or slow playing.
4. Players will be paid for reaching the money on an ongoing 28 full day’s leaderboard, within seven
working days of that leaderboard end time. (End time is February 28th, 2009 at 00:00).
5. All raked hands will be counted, regardless of stake levels, game type or bet type.
6. Accounts cannot be utilized from more than 2 different serial numbers (“machine ID”).
7. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.
Cash tables leaderboard ‐ February 1st – February 28th
• 300 Players with the most points during the counting period in cash tables will receive money
into their poker account by this structure:
Place Prize
1 $20,000.00
2 $15,000.00
3 ‐ 5 $10,000.00
6 ‐ 10 $7,000.00
11 ‐ 15 $5,000.00
16 ‐ 20 $3,000.00
21 ‐ 25 $2,000.00
26 ‐ 75 $1,500.00
76 ‐ 125 $1,000.00
126 ‐ 300 $750.00
II. Golden Hands Bonuses
A Golden hand occurs every 1,000,000 hands, and hands are counted as per the consecutive hand ID.
The prizes will be split between the winner and the participants of the hand, as per the below table. The winner of the hand will walk away with the prize money, while all participants in the hand will split an identical amount (including the winner of the hand).
Table Stakes
Stakes
Winner Players in Hand Split
Fixed NL/PL
Micro $0.02/$0.04 ‐ $0.10/$0.20 $0.01/$0.02 ‐ $0.05/$0.10 $65.00 $65.00
Low $0.25/$0.50 ‐ $1/$2 $0.10/$0.20 ‐ $0.50‐$1.00 $250.00 $250.00
Med $2/$4 ‐ $5/$10 $1/$2 ‐ $2/$4 $1,000.00 $1,000.00
High $10/$20 and up $3/$6 and up $3,000.00 $3,000.00
♠ The “Golden Hand” with the highest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as
“Platinum Hand”, and the winner of that hand will receive a $30,000 bonus.
♠ The “Golden Hand” with the lowest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as
“Black Hand”, and the winner of the hand will receive a $20,000 bonus.
Terms & Conditions:
1. The promotion will start when the first hand ID is dealt on February 1st, 2009.
2. The first “Golden Hand” will be the first hand with a round million hand ID number. For
example: if the first hand ID of the promotion was 1,364,900,000 the first “Golden Hand” will be 1,365,000,000, and so on.
3. Winner of “Golden Hands” will take a sum of money as per the above table.
4. All participants of “Golden Hands” will split an amount as per the above table. The winner will
also split this amount.
5. Players must be dealt cards on the hand in order to be eligible for the bonus. Players sitting out
will not be eligible. Players passing on blinds will not be eligible as well.
6. The hand ID’s are determined by the number assigned to them by our system, as they appear on
the table (on the top‐left corner).
7. Tournament hands do not participate in this promotion (they are assigned different hand ID’s).
8. Winning hands will be published by our cardrooms and their affiliates. Players who do not agree to this will not be entitled to the prizes.
9. If a winning hand has two winners or more, they will divide the sum of the winner bonus and the participating players’ bonus. For example: 5 players in micro table, winner takes $65.
Participating players split $65 ($13 each). Two winners will take $45.5 each ‐ ($65+$13+$13)/2.
10. Winners of the “Platinum” and “Black” Hands will receive a bonus as detailed above, in addition to the Golden Hand bonus.
11. Only golden hands that reached the “showdown” will be eligible to win the “Platinum” and
“Black” hands prizes.
12. A “Golden Hand” is eligible for the “Platinum Hand” prize, only if both hole cards were used at showdown. Platinum Hand” and “Black Hand” will consist of 2 hole cards and 3 community
cards.
13. The “Black Hand” will be the weakest hand to win a “Golden Hand” at showdown.
14. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.
15. In case there is a tie between players with the same hand rank (both for “Black Hand” and
“Platinum Hand”), all players with that hand rank will split the prize.
III. $2,500,000 Guaranteed tokens
♠ iPoker will give away tokens to the participant players of the Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed
events during February.
♠ Tokens will be won by participating players according to the following two options:
• Players who will play and finish among the top 100 players (including) of at least two
Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will win a token to the $2,500,000
Guaranteed event, which will take place on March 8th, 2009.
• Players who will play the whole four $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will
be eligible to participate in a $2,500,000 guaranteed freeroll, regardless of their finishing
position. The freeroll will give away 10 seats to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event.
Terms & Conditions:
1. The four $250,000 events to be counted in this promotion are: Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Feb 15th, and Feb
22nd.
2. Tokens are non‐refundable, non transferable, and cannot be converted to cash.
3. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed will be automatically registered by
iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event, which will be held on March 8th, 2009.
4. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed freeroll, will be automatically
registered by iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed Freeroll. The exact date and time of the
freeroll will be determined and communicated by the end of February 2009.
5. iPoker will not compensate for any token that wasn’t used in practice by the winning player
The other thing is that I am also running good in terms of % swaps and had 20% in my mate Joffy who finished 3rd in the 50k.
From next month I poker are running a fantastic promotion please contact me if you wish to open an account with superb VIP loyalty bonuses.
:: Febonanza Promotion
I. Cash tables race
♠ Starting February 1st, iPoker will give out a total of $400,000 to our cash table players.
♠ Players will be ranked in leader boards, by points derived from the gross revenue each player
generated in cash tables during the leaderboard period.
♠ There will be one counting period of 28 full days, starting February 1st 2009 at 00:00, ending
February 28th 2009, at 23:59:59.
♠ A sum of $400,000 will be divided between the 300 players with highest rank at the end of that
period.
♠ The leaderboard is per the above period, spanning all stake levels, game and bet types, as
detailed below.
Terms and Conditions:
1. Leaderboard Points are counted for each player who was dealt cards in a hand, and in which rake
was taken from that hand. Players who were seated out of a raked hand will not have that hand
counted towards this promotion’s leaderboard points.
2. In case there is a tie between players’ leaderboard points in paid places, all players with that
number of points will be issued an average amount of their prize (as per their positions).
3. iPoker reserves the right to refuse payment to any player which is found colluding or slow playing.
4. Players will be paid for reaching the money on an ongoing 28 full day’s leaderboard, within seven
working days of that leaderboard end time. (End time is February 28th, 2009 at 00:00).
5. All raked hands will be counted, regardless of stake levels, game type or bet type.
6. Accounts cannot be utilized from more than 2 different serial numbers (“machine ID”).
7. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.
Cash tables leaderboard ‐ February 1st – February 28th
• 300 Players with the most points during the counting period in cash tables will receive money
into their poker account by this structure:
Place Prize
1 $20,000.00
2 $15,000.00
3 ‐ 5 $10,000.00
6 ‐ 10 $7,000.00
11 ‐ 15 $5,000.00
16 ‐ 20 $3,000.00
21 ‐ 25 $2,000.00
26 ‐ 75 $1,500.00
76 ‐ 125 $1,000.00
126 ‐ 300 $750.00
II. Golden Hands Bonuses
A Golden hand occurs every 1,000,000 hands, and hands are counted as per the consecutive hand ID.
The prizes will be split between the winner and the participants of the hand, as per the below table. The winner of the hand will walk away with the prize money, while all participants in the hand will split an identical amount (including the winner of the hand).
Table Stakes
Stakes
Winner Players in Hand Split
Fixed NL/PL
Micro $0.02/$0.04 ‐ $0.10/$0.20 $0.01/$0.02 ‐ $0.05/$0.10 $65.00 $65.00
Low $0.25/$0.50 ‐ $1/$2 $0.10/$0.20 ‐ $0.50‐$1.00 $250.00 $250.00
Med $2/$4 ‐ $5/$10 $1/$2 ‐ $2/$4 $1,000.00 $1,000.00
High $10/$20 and up $3/$6 and up $3,000.00 $3,000.00
♠ The “Golden Hand” with the highest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as
“Platinum Hand”, and the winner of that hand will receive a $30,000 bonus.
♠ The “Golden Hand” with the lowest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as
“Black Hand”, and the winner of the hand will receive a $20,000 bonus.
Terms & Conditions:
1. The promotion will start when the first hand ID is dealt on February 1st, 2009.
2. The first “Golden Hand” will be the first hand with a round million hand ID number. For
example: if the first hand ID of the promotion was 1,364,900,000 the first “Golden Hand” will be 1,365,000,000, and so on.
3. Winner of “Golden Hands” will take a sum of money as per the above table.
4. All participants of “Golden Hands” will split an amount as per the above table. The winner will
also split this amount.
5. Players must be dealt cards on the hand in order to be eligible for the bonus. Players sitting out
will not be eligible. Players passing on blinds will not be eligible as well.
6. The hand ID’s are determined by the number assigned to them by our system, as they appear on
the table (on the top‐left corner).
7. Tournament hands do not participate in this promotion (they are assigned different hand ID’s).
8. Winning hands will be published by our cardrooms and their affiliates. Players who do not agree to this will not be entitled to the prizes.
9. If a winning hand has two winners or more, they will divide the sum of the winner bonus and the participating players’ bonus. For example: 5 players in micro table, winner takes $65.
Participating players split $65 ($13 each). Two winners will take $45.5 each ‐ ($65+$13+$13)/2.
10. Winners of the “Platinum” and “Black” Hands will receive a bonus as detailed above, in addition to the Golden Hand bonus.
11. Only golden hands that reached the “showdown” will be eligible to win the “Platinum” and
“Black” hands prizes.
12. A “Golden Hand” is eligible for the “Platinum Hand” prize, only if both hole cards were used at showdown. Platinum Hand” and “Black Hand” will consist of 2 hole cards and 3 community
cards.
13. The “Black Hand” will be the weakest hand to win a “Golden Hand” at showdown.
14. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.
15. In case there is a tie between players with the same hand rank (both for “Black Hand” and
“Platinum Hand”), all players with that hand rank will split the prize.
III. $2,500,000 Guaranteed tokens
♠ iPoker will give away tokens to the participant players of the Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed
events during February.
♠ Tokens will be won by participating players according to the following two options:
• Players who will play and finish among the top 100 players (including) of at least two
Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will win a token to the $2,500,000
Guaranteed event, which will take place on March 8th, 2009.
• Players who will play the whole four $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will
be eligible to participate in a $2,500,000 guaranteed freeroll, regardless of their finishing
position. The freeroll will give away 10 seats to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event.
Terms & Conditions:
1. The four $250,000 events to be counted in this promotion are: Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Feb 15th, and Feb
22nd.
2. Tokens are non‐refundable, non transferable, and cannot be converted to cash.
3. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed will be automatically registered by
iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event, which will be held on March 8th, 2009.
4. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed freeroll, will be automatically
registered by iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed Freeroll. The exact date and time of the
freeroll will be determined and communicated by the end of February 2009.
5. iPoker will not compensate for any token that wasn’t used in practice by the winning player
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Close but no cigar and a promotion starting next month !
I played last night in the Irish Open sat last night on the I poker Network ( Big Slick). There were 237 runners and the prize pool was as two seats then there was some prize money feeding down to 5th place.
Anyway with 4 left we were all evenly stacked and I was in the BB with A 10 off. The player UTG opened the pot for 24k blinds 4k 8k I was playing 130k and he was the same so I decided to shove as he had passed an alleged monster earlier so it was totally player dependent. He snap called with 88 and won the race. At the time I was a little miffed at his call but I suppose we all feel that way whenever you lose a race.
Moving forward I really am enjoying the network now and tonight shall be playing;
50k rebuy
35k rebuy and add on (( only $10 so shall play for a laugh))
The 20k rebuy and add on $100
and the 20k rebuy $30
So that is just tonight and I have said in other posts as a multi player the site is first rate. Whats on Betfair tonight? LOL.
See you at the tables guys,
Shaa
Anyway with 4 left we were all evenly stacked and I was in the BB with A 10 off. The player UTG opened the pot for 24k blinds 4k 8k I was playing 130k and he was the same so I decided to shove as he had passed an alleged monster earlier so it was totally player dependent. He snap called with 88 and won the race. At the time I was a little miffed at his call but I suppose we all feel that way whenever you lose a race.
Moving forward I really am enjoying the network now and tonight shall be playing;
50k rebuy
35k rebuy and add on (( only $10 so shall play for a laugh))
The 20k rebuy and add on $100
and the 20k rebuy $30
So that is just tonight and I have said in other posts as a multi player the site is first rate. Whats on Betfair tonight? LOL.
See you at the tables guys,
Shaa
Friday, January 09, 2009
Innocent until proven guilty ! ( claims of sabotage)
Well I have been blamed for Sabotageing duffs blog and putting a picture of myself on there with the words that I am duffs hero etc. I cannot believe this claim made by Mr Duffield and I shall be contacting my lawyer forthwith ( or Jm Henson from the Betfair Poker forum). :-)
duffspoker.blogspot.com
Well at least there is a nice pic on there.
Anyway that is enough of my ramblings I am off to the Big Slick Poker club in Purley tonight to give away some of my hard earned dosh.
I will try and report anything interesting next week.
Good Luck at the tables.
Shaa
duffspoker.blogspot.com
Well at least there is a nice pic on there.
Anyway that is enough of my ramblings I am off to the Big Slick Poker club in Purley tonight to give away some of my hard earned dosh.
I will try and report anything interesting next week.
Good Luck at the tables.
Shaa
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Happy New Year everyone !
New Beginnings
So the new year is upon us and one of my new year resolutions was to bring this blog back to life and then outline my future goals and aims for the forthcoming year.
Anyway as you can see from my banners etc which I made sure were quite small and unnoticeable to the untrained eye, that I am now associated with the BIG Slick Poker Club. I have had a long standing relationship with the Big Slick initially writing articles for them and attending various tournaments etc.
The Big Slick as a site as well as business has certainly grown and there is now 4 poker clubs in the UK alone as well as the one in Croydon. Therefore with this business continually growing it is a great pleasure to be associated with this particular brand. As you are aware I was a big fan of Betfair in the early days however a lot of the old school have now left Ruru, Ben Fried, Estelle etc. I think the only two left in the building is Bruce Stubbs and the cleaner Mandylou.
Anyway it is now onto pastures new and I have been playing on the big slick for over 3 months now ( this is an I Poker Skin) and with the loyalty bonuses that I have recieved every month on top of the traffic and games selection I was crazy to stay at Betfair. I suppose there is a very fine line between loyality and stupidity.
Ok well that is a quick overview of the site and during my ramblings throughout the year I shall not doubt highlight and comment on certain value etc, for instance at the moment the fort knox jackpot sit and go's win 6 in a row is standing at $120k.
Finally if anyone wants a great deal on this network please do not hesitate to contact me.
Cheers,
Scotty.
So the new year is upon us and one of my new year resolutions was to bring this blog back to life and then outline my future goals and aims for the forthcoming year.
Anyway as you can see from my banners etc which I made sure were quite small and unnoticeable to the untrained eye, that I am now associated with the BIG Slick Poker Club. I have had a long standing relationship with the Big Slick initially writing articles for them and attending various tournaments etc.
The Big Slick as a site as well as business has certainly grown and there is now 4 poker clubs in the UK alone as well as the one in Croydon. Therefore with this business continually growing it is a great pleasure to be associated with this particular brand. As you are aware I was a big fan of Betfair in the early days however a lot of the old school have now left Ruru, Ben Fried, Estelle etc. I think the only two left in the building is Bruce Stubbs and the cleaner Mandylou.
Anyway it is now onto pastures new and I have been playing on the big slick for over 3 months now ( this is an I Poker Skin) and with the loyalty bonuses that I have recieved every month on top of the traffic and games selection I was crazy to stay at Betfair. I suppose there is a very fine line between loyality and stupidity.
Ok well that is a quick overview of the site and during my ramblings throughout the year I shall not doubt highlight and comment on certain value etc, for instance at the moment the fort knox jackpot sit and go's win 6 in a row is standing at $120k.
Finally if anyone wants a great deal on this network please do not hesitate to contact me.
Cheers,
Scotty.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hello is there anybody out there?
Well I thought that I might bring this blog back to life !!!!!
So what's happening everyone?
Well first of one of my good friends Mr Smyth is now minted and I am grinding like a mad man....
Another good friend of mine Tony Duffield recently got a great deal on a skin on I Poker which I shall post about at a later date.
Anyway I hope everyone is well and lets get writing again !!!
Shaa
So what's happening everyone?
Well first of one of my good friends Mr Smyth is now minted and I am grinding like a mad man....
Another good friend of mine Tony Duffield recently got a great deal on a skin on I Poker which I shall post about at a later date.
Anyway I hope everyone is well and lets get writing again !!!
Shaa
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sponsoring the Builder and Ben at the GSWCOP
Well Dubai, Ariston and myself have clubbed together to send Builder and Ben (sunday 8pm) to play in the Gutshot world series starting this weekend.
If you don't know who builder is well he is a little bit of a gobshite but a likeable one, his tournament report will probably be worth more than the entry fee alone :-) I really do want him to use his "Die in a greasefire" catchphrase as I am sure that would go down a treat :-)
Good luck all.
Shaa
If you don't know who builder is well he is a little bit of a gobshite but a likeable one, his tournament report will probably be worth more than the entry fee alone :-) I really do want him to use his "Die in a greasefire" catchphrase as I am sure that would go down a treat :-)
Good luck all.
Shaa
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Funny Old Game !
Well I have certainly stepped it up in my Shaaboom account recently.
I decided to venture into the old stt's and six pac's after not having a great night on the sports.
I played 6 won 1 2nd in 5............... These were all turbos ! which seems to be the only thing going at the moment.
Cash
I have now played over 1000 hands at $2 $5 and the inevitable happened yesterday when I lost a buy in when raising it to $20 pre flop and recieving two callers. The flop of 6 7 9 was a little scary (rainbow) and when my continuation bet was reraised all the money went in and the villain had 67 no help and $500 down the drain.
Tounament $4500
The good thing about the cash session is that I logged out immediately and decided to take the little bit of tilt out on a tournament instead (( something I normally do)). Anyway to cut a long story short I won it pocketing $2430.
So all in all what turning out to be a bad day ended up being profitable in the main.
Good luck,
Shaa
I decided to venture into the old stt's and six pac's after not having a great night on the sports.
I played 6 won 1 2nd in 5............... These were all turbos ! which seems to be the only thing going at the moment.
Cash
I have now played over 1000 hands at $2 $5 and the inevitable happened yesterday when I lost a buy in when raising it to $20 pre flop and recieving two callers. The flop of 6 7 9 was a little scary (rainbow) and when my continuation bet was reraised all the money went in and the villain had 67 no help and $500 down the drain.
Tounament $4500
The good thing about the cash session is that I logged out immediately and decided to take the little bit of tilt out on a tournament instead (( something I normally do)). Anyway to cut a long story short I won it pocketing $2430.
So all in all what turning out to be a bad day ended up being profitable in the main.
Good luck,
Shaa
