Poker770 Announces $25k Showdown

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While most online poker sites have been struggling in terms of their tournament guarantees, one site has decided to step their game up a bit with a brand new $25k guaranteed event.  The event will give players from all limits the opportunity to play, as the buy-in is only $7.70 with an optional rebuy and add-on.  The event will kick off on October 28th at 21:00 CET at the online poker site Poker770.

While most guaranteed events will feature massive numbers of players, Poker770 has decided to cap the event at 3,000 players, and rebuys are limited to only 10 per player up until the first break in the action.  The add-on feature give players the opportunity to add additional chips just after the rebuy period ends.  What this means, is that this tournament could not cost any one player more than $100, and it offers an incredible $25k in guaranteed money.  This tournament is a great value to players, as the prize pool almost certainly won’t hit the guarantee.

To make this even better, players can win their way into the event without actually having to spend their own money, as there will also be freerolls ran daily, and satellites that cost only $0.77+$.07 to play in as well.  The freeroll events will guarantee 10 seats, and must have a minimum of ten players to begin.  As far as the cash buy-in satellites go, there will be one seat guaranteed, with a seat added for every ten players who buy-in.

Bounty Events

The bounty events at Pro770 are just another great option for players as well.  These events feature a €5 buy-in, and have great prize pools, as well as the option for you to to knock out multiple pros and win prizes depending on how many you are able to KO.  Right off the bat if you knock out one pro, you’ll win $100, and the prizes increase from there.  If you are able to knock out a total of four pros in one single week, you’ll receive the grand prize from the site.  The first thing that you will win is a $50k grand prize, and also receive a one-year pro sponsorship deal from Poker770 to be a part of Team 770.

PokerStars Superstar Showdown

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Since the signing of Isildur1 by Pokerstars and his being revealed as Viktor Blom, Pokerstars has been running a special, high stakes promotion: 2,500 hands, played at 50/100 NL, across 4 tables; each player puts up $150,000; whoever either busts or is in the negative after 2,500 hands loses.

Blom has played against 3 opponents up to this point, with a 3-1 record: he has beaten Anthony “Tony G” Guoga, Daniel Cates, Eugene Katchalov, while losing to his first opponent, Isaac Haxton. Through all of these games, Blom shows a net profit of just over $160,000.

His next opponent is someone who’s accomplishments are too lengthy to list here: the face of Pokerstars himself – Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu has been dropping hints for weeks now, discussing how he finds this Showdown a challenge he would like try. Now, Pokerstars is making it happen.

However, the rules are slightly different: instead of 2,500 hands in one day, they will be playing 5,000 across two! That’s right, they will sit down for their first 2,500 hands on Sunday, March 20th and for their remaining hands on Sunday, March 27th.

While Blom is clearly a favorite, with all of his high stakes heads-up experience, its hard to count someone out who has done what Negreanu has accomplished in the poker world. It should be exciting to watch the players battle it out on the felt.