Poker News

The largest poker room on the iPoker Network, Titan Poker, is busily preparing for its first sponsored “land based” tournament, which will be staged between May 9th and 12th in Madrid, Spain. Titan Poker is sending a delegation of 66 players to the inaugural event of the Eurocity Poker Tour (ECPT).Qualifying Satellites for the ECPT Madrid Open have been staged since the end of February as Titan Poker players scrambled to win the $3,000 prize package granting them attendance at one of poker’s most elite tournaments. The ECPT Madrid Open will take place at the prestigious Casino Gran Madrid.

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Canadian Gaming News

Four Canadians are among 10 finalists vying for a $1 million grand prize in the World Poker Crown tournament which comes to an end tomorrow in Barcelona, Spain.
Jack Hinchey (Oshawa, ON), Michael Lawson (Orangeville, ON), Michael Leah (Toronto, ON) and Marc Castonguay (Montreal, QC) have been receiving the red
carpet treatment since their arrival at the offline final table since their hometown departures on Monday of this week, including helicopter transfer to the exclusive Peralada Castle Resort.
Their journey started out three months ago and during that time they have outmatched more than 20,000 players. Now, in the offline final table they are competing with six other finalists hailing from Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Poland for one of the largest ever guaranteed prize pools of $3 million with $1 million as top prize.

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Casino News

Gamblers under 21 may soon be playing poker at the Meskwaki casino near Tama.

The Tribal Council has approved a plan to allow 18- to 21-years-old to play poker games such as Texas Hold ‘em. A date for the change hasn’t been set.

Tribal spokesman Larry Lasley Jr. says the tribe can make the change because players, not the casino, provide the game’s jackpot when they buy into the game.

The tribe’s gaming compact with the state regulates games such as blackjack — the casino provides a dealer and has a stake in the outcome.

Blackjack News

After 28 years, FreshAddress CEO Bill Kaplan breaks his silence about founding and managing the MIT Blackjack Team depicted in newly-released movie “21” based on national bestseller, “Bringing Down the House,” and attributes subsequent business success to his card-counting experiences.

General News

Full Tilt kicked off the eighth instalment of its Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) yesterday with a $216 buy-in six-handed no-limit Hold’em event with a $750,000 guarantee.
The first of 24 events running from now until 18th May, the online casino is guaranteeing ten million dollars in prizes and stated that at least five events will have guarantees of one million dollars or more.

The FTOPS will feature three ‘mystery tournaments’ but the most anticipated are likely to be the $2,500 buy-in two-day no-limit Hold’em event and the main event. The two-day event features a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million with the first day of play starting on 17th May, while the main event will have a two million dollar guarantee alongside a buy-in of $500.

The FTOPS continues later today with a pot-limit Omaha knockout event featuring a $200,000 guarantee and one of the mystery events before tomorrow’s seven-card stud eight-or-better match with a $100,000 prize pot. Tomorrow will also feature a pot-limit Hold’em event with a $200,000 guarantee.

FullTilt.com is also holding a FTOPS Tournament of Champions promotion that will see winners from each event of the FTOPS V, VI, VII and VIII play a freeroll for a World Series of Poker main event seat. These winners have already been entered with the tournament scheduled for 24th May after the FTOPS VIII has ended.