PokerStars.com has been all over Poker News Headlines the past week, rather than cover each story one at a time we decided to get you all updated here in a single post.
Chad Brown and Gavin Griffin Join Team Poker Stars
To compete against the dominant Full Tilt Poker team PokerStars has added professional poker players Gavin Griffin and Chad Brown. These two join the already solid line up of Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and many more. The team is now 25 players deep, but is still not in contention against the ever growing Full Tilt Poker team, which has grown over 40 players!
Gavin is most known for becoming the first player to win a WSOP bracelet, WPT title and a EPT title. This is a huge feat and with the size of tournaments these days it could very well go unbroken. Chad Brown had a different approach to the poker scene as he was a former actor who ended up destroying the online tournament scene and decided to pursue a career in poker. His most notable win was a $5,200 HORSE victory in the 2006 WCOOP.
PokerStars launches new Social Media website, PokerStars.tv
PokerStars is going WEB 2.0 with their newest product, PokerStars.tv. This is a video poker site dedicated to offering live webcasts of major poker tournaments and other high quality poker footage. As of right now the site is in beta-testing phase and features PokerStars sponsored events and the latest news from the PokerStars sponsored team.
When you visit the site, you can view a video tutorial narrated by Canadian born poker pro Daniel Negreanu. This tutorial contains an overview of how site members can access the content and showcases other benefits the site has to offer. Right now there are over 500 videos to watch with many added fresh each day.
Check out the cool new site at PokerStars.tv.
Glen Chorny Wins PokerStars.com EPT Monte Carlo
The PokerStars.com EPT Monte Carlo Main Event which began on April 12th ended in the early morning / late night hours of April 18th. It took the competitors nearly 12 hours to reach heads up play, but from there it took only two hands to decide the champion.
On hand 274 of the final table Denes Kalo pushed all in with King-Queen from the button and Chrorny called with Ace-Five. The board ran AsQs6s 6d 10d making Glen Chrony the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Finale champion, which also earned him $3,193,822 in prize winnings.
Chrony is a 22 year old business student from Timmins, Ontario CA. His biggest live tournament success came at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure where he finished in 16th place. He won is EPT Monte Carlo seat in a PokerStars online satellite and won a very tough final table which included the likes of Antonio Esfendari, 8th place, and Team PokerStars pro Luca Pagano, 6th place.
WSOP Seats up for Grabs at PokerStars.com
The WSOP is coming around the corner and PokerStars is guaranteeing to send over 2,000 players through their satellite tournaments. It’s predicted that 1,000 of these players will be playing in the Main Event, which has a $10,000 entry fee. Not only does PokerStars cover the $10k buy-in, they also cover player’s expenses up to $2,500.
Satellites have already began at PokerStars.com and will be running up until the Main Event. Players can buy-in directly to any cash qualifiers, use Frequent Player Points for FPP qualifiers or compete in Sit & Go Step Satellites to earn their way to the World Series of Poker. For a complete schedule of these satellites please visit PokerStars.com
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