Betfair Poker’s Football Frenzy

Betfair Poker are going to be celebrating the World Cup by offering some impressive football themed poker promotions. Over $170,000 of Multi-table tournaments, Sit’n’Go and Cash Game value will be offered throughout the rest of May, June and July.

Betfair will be giving away up to £125,000 in cash prizes in their big money Points Chase. The Points Chase is a two-tier target-based points promotion which will be giving 10% value back. Players will need to choose between a bonus of $50 or $100 and then hit the points target (6,500 for $50 and 13,000 for $100) between June 11th and July 11th.

VIP Upgrade Offer for Cash Race Players

If you’ve got your sights fixed on our big money June Cash Race then as well as taking away a chunky cash prize for your efforts you could see a massive increase to your bottom line if you take advantage of our free VIP upgrade offer.

We have partnered with Sun Poker for our June Cash Race simply because they offer you, our readers, the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to bonuses. One of those bonuses is in the form of VIP cash back. While all players start on Level 1 of the Sun VIP programme the highest cash back returns are seen at Level 5 and that’s what we can offer our cash race players in June.

June Cash Race Exclusive for Poker News Headlines Readers

Assuming you’re not busy slaving over a hot WSOP table this June, then why not try your hand at our BRAND NEW Cash Race on our poker room partner Sun Poker? We’ve for a HUGE $1750 Bonus on offer for players who join Sun via any link on our website.

Our cash race rewards loyalty. The more you play, the more you progress up the cash race levels. The first bonus starts after players have raked just $500 with bigger players collecting a massive reward of $1750 after they have raked $5000.

As always, we’ve got plenty of reasons for you to join in this race in June. If you’ve never played at Sun Poker before then read on to find out why you should start…

‘midjat’ wins SCOOP Low Buy-in Main Event

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $100 Low Buy-in main event tempted an enormous field of 19,188 players but it was online player ‘midjat’ who outlasted them all to become the winner, receiving over $191,000 for his first place victory.

Team PokerStars Pro, Andre Akkari, made it to the final table but busted in 5th place earning $57,564. He had the best finish of any Team PokerStars Pro in all 3 of the SCOOP main events. Angel Guillen, another Team PokerStars Pro, managed a 15th place finish in the High Buy-in main event. Team PokerStars Pro, George ‘Jorj95’ Lind, earned the title of SCOOP Player of the Series just ahead of Francis ‘teacuppoker’ Cagney.

Ryan Fair wins SCOOP High Buy-in Main Event

Ryan ‘toetagU’ Fair, an online player known for his deep run in the 2009 WSOP main event, has won the 2010 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) earning himself a massive $1,162,350 in prize money. The event attracted 130,746 unique players from 174 countries during the 38-event stretch. Amazingly, over $63 million was awarded in prize money throughout the series.

The $10,000 buy-in 2-day main event tempted 615 runners to part with their cash for a chance to win a chunk of the enormous $6,150,000 prizepool. Just 27 players returned for Day 2 with it taking just a couple of hours to reach the final.

Mr.M.M0ney wins SCOOP Medium Buy-in Main Event

Mr.M.M0ney survived a 3,675-strong field of poker players to win the $1,000 Medium Buy-in Main Event of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for an impressive $443,137.50 in prize money.

His victory in this event means that he becomes one of three SCOOP main event champions of 2010. Ryan ‘toetagU’ Fair won the High Buy-in event for more than $1.1 million and ‘midjat’ won the Low Buy-in event for $191,892.

Second place finisher, ‘cooperz0311’, actually had the biggest payout from the event thanks to a 3-way chop which entitled him to $448,500 and 3rd place finisher ‘Athanasios 9’ to $418,500.

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High Stakes Tables Slow as Isildur1 Drops Down

It’s that time of the year again. The WSOP is almost upon us and unless you’ve already claimed your seat online then time is running out to bag your place in “the big dance”.

The WSOP, it seems, often has a knock-on effect of slowing down the action at the nose bleed stakes online. While players are busy preparing their travel, accommodation and playing one of the many online satellite qualifiers the high stakes tables see less action.

In the last week, players have struggled to notch up any significant profits. Only Phil Ivey has posted a chunky positive by adding $580k to his bankroll.

Exclusive $500 Cash Freeroll – No Playing Requirements

It’s another day, another dollar for Poker News Headlines readers right now. We’ve just agreed a brand new $500 cash freeroll with our good friends at Red Kings Poker. The great thing about this new freeroll is that there are no playing requirements. All you need is a real money account (so you’ll have to make a deposit) and you’ll be ready to go when the freeroll starts.

The $500 freeroll starts on June 10th at 20:00 GMT. So you’ve got plenty of time to create your account there and discover the fantastic offerings from this OnGame Network poker room. One of which is the unique deposit bonus…