Thursday, February 21, 2008

Poker News - QWEASDZXC wins Betfair loyalty freeroll

QWEASDZXC wins Betfair loyalty freeroll

Betfair Poker hosts a monthly freeroll for PokerListings.com players, offering up $2,500 for them to compete for.

To get into the freerolls, players who signed up at the poker site through PokerListings.com have to earn 100 Betfair points in a month.

QWEASDZXC took full advantage of the exclusive promotion and took home the first-place prize for the February freeroll.

The players who cashed in the event were:

Place Name Prize
1st QWEASDZXC $1,250
2nd fartpants69 $750
3rd NedCongle $500

The next private $2,500 freeroll for PokerListings.com players will be March 9. Betfair Poker has set the qualifying period for that event from Feb. 1-29.

Players can also start accumulating Betfair Points March 1-31 for the April 6 freeroll.

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Player heads to Copenhagen via Hollywood

Gonz13 won the EPT freeroll at Hollywood Poker, which the site hosted exclusively for PokerListings.com players Jan. 27. It saw 39 players sit down in the final event to try to earn a seat to the Copenhagen event.

To qualify for the freeroll, players who had signed up through PokerListings.com had to do one of the following:

  • Finish in the top five of any weekly PokerListings.com $1,000 freeroll.
  • Be in the top five PokerListings.com players for Hollywood points any week before the freeroll.
  • Be the last PokerListings.com player standing in selected open Hollywood Poker tourneys (list sent each week).

 

Of the players that made it into the EPT freeroll, Gonz13 was the lucky one to pick up the $10,000 prize package to go to the Scandinavian Open. There was also $5,000 in cash spread out from second to 12th place.

The results of the freeroll were as follows:

Place
Name
Prize
1st
Gonz13
$10k prize package
2nd
GUEST_STAR_
$1,050
3rd
jukach
$700
4th
MAYOTE
$550
5th
st-michael1
$400
6th
walle_88
$350
7th
Bundy666x
$300
8th
Jointmaker74
$300
9th
MrStrange
$250
10th
jackdory
$250
11th
Call_me_down
$200
12th
marromarro
$200

PokerListings.com players at Hollywood Poker will get another shot at another EPT seat March 9. This time they'll be playing for a prize package for the San Remo, Italy, event.

The final freeroll will also spread $5,000 from second place deep into the playing field.

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Full Tilt victim of distributed denial of service attacks
Poker forums have been buzzing for the last week or so with threads about the unusual downtime experienced by online poker room Full Tilt Poker. Today, several sources are reporting that the downtime was not the result of an internal issue, but rather the ��...full article

Full TiltPoker forums have been buzzing for the last week or so with threads about the unusual downtime experienced by online poker room Full Tilt Poker. Today, several sources are reporting that the downtime was not the result of an internal issue, but rather the result of external distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks from unknown groups.

The primary article sourced in most reports comes from shadowserver.org, a volunteer group dedicated to tracking, identifying and solving Internet security issues. Excerpt:

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