Top 15 Biggest Online Poker Tournaments
While many of the biggest online poker tournaments take place on Sunday, there are a couple scattered throughout the weekdays as well. Read on to find out when and where all the biggest online poker tourneys take place each and every week with other important details such as buy-in and player field size. Also, if you like overlays, those tournaments with frequent overlays are indicated as well.
1. PokerStars Sunday Million
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This is the #1 biggest weekly online poker tournament available—it just doesn’t get any bigger than this. With a $215 buy-in and an average player field of 7,070, the prize pool for this basic No Limit Hold ‘em tourney gets pretty large. It’s guaranteed to start at $1.5 million and goes up from there. The largest prize pool for this tournament was on February 21, 2010 when the playing field rose to 36,169 players and the prize pool reached more than $7.2 million.
Satellites of course run throughout the week for this event and start at $2.20 or 400 Frequent Player Points. First place is guaranteed $240K each week. The Sunday Million runs at 16:30 ET each and every Sunday at PokerStars.
This past week, the Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival took place where more than 630 players showed up to battle for a 1st place spot worth more than $70,000. At the end of the memorable four day festival, it was Lars Torngren that stood out above the rest and took home the prize package. The Swedish professional poker player took home the coveted title after outlasting the recognizable John Kalmar – a World Series of Poker Main Event finalist.
The last hand of the festival was actually a 3 way all in where Torngren and his opponents Paul Lucey and Brian McGleenon pushed their stacks in the center for one last battle. McGleenon was the first to push with a rather weak Jack/5. Torngren followed him with his pair of pocket Sixes and Lucey rounded out the big hand with his Ace/7. Unfortunately for McGleenon and Lucey, Torngren’s low pair held to the end and he took home the pot and the victory.
Oct 7 2010
Full Tilt Poker Reveals Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVIII
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Almost as if to celebrate the return of the November Nine to their main event final table in November, Full Tilt Poker has announced that they will by commencing their 18th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. This series of tournaments will start on November 10th and run through the month. In all, the FTOPS will host a $19 guaranteed prize for poker players that participate. Throughout the month of November, 34 tournaments will take place that make up this popular online poker event.
On November 21st, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is scheduled to end with the Main Event – a $600 tournament featuring a large $3 million prize pool for participants. However, all players are expecting this guaranteed prize to quickly increase as registration for the event comes to an end.
It seems like September was the month for breaking records – especially in attendance. This past Thursday, the European Poker Tour London stop was the site of another attendance record being smashed, it’s own. In total, 848 poker players turned up to pay the $5,250 buy in for the tournament. This exceeded the old record for the European Poker Tour stop set in 2009 – 730. With such a substantial buy in and large player field, a huge pool of more than $4,100,000 was created. From this pool, 128 poker players will cash by the time the tournament ends – with the winner taking home $900k.
Of the players that showed up for the tournament, over 160 received their ticket by playing on the popular online poker site PokerStars. In addition, 57 countries were represented at the tournament with the largest representation coming from, of course, the United Kingdom – 170. However, the United States held up their own with just 3 less players traveling in from the country.
No, it’s not a typo. Englishman James Bord walked away the winner of the World Series of Poker Europe this week after taking down Fabrizio Baldassari. How did a professional poker player get a name so close to the espionage star on the rocks with MGM? Well, James Bord is the name of the anonymous English poker player that won the WSOPE, not the design of fate.
Bord might owe a great deal of his recent buzz to the adoration of the fans during the tournament in London, England. Obviously, Bord was the favorite – even among one of the most impressive and talented fields of player ever to play in a WSOPE main event. When Bord went heads up against Baldassari, he faced a huge obstacle – a large deficit in his chip stack. However, amidst the cheering along the rail, Bord was able to overcome this deficit and walk away the main event winner.
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