PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Day 1A: Demes and Steicke Lead the Way

Season 3 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) officially commenced on Tuesday as the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau opened its doors to the first of three Main Event flights that will flow through the PokerStars Macau Poker Room this week. The room was abuzz as pros and amateurs from around the world ponied up the $40,000 HKD buy-in (approx. $5,160 USD), all on a mission to claim their piece of the anticipated $2,000,000 USD prize pool.

Day 1A attracted 119 total runners, of which 60 survived including chip leader and PokerStars player Brandon Demes (102,200), and perhaps the hottest player in the Far East at the moment, David Steicke (82,300). Finishing one and two on the overnight leaderboard, Demes and Steicke’s standout performances perhaps overshadowed one of the more significant storylines of the event thus far: the emergence of PokerStars Team Asia Pro.

Formed earlier this year, PokerStars Team Asia Pro is comprised of Asia’s best and brightest young poker minds, including Dan ‘Rekrul’ Schreiber, Raymond Wu, and Jonathan Lin – all of whom played Day 1A and survived to see Day 2. The team is rounded off by Tae Joon ‘Skat tilt’ Noh, Bryan Huang, and the team’s only female member, Celina Lin. Noh is currently slated to play Day 1B of the Main Event, while Huang and Lin are scheduled to hit the felt on Thursday, Day 1C.

Team PokerStars Pro Australia was also well-represented on Day 1A as team members Eric Assadourian (35,300) and Grant Levy (19,500) safely maneuvered their way through the minefield that was Day 1A. Aussie team member Emad Tahtouh wasn’t as fortunate, and having lost a few sizeable pots to fellow Aussie Danny Huynh early in the day, he was never able to recover hitting the rail near the end of level four.

Other notable Day 1A casualties included former WSOP Main Event Champs Johnny Chan and Monsour Matloubi, as well as young guns Vivek Rajkumar and Jay Kinkade.

Tournament Director Danny McDonagh paused the clock for the evening after seven levels of play, meaning both Day 1B and C flights can expect the same when they hit the felt this week.

For a complete list of Day 1A results, visit the poker News Live Reporting page where you’ll also find photos, videos and detailed accounts of the day’s action.

Online Poker Betting-Saints fan earns seat at final table of World Series of Poker

A player wearing New Orleans Saints gear is in strong position to claim his first world championship.

No, not the Super Bowl, although the Saints organization and its fans may argue otherwise this season.

Saints fan Darvin Moon, 45, of Oakland, Md., is the overwhelming chip leader in the World Series of Poker main event, which concludes Nov. 9 with the final table from Las Vegas.

Online Poker Betting- Poker Red Pros at the FTOPS

Poker has one of the largest team of pro poker players and many more composing their Red Pro Team.

The FTOPS events have seen tons of action from the Red Pros, which have had a great performance at the FTOPS events so far. Andy Bloch finished in 2nd place at the FTOPS event #5 and cashed $17,081.60. Isaac Baron took 6th place at the FTOPS event #8 and cashed $27,864. Aaron Bartley took 3rd place on FTOPS event #15 and he increased his bankroll with $70,000. The biggest prize pool taken by a Red Pro so far was on event #17 (No Limit Hold’em 6 max re-buy) in which David Pham took 4th place and won $87,334.80.

Other Red Pros that made final tables at the FTOPS online poker betting events were Michael Craig and Richard Ashby.

Ultimate Online Poker Bet Offers a $150K Prize Pool Today

Poker players have a large selection of poker rooms where they can play; they also have plenty of tournaments to choose from; some make a good return for their money but not all of them, since on some tournaments the player field is tougher than others.

Now that the FTOPS are underway at FTP and there are many online pros grinding the tables at FTP, players have the opportunity to play a softer field but with a big prize pool. Ultimate online poker Bet is hosting today August 12, 2009 at 8:30pm ET a $150K Guaranteed Deep Stack tournament. All players will start with 5,000 chips with no buy-ins. Here is the list of the first five prizes:

• 1st - $39,750
• 2nd - $24,000
• 3rd - $17,625
• 4th – $14,250
• 5th - $10,875

Players that are interested in playing at the $150K Guaranteed don’t have to pay the full buy-in of $1000+ $50: Ultimate online poker Betting has many Sit n Gos as well that will award a seat to the $150K tournament for a fraction of the cost.

Some Betting Terms Used During Online Poker Betting Play

If you are new to online poker betting play and would like to learn some of the terms used during a game then read on. The aim of the game is to have the highest rank of five cards in hand to take away the pot. Once the players have their cards they have to gamble against each other. During this betting time certain phrases are used to describe the actions used during the play. If you are playing online at a computer website then you will also notice some buttons with the same names. These betting actions are as follows:

Call: The player who's turn it is may call a bet by putting the same amount of chips/money in the pot that is equal to the online poker betting of the previous player.

Poker Bets- “Smouse156″ and “guilhermeosa” Claim Saturday FTOPS Titles

The first event was the $535 six max Pot Limit Omaha tournament (Event #6). The field of 833 Poker bets players put the prize pool at $416,500, $66,500 above the guaranteed prize pool of $350,000. The final two players, “Smouse156″ and “zelik”, chopped up the remaining money with $76,232.75 going to the poker bets player declared the champion, “Smouse156″.

Johan Storakers almost gave the red Full Tilt pro set their second consecutive final table but only managed a 12th place finish, walking away with $4,914.70.

FTOPS XIII Event #6 Final Table Payouts

1. Smouse156 - $76,232.75
2. zelik - $71,000
3. countrymac - $41,650
4. thewood503 - $31,654
5. NoPasaran - $22,491
6. blend84 - $14,369.25

The second event of the day was a little bit busier, and a little bit wilder. The $109 No Limit Hold’em with rebuys (Event #7) tournament featured 2,316 entrants who built up a prize pool of $696,300 by rebuying 3,263 times and adding on 1,384 times.

Just like Event #6 the final two poker bets players decided to divide up the money and both walked away with six figure paydays. Walking away with the winners share and title was “guilhermeosa” who pocketed $126,632.27 while eventual runner-up “mralan2950″ banked $107,289.72.

Online Poker Betting-Betting System in Poker.

Before you start playing one of the many Online Poker Betting games you have to have a betting system.

The game always starts with posting the small and the big blind, after which players can raise the bet to get a bigger pot, or fold. After this is done for all players the first three cards are put on the table after which a player can bet or check. If all players check than a new card gets on the table.

This kind of game can go on until there are five cards on the table out of which a player can use from three to five next to his own cards. After the three cards are put on the table the players have the possibility to bet. The next card will get on the table when every player has called that amount of money.

Calling means that the other players put out the same amount of money that the Betting better has put up. There is also the possibility to rise. If you want to play big, than you bet, and rise at every chance you get. This may intimidate your opponents, and after a time to make them fold their cards.