US Poker Tour
USPT Players, our National Championship Pool has been frozen at $6384, which was the final tally at 11:59 pm on May 31, 2008.
The Top 200 USPT Players as recorded at that time on that date are eligible for their share of the cash pool, provided entirely by The U.S. Poker Tour.
The official list of the Top 200 and their payouts will be available USPT Players; our National Championship Pool has been frozen at $6384, which was the final tally at 11:59 pm on May 31, 2008.
The Top 200 USPT Players as recorded at that time on that date are eligible for their share of the cash pool, provided entirely by The U.S. Poker Tour.
The counter will begin again on August 1, 2008 and moving forward, each National Points Pool will be paid out quarterly, with the pools closing on October 31, January 31, April 30, and July 31 of each year hereafter.
The United States Poker Tour reserves the right to change or cancel this schedule at any time at its sole discretion.
We are still awaiting final results for a couple tournaments to finish the official tally and should have those results and all the accounting done within the next two weeks.
The official list of the Top 200 and their payouts will be available. At that time, players in the Top 200 will be able to download a Prize Claim Form to fill out an submit to receive their cash.
The Power of Poker Players
On a daily basis across the US poker rooms do battle for the loyalty of local poker players. Through various promotions and tournament offerings, they attempt to capture and hold the attention of a group of people that play the game on a regular basis.
In the early stages of The U.S. Poker Tour, one thing has been proven at each of our Member Casinos: When they begin offering USPT, the players turn-out in droves.
Thus far, the average new USPT Member Casino has signed up more than 250 players in their first month of offering our events. We are extremely thrilled to see so many poker players interested in The US Poker Tour.
We would like to offer a free gift to local poker players that are willing to help us out. Is there a casino that you would like to see offering United States poker tour events? Maybe you like to play at a certain casino and they don't offer USPT. Here's what we want you to do:
US Poker Championship
Last year Alex "Fro" Jacob outlasted 261 players to take home a first-place prize of $878,500. In the past the event has been broadcast by ESPN, but the TV sports network has dropped all non-WSOP poker programming, so it remains to be seen what effect that will have on turnout at this event.
The event has been running since Sept. 17 with a number of mostly smaller buy-in events already finished.
The series wraps up on Oct. 5 and by then a total of 19 events will have been played.
The United States Poker Championship has been held since 1996 with a number of big-name winners coming out of the tournament including Daniel Negreanu, Men Nguyen and Toto Leonidas.
Preliminary reports have Jeff Madsen, Gavin Smith, Cyndy Violette, Bill Edler, Bill Gazes and Steve Dannenmann all plunking down the $10,000 buy-in to try and win the big tourney in New Jersey. Defending champ Jacob is also set to playing poker and hopefully defend his title.
Gerber takes home the $606,095 first prize in poker
Louis Lee limps-in and Adam Gerber pops it to $125,000. Lee makes the call and the flop comes 6 6 5. Gerber checks and Lee bets $200,000. Gerber immediately pops to $500,000 and Lee makes the call.
The turn is the 6 and Gerber moves all-in, putting Lee to a decision for his tournament life. After an agonizing deliberation he makes the call, shoving his stack into the middle and turning up 5 3 for the boat. Gerber has a better boat, however, with 8 8 and Lee is drawing dead. After the K hits the river its official; Adam Gerber is world Poker Championship Champ! (Ref: Online Poker Championship)
For the win, Gerber takes home the $606,095 first prize, as well as a gold bracelet and a Rolex watch. Louis Lee earns $318,180 for second place. Congratulations to both finalists!
- Blinds: $20,000/$40,000
- Ante: $5,000
- Average Stack: $4,920,000 ;
- Players Left: 1 ; Tables Left: 1
- David Woo has won the bracelet, $631,656 in poker
Play Online Poker in US
US Poker Sites / Poker Sites for Americans - Playing online poker in U.S. (United States poker sites) is a legal grey area, and in the following American states it may be outlawed: Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
Keep up with the latest developments on US poker law and online poker gambling sites that allow players from the United States in the Cards chat poker forum.
Many people are searching for legal poker sites. Cards chat has reviews of the top online poker sites that accept United States / US players including which allow perfectly legal online poker in the USA: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Bodog, and Ultimate Bet, Sports book Poker and Players Only Poker and United States Poker Tour. (Ref: Poker On Internet)
PokerStars
Pokerstars is the largest online poker site in the world. PokerStars is the top rated online poker site that accepts US players.
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General Information:
PokerStars is a registered legal business located in the Isle of Man. They abide by the laws and rules where they do business.
The site stands alone in both quantity and quality of tournament players and number of tournaments. Ring games are Hold'em; limit and no limit, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 stud, and 7 stud Hi/Lo.
Poker Stars is authorized by at least three of the most recent World Series of Poker (WSOP) main even champions: Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Joe Hachem. If you're a tournament player - Pokerstars / PokerStars is the site for you.
There is at present no online US poker room that should even be mentioned in the same breath as Stars when it comes to MTT tournaments.
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker proudly advertises that they have several professional online casino in USA poker players that exclusively play at FullTiltPoker.
The list includes: Howard "The Professor" Lederer, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Jennifer Harmon, Eric Lindgren, Clonie Gowen, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Phil Gordon, Erik Seidel, and Andy Bloch.
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