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an additional $1,000 each week to the first place
team if the vessel used during the tournament is
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas, The center of the poker
universe moved to the Bahamas
during the first two weeks of the new year as
PokerStars. The televised series is
the largest
live-release tarpon tournament in the state of Florida, featuring
five regular season events and
one championship event all held in Boca Grande
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"I was just so excited to be playing with some of the
greats like Raymer and Moneymaker, but I never
thought I would win it all. Money covering player's balances is held in
segregated accounts managed
by the Royal Bank of Scotland, ensuring that
PokerStars can fulfill its obligations to players at
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Ambrose, a student at the University of Waterloo (in Ontario), outplayed
the
huge field -- including the last three world poker champions -- over a five-
day span and
won $1,363,100 for first place. He was cheered to victory by his
mother, sister, and several friends
who watched anxiously as the final table
was taped for broadcast on the World Poker Tour. But perhaps
the most memorable juncture at
the PCA, aside from the record-setting main event, was the inaugural
World
Championship of Battleship Poker, launched exclusively by PokerStars. A whopping
1,116
entrants qualified to play this year via PokerStars satellites. The reigning world poker champion
Joe
Hachem, has also been an active player at PokerStars since 2001.peewee tyke
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Five of the six players who
made it to the final table were relative
newcomers to the poker tournament scene. Most who made
it into the money were
cashing in a live tournament for the first time ever -- proving once again
that online poker can be a significant training ground for major televised
tournaments." The
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Ambrose won his way into the
PCA via a satellite
tournament held on PokerStars.
The PCA also featured six secondary tournaments, which awarded
over
$1 million to winners.
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were also a number of high-stakes cash games
which attracted players from the United States and many
countries throughout
Europe, Central and South America. Michael Banducci, from Traverse City, MI
was the first-year
winner. "And that's really saying
something based on our high expectations
from last year.This category contains sites about ice hockey tournaments.
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site to introduce features that became
industry standard such as sophisticated multi-table tournaments
, integrated
game statistics, players' notes, personalized images, time bank for
tournaments and
big bet ring games, satellite tournaments, multi-table sit and
go tournaments, and much more. Entry
fees are $600 for each
qualifying event, and $1,000 for the final Jim Beam Tarpon Cup Championship
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To date, PokerStars has dealt over four billion hands and run more than
18 million poker
tournaments, awarding well over $1 billion in prize money."
Camera crews are on hand during the
Nextel PTTS to capture the action for
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more details, visit: http://www.pokerstars.
PokerStars is the site where the 2003 and 2004 World
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Coverage of the
2006 PCA will be shown later this year on The Travel
Channel as part of the network's hit show -
- the World Poker Tour. During the last three years, PokerStars.com,
thus fortifying the company
trademark, "Where Poker Players Become World
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This year, production
crews will rig several tournament
boats with "lipstick" cameras, giving
viewers up-close and personal coverage of the fishing as it
happens.
During each of the four qualifying tournaments, teams will be competing
for a first
prize that includes a Century 1902 Bay Boat with a Yamaha F115 EFI
4-Stroke engine and a Continental
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PokerStars is one of the world's largest poker rooms, with 4 million
registered
player accounts."
, The Tarpon Anglers Club
recently announced during the Miami International
Boat Show the addition of
Nextel as its title sponsor for the organization's 2005 Professional Tarpon
Tournament Series (PTTS) Presented by Century Boats.
Each event is limited to three hours
of fishing, and the field is limited
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The poker tournament
took place at the Atlantis Casino and Resort, on the
beaches of Paradise Island. I
am so glad
PokerStars put together this great event to allow someone like me
to compete, to win, and now --
to defend my title next year.
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College Student Steve
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tournament entries and paid vacations
by qualifying online at PokerStars. PokerStars uses
industry-leading security software to ensure
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But in the end, it was
the young Canadian college student who
walked away with the top prize. PokerStars' support team is truly unique, as help
and assistance
is available around the clock from people who know and
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Best of all -- the PCA
demonstrates
once again that PokerStars.com) is the world's most innovative online
poker site.
PokerStars
is an official member of the World Poker Tour, and the title
sponsor of the European Poker Tour
(EPT) and the PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure.
The 2005 Nextel PTTS will be held May 21, May
29, June 5, and June 12.
"Last year's tournaments proved to be a tremendous success, as both
our
sponsors and anglers enjoyed the NASCAR-like atmosphere which included extreme
weather, aggressive
sharks, and more than 50 boats competing in Boca Grande
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the world
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little as $6. The
winner
was Steve Paul-Ambrose, a 22-year-old college student from Canada.
"We are excited about our
partnership with Nextel, as this will continue
to generate awareness and build interest of our tournament
series among
recreational saltwater anglers, as well as novices," says Joe Mercurio, vice
president
of the Tarpon Anglers Club and on-air host of the televised
tournaments.
According to Mercurio
, 2005 will be even more rewarding to participants,
as Yamaha Motor Corporation sponsors the "Team
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"I don't think it has fully sunk in yet," Ambrose at a post-tournament
press
conference.
"This year's PCA was even bigger and better than we expected," said Lee
Jones
, poker room manager for PokerStars. This tournament
brought everything together -- great poker action
, a multi-million dollar
prize pool, and world-class amenities at the Atlantis.pokerstarsblog.com
sent more players to
the World Series of Poker than any other source or website.peewee stampede
The PCA also attracted
several notable professionals and
superstars, including current and former World Series of Poker
champions Joe
Hachem, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, and Tom McEvoy.
Sixty-four online poker players
paid the $1,000 entry fee and played a series
of heads-up matches reminiscent of the traditional
parlor game, called
"Battleship.
The Jim Beam Tarpon Cup Championship, featuring the series top
25 teams based
on points, will be held June 19.assiniboia tyke
The championship event attracted a whopping
724 entries, over 60 percent
higher than last year's number, with a total prize pool of $5,647,200
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