THE BETFAIR EXCLUSIVE BIG APPLE TOUCHDOWN - 12 NEW YORK PACKAGES UP FOR GRABS

Betfair Poker is giving you the chance to win one of 12 all expenses paid trips to New York this winter worth $3,500 each, via our $42,000 Big Apple Touchdown Final.

A total of 12 packages each worth $3,500 New York Packages must be won. All players must qualify to the $42,000 Big Apple Touchdown Final which will take place on 10th November

How to Qualify

• Earn 1000 Player Points between 19th Oct - 7th Nov to guarantee a seat in the $42K Final
• Earn 500 PP's between 19th Oct - 7th Nov to qualify for the 100 Tickets GTD
• Buy-in direct to the $42,00 final for $50+$5
• Win your seat to the $42,000 Final in our daily $5+$0.50 satellites
• Qualify to the $42,000 Final for free via our twice daily freerolls

If New York isn't your thing you are take a $2,000 cash alternative available for any packages won

Secure a seat in the Betfair Poker Exclusive Big Apple Touchdown Tournament Final on the 10th of November at 19:00 CET where you can win 12 X $3,500 New York Packages to the top 12 players.

Winners will be whisked away to the Big Apple between 9th to the 12th of December to be treated to the VIP New York experience of a lifetime for you and a friend. Experience the bright lights and atmosphere of the city that never sleeps, take in a live Football, Basketball or Ice Hockey game, and do a spot of Christmas shopping.. Visit Betfair Poker to see how can you can qualify

The Package Details

• $3,500 Big Apple Touch Down Package Details:
• $1,500 Flight Tickets for 2 persons (Thursday - Sunday)
• $1,200 Double room at a 4 star hotel (3 nights)
• $200 2 X Tickets to a football or basketball game of your choice
• $300 Dinner for two at a top Manhattan restaurant
• $300 Spending money

*Packages can be exchanged for a cash alternative of $2,000.
*Alternative dates are available on request.

Qualification to the $42,000 Big Apple Touchdown Final:

• Earn 1,000 Player Points and get a free ticket to the final * OR
• Earn 500 Player Points and get a free ticket to the 100 Tickets GTD - New York 500 PP
• Satellite * (Running 9th of Nov at 19:00 CET) OR
• Buy-in directly to the final for $50+$5 or win your seat in our daily $5+$0.50 satellites (Running daily at 17:00 & 20:00 CET) OR
• Win your New York package for free by participating in our daily freerolls ** (Running daily at 15:00 & 18:00 CET)

*Player Points Qualifying period: 00:00 GMT on 19th of October to 23:59 on 7th of November. It is the players responsibility to manually register to the tournament using the ticket in due time in order to participate.

** The freerolls will run daily from the 19th of October to 9th of November. All Betfair players will receive 3 freeroll tickets only. All freeroll tickets will be credited to players accounts on or before 20th October and will expire on the 9th of November. Any unused tickets in players' accounts are forfeited.

During the last couple of weeks we have been without the Sunday Million at Pokerstars.com while the WCOOP was running. Sunday seen the return of all our usual Sunday tournaments including the $215 Sunday Million.

A total of 7,638 players entered breaking the $1,500,000 guarantee. At the end of the day the last man standing would receive almost a $250K.

Eventual winner sola100 entered the final table in mid position but managed to chip up nicely and picked his spots well to eventually reach the heads-up stages against lasklinz, only 2-1 behind in chip. The disadvantage was short lived, though; on a 5-8-9-7 board lasklinz called off the remainder of his opponent’s stack with K-9 only to be shown 6-6 for the straight.

Only Five hands later, lasklinz got it in with A-9 versus the K-4 of sola100 and a king on the flop was the decider – though the four on the turn helped as well. That shipped sola100 the Sunday Million title and a cool $239,000.

The full final table payouts were as follows:

• 1st: sola100 ($229,143.87)
• 2nd: lasklinz ($168,036)
• 3rd: darrenelias ($114,570)
• 4th: winga699 ($76,991.04)
• 5th: Jakivi ($61,104)
• 6th: Urlastchance ($45,828)
• 7th: AJacejackAJ ($30,552)
• 8th: Dsavo ($17,567.40)
• 9th: $am$pade ($11,838.90)

After a short break for the WCOOP, the $1 Million PokerStars Turbo Takedown is back. The Turbo Takedown returns on Sunday, October 31 at 15:30 ET.

The Turbo Takedown is a $1,000,000 tournament for all Pokerstars players, you can buyin directly for 3000 Frequent Player Points (FPPs) or via satellites running daily from as low at 15 FPPs.

What's more, there are now added bonuses, pro player bounties and even a brand new car - an Audi TT for the winner to be won every month.

Bonuses for repeat cashes

If you cash in consecutive Turbo Takedown tournaments, you'll get a bonus with a super-fast clearance rate of 500 VPPs per $100 of pending bonus. Cash in two consecutive tournaments and you'll get a $100 bonus. Make the money the following month and you'll get a $200 bonus and so on, all the way up to a maximum of $1,000. So if you think you are good enough to string together a few cash finishes, make sure you play every month to keep your good run going!

Team PokerStars Pro bounties

Every time a member of Team PokerStars Pro plays the Turbo Takedown, they'll have a $100 bounty on their head. This means that not only do you get to play alongside the biggest names in poker, you get to earn cash when you bust them. The pro players taking part can be identified by the PokerStars spade logo next to their User ID in the client lobby and at the tables.

If you want to try out Pokerstars now is the time, download the free poker software at Pokerstars.com.

Vamplew Crowed Pokerstars.com UKIPT Champion of Champions

David Vamplew, the PokerStars.com EPT London Main event winner, has completed a quick fire double after taking down the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions event at the London Hilton Metropole.

David, who was the winner of the PokerStars.com EPT London Main Event for £900,000 as well as a seat to the EPT Season 7 Grand Final, beat the eight PokerStars.com UKIPT winners from Season 1 to win a seat to all ot the Season 2 destinations, including the Grand Final at EPT London in 2011.

UPIPT Champion of Champions Contenders

• David Vamplew (Edinburgh)
• Padraig Parkinson (Galway)
• Joeri Zandvliet (Manchester)
• Gilles Augustus (Coventry)
• Andy Couldridge (Nottingham)
• Femi Fakinle (Killarney)
• Jamie Burland (Brighton)
• Nick Abou Risk (Edinburgh)
• Max Silver (Dublin)

Commenting on his two tournaments in as many days, Vamplew replied, “It’s pretty good; after yesterday, it’s the icing on the cake.” Heads up opponent Jamie Burland congratulated his opponent, saying, “I hoped David would get tired after yesterday [the EPT London final table]…but he played really good.”

The Season 2 of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour UKIPT starts in Galway on 2nd December, 2010. It returns to the UK at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn poker room in February 2011.

To qualify for the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour go to PokerStars.com.

The online poker room PokerStars recently awarded a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 as part of its Million Dollar Lamborghini Freeroll promotion.

The promotion has been running for the last 2 months giving players the opportunity to qualify to the final tournament via a series of daily freeroll and low stake sattelite tournaments.

A total of 16,848 players were lucky enough to qualify to the final competing for the $200,000Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 and a prize pool of $250,000.

The winner of the car freeroll was marciocid, an online poker player from Brazil, who won $20,000 in cash as well as the $200,000 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4.

To find out how to qualify for future PokerStars.com Promotions go to PokerStars.com.