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.

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.

World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starts today at Pokerstars

With a massive guaranteed prize pool of $50,000,000 poker players from around the globe are looking forward to the WCOOP to begin. The PokerStars 2010 World Championship Of Online Poker is held every year. The action starts today Sunday, September 5th, with a $215 buy-in No Limit Hold Six-Max tournament with a $1.25 million guarantee.

A total of 17 events with prize pools of over $1 million, including the $10K Main Event. The final event will have $10 million in guaranteed prize money with a $5,200 buy in on 26th September. Don't worry if you bankroll will not stretch to these levels Players can buy their way into events directly or qualify for as little as $1 at PokerStars.

2010 WCOOP SCHEDULE

Details of the WCOOP can be found at WCOOP.com or you can stay upto date with our latest news at - WCOOP News .

Durrrr Challenge 2 has begun

We mentioned the rumour last week that the latest Durrrr Challenge was about to start between Tom Dwan and Daniel 'Jungleman12' Cates. The opening session was played over the weekend and saw Durrrr jump into an early $127k lead but when play resumed later in the day it was the challenger who was dominating.

After an opening day in which 5,862 hands were played Jungleman12 opened up a lead of almost $520k over Tom Dwan.

About Daniel “jungleman12” Cates

Daniel is a 20-year-old University of Maryland economics major Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, and he officially accepted the “durrrr” Challenge, putting $500,000 in escrow with Phil Ivey and signing on as Dwan’s second opponent.

The Game

The two agreed to play $200/$400 no-limit hold’em across a minimum of four tables with the option of increasing to six tables should they feel like pushing it hard. The “run it twice” option will be used throughout the 50,000 hands and if either player’s stack fall below 75 big blinds, he must reload to a full starting stack.

Session Summary

With those rules in place, the cards went in the air at 12:35 a.m. EDT early Friday Morning and after almost 12 hours of play, Cates finished a 5,829 hand session with a sweet $518,191 profit.

Stay upto date with all the Latest Poker News at LTDPoker.com, and at the high stakes tables of Full Tilt Poker.

The full story can be found at LTDPoker.com - Durrrr Challenge 2 begins

As we all know by now the Durrrr Challenge featuring Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Patrik Antonius has been running since February 2009, currently 39,436 hands have been played with a staggering total of $342,257,728.50 in bets made. Dwan is currently $2,059,719.50 ahead having won 20,700 hands with an average $ won per Winning hand of $2,952.13.

The last session played was on August 3 with Durrr increasing his lead by $459,961.50 over a 182 hand session, rumours have been circulating that Antonius has paid off the Challenge which clears the decks for the new challenger in Daniel “jungleman12” Cates.

Below is a summary of the chat between durrrr and JungleMan12 on Monday at a Full Tilt Poker table between Dwan and Cates -

durrrr: did u send ivey $$ yet??
jungleman12: not yet ?jungleman12: ill send now ?
jungleman12: how soon is soon??
durrrr: read ur phone... ?
jungleman12: ah i see ?
durrrr: few days at most?
durrrr: did u send yet? ?
jungleman12: yeah ?
jungleman12: sent?
durrrr: then i can start talking &&%%?
durrrr: since we're booked ?
jungleman12: ??
durrrr: and say that its cute u think u'll ever have an edge =) ?
jungleman12: lol ?
jungleman12: you never seemed like the type?
durrrr: never wanna scare off the fish =)?
durrrr: but if they escrow....?
durrrr: haha ok?
durrrr: lmk if u wanna play if not we'll start in a few days ?
durrrr: gl n stuff ?
jungleman12: u2w

It seems that Phil Ivey will be the banker for this challenge acting as escrow agent for both. According to High Stakes poker stats Cates has banked $786K from Dwan in 13,000 hand and is Cates "Best Friend" in terms of money won from Dwan.

We will keep you updated of any developments and make sure to report all the action as it happens on the High Stakes Poker tables of Full Tilt Poker.