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The Poker Grapevine – PokerStars’ $10k High Roller
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Tue, 2011-11-29 14:08
There’s barely a day to go by without PokerStars adding another event to its much-hyped 10th anniversary celebrations which are set to take place in December. The latest addition is a $10k high rollers event which is meant to cater to the high stakes regulars who congregate in ever greater numbers at the site’s PL Omaha and NL
Texas Holdem tables. The $10k high roller event is set to run right alongside the biggest ever Sunday Million of PokerStars’ history: the $10 Million Sunday Million. Together, the two events will make what will certainly go down as the biggest and most significant Sunday ever in the history of online poker. December 18 is the day and millions and millions in guaranteed prizes is the name of the game.
The $10k high roller will feature a $500k guarantee, but knowing the popularity of such events and the number of very well bankrolled online poker professionals playing at PokerStars, the eventual prize-pool is pretty much sure to put that number to shame. As a matter of fact, two players are already registered for the event: Toby Lewis and Mickey Petersen of Team PokerStars Online.
In other news: the Kahnawake Gaming Commission has done something that only a year or so ago was quite unthinkable: it has suspended the license of an online poker room. 24Poker is the victim of the move, but there are further ramifications, because the site is a member or the prestigious Microgaming network.
The network has released a short statement in the wake of the KGC move in which it basically confirmed the fact that play had indeed ceased at 24Poker. The management of the site could apparently not be contacted either by the network representatives or by the KGC.
Cash out problems at the site have begun this September and the poker room has long made the online poker community’s informal black-list.
