Online Gambling Roundup Sep-06-09

Morning, and we trust that you’re all having a stunning Sunday. Here’s today’s roundup from the crazy universe that is online gambling. Fasten your seatbelts for another bumpy ride….

Day of rest? No way - not for PokerStars’s poker aces

who have this Sunday offering next :

Fifteen thousand, six hundred and seventy-four. That’s how many runners came out on Saturday for Event #6, the $109 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event — by far the most ever in the eight-year history of the World Championship of Online Poker event. Kind of mind boggling, really. 15,675 players. All logged in, sitting before their computers, scattered all over the globe in over 100 different countries, all pursuing the same goal to take the other 15,674 players’ chips.

Aside from Friday’s night’s 8-game Event #5 — won by FireGoblin (read about it here) — Event #6 represented the only other sub-$200 buy-in tourney in this year’s WCOOP series. It wasn’t surprising, then, to see such a large turnout. That enormous field created a total prize pool of $1,567,500, easily crushing the $1 million guarantee. The top 2,250 spots paid, with first prize scheduled to receive a payday of $183,334.81.

With 10-minute levels, the bustouts were destined to come quickly, and indeed it took just two hours for the field to be trimmed down under 3,500. That’s 12,000 hitting the rail in 120 minutes — 100 per minute! Within three hours the money bubble would burst, and by the time the tournament reached its 15-minute dinner break.

Apologies for bailing out on the delightful PokerStars folks at their bursting bubble, but do check out Sunday’s full length post at the PokerStars blog for what happened after dinner.

View Full PokerStars Blog Post Here

A Betfair Tip Next

The XY Factor heads to Wolverhampton on Saturday for the 9.20 race….

View Full Betfair Blog Post Here

That’s it, see you again soon.

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