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Doyle Brunson – Captain America
Doyle Brunson, the beloved Godfather of Poker, the Texas Dolly, and the official face of DoylesRoom Poker now just added another moniker to his ever-growing list—Captain. As in Captain Doyle Brunson of Team USA.
Team USA, now captained by the Texas Dolly himself, is one of the competing teams in World Team Poker, in which country is pitted against country for an international title and worldwide bragging rights. A worldwide poker league, World Team Poker features a variety of international teams, each representing a country, with each team composed of 4 poker pros plus one alternate, and of course the captain. Wearing the red, white, and blue at the year’s World Poker League events will be Captain Doyle Brunson of Team USA.
As teams battle it out during regular season league poker tournaments, the Captain has the perogative of substituting out players at any time.
The kickoff event of the 2010 World Poker League season takes place at the Golden Nugget on May 19. The tournament has a $50,000 buy-in and play will shift from Limit to Pot Limit to No Limit Hold’em. At each transition, Captain Doyle can switch out players as he sees fit. That makes Captaining a World Team Poker league game a whole new strategic experience in and of itself.
Meanwhile, on Doyle Brunson’s continuing quest to fill all the slots in his Brunson 10, the hand-selected team of online poker sensations represnting Doyles Room Poker in various major tournaments, online and off, there are currently 6 members and counting, with 4 left out there still to find. Doyle claims he’ll have all ten spots in the Brunson 10 filled by the end of 2010. I wonder if Doyle will recruit sponsored players from some of the other top poker sites online or if he will stick to his closer knit circle of poker playing friends?
CarbonPoker and a 100k Freeroll Tournament
Carbon Poker will be hosting a $100,000 freeroll tournament with the first place winner receiving a guaranteed $20,000 cash. Not too shabby for a freeroll tournament!
Carbon Poker is giving its players all 4 shots at getting in on the $100K Freeroll action:
The first option is through one of CarbonPoker’s five Daily Freeroll Qualifiers running through May 28. These are considered Step 1 Qualifiers that seed the top performing players into a Step 2 Qualifier taking place on Saturday, May 29 in which the top 500 performing players will move on to the $100K Freeroll Main Event.
The second option is to make a cash depsosit before May 29 using bonus code “100MAYPK” and receive, on top of a 100% match/reload bonus up to $500 you also get a free seat in a $100K Depositor Qualifier running May 29 from which the top 500 players will advance to the $100K Freeroll Main Event.
The third option are the $100K Player Qualifiers running til May 29. These are Turbo MTTs with VIP Points as buy-ins (either 500 VIP Points to buy-in directly or 150 VIP Points for each of two consecutive days) running three times daily, capping the player pool at 2,250 and advancing, depending on the qualifier, from 10 – 25 players to the $100K Freeroll Main Event.
Or you can skip all that and go the fourth route which is to simply earn 45,000 VIP Points between April 15 and May 29 to get your $100K Freeroll Main Event seat. The $100K Freeroll Main Event takes place on Sunday, May 30 and there is absolutely no direct buy-in for this event. Just download CarbonPoker.com (it’s on the Merge software which is really good) and create your account, pick one of the four ways to qualify for this event.
This is the biggest of Carbon Poker’s guaranteed tournaments, but far from the only one. CarbonPoker offers an ongoing schedule of multi-table online poker tournaments with a wide range of enticing guaranteed prize pools.