Halloween is just around the corner and you will be able to start the celebration together with us at RedKings and some of our pros already on Thursday.

The buy-in is completely free, and that’s not a trick it’s a treat. The trick is that when you go out you will actually be able to get in again for a small sum of $2+$0.20 for a unlimited amount of times during the first hour!

Name: Halloween Freeroll Frenzy
Buy-in: FREE
Re-buys: $2 unlimited rebuys for the first 60 minutes.
Add-on: 1 x $2 add-on after 60 minutes.
Date: Thursday 29th October
Time: 20:00 CET
Bountys: There is also $50 Bountys on three Team RedKings players.*

Good Luck and Happy Halloween!

*The bounty has to be claimed by commenting to this post together with your RedKings username and the hand number where you managed to take a pro out.

Rigged in Riga is over, a winner has been presented, a RedKings player made it to the money, Stephan Kjerstad got a punch, a Tennis Pro has tried the red shirt on, and here is full story about Team RedKings in Riga.

Stephan Kjerstad our only pro that was in the Main Event in Riga, went here mostly for some fun, as his main target is the little bit bigger tournaments in Europe. He was doing good until the middle of day 1, when he got all his chips in with J♥ J♣ vs 7♣ 7♥ pre-flop. Stephan has been on a bad run with these pots lately. When the flop showed 7♠, and no Jacks came to help Stephan on the turn or the river he had to leave his seat.

Before this the qualifier Tapio Koivisto had already left the tournament so we had our two Finnish qualifiers to hope for, Tuomas Ketola and Riku Koivurinne.

Tuomas Ketola is a recognizable name in Finland, because of the following:
Tuomas Ketola (born February 21, 1975 in Turku) is a Finnish professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He is the number two tennis player in Finland, right behind countryman Jarkko Nieminen and as of April 14th, 2006 is the 716th ranked player in the world. In 2004, he reached the first round of Wimbledon in singles by defeating three opponents in the qualifying matches. However, he lost his first round main draw match to Alex Calatrava.Taken from wikipedia.org.

Tuomas used every single serve, backhand and smash in the register, but it was just not enough to get to the money in this tournament.

Riku did better, just before the money he got all his chips in with 9♠ 9♥, which is easy when the opponent has A♠ A♣. Riku needed some help, and I guess you could say that God was just behind him when the flop came up 9♣ 9♦ 3♠, giving Riku 4 of a kind and a nice stack to work with!

We got down to 10 players, and time for the final table bubble, there is no information on how the hand played out but it got a sad ending for Team RedKings, Riku got knocked out as the 10th best player in the tournament!

Very well played by all of the players, but in particular Riku Koivurinne who walks away with €1.900 in his pocket..

Congratulations to Riku and of course also to the winner Pim Van Wieringen!

One of our Finnish qualifiers has got a great start in Riga, on the board 3♠ 7♣ 9♥ A♣ K♥, Riku got to showdown against a Swedish player. Riku showed A♥ K♣ and took his stack up to 25.000.

As a celebration, a big picture of Riku:

Not literally, but the name of the tournament is “Rigged in Riga” and just started over in the new casino Royal Casino, obviously in Riga. The buy-in to the tournament was $1100 and they have put the maximum of players to 170, and the rumors is that it is completely sold out.

4 of the tickets belongs to players in RedKings shirts, we have the Team RedKings pro Stephan Kjerstad and the the three Finnish online qualifiers Tuomas Ketola, Riku Koivurinne and Tapio Koivisto, a interesting mix.

All the players start with 15.000 chips, and we will try to update you here as much as possible!

RedKings is happy to present the RedKings Poker Tour 2009 to all our German Speaking players. It will be a Live Poker Event with an estimated prize pool of €100,000, including a BMW 116i for the Winner.
The Event will be held on the 4th of December in Vienna, at the biggest Casino in Europe – Poker Royale Card Club Casino!

There is no direct buy in. The only way to participate is to qualify either live or online at RedKings.com.
All Live Satellites to this magnificent Poker Event are going to start soon in all Austrian, most of the German and Swiss Live Poker Clubs. Our Online Satellites start from the 12th of October and will be running up to the 27th of November.

If you manage to qualify for a seat you will not only get to play in a great structured tournament you will also get a big live poker adventure. You will be able to meet and beat our German Team RedKings pros and not to forget become the owner of a BMW 116i!

You could stay at our Partner Hotel “Orange Wings Wiener Neustadt”, from there our RedKings shuttle Bus and partner taxi company will drive you to the Casino or you could have a 10 minutes relaxing walk.

All information about the tournament such as prizes, satellites and all other extras that will be arranged during the tournament, you can find detailed in German here

Good Luck, and I hope I will see you in Vienna!

Team RedKings is more than happy over Ivo Donev’s 13th position in EPT London, and we think that you users has really been behind Ivo and supporting him here in the blog. Ivo wants to thank you all, and he has personally told me that he is very grateful for the support! That’s why I am here releasing the password for tonights freeroll:

Name: Ivo $500 FR
Date: 06/10/2009
Time: 21:00 CET
Password: eptivo
Buy-in: FREE!
Place: Special Tabs
Prise pool: $500 Guaranteed

Again, Congratulations Ivo!

Ivo Donev has done a magnificent effort here in London, beating 717 players. It doesn’t always end up as you want, but we are all happy for Ivo and his success.

Last hand Ivo moved all-in for 823.000, and the Norweigan Gudvangen also moved all-in for 2.655.00 after thinking for a while.

Ivo A♥ T♥
Gudvangen A♣ Q♠

Flop 5♣ 8♥ 3♣
Turn 7♣
River K♠

Ivo goes away with £23.000 and hopefully he will be happy about it in a few days. He has played amazingly good throughout this whole tournament!

You will soon get the password for the “Well Played Ivo” Freeroll!

Ivo has managed to gather some more chips against the player who started the day as chip leader but now is out, Michael Barry. Ivo raised to 90.000 pre-flop, Berry called. Flop came out 7♥ T♠ . Both players checked. Turn is Q♣, and Ivo bet 110.000 and gets called. The river is T♥ and Ivo bet 250.000 and Berry folds.

We have lost three players, and are down to 13 meaning a guaranteed pay-day of £23.000. Congratulations to Ivo for that!

Ivo is still a little bit short stacked, with 890.000.

Go Ivo!!

They have now changed the tables, and Ivo is moved up to the TV-table, he is the short stack on this table with 583.000. We have started a new level with blinds of 20.000/40.000 and an ante of 4.000. There is still 16 players in it.

Ivo told me about the hand where he lost a big amount of chips when he 4-bet the Norweigan player. Ivo thought he was Squeezing, and that he would fold, and Ivo only had a middle pocket pair. After listening around, we now also now that the Norweigan had Q♥ Q♠, so it was a good fold by Ivo.

Time to double up for Ivo!

A player in the middle position made it 65.000, Ivo in the cutoff called, so did the player on the button, but the player on the SB re-raised to 229.000. The original opener folded, Ivo thought for a second and then re-raised to 560.000. The player on the button folded, but again the player on the SB goes over the top and goes all-in for 1.500.000. Ivo obviously has a good hand, but not good enough to call with so he folds.

Ivo goes down to about 800.000 in chips and we still have 16 remaining players, so there’s nothing to worry about yet!

Go Ivo!