PokerStars On Signing Spree Plus Mac
Friday, 27. March 2009, 05:42:23
Within the space of a month the largest online poker room, PokerStars, has signed up two players to its Team PokerStars Pro. Neither of the two are as high profile as the existing members of the team, which include luminaries like Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu; female pros like Vanessa Rousso and Isabelle Mercier; winners of WSOP Main Events in 2003, 2004 and 2005 Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Joe Hachem and Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz of the November Nine.
The latest acquisition is Norwegian Johnny Lodden. Lodden has had a fair number of cashes at the European Poker Tour (EPT) events. These include EPT Budapest and EPT Prague in season 5, during which he played as a PokerStars qualifier. In EPT Season 4 he cashed in EPT Dublin and in the Grand Final at Monte Carlo. Lodden narrowly missed the final table at the WSOP Europe 2008 Main Event. His total tournament earnings are $300K and he was 474th in the 2008 POY rankings. PokerStars describes Lodden’s background as follows – “Hailing from the land of Jorpeland, Norway, Lodden grew up on cards. He played with his family, he played with his friends. In his early years, he honed his competitive spirit on the game Uno.
"Stars is truly a worldwide website. With the launch of their poker mac software in all languages including France, German etc, they are just dominating," said Matt of Compatiblepoker.
By the time he was 15, Lodden was playing poker with his high school friends and taking their money whenever he could.” At the online tables of PokerStars Lodden will play under the moniker “johnnylodden”. He will also represent PokerStars in the live events that the poker room sponsors. Apart from the EPT they include the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, the Russian Poker Tour and the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour.
In February end PokerStars had signed up J.C. Alvarado who plays online poker as “PrtyPsux”. Like Lodden, Alvarado has had modest success in live poker. His live tournament earnings are more than double that of Lodden. However, he finished at 1,137th position in the 2008 POY rankings, far behind Lodden. Alvarado has cashed in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of WSOP. He has cashed in several other tournaments as well. At best he has finished second and this he did in the 2007 World Poker Challenge and the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic. Alvarado is a Mexican who has settled in Las Vegas as a full time professional. This is what PokerStars has to say about him. “Alvarado still holds a great fondness for Mexico and is happy to represent his country. With the kind of wins he’s been putting up in recent years, there is no question he’s repping Mexico well. Now he will be doing it with a Team Pro badge on his arm.”
The latest acquisition is Norwegian Johnny Lodden. Lodden has had a fair number of cashes at the European Poker Tour (EPT) events. These include EPT Budapest and EPT Prague in season 5, during which he played as a PokerStars qualifier. In EPT Season 4 he cashed in EPT Dublin and in the Grand Final at Monte Carlo. Lodden narrowly missed the final table at the WSOP Europe 2008 Main Event. His total tournament earnings are $300K and he was 474th in the 2008 POY rankings. PokerStars describes Lodden’s background as follows – “Hailing from the land of Jorpeland, Norway, Lodden grew up on cards. He played with his family, he played with his friends. In his early years, he honed his competitive spirit on the game Uno.
"Stars is truly a worldwide website. With the launch of their poker mac software in all languages including France, German etc, they are just dominating," said Matt of Compatiblepoker.
By the time he was 15, Lodden was playing poker with his high school friends and taking their money whenever he could.” At the online tables of PokerStars Lodden will play under the moniker “johnnylodden”. He will also represent PokerStars in the live events that the poker room sponsors. Apart from the EPT they include the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, the Russian Poker Tour and the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour.
In February end PokerStars had signed up J.C. Alvarado who plays online poker as “PrtyPsux”. Like Lodden, Alvarado has had modest success in live poker. His live tournament earnings are more than double that of Lodden. However, he finished at 1,137th position in the 2008 POY rankings, far behind Lodden. Alvarado has cashed in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of WSOP. He has cashed in several other tournaments as well. At best he has finished second and this he did in the 2007 World Poker Challenge and the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic. Alvarado is a Mexican who has settled in Las Vegas as a full time professional. This is what PokerStars has to say about him. “Alvarado still holds a great fondness for Mexico and is happy to represent his country. With the kind of wins he’s been putting up in recent years, there is no question he’s repping Mexico well. Now he will be doing it with a Team Pro badge on his arm.”
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