Upcoming and Ongoing Promotions

Ongoing SunPoker Network Promotions (February 2nd 2008 – February 8th, 2009) – All Times GMT

:: $2,500,000 Guaranteed

♠ SunPoker will run a tournament with a mega $2,500,000 guaranteed prize pool!

♠ Buy-In - $1500+$80

♠ Main event will run on March 8th, 2009

♠ Satellites will commence on January 1st, 2009

Satellites

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $100 + $9 R/A, Wednesday & Sunday at 19:35, 1 Seat for every $1,580 collected,

Sunday – 8 seats guaranteed, Wednesday – 3 seats guaranteed.

♠ Stage 2 satellite, $12+1 Turbo R/A, Wednesday & Sunday at 12:25 & 16:10

♠ Stage 2 satellites, $8+0.8 R/A daily at 20:50

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $200+15 Freezeout, Monday at 19:35, 1 seat for every $1,580 collected, 3 seats

guaranteed. Monday – 5 seats guaranteed.

♠ Stage 2 satellites, $20+2 R/A, Monday at 12:25 & 16:10

♠ Stage 2 satellites, $12+1 R/A, daily at 22:10

♠ Stage 1 satellite $25+2.5 R/A, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 19:35, 1 seat for every

$1,580 collected, 2 seats guaranteed.

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 2 satellites $2.75+0.2 to the next available $25+2.5 stage 1

♠ Stage 2 satellites, $3+0.3 Turbo R/A, daily at 18:15

♠ Stage 2 satellites, $3+0.3 Turbo R/A, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 12:25 &

16:10

♠ Stage 1 satellite $15+1.5 R/A, Daily at 13:25, Minimum 40 players

♠ Stage 2 “1 hand” SNG’s, $1.6+0.1 (10 players)

:: Irish Open 2009

♠ SunPoker will run a super satellite promotion to the Irish Open, 2009.

The event will be held at the CityWest Hotel in Dublin, April 10th – April 13th, 2009.

♠ Total Package Value - $6,500.

♠ The Package includes:

♠ €3,200 + €300 Buy In to the Main Event (Approx. $4,700 USD).

♠ Approx. $800 for 5 nights’ accommodation in Dublin, April 9th – April 14th, 2009,

at the CityWest Hotel in Dublin.

♠ Up to $1,000 for flights and spending (depending on currency exchange rates).

♠ The first prizes are non-refundable, non-transferable, and cannot be converted to cash. You must

play or forfeit the seat.

♠ By playing or winning the Irish Open super satellite you declare that you are ready and able to

travel to Dublin in order to play at the Irish Open event. This includes any and all documents

required for travel to the destination.

Structure A

♠ Weekly Super Satellites, Sundays at 20:05, Buy-In is $200+$15 Freezeout.

♠ Minimum number of players in the super satellites is 25.

♠ Satellites will start on October 29th.

♠ First Super Satellite on November 2nd.

♠ Last Super Satellite on March 29th.

Satellites

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $43+$3 (5 players).

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $21.5+$2 (10 players).

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $30 + $3 Freezeout, 1 seat for every $215 collected, Daily at 16:45

♠ Ongoing stage 2 Sit’N’Go satellites, $3.3 + $0.3 (10 players), to the 16:45 stage 1.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite $5 + $0.5 Freezeout, Daily at 11:45, 1 Seat for every $33 collected to the 16:45

Stage 1.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite $2 + $0.2 Turbo R/A, Daily at 09:40, 1 Seat for every $33 collected to the 16:45

Stage 1.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $20 + $2 R/A, 1 seat for every $215 collected, Daily at 20:55 except Sundays.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite $2 + $0.2 R/A, Daily at 17:00 except Fridays and 00:10 except Saturdays, 1

Seat for every $22 collected to the 20:55 Stage 1.

Structure B

♠ Weekly Super Satellites, Tuesday at 19:05, Buy-In is $40+$4 R/A.

♠ Minimum number of players in the super satellites is 30.

♠ Satellites will start on November 11th.

♠ First Super Satellite on November 18th.

♠ Last Super Satellite on April 1st.

Satellites

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $8.8+$0.8 (5 players).

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $4.4 + 0.4 (10 players).

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $5 + $0.5 R/A, 1 seat for every $44 collected, Daily at 19:40, except Tuesdays and

Sundays.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $3 + $0.3 R/A, 1 seat for every $44 collected, Daily at 14:05.

♠ Ongoing “1 Hand” stage 2 Sit’N’Go satellites, $0.55 + $0.05 (10 players), 1st place wins a seat to

the 19:40 stage 1.

Structure C

♠ SunPoker will run a ticket only satellite promotion to the Irish Open, 2009. Each ticket only super satellite

winner will receive a seat to the Irish Open Main Event.

♠ Total Seat Value - $4,700.

♠ Weekly Super Satellites, Thursdays at 20:05, Buy-In is $300+$20 Freezeout.

♠ Minimum number of players in the super satellites is 13.

♠ Satellites will start on January 19th, 2009.

♠ First Super Satellite on January 22nd, 2009.

♠ Last Super Satellite on April 2nd, 2009.

Satellites

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $64+$6 (5 players), 1st place wins a seat.

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites to the Super Satellite, $12+$1.2 (30 players), 1st place wins a

seat, 2nd place wins $40.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite $20 + $2 R/A, 1 seat for every $320 collected, Monday to Saturday at 13:30 and

Daily at 18:25 except Thursdays.

♠ Ongoing stage 2 Sit’N’Go satellites, $2.2 + $0.2 (10 players), to the 18:25 stage 1.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite $4 + $0.4 R/A, Daily at 14:50, 1 Seat for every $22 collected to the 18:25 Stage

1.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite $2 + $0.2 R/A, Monday to Saturday at 09:05, 1 Seat for every $22 collected to

the 13:30 Stage 1.

:: iPoint tournaments

♠ Weekly on Saturday at 23:00 - $500 Omaha Special for a “buy-in” of 300 iPoints

:: Beginner freeroll tournaments

♠ This daily freeroll will help beginners practice and improve their game.

♠ Daily at 12:00 ($50), 23:20 ($50)

♠ Any player who signed up in the last 90 days will automatically be allowed to register to these

freerolls.

♠ Min players 50

♠ Max players 1000

:: Fort Knox - Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go

The Fort Knox Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go is progressive:

The Fort Knox Progressive Jackpot starts at $50,000 and accumulates $10,000 every week until we have a

winner. The winner of six consecutive first or second places will receive $750.

If no claim is received Fort Knox Jackpot for next week: $70,000

:: Dirty Dozen – Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go

The Dirty Dozen’s are two tables - 6 players per table tournaments, with a buy-in of $2 + $0.40. The

winner of 4 consecutive DD’s wins a jackpot prize of $2,000.

:: Rio – Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go

The Rio Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go is progressive:

The Rio Progressive Jackpot starts at $25,000 and accumulates $10,000 every week until we have a

winner. The winner of six consecutive first or second places will receive $300.

If no claim is received Rio Jackpot for next week: $35,000

:: Maui - Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go

The Maui Jackpot Sit ‘N’ Go is progressive:

The Maui Progressive Jackpot starts at $15,000 and accumulates $3,500 every week until we have a

winner. The winner of five consecutive first or second places will receive $200.

If no claim is received Maui Jackpot for next week: $81,500

:: $50,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament

♠ Every Saturday 19:30

♠ $100 + $9 buy-in

♠ Freezeout

♠ Ongoing Sit ‘N’ Go satellites $10.90 + $1 (10 players) and $21.80 + $2 (5 players)

♠ Ongoing Sit ‘N’ Go “1 hand”, $10.90+$1 (10 players), 1st place wins a seat

♠ Daily Except Sat MTQ at 23:15, $11 + $1, 1 seat for every $109 collected R/A

♠ Daily Except Say MTQ at 17:20, $8 + $0.8, 1 seat for every $109 collected R/A, Min Players 10

♠ $11+1 R/A, Saturday at 15:20 (Turbo – 30 seats guaranteed) & 16:30 (Speed – 20 seats

guaranteed), 1 seat for every $109 collected.

♠ $22+2 Freezeout, Saturday at 16:55 (Turbo), 1 seat for every $109 collected

♠ Min players 40

:: Monster Tournaments

♠ High Roller Monday Freezeout ($500+$30) at 20:45 - $50,000 GP, 60 players min

o Ongoing SNG feeders - $53+5 (10 players)

o Stage 1 satellites, Mondays at 17:35 ($50+5) R/A, 1 seat for every $530 collected – 12

seats guaranteed!

♠ Wednesday at 20:45 - $20,000 GP R/A ($100+$9) – 40 players min

♠ Thursday at 20:45 - $30,000 GP R/A ($200+$15) – 40 players min

♠ Friday - $300+20 - $25,000 GP Double Stack, Freezeout, at 20:45 (GMT)

o Ongoing SNG feeders - $64+6 – 1 seat for every 5 players

♠ Super Tuesday - $100+9 R/A, $50,000 GP, Tuesdays at 20:45, 100 players min

o Ongoing SNG feeders - $12+1 (10 players), 2nd place wins $11

o Stage 1 satellites, Tuesday at 17:35 (Turbo - $11+1) R/A, 1 seat for every $109 collected

– 10 seats guaranteed

:: Friday $150,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament

♠ $150,000 GP ($100+9) R/A*, Friday at 20:00.

♠ Min Players: 25

*Unlimited Rebuys for the first hour.

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites, $12 + $1 (10 players), 1st place wins a seat, 2nd place gets $11.

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites, $24 + $2 (5 players), 1st place wins a seat, 2nd place gets $11.

Monday – Thursday

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($8 + $0.8) R/A, Monday – Thursday at 16:35, 1 seat for every $109 collected.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($15+$1.5) R/A, Monday – Thursday at 18:55, 1 seat for every $109 collected.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite ($1.5+$0.1) R/A, Monday – Thursday at 12:00, 1 seat for every $16.5 collected

to the 16:35 Stage 1.

Friday

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($8 + $0.8) R/A, Friday at 12:00, 1 Seat for every $109 collected.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($15 + $1.5) R/A, Friday at 15:00, 1 Seat for every $109 collected, 70 seats

guaranteed.

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go stage 1 satellites, $3.3 + $0.3 (5 players), 1st place wins a seat.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite ($1.5+$0.1) R/A, Friday at 11:00, 1 seat for every $16.5 collected to the 15:00

Stage 1.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($11 + $1) Turbo R/A, Friday at 16:00, 1 Seat for every $109 collected, 25 seats

guaranteed.

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($11 + $1) Speed R/A, Friday at 17:00, 1 Seat for every $109 collected, 40 seats

guaranteed.

♠ Stage 2 Satellite ($1+$0.1) R/A, Friday at 13:00, 1 seat for every $11 collected to the 17:00

Stage 1.

♠ Ongoing “1 Hand” stage 2 Sit’N’Go satellites, $1.1 + $0.1 (10 players), 1st place wins a seat to

the 17:00 stage 1.

:: Daily 50 Grand - $50 Rebuy

♠ Monday - Thursday at 19:45

♠ $50 + $5 Buy-in R/A

♠ Daily Stage 1 satellites, $5.5+0.5 Turbo R/A at 16:20. 1 seat into same day’s main event for every

$55 in the prize pool – 25 seats guaranteed

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go satellites, $5.5+0.5 (1 seat for every 10 players)

:: Sunday’s Weekly Freezeout Guaranteed Prize Tournament – 19:00

$300 + $20 - $250,000 GP!

Monday-Saturday

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 1 Satellites, ($32+$3), 10 players, 1st place wins a seat

♠ Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 1 Satellites, ($65+$5) 6 players, 1st place wins a seat, 2nd place wins $70

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($40 + $4) Freezeout, Daily Except Sunday at 22:30, 1 Seat for every $320

collected, 10 seats guaranteed on Saturday

o Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 2 Satellite ($5.5 + $0.5), 8 players, 1st place wins a seat in the

22:30 stage 1

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($32 + $3) R/A, Daily Except Sunday at 19:20, 1 Seat for every $320 collected, 5

seats guaranteed on Saturday

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($32 + $3) R/A, Daily Except Sunday at 18:00, 1 Seat for every $320 collected

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($50 + $5) Freezeout, Daily Except Sunday at 20:20, 1 Seat for every $320

collected, 10 on Saturday

o Stage 2 Satellite ($7+0.7) Turbo Freezeout, Daily at 17:05, 1 seat for every $55 collected, to

the 20:20 stage 1, 7 seats guaranteed

♠ Stage 1 Satellite ($40 + $4) R/A, Daily at 21:15 (Except Sundays), 1 Seat for every $320 collected,

15 on Saturday

o Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 2 Satellite ($4.4 + $0.4), 10 players Turbo, 1st place wins a seat in

the 21:15 Stage 1

Sunday

♠ Stage 1 satellite, $25+2.5 Turbo R/A, 23:10, 01:15, 02:30, 08:00, 09:05, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 (8

seats guaranteed), 15:25 (8 seats guaranteed) 1 seat for every $320 collected

♠ Stage 1 satellite, $32+3 R/A, 10:00, 11:00 (5 seats guaranteed - Turbo), 12:00 (15 seats

guaranteed), 16:00 (25 seats guaranteed – Speed)

o Ongoing Sit’N’Go “1 hand” stage 2 satellite ($3.5+0.3) 10 players, to the 12:00, 14:00 &

16:00 stage 1

♠ Stage 1 satellite, $50+5, 13:00 (8 seats guaranteed) & 15:00 (8 seats guaranteed – Turbo)

o Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 2 Satellite ($5.5 + $0.5), 10 players, 1st place wins a seat in the

13:00 & 15:00 stage 1

♠ Stage 1 satellite, $40+4 R/A (50 seats guaranteed), at 14:00

o Stage 2 satellite, $5+0.5 Speed R/A, Sunday at 09:35, 10:10, 10:45, 1 seat for every $44

collected, to the 14:00 stage 1 (10 seats guaranteed)

SunPoker Coaching

Coaching by Sven Lucha

The Gambling–Institute represented by Stephan Kalhamer and myself, Sven Lucha, was invited by SunPoker.com, to coach their players. SunPoker.com participated with 8 online qualifiers and 8 invited players at the CAPT Seefeld this year.

The important question for us:

How can we help technically strong players in such an event?

Especially the invited players were experienced and successful players, but mainly Cash gamer and not so used to the Tourney Poker. Therefore the main point in our presentation, the day before the tournament was the tournament structure.

· What to do at what point in the tournament?

· Do I have to look for a spot or can I wait until the game finds me?

· When do I have to play?

· How do I avoid pressure?

The structure of the CAPT comprises 10'000 $ starting chips with Blinds of 25/50 and 60 min per level. That means the players are very deep in the beginning. There is no reason to play in the beginning except an extremely good hand or the situation is likely to force you into a hand. You should not get involved in any pots with a middle class hand – you never know, where it ends. We always wanted to have a plan, so we could ask the questions. This was the plan for the first levels of the tournament. For example, if a player would sleep late and miss the first 3 blind levels, he would only loose about 10% of his stack. . A lot of players – but only a few SunPoker players – would have been happy the next day, if they would have slept late. By the way, you should not sleep in this time, but collect information on the other players, which can help you further down in the tournament

Then we focused on not getting under pressure. Our main concern was to find the spots in time. With that we wanted to avoid having to win in the showdown without any fold equity.

In the training program, we tried to arrange situations of pressure, show spots for re-steals (very efficient in tournaments) and to fix hand ranges for pushes and calls, depending on the stack. This is where you can use the information you collected in the first levels of the tournament.

Which player raise often and therefore with a wider hand range, often with a hand, that can not call a re-push? That could be a easy victim for a re-steal. .

Which player acts fearful? Here we can steal the BB easier with a push, as he would not call with many hands.

On the other hand we should always ask ourselves, which players are most likely to call us, because of their loose-passive way of playing.

The next important point was the player’s attitude towards the live poker adventure. Online it is enough to play a technically good poker. By live poker the table image, your own and that of the other players are important too. To understand, how the other player would see oneself is important as well. As a young online player- if the others see you as this – it is easier to re-steal online than live. On the other side it will be easier to get good hands paid for such here we put our emphasis in our live coaching during the tournament. We wanted to help the players to read the current table situation right, due to blinds, their own stack and the stack of the other players and the table image – their own and the adversaries. It was our goal to use our own stack actively against the folding players. We tried as well to mention possible„tells“of our players.

One player was sitting looking board at the table, waiting on his monster. If this player now sits up and take his cards, every attentive opponent would know, he has a very good hand now.

Especially in the later part of the tournament, our help consisted in foreseeing pressure and finding spots to increase the stack without any showdown.

Which player has difficulty to call, due to the stack size, should only play with a real monster?

Which player would call easier, because of his big stack, - has to be attack with a better hand?

The game design was getting important in this later phase of the tournament. I was asked by one player with 17BBs, who he should play hands like AK or TT with his stack. He rarely could raise, and folded after a re-raise, and out of position with theses cards would give him only very few good Flop scenarios. So there was alternatively the Limp-re-raise-Pre-flop. Than he asked the question on fold equity, he could take the pot without a show down, or he had all chips in the middle of the table at a point in time, he believed in his hand.

Another source of errors, we wanted to avoid, was the non-consideration of the opponents stack. Some players commit themselves, without even knowing. They don’t see the opponents stack, the effective stack and can be found in an unfavorable All-in situation if they have to call a push, which followed their own raise.

Before day 2 we handed out the new seating order for the last 4 tables to our remaining players together with an analysis of the best spots for stealing with showdown.

The SunPoker players were doing well with these tips. 2 reached in the money, for the big win, we were missing this little bit of luck...

Rounding up the experience, it was positive. Even technically very good players appreciated our help. Not even the successful player should sit back, because in poker too, :“ who don’t move, move backwards“..