Jim Makos Blog

I won 2 GSOP packages for the forthcoming live poker tournament taking place at Porto Carras Grand Resort in October and I’m putting one of them for sale. The package includes the $1,650 GSOP Greece main event buy-in and 5 nights’ accommodation at Porto Carras Hotel for a total of $2,900. The two packages come [...]

Surely EPT won’t be brought to us by PokerStars.com! According to several twoplustwo.com posters, EPT Packages for San Remo or Madrid won’t be honored by PokerStars in the end. Replies by pokerstars.eu say that they can’t verify if players who won the EPT packages are actually registered in the poker tournaments, although there was one [...]

It must have been the worst time ever to win an EPT Grand Final Madrid seat right before Black Friday of online poker. My package that includes 7-night accommodation, EUR10,600 buy-in and EUR750 for expenses is already in jeopardy, although PokerStars claim that the money and packages are safe. After last Friday’s events when the [...]