Poker news tagged with 'supernova elite'

The recording-breaking field of 1,496 players has been narrowed down to a final table of eight after five intensive days of play. Out front is a German named Hossein Ensan who won Event #3 of this festival 10 days ago for €4,535, the biggest live cash of his career.

Read more » EPT Barcelona: The Main Event Final Table Is Set; German In The Lead

Only 16 of 604 players remain in the EPT London Main Event after four days of play. David "MissOracle" Yan will lead the way to Day 5 with a stack of 2.3 million. Yan, 19, has Supernova Elite status on PokerStars and finished sixth in the 2013 Aussie Million Main Event for $232,254.

Read more » EPT London: David "MissOracle" Yan Leads Final 16

Team PokerStars Online Pro Andre "acoimbra" Coimbra is well known for taking part in some tough challenges, including playing all 100 events of MicroMillions II in 2012. A few days ago he announced that this year's challenge will be to turn $100 into $100,000 by playing tournaments.

Read more » Andre "acoimbra" Coimbra's 2013 Challenge: Turn $100 Into $100,000!

It only took 59 days for an American to reach the magical 1,000,000 VIP Player Points in 2011 with PokerStars. That means, he has shaved more than three weeks of the previous record from 2008.

Through various bonuses, tournament tickets, etc. it is reportedly worth over $ 100,000 to achieve the highest customer level, SuperNova Elite at PokerStars.

Last year 342 players passed the qualifying limit of 1,000,000 VIP Player Points, but none as fast as George 'Jorj95' Lind in 2008, where he completed it on the 18th march.

Nevertheless, that record got beat on Monday, when Andrew 'azntracker' Li crossed 1,000,000 VIP Player Points for 2011.Read more » New SuperNova Elite record at Pokerstars

George Lind, one of PokerStars´ newest members, is really the king when it comes to accumulating VIP points at PokerStars. Just listen to this. In just one month's time he earned 500,000 vip points back in 2007. The next year (2008), he reached the Supernova Elite level in less than 3 months and also became the first player ever to accumulate more than 3 million points in a year. This year, he's the first person to reach the Supernova Elite level once again! According what he writes in his blog, he's aiming to accumulate 4 million vip points this year!

As you probably can imagine, it's not a walk in the park to accumulate as many points as George Lind. Just check out his stats for this year so far.

Hours played: 648 (about 50 hours per week)

Tournaments played: 70,997 (I play hyperturbo SNGs which last about 8 
minutes each so I can play as many as 200 or more in an hour)

Hands Played: 836,402