Season II Goes Platinum Now

Hold’em Radio Platinum VIP Members get great discounts from poker-based businesses, behind-the-scenes tours at events, special merchandise options and the chance to play and win big prizes - all this for just $24.95 a month.

Among the benefits for Platinum VIP members is regular online freeroll tournaments, with championship events where some $10,000 in prizes are awarded to major tournaments and more.

There are quarterly Majors Freerolls offered - Sept 2016, Dec 2016, March 2017 and June 2017 – where our Platinum VIP Members earn their way to from Qualifier Freerolls leading up to the Majors.

The Major 1 (Sept 2016) winner receives a buy-in from us into the 2015 HPT $2500 Season Championship at Thunder Valley Casino in northern California Oct 20-25 and up to $500 as a travel reimbursement.

The Major 2 (Dec 2016) winner receives from us a $1500 custom-built Off Tilt Poker Table for your own home, ManCave, etc.

Win Major 3 (March 2017) and join CardPlayerCruises with a cabin for 2 to any of their 2017 cruises, a $1700 value as we buy your cabin for you as winner.

Take down Major 4 (June 2017) and we buy you in to the 2017 World Series $1500 Monster Stack and up to $500 in travel reimbursement. (Date TBA when the 2017 World Series schedule is released).

Qualifier Freerolls take place at least twice a week – three times a week some months – for Platinum VIP Members to earn their way into Majors and Mini-Majors.

The Mini-Majors monthly offer prizes like a pair of Blue Shark Optics eyewear for one month each quarter, and the other month each quarter is your own entry for up to $425 in buy-ins for a regional tournament near you, such as HPT Main Event Satellites, World Series Circuit ring events, or a local event at your home poker room.

There will also be regular events with prizes from sponsors, special Platinum-VIP-Only merchandise available and much more as Season II goes along.

Season II of the Hold’em Radio Platinum VIP Program is just $24.95 a month (payable as a yearly $299 option only). Join by July 15 and be part of a special Mini-Major to win up to $425 for a regional tournament entry of your choice.

Full Platinum VIP Program details available here.

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Our Live Location Appearances

We have quite a busy schedule right now and hope to see this build for the remainder of the year and be even bigger in 2017.

Here is where we are scheduled to be for the last 6 months of 2016.

JUNE
1-30: World Series of Poker, Rio All-Suites Casino, Las Vegas, NV.

JULY
1-18: World Series of Poker, Rio All-Suites Casino, Las Vegas, NV.
13-18: Heartland Poker Tour, Golden Gates Casino, Blackhawk, CO
21-31: Ante Up World Championships, Thunder Valley Resort, Lincoln, CA

AUGUST
1-8: Ante Up World Championships, Thunder Valley Resort, Lincoln, CA
4-8: Heartland Poker Tour, Ameristar Casino, Vicksburg, MS

SEPTEMBER
1-5: Heartland Poker Tour, Ameristar Casino, East Chicago, IL
14-19: Heartland Poker Tour, Golden Gates Casino, Blackhawk, CO
21-26: Heartland Poker Tour, Daytona Beach Dog and Kennel Club, Daytona Beach, FL

OCTOBER
1-10: TBA
13-24: Heartland Poker Tour Season Championships, Thunder Valley Resort, Lincoln, CA

NOVEMBER
2-7: Heartland Poker Tour, Ameristar Casino, St. Charles, MO
16-21: Heartland Poker Tour, Ameristar Casino, Kansas City, MO.
22-27: Ante Up NorCal Classic, Thunder Valley Resort, Lincoln, CA

4 Days, $78K

Gina Stagnitto turned a $1500 buyin into 4 days of play and a $78,264 cash in the WSOP Monster Stack. 

Gina played solid all four days, really moving up midway through Day 3. She found herself sitting at about 30BB for much of the last 4 hours of play yesterday, then put on a big run to close Day 3 3/27 with 6.9 million chips.

A very aggressive start propelled her briefly into the chiplead today. Losing an all-in AK<KK dropped her back to her start-of-day stack, and she was back grinding and riding a bit of a roller-coaster.

She called the 2.6 million all in preflop of Andrew Moreno, and saw she was behind AQ-AK, with Moreno saying to his rail, "We got just what we wanted," before hiding his head in their hands so he couldn't see the outcome.

That pose kept Moreno from knowing there was a Q in the window, putting Gina ahead on the Q-J-6 flop. Moreno had 7 outs, and caught one of them with the turn T for Broadway, and Gina was down to 5.5milly.

She slid as low as 3.5m, then found AA and shoved, drawing 1 caller who had AK and suddenly she was back to 8.5 million and 13 players left in the tourney.

Then the UTG player raised to almost 600k and Gina opted to shove for her 8.6m to isolate that player and force his all in. The BB< however, had Gina covered and he made the call, turning over KK.

Gina had AJ and the UTG player had AA.

There was a K on the flop, and the river J didn't help, eliminating the UTG player in 13th and Gina in 12th, a $78k cash for here, the biggest of her career.

She walked from the table with a smile on here face, looking as relaxed as she did while playing day 3 and day 4.

"See you in the main, I'm definitely playing the Main Event now," she said as she headed off to collect her winnings.

Gina's @WSOP Monster Stack Run

Down to 27,000 late on Day 2, Gina Stagnitto slowly worked her way back, then used most of Day 3 to find places to pick up more and more chips in the WSOP $1500 Monster Stack. By the time Day 3 had come to a close, Gina was all the way up to 6.9 million chips and sitting 3/27.

Gina is a regular among our NorCal/Nevada circuit of players, having finished 8th last January in the Poker Night in America event at Thunder Valley. She was also 10th at the most recent HPT at Thunder Valley.

Day 4 - the final day - kicks off and Gina is the most active player early on, scoring one knockout and moving to nearly 12 million and the chiplead. She put a shorter-stack all-in preflop while holding AK, only to have that player turn over KK, hold, and take a decent stack from her.

The first break of the day is over and Gina is sitting right about where she started the day. There are 17 players left, a redraw coming at 10 and the LiveStream starting when 9 players remain, all battling for the $1.12 million top prize and the WSOP bracelet.