25 March, 2009
Now that the 2009 WSOP (World Series of Poker) is nearing, most of the top poker sites are holding some sort of satellites and/or qualifiers awarding players free entry into the Main Event. But most poker sites stop there. Not Full Tilt Poker, though.
As you surely already know, each year’s is made up of many events–more than 50 “preliminary events” at last count. And Full Tilt Poker is awarding players free entry into all of them (or at least any of the players’ choice).
The promotion is called the Race for Bracelets, since in addition to the prize money, winners of all WSOP events (including the main event) also win a coveted bracelet. Win an event in the Race for Bracelets and choose which of the 50+ preliminary events you want free entry into–and that will be your prize.
Daily Race for Bracelets tournaments are running daily, with buy-ins ranging from $26 to $75, at least one player from each tournament winning a $2,000 WSOP 2009 prize package.
However, not everyone can make it to the WSOP even with these great opportunities at Full Tilt Poker taking place this year. So, many people have been coming up with their own Poker Party Theme Ideas. These poker parties do require Poker and Casino Party Hire dealers to make the night run smoothly, but this is a great way to poker dream if you can’t make it to Vegas.
20 March, 2009
Titan Poker has just released a version of its software in Dutch, exapnding its reach to our global neighbors in Belgium, Suriname, and let’s not forget the Netherlands. A little Amsterdam action, anyone? This makes 15 languages now that TitanPoker supports–allowing players from all over those regions to compete against others across the world in their own native languages.
Full Tilt Poker, meanwhile, may be about to open up its own brick-and-mortar casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This after years of speculation that it would be the Las Vegas casinos buying up online poker rooms and not, as its rapidly and increasingly appearing to be, the other way around. But with all the overhead involved in a land-based casino and hardly any overhead for an online poker room, it’s business models like Full Tilt Poker’s (the reputed “Walmart” of poker sites) that are surviving and in some cases even thriving in this tanking economy, while land-based casino (like Trump’s) go under. So is FullTilt going to “bail out” a Vegas casino and get into that business? They’re not saying yet. But one thing seems certain. If any poker site is poised to do it–it’s Full Tilt Poker.
13 March, 2009
Until now, poker lovers who only owned Mac computers were out of luck when it came to experiencing the fully featured downloadable poker software their Windows PC using peers enjoyed.
All a Mac user wanting to join in the online poker fun could hope for from a poker site was a No Download Instant Play version of the site’s poker software, a pared-down browser-based alternative with severe and noticeable limitations as they were written in either Java or Flash, neither programming language capable of providing them the same sort of versatile and fully immersive poker playing experience they could have if only they’d bought a PC instead of a Mac.
But Mac users are loyal to their Macs, and at least one poker site has noticed. Full Tilt Poker now offers Mac users a downloadable version of their poker software on par with the downloadable poker software for Windows computers that PC owners have been appreciating for years.
Read more on the new Full Tilt Poker Deposit Bonus now available to new players.
5 March, 2009
Titan Poker is revving up to be the poker site of the year–at least if this month is any indication.
First there was the announcement of a March Madness inspired (or at leat that’s my guess) Spring Poker Madness in which players can earn double the rewards points throughout the entire month. What’s more, it appears that these rewards points can be redeemed for instant cash (though between you, me, and the Dealer–you’ll get much more for your money…or rather, your points…if you hold onto them and redeem them for other stuff, like free poker tournament entries.
But the other big news out of Titan Poker this week is that they just opened a whole new site. Feel like taking a break from poker but don’t want to stop trying to have fun and win money at the same time? No problem–because now you can just hop on over to Titan Casino and play Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, and all the other usual suspects. I’m surprised more poker sites don’t do this. But regardless, Titan Poker is–and good for them.
Good for us too.