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.
23 February, 2009
Every night at FullTilt Poker is an opprtunity to win a share of a minimum $50,000 Guaranteed. Every night at 9:30 pm ET, Full Tilt Poker holds its 50-50 Guarantee in which players paying a buy-in of $50 + $5 (appropriately) compete for a first prize of at least $9,500.
And if that $55 buy-in is a little too steep for your wallet, no problem. Players can win their way into any Fifty-Fifty Guarantee via daily satellite tournaments running throughout the day for buy-ins as low as $2 + $0.25.
The satellites run daily as follows:
- 6:40 pm ET – $2 + $0.25 NL Holdem Turbo w/Rebuys
- 6:50 pm ET – $6 + $0.60 NL Holdem Turbo
- 7:10 pm ET – $3 + $0.30 NL Holdem Turbo w/Rebuys
- 7:20 pm ET – $8 + $0.80 NL Holdem Turbo
- 7:40 pm ET – $14 + $1 NL Holdem Turbo
What’s even better, the nightly Fifty-Fifty Guarantee is just one of Full Tilt Poker’s ongoing guarantee tournaments, with a total weekly guaranteed prize pool of at least $8 million. These satellites are a great way for poker beginner‘s to get in on the big Full Tilt Poker tournaments each week.
20 February, 2009
It’s time once more for another PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) All-Stakes Tournament Poker Series. Running April 2 – 12, the SCOOP will be a $30 million guaranteed tournament series featuring 22 different poker events.
New players looking to take advantage of the 2009 PokerStars promo code can do so by simply downloading the poker software from PokerStars.com and creating your account. Depositing is quick and easy and you’ll be playing online in minutes.
Unique in structure, each event in the SCOOP will have 3 different buy-ins, so that players at all skill and income levels can play at their respective stakes. At each level, PokerStars promises the winners an impressive guaranteed prize pool.
All different poker variants will be represented, including Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7-Card Stud, 5-Card Draw, Triple Draw, Lowball, and even a pair of Mixed Game events. The main event will take two days to play out and, at the highest stakes level, will pay out a guaranteed $5 million; the mid-level guaranteeing $3 million; and the lowest stakes promising a $1 million payout.
PokerStars will of course be offering numerous satellite opportunities to win seats in the various SCOOP tournaments, starting for as low as $2.20. The site will also honor FPPs (Frequent Player Points) for entry into these various satellite events.
If smaller field tournaments are more your style, you should consider joining PlayersOnly, a skin on the Cake Poker network. If you use this PlayersOnly promo code you can maximize your deposit bonus up to $1000 bucks and you can use your normal MasterCard or Visa. They have one of the highest acceptance rates of credit cards online.
12 February, 2009
The EuroCity Poker Tour is coming up on April 3, and its sponsor, TitanPoker, is running satellites (and super satellites!) awarding free seats to players savvy and dedicated enough to win them.
It’s not easy, but there are several ways to win those seats–with 3 separate, tiered satellite “structures” to choose from. Every week between now and the end of March, TitanPoker will be awarding 3 prize packages for the Salzburg, Austria event–one each on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Players can enter these satellites for as little as $0.60 and climb their way up the ladder, rung by rung. Or alternatively, players can skip to the final run for as little as $44.
Best of all, players aren’t restricted to choosing just one satellite structure over the others but rather can enter all three each week, if they like.
The prize package for the ECPT includes 4 nights paid accommodations at the Alpine Palace Card Casino, a 5-star resort in the Austrian Alps, along with 3 meals for 2 each day, and approximately $635, as well as tickets to an exclusive Welcome party to be held on April 2.
16 January, 2009
HollywoodPoker has just upgraded its ClubHollywoodPoker rewards program. The highlight of the new additions to the HollywoodPoker player reward program is a Points For Cash Exchange which is exactly what it sounds like. With the Points For Cash Exchange, players can finally trade in their player points for instant cold hard cash (up to $1,000).
Other similar player point exchange benefits have been instituted for all ClubHollywoodPoker club member categories, such as:
- Tournament Tickets Networkwide
- Premium No Load Bonuses
- Access to the ClubHollywoodPoker store with over 400 items including trips to fabulous vacation spots like Las Vegas and Monte Carlo.
Also rolled out for the new year are 2 new programs for HollywoodPoker’s high-rollers:
- Premium Player Club
- 2009 Walk of Fame
All this on top of ClubHollywoodPoker’s existing reward program’s offerings, including:
- special members-only deposit bonuses (‘reload bonuses’)
- exclusive monthly freerolls
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3 January, 2009
Online poker rakeback is one of the little known secrets remaining in online poker today. Rakeback allows poker players to earn a portion of their rake they contribute to each pot back to their player account. This rakeback is tallied and paid back to the player in sometimes as short of a time as 1 day, but usually is paid out bi monthly or monthly at most poker rooms.
US poker rakeback players can receive an excellent rakeback percentage via this FullTilt poker rakeback program. This allows you to earn up to 27% of the rake you contribute to each pot back to your account to play with later in the month. However, rakeback is generally only available to new accounts at FullTilt Poker.
Click the link above to learn how you can start earning your rakeback at FullTilt Poker. If yo aren’t playing with rakeback these days then you might as well just throw your money in the fire and let it burn because it is going to waste.
22 December, 2008
PokerStars is attempting to set a new world’s record and it wants your help in pulling it off.
The record PokerStars is looking to set is for the largest player field ever for an online poker tournament. The tournament in question—a $500,000 Guaranteed Tournament with an $11 buy-in—will be held on December 28 at 3:30 pm ET.
The player pool will be capped at 35,000 players—a number which, if reached, would land PokerStars in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The multi-table event, which has over 2,000 players registered so far, will include as many as 3,500 tables running at once. Blinds will increase “Turbo”-style, meaning that they will go up every 10-minutes.
If successful, PokerStars will break its own record, set last year, of 20,000 players in a single online tournament.
To register for the $500K World Record attempt, just login to the PokerStars Tournament lobby and click the Special Tournaments tab.
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