This May, 2011 both Cake Poker and Intertops Poker are bringing back their Turbo Gold Cards promotion for another month. Gold cards are like game cards that players accumulate to earn bonus prizes. During Turbo Gold Cards months, players can earn those cards at an accelerated pace.
Gold cards are earned at cash ring game tables, based on the amount of rake taken out of each pot. A player needs only have been dealt cards in the hand to earn a gold card, even if folding out in the first round of betting.
During special Turbo Gold Cards hours each day, players will earn twice as many Gold cards as they ordinarily would. Those hours, at both Intertops Poker and Cake Poker, are 6:00 am – 8:00 am; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm; and 8:00 pm – 10 pm GMT. That translates to 1:00 am to 3:00 am; 9:00 am to 11:00 am; and 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST.
There are a couple of ways to redeem Gold Cards for various prizes. You can either match them to various combinations of cards a la Bingo on each respective site’s Match & Win game and earn entries into over $10,000 worth of freeroll tournaments or other prizes. Or you can put them up for auction at The Exchange, a sort of stock market for actively trading gold cards.
Remember that Gold Cards are only valid for the month in which they’re earned. That means at the start of the following month, Cake Poker and Intertops Poker wipe the table clean and start fresh with new gold cards and new Match & Win game boards for all.