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Bovada Poker Offers $15K WSOP Packages To Facebook Crew

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The 2013 World Series of Poker is coming up this summer and Bovada Poker is looking for “America’s Best Poker Crew” to send there to play in a $1,500 WSOP event. And it’s looking for this crew on Facebook.

Bovada Poker is now offering $15,000 prize packages to the World Series of Poker to one American poker crew on Facebook. If you believe that you are a part of “America’s best poker crew” then here’s what you do to win a $15K WSOP prize package for five:

1.    “Like” Bovada Poker on Facebook
2.    Send in a 2-minute video showing why you and your crew are the best in America

The $15K prize package for Bovada Poker’s best poker crew in America on Facebook includes the following:
•    five $1.5K buy-ins for you and four members of your crew to the NL Hold’em event #60, taking place July 5th in Las Vegas
•    $7.5K in cash for traveling costs
•    Bovada Poker merchandise for all 5 of you
•    an invitation to the Team Bovada WSOP party

The second and third place runners-up will each be given a private freeroll tournament for themselves and eight friends of their choice with a $5,000 prize pool for the 2nd place private freeroll and a $2.5K prize pool for the 3rd place private freeroll.

Send your 2-minute video of you and your crew to contest {at} bovada {dot} lv by May 12, 2013.

Stay abreast of all the latest Bovada Poker contest and promotional updates when you Like Bovada Poker on Facebook and Follow Bovada Poker on Twitter.

Bet Online Poker Holds On The Hour Freerolls With Real Money Prizes

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Bet Online Poker runs freeroll tournaments held hourly that award real cash prizes ranging from

But although the site calls these tournaments “On The Hour Freerolls”, hardly any of them actually start literally on the hour. Therefore we’ve taken the liberty of providing you the full schedule of these so-called On The Hour Freerolls below, as it really is a fine opportunity to whet your poker chops and walk away from the table with some real cash in your pocket for doing so.

Notice in the below schedule that two events actually have a buy-in, although not a cash buy-in. They’re the 11:20 am and 5:20 pm events and they each cost 1 poker point to buy-in. Beside each listing is the number of players receiving a pay-out in the tourney (e.g. top 10 pays out the top 10 finishers.)

The Bet Online Poker On The Hour Freerolls Schedule is as follows (all times listed EST):

•    12:20 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    1:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    3:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    4:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    6:00 am – $100 European Nooner Freeroll, top 40

•    8:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    9:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 30

•    10:10 am – $10 Freeroll, top 10

•    *11:20 am – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    12:00 pm – $140 Nooner Freeroll, top 50

•    1:20 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    3:10 pm – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    4:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 30

•    5:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    *5:20 pm – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    8:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    9:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 10

•    10:10 pm – $25 Turbo Freeroll, top 20

All Bet Online Poker freerolls cap their player pools at 3,000 registrants, so be sure to register early and secure your spot.

Latest Bovada Poker Blackjack Promo For WSOP

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The latest blackjack promotion being held on Bovada Poker (as opposed to Bovada Casino) is called the Bovada WSOP Class of 2013 promotion and just like it sounds, it promises $15K prize packages into the 2013 World Series of Poker for playing online blackjack, not through Bovada Casino, but through your Bovada Poker software. And yes, there is an online poker freeroll tournament involved as well.

Bovada Poker members have between Tuesday, April 9 and Monday, April 29 to play just 21 hands of blackjack through the Bovada Poker software. You must enter the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button on the Bovada Poker website or through your Bovada Poker software before you start playing, though, or your hands won’t be counted toward meeting the requirements.

Once you play those 21 blackjack hands, Bovada Poker will award you a seat in a Private Freeroll tournament taking place Saturday, May 4 at 2:05 ET with the grand prize being a $15,000 Vegas Prize Package that includes entry into the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event (worth $10K), plus $5K in cash to apply toward hotel and travel, an invite to a private party while you’re in Vegas and access to an exclusive suite. The runners-up, meanwhile, will cash in a combined prize pool of more than $5,800, with 2nd place getting the top cash prize of $2,100, 3rd getting $1,000…all the way down to 14th through 21st places, who each get $21 cash for their efforts.

Bovada Poker WSOP 2013 Qualifier And Satellite Schedule

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As promised, here are all the specifics about the newly launched qualifier and satellite series at Bovada Poker for the upcoming 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Daily Qualifier tournaments run between April 2 and June 24 as follows:

Main Event Cheap Seats – $1 + $0.10 direct buy-in
•    10:50 am – 4 seats guaranteed rebuy
•    3:10 pm – 4 seats guaranteed
•    7:40 pm – 3 seats guaranteed turbo
•    10:40 pm – 4 seats guaranteed turbo

Main Event Quarter Final Qualifiers
$5 + $0.50 direct buy-in
•    5:10 pm – 2 seats guaranteed
•    11:40 pm – 2 seats guaranteed turbo

$10 + $1 direct buy-in
•    12:50 pm – 2 seats guaarnteed
•    8:40 pm – 2 seats guaranteed turbo

$35 + $3.50 direct buy-in
•    12:40 am – 2 seats guaranteed turbo
•    7:10 pm – 1 seat guaranteed

Sit & Go Main Event Quarter Final – $15 + $1.50
•    All Day – 6-handed

Main Event Semi Final Qualifiers – $69 + $6
•    2:50 pm – 1 seat guaranteed
•    9:40 pm – 1 seat guaranteed turbo

That does it for Bovada Poker’s WSOP Qualifier Schedule.

Now, on to Bovada Poker’s WSOP Satellite Schedule.

Main Event Satellites – $470 + $30
•    Sunday, April 14 at 4:33 pm – 2 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, April 21 at 4:33 pm – 2 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, April 28 at 4:33 pm – 2 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, May 5 at 4:33 pm – 4 seats guaranteed
•    Wednesday, May 8 at 9:03 am – 1 seat guaranteed
•    Monday, May 12 at 9:03 am – 2 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, May 19 at 4:33 pm – 2 seats guaranteed
•    Monday, May 27 at 9:03 pm – 3 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, June 2 at 4:33 pm – 10 seats guaranteed
•    Sunday, June 9 at 4:33 pm – 4 seats guaranteed
•    Monday, June 17 at 9:03 pm – 4 seats guaranteed

•   Sunday, June 23 at 4:33 pm – 4 seats guaranteed

Main Event Qualifiers and Last Chance Qualifiers into these events run daily throughout the days of these events.

Bovada Poker’s WSOP Satellite Series Begins

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Bovada Poker has launched its satellite tournament series into the 2013 World Series of Poker with chances to prize packages worth $15,000 into the 2013 WSOP main event. Over the period running from April 2nd through June 23rd, Bovada Poker will be holding greater than 2,000 satellite qualifier tournaments leading to Las Vegas for the 2013 WSOP.

The 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event takes place from July 6th to 15th at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bovada Poker’s $15K Prize Package into the 2013 WSOP Main Event includes the $10,000 buy-in into the tournament itself, plsu $5,000 to apply toward travel costs, an invitation to an exclusive player party, private suite access and a Bovada swag bag.

The Bovada Poker 2013 WSOP Main Event satellite series starts with Cheap Seat Qualifiers costing as little as $1.10 to buy-in, leading to Quarterfinal Qualifiers costing as little as $5.50 to buy-in directly, leading to Semifinal Qualifiers, costing as little as $38.50 buy-in directly, leading to Satellite Tournaments, costing $500 to buy-in and awarding $15K prize packages to the $60 million 2013 WSOP Main Event.

Check Bovada Poker to see the specific schedule of all 2,000 World Series of Poker Main Event 2013 satellites and qualifiers, with turbo, hyber turbo, and rebuy events on the schedule as well as qualifiers awarding 1, 2, 3 and 4 seats guaranteed in the next event.

A more detailed overview of Bovada Poker’s 2013 WSOP Main Event qualifier and satellite schedules appears in a coming post.

Introducing the new CarbonCasino

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Carbon PokerCarbon Poker is set to launch their full feature casino offering Sunday April 7, 2013.  CarbonCasino will feature all of your favorite casino games such as Blackjack, Video Poker, and Slots.  The Casino will be fully integrated into the poker software and can be accessed from the “Casino” tab.  There is no shifting of balances as players use the same wallet for poker as well as for the casino.  Casino games can also be played directly from the Carbon Poker website

To celebrate the launch of this new option, Carbon Poker will hold a special $3,000 freeroll on Sunday April 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm eastern time.  The top 500 players in the game will be awarded cash prizes.  Registration for this event opens at 10:00 am eastern time on April 7, 2013.  The tournament can be found under the Tournaments tab under the “Special” sub heading.

Zynga Poker Launches Online Real Money Poker Site In UK

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Zynga, the social gaming platform that debut to snowballing success on Facebook, has launched its long-awaited real money online poker client for players in the UK. With the official launch taking place Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Zynga Poker Plus, as the site has been named, offers both an instant, online, browser-compatible, no download version and a downloadable software skin for their acclaimed poker room.

Last October, 2012, Zynga, Inc. partnered with Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. Now, by launching its new real money online poker site, Zynga Poker Plus, on the Party Gaming Network, Zynga (and its players) will share in the player pools of Party Poker, WPT Poker and bwin, among others, with access to the same player rewards available to players on those other sites.

For anyone familiar with playing at Zynga Poker on Facebook, the look and feel of Zynga Poker Plus will be familiar, down to the sultry red haired, red dressed “spokesmodel” avatar greeting players to the site — the major noticeable difference being — of course — that now they’ll be playing for real money instead of play money.

While the Zynga Poker Plus real money platform is currently only available to players in the UK, Zynga has already submitted its application for Nevada gambling license, where intrastate online real money poker has recently been legalized.

Zynga Poker was Zynga’s second highest grossing game on Facebook, second only to Farmville, generating nearly $217.5 or almost 20% of Zynga’s revenue from online gaming.

Enter Bovada Poker’s $100K Anonymous Poker Series

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In our previous post we introduced Bovada Poker’s Anonymous Poker option which allows players to compete with zero identifying information shown, making for a 100% anonymous poker playing experience and an even playing field for all at the start of each game. We also made mention of the $100K GTD Anonymous Poker Series (APS) taking place at the site now. This is the subject of today’s post.

The Bovada Poker Anonymous Poker Series runs from Monday, March 25 through Monday, October 14, 2013, during which time players at the site’s Anonymous Poker tables can win $6,600 prize pakcages into the Bovada Poker $100,000 Guaranteed APS Live Finale to be held in January of 2014 in Manila, the Philippines.

Each $6,600 APS prize package includes air travel to and from the Philippines and hotel stay for 2 during the event, the $2,000 buy-in into the APS Live Finale, a $700 stipend for expenses and more.

To qualify players can enter Cheap Seats qualifiers for buy-ins as small as just $0.66, or they can enter Quarter Final Qualifiers directly for buy-ins beginning at $3.30, or they can enter Semi Final Qualifiers directly for buy-ins starting at $22, or they can just go ahead an enter the actual APS Satellites directly for a $325 buy-in.

The winner of the APS Live Finale in Manila will walk away from the table with the grand prize of $45,000 guaranteed. Second place gets $25,000, third place gets $15,000, fourth place gets $10,000 and fifth place gets $5,000.

See the Bovada Poker website or poker software for the complete Anonymous Poker Series and APS satellite schedule.

Introducing 100% Anonymous Poker At Bovada Poker

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One of the unique new features that Bovada Poker offers its players is a game option called Anonymous Poker in which players can sit down at a table with absolutely no identifying information (e.g. avatar or player name) and compete against one another without anyone knowing who they are. Of course, if your opponents don’t know who you are, you don’t know who they are either. So the advantages and disadvantages go both ways.
What are those advantages and disadvantages. As Bovada Poker puts it “a level playing field for everyone”. As an anonymous poker player, no one can strategize against you by knowing your poker playing style ahead of time. Playing against other anonymous poker players, however, you are also playing “blind” unable to draw on your knowledge of your fellow Bovada Poker players. The result is that Anonymous Poker makes for an exciting game every time.

One of the other helpful features of Bovada Poker’s Anonymous Poker is the site’s fully downloadable hand histories, which allow you to examine your opponent’s hole cards only 24 hours after the game has been played.

Bovada Poker is currently the only poker network online to offer tables that are 100% anonymous.

And right now, to help entice players to the Anonymous Poker tables, Bovada Poker is holding its first Anonymous Poker Series, with over a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. In our next post we’ll tell you all the details of the Bovada Poker Anonymous Poker Series and its complete schedule of events.

Bovada Poker’s Bad Beat Bonus And Royal Flush Bonus

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Bovada Poker has a regal Royal Flush bonus and a Bad Beat Bonus that can’t be beat.

The Bovada Poker Royal Flush bonus is 50x the big blind of the given game, up to a maximum amount of $200. To hit the Royal Flush Bonus you must get a royal flush while playing at a real money Texas Hold’em cash game (tournaments do not apply) with at least 3 players dealt into the hand and both hole cards in your hand used to complete the royal flush. Your royal flush must also be the winning hand (though if it’s not, you’ll likely be eligible for the Bad Beat Bonus, described next.) The hand need not reach the Showdown in order for the Royal Flush Bonus to be hit. Players who believe they have hit the Royal Flush Bonus need to contact Bovada Poker’s support with the table number, hand number and your account information by telephone or emal within 48 hours of hitting it. The Royal Flush Bonus has no rollover requirement.

The Bovada Poker Bad Beat Bonus is 100x the big blind at the table up to a maximum bonus of $1,000 for losing a hand to a 4-of-a-kind while holding a full house, Aces over Kings, or better. Again both hole cards must be used to complete the bad beat hand and at least 3 players must be dealt into the hand for the Bad Beat Bonus to be hit, but this time the winning and losing hands must also both reach the showdown.