Category: Online Poker

Nevada Passes Historic Interstate Gambling Bill

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Nevada made gambling history when it passed a bill that makes it legal not only for residents of the state to play poker online but for Nevada players to play online poker at intrastate sites set up by other states to allow online poker within their borders.

The bill was called AB114 and on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 4:00 pm PST the Nevada legislature passed it unanimously, in both the state Senate and Assembly, and the state Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signed it into law. Sandoval also happened to be the Nevada Gaming Commission’s former chairman before taking the governor’s office.

While the law does open the door for cooperation between states to allow interstate online poker and gambling between their borders, it still requires that individual states and Nevada set up those arrangements first.

While the Justice Department has previously frowned on atempts to operate online gambling between state borders, the Nevada Governor plans to speak with the DOJ in the hopes of making the new law stick.

The Nevada state legislature rushed the bill to a vote, declaring it an emergency measure for publicity reasons more than anything, as the state aimed to beat gambling rival New Jersey to the punch, as that state’s Republican Governor Chris Christie is expected to sign similar legislation in the coming week. This keeps Nevada at the forefront of the United States gaming industry, online and off.

The state is already alleged to have more than 20 online gaming operators and software and equipment providers seeking licenses to offer online gambling services under the new law.

Enter Lock Poker Satellites For International Stadiums Poker Tour

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Lock Poker is now holding satellites awarding seats into the International Stadiums Poker Tour.

Day 1A of the 2013 ISPT took place already, on Sunday February 10th, but there are 5 more Day 1’s remaining, all on Sundays, all starting at 21:00 GMT.

•    Day 1B – March 10th
•    Day 1C – April 14th
•    Day 1D – May 5th
•    Day 1E – May 12th
•    Day 1F – May 19th

Super satellites into one of these ISPT day one events take place every Sunday at Lock Poker according to the following schedule and buy-ins:

•    17:00 GMT – $5 + $0.25
•    17:30 GMT – $8 + $0.40
•    18:00 GMT – $5 + $0.25
•    18:30 GMT – $8 + $0.40

These Super Satellites award seats into one of two regular satellites: a $40 + $4 satellite at 20:00 GMT and a $10 rebuy satellite at 21:00 GMT. Several European poker sites host similar satellites awarding ISPT seats to players in certain countries, while Lock Poker is the exclusive U.S. facing poker site to award seats to American players in this big international event.

These Day 1 events all take place online, with the rest of the International Stadiums Poker Tour finishing live at Wembley Stadium in London, England from May 31st thru June 5th. The ISPT will be broadcast live to over 38 different countries.

Nearing the end of Day 1A the chip leader was Johnny N’Guyen, but it’s still so early it truly is anybody’s game.

Lock Poker Hosts Grind For Glory Contest

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Players at Lock Poker can now try to win up to $90,488 deposited into their account through the newest installment of the popular Lock Poker promotion: Grind for Glory.

What’s more, being that this latest incarnation of the Grind for Glory contest is subtitled: The Lock Pro WSOP Edition, there’s also a grand prize for the player finishing first on the Grind for Glory leaderboard of a Las Vegas WSOP prize package that includes a Grand Canyon helicopter tour, an invite to dinner with the Lock Elite Pros, one-on-coaching from a pro and more.

There are 58 levels in the Grind for Glory contest, each one requiring players achieve a certain level in rake and fees paid from playing at Lock Poker’s real money tables and tournaments, with individual prizes per level ranging from $2 to $5,000. Prizes are cumulative, so you get to keep each prize won as you proceed to win additional prizes. But there are only a limited number of prize at each level available and once they run out, anyone achieving that level does not get a prize for doing so, although they may continue climbing the levels and earning any prizes associated with those levels that haven’t all been awarded already. Prizes are awarded hourly, so within the hour after hitting any prize level, your account will be credited the prize amount.

Play at all tables and stakes is eligible for the Grind for Glory contest, but if you play at a Grind Table, you’re also eligible for additional Grind prizes.

Delaware-Nevada Online Poker Partnership in Works

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Two states that have already passed legalized online poker and other online gambling intrastate (meaning within their bordres) may now be teaming up to form an inter-state online poker compact, this according to a report released in USA Today.

At the beginning of this month, the Delaware Lottery Office issued to its vendors Requests for Proposal (or RFP) to decide who will operate a central gambling network in the state. These RFPs have required an online gambling website to be launched within the state by September 30, 2013.

Delaware’s problem, however, is that the state is so small that the population may not be large enough to attract a sizable enough pool of players to keep the site vital, and it could present the problem of too many people trying to move into the state too fast, just to be able to play online poker legally.

Hence this potential compact with the state of Nevada, which also has a meager population although 3 times that of Delaware. An agreement to allow each other’s residents to play on their online poker and online gambling sites would increase Delaware’s player pool three-fold and Nevada’s by a third.

The Delaware lottery director has even gone on record as stating that similar compacts with Europe aren’t even off the table.

Delaware’s biggest competition in this race for players — and to be the first state with intrastate online gambling sites up for people to play at — is New Jersey, which is on the verge of passing its own online gambling legislation.

Americas Cardroom Hosts $500K Mini Online Super Series II

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The second annual installment of the Mini Online Super Series is coming up at America’s Cardroom and this time it’s worth $500,000 guaranteed. The mOSS II, as it’s called for short, runs from Friday, February 15th (the day after Valentine’s Day) through Sunday, February 24th. That’s one week and two weekends packed full of high-stakes Texas Hold’em and Omaha action.

America’s Cardroom’s mOSS II is comprised of over 100 poker events: 90 Texas Hold’em tournaments and 10 Omaha tournaments. Prize pools vary from $300 to $100K. Buy-ins, meanwhile, range from only $2 to $100. And of course, there are those satellites into the Main Event that we brought you word of in our previous post.

Every day of the series there are events at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:00pm, 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 10:00pm.

Some of the mOSS II series highlights include Event 28, a $75,000 GTD event for a $100 + $9 buy-in starting at 7:30 pm on Sunday, February 17th. Event 88, meanwhile, is a $30,000 GTD event with a $50 + $5 buy-in starting at 7:30 pm on Saturday, February 23rd. Pot Limit Omaha prize pools range from $500 to $3,000. The series also includes deep stack events, turbo events, rebuy and add-on events, and hi/lo events.

The mOSS II Main Event takes place Sunday, February 24 at 7:30 pm for a $100 + $9 buy-in and a $100K prize pool. And it’s not even the final event of the series, with two more events taking place that night after it.

Americas Cardroom Holds 25 Seats GTD Depositors Freeroll into mOSS II

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America’s Cardroom is holding 3 freeroll tournaments each awarding 25 free seats guaranteed in the site’s upcoming Mini Online Super Series, or mOSS II.

The Americas Cardroom mOSS II Freerolls take place Sundays, February 17th, and 24th at 12:00 noon ET and each are worth $2,500 in freeroll entries, each guaranteeing to award 25 seats in the $100 GTD Mini Online Super Series II Main Event taking place on February 24 at 7:30 pm ET.

This freeroll offer is available to new players only who are making their first real money deposit into the new Americas Cardroom account. In addition to the 100% welcome bonus up to a $1,000 maximum bonus received for their first deposit, new players also gain entry into all of the freerolls remaining for the month. That’s good reason to deposit sooner than later as you can still earn seats in the last two freerolls remaining with one single deposit. Eligible deposits must be made between Sunday and Saturday preceding the next Sunday 25 Seats GTD Depositors Freeroll.

The Mini Online Super Series itself takes place from February 15 to 24 and guarantees a total of $500,000 in prizes, awarded across more than 100 online poker events ranging in poker type and tournament style. Each event boasts a guaranteed prize pool ranging from $300 to $100,000. In addition, Americas Cardroom is running an overall leaderboard contest throughout the series.

Stay tuned here are Holdem Poker Chat for more details on the events making up ACR’s Mini Online Super Series II.

Full Tilt Poker to Open .EU Site; DOJ to Announce FullTilt Player Remission “Soon”

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A Full Tilt Poker spokesperson announced recently that the site would soon be launching a new FullTilt online poker room at .EU.

Coming soon to FullTiltPoker.eu, the site is expected to offer all the same game profile, features and promotions that the old FullTiltPoker.com offered. PokerStars, the new owners of FullTiltPoker, already has experience in this area, having successfully launched its PokerStars.eu branch back in February of 2011. When that site launched, PokerStars phased its players from Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and other countries from pokerstars.com over to pokerstars.eu. It is expected that this is the same thing they will do with fulltiltpoker.com and fulltiltpoker.eu.

The difference between the two boils down to one thing: licensing jurisdiction. .EU websites are lienced in Malta while .COM websites are licensed on the Isle of Man.
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It appears this may be a tactic to help players avoid paying income taxes on cash prizes they win at these sites. By switching licensing jurisdictions from the Isle of Man to Malta, players in such countries as those named above (those who would be switched from a Full Tilt Poker .COM membership to a Full Tilt Poker .EU membership) may be able to enjoy tax-free online poker winnings.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is behind schedule in announcing remission plans for the some 1.3 million former U.S. players at Full Tilt Poker who haven’t seen their funds from those accounts, totalling some $159 million, since April of 2011. But they have said that announcement can be expected soon. We’ll bring it to you here when it happens.

Source: PokerFuse

Bovada Poker $850K Black Diamond Poker Open Returns

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The Black Diamond Poker Open has returned to Bovada Poker, launching today, Monday, February 4, 2013 and running through March 24, 2013. It’s made up of 86 different events worth a total $850,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Action is available in this contest for low limit and high limit players alike, as well as players who prefer Stud or Omaha in addition to their usual No Limit Hold’em.

The Bovada Poker Black Diamond Poker Open (BDPO) is broken down into two series’: the Contender Series, which runs between February 10 and 24, and the Championship Series, which runs between March 10 and 24.

The Contender Series offers more than $150K guaranteed, starting with a kickoff event $10K GTD on Sunday, Feb 10. The Contender Series consists of micro stakes to mid-stakes events for buy-ins as low as $1. The Contender Series Main Event offers $30,000 guaranteed and takes place on Sunday, Feb 24.

The Championship Series offers more than $700K guaranteed, starting with a kickoff event $25K GTD on Sunday, March 10. The series consists of mid to high-stakes events culminating in a $250K GTD Main Event taking place Sunday, March 24.

The overall champion of the 2013 BDPO will win at least $50,000 cash and an engraved limited edition watch worth $5,000.

Players can buy-in directly to any BDPO event or they can win their seat in these events through over 2,000 satellites and qualifiers running now at Bovada Poker. Qualifier freerolls award seats in $1 + $0.10 satellites which in turn award seats in the BDPO itself.

There are also Super Saturday Satellite Tournaments scheduled on the Saturday before each series’ main event which awards a whole bunch of seats in their corresponding event as well.

Juicy Stakes Poker Kicks Off Super Bowl Sunday With Omaha Steaks Offer

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Juicy Stakes Poker is celebrating the 2013 Super Bowl by kicking off a Sunday Superbowl Tournament with 3 players winning $50 gift certificate to Omaha Steaks. The buy-in is just 3 Gold Chips.

The Juicy Stakes Poker Super Bowl XLVII Tournament takes place on Super Bowl Sunday, of course, the 3rd of February 2013, at 16:15 ET. Registration is already open.

This year’s Super Bowl championship title will either go to the San Francisco 49ers or their opponents the Baltimore Ravens. And if you’re one of the last 3 players standing in the Juicy Stakes Super Bowl 2013 tournament, then after the game you’ll be heading over to Omaha Steaks to enjoy your free dinner on Juicy Stakes Poker’s tab.

Serving prepared foods with “Hearland Quality” since 1917, Omaha Steaks currently has locations in 28 states around the nation. Visit the Omaha Steaks website and click the Store Locator to find the one nearest you.

Meanwhile Juicy Stakes Poker is currently offering players $12 million in guarantees monthly. And if you’re new to the site, you’ll enjoy a generous 200% first time deposit bonus up to $2,000. You’ll also get access to Juicy Stakes Poker’s $500 new depositor freeroll. The site participates in the Gold Cards player rewards program and often runs promotions increasing the value and accessibility of those rewards, such as the Lucky Series 13 promotion that just finished out in January. Stayed tuned for the latest Gold Card promotions at Juicy Stakes Poker.

Americas Cardroom Introduces First ACR Elite Player

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There’s a new status rung on the ladder at America’s Cardroom and they’re calling it ACR Elite. Expanding their Elite Benefits program now to include a status of all status levels – what the military-themed poker site refers to as the 5-Star Generals of online poker – who play the game “like their life depends on it.” And to kick off this new honor, Americas Cardroom has chosen to name Dusty Schmidt its first honoree.

Dusty Schmidt (also currently the only ACR Elite honoree) is known on the America’s Cardroom online poker tables as Leatherass9, and in only 7 years of playing online he has competed in over 11 million hands over 10,000 hours of playing time, during which he won over $4 million dollars. If the name looks familiar to some of you sports fans, then you’re on the right track…or should we say “course”, like golf course.

That’s right, this is the same Dusty Schmidt who broke two of Tiger Woods’ own junior records on the golf course. Schmidt was also the Golden States Tour’s leading money winner when he was only 23 years old. A heart attack ended his golfing career, but launched onto a new career in professional poker that has led to his becoming the inaugural America’s Cardroom player to achieve ACR Elite status level.

Leatherass9 moved to Americas Cardroom in July 2012 after the site introduced its major ongoing promotion The Beast. He cited the large bonuses, numerous promotions and aggressive player loyalty program as reasons for his move to the site, and from the way things look, he’ll be sticking around for quite a while.