Category: Online Poker

Introducing Juicy Stakes Poker Lucky Series 2013

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Juicy Stakes Poker is declaring 13 a lucky number with its Lucky Series 2013, aka the Gold Card Series ’13 which hits the real money tables at the site  on January 1, 2013.

As all good New Year’s parties do, the celebration at Juicy Stakes Poker starts with and ending: namely the Holiday Gold Finale, featuring 3 amazing special offers.

All day long on New Year’s Day 2013, Juicy Stakes Poker is awarding both DOUBLE FPP (Frequent Player Points).

What’s more, between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm GMT (18:00 – 22:00) the site will hold another TURBO Gold session.

And then there’s the site’s final Holiday Gold tourneys. Just earn 2 #2 Gold Cards at the real money online poker tables this Tuesday, January 1, 2013 and Juicy Stakes Poker will give you an entry into their Holiday Gold tournament starting 8:00 pm GMT (20:00) with a $2,500 guaranteed cash prize pool.

All this and we haven’t even gotten past New Year’s Day yet.

For the entirety of January, 2012, Juicy Stakes Poker is hosting a promotion in which you can earn a seat in a special Lucky $13K Tournament for simply earning 13 Gold Cards or more at the site’s real money cash ring game tables. It doesn’t even matter which 13 Gold Cards they are: any 13 will do. The tournament, then takes place on Sunday, Frebruary 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm GMT (19:00) and the guaranteed prize pool is $13,000.

Cake Poker’s U.S. Players Rerouted To Juicy Stakes Poker

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In the latest U.S. online poker news, flagship site of the Cake Network of online gaming sites, Cake Poker has now started rerouting all hits from U.S. IP addresses to sister site Juicy Stakes Poker. And all existing Cake Poker accounts still active in the United States will be migrated to Juicy Stakes Poker.

The bad news for U.S. players is this means you can no longer sneak onto Cake Poker. The good news is  you can, apparently, do so at Juicy Stakes Poker.

Juicy Stakes Poker, in case you haven’t heard of this relative fledgling poker site, actually offers most of the same guarantees and promotions as Cake Poker. Juicy Stakes Poker recognizes the Gold Chips and Gold Cards rewards programs and allows players to buy and trade them on The Exchange, just like Cake Poker players. (Can they buy and trade them with Cake Poker players is the next question.)

This migration affects players on the Colt, HiLife and Fugu poker sites as well. Once migrated players download and install Juicy Stakes Poker their current balance from their Cake Poker account will be once again available for use.

Even though Cake Poker already changed its former domain (CakePoker.com) to a European based domain (CakePoker.eu) and all of its players in the rest of the world except the U.S. continue to play there, the migration of U.S. accounts to this other site on the Revolution Network to which the Cake Network sites belong appears to be an effort to corrall their U.S. player base into one place.juicy

Lock Poker’s The Big Chase Prizes And Levels: Win Up To $75K

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Each individual player can win up to $75k all for themselves in Lock Poker’s The Big Chase – Double Agent promo introduced in our last post. It runs through December ’12 and January ’13 and promises to give away a total of $1,500,000 spread over 52,000 individual cash prizes.

Just earn MGR playing at Lock Poker’s real money tables. WHen you hit milestone markers, you win a prize. Only a certain number of prizes for each level are available, so hurry though. With that in mind, here is the schedule of prize levels and prizes still available at the time of this writing.

20: earn $600 in rake and fees, win $150
21: earn $700 in rake and fees, win $175
22: earn $800 in rake and fees, win $200
23: earn $900 in rake and fees, win $225
24: earn $1k in rake and fees, win $250
25: earn $1.1k in rake and fees, win $300
26: earn $1.2k in rake and fees, win $325
27: earn $1.3k in rake and fees, win $350

As you can see, prize level requirements go up by $100 each level and prize amounts go up by $25, until level 53. Then…

54: earn $4,000 in rake and fees, win $2,100
55: earn $5,000 in rake and fees, win $2,200
56: earn $6,000 in rake and fees, win $3,500
57: earn $7,000 in rake and fees, win $4,500
58: earn $8,000 in rake and fees, win $5,000

What’s more, keep in mind that the full name of this promo is “The Big Chase – Double Agent” with the second half of this promo’s name reffering to additional Double Agent prizes. And if you play on the site’s Double Agent tables during this promo, you’ll be eligible to win Double Agent prizes, essentially doubling the regular prize amount you’d otherwise get for reaching that level.

Lock Poker Hosts $1.5 Million “The Big Chase” Rake Race

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Lock Poker is now hosting a new rake race promotion called “The Big Chase – Double Agent” that promises to award 52,000 individual cash prizes amounting to more than $1.5 million of the course of December 2012 and January 2013. With 58 individual prize levels each player can advance through, any single player can win up to $75,000 in this event.

In The Big Chase – Double Agent, Lock Poker tracks your MGR earned playing at the site’s real money tables over the course of the promotional period. Every time you hit a certain milestone number of MGR, the site will deposit the associated prize as cash straight into your Lock Poker account.

Lock Poker awards cash prizes every hour in The Big Chase promotion, so there’s no long wait to receive your prizes once earned.

There are only a certain number of prizes available at each level and once they’re won, any players reaching that level won’t win a prize, though they will continue climbing toward the available prizes at the next levels higher. If that’s not enough to impel you to get playing, it also seems the folks at Lock Poker let their existing players get a leg up on the promotion, only announcing The Big Chase on their public website after the prize pools for the first dozen or so of the 58 prize levels had been exhausted But that still leaves more than half the levels remaining.

Next up: we’ll post the full chart of The Big Chase prize levels, requirements and prize amounts.

Still Time To Earn Americas Cardroom Christmas Cash

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We’ve told you about it once before, but in case you missed it, and while there’s still time left, Americas Cardroom is giving away a Christmas Cash Bonus to all its players this holiday season.

Always at Americas Cardroom players earn Combat Points for their real money online poker play, and always players can redeem those Combat Points for cash bonuses at the site’s Elite Benefits Store. But throughout December 2012, those cash bonuses can be had for a 20% discount. It’s like a Black Friday bargain all December long.

Every Military Rank in the Americas Cardroom Elite Benefits program can earn discounted cash bonuses, including now the starting level of Lieutenant, which can earn up to a $10 cash bonus at the 20% off rate. Captain level players can redeem up to a $50 cash bonus at 20% off, Major level players can redeem up to a $300 cash bonus at 20% off, and Colonel, General and 5-Star General level players can all earn up to a $600 cash bonus at 20% off.

Cash bonuses aren’t the only treats players can avail Americas Cardroom of in their Elite Benefits Store. Especially now, as the site has revamped its prize offerings. Now you can purchase 3-D HDTVs, iPods, top of the line sunglasses and more great gift ideas with and pay for them all with Combat Points Points.

The more online poker you play at Americas Cardroom the more Combat Points you earn, which means the higher your Military Rank will climb. And with higher ranks come greater rewards that include cash bonuses like these and invitations to exclusive live events.

Bovada Poker Sister Site Hosts Winter Getaway Giveaway

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If any of you online poker players ever thought about dabbling in online casino gaming, right now may be a perfect time to give that a shot, and Bovada Casino may be the perfect place. That’s because right now Bovada Casino, one of the sister sites to Bovada Poker, is offering players a chance to win a dream winter getaway of your choice – be it a tropical getaway from the cold or a winter wonderland somewhere snowy and white.

Just play any of the online casino games at Bovada Casino during the promotional period of December 17th, 2012 thru January 13th, 2013, earning Casino Points as you do so (just like always at the site). Except during the Winter The Way You Want It contest, those Casino Points can earn you more than the usual benefits an online poker site or casino may offer in its rewards program. It can earn you an instant $200 cash bonus and a raffle entry in the prize draw set to take place on January 14th, 2013 for the winter getaway. It takes just 2,000 Casino Points earned between Dec 17, ’12 and Jan 13, ’13 to get that instant cash bonus and raffle entry.

The winner of the grand prize draw will choose a destination of their choice and Bovada Casino will pay for $15,000 of its cost.

The $200 cash bonus is subject to a rollover requirement of 20x that cannot be fulfilled on Blackjack, Double or Single Deck Blackjack, Sic Bo, Baccarat, Roulette or Craps.

Legal US Online Poker Stalled Again

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United States Senate Majority Leader and the Democratic Senior Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, declared on Friday, December 14th that any discussion on a bill to legalize online poker in the U.S. is dead for the current lame duck session of Congress, due to the priority of solving the budget crisis and avoiding the fiscal cliff. In his comments, published in a story by the La Vegas Sun, Reid expressed his personal wishes that the situation could be different and that he is disappointed time won’t allow Congress to address this issue this year.

Reid also mentioned that he, along with fellow Nevada Senator, the Republican Dean Heller, are committed to ironing out this issue in a bipartisan manner and bringing it to the table before Congress.

Until this announcement it still seemed possible that the Internet poker bill that Reid himself drafted along with the Republic Senator from Arizona, Republican Jon Kyl, might still be passed by the Senate at least before Congress adjourned the 2012 session. Opponents of that bill who lauded the announcement that it was, at least for the moment, dead in the water, included Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land, the National Association of Evangelicals, Focus on the Family, the National Governors Association, and state lotteries.

If passed, such a bill would weaken a 2006 law that mandates enforcement of illegal online gambling, but in a decision by the Justice Department in late 2011, the definition of illegal online gambling was restricted to sports betting alone. US based players can play on any of these online poker sites.

Americas Cardroom Online Super Series II Coming Up

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America’s Cardroom has just announced that the return of its Online Super Series will take place between January 12th and 27th, 2013 during which the site will give away $1 million in guaranteed prizes.

The 2nd annual Americas Cardroom Online Super Series (or OSS II, for short) is a 15-day “mega-event” made up of 82 events in both No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.  With the exception of the $200 + $15 events (see below), buy-ins range from $3 + $3.30 to $100 + $9 and prize pools range from $2,000 to $75,000.
The 3 “main events” (as it were) are spread out throughout the series with increasing rewards of $100k, $150k, and $200k all for the same $215 buy-in.

•    Event 4 on Sunday, January 13 at 7:00 pm has a $100,000 prize pool
•    Event 42 on Sunday, January 20 at 7:00 pm has a $150,000 prize pool
•    Event 80 on Sunday, January 27 at 7:00 pm has a $200,000 prize pool

What’s more, in addition to the 82 regular OSS II events, there are special 100 seat guaranteed events into these $100k, $150k and $200k GTD events, as follows:

•    Saturday, January 12 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #4, the $100k GTD
•    Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #42, the $150k GTD
•    Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #80, the $200k GTD

Most events take place in the evenings on weekdays, from about 7:00 pm and on, and take place starting in the afternoons on the weekends (at 2:00 pm on Saturdays and 3:00 pm on Sundays).

New Jersey Poker Bill Moving Ahead… For Now

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It looks like the state of New Jersey is once again moving ahead with its online gaming bill that would permit online poker and casino gambling within the state. Several times the bill has been stalled in Congress only to be revived, and that is exactly what’s taking place now as an amended version of the bill, Bill A2578, has just been passed by the state assembly on Tuesday, December 4 and now will move forward to the for additional voting.

A leading sponsor of the measure, state Senator Ray Lesniak says he expects the full Assembly will vote on the bill by December 17 and the full state Senate will vote on it by December 20. He’s been quoted as saying, “It’s still not too late for Atlantic City to become the Silicon Valley of Internet Gaming.”

It remains unclear how the bill will fare even if it does successfully pass both houses of the state legislature, as last year New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that he would veto any proposed state sanctioned online gaming law that arrives on his desk. Christie already rejected a previous version of this same bill. The latest stall came when the state Assembly and Senate passed two different versions of the bill.

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So far, the only other states to pass similar intrastate online gambling legislation have been Nevada and Delaware.

Meanwhile, another nationwide online gambling bill is trying to make its way through the U.S. Congress, with help from the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nevada).

Bovada Poker Counts Down to 10th Anniversary Grand Prize Award

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Bovada Poker is gearing up for its 10th Anniversary with a countdown to the grand prize drawing of the decade for a trip to New Orleans for both Mardi Gras and the next Super Bowl.

The 10 Day Bovada Anniversary Countdown started on Tuesday, December 4th and it runs through Thursday, December 13th, during which time the site will be awarding prizes each and every day. Players can each earn 1 prize per day, and with the prize earn an entry into The Best 10 Days of My Life Grand Prize Draw at which the prize package to New Orleans, Louisiana to join in on the Mardi Gras celebration and watch live Super Bowl XLVII.

On day 1 of the promotion, Bovada Poker gave all participants a 10% deposit bonus. On day 2 of the promotion, Bovada Poker gave away a 100% match bonus up to $500 for checking out Bovada Poker’s sister site, Bovada Casino. Every day the Bovada Anniversary Countdown prizes are different, and every day that you claim the day’s prize you also get one step closer to winning the coveted grand prize New Orleans Mardis Gras and Super Bowl trip.

What’s more, a second Bovada Anniversary Countdown is taking place elsewhere on the Internet: specifically, you guessed it, Facebook. Bovada Poker’s Facebook Party is going on now, awarding a 3-part prize each day of the 10-day promotion. Each day’s prize will consist of:

1.    a ticket into a poker tournament on Bovada Poker
2.    casino chips to use on Bovada Casino
a free sports bet to place on Bovada Sports