Category: Online Poker

Earn Christmas Cash at Americas Cardroom

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America’s Cardroom is running a promotion throughout the month of December 2012 called Christmas Cash in which players can redeem their combat points for cash at a specially discounted rate for the holidays.

Get 20% off on redeeming Combat Points for cash throughout December at America’s Cardroom, up to a maximum award of $600.

How much of a cash bous you can purchase is dependent on your rank in the America’s Cardroom Elite Benefits player loyalty program. Players with Lieutenant status can earn a $10 cash bonus; players with Captain status can earn a $50 cash bonus; players with Major status can earn a $300 cash bonus; and players with Colonel, General or 5-Star General status can earn a $600 cash bonus.

In addition to cash bonuses, players can choose from an array of new and improved rewards available for purcahse with Combat Points at the Elite Benefits Store, including high-end shades, iPods, 3D HD televisions and an improved selection of America’s Cardroom branded gear.

Combat Points are the currency of the America’s Cardroom player loyalty and rewards program that players earn when they play at real money cash games and tournament tables at the America’s Cardroom site.

A player’s rank in the Elite Benefits program is determined by how many points they’ve earned over how long a period of time. As players continue playing at the site and earning points throughout, they’ll natural climb higher through the ranks and get access to increasingly more generous benefits and rewards.

BlackChip Poker Moving to Winning Poker Network

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BlackChip Poker has announced that they are leaving the Merge Poker Network and will move to the Winning Poker Network.  Winning, formerly Yatahay, already hosts the popular Americas Cardroom.  This announcement comes on the heels of BlackChip abruptly pulling out of the Merge Network Poker Maximus series.  BlackChip Poker posted a brief statement on their Facebook page moments ago.  Below is the full text of that statement.

We’re pleased to announce that on Monday we’ll be moving to the Winning Poker Network. WPN have a reputation for providing the best payouts and customer service of any US-facing network, and we felt this move would be beneficial for our players and partners.
We look forward to providing the level of service our players and affiliates have come to expect from us over the last few years.

Just to clarify a few points:

1) p2p transfers will be available again next week (after the move);
2) It will be necessary for players to be verified by WPN, regardless of whether or not they’ve previously been verified by Merge. We will email players who have a pending withdrawal on Monday to explain how they can go about this to ensure they’re paid as quickly as possible;We’ll be happy to answer any operational questions, but please understand that we’re keen to look towards a positive future. We know payouts are a top priority for those who have been waiting and these will be expedited once the move is complete. Any queries should be directed to vip@blackchippoker.eu

We look forward to a great future on the Winning Poker Network.

Many Ways to Enter Bovada Poker’s $100K Guaranteed

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Bovada Poker runs several tournament series with big money prize pools, not least being the $100K guaranteed event that takes place every Sunday afternoon at the site at 4:00 pm ET. Best of all, qualifiers into this event start at only $1 to enter.

The qualifying schedule for the weekly $100k GTD starts with cheap seats for just a $1 + $0 buy-in. For every $17 collected in the prize pool at each of these events, 1 player will advance to one of the $100k Semi Final events of the player’s choice. These take place three times a day, Mondays through Sundays.

Semi Finals take place throughout the week for a range of buy-ins between $7 + $0.70 and $35 + $3.50.

There are also special 30-seat and 50-seat qualifiers, both with $18 + $1.80 buy-ins, each awarding to that many top players seats in the $100k guaranteed main event. Players can also enter the 50 seat special qualifier with Bovada Poker points by using the PTS to TT converter tool the site provides. In that case, the buy-in would be 1,750 points.

And then there are Last Chance Tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $4 + $0.40 to $30 + $3 awarding seats in the $100k GTD for every $162 in the prize pool.

The partial payout structure listed for Bovada Poker’s weekly $100,000 guaranteed tournament is a minimum of $20k for first place, a minimum of $13k for second place and a minimum of $10k for third place.

Bad Beats Pay Off With America’s Cardroom Jackpot

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Getting a bad beat at the online poker table doesn’t have to be a dreaded occurence. Not when the poker table is at America’s Cardroom. And not when the bad beat is eligible for the site’s progressive Bad Beat Jackpot.

Put simply, a bad beat is a hand that shouldn’t have lost, but did. To qualify as a bad beat in America’s Cardroom’s book, that hand must be at least four-of-a-kind 8s or higher and it must lose. Also to qualify, both of the player’s hole cards must be used in order to make the qualifying hand.

When the bad beat jackpot is hit, America’s Cardroom pays out 30% of it to the person who hit the jackpot (i.e. the one holding the bad beat hand), 20% of it to the hand’s winner, and divides 10% among the remaining players at the table (provided the eligible players have participated in at least one hand where a contribution was made to the bad beat jackpot). Then 30% of it is used to reseed the next bad beat jackpot and 10% of it goes to the house.

Players must be playing on jackpot tables in order to be eligible for the bad beat jackpot. At every Texas Hold’em table that is marked in the Americas Cardroom lobby with Jackpot and which has at least 4 active players dealt into a hand, a Jackpot fee will be taken by the house to feed the Bad Beat Jackpot and The Beast. That fee is $0.33 for games at table stakes of $2/$4 or higher and $0.08 for everything lower.

Last Week to Win $50K Dream Car at Americas Cardroom

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There’s one week left to try to win a $50,000 car of your dreams from America’s Cardroom in the Rank Point Overdrive promotion. It’s been going on for months now and it’s hard to believe it’s almost over, but on the fast approaching deadline of Saturday, December 1, 2012 if no player has yet achieved the milestone mark of earning 3 million rank points the promised reward will be forfeited.

That promised reward is a dream car of the winner’s choice worth up to $50,000 (or the cash equivalent!)

What’s more, you don’t have to cash in those rank points in order to win the prize. So you can still use them to climb the ranks in the America’s Cardroom Elite Benefits program. Players earn rank points at all real money tables at America’s Cardroom, both cash games and tournaments. Players earn rank points at tournaments at a rate of 5.5 rank points for every $1 paid in tournament fees. In cash games, America’s Cardroom awards rank points at a rate of 5.5 rank points for every $1 in rake the site collects from each hand with those total rank points divided evenly among all the participants in the hand.

Players can earn rank points faster than ever at The Beast jackpot tables, the site’s progressive rake race, the world’s first of its kind. Then there are regular cash tables at all stakes levels so you can stay within your bankroll by climbing closer toward winning that dream car.

Certain promotional terms and conditions apply so be sure to read all the details on the America’s Cardroom site.

Last Week to Win $10K in Bovada Poker Bingo

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This is the last week to win a $50 bonus and a possible $10,000 grand prize playing Poker Bingo at Bovada Poker. The promotion that started on November 5 is about to finish up on December 2 (that’s one week from Sunday) giving you just a little over a week left to win an individual bonus of $50 and a ticket into a random drawing for a grand prize of $10,000 in cash.

To enter the competition you first must opt in to the promotion by pressing the red Enter Now button on the promotion’s page at the Bovada Poker site and then following the instructions given on the page you’re taken to.

Then check out the Poker Bingo card for the week coming up, week 4: November 26 to December 2, and complete the line combinations (the portions highlighted red) to win a $50 bonus. If you can go a step further and complete all 25 of the boxes on the card, then you’ll win an entry into the $10,000 grand prize drawing.

The grand prize drawing will be held on Monday, December 3 and the award will be paid out to the winner in monthly portions over the course of a year. The $50 bonus is subject to a rollover of 3 poker points per dollar.

Hop on this promotion fast enough and you can still win another $50 and another ticket in the $10,000 grand prize drawing by completing the week 3 Poker Bingo card which is currently active until November 25.

Americas Cardroom Mini Online Super Series Coming Up

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Americas Cardroom’s first ever Mini Online Super Series (aka MOSS) is almost here: coming Thursday November 15th and running through Monday, November 19th and promising over $67,000 in total guaranteed prize pool money.

Tournament buy-ins in the Americas Cardroom Mini Online Super Series run from $0.10 to $2 for guaranteed prize pools of $1,000 to $10,000 every day of the series. Buy-ins can also be paid in Americas Cardroom combat points instead of cash.

In addition to the regular prize pools for each tournament in the Mini Online Super Series, every event will also be a bounty tournament, giving players additional chances to win money for playing by knocking out one of the two players — Dusty Schmidt (aka Leatherass9) and MamaCoolJ, winner of The Beast last month — who will be competing in every event. Whoever knocks one of those players out of the event will win a $25 cash prize, regardless of how they finish in the event.

Every day of the 5-day series features 3 MOSS events:
•    a $1,000 GTD with a $300 first prize for only $0.11 or 7.26 CP
•    a $2,500 GTD with a $750 first prize for only $0.27 or 17.82 CP
•    a $10,000 GTD with a $3,000 first prize for only $2.20 or 145.2 CP

There are also four leaderboard competitions running during the Mini Online Super Series: 1 for each of the 3 daily MOSS tournaments and a fourth leaderboard tracking players’ overall progress across all MOSS events. The winner from each leaderboard receives an exclusive invite to a 4-seater tournament with a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool and a guaranteed $500 first prize.

Be Bovada Poker’s Next King of the Felt

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One of Bovada Poker’s most popular ongoing promotions is its King of the Felt competition for Sit and Go tournament players.

Finish in first or second place in at least 3 Bovada Poker Sit and Go tournaments within a single week and you’ve got a shot at a $2,500 in weekly freerolls and a weekly heads-up tournament with a prize of $1,000. Meet the preliminary requirement of 3 win or place finishes in Bovada Poker sit and gos and earn a ticket in a drawing. Win or place in more than 3 sit and gos at the site and earn additional tickets as follows:

• win or place in 3-5 SNGs and earn 1 entry

• win or place in 6-8 SNGs and earn 2 entries and a seat in the weekly $1,500 King of the Felt freeroll tournament

• win or place in 9 or more SNGs and earn 3 entries and a seat in both the weekly $1,500 and $1,000 King of the Felt freerolls as well.

The weekly drawing takes place every Monday and whichever player wins it gets to play heads-up against the reigning King of the Felt for a $1,000 prize and the title of new reigning King of the Felt. The longer you can retain your title, the more prizes you can win. A 5-week winning streak as reigning King of the Felt comes with a $2,500 prize. And if you can retain the title of King of the Felt for 10 weeks in a row, you’ll win a seat in the 2013 World Series of Poker main event.

Next Americas Cardroom Best $50K Guarantee Tournament: November 11

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This coming Sunday, November 11, America’s Cardroom will host its next The Beast $50K Guarantee Tournament, an event that always promises a “monster prize pool” for a comparatively tiny buy-in.

It costs only $50 + $5 to buy-in to The Beast $50K Guarantee tournament and try for a share of a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The event takes place Sunday, November 11th starting at 6 pm ET. And this is a $50K added tournament, to boot, which means that that amount is on top of the prize pool organically derived from player buy-ins, making the potential prize pool much larger still.

In addition to players who buy-in directly the 539 players who participated in The Beast jackpot tables in the month of October 2012 and ranked on the leaderboard automatically earned a free seat in the The Beast $50K Guarantee tournament.

And this event will not replace the regular Sunday $50K Guaranteed tournament that takes place every Sunday starting at 7 pm ET at America’s Cardroom, making for back-to-back $50K guaranteed tournaments to enter.

Players can also win seats in The Beast $50K Guarantee through satellite tournaments going on now at Americas Cardroom. The Beast $50K Satellite with 2 seats GTD in the tournament takes place daily at 6:35 pm ET for only a $7 + $0.70 buy-in. Players can win seats in that event through The Beast $50K Super Satellites, taking place daily every hour at 5 past the hour for $0.25 + $0.02 buy-in, each of which awards 2 seats GTD in The Beast $50K Satellite.

U.S. Election Includes Online Gambling Ballot Measures

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While most people are paying attention to the Presidential race in the U.S. today, there are also ballot measures in at least 5 states this election regarding online and offline gambling. In four states – Rhode Island, Oregon, Ohio and Arkansas – this year’s 2012 election ballot includes a measure to allow online gambling in the state where none has existed before.

The biggest press in gambling measures on the 2012 ballot, however, has been going to the state of Maryland, where gaming companies have been spending $72 million to help get Question 7 passed. Question 7 is an offline gambling ballot measure that would allow construction of another land-based casino in Prince George’s County as well as increase the kinds of games currently allowed at state casinos, expanding current video lottery operations to include table games like blackjack and roulette.

One other less explicit effect of today’s election on online gambling is the potential make-up of the U.S. Congress, which will be considering at least 1 new bipartisan bill coauthored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to license and regulate online poker across the entire country.

In the meantime, oddsmakers are favoring President Obama to be reelected to a 2nd term, with a slight edge over Republican hopeful former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. But of course only the people…or the Electoral College, rather, will decide how it all turns out, for the U.S. presidency and for the fate of gambling online and off in at least 5 states, if not the entire country.