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Next 888 Poker $250K Whale Tournament This Sunday

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Every month 888 Poker holds The Whale, a tournament with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. They hold it on the fourth Sunday of every month, which means that the next $250K Whale tournament is coming up in just about a few days: this Sunday, September 22, 2013.

Notice that because September 1st was on a Sunday this year, there are actually five Sundays this month. So this is the time to secure your seat in the event.

888 Poker’s $250K The Whale takes place at 18:00 GMT this Sunday for a $530 direct buy-in. Registration is open now. Players start with a 10,000 chip starting stack and the blinds go up every 25 minutes.

There’s still time to win your seat in this Sunday’s The Whale tournament through 888 Poker’s step satellite tournament series.

Step 1 has a $0.09 + $0.01 buy-in, is a rebuy/add-on event, and takes place all day, every day, at each event awarding one seat into Step 2

Step 2 has a $2.70 + $0.30 direct buy-in, plus rebuys and add-ons, and it takes place all day, every day as well, at each event awarding one seat into Step 3.

Step 3 has a $20 + $2 direct buy-in plus rebuys and add-ons, and also takes place all day, every day, awarding at each event a seat into Step 4.

Step 4 is the final step in the series, costing $100 + $9 to buy-in directly and taking place every day at 11:00, 19:00, and 23:05 GMT, each time awarding one $530 seat in the next $250K The Whale tournament, which right now is this Sunday, September 22, 2013.

Players Only Poker Promotional Rundown

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Players Only Poker is a sister site to Sportsbook Poker, and as such holds the same selection of promotions that Sportsbook Poker does. Over the past weeks and months, we’ve brought you these promotions one by one. This time, in light of Players Only Poker’s partnership with Sportsbook Poker, we’ll give a quick refresher of all those promotions in one handy post. Here we go:

The World’s Bet Poker Bonus – a 200% match on your first deposit up to a maximum bonus of $2,000.

The Better Bad Beat Jackpot – a new and improved bad beat jackpot that lowered the requirements for the “losing” hand to a full-house jacks or better.

The $20K Wolf Pack – a VIP points leaderboard promotion that awards $20,000 monthly

In addition, both Players Only Poker and Sportsbook Poker hold a pair of promotions for their Sit and Go tournament players too:

Sit & Go Tournament Leaderboards – with $25,000 monthly guaranteed to be awarded to players at the real money 6-max and full-ring sit and go tables.

Step & Go Tournaments –  a step tournament series of sit & go tournaments; a 6-step series that gives players the chance to turn a $1.10 buy-in into a $250 payout.

Players Only Poker also participates in the Poker Maximus, when it comes around. Currently, the sites are finishing up their 6th installment of the beloved featured event, but members can always look forward to the next Poker Maximus tournament series to be coming up around the bend. This time around, the prize pool stood at more than $3 million guaranteed across 85 events over 2 weeks.

World Series of Poker’s Nevada Real Money Online Poker Site to Launch This Week

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The World Series of Poker’s new real money online poker site for Nevada residents, courtesy of Caesar’s Entertainment, will have its official launch this week.

As of this coming Thursday, September 19, 2013, the World Series of Poker’s long-awaited real money poker site is now officially live. Available exclusively to Nevada players for the moment, the WSOP is betting, like all the other Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware land-based gaming operations getting into the intrastate online gaming market, that interstate and then national online gaming, legal throughout the U.S., will be soon to follow.

The new WSOP real money online poker site is being offered by none other than Caesar’s Entertainment Corp (whose stock has tripled over the past year, no doubt in large part due to this imminent event.) Caesar’s says that they signed up more than 12,000 players for the new online poker site at this year’s 2013 World Series of Poker live at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

After a delay from its originally planned launch for earlier in the year, Caesar’s and the WSOP expressed gratitude to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for the in-depth licensing and testing procedures they implemented.

Nevada passed online gaming within the state in 2011 and that December passed its regulations for online gambling. And while at present the site will only be available to players in Nevada, a pact between Nevada and New Jersey, where online gambling is also now legal, is seen as inevitable, and the WSOP expects its site to offer its services to players across both states by early 2014.

Introducing The New Party Poker

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Party Poker just got a facelift! The whole look and feel of the site is different now, with improvements in the form and function of every iota of the site: from its user controls to its tournament and cash game offerings, to its range of bonuses and promotions, and more.

The new and improved Achievement Rewards program includes Missions that players can accomplish to earn even greater rewards faster, including for the first time, added freeroll entries.

The new Party Poker is also more social media friendly, with ample ways to connect with the site and your fellow poker partiers over Facebook, Twitter and more. And the new Party Poker app lets you take your online poker with you on the go, whether you use an Apple or Android mobile device (currently available to UK customers only.) Party Poker now also features an improved Tourney Feed allowing you to find upcoming tournaments at the desired stakes and parameters at any given moment.

Among the featured tournaments continuing at Party Poker amidst all the changes are the $200K Guaranteed Sunday, the 50-Seat Frenzy, the Steps Challenge, and satellite series’ into the World Poker Tour land-based events, including currently the WPT Montreal, WPT Grand Prix de Paris, and WPT National UK.

Whether you play the download software, Instant Play online, or over your mobile device, Party Poker offers the same breadth of online poker games and tournaments, bonuses and rewards, and social engagement, but now with an even cooler look and feel. If you already have a Party Poker account, then log right into the new Party Poker just like you did the old Party Poker. And if you’re new to the site, then take advantage of the best Welcome Bonus Party Poker has offered yet.

Bovada Poker Punta Cana Poker Classic Satellites Continue

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The satellite opportunities at Bovada Poker to win a seat in this November’s Punta Cana Poker Classic in the Dominican Republic are still going strong. Between now and October 20, Bovada will be holding daily Poker Punta Cana Poker Classic Qualifiers for buy-ins of under $1. That’s all it takes to climb your way to one of the numerous $5,500 Punta Cana Prize Packages Bovada Poker will be giving away.

The 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic takes place between November 12 and 16 in the Dominican Republic and the Hard Rocket Hotel and Casino, and features a $500,000 guaranteed main event.

Cheap seat qualifiers for buy-ins as low as $0.44 lead into quarterfinals with direct buy-ins as low as $2.75, which in turn lead to semifinals with direct buy-ins as low as $17.60, which lead to the Satellite itself that has a direct buy-in of $270.

Each $5.5K Punta Cana Prize Package comes with the $1,650 buy-in for the PCPC main event, a 6-night stay at the Hard Rock, food and beverage all included, ground transport round trip between airport and hotel, $1.7K in expense money, and a Bovada Poker swag bag.

There are a host of ways to get on the path to winning a PCPC prize package. Daily qualifiers include 1-seat, 2-seat, and 4-seat guaranteed MTTs and Turbos both, as well as daily 6-handed Sit ‘n’ Go tournaments each awarding 1-seat guaranteed.

Weekly events, meanwhile, include multiple Last Chance qualifiers and Satellite qualifiers, as well as the 3-seat guaranteed final Satellites for direct buy-ins of $250 + $20.

Senator John McCain Discovered Playing Online Poker During Syria Talks

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Here’s some online poker news you don’t hear every day. Arizona Senator John McCain was caught playing the game while involved in a 3-hour hearing on Syria. Testimony from top gov’t officials including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, Defense Secretary Chuck Hegel, and Secretary of State John Kerry was being heard regarding President Barack Obama’s request for permission from Congress to authorize a limited military strike on Syria.

While McCain, a Republican, had previously urged military support for Syria, he told NBC News that he is not in support of the current plan, which he finds too limited, as it prohibits ground combat operations and limits the President’s time frame to authorize the use of force.

Stepping out in front of the story, John McCain tweeted “Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing – worst of all I lost!”

Laughing at it doesn’t make it okay, Senator. After all, we’re paying the salary he just lost. Actually, not really. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, McCain said that while he may host lost thousands of dollars, it was all in play money. Still, the lesson here is obvious: play better poker!

On the bright side, if John McCain can play online poker while at work, maybe that means you can too. Just don’t tell your boss (or his) that I said that.

Who caught the Senator in the scandalous photo losing play money in iPhone poker? That’s also a little spot of controversy. Some says it’s a Washington Post photographer, others say it’s a Daily News Reporter.

Carbon Poker $30K Last Man Standing Promotion

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As of Sunday, September 8, Carbon Poker will be holding its next Last Man Standing promotion, this time for a guaranteed prize pool of more than $30,000.

This latest installment of Carbon Poker’s Last Man Standing promo spans 53 days during which players will compete for $27K in cash prizes, and entry into a $5K freeroll tournament.

Simply opt-in to the Last Man Standing promo at Carbon Poker and then get back to playing the site’s real money poker cash games and tournaments. During the promotional period, the VIP points that you earn at these games will be tracked. And every day of the promotion, Carbon Poker has set a new VIP Target that players must reach in order to move on in the competition. Players are allowed 3 days off of the promotion, but no more, and will be eliminated if they take a fourth day off. Also, as of October 22, players cannot take any days off of the promotion, even if they have not used all their free days yet.

The daily VIP Targets start at 50 points and work their way up to 3,500 points on October 22, and then to 25,000 points on the final date of the promotion, October 30.

The last 100 players remaining in the competition will share the $27K cash prize pool. Additionally, all players who make it to October 22 with at least 1 of their free days (or days off) remaining, earns a cash reward:
1 day remaining – get $25
2 days remaining – get $50
all 3 days remaining – get $100

Return here to find out about the $5K Freeroll portion of this promotion.

Bovada Poker Hosts Back to School $5K Poker Scholarship Promo

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Between September 2 and 29, Bovada Poker is giving its players the chance to earn as much as $115 in weekly cash bonuses, plus chances to win a $5K Poker Scholarship, consisting of 40 big money online poker tournament tickets.

The first step toward winning that $5K Poker Scholarship is opting in to the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button at the Back to School promotion’s page on the Bovada Poker site. You must also be subscribed the site’s promotional emails in order to qualify for this bonus. A link to confirm your subscription is active is provided on the same page, below the Enter Now button.

Then, after all that is set, you’re ready to claim your weekly cash bonuses by meeting one of the following two requirements each week – notice that, as in school, the requirements getting harder as you progress through each successive level:
Freshman Week (week 1):
◦    Get 50 Poker Points and earn a $10 cash bonus
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $20 cash bonus
Sophomore Week (week 2):
◦    Get 75 Poker Points and earn a $15 cash bonus
◦    Get 125 Poker Points and earn a $25 cash bonus
Junior Week (week 3):
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $20 cash bonus
◦    Get 150 Poker Points and earn a $30 cash bonus
Senior Week (week 4):
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $25 cash bonus
◦    Get 200 Poker Points and earn a $40 cash bonus

You’ll also receive one drawing entry for every week’s easier task, or two drawing entries for every week’s harder task.

Delaware Gets Ready For Online Poker With Free Play Games Now Live

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Delaware is preparing to offer online poker and online casino gambling within the state by Halloween of this year, and as part of those preparations has just rolled out free play online poker and casino sites to help get would-be future real money players acquainted with the systems the state will be using. These free play games are being promoted on Facebook under the DoubleDown Casino platform, offering play money Slots, Blackjack, and Poker. In a statement released by Delaware lottery director Vernon Kirk, players were assured that when the real money gambling sites go live in the state, a Facebook account will not be required to participate.

The company Delaware contracted to produce the gaming software the state will use for its legal online poker and casino real money sites is 888 Holdings, the company behind 888 Poker and 888 Casino, among other sites. 888 Holdings, as it happens, is one of the states also getting into legal online poker and casino gambling in New Jersey. And the company’s director Brian Mattingly just came out and said after 888 is in Delaware, New Jersey, and Nevada, it plans to set up shop in California, Florida, and New York next.

The new Ding slots, blackjack and poker games (as they’ve also been called) is a product of IGT Gaming, however, the software maker behind the DoubleDown Casino platform on Facebook.

The new free play online poker and casino games in Delaware have been released as a joint venture by all three of the state’s land-based casinos.

888 Poker Holds Knights of Prague Satellite Series

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888 Poker is now holding a promotion it calls the Knights of Prague, in which the most successful contenders will walk away with an $1,800 prize package into the second annual 888poker Prague Championship, to be held from December 6 to 9, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

There are two ways to win a seat in the 888poker Prague Championship II: either by playing your way up through a series of satellite tournaments, or you can skip straight to the qualifier itself.

The satellite series into the 888poker Prague Championship II Qualifier starts with a Step 1 event that has a $0.90 + $0.10 buy-in. It’s a rebuy and add-on event and awards a seat in Step 2 for every $11 in the prize pool. It takes place every day, every 3 hours. The Step 2 event has a $10 + $1 buy-in and allows one 2nd chance rebuy. It takes place daily and awards a seat in the qualifier for every $200 in the prize pool.

The 888poker Prague Championship II Qualifier takes place once every other Saturday for a buy-in of $180 + $20 and awards one $1,800 prize package at each event.

Each $1,800 prize package includes the 330 EUR buy-in for the Prague Championship (a two-day event), $550 for expenses, a 3-night stay in Andel’s Hotel with WiFi and breakfast included, an invitation to a welcome reception with canapes and drinks the afternoon of the 6th, an invite for you and a guest to a VIP party the evening of the 6th.