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Bodog Mini Poker Series begins June 11, 2011

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Bodog Poker launches their Mini Poker Series Saturday June 11, 2011.  The Mini Poker Series boasts as one of its prizes the very first 2012 WSOP Main Event prize packages to be won.  The series boasts 30 preliminary events, all with guaranteed prize pools.   The real jewel is the final and you cannot buy into it, you have to win your way in.  All events are holdem poker, but some interesting structures await.

Bodog Mini Series of Poker is accessible to everyone.  All of the 30 preliminary events have a small $11 buy in.  Getting into the final event can be done with quality or quantity, or a little of both.

Mini Poker Series Events #1- #30

1. Top 3 winners receive a ticket to the Mini Poker Series
Final on July 14th
2. Players finishing 4th to 9th receive a ticket to the Mini
Poker Series Semifinal on July 12th
3. Prize pool will be distributed as per Bodog’s standard
multi-table payout table

 

Mini Poker Series Semifinal

1. Top 50 finishers will receive entry into the Mini Poker
Series final on July 14th

How do I get invited?
1. Play in 15 to 24 Mini Poker Series Events OR
2. Place 4th to 9th in any Mini Poker Series Event

Mini Poker Series Final

1. 1st place Grand Prize: $12,000 prize package, including
a 2012 Main Event buy-in
2. 2nd and 3rd place prize: Bodog Poker Open VI prize
package, including a buy-in for every BPO event
3. 4th to 9th place prize: $162 Tournament Ticket for entry to the
$100,000 Guaranteed Tournament every Sunday at 4PM ET

How do I get invited?
1. Play in 25 or more qualifying events OR
2. Finish in the top 50 in the Semifinal OR
3. Place in the top 3 in a qualifying event

Full Mini Series Schedule

Party Poker Holds VIP Race to Nürburgring

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How would you like to attend the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring this year? If that sonds like your idea of a good time, then Party Poker wants to send you there, if you’re one of the winners of its VIP Race to Nürburgring.

Running from June 10 to 26, 2011, the Party Poker VIP Race to Nürburgring is a simple points race, with progress tracked on a leader board. Earn points as you normally do, by playing at PartyPoker’s cash game and tournament tables. The top 10 finishers on the leader board at the end of the promotional period will win a Nürburgring German Grand Prix VIP package.

Each prize package includes a two night stay at a five-star hotel, tickets for the Saturday qualifying race and Sunday race, access to a special meet and greet event with Marc Surer, Sky motor racing pro, entry into a special Saturday night poker tournament at the hotel, transportation to and from the hotel and $850 in spending cash. Party Poker is also awarding an additional $25,000 in bonus prizes.

The top 150 finishers will win prizes. The top 8 will get a Nürburgring prize package. The remaining players in the top 150 will win either cash or PartyPoker points and entry into a special tournament where two more Nürburgring prize packages will be awarded. For example, places 9 through 12 will win $1,500 cash and a tournament entry, while places 100 to 150 will win 750 store points and a tournament entry.

Don’t forget to opt in for the promotion before you start playing so you can be sure your points will count towards leaderboard position.

888 Poker Big Deal Offers Just What It Sounds Like

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Want to win an iPad 2. Make a deposit of at least $10 using the promo code IPAD4ME and you’ll earn a seat in a tournament taking place June 10 at wich an iPad 2 will be given away as grand prize, while second and third places will get an iPod Nano 16 GB. Other prizes from this event include a 10,000 points reward voucher and free entry into the $100K First Depositors Challenge.

Poker is a big deal over at 888 Poker, and they’re proving it by offering players a big deal on all sorts of items, events and opportunities.

If you manage to play at 888 Poker any four days in a given week, you’ll earn yourself a seat in a special $3,000 Big Deal freeroll tournament. Weeks run Monday through Sunday and to qualify for a freeroll ticket players must earn at least 5 status points on each of their qualifying days. The $3K Big Deal freeroll is then on Saturdays at 19:00 GMT.

Cash game players who earn at least 20 status points while playing during the Happy Hours time slot of 11:00 – 15:00 GMT will receive a $5 bonus.

And here’s one just for the ladies. Women who play in 100 hands per day on 888 Poker’s new PokerCam tables will win a $100 shopping coupon. Find PokerCam tables by looking for the webcame icon in the 888Poker lobby. Only real money hands played will count toward the prize. Once earned, the coupon will be emailed to you within 72 hours.

Who Will Be This Month’s Carbon Poker Tourney King

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Every month Carbon Poker holds its Tourney King promotion, and with June of 2011 just getting underway, it’s anybody’s game once again. Throughout the entire month, Carbon Poker keeps track of the performance of all of its tournament players, in both low and high limit games. Carbon Poker tracks this progress on two different leaderboards – a low-limit and a high-limit leader board – each with its own set of prizes with a combined total value between the two leader boards of more than $20,000.

If you play in a tournament with a buy-in under $20, then that performance is tracked on the low-limit leader board. If you play a tournament with a buy-in $20 or higher, you get on the high-limit leader board. At the end of the month, each leader board features a Grand Final tournament for its top 250 players. Each player will get a starting chipstack reflecting their position on the monthly leader board. Players can even play in enough low and high limit tournaments throughout the month to land them in both Grand Final Tournaments.

First place in the high limit leader board grand final gets $3,000 cash; second place gets $1,800; third gets $1,200; fourth gets $600 and fifth gets $450. Sixth through 15th get $100 cash plus an entry into a special $50K freeroll. Sixteenth through fiftieth get either a $50K entry ticket, a $60 satellite ticket into the $50K freeroll or both.

The low limit leader board grand final gives $1,500 to first, $900 to second, $600 to third, $300 to fourth and $225 to fifth, with a similar arrangment of prizes for sixth through 50th, except with the addition of an $11 satellite ticket into the $60 satellite.

888 Poker Promotions June 2011 – $10,000 in Freerolls

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Big Deal Promotion

888Poker is giving away over $10,000 in Freeroll Prizes, Lots of Apple Goodies, Cash Prizes and More!

888poker is heating things up this summer with amazing offers to players.

Crazy Coupons: 888poker players receive a special offer every day – they’re giving away tons of cash prizes and merchandise.

Fantastic Freerolls: 888poker has ongoing freeroll tournaments at 888poker. This month alone they’re paying out over $10,000!

Apple Product Giveaways:   888poker’s giving away lots of great Apple merchandise including iPad2’s as part of their Beginners Freeroll prize pool.

Loads of Free Cash: This summer is full of free cash bonuses including reload bonuses, cashback bonuses, match bonuses and TONS more.

100% Rakeback Accounts Were Being Sold on Full Tilt Poker

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On a poker radio show earlier this week, poker pro Nick Rainey said that a former employee of Poker Royalty, Chris Porter, had been selling 100% rakeback accounts on Full Tilt Poker for $10,000 up front plus $2,000 per month going forward. Thursday afternoon, Poker Royalty, the company that represents Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan and Doyle Brunson, among others, released a statement about the allegations.

“Allegations surfaced on QuadJacks.com this week that a former Poker Royalty employee, Chris Porter, brokered, rented, sold and/or profited from black market rakeback accounts on Full Tilt Poker while working for our agency.

Poker Royalty has never benefited in any way from a rakeback account outside the scope of a client sponsorship agreement.

Poker Royalty had no knowledge of this ex-employee’s alleged actions.  Please direct any further inquiries into this matter to him.”

Porter was at the time an agent working for Poker Royalty representing Patrik Antonius and others up until a year ago. He is currently employed as the team pro manager for Full Tilt Poker.

Tiltware – Full Tilt Poker Response to Phil Ivey

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Late Tuesday night Phil Ivey took to his Facebook account and his personal website to announce that he was leaving Full Tilt Poker and suing them. He also said he would not play in this year’s WSOP in solidarity of the player’s who have money stuck on Full Tilt Poker and cannot not play in this year’s WSOP. Late Wednesday night Tiltware – Full Tilt Poker issued the following response which to us seems to have been written by someone who was very angry….

“Contrary to his sanctimonious public statements, Phil Ivey’s meritless lawsuit is about helping just one player – himself. In an effort to further enrich himself at the expense of others, Mr. Ivey appears to have timed his lawsuit to thwart pending deals with several parties that would put money back in players’ pockets. In fact, Mr. Ivey has been invited — and has declined — to take actions that could assist the company in these efforts, including paying back a large sum of money he owes the site. Tiltware doubts Mr. Ivey’s frivolous and self-serving lawsuit will ever get to court. But if it does, the company looks forward to presenting facts demonstrating that Mr. Ivey is putting his own narrow financial interests ahead of the players he professes to help.”

There is much more to this who saga and we will continue to work every angle in the hopes of finding out exactly what is going on. Much that has been reported is opinions and speculation on Ivey’s finances and contract with Full Tilt Poker.

The Poker Stars Majors Are Moving: Double Guarantees & Satellites To Celebrate

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Now that the U.S. won’t be contributing the majority of the player pool to the Poker Stars Sunday Majors tournaments, the site is moving the times of those events to be more appealing to the new majority player base: the UK and Europe. As of this Sunday, June 5, 2011, all Sunday Majors tournaments – that’s the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, Sunday Rebuy, Sunday Storm, Sunday Million, Sunday 500, Sunday Second Chance and Sunday Supersonic events – will be pushed ahead two hours.

That means instead of starting at 1 pm ET, the Sunday Warm-Up will start at 11 am ET. And instead of starting at 4:30 pm ET, the Sunday Million will start at 2:30 pm ET. And so on. (The only Sunday Majors event not to get rescheduled as part of these changes, incidentally, is the Sunday Kick-Off, which will retain its usual 8 pm ET time slot.)

To add a little incentive to show up for this big weekend of major changes, Poker Stars is doubling the guaranteed prize pools for each of these events. Added all together, what you get is a nearly five million dollar weekend. But the double guarantees will be for June 5 only.

PokerStars will also be running satellite tournaments into each of these tournaments all week long leading up the June 5 festivities. To help players practice getting to the tables at the right new times, PokerStars has scheduled each event’s daily satellite at the same hour as the newly scheduled time slot for its respective Sunday Majors event.

Merge Poker Network to Halt New US Player Signups

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The Merge Poker Network will temporarily stop accepting NEW US players in a day or 2 in order to catch up on a backlog of customer service requests but more importantly on poker transactions. As it stands now customer service has a 2 week backlog and cashouts are much worse. They simply were not prepared for the influx of players they’ve received since Black Friday and are feeling growing pains. If they don’t catch up soon they will end up angering all their players. This is for NEW Players Only, for all existing players it will be business as usual.

The only part of this story that we have not yet been able to confirm is if this is for all Merge Skins or just those that use the Merge cashier and customer support. We’ll update this post as soon as we get confirmation.

We’ve been told that the temporary ban on new US players will last about a month but from past experience in dealing with the Merge Network we’re guessing it will last through the end of the summer. What they will be trying to do is add more processing options as well as hire more customer support personnel to handle the extra traffic.

This move was brought on by internal rumblings among Merge Poker skin operators regarding the current processing problems. With the loss of QuickTender / UseMyWallet the main option became credit cards. the success rate for successful credit card transactions is roughly 20% which is just unacceptable. It is rumored that for Carbon Poker the success rate is closer to 70% which leads us to believe that the Merge Network was putting their site Carbon Poker ahead of all others. This lack of transparency will only lead to more problems and is most likely the main reason this is happening.

UPDATE: This is now in affect. We’ll let you know when they reopen to new US poker players.

Full Tilt Poker Bank Accounts NOT Unfrozen

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Last week we posted a story about the US Department of Justice releasing some Full Tilt Poker funds so that US players could be paid. As it turns out this is not true. Holdem Poker Chat along with most poker news outlets based the story on an article on eGaming Review Magazine which turns out to just be a lie.

The Public Information Office of the US Attorney’s Office has said that no funds have been released and that if any such action should be taken that it would be followed up by a public filing from their office.

Full Tilt Poker still has not repaid US players and the only announcements have come from low level PR spinners. Full Tilt Poker Pro Phil Ivey has announced that he is suing Full Tilt Poker software provider TiltWare and will not play in this year’s WSOP.