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Final Week of Americas Cardroom The Beast 1st Anniversary $1K Daily And $5K Weekly Leaderboards

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For all of August 2013, Americas Cardroom has been celebrating the 1-year anniversary of The Beast progressive rake race, and in celebration, all month long the site has been holding $1,000 Daily Leaderboard and $5,000 Weekly Leaderboard contests. This week, as the last week of August 2013, marks the last week as well of these special leaderboard contests.

Play at Americas Cardroom Poker’s The Beast tables all this week and you can win a share of both of those prize pools: $6,000 in all.

The final Weekly Leaderboard period for this promotion runs through August 31. The $5,000 guaranteed prize pool is divided amongst the top 115 with all of them getting at least $10 and the top winner getting $500, all players in the top 10 getting at least $100. Only play on The Beast tables is eligible.

Daily Leaderboards will be running throughout the rest of this month as well, at The Beast tables, with a $1,000 prize pool guaranteed each time. Here the top 10 players win at least $25 with the top finisher each day winning $300.

Players can win as many times, as many days and weeks, as they are capable of.

And Americas Cardroom will not deduct points accumulated in this promotion from your usual The Beast progressive rake race monthly total. In other words, points earned toward leaderboard prizes do not have to be traded in to receive your prize.

Poker Stars Regional Promotional Rundown

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In addition to its regular promotional offerings for all its players everywhere around the world, PokerStars also hosts a vast assortment of regional promotions exclusively for players living in particular geographic areas. Here is a rundown of just some of the ones running right now at the site:

Icelandic Poker Championship seats worth $550 available through October 6 for players in Iceland wishing to take part in the country’s biggest live poker tourney, taking place in Reykjavic.

WCOOP Ticket Blast awards 118 WCOOP seats valued at more than $19K between now and September 10 for players in Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Poland, The Netherlands, Montenegro, Luxemburg, Hungary, Herzegovina, Greece, FYROM, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Albania for as little as $0.22, with five additional tourneys qualifying players for special seat-added freeroll tournaments.

ACOP Platinum Series Mega Giveaway awards seats in the HKD $500,000 main event in Macau, with free and low cost qualifiers running now, awarding seats in one of three weekly finals plus hundreds more in tournament tickets, all for players anywhere in Asia.

Hot August is a multi-phase promotion made up of daily low-stakes tourneys awarding cash prizes and league points, with additional cash awarded to the top 200 players weekly, as well as tickets into the next WCOOP, all for as little as $0.11, but only available to players living in  Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in regional promotions at PokerStars. Check the site’s promotional page for the full list of special geo-specific offers running now.

Win World Poker Tour Paris Seats At Party Poker

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 gpdpParty Poker is now holding satellites into the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris main event coming up October 25 – 30, 2013 in Paris, France.

To win a seat in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, just be the 1 in 20 players in the weekly WPT Grand Prix de Paris Satellite tournament every Sunday at 15:20 ET between now and October 13, 2013 and you’ll get a full $13,000 prize package that includes not only the $9750 buy-in for the main event, but $3250 in spending cash as well.

The buy-in for the Party Poker WPT Grand Prix de Paris Satellite is $700 but you can avoid that buy-in by performing well in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris Satellite Qualifier that costs only $77 to buy-in to. It happens two times a day and again on Sundays as a Turbo event, each time awarding a seat in the Satellite for every $700 collected in buy-ins.

Leading into the satellite qualifier are two sub qualifier speed satellites, one with a $9 buy-in and no rebuy and one with a $3 buy-in a rebuys. Both events award seats in the satellite qualifier for every $77 collected in buy-ins.

You can even win your seat in the rebuy speed sub qualifier through a WPT Grand Prix de Paris Freeroll tournament. These, as with the sub qualifiers, are taking place throughout the day, every day of the promotional period.

The $3250 cash portion of each $13,000 WPT Grand Prix de Paris Party Poker prize package includes $200 for a mandatory ACF club membership.)

Bovada Poker Holds Punta Cana Prize Draw

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Players at Bovada Poker can now win seats in the next Punta Cana Poker Classic in the Dominican Republic through a grand prize drawing happening at the site on Tuesday, September 3, 2013.

To earn your chance at a $5,500 Punta Cana Poker Classic 2013 prize package, either earn poker points at the site or refer friends to the site (or both).

To earn up to 3 raffle entries per week by earning poker points, redeem the site’s current PCPC bonus offers. Activate the first bonus by earning at least 50 poker points in 1 week and in addition to a $10 bonus you also get a grand prize drawing entry. Activate the second bonus level by earning at least 100 poker points in a week and in addition to a $20 bonus you also get two drawing entries. Activate the third bonus level by earning at least 150 poker points in a single week and in addition to a $50 bonus, you also get three raffle drawing entries. All of these bonus levels also each require playing in at least one PCPC tournament.

To earn raffle entries by referring friends, you get 1 to 3 drawing entries for referring from 1 to 3 friends to the site. In order to be eligible to earn you raffle entries, these friends you refer must not only set up a legitimate Bovada Poker account, but they must make their first real money deposit into that account as well. These raffle entries are awarded to eligible players on top of the $100 refer a friend bonus they may also be eligible to receive.

Poker Stars August VIP Month Promotional Rundown

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For the entire month of August 2013, PokerStars is hosting a series of special offers grouped together under the banner of VIP Month.

The PokerStars VIP Month promotion includes: $1 Million VIP Giveaway Tournaments, Happy Hours, a VIP Store Sale, VIP Trivia Satellites, and a VIP WCOOP Satellite.

The PokerStars VIP Month $1 Million VIP Giveaway Tournaments are five tournaments offered to players earning SilverStar status or higher with cash prizes and WCOOP tournament ticket prizes totaling $1,000,000 in value. Earn as many FPPs as you can in August to gain entry into as many of these giveaway prize draw tournaments as you can.

The PokerStars VIP Month Happy Hours award 50% more VPPs and FPPs at the real money ring game and tournament tables every day between now and Sunday, August 11, between 3:00 and 4:00 am ET, between 10:00 and 11:00 am ET, and between 7:00 and 8:00 pm ET.

Then between August 9 and 31, PokerStars is holding a VIP Store Sale in honor of VIP Month, awarding discounts of as high as 90% for purchases made with FPPs.

Between August 12 and 18 players can win free entries into the $1 Million VIP Giveaway tournaments through VIP Trivia Satellites in which players must answer a trivia question in order to gain entry into the satellite tournament. In all, the site will be awarding 35,000 seats across the five $1M Giveaway events.

And lastly, on the final day of VIP Month, Poker Stars will hold a VIP Bash Satellite. At the August 31 event, the site will award 100 seats in the 2013 WCOOP Main Event. Players can buy-in directly with FPPs or win their seats through feeder qualifiers and satellite tournaments.

On top of all that, Poker Stars VIP Live: Berlin tournament happens August 24.

America’s Cardroom Boosts Beast Leaderboards For 1st Anniversary

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This month of August 2013 marks the one-year anniversary of Americas Cardroom’s The Beast progressive rake race tournaments. And in celebration of that fact, the site is about to make The Beast even bigger and meatier than ever, with a boost to the daily leaderboard awards and the addition of weekly leaderboards.

For starters, just this month, America’s Cardroom promises to award $31,000 more in daily leaderboard awards. Every day the site will award $1,000 in The Beast daily leaderboard prizes, with $300 going to the top finisher, $165 to 2nd, $140 to 3rd, $100 for 4th, $75 for 5th, $60 for 6th, $55 for 7th, $45 for 8th, $35 for 9th, and $25 for 10th. Players can win as many days as they are able, without restrictions.

What’s more, in addition to these and the regular monthly The Beast leaderboard, America’s Cardroom is now, as of this month, adding weekly leaderboards to The Beast promotion as well. Each week the site will award an additional $5,000 in weekly leaderboard awards with 1st place each week getting $500 and all players in the top $115 getting at least $10.

The qualifying periods for these weekly leaderboards is August 1 to 9, August 10 to 16, August 17 to 23, and August 24 to 31, starting at 00:00 EST on the given start date and ending at 23:59 EST on the given end date.

These leaderboards are track in addition to player’s regular The Beast standings and in no way does one interfere with the other.

888 Launching Online Poker in New Jersey

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888 Poker will soon be launching for players in New Jersey. The state recently passed in-state gambling legislation that allows online poker sites to apply for licenses to legally operate within their borders. 888 Holdings is simply one of the first to get all its ducks in a row.

The other two states that have moved ahead with legal intrastate gambling are Delaware and Nevada. 888 plans to set up shop in both of these states as well, but made the decision to start with New Jersey as it saw that state as the one with the most potentially lucrative market.

CEO of 888 Holdings, Brian Mattingley, would not comment on the company’s marketing budget for this New Jersey launch, but he did say that current annual gaming revenue forecasts from its New Jersey operations are $450 million.

888 will also be making its poker and casino software available to Caesars Interactive Entertainment to offer players at its land-based properties in states that have passed gambling legislation like New Jersey, including promising to open up a brand new 888 branded Caesar’s online poker room and casino in New Jersey.

Meanwhile last quarter from all its operations combined 888 reported a $97 million revenue, $22 million of which came from poker.

The 8 other Atlantic City Casinos have all signed partnerships with online gaming companies and will soon be following in 888 and Caesar’s joint footsteps. Atlantic Club Casino and the Revel Casino have yet to announce their online gaming partners, but the others have, and they are as follows:

Borgata/Boyd Gaming with bwin.party
Golden Nugget with Bally Technologies
Resorts Casino Club with Poker Stars
Tropicana with Gamesys
Trump Plaza with Betfair
Trump Taj Mahal with Ultimate Poker

Viktor Blom’s $1.4 Million Day

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Last Sunday, July 28, 2013, high-profile high-stakes online poker player Viktor Blom (aka “Isildur1”) had a $1.4 million dollar day, winning that amount in a single day’s play at the Poker Stars cash game tables.

Opting not to participate in this year’s World Series of Poker, Blom started out Sunday morning play at the heads-up $500/$1000 NL Hold’em tables against Ike Haxton (aka “luvtheWNBA”), a player who recently bested Blom at the tables. Except this time it only took 2 hours for Blom to take $150K away from Haxton.

Then Blom proceeded to win $49K playing Triple Draw.

Following that, he won $240K across several 3-handed and 4-handed cash games over the next 3 ½ hours. Another almost 1 ½ hours pooling $423K from fellow poker celebs Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, and Phil Ivey.

Then came another $73K win after much exchanging of chips over a 40 minute session against SanIker of Germany in a $400/$800 stakes game. The two then moved up the stakes ladder to the $500/$1000 stakes game and Blom handily added another $212K to his win.

At this point, Ike Haxton came back into the action for a little more punishment, enduring 6 hours against Blom in NL Hold’em, a game which also had major swings in both directions, but ultimately it was Blom’s day once again and still, with an additional $110K to his total payday.

While playing against Haxton this time around, Blom was also multi-tabling at FLO8 for 3 ½ hours against two players who collectively seemed to taking $300K off Blom’s payday, but then the tides turned in his favor once again and he came up $24K further ahead.

Blom’s super Sunday closed with a $70K win against SallyWoo, a known poker rival, in heads-up play.

Carbon Poker $100K Race for Riches Continues Into August

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Carbon Poker’s two month promotion, the $100,000 Race for Riches, that started in July continues into and concludes in August.

Awarding a guaranteed $100,000 prize pool across 8 week long races, the Carbon Poker Race for Riches tracks players progress earning Race Points on a leaderboard, with the top 250 finishers on the board at the end of each week winning cash prizes. At each race $12,500 of the $100K total guaranteed prize pool will be awarded.

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The August 2013 Carbon Poker $100,000 Race for Riches race periods are as follows:

Thursday, August 1 to Thursday, August 8
Friday, August 9 to Thursday, August 15
Friday, August 16 to Thursday, August 22
Friday, August 23 to Friday, August 30

Races start at 00:01 on the given start date and end at 23:59 on the given end date.

First prize in each race is $2,000; second is $1,400; third is $1,000; fourth is $700; fifth is $500 and down from there. Every in the top 20 gets at least $100. Every one in the top 250 gets at least $5.

Players can also earn multiplier tournament points by playing in selected games during any given race week. For each of the specified tournaments that you enter (visit the Carbon Poker promotion’s page for the full details list, including start dates, times, and buy-ins) Carbon Poker will give you a 0.1 multiplier bonus to apply to your Race points earnings. The list of tournaments awarding multiplier points includes one daily event, the 19:00 High Roller $25K GTD Deep Stack event, one event each day of the week, Monday through Sunday, with two additional events on Sundays as well.

Party Poker Hosting WPT Montreal Satellites

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The Party Poker WPT Montreal satellite series runs from Monday, August 5 to Sunday, November 24, awarding as its top prize seats in the WPT Montreal main event that takes place November 29 to December 5, 2013 at the Playground Poker Club.

The Party Poker WPT Montreal Satellites take place every Sunday during the stated promotional period, starting at 8:50 pm CET (2:50 pm ET), with 1 prize package guaranteed to be awarded at each running of the event. The WPT Montreal Satellite has a direct buy-in of $250 + $25 but players can avoid that cost by winning their seat in the event through a WPT Montreal Satellite Qualifier.

These events take place every day at the same times listed above for the WPT Montreal Satellite, with an additional running of the event taking place on Sundays at 6:50 pm CET (12:50 pm ET) as a Turbo tournament event. The direct buy-in for the WPT Montreal Satellite Qualifier is $27.50 + $2.50 but players can avoid that cost by winning their seat in the event through a WPT Montreal Sub Qualifier Speed event with a $3 buy-in or a WPT Montreal Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy event with a $1 buy-in and rebuy. Both events take place as sit ‘n’ go tournaments throughout the day.

Players can even win their seat in the Sub Qualifier (at least the $1 rebuy version) through a WPT Montreal Freeroll costing nothing at all to enter. The 25 top players from each running of this event will move on to the $1 sub qualifier speed rebuy event.