Following a news story posted on Bluff online this morning, Holdem Poker Chat can confirm that there has indeed been a deal struck between the struggling Cake Poker Network and Pokerlistings.com. While most are reporting that Pokerlistings has bought Cake Poker, we are hearing that they did not buy 100% of the network. We’re hearing 50%.
The Pokerlistings website has already been changed this morning to reflect the pending sale. Cake Poker is now listed as their #1 site followed by two new Cake Poker Network skins.
This is breaking news and we’ll have much more information on the deal later today.
UPDATE: We finally spoke to Cake Poker and a deal is in the works but has NOT been finalized. I does look like it will happen sometime later in the week. As we reported earlier, the deal is NOT for 100% ownership but is for majority control of the network.
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
Cake Gaming NV announced today that it will be undertaking a strategic partnership with PokerListings.com. The partnership brings together two companies with extremely complimentary resources: PokerListings.com being the most comprehensive poker news and Poker Strategy website in the world and the Cake Network, a popular global poker network with a number of strong consumer-facing poker brands.
“We are extremely excited to become a major component of PokerListings.com’s massive online presence,” said Cake Network Marketing Director, Andrew Turner. “The value of being integrated into one of the premiere leaders in new player acquisition and poker-related search can not be overstated and will have a significant impact on the Cake Network ecosystem and overall liquidity. This partnership positions the Cake Network for future growth in terms of new depositing players as well as for the addition of several strategic network partners. ”
With its significant Poker and Casino holdings, PokerListings.com can stake a claim to being the largest single gambling affiliate business in the sector. Through a very close working relationship in the areas of web development, content production and traffic conversion, PokerListings.com is positioned to substantially contribute to future development of the Cake Network.
A notable aspect of this partnership includes an ongoing commitment from PokerListings.com to drive a minimum of 2,000 new depositing players per month to the Cake Network which will have a significant impact on the number of recreational first time depositors. This partnership adds considerable strength to the position of the Cake Network by ensuring a steady stream of new depositing players every month which will soften games and increase liquidity across the network.
“We have been looking for this kind of partnership for some time now and we are very happy to have closed this deal with Cake Network. Not only does the partnership bring great commercial value to our respective companies, but we are very proud to secure the best possible deals for PokerListings.com’ visitors” said PokerListings.com’ representative, Martin Carlesund.
In addition to an influx of new players to compete against, Cake Network players will enjoy several other benefits from this partnership including: syndicated high quality content, added functionality and fantastic deals for those referred to the Cake Network
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Pokerstars is once again reaching a milestone when they deal their 60 Billionth Hand. So, by popular demand… Milestone Hands are back!
There will be 300 regular milestone hands leading up to the 60 Billionth, starting from hand number 59,700,000,000 – and then every millionth hand. You can see the current hand number in the top left corner of the tables you’re playing on.
The milestone hands could hit at any table, any stakes. Every player dealt into any milestone hand will win $50 and an extra $50 for every VIP Player Point (VPP) earned in the previous 50 hands played on that table. Even better, if you win one of the 300 milestone hands Pokerstars will double your prize money.
The player with the winning cards in the 60 Billionth Mega Milestone hand will receive at least $60k. Just make sure you’re playing on the day.
Since the signing of Isildur1 by Pokerstars and his being revealed as Viktor Blom, Pokerstars has been running a special, high stakes promotion: 2,500 hands, played at 50/100 NL, across 4 tables; each player puts up $150,000; whoever either busts or is in the negative after 2,500 hands loses.
Blom has played against 3 opponents up to this point, with a 3-1 record: he has beaten Anthony “Tony G” Guoga, Daniel Cates, Eugene Katchalov, while losing to his first opponent, Isaac Haxton. Through all of these games, Blom shows a net profit of just over $160,000.
His next opponent is someone who’s accomplishments are too lengthy to list here: the face of Pokerstars himself – Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu has been dropping hints for weeks now, discussing how he finds this Showdown a challenge he would like try. Now, Pokerstars is making it happen.
However, the rules are slightly different: instead of 2,500 hands in one day, they will be playing 5,000 across two! That’s right, they will sit down for their first 2,500 hands on Sunday, March 20th and for their remaining hands on Sunday, March 27th.
While Blom is clearly a favorite, with all of his high stakes heads-up experience, its hard to count someone out who has done what Negreanu has accomplished in the poker world. It should be exciting to watch the players battle it out on the felt.
We’ve just added WildSide Poker to our list of poker sites. You may have seen this software in the past. It’s been taken over and cleaned up to provide a much better 3D poker experience and best of all it’s open to all players in the US.
Wild Side Poker is now part of the Atlantis Poker Network and from everything we’ve been hearing they’re about to add a bunch of new sites joining the network.
For their grand opening they’re running some nice freerolls. Have a look below.
WildSide Poker has a $250 Freeroll scheduled for 04 March 2011 at 10 pm Central European Time (CET). The password is: newwild. There is an open freeroll the same day starting at 8:30pm CET.
The following promotions are starting this week with the first freeroll starting as soon as 03 March 2011! Please see below for details:
* $100 DAILY FREEROLLS running 7 days a week, beginning on 03 March 2011. These are already listed in the lobby under the Texas Holdem Tournaments tab.
* $1000 Guaranteed Tournaments every Sunday (4 GTD $1000 tourneys in a month) where buy-in for the first month will be as low as $2.25. This begins on 06 March2011. These are already in the lobby as well as satellites to this tournament for as low as $0.22!
* $500 BEGINNERS FREEROLL tournament for FIRST TIME DEPOSITORS starting on 27 March 2011.
This March, 888 Poker is turning the world of online poker on its head when 888poker goes social!
888poker incorporates two special features that allows poker players across the world to engage socially while playing their favorite game and winning real cash.
1. NEW PokerCam Tables: The REAL Experience. NEW PokerCam tables for face-to-face play in real time! Revolutionizing online poker for a more “true-life” experience.
2. NEW Teams Poker™: Every week 888poker adds special Teams Poker™ tourneys, where players can join the favorite teams for only $0.88. It’s the same as a regular poker tourney, except 50% of the prize pool is shared with the winning team so even those knocked out still get their share of the pot!
Complementing these two new advancements in the world of online poker…888poker is revolutionizing online poker AND offering up some great bonus offers and tournaments this March!
$8/£5 FREE: All new players start off with an instant £5.00 (UK players) $8.00 (all other players) FREE, no-deposit bonus when they download and register at 888poker.
ALL for 8 Cents! Three times a week, players can enjoy a $1000 tournament with just an $0.08 buy-in! Super-low buy-in, super high winnings!
Play More, Win More! According to the number of days they play, players get entry to weekly ‘“Play More’” freerolls of $1000, $4,000 and every 2 weeks $10,000.
With over 5 million registered users, 888poker continues to offer the best consumer experience. For all the latest information on 888poker’s current promotions, online reward store and new community, go to 888poker.
Cake Poker marks the return of their Two for the Money promotion for March 2011. If you enjoy multi-tabling cash games, then this promotion is definitely for you. Each week you will be assigned a target number of FPP’s to hit while multi-tabling. If you hit your number, you will be entered in a $2,000 Kamikaze Freeroll for that week. the kamikazes will pay out to 30% of the qualified players so there is a real chance to get some cash out of the deal. If you play cash games, you already know that the Cake Poker Network has some of the softest tables around. Now you can earn extra cash while being paid by the unsuspecting masses as well.
How it Works:
Each week in March you will be assigned a multi-table hand target. If you meet that target within the specified time period, you will automatically be awarded entry in to that week’s $2,000 kamikaze tournament*. Multi-table to meet your target through all four weeks and you’ll get a shot at a combined prize pool of $8,000!
For hands to count towards the multi-table target, you must:
Be seated at two tables or more with stakes equal to or greater than $.10/$.20.
Cannot be sitting out.
Play real money hands across all tables combined.
View your multi-table hand target and monitor your progress via the My Account tab of the Cake Poker software starting March 1st.
$2,000 Two for the Money Kamikazes
When you reach your multi-table hand target, you will automatically be entered into that week’s kamikaze tournament. Two for the Money kamikazes take place each Thursday at 17:57pm GMT starting March 10th.
Each week starts on Tuesday at 00:00 GMT and end at 23:59 GMT the following Monday.
*Kamikaze tournaments require no action by players as all hands are forced all-in. A table winner is quickly declared and the tournament continues at warp speed until the prize pool is distributed.
Terms and Conditions
Players must be 18 years of age to participate.
Employees and immediate family members of employees of Cake Gaming N.V., the Cake Poker Network and its associated companies are not eligible to take part in the Promotion.
Cake Poker reserves the right to alter, modify or terminate the Promotion and/or these Terms at any time, without notice (written or verbal) where it is reasonable to do so.
To be eligible for the Promotion players must be seated at two tables or more with stakes equal to or greater than $.10/$.20; cannot be sitting out and; must play the specified number of raked hands across all tables combined within the specified weekly time periods.
Players who meet the requirements set out in #4 will be awarded entry into that week’s Two for the Money kamikaze.
Two for the Money kamikazes award cash to players in the top 30%.
Two for the Money kamikazes run weekly, every Thursday at 17:57 GMT
Players may not transfer, sell or award their Two for the Money kamikaze seat to anyone else.
888 Poker, one of the world’s most popular gaming entertainment companies, has launched a groundbreaking “pokercam” option for 888 Poker, innovating to again provide players with something that they have not experienced before.
The poker cam tables, powered by ooVoo, a leading video communication service provider with a best-in-class mobile video chat solution, will be available from the main lobby and will allow players to see their opponents while playing a Texas Hold’em Cash game.
The option builds on the strong social aspects of the 888 poker rooms, which already lead their way in the use of personalised avatars providing an immerse social experience in which players can interact together.
The addition of the “Teams Tournament” feature adds a further dimension to 888’s social play. This innovative type of tournament gives players the option of joining a virtual team in a regular tournament format. However, in addition to the traditional prize-pool, players score points for their team, and a portion of the prize is allocated to all of the players that belong to the winning team. Players can group together to face off as rival football teams or cities, adding an emotional level to the play, with links to major social networking sites letting people know when like-minded people have joined a tournament.
As well as these innovations in the game play, the “late registration” option means that there is always a tournament to join, even at off-peak times. An improved lobby also gives a better user experience, and allows quick and easy entry to tables.
The new offer builds on the enormously successful launch of Poker 6 in June 2010, which overhauled the Poker platform and provided an intuitive usability that targeted the casual player. The platform also allowed players to play Poker in 3D.
Hili Shakked, Director of Poker Offering, 888holdings, said:
“Through the addition of video streams to our hugely successful Poker 6 we are offering an even more personal, inclusive, and social environment. On top of this, the chance to play as part of a team in the Team Tournaments, provides a competitive edge that allows players to meet and play with other like-minded people.”
As part of the ongoing process to bring the fun back into playing poker and being more attractive to the leisure player, Bodog‘s poker product is implementing a series of blocking systems to stop the likes of Poker Site Scout, PokerDB and Shark Scope from garnering information that (once again) mainly serve professional players.
Patrik Selin explains: “These poker operator information portals are another example of how online poker is assisting in its own demise. I have commented previously on how the operators are doing this to themselves with hand histories, HUDs and rake back, all of which we will be cutting out. The next tier in the process is the operator information sites. Nobody who is playing poker for fun visits these sites, or, probably even knows they exist. They primarily exist to serve the needs of the professional players and therefore we will be implementing online protection against these sites to further aid the crucial leisure poker player.”
Bodog have also recently released a new lobby with a much more user-friendly interface making navigation easier, again keeping the player new to the game or playing for fun, firmly at the forefront of everything they do.
UB.com is sending at least three lucky online poker players to sunny Los Angeles to be part of the prestigious World Poker Tour (“WPT”) L.A. Poker Classic at the famous Commerce Casino. The leading online poker site has added a series of low stakes buy-in qualifiers from $2+.20 to their tournament line-up from February 6th through 13th, leading to a Super Satellite that will award the top three players with a $12,000 WPT L.A. Poker Classic prize package.
The annual WPT L.A. Poker Classic is a $10,000 buy-in tournament that will award the winner with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money, along with a $25,500 entry for the 2011 WPT Championship. To get there for less, players need to outplay their competitors at the UB.com tables in a $500+30 buy-in Super Satellite on Sunday, February 13th at 17:05 ET, which guarantees to award three $12K WPT prize packages, each including a $10,000 seat for the WPT L.A. Poker Classic (Feb. 25th – Mar. 1st), along with $2K towards travel expenses that will see them heading to the City of Angels.
Plus, starting from this Sunday, February 6th, the UB.com Cardroom has frequent WPT L.A. Poker Classic qualifiers available, a Rebuy format from as low as $20+2, and $66+6 freezeout feeder satellites that will give away entries for the $500+30 WPT L.A. Poker Classic Super Satellite. Finish in the top 3 in the Super Satellite to earn one of three guaranteed $12,000 WPT L.A. Poker Classic prize packages. For those looking for more of a challenge, make your way through the STEP tournaments, with STEP 1 running from as little as $0.11.
So, log onto UB.com.com and compete for one of three L.A. Poker Classic WPT packages from February 6th through 13th — it could be your ticket to some thrilling high-stakes action and your ‘fifteen minutes’ of TV poker fame.
Sportsbook Poker announces a new tournament player competition for August. The Tourney King promotion will feature leaderboards for Multi Table Tournament players. In a unique twist, there will be two leaderboards. One for buyins of $20 or more and one for lower buyins. The top 50 on both boards get cash and ticket prizes. Also the top 250 in both leaderboards will win entry to a $20,000 tournament. Details are not widely available but I think you get more chips in that tournament for placing higher on the leaderboards.
Below is all the information. There is quite a bit of info, so read it all. this is the perfect promotion for multi table tournament players. I believe more than one Merge Network site is doing this promotion, but I do not think all of them are. I know Carbon Poker is doing it but Feltstars does not appear to be.
Are you the Tourney King?
Over $20,000 to be won
Our quest for 2 new Tourney Kings begins this August here at Sportsbook.com Poker. To show just how serious we are, we’re putting up over $20,000 in cash and prizes along with a crazy new KING accolade that you can show off at the tables.
What do I need to do?
Starting August 1st, play in as many multi-table tournaments as you can. Note that freerolls and sit’n’gos will not count. For every tournament you play you’re eligible to win valuable leaderboard points based on the formula below. Tournaments with more players and bigger buy-ins will award more points than those with few players and cheaper entries.
Two Leaderboards
We’re actually looking for two Kings this summer! We’ll feature a high limit and a low limit leaderboard to satisfy all levels of royalty:
The High Limit Leaderboard
MTT’s with buy-ins of $20 or more will count
The Low Limit Leaderboard
MTT’s with buy-ins up to $20 will count
Players will be allowed to participate in both leaderboards. To view these leaderboards now and to see your current status, click on the ‘Player Admin‘ button on the lobby screen and select ‘Tourney King’.
Over $20,000 in Cash and Prizes
Finish in the Top 250 on either leaderboard and you’ll move on to the final tournament where you could win your share of over $20,000 along with the fame and glory that comes along with being crowned the KING. Both the High Limit and Low Limit finals are set take place on Sunday, September 12th.
To view the payouts for both the High Limit and Low Limit Tournament Finals please see the chart at the bottom of this page.
Calculating Leaderboard Points
Here’s the formula that we’ll be using to calculate your leaderboard points. Only your top 25 results for the month will count towards your leaderboard score:
Buy-in: – Average Buy-in cost for tournament
– Buy-in for R/A tournaments = prizepool / (Entrants + Rebuys + Addons)
Entrants: The total number of players in the tournament
Position: Your final placing in the tournament
Final Table Bonus: Make it to a final table and your point totals will be multiplied by the following:
Place FT
Multiplier Place FT
Multiplier
1st 1.5 6th 1.35
2nd 1.45 7th 1.35
3rd 1.45 8th 1.3
4th 1.4 9th 1.3
5th 1.4 10th 1.25
To view both leaderboards and your current status, click on the ‘Player Admin‘ button on the lobby screen and select ‘Tourney King’.
As a member of Sportsbook Poker, herein “the Promotion”, you are bound by the following Terms and Conditions:
The ‘Tourney King’ promotion will run from August 1st until August 31st 2010. Only those tournaments that end before 23:59 (poker lobby time) on August 31st will be eligible for this promotion. Tournaments that finish after that will NOT count towards prize requirements.
In order to be eligible to receive cash prizes, a player must have made a minimum of at least one deposit between a player’s joining date and up to August 31th (inclusive), 2010.
All Tourney King cash prizes will be paid in full directly to a player’s poker account, without any further play through requirements. Any cash prizes will be available for withdrawal after 7 days of being issued to your account, but can be played with at the tables immediately.
Any form of cheating or collusion will not be tolerated. Please stay within the spirit of this promotion and do not play a friend over and over again. We will be checking all game histories and if it looks like something fishy is going on against the spirit of the competition you will become ineligible for the prize and may have your account closed.
Any points earned on freerolls and sit’n’gos during the promotional period will NOT count towards prize requirements for the Tourney King. Sportsbook Poker reserves the right to alter, modify or terminate the Promotion and/or these Terms at any time, without giving you any prior notice (written or verbal) where it is reasonable to do so or for reasons beyond the Promoter’s control. The Promoter does not accept any responsibility or liability for any late or undelivered entries or registrations, notifications or communications or for any form of technical failure, error, malfunction or difficultly or for any other event beyond its reasonable control that may cause the operation of the Promotion to be disrupted, unavailable or incorrect.
In order to be eligible a player must setup a real money account, which includes his full contact details, so that we can pay any winnings to his account should he win.
Offer only open to players that are of the legal age of majority as determined by the laws of the country where you live. Employees and immediate family members of employees of Sportsbook Poker, its associated companies, affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies are not eligible to take part in the Promotion. Entry to the Promotion is limited to those people who are resident in countries where their registration and use of the Cardroom is permitted by the law of their country.
The company reserves the right to ask for proof of age from any customer and customer accounts may be suspended until satisfactory proof of age is provided.
By downloading the software and registering an account, a customer is deemed to have fully accepted and understood all rules, terms and conditions published by this website.
All players must meet Sportsbook’s Terms & Conditions, and Sportsbook Poker reserves the right to modify these rules at any time, and for any reason, at its sole discretion.
In case of any disputes regarding any terms or conditions of this promotion, the decision of Sportsbook Poker’s management is final.
Following a news story posted on Bluff online this morning, Holdem Poker Chat can confirm that there has indeed been a deal struck between the struggling Cake Poker Network and Pokerlistings.com. While most are reporting that Pokerlistings has bought Cake Poker, we are hearing that they did not buy 100% of the network. We’re hearing 50%.
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