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America’s Cardroom Asks Players To Tame The Beast

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America’s Cardroom has just introduced a brand new promotional opportunity: the worldwide web’s very first progressive rake race, called The Beast.

At America’s Cardroom’s The Beast every participant has the opportunity to win rewards, as the site offers hundreds of thousands of dollars cash and free tournament entries each month.

The idea of The Beast is simple: rather than create a single progressive jackpot that rarely gets won, America’s Cardroom will now have a progressive jackpot that is guaranteed to be won each month.

It works like this: every time you play at one of America’s Cardroom’s Jackpot tables where at least 4 players have been dealt in and a jackpot fee is taken from the pot by the house, you will receive 1 point for every hand at this table in which you’ve contributed chips to the pot. Player’s performance is tracked on a leaderboard listed as “The Beast” under the Rewards tab of your America’s Cardroom poker client.

This particular jackpot grows every minute of the month until, at the end, the top performers share a six-figure payout. The exact amount of the prizes depends on how much money has been collected in the jackpot over the course of the month. For example, a $50k jackpot would pay first place $6.5k, while a $130k jackpot would pay first place $16.9k.

What’s more, the Beast Leaderboard includes a separate element that awards players seats in America’s Cardroom online satellite tournaments that award as their top prizes seats in major live land-based tournaments.

America’s Cardroom Ups First Deposit Bonus To $1,000

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America’s Cardroom just increased the maximum bonus amount attainable under their first deposit bonus for new players to $1,000. That means players can now experience America’s Cardroom for the first time with $2,000 in their bankroll, half of it free money.

And as always at America’s Cardroom first time depositors also get with their deposit entry into the New Depositors Freeroll an exclusive event with no other way to buy-in but to be a new player making your first real money deposit into your America’s Cardroom account. And this exclusive freeroll has a guaranteed prize pool of $250.

The New Depositor Freeroll takes place at America’s Cardroom online at 12:05 pm ET on Saturdays. Players receive a starting stack of 100 chips with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on allowed for 1,400 more chips.

Also with your first deposit into a new America’s Cardroom account, you get automatic enlistment into the site’s Elite Benefits Loyalty Program which comes with access to the Elite Benefits Online Poker Store.

But really, the biggest appeal of all this is the $1,000 free you get to start out your America’s Cardroom experience. Certain terms and conditions do apply, of course, such as that only one first time deposit bonus (and only one America’s Cardroom account, for that matter) is allowed per player per computer. What’s more, this is only for new players and on computers where no America’s Cardroom account has been held before.

Bonuses dollars will be released in $1 increments every time the player earns 55 Rank Points.

At America’s Cardroom The Buck Stops At Punta Cana

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These days at America’s Cardroom all roads lead to Punta Cana. Recently we told you about the Punta Cana Poker Classic satellite tournaments, with one past and one coming up (on June 24 at 7:30 pm ET) offering as its grand prize a $5k all-inclusive prize package to the Punta Cana Poker Classic Main Event in the Dominican Republic from October 12 to 18 to compete at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino there for a piece of a $500k guaranteed prize pool. The direct buy-in for the Punta Cana satellite at America’s Cardroom is $250 + $5 but lower cost satellite qualifiers are running now. But there’s more than one way to Punta Cana via America’s Cardroom. There’s also the Freeroll Super Series.

Both the Freeroll Super Series is also, like the Punta Cana Satellite Series, previously announced in this blog, but they bear repeating because they both share the all-important trait of awarding free seats in the upcoming Punta Cana Poker Classic Main Event as well.

As a refresher, the Freeroll Super Series is made up of four rounds, of daily, weekly and monthly qualifiers all leading up to a Grand Finale on September 15, 2012 where the 500 top players from the Freeroll Super Series Leaderboard will compete for one of three Punta Cana Poker Classic prize pacakges and a share of $25,000 cash.

In addition, competing in any Punta Cana Poker Classic satellites at America’s Cardroom will now also earn you bonus points on the $60k Points Race leaderboard.

Win Punta Cana Poker Classic Seats at America’s Cardroom

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This June 2012, America’s Cardroom is holding satellites for the Punta Cana Poker Classic, taking place October 12 – 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Packages worth $5,000 each will be given away in two Super Satellite tournaments running on Sundays June 10 and 24 at 7:30 pm ET. Direct buy-in for these satellites is $250 + $5 but players can alternatively win their way into a satellite through a lower cost buy-in satellite running now through the end of the promotion.

Eacg $5k America’s Cardroom Punta Cana Poker prize package includes the $1,500 + $150 buy-in for the Punta Cana Poker Classic main event (which has a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool) as well as up to $800 for roundtrip airefare, 6 nights of 5-star accommodations at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino Punta Cana, grand transport between airport and hotel in both directions, premium food and beverage service for 2 all-included and a welcome gift bag.

One Punta Cana prize package is guaranteed to be awarded at each Super Satellite.

Satellites into these Super Satellites run daily now at America’s Cardroom. There’s a $0.50 satellite runing every hour at five minutes past the hour awarding seats in a nightly $51 satellite held every night at 8 pm where two seats in the Super Satellite are guaranteed to be won.

Stay tuned here this week for news on other big June 2012 promotions at America’s Cardroom, including the return of the $60k Points Race Marathon.

America’s Cardroom Guaranteed Tournaments Rundown

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America’s Cardroom holds seven regular guaranteed tournaments each week, many with multiple runnings each week. Guaranteed prize pools in these events range from $300 all the way up to $50,000.

The $50k Guaranteed tournament takes place every Sunday at 7:00 pm ET for a $200 + $15 direct buy-in, although $22 + $2 satellites into the event run throughout the weekend leading up to the event. Some of these satellites offer 2, 3, or even 6 seats guaranteed in the $50k GTD event and some of these satellites are hyper turbo events. At each $50K Guaranteed tournament, the first place winner gets around $10,000.

The $10k Guaranteed takes place every Saturday night at 9:00 pm ET for a $50 + $5 buy-in and allows one rebuy and one add-on.

The $2,500 Guaranteed takes place midweek, every Wednesday at 8:00 pm ET for a $5 + $0.50 buy-in.

The $4k Guaranteed No Limit Holdem Freezeout takes place every Saturday at 6:00 pm ET for a $40 + $4 buy-in.

The $3k Bi-Weekly Guaranteed is actually a Semi-Weekly event (bi-weekly meaning every other week) which takes place every Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 pm ET for a $25 + $2.50 buy-in.

The $300 GTD with a $2 Bounty takes place daily on weekdays, Monday through Friday, at 4:00 pm ET for a $12 + $1 buy-in. From each player’s buy-in, $10 goes tot he prize pool and $2 is applied to a bounty on that player’s seat, awarded to whichever player knocks him out of the tournament.

The $7k Deep Stack Tournament takes place 4 days a week, on Tuesdays through Fridays, at 9:00 pm ET for a $25 + $2.50 buy-in.

America’s Cardrooms $60k Marathon and $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania Continue

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America’s Cardrooms two latest monthly promotional offerings have become so popular the site is continuing them for another month. These are the $60k Marathon and the $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania.

In each case, the contest is a points race. Earn as many points as possible by playing in your choice of America’s Cardroom cash games or tournaments and land on the respective leaderboard. The $60k Marathon leaderboard is for all America’s Cardroom players, no matter the game or style, with 1 1/4 points awarded for every dollar in tournament fee or rake paid. Players can also earn extra points for playing in certain key events, like America’s Cardrooms Satellite tournaments for Latin Series of Poker event in Lima (LSOP Lima).

And incidentally, speaking of the LSOP, America’s Cardroom is also currently holding satellites for the LSOP Lima taking place June 5 through 10 at Casino Atlantic City in Lima, Peru with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania leaderboard is for, as it sounds, the site’s sit and go players. To determine how many Sit ‘n’ Go Mania leaderboard points you’ll earn for playing in a sit and go, multipy the buy-in cost by the number of players in the event and divide that by 10.

First place in the $60k Marathon is $8k and America’s Cardroom pays out to the top 275 places, while first place in the $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania promotion is $2k and the site pays out to the top 125 places.

$5K LSOP Race at Americas Cardroom Begins

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As of Monday, the 16th of April, 2012, Americas Cardroom is running a leaderboard race with a $5k prize pool for Latin Series of Poker satellite tournaments, hence the name: $5k LSOP Race.

The America’s Cardroom $5K LSOP Race runs from April 16th to 29th, in which time players can earn points tracked on a leader board by participating in the LSOP satellite tournament series. On April 30, the leaderboard champion will receive $1k in cash while the remaining 75 top performers on the leaderboard will receive at least a $25 share of the remaining $4k of the prize pool. Second place will receive $500; 3rd receives $350; 4th receives $250; 5th receives $200.

Players can earn a share of 100 leaderboard points every time they play in a LSOP 5 PKG GTD Super: 2 Seats GTD event, running daily from April 16th to 28th, every hour, at 5 past the hour.

Players can earn a share of 250 leaderboard points every time they play in a LSOP 5 PKG GTD Satellite – 1 Seat GTD event, running daily at 8 pm from the 16th to the 28th.

Players can earn a share of 2,000 leaderboard points for playing in the LSOP Lima – Five $3.5K Package GTD event which takes place at 7:30 pm on Sunday, April 29th.

The $5K LSOP Race board will be updated on a daily basis. Prizes will be credited to player accounts w/in 4 days after the $5K LSOP Race promotional period ends.

The $5k Satellite Cup and $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania are also still going strong at Americas Cardroom.

Catch the $10k Sit n Go Mania at America’s Cardroom

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For the month of April, 2012, Americas Cardroom is holding a leader board race for its sit and go players with a $10k prize pool up for grabs. As with any leader board race, to compete you simply play as usual at the qualifying tables, in this case: sit and go tables at Americas Cardroom.

Over the course of the promotional month, Americas Cardroom will track the performance of all participating players on a single leader board. Then the site will pay out the top 125 players on that leader board a cash prize of at least $25 and as much as $2k for 1st place. Players down to the 19th place finisher receive at least $100. The 3rd place prize is $500. The runner-up prize is $750.

The amount of $10k Sit n Go Mania leader board points up for grabs at Americas Cardroom’s sit and go tables varies depending on the sit and go tournaments buy-in.

• $3 – $35 sit and gos award 50 points
• $10 – $15 sit and gos award 100 points
• $20 – $30 sit and gos award 200 points
• $50 to $100 sit and gos award 500 points

Additionally, and sit and go satellite tournaments into the Latin Series of Poker or America’s Cardroom’s $250,000 GTD tournament also awards 100 points on the $10k Sit n Go Mania leader board.

Players leader board scores will be updated on a daily basis and winning players can expect to see their prize money credited to their Americas Cardroom real money player account within 4 days of the end of the $10k Sit n Go Mania event.

America’s Cardroom Holds $5k Satellite Cup for Liberty Quarter Million

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In anticipation of the approaching Liberty Quarter Million, America’s Cardroom is encouraging players to try for satellite entry into the tournament by sweetening the pot for the satellite portion of the player pool.

The Liberty Quarter Million is a $250,000 guaranteed tournament being held by America’s Cardroom on April 15, 2012. But in addition to that $250k is an added $5,000 prize pool set aside exclusively for the top satellite players in the tournament.

America’s Cardroom will keep a leaderboard during the April 15 tournament tracking all the players who won their seat in the tournament through an online satellite. On April 16, the top 75 finishers on the satellite leaderboard will share the $5k added prize pool, with the first place finisher getting a cool $1,000 cash.

As often occurs at America’s Cardroom some qualifying satellite tournaments offer more leaderboard points than others. On April 13 at 8 pm is a 250-seat guaranteed satellite for the $250k GTD that offers 1000 leaderboard points shared amongs the winners. In addition, every day from now until the tournament there are two satellites into the 250-seater that also award extra points:

• at 5 past the hour, every hour is the $250 GTD Super R/A that offers 1 seat to the 250-seater and 25 points
• at 35 past the hour, every hour is a $250k GTD satellite that offers 2 seats to the 250-seater and 50 points.

There are also two daily satellites, one at 9:55 pm and one at 12:55 am that each offer 2 seats to the actual $250k GTD itself, along with 100 points on the leaderboard.

America’s Cardroom Offers $500k Liberty Weekends

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America’s Cardroom is holding a new promotion it’s calling Liberty Weekends comprised of 5 Saturdays and Sundays offering up a total combined prize pool of $500k guaranteed.

During each of these Liberty Weekends, starting with the weekend of Saturday, March 31st to Sunday, April 1st, America’s Cardroom will be holding two special guaranteed tournaments: a $10k Guaranteed and a $50k Guaranteed. In addition to that $60k total per weekend on each of the promotion’s five weekends, America’s Cardroom is also holding a special $250k Guaranteed tournament on the 15th of April at 18:00 ET.

What makes these tournaments Liberty tournaments is that they feature either add-ons and rebuys or re-entry tournaments. Specifically, all $10k events allow 1 rebuy and 1 add-on each. All $50k events and the $250k events are re-entry tournaments which means that during late registration, if you bust out, you can re-register as a brand new player.

The buy-in for the $10k events are $50 + $5. The buy-in for the $50k events and the $250k event are $200 + $15 each. Players can win seats in these events through satellites, however, running daily at the site for buy-ins as low as $1 + $0.10 or 35 CP + 3.5 CP.

There is even a 250-seater satellite to be held on April 13 that you can either buy into directly for $36 + $3 or you can win your seat in through a satellite.

Starting chips for the $250k GTD are 10,000 and first place gets $50,000.