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Earn Elite Benefits at America’s Cardroom

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America’s Cardroom has taken the patriotic theme one step further, describing its loyalty program in military terms and enlisting players to train for Elite Benefits. As with any poker site’s rewards program, America’s Cardroom’s Elite Benefits are all based on earning points for your play at the site.

There are two types of points you can earn in this program. You earn Combat Points (CP) each time you participate in a cash ring game or online tournament with real money at the America’s Cardroom site. You earn Rank Points (RP) each time you pay a tourney fee or pay a rake in ring games. CP are used to activate bonuses, release special rewards and make purchases in the AC online store. RP are used to determine your rank in the AC rewards program. You start out as a Lieutenant as of your first cash game or tourney.

Obviously the higher your rank, from Captain to Major to Colonel to General, the more benefits you receive, including an ever-increasing CP multiplier.

All players at any level have access to Medals of Achievement and Site Freerolls. Captains also get $50 cash for use in the store. Majors get $300 cash in the store. Colonels get $600 and Generals get $1,500 and $4,000. Each rank also has a different level of store access, with correspondingly increasing benefits.

You also need to maintain a certain minimum level of monthly RPs to maintain the rank you’ve attained. The exception to that are Generals who must only maintain a yearly minimum RP level to keep their rank.

Americas Cardroom to hold 250k GTD on Black Friday Anniversary

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As the online poker world gets ready to solemnly remember Black Friday, Americas Cardroom is giving everyone a major reason to celebrate. On April 15th, the US-friendly online poker site will introduce the Liberty Quarter Million, a No-Limit Hold’em online poker tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000. The first place prize is guaranteed at least $50,000.

“April 15th will go down in history as a day that we’ll never forget, but this time it’ll be because of something incredible,” stated Michael Harris, an America’s Cardroom spokesman. “We’ve been growing our online poker community over the last year by leaps and bounds, and we’re excited to celebrate poker freedom with all our players by putting $500,000 on the table over five weekends.”

The Liberty Quarter Million tournament is part of Liberty Weekends, where $500,000 will be spread out over two big online poker tournaments every weekend between March 31st and April 29th. The Sunday tournaments are Re-Entry tournaments with a 3 hours late registration. That means if a player is eliminated from the tournament while registration is still open, they’ll have the option to buy back in as a new player.

On Saturdays at 7:00pm ET, Americas Cardroom hosts a $10,000 GTD with a $50+5 buy-in. On Sundays at 6:00pm ET, the guarantee hits $50,000 and costs just $200+15 to get into. Both weekend tournaments offer players 10,000 in starting chips.

For those players looking to satellite their way in, on April 13th at 8:00pm ET Americas Cardroom will be hosting a 250 Seat Super Satellite with 250 seats guaranteed for the April 15th Quarter Million Tournament. The 250 Seat Super Satellite will cost only $36+3 to get into.

The $50,000 and $250,000 GTD tournaments offer a familiar blind structure and buy-in to US players who were victimized by Black Friday’s events, a signal that Americas Cardroom means business about becoming the #1 destination for online poker in the US.

Liberty Weekends kicks off on Saturday, March 31st, 2012. Full details on Americas Cardroom’s satellite structure for all 10 Liberty Weekends tournaments can be found at AmericasCardroom.

America’s Cardroom Points Race Upped to $85k in March

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Recently America’s Cardroom began to offer weekly and monthly points races with large guaranteed prize pools and numerous opportunities for players at all different levels to win. This month it’s no different, except the prize pool just got bigger.

For this March’s points race, America’s Cardroom has increased the prize pool to $85k. That amount will be given out through a month-long race with a $60k prize pool and five weekly races each with a $5k prize pool.

The $25k Sprints take place every weekend this month, from Friday through Sunday. At each 3-day long sprint, first place takes home $1,000; second place gets $500; third gets $350; fourth $250; and fifth $200, paying out the top 75 players each weekend a cash reward of at least $29.

The schedule of $5k Sprints is as follows:
• March 2 – 4
• March 9 – 11
• March 16 – 18
• March 23 to 25
• March 30 to April 1

In these sprints, only points players earn at cash ring games count. Tournament points are not eligible for this event. But they are for the $60k Marathon.

The $60k Marathon awards $8k to first place, $4k to second, $2.5k to third, $2.25k to fourth and $2k to fifth, paying out to the top 275 players a sum of at least $25.

Tournament players can earn extra points in the contest by registering for certain big money and live satellite tournaments taking place now at the site, including all of America’s Cardroom’s guaranteed tournaments and the satellite for the LSOP Peru.

America’s Cardroom Now Holding LSOP Super Satellites

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On June 5-10, 2012, Lima, Peru will play host to the next Latin Series of Poker Main Event. It takes place at the Peruvian capital Casino Atlantic City and costs $1,500 + $150 to buy-in. Players can avoid that buy-in, however, by winning one of 13 $3,500 prize packages up for grabs at America’s Cardroom right now.

America’s Cardroom is holding LSOP Super Satellites daily throughout the month of February, with two satellite qualifier series’: one into a $50 + $5 Super Satellite and one into a $125 + $12 Super Satellite. Qualifier buy-ins are as low as $7 + $0.70. And there are even $6 + $0.60 Super Satellites taking place now and again. Different satellite qualifiers offer 1, 2 or even 5 seats in a Super Satellite, while all Super Satellite promise 1 LSOP Peru prize package a piece.

America’s Cardroom’s LSOP Peru prize packages include not only the buy-in into the main event but as much as $800 in air travel costs round trip, hotel accommodations in Lima for 5 nights and transportation to and from the airport and hotel.


In a rare move for an online poker room, America’s Cardroom is allowing prize package winners who are unable or uninterested in attending the LSOP Peru to trade in their prize packages for a discounted cash value of $2,300.

Earlier in the week we also told you about America’s Cardroom’s $40k Sprint, and now it comes into play with the LSOP Super Satellite series as well, because when you play in the LSOP Super Satellites taking place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in February, you also receive as a bonus just for playing, between 200 and 500 points toward the $40k Sprint leaderboard.

Win Punta Cana Poker Classic Seats in America’s Cardroom’s Freeroll Super Series

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You can win seats at the 2012 Punta Cana Poker Classic for free when you play in the Freeroll Super Series at America’s Cardroom. Along the way, you can also win a piece of a $75k prize pool.

The Freeroll Super Series (FSS) is broken down into four stages, or rounds. Pass through all four of these and win a cash guaranteed as well as, possibly, one of 3 prize packages to the 2012 Punta Cana Poker Classic.

For Round One, America’s Cardroom is holding hourly qualifiers every day. At 8pm nightly is a Main Event Freeroll for 50 Round Two tickets and at 12am nightly is a Midnight Daily Second Chance Freeroll for 25 Round Two tickets. For each of the other 22 hours of the day, the site will host a freeroll on the hour awarding 3 Round Two tickets.

For Round Two, America’s Cardroom is holding weekly qualifiers every Saturday. In addition to the main prize of Round Three tickets to 1 out of every 5 competitors, the site also offers a $750 cash prize pool guaranteed at each. Finish in the final 100 and win a share.

For Round Three, America’s Cardroom is holding a monthly event on the Saturday after the month ends, in this case that’s the 4th of March. Besides being the final opportunity to earn enough FSS Special Points to get to the Grand Finale Freeroll, this monthly event also offers a guaranteed $3,000 cash prize pool, again going out to the highest 100 performers.

The fourth round is the Grand Finale Freeroll, open to the 500 highest Special Points earners over the entire month-long course of the FSS. It happens on October 13, that’s also a Saturday, and offers a guaranteed prize pool of $25,000 in addition to three Punta Cana prize packages to the first, second and third place finishers.

America’s Cardroom Doubles Guarantees Week & $100k Points Race Running

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Two of the promotions underway for February 2012 at America’s Cardroom are Double Guarantees Week and a $100k Points Race.

For the week lasting from Monday, February 6 through Sunday, February 12, America’s Cardroom will be hosting another Double Guarantees Week. That means every Guaranteed Tournament scheduled this week will have its guaranteed prize pool doubled. That includes dozens of tournaments with guarantees ranging as high as $5k, $7.5k and $15k normally, now doubled to $10k, $15k and $30k, respectively. It includes rebuy and addon events, bounty tournaments, deep stack events, turbo tournaments, freezeouts and more.

While Double Guarantees Week last, obviously, for just one week, America’s Cardroom’s $100k Points Race last the whole month long. For all of February 2012, players can win a share of $100,000 in cash through the combination of a $60k marathon and four weekly $10k sprints.

The $60k Marathon lasts all February long and it tracks players on a leaderboard by points earned, paying out to the top 275 finishers, with the top finisher getting $8k. Additionally, each week America’s Cardroom hosts a $10k Sprint from Friday to Sunday. The site will pay out the top 125 finishers on these weekly leaderboards, with each week’s first place finisher getting $2k.

As with the $60k Marathon this is a points race, but unlike the monthly event, these weekly sprints only count points from Ring Game play. Points earned playing tournaments, whether MTT, satellite or Sit ‘n’ Go, do not count for the $40k Sprint, though they do count for the $60k Marathon.

Americas Cardroom Bad Beat Jackpot is Now Over $500k

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Someone at America’s Cardroom is about to laugh all the way to the bank. The Bad Beat Jackpot at Americas Cardroom.eu has surpassed the $500,000 mark and is quickly inching into $600k territory. As of yesterday, Bad Beat Jackpot tables were filling up fast with players vying for the shot at a six-figure payday.

The next player to lose a hand of Texas Hold’em with quad eights or anything better while seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table will pop the Bad Beat Jackpot, sending hundreds of thousands in cash onto the table where the bad beat occurred.

It’s all part of the ongoing Bad Beat Jackpot game at Americas Cardroom.eu. The online poker site is softening the blow of losing at the poker tables by paying poker players big money when misfortune strikes. At this moment, the loser of the hand is guaranteed a payout over $100,000.

But it’s not just the recipient of the bad beat who walks away a winner. The winner of the hand stands to win 20% of the jackpot, those who participated in the dealt hand will share 10% of the jackpot and 30% is dedicated for reseeding the next jackpot.

The US-friendly online poker site also announced today its largest monthly Points Race yet—a $100,000 test of endurance that includes a $60,000 monthly Points Race and four weekly races using the dealt rake method worth another $40,000, a system that hardcore grinders will love.

More information on Americas Cardroom’s Bad Beat Jackpot and $100k Points Race can be found at Americas Cardroom.

Yatahay Poker Network is now the Winning Poker Network

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San Jose, Costa Rica – January 12, 2012 – In a move reflective of its industry-leading product offering and proven dedication to the online poker community in the United States, the Yatahay Poker Network has announced a name change. Effective January 2, 2012, the Yatahay Poker Network has been renamed The Winning Poker Network.

“It’s more than a name, it’s a mantra,” stated a spokesman for The Winning Poker Network. “Our promotions are better, our guarantees keep getting bigger, and our software delivers everything players ask for. Players who love to win are hitting our network in record numbers and the entire poker world has good reason to be excited about what’s ahead.”

The name change is a natural fit for a network that has grown substantially since early 2011. After the fall of the big three last April, the Yatahay Poker Network positioned itself as the best destination for US players looking for a safe, secure and fun online poker site. It did so by substantially improving its software, by acquiring respected online poker site DoylesRoom, and by committing big money to growing its online poker community.

The online poker network has seen substantial growth, thanks in large part to its desire to be the top online poker destination for US players and those around the world. Players at The Winning Network’s online poker sites—including Americas Cardroom, and others—have seen prize pools in tournaments grow on a monthly basis over the last six months.

While the name is new, the online poker network has a stellar history of servicing online gaming customers. Established in 2001 as Yatahay, The Winning Poker Network offers cutting-edge software to operators that wish to offer online poker and casino games. The Winning Poker Network boasts a full-service operation catering to customers amongst established gaming operators.

America’s Cardroom to Host Double Guarantees Weekend

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America’s Cardroom has announced the weekend of January 5 – 8, 2012 will be a Double Guarantees Weekend. That means that all the prize pools to all the guaranteed tournaments America’s Cardroom has scheduled for that weekend will be doubled.

So instead of $5,000 in the $5k Guaranteed Tournament, the prize pool will be $10,000. Instead of $7,500 in the $7.5k Guaranteed Tournament, it will jump to $15,000. And instead of $15,000 in the $15k Guaranteed Tournament, players will vie for $30,000.

This is a four-day weekend spectacular, lasting Thursday through Sunday and comprising some hundred or so tournaments, including deepstack events, short-handed events, turbos, bounties, rebuy/add-on events, freezeouts, even guaranteed tournaments in Pot Limit Omaha.

In the meantime, players can whet their appetite with a feast of holiday promotions already in full swing, including the Secret Santa, $45k worth of Holiday Freeroll Tournaments, December’s $65K Points Race and FPPs Gone Wild, in which players can now buy in to any America’s Cardroom Sit and Go with Frequent Player Points. For more information on all of these, browse back to earlier posts here of the last couple weeks.

America’s Cardroom is the new face and name of the online poker room formerly known as Doyle’s Room Poker. New players at America’s Cardroom can currently claim a 100% first deposit bonus up to a maximum of $1,000 as well as a free seat in a New Depositor Freeroll with a $250 prize pool.

Americas Cardroom adds $50k Guaranteed this Sunday

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Just when it looked like the poker world was winding down for the holidays, Americas Cardroom is kicking things into overdrive. The US-friendly online poker room is hosting a $50,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament this Sunday, December 18th at 6pm ET and packing its schedule with low buy-in satellites to help players get into it.

The $50,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em tourney includes the option of one re-buy and one add-on, and costs $75+7.50 to register. On Friday, Americas Cardroom will host 13 satellites per day to help players win a seat. On Saturday December 17th and Sunday, December 18th, the day of the tournament, Americas Cardroom is packing the satellite schedule with even more qualifiers.

Over the last few months, Americas Cardroom has continuously increased the guarantees of its big weekly tournaments and added even larger monthly tournaments like Sunday’s big event to the mix.

The online poker site attributes being able to offer more attractive guarantees to the healthy growth of their community, a sign that online poker in the United States is thriving.

“This weekend’s $50,000 tournament represents a big part of our growth in 2011,” stated Americas Cardroom spokesman Julius Maxwell. “We’re closing out the year with some big promotions including a $65,000 Points Race and special holiday freerolls. But it’s what’s in store for 2012 that’s really going to get players excited. Stay tuned.”