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Bwin Releases New Poker App for iPads

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Bwin.Party has done a great job in recent months and years of continuing to grow their poker site, and they’ve now made one additional way to grow their site, and it’s one that should gain the interest of quite a few people.  If you remember back, Bwin launched applications for both Android phones and iPhone’s that allow players to play for real money from anywhere.  These new iPad Poker application were a hit, and now the site has decided to create a real money poker application for any players who have an iPad as well.

The idea behind the application is that it will include an interface that was the same as the one that came out on the iPhone back in January, and also the one that was released on the Android back in July.  The resolution will be a full res for the iPad that is 1042×768, and should draw quite a bit of interest as well in the upcoming months here.  Not only is there the option for players to play real money poker games, but you can also look at your hand histories from the table that you are currently on if you choose to as well.

The application can be downloaded for any current Bwin players either through the iTunes store on their iPad, or through Bwin’s site.  If you don’t have an account though you just have to go through and sign up and then download the application one of the two ways listed above.

If you are looking to play through your mobile phone, it is currently available in quite a few countries (19 total) including Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Cyprus, Austria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, and Sweden as well.

Currently the idea behind mobile poker is one that is growing rapidly, and before long it should be one of the more “go to” options for online poker moving forward.  The reason for this is because poker players love to able to play the game that they love from wherever they can, especially if they are on the go and don’t have their computer!

Las Vegas Casinos and Bwin.Party To Join Forces?

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The big time news just keeps coming recently, and this time it is a potential combo punch between two of the biggest casino operations and the largest online gambling operation.  MGM Resorts International has decided to pair with Boyd Gaming Corporation AND Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment to make a three headed online poker operation in the United States if online poker becomes legalized in the US.  The exact aspects of the deal haven’t been finalized, but it looks like it would benefit the online poker giant Bwin.Party the most, with Boyd Gaming owning 10%, MGM owning 25%, and Bwin.Party owning all the rest of the operation.

Of course, the entire deal depends on what happens with online poker in the United States in the upcoming years.  This really helps out both sides of the deal overall though, because MGM and Boyd will benefit quite a bit from using the Bwin.Party software, and for Bwin; it will get them almost instant entry into the United States gambling market once/if it becomes legalized.  This is huge news for all three, and news that could expand business for them in the future.

Back in 2006, Bwin went along with another online poker company in PartyGaming when they decided to not allow United States based players to play on their site.  One thing that many people actually don’t know about Bwin.Party is that they are the owners of the World Poker Tour as well, so they have been around in the live poker world for a bit now.  This deal has a few issues that the sides will need to deal with, and of course the biggest one of all is figuring out if online poker will even be allowed in the US after Black Friday.

Assuming that online poker does end up legal in the US, this has the potential to be huge for not only the companies, but also for online poker players in general.  The three headed monster between Boyd, Bwin.Party, and MGM has the potential to be massive, and also give players many reasons to join whatever online poker site the three end up creating.

Bwin Poker Invites Players Into the Ring

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Bwin Poker is inviting all its fiercest players to show off your class and step into the ring. No, not a cash ring game. A boxing ring. Its the Bwin Poker Contender contest and it offers are comers-on the chance to win a share of up to $20,000.

Players earn market points by playing as normal at Bwin Poker’s cash games and tournaments. Earn at least 100 of those market points and you place yourself in a weight class, Flyweight through Heavyweight. Each weight class offers its members a seat in an exclusive freeroll tournament. Players advance to higher weight classes by earning target numbers of market points. The higher the market points, the higher the weight class, the higher the prize pool for the associated freeroll tournament.

The flyweight class, for 100 points, offers seats in a $1,000 freeroll while the heavyweight class, which takes 75,000 points to achieve, awards seats in a $20,000 freeroll. In between those are featherweight for 1,500 points and a $1,500 freeroll seat, welterweight for 5,000 points and a $2,500 freeroll seat, middleweight for 15,000 points and a $5,000 freeroll seat, and cruiserweight for 30,000 points and a $10,000 freeroll seat.

Players will only win seats in the highest valued freeroll for which they are eligible. All freerolls will takes place on the second Saturday of the following month at 18:00 GMT+1.

Only members of Bwin’s b’inside player loyalty and rewards program are eligible to participate in this promotion. The Contender runs monthly at Bwin Poker.

Last Month for Bwin Poker GSOP Live Prague Satellites

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Since September 26, 2011, Bwin Poker has been holding satellite tournaments to award seats in the upcoming Grand Series of Poker Live stop in Prague, Czech Republic. Now, with November underway, there’s less than a month left to get in on the action.

Bwin Poker’s GSOP Live Prague satellites run through November 27, 2011. Buy-ins start at just $1.05 for the Super Step Coinflip Qualifiers in which every hand is all-in and only a coinflip determines whether you advance to a prize package. Step 1 winners head to Step 2, which runs daily and has a direct buy-in of $14.07, which in turn lead to Step 3 where the prize packages will be awared. These run weekly on Sundays for a $210 buu-in.

There is also a regular tournament path with daily qualifiers starting at just $2.20. These lead to a GSOP Live Prague Online Final where the prize packages will be awarded. These place Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays for a $320 buy-in.

The GSOP Live Prague takes place between December 7 and 12, 2011 at the Corinthia Hotel Prague. Each Bwin Poker prize package into this event includes the $1,500 + $150 main event buy-in, $1,250 to appy toward accommodations, transportations and hospitality and $700 to use for random expenses. In all each package is worth $3,600.

In the meantime, Bwin Poker is also hosting, for a limited time only, a special Lowrider tournament specially geared for beginners. It costs only $0.10 + $0.01 to enter but the prize pool has a whopping $1,000 added. This event takes place daily between October 31 and November 13, 2011.

Bwin Poker Hosts GSOP 7 and GSOP Mini 7 Satellites

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Bwin Poker is hosting full satellite tournament series’ for the seventh season of both the Grand Series of Poker and the Grand Series of Poker Mini.

The GSOP 7 takes place between September 25 and October 16, 2011 and is made up 18 events all leading up to a GSOP $500,000 Grand Slam Final. In all, $3.1 million will be awarded in this year’s series.

The GSOP Mini 7 main event takes place over the same dates and culminates in a GSOP Mini $200,000 Grand Slam Final. The total guaranteed prize pool for this years GSOP Mini is $600,000.

Players can win seats in the GSOP 7 Grand Slam Final and GSOP Mini 7 Grand Slam Final in a number of ways. For one, Bwin Poker will be running leaderboards for both series’, tracking players’ progress across all 18 events in each one. The top player on each leaderboard will automatically win a seat in the respective Grand Slam Final while the rest of the top 100 players on each leaderboard will face off for three more free seats in the respective Grand Slam Final.

You can also win seats in one of the Grand Slam Finals through daily qualifiers at Bwin Poker. The direct buy-in for the Grand Slam Mini Final is $525, while the direct buy-in for the Grand Slam Final is $5,000. Bwin Poker is also running daily qualifiers and last chance qualifiers for all of the events comprising each GSOP 7 series.

In addition, Bwin Poker is holding a separate but related GSOP Sidebet Tournament with a $1,000 buy-in and a Grand Slam Final ticket as top prize, along with a share of the sidebet prize pool split among the top participating scorers on the GSOP leaderboard.