Introducing Felt Stars Poker

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A member of the Merge Gaming Network, Felt Stars Poker at FeltStars.eu is host of the World Championship of Internet Poker (WCOIP) and claims to offer the biggest bad beat jackpot in history. In addition, besides offering the usual variety of multi-player poker games, FeltStars also offers casino games like blackjack, roulette, video poker and Caribbean stud, with a progressive jackpot. The stated FeltStars mission is to offer the safest and user-friendliest online poker and gaming experience as possible.

Among the promotions running at FeltStars Poker is a $500 freeroll for first time depositors. New players at Felt Stars get an open ticket to 14 days worth of these exclusive daily events. They also get a 150% first deposit bonus up to a $750 maximum bonus. The famed “largest bad beat jackpot in history” has a low minimum hand of quad 7s and a high pot contribution of 50 cents from every pot. Felt Stars also has a big royal flush bonus of 100 times the big blind.

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Every Sunday, Felt Stars hosts a $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament with a $100 + $9 direct buy-in and satellites starting at 110 VIP Points. Felt Stars also hosts satellites into events in the World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Aussie Millions and Asia Pacific Poker Tour. Satellite buy-ins start at a low $2 and prize packages are valued at as high as $15,000.

Felt Stars maintains a Sit n Go leaderboard and a Tourney King leaderboard to track and reward top performance in online poker tournament play.

Is Lock Poker the new Pokerstars for US Players?

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It’s now been three weekends since Pokerstars shut it’s doors to players from the US and the question on everyone’s minds is what online poker site will become the new Pokerstars. The answer seems to be poker sites on the Merge Poker Network.

Merge Poker has increased it’s cash game traffic by 70% since Black Friday and ranks #10 for cash game traffic in the world and #1 in the US.

Leading the way for the Merge Network is Lock Poker because of their huge first deposit bonus and their monthly promotions. Lock Poker is also 100% Mac compatible and has a sleek black look.

Lock Poker is not the only Merge Poker skin making a splash.  Another skin, Hero Poker, (No longer Accepting US players) has signed former Pokerstars Pro Gavin Griffin as well as a few other poker pros. P5’s and Holdem Poker Chat members received a special invite from them this past weekend to play in an exclusive 15k freeroll. The CEO for Hero Poker explained why he set up the unpromoted freeroll by saying “I set this up for traumatized US players”.

The Merge network is one of the last major poker networks available to US players and there have been hundreds of thousands of new sign-ups on those sites within the past three weeks.

Other skins that we like on the network are Carbon Poker, RPM Poker and Feltstars. There are many poker sites on the Merge Poker Network but we do not recommend most of them.

You may be asking yourself, How do I decide which Merge Poker Site should I play on? Our recommendation is that you try out several of them and see which one you like the best. Download them and sit at a play money game or play in a freeroll while you get accustomed to the software. If you like the overall feel of the site then make a deposit. If you don’t like it, move on to another one and try that one out. According to out sources Merge is working hard on a major software upgrade that we’re told “Will have all the features that Pokerstars has” That upgrade is expected sometime next month.

Update: Lock Poker along with all other Merge skins have halted NEW US player accounts.

FeltStars WCOIP Returns in May 2011

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FeltStars has thrown their hat back into the online series ring. Though no FTOPS, their World Championship of Internet Poker (WCOIP) is a great value for non-nosebleed players. WCOIP will have 13 events spanning 22 days in May 2011. There are events for all bankrolls. the lowest buyin event is $1.10 while the highest is $109. Satellites to all events are running daily now. There are even freeroll satellites for the bankroll challenged.

The WCOIP begins May 01, 2011. The WCOIP will have a Leaderboard to determine the Overall Champion. If you make the final table in any WCOIP event, you will be awarded points. The top 10 Overall Leader board winners will win a Feltstars Guaranteed Tournament Coupon Package. The more events you play the better chance you have to win the Overall Championship. The winner of each event will also receive a custom Feltstars baseball jersey with the name and number of their choice.

WCOIP Schedule:

Overall Leaderboard Prizes
1st $460 Tournament, $215 Tournament, $109 Tournament, $109 Tournament,
$60 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $10.80 Double Up,
$2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30),
Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50), $2 All-in or Fold ($2.20)
Total Coupon Worth $1,002.30

2nd $215 Tournament, $109 Tournament, $109 Tournament, $60 Satellite, $11 Satellite,$2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30),
Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $518.30

3rd $215 Tournament, $11 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $251.30

4th $109 Tournament, $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), $11 Satellite, Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $134.30

5th $60 Satellite, $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50) , $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), $11 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $10.80 Double Up, Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50), $2 All-in or Fold ($2.20)
Total Coupon Worth $109.30

6th $60 Satellite, $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50), $2 All-in or Fold ($2.20)
Total Coupon Worth $76.50

7th $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), $11 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $10.80 Double Up, $10.80 Double Up, Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50), $2 All-in or Fold ($2.20)
Total Coupon Worth $60.10

8th $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), $11 Satellite, $11 Satellite, $10.80 Double Up, Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $47.10

9th $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30), $11 Satellite, $10.80 Double Up, Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $36.10

10th $2,000 Guaranteed Entry ($5.50), $2,000 Guaranteed Turbo ($3.30),
$11 Satellite Feltstars Pro Bounty ($5.50)
Total Coupon Worth $25.30