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July Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin Begins

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The July 2012 Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin has begun. Each month Lock Poker runs the Battle of the Ronin, a month long contest with more than $1 million in cash prizes.

The full name of the competition is the Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin Rake Chase, and it’s those added last two words that tell you exactly what you need to do excel in this race: earn points by paying rake.

You already eanr VIP Points every time you participate in a real money cash game hand at Lock Poker because the site takes a small percentage, called the rake, out from each pot. To compensate players for this cut of their pot that goes to the house, Lock Poker awards players who pay into that rake VIP Points. And in the Battle of the Ronin Rake Chase, cash prizes are awarded to the players who earn the most VIP Points this way over the course of one month’s time.

Best of all, you’re not competing against other players in this rake chase, only against the clock to reach the highest level of target points you can. Each time you reach a new, higher target level of points, Lock Poker will award you a cash prize. You get your first prize of $1.50 for earning 70 points. Earn 56,000 points and you get a $7,500 cash award. What’s more, these awards are cumulative, so by the time you’ve reached that 56,000 points mark and earned that final $7,500 prize, you’ve cumulatively earned $45,142.

But there are only a set number of prizes available at each level, so you’d better hurry.

Get Ready For June Lock Poker $1 Million Battle of the Ronin

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One of the most popular and rewarding regular promotions at Lock Poker is the Battle of the Ronin, a month long points race with more than $1 million in cash prizes. And right now, the site is reminding players, is the time to gear up for the June 2012 event.

The Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin Rake Chase offers 2,900 individual cash prizes divided amongst 35 prize levels, for a total guaranteed prize pool of more than $1,000,000. To earn as many of these prizes as you can, simply earn as many VIP points as you can by playing at Lock Poker’s real money cash game and tournament tables.

That’s the best part of the Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin Rake Chase: that you’re only chasing the clock (or calendar, in this case) and not your fellow player. That gives every player equal chance to win the maximum $45,000 top prize. Earn 100 points to get your first prize of $1.50. All cash prizes are credited to player accounts as soon as they reach the required number of points. Earn 8,000 points to get all 35 prizes for the $45,000 total.

The only limitation to be aware of is that there is only a certain number of prizes at each level. At the first level, for example, there are 400 prizes of $1.50 up for grabs. But there are only 4 prizes of $7,500 available at the 8,000 point level. So in that sense, you are competing against time and your fellow player to nab those limited cash prizes.

All cash deposited into player accounts from this contest have no play through requirements and may be withdrawn as cash as of 7 days after being deposited.

Lock Poker Offers Lock Lotto Extreme

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All this month of May, 2012, Lock Poker is holding a special Lock Lotto Extreme promotion with monthly grand prizes of a WSOP Main Event Seat and a Ducati 848 EVO Superbike.

In addition to these grand prizes, every day Lock Poker will award 3 other prizes, ranging from Lock Poker merchandise to player points to tournament seats.

To enter one of any given day’s 3 Lock Lotto Extreme drawings, you must earn a target number of points that day. There are three target levels, each with its own daily drawing. To win a prize, reach a daily target level and you’ll be entered into a drawing for that level’s prize on that day.

The lowest target level is 1,000 points in a day, and sample prizes include a Lock Poker T-shirt, 3k VIP Points or entry worth $33 into a $3k freezeout tournament.

The middle target level is 1,500 points per day and sample prizes include a Lock Poker sweatshirt plus entry worth $109 into a $125k guaranteed freezeout satellite, entry into both the $125k satellite and $3k freezeouts, and 12k in VIP points.

The highest target level is 3,000 points and sample prizes include $500 cash plus the buy-in worth $218 into the $125k guaranteed freezeout, a 16 GB Apple iPad 3, and 50k in VIP Points.

In addition, every day of the month that you qualify for entry into that day’s drawing, you also earn another entry into the monthly drawing for the World Series of Poker Main Event prize package and the Ducati 848 EVO Superbike.

Lock Poker to Buy the Cake Poker Network

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Lock PokerLock Poker has reached an agreement to purchase the Cake Poker Network. Lock Poker had their much anticipated LockOP’s Series abruptly cancelled by the Merge Poker Network last month and appear to have decided to have more control over their future by leaving the mismanaged Merge Poker Network. Gambling911.com first reported this news and we have also confirmed it with our sources.

As of now the Cake Poker Room as well as several other skins will continue to operate and will not be integrated into Lock Poker. Lock Poker has exploded in popularity since Black Friday and is believed to be the biggest earner on the Merge Network.

Sources have also said that the whole Cake Poker Network will be revamped with new technology like being Mac compatible, better player rewards, upgraded software, bigger tournament guarantees and more.

As a player, there is nothing for you need to do. Once software changes are ready, Lock Poker players will login and be redirected to a new download. That’s it. Cake Poker players, it business as usual for you with one exception. Lock Poker already has it’s own cashier, which will be integrated into the software. All 2012 Series games will continue as well as gold cards and other loyalty programs.

This will be the second time that Lock Poker is on the Cake Network. Only this time they will have total control over everything. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about this deal.

Lock Poker Announces LOCKOPS

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Lock PokerRecently it seems that many online poker sites have been coming out with different online poker tournament series’.  Each one has their own twist and offers some strong incentives, but one that was recently released was the Lock Online Poker Series, or the LOCKOPS.  This tournament series features an incredibly strong list of events (33 in total) with over $2 million in guaranteed prize pools as well.  The series will offer tournaments that have a wide range of buy-in’s for all different levels of players, but also will feature some great chances for players to make quite a bit of cash regardless of which tournament they are in!

The tournament series is going to run from May 6th to May 20th, and it will end with the Grand Finale Main Event that is guaranteed to give away at least $800k in prize money.  To make these tournaments even more interesting is the fact that a Lock PRO Elite player will host each of the tournaments, and all of these pros will have bounties on their heads as well, meaning that you can take home a nice payout if you are the person who can send the pro home!  As we all know, Lock Poker has one of the strongest professional poker lineups out there today, so this is just another chance to potentially play with some of the biggest pros in the game.

There will also be a “Champion of Champions Tournament” which will be offered for any player who takes down one of the 33 different events.  This tournament will give away two seats to the World Series of Poker Main Event, meaning that you have a great chance to take down one of the seats if you can win one of the 33 events.  Lock Poker is going to run a leaderboard that will be constantly updated as well, and the players who finish in the top 100 at the end of the tournament series will automatically be entered into another special tournament after the Main Event comes to an end.

UPDATE: The Merge Poker Network has cancelled the LOCKOPS Series

Poker Maximus on Lock Poker Keeps Firing With Incredible Past Sunday

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It’s safe to say that the Poker Maximus poker series is completely blowing up in the online poker world right now.  The hype behind this series just continues to grow after an incredible Sunday afternoon of poker events this past week.  The Poker Maximus series features all different levels of buy-ins for their events, but most importantly offers some great guarantees for their players, and some of those guarantees have been getting as much as doubled as well!  The Merge Gaming Network has done an excellent job with this series, and players are loving the action on Lock Poker.  Let’s take a look at the action from this past Sunday that included guarantees of $10k, $15k, $75k, and even $150k.

The first event started with a $30 buy-in that had a guarantee of $15k.  That guarantee was completely slaughtered though, as it ended up being over $78k in total by the end of the registration.  With 2,603 players in the event, there was sure to be some excellent poker going on, and one of the Lock Poker pro’s actually made it to the final table.  It was Matt Stout, and he eventually ended up finishing in fourth place when all was said and done.

One of the next tournaments on the board drew in so many players (over 4,000) that they decided to change the event from a rebuy to a freezeout.  The original guarantee was set at $10k, but the final total in the prize pool ended up being $40k.  In reality it was just about $1k short of $40k in the prize pool, but the site decided to add the additional money to make it exactly four times larger than the starting guarantee.

The two other tournaments this past Sunday were the big tournaments, with one that featured a $100 buy-in, and one that had a $200 buy-in.  The $100 buy-in event had a $150k guarantee, which ended up being more than $200k after the final registration was done.  This sent the eventual winner home with $34k at the end of the day.  The $200 buy-in event had an impressive 812 players in it, and the guarantee of $75k was more than doubled up to $162k.  This meant another big pay day for the winner in the end!

This series will be going on through the 21st of the month, so for just under one more week.  Get in on the action while you can and take home some of these guaranteed prize pools!

Poker Maximus Event on Lock Poker is a Knockout

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Lock PokerFor those of you who haven’t heard about the Poker Maximus series on the popular online poker site Lock Poker, then you are simply missing out on some excellent action.  The Merge Network launched the Poker Maximus series which will run from the 4th of March through the 21st of the month, and features many different tournament buy-in sizes, as well as some massive guaranteed events as well.  When the tournaments started, the guarantees varied quite a bit depending on what the buy-in of the tournament was, but the creators of the series’ quickly found out that these guarantees were going to be smashed.

Event #1 started off as a $11 buy-in, that featured a $7,500 guaranteed prize pool.  The event was just a standard No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event, but it was one that absolutely slaughtered that guarantee above.  When all was said and done the total prize pool was $50,550.  There were over 5,000 players in the event, which definitely created quite a nice first place prize for such a small buy-in tournament as well.

The next event was the $150k guarantee Freezeout that featured a buy-in of $109.  The field came to a total of 2,361 players, which was good to add $86k to that prize pool.  The final numbers that were reported were $236,100 in the pool for this event, and the eventual winner “niko79542” got a pay day of over $39k for their efforts.

Now to take a look at the third event, which had a $33 buy-in, and it absolutely annihilated the $15k guarantee.  In total, the prize pool was $79,950, and and first place ALONE was over $13k!  This was probably one of the most impressive jumps in terms of growing prize pools, and one that could even make the next $33 event even larger!

The final event of an incredible opening day at the Poker Maximus event featured a $215 event with a $75k guarantee, and of course once again that guarantee was slaughtered.  In the end, it was a total prize pool of $172,600, and the eventual winner “PokerJoe561”, got over $32.5k for taking it down.

The upcoming weeks of this event should be some incredible poker action, so be sure to get in on the events daily!

Lock Poker Just Keeps Adding Pros

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Lock PokerWhile Lock Poker’s popularity just continues to grow, it seems that they continue to add more and more well-known poker pros each day.  It’s almost getting to the point where we can’t keep up with all of the news that includes the name “Lock Poker” and their “Team LockPRO Elite”!  Lock Poker is a top notch choice for any player who plays the game in the United States, or also for many other countries around the world as well.  Now, they have decided to add two additional professional poker players to their roster to help boost the lineup.

The two new additions include Jason Lee and Tim West, who will now add to an already incredible team that features the likes of Chris Moorman, Leo Margets, Pedro Maia, Melanie Weisner, and Kevin Vandersmissen for starters.  Moorman is probably the most well-know pro on the roster, but Margets is a pro from Spain, Maia is a new addition from Portugal, Vandersmissen is a pro from Belgium, and Weisner actually spent time as a Full Tilt Poker pro.  Lock is simply expanding to all over the world with their many additions lately.

Jason Lee is a huge online poker player, as he has won over $3 million in his career online, but also has hauled in over $400k on the live tournament circuit as well.  Overall, Lee’s game is impressive, but he should be a slam dunk at Lock Poker because online poker is definitely his strongest point.  Tim West on the other hand started off by winning the Wynn Poker Classic back in 2011, and also finished in second place at the World Series of Poker Circuit event’s Regional Championship in San Diego.  He was a hit after that, and overall has pulled in more than $1.6 million in his career on the live tournament circuit.

It’s  hard to put into words exactly what Lock Poker has done in recent months, but one thing that they have definitely done is picked up the pace when it seems that everyone else in the online poker world is relaxing.  Lock Poker started off 2012 with a bang, and we expect them to keep it going through the year.

Lock Poker Continues to Boost Team LockPro Elite Roster

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Lock PokerLock Poker has struck again.  This site seems to consistently keep popping up in the poker news these days, and it’s consistently for good things.  After bringing in some big signings to their Team LockPRO Elite roster like Chris Moorman, Leo Margets, Nicky Evans, Melanie Weisner, and Kevin Vandersmissen, they decided that they weren’t done just yet.  The site has decided to add another professional player in Pedro “pls3betme” Maia.  Maia is a pro from Portugal, who began playing back in 2007 and it only took two years for him to quit his job to begin playing poker full time.

Lock Poker already has a strong roster overall, and they are definitely one of the most talked about online poker sites in the United States these days as well.  Overall, Lock ranks first in the US for online poker for many different reasons.  They are a part of the Merge Network, and teamed with Carbon Poker they have turned into a fan favorite for US players.

To look at Maia and his play to this point, you’ll see that he is a huge multi-tabler, and brings in an absurdly large amount of rake back consistently as well.  He’s a very strong tournament player and has brought in impressive results in Portugal in recent years.  Lock Poker’s addition of Maia is a proving point that they are hoping to get strong talent from all over the world as well, and expand world wide.  Maia is the second pro on the roster from Portugal also, as the other is a good friend of his in Francisco “yuranpt” Santos.  Santos said he’s incredibly excited to have Maia added to the roster, and hopes that one of the two of them can be the first Portugese players to take down a bracelet as well.

On top of the many names listed above, Lock Poker also has strong pros including Matt Stout, Brett Jungblut, Casey Jarzabek, and Eric Lynch as well, just to name a few.  Lock Poker offers a great range of poker tournaments and constant running cash games, so if you are searching for a site regardless of if you are a United States player or not, don’t overlook Lock Poker!

Lock Poker Presents $1.5 Million Poker Maximus

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From March 4th through 25th, 2012, Lock Poker will be holding The Poker Maximus with a guaranteed prize pool of more than $1.5 million.

The Poker Maximus schedule features an $85,000 Guaranteed High Roller Main Event with a $215 buy-in, a $100,000 guaranteed Deepstack Main Event with a $530 buy-in, and a $200,000+ Guaranteed Main Event with a $109 buy-in and at least $50k going to the winner. Lock Poker will also hold a Tournament Champions open exclusively to all winners of Poker Maximus events. And there’ll even be a Player’s Choice tournament in which the players themselves will decide the structure.

Buy-ins for the Poker Maximus range from $1.10 to $530 with more than $25k added in bonus prizes for players who either play in the Tournament of Champions or finish in the top 10 on the Poker Maximus leaderboard.

In all, Lock Poker will be hosting 70 events in this year’s Poker Maximus. In addition to a Tournament of Champions entry and their prize and bonus money, each event’s winner will also recieve a Poker Maximus Event Winner accolade for use with their Lock Poker player avatar.

Lock Poker will also be holding satellites awarding free seats in the various Poker Maximus events. These Satellites take place daily, and some are hourly, for buy-ins of $0.55 to $60. There are also ongoing SNG satellites with buy-ins of $1.91 to $73.30. Different satellites award seats of different cash values that can be used to buy into any Poker Maximus event with that buy-in.