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$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.

888 Poker Sending Players to FA Cup Final

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888 Poker is now holding a promotion to send players to the upcoming FA Cup Final. The top prize in this competition is a full corporate box at the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium on May 5, 2012. That’s VIP entry for you and up to 9 guests including drinks, food and $2,000 for travel and accommodation expenses. You and your party also receive an assortment of 888Poker merchandise to enjoy.

The tournament at which this prize will be given away, the Corp Box (10 Seat) for FA Cup Final, takes place on Sunday, April 29th, 2012 at 19:05 GMT. It has a $1,000 + $50 direct buy-in, but players can avert that cost by winning a seat in the event instead through a satellite tournament.

The satellite series starts with buy-ins as low as $0.55. These Step 1 events take place twice daily (three times on Saturdays) at each running awarding 1 seat in the Step 2 event for every $11 collected.

The Step 2 event takes place once each on Tuesdays, Thurdays and Saturdays for an $11 buy-in and awards 1 in 5 players a seat in the Step 3 event.

The Step 3 event takes place once each on Tuesdays, Thurdays and Saturdays as well, this time for a $50 buy-in. It also advances 1 in 5 players to the next level, in this case Step 4.

The Step 4 event takes place on Sturdays only and has a $230 buy-in. From this event 1 in 5 players will move on to the Corp Box for FA Cup Final where the prize package will be won.

Cake Poker Series 2012 Begins

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As of April 5, Series 2012, Cake Poker’s satellite series for the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event, has begun. It features weekly satellite final tournaments on every Sunday at 05:00 ET or 9 pm GMT for a $215 buy-in. At each of these finals, one player will win a prize package that includes a seat in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA for every $10,000 in the prize pool.

You can avoid playing that $215 buy-in by winning your seat in the final through a Step 4 satellite. These events have $65 buy-ins and send one player to the finals for every $215 collected.

Likewise you can win your seat in the Step 4 event by finishing high enough in a Step 3 event. These have $22 buy-ins and award tickets to the Step 4 event for every $65 collected.

You can similarly win seats in the Step 3 event through a $3.30 Step 2 event. These have one rebuy and one add-on each award a ticket to the Step 3 event for every $22 collected.

Tournaments in steps 2 through 4 take place at Cake Poker every 4 hours.

Taking place every 2 hours is the Step 1 satellite, with unlimited rebuys and add-ons (during the permitted period) for an initial buy-in of $0.30.

There’s one more way still that you can get seats in any of these satellites, whether a Step event or the Final, and that’s by paying with Gold Chips, one of the currencies earned as part of the Cake Poker player loyalty and rewards program. This takes place in the Cake Shop.

Party Poker WSOP 2012 Satellite Series Details

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Party Poker was one of the first poker sites to start offering 2012 World Series of Poker main event satellites, launching its WSOP 2012 promotion back on February 27, which is why we thought it was worth bringing up again, in case you forgot about it. Party Poker plans to give away more prize packages to the WSOP 2012 main event than ever, and more, most likely, than most other poker sites this year as well.

The cheapest route to Vegas is to start with the daily WSOP Freeroll tournaments, which each award the top 25 finishers a seat in the $2 daily WSOP Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy. From here, one player for every $80 in prizepool advances to the $80 WSOP Satellite Qualifier, which takes place twice daily plus an extra turbo event on Sundays. From this event, 1 in every 10 players will move on to the WSOP Satellite, taking place every Sunday at 14:50 ET for a $750 direct buy-in, where Party Poker will award 1 in every 20 players a $14,000 prize package to Las Vegas to play in the WSOP main event.

That’s not the only way to get to Vegas on Party Poker’s dime, though. You can instead start with a $9 WSOP Sub Qualifier Speed that sends 1 in every 10 players to the Satellite Qualifier.

Each Party Poker prize package to the 2012 WSOP Main Event is worth $14,000 and includes the $10k main event buy-in, $2k in spending cash and 10 nights of hotel accommodations while in Vegas for the event.

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.

Carbon Poker Introduces Odds Calculator

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Poker odds calculators are all over the web for anyone interested in using them, but Carbon Poker now offers its own odds calculator as a convenience and added value to its players.

The Carbon Poker Odds Calculator help improve your online poker game and gives you the greatest chances of coming out ahead by analyzing win odds and pot odds, hand probabilities and opposition patterns. Other features include Expected Value of your hole cards, Groups that rank starting hands on their relative strength or weakness, and Profiling Icons to help you better recall the playing patterns of your most frequent opponents.

The CarbonPoker Odds Calculator also overlays opponent’s stastics on the table in real-time, It includes a built-in hand replayer so you can go back and study your own play to find weaknesses and fix them. You can even keeps notes on your play to help retain the lessons you learn and information you glean about other players.

And you can choose from a variety of customizable options including a heads-up display or mucked hands display as well as customizable deck colors, player notes and hand replayer functions as well.

The Carbon Poker Odds Calculator cutting edge software offered as a free download to all Carbon Poker players. To download yours, just go to your CarbonPoker player admin and look for the button to click on the left navigation bar that says Poker Odds Calculator.

Whether your a novice poker player or an online poker pro, the Carbon Poker Odds Calculator can help you take your level of play (and amount of winnings) to the next level.

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.

Party Poker Looking to Develop Their Own Rush Poker

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Party PokerIt looks like now that Full Tilt Poker isn’t up and running anymore that a few of the well-known online poker sites have decided to jump all over their idea of “Rush Poker”.  Full Tilt created Rush and said that it was under some sort of a copyright, which ended up not exactly being true.  So now, after PokerStars created Zoom Poker, another popular online poker site in Party Poker has decided to step in as well.  The CEO of bwin.party Digital Jim Ryan stated that they will be introducing their own version of the game within the next few months.  He did not put an exact date or tell how far along things are with it, but just that it would be coming soon.  It’s also worth noting that he also said that they are planning on having their two big player pools combined between Party Poker and bWin this year.

As most poker players know by now, the idea behind Rush Poker and Zoom Poker is that players join into a large player pool and are sat randomly at a table and given their hand.  They have the option to play or fold, but if they choose to fold then they are automatically switched to a new table with a completely different hand as well.  This game is incredibly fast paced and makes it so that players are constantly on their toes, but most importantly are getting to see a very large number of hands per hour.  The hands per hour goes up a ton in comparison to playing at a standard poker table.

While Rush Poker was an instant hit, Zoom Poker has gotten rave reviews as well, proving that a large amount of the player population loves the idea of being able to play a fast paced poker game with no waiting in between hands.  When Zoom Poker started out they were in a Beta testing phase for players, but things have gone very well and they continue to add more and more limits as time goes on, and also plan on putting it into tournaments and other types of play as well.

Intertops Poker Celebrate Easter with Reload Bonus and Easter Tourneys

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Intertops Poker is celebrating Easter this year with a pair of promotions in the way of a reload bonus and a series of special holiday tournaments.

The Easter Reload Bonus is a 50% reload bonus up to a $300 maximum bonus available between April 6 and 9, 2012 when using the bonus code EASTER2012 with your deposit. Bonuses are paid out in $5 increments.

The Intertops Poker Easter Tourneys run the same dates, Friday, April 6 through Monday, April 9, with a pair of special Easter Tournaments each day. With one exception, these are all NL Hold’em contests (the exception being on Saturday, April 7, an Easter PL Omaha event. Each day’s Easter tourney calendar includes one $500 Freeroll tournament at 7 pm ET and one $500 GTD tournament at 10 pm ET. This latter tourney is sometimes scheduled as a 1 rebuy / 1 add-on or bounty tournament.

In addition to the Easter Reload Bonus and the Easter Tourneys, this April Intertops Poker also rolls out another 26-Day Endurance Challenge (running April 1 to 27) and delivers 4 more FPP Races worth $25k GTD total (running April 1 to 7, April 7 to 14, April 14 to 21, and April 21 to 28) as well as launching its World Series of Poker Main Event 2012 promotion (with qualifiers having started yesterday, Thursday, April 5 and the first weekly final taking place April 15.)

Stay tuned here to find out about all of these April 2012 promotions at Intertops Poker.

Pokerstars Offers Home Games

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In case you were unaware, you can set up your own private Poker Club online at Poker Stars using its Home Games feature. Poker Stars Home Games are exactly what they sound like: private games in which you invite the players you want seated at the table. The only difference of course is that, in this case, the Home Game poker table is online.

Poker Stars offers 3 ways to learn how to set up your own Poker Club: through a handy “Home Game for Dummies” style video (with subtitles!), an animated step-by-step tutorial or described in simple verbal instructions.

In either case, you just download (or launch if already installed) the Poker Stars client. Then go to Home Games in the main game lobby. From there you’ll see two green buttons: one to Create to a Poker Club and one to accept someone else’s invitation to join their club.

If you’re setting up a new poker club you’re asked to give it a name and then you’re given an invitation code to send out to your prospective club members.

Once your club has been added to your lobby (which can take 4-5 days) you’ll see a Club Lobby button in your PokerStars poker client. In that tab you’ll see buttons to Manage Club, for accepting and rejecting membership applications, and Manage Games, to create tournaments and cash ring game tables in your desired stakes and gaming styles, including No Limit, Fixed Limit and Pot Limit, including Hold’em, Omaha and Stud.

The PokerStars Home Games feature also includes club leaderboards and member stats.