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Carbon Poker Introduces April $25k Chip King Freerolls

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For this month of April, 2012, Carbon Poker is introducing Chip King Freerolls with a total prize pool to the tune of $25,000. The promotion kicked off on Sunday, April 1 with the first of the month’s weekly Chip King Freerolls scheduled for this Sunday, April 8.

To participate in this Chip King Freeroll or any of the weekly Chip King Freerolls scheduled every Sunday throughout this month, simply opt-in to the promotion at the Carbon Poker site, and then, over each tournament’s given qualification period, earn at least 50 VIP points by playing at Carbon Poker’s real money games.

The more VIP points you earn during a given qualification period, the larger your chip stack at that period’s freeroll. Earn 50 to 99.9 VIP points and you start with 250 chips. But earn 100 to 249.9 VIP points and you start with 500 chips. Earn 250 to 499.9 VIP points to start with 750 chips and earn 500 to 999.9 VIP points to start with 1,000 chips. If you manage to earn 1,000 or more VIP points during any qualification period, then your starting stack will be uniquely based on your VIP point earnings.

The qualification periods increase in length as the month (and the promotion) progresses, with each freeroll’s qualification period starting on April 1 and therefore each successive week’s qualification period lasting an additional week. As such, the prize pools also increase in this promotion from week to week, starting at $2,500 for week 1 and moving to $5,000 for week 2, $7,500 for week 3, and $10,000 for week 4.

Full Tilt Poker Posts 14 Job Openings Online

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In a bit of interesting poker news, the massive online poker site Full Tilt Poker is looking to be back in business soon apparently.  There is a pending sale of the company standing currently, and the parent company of Full Tilt, Pocket Kings Ltd has decided to post 14 different job openings on a job site.  The job postings aren’t brand new either though, as they have been up for about a month now since they were posted at the beginning of March, which makes the job postings even more interesting.

Laurent Tapie did state that he was looking to hire staff for the popular site, and it looks like he has officially begun before the sale was actually finished.  Tapie apparently has moved to Dublin, Ireland to make sure that things go smoothly with the end of the sale on the site, and also to hire his staff for the site as well.  Tapie will also be working on a key part of the transition which includes getting a license through the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC), which could be one of the toughest parts of the entire process though.

These rumors about a potential sale have been swirling for nearly half a year, and it seems that if you are a player who has money frozen on the site currently then you could be poised for some good news coming soon.  On top of that though, if you live around Dublin and are looking for a job then there are many openings through Pocket Kings Ltd as well!  Most of the jobs through the site that are available are customer service jobs in different languages, so if you want to work for the new version of Full Tilt Poker, you could have a shot to take down one of the spots if you can speak one of the languages needed.

The potential sale of Full Tilt Poker doesn’t leave us with any exact day as to when we should expect the site to be up and running, but it is definitely good news for the online poker world, as Full Tilt Poker is one of the most popular and well-known sites out there.

Party Poker Announces Pokerfest II

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Party Poker has revived the player favorite Pokerfest, the world’s biggest poker festival, and this time around the site has added $500,000 more to the prize pool. Pokerfest II features a $3.5 million guaranteed prize pool, including a $1 million main event and 47 online poker tournaments and side events. This time around, Pokerfest II also includes jackpot prizes like $14,000 WSOP 2012 packages, iPods and iPads, and $50,000 in cash.

PartyPoker’s Pokerfest II runs from April 22nd through May 6th, 2012, culminating in a million dollar guaranteed main event with a $640 direct buy-in and satellites starting at $1.

There are several different ways to qualify for Pokerfest II events, with different qualification structures depending on the Pokerfest II event buy-in cost. So there’s a $640 main event structure, and structures for events with buyins of $1060, $530, $215, $99, and $55.Then, within each structure, may be several different qualifier paths to victory, including $55 MEGA Friday Satellites and Qualifier Extras where 1 in 4 players win Pokerfest II main event seats.

Party Poker is also keeping three leaderboards totaling $50k in addition prizes for each of three buy-in and stakes ranges:
• points – $2,500 prize pool; 250 places paid; $250 to 1st place
• low – $15,000 prize pool; 500 places paid; $1,250 to 1st place
• high – $32,500 prize pool; 500 places paid; $2,500 to 1st place

There are also a bevy of Party Poker Pokerfest II side events, including Daily Dollar side events and Pokerfest II Jackpots.

888 Poker Introduces Monthly Bonus Box

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888 Poker has just introduced the monthly Bonus Box. Now, every month, each and every 888 Poker member wil receive in their email inbox $5 free to use on the site, along with an assortment of other personalized prizes.

Each player’s bonus box includes the $5 Free-A-Month cash top-up and entry into 6 months worth of $10,000 Poker Shop Freeroll with prizes of new iPads, iPads and more up for grabs. Then, each individual player’s monthly Bonus Box will also include a personalized prize that may include freeroll entries, free spins at on 888 Poker’s casino games or even more cash top-up for your 888 Poker cash game or tournament bankroll.

In order to win your Bonus Box every month, first check your email inbox on or after the first Monday of any month. If you’re already an 888 Poker member and you don’t have a Bonus Box email in your inbox each month, that means it may be getting sent to the trash by your email software’s junk filter.

In this email will be instructions for registering for your next Bonus Box Challenge. Follow those registration instructions and complete your Bonus Box Challenge, whatever it happens to be that month. Examples of challenges include earning a certain number of status points or playing a certain number of cash hands or tourneys.

Once completed, you will receive an email congratulating you and along with a monthly reminder each month for 6 months to claim your BonusBox. After the first 3 months, you need to keep earning 10 Status Points per month to continue being eligible for your Bonus Box.

Provisional Poker Stars 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker Schedule Released

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Poker Stars has released what it’s calling the provisional schedule for the upcoming 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), running May 6th through 20th. They’re calling it provisional because they’re still leaving it open for player input. Players with suggestions about making changes to the schedule can contact PokerStars at scoop @ pokerstars . com to submit theirs.

Until and unless any unforseen schedule changes occur, however, the series is set to feature 38 tournaments, each with a low, mid, and high stakes range for players to compete in, giving all levels of players equal opportunity to win big in this series. That makes for a total of 114 tournaments scheduled in the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP.

Every day on the schedule, even if it changes slightly between now and then, will feature 2-3 events, starting on May 6th with No Limit Holdem, 6-max, for a $27, $215, and $2,100 buy-in, respectively. The other event that day is straight NL Holdem with the same buy-in levels. The main event on May 20th has an $82, $700 and $7,500 direct buy-in, respectively.

Of course, PokerStars will shortly start running a Step satellite tournament series offering daily qualifiers into the various events making up the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker.

No guaranteed prize pools have been announced yet, but if last year’s series is any indication, the bounty should be big, to say the least. At the 2011 SCOOP, $40 million was given away, including $505k given to the winner of the 2011 SCOOP main event, and that’s after a deal at the final table ended the game early with a 5-way split.

Carbon Poker Invites Players to All-In Or Fold Their Way to $2,250

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The most daring of players at Carbon Poker can win $2,250 for just a $1 investment in an ongoing promotion at the site called “All-in or Fold Your Way to $2,250”.

It’s not the catchiest promotion title, but the promo itself can become quite addictive. All you have to do to claim the $2,250 top prize for yourself is play through 10 successive levels of All-in or Fold Heads-up tournaments, which, just like they sound, are one-on-one online poker tournaments in which your only choices in each hand are to go all-in or fold until one player busts and the other one is declared winner. (The only exception to the heads-up aspect of the game is level 1, which contains 9 players per round.)

You can register for the first level for just $1.10 or you can register at whatever level you feel comfortable at and pay the direct buy-in:

1. $1.10
2. $5.50
3. $10.50
4. $20
5. $39
6. $77
7. $152
8. $300
9. $594
10. $1,180

Finish first place in any level and advance to the next level. Finish at any other level and you’re out and have to start over again with a direct buy-in at the level of your choice. The only exceptions to this are at level 1, where the 2nd through 4th place finishers get to repeat level 1, and level 10, where 2nd place gets to go back to level 6 for free.

AIOF Step tournament entry coupons are non-transferrable and players cannot use them to enter any other tournament at Carbon Poker besides All-in or Fold Steps events.

Party Poker Premier League Has One Spot Left Open

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Party PokerThe Party Poker Premier League will kick off on April 10th, and it features 14 of the top professional poker players in the game, as well as two qualifiers for the event as well.  The tournament happens just before the World Poker Tour’s Vienna Main Event kicks off, so it will be taking place in Vienna, Austria.  Up until yesterday though, the event hand only 12 professional poker players on the roster, so they were looking to fill the two additional spots with pro players.  By the day’s end, one of the biggest names in poker had joined on board when Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier filled the role of the 13th player to be added.

Grospellier has an incredibly impressive resume throughout his career, but probably the most impressive is the fact that he currently has hit the Triple Crown of poker as of last year.  He was excited to take part in the Party Poker Premier League, as this will be his first appearance in the tournament.  It has one of the more interesting formats out there, but most importantly features some of the biggest and best in the world of poker today.

As far as the other players who will be included on the list, you’ll find the likes of Patrik Antonius, Vanessa Selbst, Sam Trickett, Tony G, Luke “FullFlush” Schwartz”, Erik Seidel, Andy Frankenberger, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Eugene Katchalov, Tom Dwan, Phil Laak, and Daniel Cates.  Just from looking at the names on that list you’ll see that some players are some of the most experienced and more “veteran players”, and others are more of the “young and up and coming” poker players of today.  Frankenberger for example is the reigning World Poker Tour Player of the Year, while player’s like Seidel have eight gold bracelets to their name.

One last bit of news about the tournament is that the World Poker Tour Vienna Main Event’s tournament director Matt Savage will also be handing the Party Poker tournament as well.  One of the best tournament directors in the game of poker today will have a busy week during that span in the middle of April, but I’m sure both tournament committees are more than confident that Savage will do an excellent job.

Carbon Poker Now Offering 125 Seats to $125k Freeroll

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Carbon Poker has just announced that it will now be running a weekly freeroll tournament series awarding as its top prizes seats in the $125,000 guaranteed tournament the site holds every

The Carbon Poker 125 Seats to $125,000 Freeroll requires only 250 VIP points to enter. As suggested by the name, there is no cash buy-in. Simply earn those points between 00:01 Sunday and 15:00 on the following Saturday, which is when the freeroll tournament commences. To know whether and when you have enough VIP points to grant you entry into that week’s freeroll, just go to your player admin screen and check your progress. When you’ve reached the 250 points mark, a button will activate that you can select if you wish to register for the next scheduled freeroll.

Listed in your Carbon Poker lobby as 125 Seats to 125k Freeroll, the event is scheduled for every Saturday at 15:00 server time, granting the top 125 finishers coupons worth $109 each to the following day’s $125,000 Guaranteed Freezeout event. This also starts at 15:00 server time, but this time awards $125,000 cash as its prize. Enter with a $109 freeroll coupon or buy-in directly for 10,900 VIP points or $109.

This is a new ongoing promotion at Carbon Poker. Surplus VIP points sitting in your account cannot be used to enter the 125 Seats to 125k Freeroll. Only VIP points earned the week leading up to a given freeroll count toward entry into that freeroll. Players are not automatically registered upon earning the requisite VIP points, but must register manually in the Carbon Poker player admin.

America’s Cardroom Offers $500k Liberty Weekends

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America’s Cardroom is holding a new promotion it’s calling Liberty Weekends comprised of 5 Saturdays and Sundays offering up a total combined prize pool of $500k guaranteed.

During each of these Liberty Weekends, starting with the weekend of Saturday, March 31st to Sunday, April 1st, America’s Cardroom will be holding two special guaranteed tournaments: a $10k Guaranteed and a $50k Guaranteed. In addition to that $60k total per weekend on each of the promotion’s five weekends, America’s Cardroom is also holding a special $250k Guaranteed tournament on the 15th of April at 18:00 ET.

What makes these tournaments Liberty tournaments is that they feature either add-ons and rebuys or re-entry tournaments. Specifically, all $10k events allow 1 rebuy and 1 add-on each. All $50k events and the $250k events are re-entry tournaments which means that during late registration, if you bust out, you can re-register as a brand new player.

The buy-in for the $10k events are $50 + $5. The buy-in for the $50k events and the $250k event are $200 + $15 each. Players can win seats in these events through satellites, however, running daily at the site for buy-ins as low as $1 + $0.10 or 35 CP + 3.5 CP.

There is even a 250-seater satellite to be held on April 13 that you can either buy into directly for $36 + $3 or you can win your seat in through a satellite.

Starting chips for the $250k GTD are 10,000 and first place gets $50,000.

Pokerstars Releases Zoom Poker Beta – Fastest Poker Format Yet

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Pokerstars has just come out with the fastest format for playing online poker cash games yet. They’re calling it, appropriately, Zoom Poker, and right now at the site, player’s can test out this new advent in a Beta version.

As mentioned already, Zoom Poker is a cash game format. One of the features that makes Zoom Poker is most distinctive is that your opponents change each hand. Instead of playing against the same players at your table each hand, you’ll be playing against a pool of players and switched up among tables. How does this make game play faster?

Because you get switched to a newly dealing active hand the instant you fold out of any hand. That way, you’re not sitting around waiting for the hand to play out before you get your turn to jump in the game again. Instead you just jump, right away, from one to the other.

They even have a button called “Fast Fold” that allows to Fold whenever your ready, without having to wait for your turn to come around again.

Players can now find a special Zoom tab mixed in with the other game types in their PokerStars lobby. Usually you’ll be started out in the Big Blind when you first sit in to play Zoom Poker. Seating is random from that point onward. Which players are on the Blinds is determined based on which player at each newly formed table has been on the respective Blinds the least.