Tag: online poker

Pokerstars Now Holding 100k Depositor Freerolls

Last Updated on


For a limited time only, Poker Stars will be holding $100,000 worth of freeroll tournaments with the only entry requirement being a deposit into a new or existing Pokerstars real money player account. Not just that, but you’ll be entered to play in 31 of these daily freeroll tournaments, and when that 31 days runs out, you can make a deposit for the next batch of days. The 100K Depositor Freeroll series runs through May 20, which means all deposits made before that time will be eligible for at least part of this bonus reward, with April 19 designated as the last day to receive the maximum 31 freeroll entries.

Just remember to use the appropriate bonus code when you make your deposit in order to be credited your 31 freeroll entries. If you’re a new player making your first deposit into your PokerStars account, then use the code STARS600. That will ensure that you also receive the 100% match bonus Poker Stars gives on first deposits up to $600, in addition to your 100k Depositor Freeroll tickets. If you’ve already made deposits into your PokerStars account in the past, then use the code 100K when you make this deposit in order to qualify for the freeroll entries.

Each daily 100k Depositor Freeroll will have a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool. Although they are free to enter, they will all also have rebuys: 3 allowed per player total, all within the first hour of play, each rebuy costing 30 cents.

Pokerstars Announces New MicroMillions Series

Last Updated on

Pokerstars has announced a new series dedicated to micro-stakes poker players like Team Pokerstars Pro Lex Veldhuis who himself started out in poker playing the penny and micro-stakes games. The new series is named the PokerStars MicroMillions and starts March 15 and runs for 11 days through March 25 when a $1 million guaranteed main event will take place for a meager $22 buy in. The first place winner of the inaugural PokerStars MicroMillions main event will win $150k guaranteed.

Also up for grabs is the rest of the event’s $5 million guaranteed prize pool, as well as a prize package to the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure next January to the top Player of the Series. PokerStars will keep a Player of the Series Leader Board throughout the series and pay out the top 100 finishers.

The 100 events constituting this inauguaral running of the PokerStars MicroMillions covers the gamut in poker variants and structures. The series will not just feature No Limit Hold’em either. There will also be events in Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha High/Low, Holdem/Omaha Mix, 8 Game Mix, Draw Poker, Stud Poker, Triple Stud, HORSE, and Badugi, as well as tournaments with rebuys, add-ons, turbo,4-max, 6-max, double chance, triple turbo, knockout, shootout and high-ante structures. Buy-ins start as small as $0.11 and never go above the main event’s $22 buy-in. There are nearly 10 events scheduled each day of this $5 million series with start times at all hours of the day to suit players living in all corners of the globe.

Party Poker Launches Qualifiers for Spring Million

Last Updated on


Party Poker has launched its qualifier series for the next Spring Million, set for May 6, 2012 and featuring a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Meanwhile, qualifier buy-ins for this event start at just $1.

Interested players can either buy into the 2012 Spring Million directly by paying $600 + $40, or they can venture down one of five different qualifier avenues to the big event.

One path starts with a choice of $2 sub qualifier speed rebuy events and $8 sub qualifier speed events, both daily, as entry points. These lead to a $64 + $6 daily qualifier from which 1 in 10 players will make it to the Spring Million.

Another path starts with a $1 daily sub qualifier speed rebuy event that leads to a $25 + $2 daily rebuy qualifier from which one player for every $640 in the prize pool moves on to the Spring Million.

Then there are $2 and $6 daily MEGA Friday sub qualifier speed events, the $2 one a rebuy event. The MEGA Friday Satellite has a $50 + $5 direct buy-in and awards seats in the Spring Million to the top 5 players.

Or players can opt for a $47 sub qualifier extra speed event that leads to a $160 + $12 qualifier extra event that awards 1 in 4 players seats in the Spring Million.

Lastly, there are daily country specific freerolls and daily player points qualifiers (both for 10 pp and 25 pp) that lead to a Spring Million Special taking place Fridays at 15:30 ET and awarding seats in the Spring Million to the top 5 qualifying players.

Party Poker World Poker Tour Marbella Satellites Start

Last Updated on


The next Party Poker WPT satellite series has begun, and its for the World Poker Tour National Series Marbella main event, which takes place between April 20 and 24, 2012 on the exotic Costa del Sol of Spain at the Marbella Casino, Marbella, Spain.

Each Party Poker prize package into the WPT Marbella is valued at $4,000 and includes the $2,250 cost to buy in to the tournament plus $1k for expense money and a 4-night stay with hospitality while you’re there. Players are responsible for their own travel to and from the event and for acquiring all the necessary travel documentation.

The PartyPoker WPT National Series Marbella satellite series runs from March 5 to April 8, 2012. Prize packages are awarded at WPT National Marbella Satellite tournaments running weekly at the site on Sundays at 1:55 pm ET for a $225 direct buy-in. At each of these WPT Marbella Satellites at least 1 prize package will definitely be awarded although more than one prize package award is possible, with one package awarded for every $4k collected in buy-ins.

Players can avoid the $225 direct buy-in into the WPT Marbella Satellite through a satellite qualifier. These run every day at the site at 1:30 pm ET and additionally as a Turbo tournament on Sundays at 11:15 am ET for a direct buy-in of $25. One $225 seat in the next WPT Marbella satellite will be awarded for every $225 collected in buy-ins.

There are also two ways that players can avoid the $25 satellite qualifier buy-in by winning a seat through one of two different sub qualifier speed events, one with a $3 buy-in and one with a $1 buy-in and rebuy. There’s even a WPT Marbella Freeroll qualifier you can enter to win a seat in the event for no cost at all.

Poker Stars Celebrates 6th Anniversary of Sunday Million with $6 Million Guaranteed

Last Updated on


Poker Stars is celebrating the coming 6th anniversary of its revered Sunday Million tournament with a special installment of the event this Sunday, March 11, 2012 featuring a $6 million guaranteed prize pool and a $1 million guaranteed first prize.

The 6th Anniversary Sunday Million starts at 2:30 pm ET this Sunday. The buy-in is $215 if you just want to secure your seat directly. But you could opt to play in the satellite series running now at PokerStars and perhaps win yourself a $215 seat in the big anniversary tournament. There are literally hundreds of these satellites running now at PokerStars, including a special event at which 1,000 seats in the 6th Anniversary of the PokerStars Sunday Million will be awarded. That one takes place just before the action starts in the $6 million Sunday Million, while feeder satellites are running now for buy-ins as low as $1.

Many of the Team PokerStars pros can be expected to turn out for this event, including very likely, Liv Boeree, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Johnny Lodden, Jason Mercier and Lex Veldhuis.

Since the Sunday Million’s inception in 2006 when the first ever winner was the USA’s own aaaaaaaa (before the USA locked its players out of such excitement), Poker Stars has held 278 installments of the event, with a total playing field of 2,116,513 vying for a total prize pool given away of $444,149,600.

You can find the registration buttons for both the $6 million Sunday Million 6th Anniversary and the satellites into that event by going to Tourneys in your PokerStars software and then clicking Special.

Latest 26-Day Endurance Challenge Launched at Intertops Poker

Last Updated on


Intertops Poker has brought back its 26-Day Endurance Challenge for another go-round. This time the promotional period is from March 1- 27, 2012. And as in events past, all a player has to do to win prizes in this incarnation of the Intertops 26-Day Endurance Challenge is keep accumulating FPP (Frequent Player Points) as they usually do by playing in cash games and real money tournaments at the Intertops Poker site.

Players can earn seats in one of three freeroll tournaments taking place on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 22:59 GMT (or 18:59 EST): either a $750 freeroll, a $1,000 freeroll or a $1,500 freeroll.

After earning their freeroll seat, players can then earn cash prizes of at least $3 and up to $42 by meeting even higher milestones, either by earning more points per day on each of the days they play, or by earning the same number of points daily but for a greater number of days.

In either case, players have from 04:00 GMT on March 1 to 03:59 on March 27 to earn as many points daily over as many days as they can to earn the highest cash and freeroll prizes they can. Earn at least 14 points daily on at least 5 days of the challenge and get that $750 freeroll seat. Earn those 14 points daily for 10 days and get a seat in the $1,000 freeroll. And do it for at least 15 days and get that $1,500 freeroll seat.

To get the maximum cash prize of $42, you must earn 224 points daily for 20 days of the challenge.

Party Poker Gladiator Promotion Returns

Last Updated on


The Gladiator promotion returns to Party Poker this merry month of March, 2012. Running March 1 – 31, the Party Poker Gladiator promotion allows players to win prizes without having to compete against other players to do it. Instead players compete only against themselves and the clock, trying to earn as many points as they can over as many days of the month as they can to win an increasing value in prizes.

All you have to earn in order to win a prize in this latest Gladiator promotion is 1 point per day over at least 5 days of the promotion. That will earn you a ticket into a $500 freeroll tournament. The milestones and freeroll prize pools increase from there to the highest valued freeroll, worth $25,000.

After those milestones, players start earning cash, with the minimum $10 going to those who earn 5 points per day over 25 days. Cash prizes go up from there to $4,000.

Players are awarded the maximum freeroll and maximum cash prize for which they are eligible. In other words, prizes are not cumulative. That means, players can win up to $4,000 in cash, and anyone who wins a cash prize also wins a seat in the $25,000 freeroll. Players only win seats in one freeroll, that being the highest value event for which they qualify.

What’s more, if a player can manage to earn 1,200 points per day for 30 of the 31 days of the promotion, they also win an $8,000 prize package into a World Poker Tour event of their choice, with the alternative option of $5,000 in cash.

888 Poker WSOP Main Event 2012 Qualifiers On Now

Last Updated on


888 Poker has begun its qualifier series for the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 888 Poker WSOP 2012 Qualifier Series features weekly qualifier tournaments every alternating Sunday, starting promptly at 20:05 GMT, for a direct buy-in of $500 + $25.

Players can avoid that $525 buy-in, however, by winning their way to that event through a series of smaller satellites with buy-ins as low as $1.10.

It starts with WSOP Step 1 qualifiers, with a player’s choice of $1 + $0.10 rebuy/add-on events, taking place daily every 2 hours and awarding one Step 2 qualifier seat for every $25 in the prize pool, or a $5 + $0.50 with no rebuy or add-on, taking place 3 times weekly and from which 1 of every 5 players will advance to Step 2.

The Step 2 qualifier has a $23 + $2 direct buy-in and also takes place thrice weekly and advances one 1 in 5 to the next step. That would be Step 3, with its own $105 + $10 direct buy-in, taking place three times a week and advancing 1 in 5 to the final WSOP Qualifier.

Each qualifier winner receives a prize package valued at $15,000 that includes the $10,000 WSOP Main Event buy-in as well as $2,000 for travel expenses, $500 in spending cash, 8 nights of hotel accommodations in Vegas, exclusive access to the 888 Poker player’s lounge, with pool table, XBox, TV, drinks all day long and breakfast, as well as an 888 Poker Live Event merchandise kit and a special invite to a VIP event.

PokerStars Ups Their Game for 6th Anniversary of Sunday Million

Last Updated on

PokerstarsPokerStars is one of the best online poker sites for their many promotions and guaranteed tournaments as well.  Some of the biggest professional poker players who focus on tournaments play on Stars, mainly for their excellent guarantees and huge tournaments almost every day of the week.  The biggest day is of course Sunday though, which is widely considered as the most popular day for online poker as well.  This March though, they have decided to run another special tournament which will be the 6th Anniversary Sunday Million Tournament, and it’s an event that should draw an incredible sized field as well.

The tournament is set to run on March 11, 2012 and starts at the standard time of the Sunday Million, which is 2:30pm EST.  The thing that is most intriguing to the players on this massive online poker site, is that they have decided to raise the guarantee on the event for the players.  Instead of a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, PokerStars has upped it to $6 million for the anniversary, and the buy-in will still be the same.  The Sunday Million costs $215 to play in for players.

Last year, PokerStars ran a similar promotion for the 5th Anniversary Sunday Million, but this was indeed before Black Friday hit the United States market.  The prize pool last year was $10 million guaranteed, but the field was so massive that the total buy-in’s actually went past that guarantee, and the total prize pool ended up being $11,825,600 when all was said and done.  Last year’s total number of entrants were 59,128, and the prize pool ended up being one of the largest in history as well.  We don’t assume that this year’s event will be nearly as big, since Black Friday put a hit on everyone in the online poker world, but it’s definitely interesting to see what type of results the site will get in terms of total entrants.

A bit of background on the Sunday Million, as it was first ran back in 2006 on March 6th, and the player who took down the event was Daryl Jace.  Interestingly, Jace’s online poker name at that point was “aaaaaaaa”, and his win was the first in a Sunday Million that has featured 278 total events.

Cake Poker Holds $100,000 Points Race

Last Updated on


For the month of March 2012, Cake Poker is holding a special $100,000 Points Race in which players can earn cash prizes of up to $7,500 a piece. More than 1,500 cash prizes in all are up for grabs.

There are five races in all, each with a $20,000 prize pool. Four of these five $20k races are weekly events, paying out the top 350 FPP earners. And one of these is a $20k monthly race, also paying out the top 350 FPP earners. The maximum prize a player can earn in any of these 5 periods is $1,500, making the combined total potential per player winning $7,500.

Players earn points in the race by accumulating FPPs (Frequent Player Points) with each FPP equal to one point in the race. Players entering late in a given week will still have as much chance to win big in this promotion as any other player, with the value from each weekly race’s points tally added to the player’s monthly points tally for the monthly race.

Players earn FPPs at both Cake Poker’s ring games and tournament tables at a rate of 1 FPP per $1 in rake at the ring game tables or 7 FPPs for every $1 in tournament fees paid.

The first place finisher in each race gets the $1,500 top prize. The runner-up then gets $1,000 with the third place finisher getting $750; fourth getting $500 and fifth getting $400, down to the 301th through 350th place finishers, each of whom will receive $15.