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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.

America’s Cardroom Now Holding LSOP Super Satellites

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On June 5-10, 2012, Lima, Peru will play host to the next Latin Series of Poker Main Event. It takes place at the Peruvian capital Casino Atlantic City and costs $1,500 + $150 to buy-in. Players can avoid that buy-in, however, by winning one of 13 $3,500 prize packages up for grabs at America’s Cardroom right now.

America’s Cardroom is holding LSOP Super Satellites daily throughout the month of February, with two satellite qualifier series’: one into a $50 + $5 Super Satellite and one into a $125 + $12 Super Satellite. Qualifier buy-ins are as low as $7 + $0.70. And there are even $6 + $0.60 Super Satellites taking place now and again. Different satellite qualifiers offer 1, 2 or even 5 seats in a Super Satellite, while all Super Satellite promise 1 LSOP Peru prize package a piece.

America’s Cardroom’s LSOP Peru prize packages include not only the buy-in into the main event but as much as $800 in air travel costs round trip, hotel accommodations in Lima for 5 nights and transportation to and from the airport and hotel.


In a rare move for an online poker room, America’s Cardroom is allowing prize package winners who are unable or uninterested in attending the LSOP Peru to trade in their prize packages for a discounted cash value of $2,300.

Earlier in the week we also told you about America’s Cardroom’s $40k Sprint, and now it comes into play with the LSOP Super Satellite series as well, because when you play in the LSOP Super Satellites taking place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in February, you also receive as a bonus just for playing, between 200 and 500 points toward the $40k Sprint leaderboard.

Everleaf Network to Leave US Market

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The Everleaf Network is set to announce their exit from the US poker market.  An announcement to that effect should break some time tomorrow.   The network received a cease and desist notice from the US government and their Malta licensing authority has advised them to cease all United States operations.

Various skin operators on the network have taken steps to assure players that their money is safe.  No one knows for sure how US players will be refunded their money, but there are supposed to be  negotiations with the United States in progress now to facilitate that return.

This is all breaking news.  Check with Holdem Poker Chat frequently for updates as the situation develops.  Luvin Poker was the only Everleaf Network skin that Holdem Poker Chat promoted.  Other sites on the network included Minted Poker, Poker4Ever, Raider Poker

February at Intertops Poker Offers FPP Races and Knock Out Challenges

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Head to Intertops Poker this February and you can compete in both FPP Races and Knock Out Challenges, all of which offer the possibility of winning extra money for the play you already enjoy at the site.

Every week in February, from Wednesday to Wednesday, 4 pm to 3:59 pm ET, Intertops Poker will be holding a Frequent Player Points Race worth $6,250, paid out to 100 top finishers. Multiplied by four weeks, making for four such race periods, that combines to $25,000 in cash rewards.

Remember, success in the FPP Race is not about whether you win or lose the poker games you play, be they tournaments or cash games. It’s about how many FPPs you earn while you play and that’s simply a matter of playing more often, for longer durations and at higher stakes.

Starting the 1st of February, Intertops Poker is also holding more Knock Out Challenges. These are bounty tournaments taking place each Monday, Wedneday and Friday. There are two ways to win cash in these events: firstly by finishing in the money, of course, and secondly by knocking your fellow players out of the running. For every player’s $5 + $0.50 buy-in, $2 will go to the bounty on their head. The prize pool at each Knock Out Challenge is $1,000, on top of the bounty rewards. There’s even a third way to win money through the Knock Out Challenges. Every player you knock out also earns you a point on a monthly Headhunter leaderboard, with the 10 top finishers receiving a share of another $1,000 prize pool.

Win Punta Cana Poker Classic Seats in America’s Cardroom’s Freeroll Super Series

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You can win seats at the 2012 Punta Cana Poker Classic for free when you play in the Freeroll Super Series at America’s Cardroom. Along the way, you can also win a piece of a $75k prize pool.

The Freeroll Super Series (FSS) is broken down into four stages, or rounds. Pass through all four of these and win a cash guaranteed as well as, possibly, one of 3 prize packages to the 2012 Punta Cana Poker Classic.

For Round One, America’s Cardroom is holding hourly qualifiers every day. At 8pm nightly is a Main Event Freeroll for 50 Round Two tickets and at 12am nightly is a Midnight Daily Second Chance Freeroll for 25 Round Two tickets. For each of the other 22 hours of the day, the site will host a freeroll on the hour awarding 3 Round Two tickets.

For Round Two, America’s Cardroom is holding weekly qualifiers every Saturday. In addition to the main prize of Round Three tickets to 1 out of every 5 competitors, the site also offers a $750 cash prize pool guaranteed at each. Finish in the final 100 and win a share.

For Round Three, America’s Cardroom is holding a monthly event on the Saturday after the month ends, in this case that’s the 4th of March. Besides being the final opportunity to earn enough FSS Special Points to get to the Grand Finale Freeroll, this monthly event also offers a guaranteed $3,000 cash prize pool, again going out to the highest 100 performers.

The fourth round is the Grand Finale Freeroll, open to the 500 highest Special Points earners over the entire month-long course of the FSS. It happens on October 13, that’s also a Saturday, and offers a guaranteed prize pool of $25,000 in addition to three Punta Cana prize packages to the first, second and third place finishers.

America’s Cardroom Doubles Guarantees Week & $100k Points Race Running

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Two of the promotions underway for February 2012 at America’s Cardroom are Double Guarantees Week and a $100k Points Race.

For the week lasting from Monday, February 6 through Sunday, February 12, America’s Cardroom will be hosting another Double Guarantees Week. That means every Guaranteed Tournament scheduled this week will have its guaranteed prize pool doubled. That includes dozens of tournaments with guarantees ranging as high as $5k, $7.5k and $15k normally, now doubled to $10k, $15k and $30k, respectively. It includes rebuy and addon events, bounty tournaments, deep stack events, turbo tournaments, freezeouts and more.

While Double Guarantees Week last, obviously, for just one week, America’s Cardroom’s $100k Points Race last the whole month long. For all of February 2012, players can win a share of $100,000 in cash through the combination of a $60k marathon and four weekly $10k sprints.

The $60k Marathon lasts all February long and it tracks players on a leaderboard by points earned, paying out to the top 275 finishers, with the top finisher getting $8k. Additionally, each week America’s Cardroom hosts a $10k Sprint from Friday to Sunday. The site will pay out the top 125 finishers on these weekly leaderboards, with each week’s first place finisher getting $2k.

As with the $60k Marathon this is a points race, but unlike the monthly event, these weekly sprints only count points from Ring Game play. Points earned playing tournaments, whether MTT, satellite or Sit ‘n’ Go, do not count for the $40k Sprint, though they do count for the $60k Marathon.

Bovada Poker Launches February Cash Persuit

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Throughout February, Bovada Poker is running a new promo called Cash Persuit in which players can win an accumulation of prizes, from instant bonuses to a 2012 WSOP trip worth $3k.

Bovada Poker has divided the month of February 2012 into four themed-weeks, each representing a different suit in the deck. The first week, January 30 to February 5, is Diamonds Week. Clubs Week follows, February 6 to 12; then Hearts week, February 13 to 19; and Spades week wraps it all up, February 20 to 26.

Bovada Poker will award each player a bonus of as high as $120, depending on what prize level that player has achieved by the week’s end. Earn $15 or $20 per week at the first level by earning 10 points on 4 or 7 out of 7 days, respectively. Earn $25 or $30 per week at the second level by doing the same with 25 points.

The 2012 WSOP trip worth $3,000 awarded at the drawings includes travel and 2 nights of accommodations for 2, $500 cash for expenses, and certain Bovada hospitality and activity benefits.

The first prize level comes with a ticket into a weekly Cash PerSuit raffle drawing for a trip to the 2012 WSOP. Players at Bovada’s online poker tables who receive a flush in the week’s suit receive a bonus prize of a seat in an exclusive $5,000 Freeroll, one held each week on the Wednesday following the qualifying week, each with a $5k guaranteed prize pool. Only flushes earned in Hold’em count and only hands that include at least one of the player’s hole cards and that reaches a showdown count as well.

Intertops Poker Offers Hearts Edition of Match & Win Game for February

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This month, Intertops Poker is offering a special Hearts Edition of its regular Match & Win Game promotion. In honor, of course, of Valentine’s Day, Intertops Poker is adding to its regular Match and Win game promotion, cash prizes for every Jack through Ace of Hearts Gold Card. Each of these cards has an associated cash prize for its recipient, those prizes increasing as the card’s value increases: the Jack of Hearts is worth $50, the Queen of Hearts is worth $100, the King of Hearts is worth $250 and the Ace of Hearts is worth $1,000.

Additionally, throughout February 2012, certain individual heart Gold Cards can also allow players to enter single Gold Card tournaments with prizes of their own.

The Match and Win Game Board can be found in the Intertops Poker login software under the tab that says Gold Card and the section that says Rewards.

As always, eligibility to win prizes from this month’s Match & Win game board is restricted to Gold Cards that earned during the month of February 2012, starting 0:00 on the 1st and ending 23:59 on the 28th, GMT. Also, Gold Cards purchased at The Exchange do not count toward Match and Win prize eligibility.

In addition to eligibility for the Match and Win game promotion, Intertops Poker’s Gold Cards can also be used to buy-in to certain Gold Card tournaments with cash prize pools of their own. All of these are rebuy and add-on tournaments as well. Recent Gold Card Tournament prize pools have ranged from $200 to $1,000.

Party Poker Brings Back Card Rush Instant Win Promotion

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Party Poker has brought back its popular Card Rush Instant Win promotion for the month of February 2012. Taking place between 0:00 ET on February 1 and 21:59 on February 28, this latest incarnation of the PartyPoker Card Rush Instant Win promotion sees 1.8 million new game cards up for grabs, each guaranteed to offer a prize. What’s more, the promotion will end early if all of the Instant Win game cards have been distributed before then. So there’s no time to lose.

To earn your first Card Rush Instant Win game card, you just have to earn 5 PartyPoints. After that, you’ll earn an additional card for every 15 PartyPoints you earn. Cards are delivered to your account as soon as they’re earned and you can scratch them instantly to find out what prize you’ve won. It could be cash, more PartyPoints, freeroll tournament entries or Card Rush points.

Card Rush points are applied toward a leaderboard that lasts the duration of the promotion. With the highest 200 Card Rush points earners receiving a cash prize at the end. First place gets $9,000; second place gets $7,000; third place gets $5,250; and places 150 through 200 each get $100. What’s more, a $50 Hot Spot prize will be awarded to every 20th finisher from the 220th through the 2,000th.

All Card Rush Instant Win cards are dealt out randomly. Players earn PartyPoints by playing in real money games at PartyPoker: either at cash tables through playing in raked hands or at tournaments, both MTT and Sit and Go, through paying buy-in fees.

Carbon Poker Holds $25k Freeroll

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Starting on January 29, 2012 and running through February 25, Carbon Poker is holding online qualifier tournaments to seed players into a special Bankroll Booster freeroll tournament with a $25,000 guaranteed prize pool.

This Carbon Poker $25k Bankroll Booster will take place on Sunday, February 26 at 2 pm, server time. Between now and then (or the day before then, to be accurate) Carbon Poker is holding 3 freeroll qualifiers per day. These qualifiers will be free to enter as well, and each one will award 10 seats in the 25k Freeroll, one seat each to the top 10 finishers.

The schedule of 25k Freeroll qualifiers is 1:30 pm, 5:30 pm and 9:30 pm daily, server time. Each qualifier uses a turbo format with a 1,000 chip starting stack and 5 minute blinds.

There is also a separate schedule of VIP Points Earned qualifiers, also running now through Feburary 25, but with smaller playing fields These tournaments require VIP Points to enter, with each tournament costing a different buy-in to enter, ranging from 15 to 500 VIP points. Only points earned starting from one minute after midnight one day before the scheduled VIP Points Earned Qualifier tournament will count toward a player’s eligibility to enter that tournament. As with the regular freeroll qualifiers, seats in the Carbon Poker 25k Bankroll Booster Freeroll will be awarded to the top 10 finishers at each of these VIP Points Earned Qualifiers.

All tournaments related to and including the $25k Freeroll can be found in the Carbon Poker lobby under Scheduled and then Special.