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Poker 770 Free Festival For $50K

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Win a share of a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool at Poker 770 with its Free Festival 770, running through October 31, 2013.

With free unlimited Sit and Go tournaments and at least 1 freeroll per hour between now and Halloween, the Poker 770 Free Festival 770 events are all free to enter and all have guaranteed cash prize pools.

Between 2 am and 1 pm every day of the promotional period are Free Festival $10 tournaments, from 2 pm to 1 am are Free Festival $27.70 tournaments, and all day long are SNG Free Festival tournaments with $0.10 guaranteed prize pools.

Players can also win a free package into the MegaPoker Series through the Free Festival 770 and Poker 770. You can qualify for the next MPS stage by playing in the $27.70 Free Festival event. From each running, the top 10 finishers will get a 2.20 Euro token into the daily “Mega 1” satellite with 1-seat guaranteed with a 2.15 Euros + 0.05 Euros direct buy-in.

Also during this limited time promotional period, Poker 770 is holding Hyper SNG tournaments with extraordinarily low buy-ins. There’s the Hyper SNG $0.05 buy-in event with a $0.05 + $0.01 buy-in, and the Hyper SNG $0.10 buy-in event with a $0.10 + $0.01 buy-in.

And all this is being offered in addition to Poker 770’s usual selection of monthly freerolls: $50,000 worth each month. These include the $30 Daily; $200 Daily Final; $500 Weekly Final; Late Night Poker; Lunch Time Poker; Tea Time Poker; Midnight Poker; and $35K Tokens events.

Bovada Poker $120 Weekly Cash Bonuses

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In celebration of the upcoming WPT Montreal stop on the 2013 World Poker Tour, between Monday, September 30 and Sunday, October 27, Bovada Poker is giving its cash game players the chance to earn $120 in weekly cash bonuses.

That’s up to $30 per week in cash bonuses for 4 weeks, based on earning poker points at the Bovada Poker cash tables. Earn 75 points in a week and get a $10 cash bonus; earn 150 points in a week and get a $20 cash bonus; earn 200 points in a week and get a $30 cash bonus.

All cash bonuses will be released into eligible player accounts on October 28, 2013, with players earning the highest weekly bonus amount for which they are eligible.

In addition, each bonus level that you reach will earn you another ticket in the random drawing for the grand prize: a $6,000 WPT Montreal Prize Package that includes free seats into the WPT Montreal main event. Get 1 draw ticket with every $10 bonus, 2 draw tickets with every $20 bonus, and 3 draw tickets with every $30 bonus. Plus you’ll get an additional draw ticket for every 50 poker points you earn above and beyond the first 200 each week.

And remember, Bovada Poker is also where online tournament players can find satellite tournaments awarding many more of these $6K WPT Montreal prize packages.

To be eligible for these bonuses you must opt in to the promotion and you must be subscribed to Bovada Poker’s promotional email list.

Wynn Resorts Gives Nevada 888 Poker

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Poker players living in Nevada will soon be able to play online poker with other Nevada players through 888 Poker, in partnership with Wynn Resorts.

In the latest legal U.S. online poker partnership of a cascade of them to hit the news desk these past months (and for months to come in the foreseeable future) Wynn Resorts has partnered up with 888 Holdings, owner of 888 Poker among other online gambling sites, to offer its unique brand of online poker to players throughout the state of Nevada, where intrastate online poker has now been legalized and regulated. That makes Wynn Resorts, owned by Steve Wynn, the latest member of the All American Poker Network or AAPN that 888 Holdings set up along with Avenue Capital Group in order to offer legal intrastate online poker in states where it’s legal.

Currently, partnerships with land-based casinos already established in these areas is the only way an online poker site can apparently set up shop in the newly budding intrastate U.S. online poker market. Originally the news was that Wynn Resorts would be partnering with Poker Stars for its intrastate online poker offerings, but after the debacle of Black Friday, 2011, Wynn Resorts backed out of all talks with PokerStars, which is how AAPN and 888 Holdings was able to get a leg in the door.

So far, the states where online poker is now legal are Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware, and 888 Holdings’ Brian Mattingly is already getting in a stake in every one of these markets.

Next 888 Poker $250K Whale Tournament This Sunday

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Every month 888 Poker holds The Whale, a tournament with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. They hold it on the fourth Sunday of every month, which means that the next $250K Whale tournament is coming up in just about a few days: this Sunday, September 22, 2013.

Notice that because September 1st was on a Sunday this year, there are actually five Sundays this month. So this is the time to secure your seat in the event.

888 Poker’s $250K The Whale takes place at 18:00 GMT this Sunday for a $530 direct buy-in. Registration is open now. Players start with a 10,000 chip starting stack and the blinds go up every 25 minutes.

There’s still time to win your seat in this Sunday’s The Whale tournament through 888 Poker’s step satellite tournament series.

Step 1 has a $0.09 + $0.01 buy-in, is a rebuy/add-on event, and takes place all day, every day, at each event awarding one seat into Step 2

Step 2 has a $2.70 + $0.30 direct buy-in, plus rebuys and add-ons, and it takes place all day, every day as well, at each event awarding one seat into Step 3.

Step 3 has a $20 + $2 direct buy-in plus rebuys and add-ons, and also takes place all day, every day, awarding at each event a seat into Step 4.

Step 4 is the final step in the series, costing $100 + $9 to buy-in directly and taking place every day at 11:00, 19:00, and 23:05 GMT, each time awarding one $530 seat in the next $250K The Whale tournament, which right now is this Sunday, September 22, 2013.

Players Only Poker Promotional Rundown

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Players Only Poker is a sister site to Sportsbook Poker, and as such holds the same selection of promotions that Sportsbook Poker does. Over the past weeks and months, we’ve brought you these promotions one by one. This time, in light of Players Only Poker’s partnership with Sportsbook Poker, we’ll give a quick refresher of all those promotions in one handy post. Here we go:

The World’s Bet Poker Bonus – a 200% match on your first deposit up to a maximum bonus of $2,000.

The Better Bad Beat Jackpot – a new and improved bad beat jackpot that lowered the requirements for the “losing” hand to a full-house jacks or better.

The $20K Wolf Pack – a VIP points leaderboard promotion that awards $20,000 monthly

In addition, both Players Only Poker and Sportsbook Poker hold a pair of promotions for their Sit and Go tournament players too:

Sit & Go Tournament Leaderboards – with $25,000 monthly guaranteed to be awarded to players at the real money 6-max and full-ring sit and go tables.

Step & Go Tournaments –  a step tournament series of sit & go tournaments; a 6-step series that gives players the chance to turn a $1.10 buy-in into a $250 payout.

Players Only Poker also participates in the Poker Maximus, when it comes around. Currently, the sites are finishing up their 6th installment of the beloved featured event, but members can always look forward to the next Poker Maximus tournament series to be coming up around the bend. This time around, the prize pool stood at more than $3 million guaranteed across 85 events over 2 weeks.

World Series of Poker’s Nevada Real Money Online Poker Site to Launch This Week

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The World Series of Poker’s new real money online poker site for Nevada residents, courtesy of Caesar’s Entertainment, will have its official launch this week.

As of this coming Thursday, September 19, 2013, the World Series of Poker’s long-awaited real money poker site is now officially live. Available exclusively to Nevada players for the moment, the WSOP is betting, like all the other Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware land-based gaming operations getting into the intrastate online gaming market, that interstate and then national online gaming, legal throughout the U.S., will be soon to follow.

The new WSOP real money online poker site is being offered by none other than Caesar’s Entertainment Corp (whose stock has tripled over the past year, no doubt in large part due to this imminent event.) Caesar’s says that they signed up more than 12,000 players for the new online poker site at this year’s 2013 World Series of Poker live at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

After a delay from its originally planned launch for earlier in the year, Caesar’s and the WSOP expressed gratitude to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for the in-depth licensing and testing procedures they implemented.

Nevada passed online gaming within the state in 2011 and that December passed its regulations for online gambling. And while at present the site will only be available to players in Nevada, a pact between Nevada and New Jersey, where online gambling is also now legal, is seen as inevitable, and the WSOP expects its site to offer its services to players across both states by early 2014.

Introducing The New Party Poker

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Party Poker just got a facelift! The whole look and feel of the site is different now, with improvements in the form and function of every iota of the site: from its user controls to its tournament and cash game offerings, to its range of bonuses and promotions, and more.

The new and improved Achievement Rewards program includes Missions that players can accomplish to earn even greater rewards faster, including for the first time, added freeroll entries.

The new Party Poker is also more social media friendly, with ample ways to connect with the site and your fellow poker partiers over Facebook, Twitter and more. And the new Party Poker app lets you take your online poker with you on the go, whether you use an Apple or Android mobile device (currently available to UK customers only.) Party Poker now also features an improved Tourney Feed allowing you to find upcoming tournaments at the desired stakes and parameters at any given moment.

Among the featured tournaments continuing at Party Poker amidst all the changes are the $200K Guaranteed Sunday, the 50-Seat Frenzy, the Steps Challenge, and satellite series’ into the World Poker Tour land-based events, including currently the WPT Montreal, WPT Grand Prix de Paris, and WPT National UK.

Whether you play the download software, Instant Play online, or over your mobile device, Party Poker offers the same breadth of online poker games and tournaments, bonuses and rewards, and social engagement, but now with an even cooler look and feel. If you already have a Party Poker account, then log right into the new Party Poker just like you did the old Party Poker. And if you’re new to the site, then take advantage of the best Welcome Bonus Party Poker has offered yet.

Bovada Poker Punta Cana Poker Classic Satellites Continue

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The satellite opportunities at Bovada Poker to win a seat in this November’s Punta Cana Poker Classic in the Dominican Republic are still going strong. Between now and October 20, Bovada will be holding daily Poker Punta Cana Poker Classic Qualifiers for buy-ins of under $1. That’s all it takes to climb your way to one of the numerous $5,500 Punta Cana Prize Packages Bovada Poker will be giving away.

The 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic takes place between November 12 and 16 in the Dominican Republic and the Hard Rocket Hotel and Casino, and features a $500,000 guaranteed main event.

Cheap seat qualifiers for buy-ins as low as $0.44 lead into quarterfinals with direct buy-ins as low as $2.75, which in turn lead to semifinals with direct buy-ins as low as $17.60, which lead to the Satellite itself that has a direct buy-in of $270.

Each $5.5K Punta Cana Prize Package comes with the $1,650 buy-in for the PCPC main event, a 6-night stay at the Hard Rock, food and beverage all included, ground transport round trip between airport and hotel, $1.7K in expense money, and a Bovada Poker swag bag.

There are a host of ways to get on the path to winning a PCPC prize package. Daily qualifiers include 1-seat, 2-seat, and 4-seat guaranteed MTTs and Turbos both, as well as daily 6-handed Sit ‘n’ Go tournaments each awarding 1-seat guaranteed.

Weekly events, meanwhile, include multiple Last Chance qualifiers and Satellite qualifiers, as well as the 3-seat guaranteed final Satellites for direct buy-ins of $250 + $20.

Carbon Poker $30K Last Man Standing Promotion

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As of Sunday, September 8, Carbon Poker will be holding its next Last Man Standing promotion, this time for a guaranteed prize pool of more than $30,000.

This latest installment of Carbon Poker’s Last Man Standing promo spans 53 days during which players will compete for $27K in cash prizes, and entry into a $5K freeroll tournament.

Simply opt-in to the Last Man Standing promo at Carbon Poker and then get back to playing the site’s real money poker cash games and tournaments. During the promotional period, the VIP points that you earn at these games will be tracked. And every day of the promotion, Carbon Poker has set a new VIP Target that players must reach in order to move on in the competition. Players are allowed 3 days off of the promotion, but no more, and will be eliminated if they take a fourth day off. Also, as of October 22, players cannot take any days off of the promotion, even if they have not used all their free days yet.

The daily VIP Targets start at 50 points and work their way up to 3,500 points on October 22, and then to 25,000 points on the final date of the promotion, October 30.

The last 100 players remaining in the competition will share the $27K cash prize pool. Additionally, all players who make it to October 22 with at least 1 of their free days (or days off) remaining, earns a cash reward:
1 day remaining – get $25
2 days remaining – get $50
all 3 days remaining – get $100

Return here to find out about the $5K Freeroll portion of this promotion.

Bovada Poker Hosts Back to School $5K Poker Scholarship Promo

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Between September 2 and 29, Bovada Poker is giving its players the chance to earn as much as $115 in weekly cash bonuses, plus chances to win a $5K Poker Scholarship, consisting of 40 big money online poker tournament tickets.

The first step toward winning that $5K Poker Scholarship is opting in to the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button at the Back to School promotion’s page on the Bovada Poker site. You must also be subscribed the site’s promotional emails in order to qualify for this bonus. A link to confirm your subscription is active is provided on the same page, below the Enter Now button.

Then, after all that is set, you’re ready to claim your weekly cash bonuses by meeting one of the following two requirements each week – notice that, as in school, the requirements getting harder as you progress through each successive level:
Freshman Week (week 1):
◦    Get 50 Poker Points and earn a $10 cash bonus
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $20 cash bonus
Sophomore Week (week 2):
◦    Get 75 Poker Points and earn a $15 cash bonus
◦    Get 125 Poker Points and earn a $25 cash bonus
Junior Week (week 3):
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $20 cash bonus
◦    Get 150 Poker Points and earn a $30 cash bonus
Senior Week (week 4):
◦    Get 100 Poker Points and earn a $25 cash bonus
◦    Get 200 Poker Points and earn a $40 cash bonus

You’ll also receive one drawing entry for every week’s easier task, or two drawing entries for every week’s harder task.