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Join Pokerstars Women Live at 2012 PCA

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In addition to the satellite series for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2012 that are open to all its players, Poker Stars is also hosting a special, separate satellite tournament series strictly for its female players.

Held as part of the larger 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure is a separate event from the main event running from January 12 – 14, 2012. Unlike the PCA main event, the PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure is a ladies only event. Satellite qualifier tournaments are on now at Poker Stars for this event, offering up prize packages worth $3,250 to the most successful.

These prize packages include the main event buy-in, hotel accommodations and $1K in spending cash. The 2012 PCA and PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure takes place on Paradise Island in the exotic Bahamas. Prize packages will be awarded at weekly satellite finals taking place every Saturday between now and December 31, 2011 for a direct buy-in of $215. Each weekly final starts at 2:30 pm ET and awards one PCA Womens Live package for each $3,250 in the pot. Instead of paying the $215 buy-in, ladies can win seats in one of the weekly finals via lower-cost qualifier tournaments. There are even freeroll qualifier tournaments that can ultimately land you a PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure weekly final qualifier ticket for nothing.

The 2012 PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure will the be the latest in the string of ladies-only special events held around the world. Previous such events have including European Poker Tour (EPT) main events taking place in London, Monte Carlo and Madrid.

America’s Cardroom Holds $250K ACROSS Warm-Up Event

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Earlier in the month we told you about the upcoming America’s Cardroom Online Super Series, known as ACROSS for short. Now, America’s Cardroom introduces a one-day only, special Thanksgiving warm-up for the Online Super Series with a $25K GTD prize pool. The event takes place at 21:00 ET tomorrow, Thursday, November 24, 2011, and costs $55 to enter. Players can opt out of paying that $55 buy-in by winning their ACROSS Warm-Up Event seat in an online qualifier.

Buy-ins for these qualifiers, which run throughout the day from now until the event itself, are either $2.20, $3.30 or $5.50. All Online Super Series Warm Up Satellites allow one or more rebuys and add-ons and are run as turbo tournaments.

ACROSS, or the America’s Cardroom Online Super Series of poker 2011 takes place across the 6-day period of November 29th through December 4th and is made up of 19 Texas Hold’em and Omaha tournaments.

Other promotions that America’s Cardroom is running in conjunction with or preparation for this series are bonus points toward the $65,000 Points Race awarded for registering in any ACROSS event.

There will also be four bonus opportunities running throughout the series: a Kings of Cashing bonus for the top 10 highest cashers in the series, a Multiple Cashes Bonus for everyone cashing at least twice, a Bubble Boy Bonus for finishing on the bubble and a $25K Warm-Up Event Bonus giving everyone who participates in the Thanksgiving Day ACROSS Warm-Up event a seat in a bonus freeroll tournament scheduled for 15:00 ET on November 25.

Party Poker Aussie Millions 2012 Satellites Begin

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Party Poker has now joined the handful of poker sites offering satellite tournaments into the 2012 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia. Each Party Poker Aussie Millions 2012 prize package, which includes the $11,400 buy-in into the main event, is valued at $16,000.

The Party Poker satellite series for the 2012 Aussie Millions runs from November 21, 2011 to January 8, 2012. It features a weekly Aussie Millions Satellite with one seat in the main event guaranteed to be awarded at each Sunday running. In all, Party Poker will give away one seat in the Aussie Millions for every 25 players competing in these satellites, which start at 15:10 ET and have a $640 + $40 direct buy-in cost.

Of course, players can avoid that buy-in by playing in earlier stages of the satellite series, with daily events ranging in entry from freerolls to $68 + $6 satellite qualifiers. The Party Poker prize package into the 2012 Aussie Millions also includes 8 nights of hotel accommodations at the Crown Promenade, right next door to the Crown Casino where the event is taking place, and $2,500 to spend as you see fit.

Party Poker is also holding a separate satellite series just for players who already live in Australia. They run from December 18, 2011 to January 8, 2012. These Australian player satellites award $14,000 prize packages that are identical to the packages for non-Australian residents except that the cash stipend is smaller, $500 instead of $2,500. These satellite run separately from and independently of the regular Aussie Millions 2012 satellites.

Potential Deal Between Groupe Bernard Tapie and Full Tilt Poker Set

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It seems that there could potentially be good news on the horizon for Full Tilt Poker, the Groupe Bernard Tapie, online poker players, and fans of the game in general.  The two sides in the potential sale of the massive online poker site have gone back and forth for months now, but it could be winding down, pending an agreement with the US Department of Justice.  There has been a potential deal set, and while we haven’t finished the deal just yet, this is much farther than anything we’ve come close to in the past.

This sale of the site is set for $80 million in the new deal, which was reported by the Groupe Bernard Tapie’s attorney Benham Dayanim, and it would mean that the group would release claims to the assets which were seized by the DOJ.  The first thing that needs to be considered before any final movements are done, is getting the online poker site re-licensed.  The issue with this is that the site was originally with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC), who has revoked their license currently; and their secondary license was through the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, who must have a primary license along with it.

With the good news for everyone, comes the unfortunate bad news as well.  This starts with the fact that it may not benefit American players nearly as much as they were hoping.  The issues could come from players getting paid back, because with this deal the repayment of US poker players will have to come from the Department of Justice.  In order to have any shot at getting your funds back, players are going to have to apply to get them, and it’s uncertain as to how well it will all work out in the end.  On top of that, the international players may have a tough time getting repaid as well.  This is because it has been said that the site will still owe $390 million, and even with the $150 million that the DOJ is supposed to handle in this new deal; they would still owe around $240 million, which is a pretty penny in terms of having to pay everyone back.

All in all, it’s looking like the potential is growing, so we should stay optimistic for the potential return of Full Tilt Poker to the online poker world.

Intertops Poker Hosting Knock Out Challenge Bounty Tourneys

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Throughout the month of November, 2011, Intertops Poker will be holding a series of bounty tourneys called Knock Out Challenges. During these events, rather prizes will be awarded not just for finishing in the money in the overall event but for knocking out your competitors as well. Unlike other bounties where only select, usually celebrity or pro players have bounties on their heads, in these Knock Out Challenges, every player has a bounty on their head, including you.

Part of the buy-in for an Intertops Poker Knock Out Challenge, $2 from each $5 + $0.50 buy-in to be exact, is applied toward the bounty on your head and your opponents as well. In addition to these bounties, all of which you get to keep, with no limit on how many you can rank up regardless of how you finish in the general competition, there’s also a $1,000 guaranteed cash prize pool at each of these events.

What’s more, besides just winning money for doing well in the overall competition and for knocking your fellow players out of the running, you’ll also win money for knocking out more competitors than anyone else. For each player you eliminate from the tourney, you get 1 point in addition to your bounty money. Intertops Poker keeps track of how many points each player earns in each tourney on a Headhunter leaderboard, with $1,000 up for grabs for the top 10 finishers on this leaderboard, the top finisher getting $300 and the 10th spot earning $20.

Party Poker Players Vie for World Domination

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Party Poker has launched the latest incarnation of its World Domination promotion, giving players a chance to take on the world and win big bucks for doing it. In the Party Poker World Domination promotion, players earn cities by accumulating PartyPoints. Some cities come with instant prize awards. Others provide awards once all the cities associated with a particular countries are collected. Even bigger prizes go to those who collect all the countries in a particular continent. Collect all 72 cities and achieve World Domination, a title that comes with a $100,000 guaranteed cash prize to each and every player that achieves it.

Cities cost 10 PartyPoints and are awarded at random, meaning you never know which city will be the next one added to your empire. As a boost to your efforts at World Domination, Party Poker will give you your first city for just 5 PartyPoints. Players can earn up to 100 cities in any given day of the promotion.

Party Poker lets you keep each prize that you win as you go on to win increasing prizes. The continents up for grabs are Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Oceania. The number of countries on each continent varies. Oceania only has two, for example: Australia and New Zealand, while Europe has 7: Germany, Poland, France, England, Russia, Italy and Sweden. Each country has 4 cities.

The Party Poker World Domination promotion runs from November 7 to December 31, 2011. Prizes for cities include freeroll seats ranging in value from $1,000 to $10,000 and cash prizes ranging from $1 to $20. Prizes for countries go from less than $100 to over $1,000 while prizes for continents range from $2,000 to $20,000.

Intertops Poker Sending Players to Super Poker Event of Europe 2012

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The biggest poker event in European history is estimated to be the upcoming Super Poker Event of Europe 2012, known for short as Super 2012. The event features a 4,000 player pool vying for a piece of a €1.2 million estimated prize pool. Several poker sites are now holding satellite tournaments awarding players free seats in this event, among them Intertops Poker.

The Intertops Poker Super 2012 satellite series runs from November 1, 2011 to February 12, 2012. During that time, Intertops will be hosting an array of daily satellite tournaments, all of which can be found under the Events tab, located inside the Tournaments section of the Intertops Poker lobby. Once monthly, on November 20 and December 11 of 2011 and January 15 and Feburary 12 of 2012, Intertops Poker will hold finals at each of which prize packages worth $1,500 into Super 2012 will be awarded. Each prize package inclues the €300 + €40 buy-in into the main event as well as cash to assist with travel expenses and hotel accommodations.

Super 2012 will be played in two distinct portions. The first will occur between February 25 and 26, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland at the Citywest International Conference and Events Center, which is situated inside the Citywest Hotel complex. When the playing field has been whittled down to the final 8 players, competition will pause, to be resumed on March 31, 2012 at a secure spot where the final 8 will be flown to finish out the tournament. The action will be streamed over the web for people at home to watch live.

Cake Poker Now Allows Hand Tracking Software

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Cake Poker is incredibly popular among the United States poker players today, but one thing that made them a bit different than many online poker sites was the fact that they did not allow players to use Hand Tracking Software.  The site had decided to avoid allowing players to use this for years now, until just this past week.  Cake Poker created a brand new policy, which in turn would allow their players to use Hand Tracking Software such as Poker Tracker and Hold’em Manager.

This software gives players the chance to collect information about the players who they are up against in cash games or tournaments, and saves the information.  Players have the option to go back and watch how hands were played, and also to see what their opponents were holding in their hand, if the hand went to showdown.  It also gives information on bet sizes, chip stacks throughout the hands, community cards, and what the final result was.  One of the other popular features that these programs offer, is the ability to track your wins and losses for the day, week, month, or year.  This helps players know when their game is improving, or if they have not be playing incredibly well as of late.

Another thing that the software does is allows players to use a Heads Up Display (HUD).  This HUD gives players information about opponents at their table ranging from their pre-flop raise percentages, aggression factor, and often they play a hand in general.  The HUD is where the complaints have come from mainly, with recreational players feeling that it gives professionals an unfair advantage.  Of course, the argument from the other side is that this software is available to everyone and anyone who wants to purchase it.

It will be interesting to see how this affects Cake Poker’s online traffic in the upcoming months, and also if it fills up their high stakes tables as well.  Cake Poker does allow recreational players the option to avoid being tracked though, by letting them change their poker screen name every seven days.  In the end, this could be good news for both types of players, and should keep Cakes’ online traffic growing!

Party Poker Premier League Underway

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Party PokerPartyPoker.com is one of the largest online poker sites in the game right now, falling just behind the mega site PokerStars.  Their cash games draw an incredible amount of attention from high stakes players, and their tournaments offer excellent guarantees as well.  While they do handle the whole “online poker” deal very well, this time they have taken to some live action with their PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship.  The action runs from November 13th to November 17th, and is played at the Playboy Club London in Mayfair.  What makes this event so exciting is that it is an invitation only event, which also features a $25k buy-in, so it is sure to draw some of the biggest and best names in poker.  It features three of the most popular games out there, starting with No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, and Pot Limit Hold’em.

The rosters kick off with 12 players that are divided into two side teams of six.  They are called “heats” and the two heats will compete in the Premier League against the other players in their heat.  At the end of the action, the top three players from their respective groups will then play at the final table.  To make things even more interesting, any player who makes it to the final table will receive a  minimum of $25k for their efforts in prize money, and will also win an invite to the Premier League next year.

Now for the layout of the two heats:

Heat 1- Matt Giannetti, Tony G, Jennifer Tilly, Luke Schwartz, Max Pescatori, and James Dempsey

Heat 2- Mike Sexton, Sorel Mizzi, Andy Frankenberger, Andrew Feldman, Ben Carpenter, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko

And last but not least, is the prize pools for any of the 12 players who make it to the final table:

1st place: $100k

2nd place- $65k

3rd place- $45k

4th place- $35k

5th place- $30k

6th place- $25k

This is an interesting concept for a poker event, and it should draw quite a bit of interest from the poker world.  It also helps that it has some of the hottest names in poker right now from the likes of Giannetti, Frankenberger, Mizzi, and Tony G.

Party Poker Launches Winter Million Promotion

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On November 7, 2011, Party Poker launched its Winter Million promotion, an opportunity that spans the New Year and gives players a shot at part of a guaranteed $1 million prize pool at the promotion’s end on February 5, 2012. And the best part of all is that players can land themselves a seat in this million dollar event for as little as $1.

There are almost as many ways to enter the Party Poker Winter Million as there are ways to enjoy Winter, with five different qualifying structures players can choose from.

In one qualification structure, players choose between a $2 Winter Million Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy and an $8 Winter Million Sub Qualifier Speed event, both of which seed players into a $70 Winter Million Qualifier, which awards one player in ten seats in the Winter Million $1,000,000 Guaranteed.

In another qualification structure, players start in a $1 Winter Million Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy that seeds players into a $27 Winter Million Rebuy Qualifier which in turn sends one player to the Winter Million $1,000,000 Guaranteed for every $640 in the prize pool.

The direct buy-in for the Party Poker Winter Million $1,000,000 Guaranteed is $640. The event starts at 1:30 pm ET and utilizes a Championship blind structure.

There’s even a choice of Daily Country Specific Freerolls and Daily Player Points Qualifiers to enter, both of which lead to a Friday Winter Million Special, an event with no direct buy-in and that awards 5 seats guaranteed in the Party Poker Winter Million Guaranteed.