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PokerStars Eureka Poker Tour Goes to the Golden Sands

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There’s a new EPT in town. PokerStars is host and sponsor to many a poker tour, including the European Poker Tour (EPT). And now a new one bearing the same initials joins the list, the Eureka Poker Tour, catering to players from Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Currently the Eureka Poker Tour is scheduled to make stops in Bucharest, Gorica, Nova, Prague, Varna and Zagreb, and Poker Stars is hosting satellites leading up and into each one of them.

The latest set of satellites are for the Eureka Poker Tour Golden Sands, Varna. You can play for one of three different kinds of prize packages: a seat in the tournament plus hotel and expenses (worth €1,400), a seat in the tournament plus expenses, and just a seat in the tournament.

The Eureka Poker Tour Golden Sands takes place June 23 – 26 in Varna, Bulgaria and has a direct buy-in of €800. Satellite opportunities to win free seats in this event include freerolls and VIP satellites. Direct buy-ins into these satellites range from €6.60 to €162.

Freerolls run through June 17 while €1.10 satellite qualifiers run through June 18. The VIP satellites include €3.30 SilverStar and €11 GoldStar events and there are FPP VIP satellite routes as well.

The culmination of the Poker Stars Eureka Poker Tour season, by the way, happens to be the same as the European Poker Tour Prague Main Event, taking place in the Czech Republic from December 5 – 10 for a €5,300 direct buy-in.

Bodog Mini Poker Series begins June 11, 2011

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Bodog Poker launches their Mini Poker Series Saturday June 11, 2011.  The Mini Poker Series boasts as one of its prizes the very first 2012 WSOP Main Event prize packages to be won.  The series boasts 30 preliminary events, all with guaranteed prize pools.   The real jewel is the final and you cannot buy into it, you have to win your way in.  All events are holdem poker, but some interesting structures await.

Bodog Mini Series of Poker is accessible to everyone.  All of the 30 preliminary events have a small $11 buy in.  Getting into the final event can be done with quality or quantity, or a little of both.

Mini Poker Series Events #1- #30

1. Top 3 winners receive a ticket to the Mini Poker Series
Final on July 14th
2. Players finishing 4th to 9th receive a ticket to the Mini
Poker Series Semifinal on July 12th
3. Prize pool will be distributed as per Bodog’s standard
multi-table payout table

 

Mini Poker Series Semifinal

1. Top 50 finishers will receive entry into the Mini Poker
Series final on July 14th

How do I get invited?
1. Play in 15 to 24 Mini Poker Series Events OR
2. Place 4th to 9th in any Mini Poker Series Event

Mini Poker Series Final

1. 1st place Grand Prize: $12,000 prize package, including
a 2012 Main Event buy-in
2. 2nd and 3rd place prize: Bodog Poker Open VI prize
package, including a buy-in for every BPO event
3. 4th to 9th place prize: $162 Tournament Ticket for entry to the
$100,000 Guaranteed Tournament every Sunday at 4PM ET

How do I get invited?
1. Play in 25 or more qualifying events OR
2. Finish in the top 50 in the Semifinal OR
3. Place in the top 3 in a qualifying event

Full Mini Series Schedule

Party Poker Holds VIP Race to Nürburgring

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How would you like to attend the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring this year? If that sonds like your idea of a good time, then Party Poker wants to send you there, if you’re one of the winners of its VIP Race to Nürburgring.

Running from June 10 to 26, 2011, the Party Poker VIP Race to Nürburgring is a simple points race, with progress tracked on a leader board. Earn points as you normally do, by playing at PartyPoker’s cash game and tournament tables. The top 10 finishers on the leader board at the end of the promotional period will win a Nürburgring German Grand Prix VIP package.

Each prize package includes a two night stay at a five-star hotel, tickets for the Saturday qualifying race and Sunday race, access to a special meet and greet event with Marc Surer, Sky motor racing pro, entry into a special Saturday night poker tournament at the hotel, transportation to and from the hotel and $850 in spending cash. Party Poker is also awarding an additional $25,000 in bonus prizes.

The top 150 finishers will win prizes. The top 8 will get a Nürburgring prize package. The remaining players in the top 150 will win either cash or PartyPoker points and entry into a special tournament where two more Nürburgring prize packages will be awarded. For example, places 9 through 12 will win $1,500 cash and a tournament entry, while places 100 to 150 will win 750 store points and a tournament entry.

Don’t forget to opt in for the promotion before you start playing so you can be sure your points will count towards leaderboard position.

888 Poker Big Deal Offers Just What It Sounds Like

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Want to win an iPad 2. Make a deposit of at least $10 using the promo code IPAD4ME and you’ll earn a seat in a tournament taking place June 10 at wich an iPad 2 will be given away as grand prize, while second and third places will get an iPod Nano 16 GB. Other prizes from this event include a 10,000 points reward voucher and free entry into the $100K First Depositors Challenge.

Poker is a big deal over at 888 Poker, and they’re proving it by offering players a big deal on all sorts of items, events and opportunities.

If you manage to play at 888 Poker any four days in a given week, you’ll earn yourself a seat in a special $3,000 Big Deal freeroll tournament. Weeks run Monday through Sunday and to qualify for a freeroll ticket players must earn at least 5 status points on each of their qualifying days. The $3K Big Deal freeroll is then on Saturdays at 19:00 GMT.

Cash game players who earn at least 20 status points while playing during the Happy Hours time slot of 11:00 – 15:00 GMT will receive a $5 bonus.

And here’s one just for the ladies. Women who play in 100 hands per day on 888 Poker’s new PokerCam tables will win a $100 shopping coupon. Find PokerCam tables by looking for the webcame icon in the 888Poker lobby. Only real money hands played will count toward the prize. Once earned, the coupon will be emailed to you within 72 hours.

Who Will Be This Month’s Carbon Poker Tourney King

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Every month Carbon Poker holds its Tourney King promotion, and with June of 2011 just getting underway, it’s anybody’s game once again. Throughout the entire month, Carbon Poker keeps track of the performance of all of its tournament players, in both low and high limit games. Carbon Poker tracks this progress on two different leaderboards – a low-limit and a high-limit leader board – each with its own set of prizes with a combined total value between the two leader boards of more than $20,000.

If you play in a tournament with a buy-in under $20, then that performance is tracked on the low-limit leader board. If you play a tournament with a buy-in $20 or higher, you get on the high-limit leader board. At the end of the month, each leader board features a Grand Final tournament for its top 250 players. Each player will get a starting chipstack reflecting their position on the monthly leader board. Players can even play in enough low and high limit tournaments throughout the month to land them in both Grand Final Tournaments.

First place in the high limit leader board grand final gets $3,000 cash; second place gets $1,800; third gets $1,200; fourth gets $600 and fifth gets $450. Sixth through 15th get $100 cash plus an entry into a special $50K freeroll. Sixteenth through fiftieth get either a $50K entry ticket, a $60 satellite ticket into the $50K freeroll or both.

The low limit leader board grand final gives $1,500 to first, $900 to second, $600 to third, $300 to fourth and $225 to fifth, with a similar arrangment of prizes for sixth through 50th, except with the addition of an $11 satellite ticket into the $60 satellite.

Phil Ivey Fed Up: Sues Full Tilt, Boycotts WSOP

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Just a year and a half ago, Phil Ivey was sitting at the final table of the World Series of Poker, one of the esteemed November Nine. This year, he’ll be sitting out the event entirely, in protest to what he sees as Full Tilt Poker’s unfair treatment of its American-based players. On top of all that, he’s suing his former sponsor, Full Tilt Poker for what could amount to $150 million in damages.

Actually to be precise, Phil Ivey is suing Tiltware, Full Tilt Poker’s provider of software and marketing.

When Black Friday first occured, Phil Ivey came out asking players to have patience with the site as it worked out how to get its American players (now former-players) the money back from their Full Tilt Poker real money accounts. But since that missive, Phil Ivey’s own patience has run out. He now says Full Tilt’s actions have “embarrassed” him.

He says the reason he won’t be playing in the WSOP is because he finds it unfair that many other players who might otherwise be there too cannot be because the money they would have spent on travel and buy-in costs is locked up in Full Tilt Poker’s bank accounts.

Full Tilt Poker, meanwhile, is holding no punches either, calling Phil Ivey’s lawsuit against them “sanctimonious” since he stands to gain $150 million off of his fellow players’ misfortune, suing the site for the full amount that it owes all it’s other American former-players combined.

The reaction to Ivey’s actions in the poker playing community is decidedly mixed.

888 Poker Promotions June 2011 – $10,000 in Freerolls

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Big Deal Promotion

888Poker is giving away over $10,000 in Freeroll Prizes, Lots of Apple Goodies, Cash Prizes and More!

888poker is heating things up this summer with amazing offers to players.

Crazy Coupons: 888poker players receive a special offer every day – they’re giving away tons of cash prizes and merchandise.

Fantastic Freerolls: 888poker has ongoing freeroll tournaments at 888poker. This month alone they’re paying out over $10,000!

Apple Product Giveaways:   888poker’s giving away lots of great Apple merchandise including iPad2’s as part of their Beginners Freeroll prize pool.

Loads of Free Cash: This summer is full of free cash bonuses including reload bonuses, cashback bonuses, match bonuses and TONS more.

888poker’s Live Tournament Series, Super Stack announces UK schedule

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888 Poker888poker is proud to announce the final UK 2011 Super Stack schedule with new Birmingham events added!

The successful series that offers live deep stack tournaments with prize pool’s usually exceeding £20,000 an event, has finalized the 2011 schedule with 6 more UK tournaments. Tournaments are available in Central London and now in Birmingham at Circus Casino. Buy-in for the events are £165 with a 20K starting chipstack and 40 minute blinds.

Tournament Schedule:
–          July 30/31 – London
–          August 27/28 – Birmingham
–          October 1/2 – London
–          October 29/30 – Birmingham
–          December 3/4 – London
–          December 16/18 – Birmingham (GRAND FINAL)

Qualifying for the events is easy. 888poker.com offers hourly $1+.10 feeder tournaments and weekly 10 seat guarantee qualifiers for $10+$.50 at 7:30pm BST. (Monday for London qualifier and Thursdays for Birmingham qualifier). 888poker players and LPC members can also buy direct entry on 888poker.com or live at each venue

100% Rakeback Accounts Were Being Sold on Full Tilt Poker

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On a poker radio show earlier this week, poker pro Nick Rainey said that a former employee of Poker Royalty, Chris Porter, had been selling 100% rakeback accounts on Full Tilt Poker for $10,000 up front plus $2,000 per month going forward. Thursday afternoon, Poker Royalty, the company that represents Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan and Doyle Brunson, among others, released a statement about the allegations.

“Allegations surfaced on QuadJacks.com this week that a former Poker Royalty employee, Chris Porter, brokered, rented, sold and/or profited from black market rakeback accounts on Full Tilt Poker while working for our agency.

Poker Royalty has never benefited in any way from a rakeback account outside the scope of a client sponsorship agreement.

Poker Royalty had no knowledge of this ex-employee’s alleged actions.  Please direct any further inquiries into this matter to him.”

Porter was at the time an agent working for Poker Royalty representing Patrik Antonius and others up until a year ago. He is currently employed as the team pro manager for Full Tilt Poker.

888 Poker Introduces A Por Ella Bounty Event

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888 Poker has introduced a new event in which players have the chance to take on the Last Woman Standing in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, Leo Margets. Hailing from Spain, the 888 Poker pro finished 27th in a field of 6,000 players to claim a $352,000 payday and now you have the chance to claim a $1,000 on her head every Thursday at 888 Poker’s A Por Ella bounty tournament.

Starting every Thursday at 20:00 GMT, A Por Ella costs only $10 + $1 to enter, with a $1,000 bounty on playername “LEO” on the first Thursday of every month and a $250 bounty on the rest of the Thursdays in any given month. The winner of each A Por Ella event and the winner of the bounty on LEO will both win bonus prizes of a free seat in the following week’s A Por Ella event. In addition, for that event 888 Poker will place a $50 bounty on each of those players’ heads, giving the rest of the players something extra to vie for.

Each A Por Ella event is capped at 500 players. If LEO doesn’t show to an event, her bounty will be split among the players at that event’s final table. If the previous week’s tournament or bounty winner doesn’t show to an event, the bonus bounty on their heads will be dissolved entirely.

You can find the A Por Ella tournament listed under the Multi-Table tab in your 888 Poker lobby.