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Americas Cardroom Punta Cana Satellites Start

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Americas Cardroom Poker has started its 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic satellite tournament series, promising to award ten $4,100 prize packages to the tournament in one big satellite taking place on Sunday, June 9 at 6 pm ET, for a $50 + $5 direct buy-in.

This is the 4th annual incarnation of the Punta Cana Poker Classic, which takes place in the exotic Caribbean at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This year the event takes place from November 11 to 17, 2013 for a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Each $4,100 prize package into the 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic includes the $1,500 + $150 buy-in to the Punta Cana $500K main event, a 6-night stay at the Hard Rock, up to $800 round trip air fare, ground transportation to and from airport and hotel, all-inclusive food and beverage premium service, 24-hour premium room service, a $1,500 resort credit to use on your choice of golf, tours, and spa, a 24/7 VIP support line, and a welcome gift bag.

Satellites into the Americas Cardroom Punta Cana Poker Classic satellite start with $0.25 + $0.02 events running hourly each day at 30 minutes past each hour and awarding 1 seat into a 6:35 pm ET daily event with its own $7 + $0.70 buy-in, each awarding a seat in the 10-seat guaranteed main satellite.

Be aware that participation in this promotion presumes that you will be able to accept the prize package if won, as Americas Cardroom will not offer any cash alternative or transfer of this prize to another player.

“Straight Flush” Chronicles the Rise and Fall of Absolute Poker

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Ben Mezrich, the author of the NY Times bestseller The Accidental Billionaire about the rocky genesis of Facebook that was later adapted into the Oscar winning movie “The Social Network” has just release a new book, his 12th book, entitled Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire–and How It All Came Crashing Down.

It’s a provocative title, no doubt, and the “true story” to which it refers is the rise and fall of Absolute Poker. What’s more, it was made with the full cooperation of one of AP’s founders. In fact, the book was his idea, pitched to Mezrich in an email.

In the book, Mezrich lays out how these young guys discovered that The Wire Act of the 1960s that made sports betting and other types of gambling illegal didn’t say anything about poker. It wasn’t until December of 2006, by which point these young smart alecs became the whiz kids of cyberspace with an online poker monolith serving thousands of players and dealing millions of poker hands daily, that the U.S. government enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act making sites like Absolute Poker illegal.

Sites were given time to shut down of their own accord, and on April 15, 2010, the feds finally took action against the majority of these sites, including AP, that ignored the order and remained open, seizing their accounts, freezing player funds, and shutting down their URLs.

Ben Mezrich’s latest expose’, this time on the flashbang phenomenon that was online poker in early 21st century, is in stores now.

Poker 770 $50K Free Festival 770

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Each month Poker 770 holds a Free Festival 770 full of freeroll tournaments with a total of $50,000 worth of real money prize pools.

The Free Festival 770 features unlimited Sit ‘n’ Go freerolls with $0.10 prize pools and freeroll tournaments every hour: with a $10 prize pool each hour from 2:00 am to 1:00 pm, and with $27.70 prize pools each hour from 2:00 pm to 1:00 am. All Free Festival 770 freeroll tournaments can be found in the Poker 770 software in the Tournaments section, under the Freerolls heading listed as Free Festival770.

Players can also qualify for the next Mega Poker Series (MPS) when they play at any Free Festival $27.70 tourney and land in the top 10. Those players will each get a €2.20 entry into the the daily Mega 1 -1 ticket €21 GTD tourney. There is also a complete schedule of MPS satellites offered in cooperation with Carbon Poker.

Meanwhile, Carbon Poker also regularly offers $50,000 worth of daily freeroll tournaments monthly, on top of its Free Festival 770. These promise at least $1K in cash and tournament token prize pools available each day. The full schedule of these daily freeroll tournaments can be found at the Carbon Poker website.

And in addition to their Free Festival770 Freerolls and regular daily freerolls, Carbon Poker also offers two ongoing tournaments with tiny buy-ins, both Hyper SNGs. One has a $0.05 buy-in and the other has a $0.10 buy-in. Both have an additional $0.01 fee.

Carbon Poker Offers End of May Reload Bonus

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From now until May 31, 2013, Carbon Poker is offering all existing players a reload of 75% on a single deposit up to a maximum bonus of $375. To redeem this bonus, use the code MAYPK, which is valid until 11:59 pm server time on Friday, May 31st.

The Carbon Poker reload bonus will then be released to eligible players in increments of $5 at a time after the player meets the redemption requirements of earning 150 VIP Points per dollar of the bonus. That means a player must earn 750 VIP Points in order to have each $5 increments release. Once a bonus or portion of the bonus is released, it is then withdrawable as cash from the player’s account. However, if there is any portion of the bonus still left to be redeemed when an already released portion of the bonus is withdrawn as cash, the unredeemed remainder of that active bonus would then be forfeited. Any unredeemed portions of the active bonus will also be forfeited in 90 days from being claimed.

New players to Carbon Poker, meanwhile, can get a 200% initial deposit bonus of up to $5,000. The bonus code for this initial deposit bonus is CARBONPK and the minimum eligible deposit is $10. VIP Points earned playing Carbon Poker’s side games like blackjack, roulette, Caribean Stud, video poker, backgammon, and euchre do not count toward meeting the redemption requirements for this bonus.

Whichever bonus you claim, all players new and old making a deposit into their Carbon Poker account in any given month are also rewarded with a seat in the $10,000 Depositors Freeroll taking place on the second Sunday of the subsequent month at 13:00 lobby time.

California Releases New Draft of Poker Bill

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A new draft of a bill to legalize online poker in the state of California, written in collaboration between the sate’s Native American tribes, has just been released. The bill is called the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2013 and eight tribes in all have shown their support by signing onto the bill.

This is a poker only bill that does not include other forms of online gambling, like online casino gambling. The aim is to protect the revenue-generating interests of the land-based casinos that these tribes own and operate. The bill also omits the possibility of allowing international or even interstate online poker, which means that states like New Jersey and Nevada, which have already passed legal intrastate poker and are looking to partner with other such states to allow each other’s residents to play on their respective legal poker sites, would not be able to benefit from the immense online poker playing pool in the great big state of California.

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In addition, the bill has what’s called a “bad actor” clauses, which means that any company operating online poker illegally before implementation of this bill would be forbidden from offering online poker legally in the state after the bill has passed.

Poker players around the country are decrying this bill as terrible for players as it restricts the entire California player pool to California sites only, and only sites other than those popular ones that most players elsewhere in the legal poker universe are playing.

European Poker Tour Season 10 Schedule Announced

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ept10With the wrapping up of EPT9, the 9th season of the coveted European Poker Tour, the schedule EPT10 has now been released.

Season 10 of the European Poker Tour starts with the EPT Barcelona in Spain on August 28 to September 7, 2013, with the main event starting on September 1 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Next is the EPT London, taking place in the UK from October 2 to 12, 2013, with the main event starting on October 6, for a £5,000 + £250 buy-in.

Then there’s the EPT Prague taking place in the Czech Republic from December 8 to 18, 2013, with the main event starting on December 12, for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

After that is the popular 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) taking place in the Bahamas from January 4 to 13, 2014, with the main event starting on January 6, for a $10,000 + $300 buy-in.

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Then comes the EPT Deauville in France from January 22 to February 1, 2014, with the main event starting on January 26 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Next there’s the EPT Berlin in Germany from March 12 to 22, 2014, with the main event starting on March 16 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Then it’s on to the EPT San Remo in Italy from April 6 to 16, 2014, with the main event starting on April 10 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

And finally, EPT10 wraps up with the PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final in Monaco from April 23 to May 2, 2014 with the main event starting on April 25 for a €10,000 + €600 buy-in.

Lock Poker Offers Last Chances to Get ISPT Seats Online

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The International Stadiums Poker Tour is reputed to be the largest organized poker event in the world, gathering thousands of poker players from across 38 different countries. Since February of this year, the ISPT Main Event has been running online at participating online poker sites, Lock Poker being one of them, and this merry month of May 2013 sees three more such events on the list.

What’s more, these three May ISPT qualifiers will be the last online poker qualifiers, as the event goes live, heading to Wembley Stadium in London from May 31 to June 5. Here the main event that has been playing since Feb 2013 will finally finish out, gathering thousands of poker players from over 38 countries and promising to award the winner 1 million Euros.

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The ISPT Main Events at Lock Poker this month take place on Sundays May 5, 12, and 19, each starting at 21:00 GMT.

Qualifiers into this mammoth event take place at Lock Poker every Sunday according to the following schedule (all event start times listed in GMT):
•    17:00 – $5 + $0.25 Super Satellite
•    17:30 – $8 + $0.40 Super Satellite
•    18:00 – $5 + $0.25 Super Satellite
•    18:30 – $8 + $0.40 Super Satellite
•    20:00 – $40 + $4
•    21:00 – $10 Rebuy

Among the celebrity poker players expected to be there playing live at Wembley Stadium are Michael Mizrachi, Liz Lieu, David Benyamine, Sam Trickett, Francisco Y Cota, and The Hendon Mob.

Americas Cardroom Elite Benefits Military Ranks

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Last week we brought you information on the Medals of Achievement and Levels of Distinction you can earn as part of Americas Cardroom’s Elite Benefits player rewards program. Those are just one kind of benefit you can get through this program, which increases the size and rate of rewards earnings the more you participate, by advancing you through the program’s Military Ranks.

Earn combat points playing at America’s Cardroom real money games and then climb the Military Ranks to earn increased benefits, as follows:

Lieutenant rank is automatic and gives you a combat point multiplier of 1, Medals of Achievement, Site Freerolls, Lieutenant Store Access, and points earned in dealt rake.

Captain rank requires reaching and maintaining 750 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 1.5 and adds to the above benefits $50 cash in the store and Captain store access.

Major rank requires reaching and maintaining 3,000 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 2 and adds to the above benefits $300 cash in the store and Major store access.

Colonel rank requires reaching and maintaining 7,500 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 2.5 and adds to the above benefits and adds to the above benefits $600 cash in the store, Colonel store access, and the ability to redeem combat points for Punta Cana Poker Classic and Latin Series of Poker prize packages.

General rank requires reaching and maintaining 100,000 CPs per year and gives you a combat point multiplier of 3.5 and adds to the above benefits $1,500 and $4,000 cash in the store, General-Elite store access, annual status, and Levels of Distinction declassified.

5-Star General rank requires reaching and maintaining 1,000,000 CPs per year and gives you a combat point multiplier of 5 and adds to the above benefits a Luxury Live LSOP Peru package, a Luxury Live Punta Cana package, $10,000 cash in the store, and 5-star General-Elite store access.

Bet Online Poker Holds On The Hour Freerolls With Real Money Prizes

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Bet Online Poker runs freeroll tournaments held hourly that award real cash prizes ranging from

But although the site calls these tournaments “On The Hour Freerolls”, hardly any of them actually start literally on the hour. Therefore we’ve taken the liberty of providing you the full schedule of these so-called On The Hour Freerolls below, as it really is a fine opportunity to whet your poker chops and walk away from the table with some real cash in your pocket for doing so.

Notice in the below schedule that two events actually have a buy-in, although not a cash buy-in. They’re the 11:20 am and 5:20 pm events and they each cost 1 poker point to buy-in. Beside each listing is the number of players receiving a pay-out in the tourney (e.g. top 10 pays out the top 10 finishers.)

The Bet Online Poker On The Hour Freerolls Schedule is as follows (all times listed EST):

•    12:20 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    1:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    3:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    4:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    6:00 am – $100 European Nooner Freeroll, top 40

•    8:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    9:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 30

•    10:10 am – $10 Freeroll, top 10

•    *11:20 am – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    12:00 pm – $140 Nooner Freeroll, top 50

•    1:20 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    3:10 pm – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    4:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 30

•    5:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    *5:20 pm – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    8:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    9:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 10

•    10:10 pm – $25 Turbo Freeroll, top 20

All Bet Online Poker freerolls cap their player pools at 3,000 registrants, so be sure to register early and secure your spot.

Introducing the new CarbonCasino

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Carbon PokerCarbon Poker is set to launch their full feature casino offering Sunday April 7, 2013.  CarbonCasino will feature all of your favorite casino games such as Blackjack, Video Poker, and Slots.  The Casino will be fully integrated into the poker software and can be accessed from the “Casino” tab.  There is no shifting of balances as players use the same wallet for poker as well as for the casino.  Casino games can also be played directly from the Carbon Poker website

To celebrate the launch of this new option, Carbon Poker will hold a special $3,000 freeroll on Sunday April 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm eastern time.  The top 500 players in the game will be awarded cash prizes.  Registration for this event opens at 10:00 am eastern time on April 7, 2013.  The tournament can be found under the Tournaments tab under the “Special” sub heading.