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America’s Cardroom’s Beast $75K Guarantee Returns

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The next The Beast $75K Guaranteed Tournament is coming to America’s Cardroom Poker this weekend. Taking place this coming Sunday, March 10, 2013 and starting at 6:00 pm ET, The Beat $75K Guarantee costs $50 + $5 to buy-in directly, or players can win their seat in the event through a daily satellite tournament series.

As in previous installments of this event, The Beast $75K Guarantee does not preclude the regular $50K Guaranteed Tournament that usually takes place on Sundays at 7:00 pm ET each week. That means players can vie for a combined $125K this Sunday night, spread across just two events.

America’s Cardroom’s the Beast $75K Super Satellite: 2 Seats GTD takes place daily, every hour, at 10 minutes prior to the stroke of the hour, for a buy-in of $0.25 + $0.02. At each of these events, 2 seats will be awarded in The Beast $75K Satellite: 2 Seats GTD. This event takes place once each day, at 6:35 pm ET, for a direct buy-in of $7 + $0.70. At each of these events, two seats in the Sunday, March 10th The Beast $75K Guarantee tournament will be awarded.

As a brief reminder, The Americas Cardroom The Beast competition is a progressive rake race that guarantees to pay out its jackpot each and every month. And now for the first time, The Beast rake race is also valid on all Omaha cash tables. With Hold’em and Omaha players both taking part in The Beast rake race, the jackpots are likely to grow tremendously, as will the amounts of tournament seats awarded into the monthly The Beast tournament.

Bovada Poker’s Black Diamond Poker Open $700,000 Championship Satellites On Now

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With the first half of Bovada Poker’s two-part Black Diamond Poker Open behind us — the $150,000 guaranteed Contender Series — the second and much bigger half is just ahead — the $700,000 guaranteed Championship Series.

Bovada Poker’s 2nd Black Diamond Poker Open (or BDPO2) runs from March 10 to 24 and consists of 14 events in all different styles and variants of poker, including No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit; Hold’em, Omaha, and Stud; knockout, turbo, rebuy, and 6-handed events.

Qualifiers into BDPO2 satellite tournaments cost as little as $1 + $0.10 to enter. The BDPO2 satellites themselves cost as little as $3 + $0.30 to enter. Just keep in mind that payers can only win a single entry into any given BDPO2 event and there’s no alternative value to redeem for additional satellite wins.

And on Saturday, March 23, Bovada Poker holds Super Saturday Satellite Day with satellites into the Sunday, March 24 main event running all day long. That main event has a $425 + $25 buy-in and offers up a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

On weekdays during the two-week series, Bovada Poker will hold three BDPO2 tournaments per day: at 9:02 am, 8:02 pm, and 10:02 pm. On weekends during this period, the site will hold 4 BDPO2 tournaments per day: at 10:02 am, 2:02 pm, 5:02 pm, and 8:02 pm.

In addition to their cash prizes, all the winners of Bovada Poker Black Diamond Poker Open II tournaments will have their names posted on the website.

Latin Series of Poker Lima Satellites On Now At America’s Cardroom

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lsopAmerica’s Cardroom is now holding satellite tournaments into the upcoming Latin Series of Poker stop in Limia with a main event that boasts a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. This latest LSOP event runs from May 20 to 25 and takes place at the Casino Atlantic City in Lima, Peru.

Each America’s Cardroom LSOP Lima satellite winner will receive a prize package valued at $3,500 that includes that $1,650 buy-in for the main event, air-fare round trip for up to $800, a 6-night stay for two people at the Sol De Oro Hotel, including breakfast, Wi-Fi access, transportation roundtrip between airport and hotel, an invite for you and your guest to a welcome party, and a gift bag, a VIP support line available 24/7, and hotel taxes covered.

For all of that, just win one of the 7 LSOP Lima Super Satellite tournaments taking place in the month of March 2013. They each run on a Saturday or Wednesday at 7:30 pm ET and award 1 prize package each. The direct buy-in is $140 + $12 but players can win their seats in these events instead through lower-cost satellites to the LSOP Lima event.

These satellites cost $20 + $2 and run nightly between now and March 23 at 6:35 pm ET. At each of these Satellites, two seats in the next Super Satellite will be awarded.

The Latin Series of Poker has been running for 10 years with the support of players from Americas Cardroom and a select few other poker sites. In addition to the main event at the LSOP Lima there will be many rewarding side events players can get in on as well, although at their own expense. This includes a Sit ‘n’ Go Race, a $300 event, and a High Roller event.

Americas Cardroom Hosts $500K Mini Online Super Series II

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The second annual installment of the Mini Online Super Series is coming up at America’s Cardroom and this time it’s worth $500,000 guaranteed. The mOSS II, as it’s called for short, runs from Friday, February 15th (the day after Valentine’s Day) through Sunday, February 24th. That’s one week and two weekends packed full of high-stakes Texas Hold’em and Omaha action.

America’s Cardroom’s mOSS II is comprised of over 100 poker events: 90 Texas Hold’em tournaments and 10 Omaha tournaments. Prize pools vary from $300 to $100K. Buy-ins, meanwhile, range from only $2 to $100. And of course, there are those satellites into the Main Event that we brought you word of in our previous post.

Every day of the series there are events at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:00pm, 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 10:00pm.

Some of the mOSS II series highlights include Event 28, a $75,000 GTD event for a $100 + $9 buy-in starting at 7:30 pm on Sunday, February 17th. Event 88, meanwhile, is a $30,000 GTD event with a $50 + $5 buy-in starting at 7:30 pm on Saturday, February 23rd. Pot Limit Omaha prize pools range from $500 to $3,000. The series also includes deep stack events, turbo events, rebuy and add-on events, and hi/lo events.

The mOSS II Main Event takes place Sunday, February 24 at 7:30 pm for a $100 + $9 buy-in and a $100K prize pool. And it’s not even the final event of the series, with two more events taking place that night after it.

Americas Cardroom Holds 25 Seats GTD Depositors Freeroll into mOSS II

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America’s Cardroom is holding 3 freeroll tournaments each awarding 25 free seats guaranteed in the site’s upcoming Mini Online Super Series, or mOSS II.

The Americas Cardroom mOSS II Freerolls take place Sundays, February 17th, and 24th at 12:00 noon ET and each are worth $2,500 in freeroll entries, each guaranteeing to award 25 seats in the $100 GTD Mini Online Super Series II Main Event taking place on February 24 at 7:30 pm ET.

This freeroll offer is available to new players only who are making their first real money deposit into the new Americas Cardroom account. In addition to the 100% welcome bonus up to a $1,000 maximum bonus received for their first deposit, new players also gain entry into all of the freerolls remaining for the month. That’s good reason to deposit sooner than later as you can still earn seats in the last two freerolls remaining with one single deposit. Eligible deposits must be made between Sunday and Saturday preceding the next Sunday 25 Seats GTD Depositors Freeroll.

The Mini Online Super Series itself takes place from February 15 to 24 and guarantees a total of $500,000 in prizes, awarded across more than 100 online poker events ranging in poker type and tournament style. Each event boasts a guaranteed prize pool ranging from $300 to $100,000. In addition, Americas Cardroom is running an overall leaderboard contest throughout the series.

Stay tuned here are Holdem Poker Chat for more details on the events making up ACR’s Mini Online Super Series II.

Americas Cardroom Holds The Beast $50K GTD

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The next The Beast $50K Guaranteed tournament coming out of Americas Cardroom is coming up this Sunday, February 10, 2013. The buy-in is $50 + $5 and the name of the game, of course, is Texas Hold’em. The action starts at 6:00 pm ET.

Now keep in mind, The Beast $50K Guarantee tournament is not replacing the regular $50K guaranteed event that Americas Cardroom ordinarily has every Sunday at 7:00 pm ET. That means there’s $100K guaranteed on the table that night across just two tournaments at America’s Cardroom.

Players can avoid the $55 buy-in cost to get into The Beast $50K Guarantee through a satellite tournament, being offered daily at 6:35 pm ET. The buy-in for this event is $7 + $0.70 and each event awards the top 2 players seats The Beast $50K Guarantee.

There’s also a The Beast $50K Super Satellite taking place daily, every hour at 5 minutes after the hour. These events cost only $0.25 + $0.02. And each event awards 2 seats to that night’s The Beast $50K Satellite.

The Beast, to the uninitiated, is America’s Cardroom’s progressive rake race, offering a guaranteed jackpot that gets awarded every month. The Beast jackpot rises throughout the month as more players play at jackpot tables at the site. Players earn points for playing at these jackpot tables which are then tracked on leaderboard, with the top finishers at the end of each month winning a share of a 6-figure jackpot. Then it resets for the next month and the fun starts all over again.

Second Week of 2-Week Americas Cardroom Online Super Series II Underway

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omgSince January 13th, 2013 Americas Cardroom has been celebrating its second Online Super Series, OSS II, with big guaranteed prize pools for small buy-ins. The first week of this 2-week series saw lots of excitement at the site, and now we’re in the second week, with the final weekend of big money/low buy-in tournaments rapidly approaching.

Saturday sees 7 different tournaments scheduled with a grand total of $47,000 up for grabs. Events include the $200K GTD satellite with 100 seats guaranteed, costing $63 to buy-in. Other events on Saturday have prize pools ranging from $1.5K to $10K for buy-ins of $8.80 to $27.50.

Sunday sees 7 more tourneys scheduled, including the $200K GTD event for a $215 buy-in and the final event of the OSS II, Event 82 – $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha for $27.50. Other events that day have prize pools of $5K, $7.5K, and $15K with buy-ins between $5.50 and $109.

As for rest of the week leading up to this action packed weekend, this Thursday and Friday each see 5 daily events with buy-ins of $10 to $100 and a daily total of $45K minimum up for grabs.

A leaderboard is being kept by Americas Cardroom to determine the overall OSS II champion, with players earning points based on their finishing positions in each Online Super Series tournament they play. The top finisher on the leaderboard will win a commomorative bracelet like they do at the World Series of Poker.

Across the 82 events making up OSS II, America’s Cardroom will give away $1 million.

America’s Cardroom Hosts $5K Micro Race

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5kAmerica’s Cardroom is holding a $5K Micro Race taking place between January 13 and 27. As suggested by the name, this is a race for players at the Micro stakes tables, those being: $0.01/$0.02. $0.02/$0.05 and $0.05/$0.10.

Players earn points for each raked pot to which they contribute. At the close of the two week race period, America’s Cardroom will divide the $5,000 prize pool up among the top finishing players.

Players can earn points even faster by playing in Americas Cardroom’s online satellite tournaments for the Online Super Series II (OSS II). Earn 25 points for buying in to the OSS II $150K GTD Super Satellite: 1 seat GTD, taking place hourly at 5 minutes past the hour from January 13 to 20, or the OSS II $200K GTD Super Satellite: 1 seat GTD taking place hourly at 5 minutes past the hour from January 20 to 27. In both the cases, the satellite buy-ins are $0.50 + $0.05. Again you’ll get 25 points every time you buy-in to one of these satellites.

Otherwise, points are awarded at a rate of the rake or fee multiplied by 1.25. So for every $1 you pay in rake or fee, you get $1.25 points in the $5k Micro Race. Top prize is $500, the runner-up gets $250, and third place earns $220. The prizes go down from there through 100th to 150th place finishers who win $10 each time.

Winning players will receive their winnings in their America’s Cardroom account within 5 days after the end of the $5K Micro Race.

Americas Cardroom’s Online Super Series II Schedule Released

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A couple of weeks ago we told you about the second Online Super Series (OSS II) to be hosted by America’s Cardroom, although the full schedule of events had yet to be released. Well wait no longer! What with the 82-event series right around the corner, taking place January 13 to 27, America’s Cardroom has now released the complete OSS II schedule.

It would be prohibitive for us to list all 82 events on the schedule in the short space here, but these are the broad brush strokes:

On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, Americas Cardroom will run 5 daily events spread throughout the day. Buy-ins will range from $10 to $100 and the total daily prize pool up for grabs is $45,000 GTD minimum each day. Events in No Limit Hold’em use the reentry method while Pot Limit Omaha events each feature one rebuy and one add-on. Each day’s main event will start at 9:00 pm ET.

On Wednesdays throughout the series, Americas Cardroom will run 5 reentry events with a combined $44,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Then on Saturdays, Americas Cardroom is chock full of satellite tournaments into its biggest guaranteed events of the week. In addition, the site will host 7 tournaments spread throughout the day with a combined prize pool of $47,000 guaranteed.

And on Sundays America’s Cardroom celebrates the Big Deal: 7 events with buy-ins between $3.30 and $215. January 13 features two $75K Guaranteed Beast tournaments and one $100,000 GTD main event plus other smaller events for a total $205,000 available to win on that one day alone. January 20 sees a $150K GTD Main Event and January 27 sees a $200K GTD event. That date also sees the last event of OSS II, starting a 8:30 pm ET.oss2

Legal US Online Poker Stalled Again

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United States Senate Majority Leader and the Democratic Senior Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, declared on Friday, December 14th that any discussion on a bill to legalize online poker in the U.S. is dead for the current lame duck session of Congress, due to the priority of solving the budget crisis and avoiding the fiscal cliff. In his comments, published in a story by the La Vegas Sun, Reid expressed his personal wishes that the situation could be different and that he is disappointed time won’t allow Congress to address this issue this year.

Reid also mentioned that he, along with fellow Nevada Senator, the Republican Dean Heller, are committed to ironing out this issue in a bipartisan manner and bringing it to the table before Congress.

Until this announcement it still seemed possible that the Internet poker bill that Reid himself drafted along with the Republic Senator from Arizona, Republican Jon Kyl, might still be passed by the Senate at least before Congress adjourned the 2012 session. Opponents of that bill who lauded the announcement that it was, at least for the moment, dead in the water, included Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land, the National Association of Evangelicals, Focus on the Family, the National Governors Association, and state lotteries.

If passed, such a bill would weaken a 2006 law that mandates enforcement of illegal online gambling, but in a decision by the Justice Department in late 2011, the definition of illegal online gambling was restricted to sports betting alone. US based players can play on any of these online poker sites.