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Americas Cardroom Online Super Series II Coming Up

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America’s Cardroom has just announced that the return of its Online Super Series will take place between January 12th and 27th, 2013 during which the site will give away $1 million in guaranteed prizes.

The 2nd annual Americas Cardroom Online Super Series (or OSS II, for short) is a 15-day “mega-event” made up of 82 events in both No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.  With the exception of the $200 + $15 events (see below), buy-ins range from $3 + $3.30 to $100 + $9 and prize pools range from $2,000 to $75,000.
The 3 “main events” (as it were) are spread out throughout the series with increasing rewards of $100k, $150k, and $200k all for the same $215 buy-in.

•    Event 4 on Sunday, January 13 at 7:00 pm has a $100,000 prize pool
•    Event 42 on Sunday, January 20 at 7:00 pm has a $150,000 prize pool
•    Event 80 on Sunday, January 27 at 7:00 pm has a $200,000 prize pool

What’s more, in addition to the 82 regular OSS II events, there are special 100 seat guaranteed events into these $100k, $150k and $200k GTD events, as follows:

•    Saturday, January 12 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #4, the $100k GTD
•    Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #42, the $150k GTD
•    Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 pm is a 100 seat guaranteed into Event #80, the $200k GTD

Most events take place in the evenings on weekdays, from about 7:00 pm and on, and take place starting in the afternoons on the weekends (at 2:00 pm on Saturdays and 3:00 pm on Sundays).

Bovada Poker Counts Down to 10th Anniversary Grand Prize Award

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Bovada Poker is gearing up for its 10th Anniversary with a countdown to the grand prize drawing of the decade for a trip to New Orleans for both Mardi Gras and the next Super Bowl.

The 10 Day Bovada Anniversary Countdown started on Tuesday, December 4th and it runs through Thursday, December 13th, during which time the site will be awarding prizes each and every day. Players can each earn 1 prize per day, and with the prize earn an entry into The Best 10 Days of My Life Grand Prize Draw at which the prize package to New Orleans, Louisiana to join in on the Mardi Gras celebration and watch live Super Bowl XLVII.

On day 1 of the promotion, Bovada Poker gave all participants a 10% deposit bonus. On day 2 of the promotion, Bovada Poker gave away a 100% match bonus up to $500 for checking out Bovada Poker’s sister site, Bovada Casino. Every day the Bovada Anniversary Countdown prizes are different, and every day that you claim the day’s prize you also get one step closer to winning the coveted grand prize New Orleans Mardis Gras and Super Bowl trip.

What’s more, a second Bovada Anniversary Countdown is taking place elsewhere on the Internet: specifically, you guessed it, Facebook. Bovada Poker’s Facebook Party is going on now, awarding a 3-part prize each day of the 10-day promotion. Each day’s prize will consist of:

1.    a ticket into a poker tournament on Bovada Poker
2.    casino chips to use on Bovada Casino
a free sports bet to place on Bovada Sports

Earn Christmas Cash at Americas Cardroom

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America’s Cardroom is running a promotion throughout the month of December 2012 called Christmas Cash in which players can redeem their combat points for cash at a specially discounted rate for the holidays.

Get 20% off on redeeming Combat Points for cash throughout December at America’s Cardroom, up to a maximum award of $600.

How much of a cash bous you can purchase is dependent on your rank in the America’s Cardroom Elite Benefits player loyalty program. Players with Lieutenant status can earn a $10 cash bonus; players with Captain status can earn a $50 cash bonus; players with Major status can earn a $300 cash bonus; and players with Colonel, General or 5-Star General status can earn a $600 cash bonus.

In addition to cash bonuses, players can choose from an array of new and improved rewards available for purcahse with Combat Points at the Elite Benefits Store, including high-end shades, iPods, 3D HD televisions and an improved selection of America’s Cardroom branded gear.

Combat Points are the currency of the America’s Cardroom player loyalty and rewards program that players earn when they play at real money cash games and tournament tables at the America’s Cardroom site.

A player’s rank in the Elite Benefits program is determined by how many points they’ve earned over how long a period of time. As players continue playing at the site and earning points throughout, they’ll natural climb higher through the ranks and get access to increasingly more generous benefits and rewards.

BlackChip Poker Moving to Winning Poker Network

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BlackChip Poker has announced that they are leaving the Merge Poker Network and will move to the Winning Poker Network.  Winning, formerly Yatahay, already hosts the popular Americas Cardroom.  This announcement comes on the heels of BlackChip abruptly pulling out of the Merge Network Poker Maximus series.  BlackChip Poker posted a brief statement on their Facebook page moments ago.  Below is the full text of that statement.

We’re pleased to announce that on Monday we’ll be moving to the Winning Poker Network. WPN have a reputation for providing the best payouts and customer service of any US-facing network, and we felt this move would be beneficial for our players and partners.
We look forward to providing the level of service our players and affiliates have come to expect from us over the last few years.

Just to clarify a few points:

1) p2p transfers will be available again next week (after the move);
2) It will be necessary for players to be verified by WPN, regardless of whether or not they’ve previously been verified by Merge. We will email players who have a pending withdrawal on Monday to explain how they can go about this to ensure they’re paid as quickly as possible;We’ll be happy to answer any operational questions, but please understand that we’re keen to look towards a positive future. We know payouts are a top priority for those who have been waiting and these will be expedited once the move is complete. Any queries should be directed to vip@blackchippoker.eu

We look forward to a great future on the Winning Poker Network.

Bad Beats Pay Off With America’s Cardroom Jackpot

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Getting a bad beat at the online poker table doesn’t have to be a dreaded occurence. Not when the poker table is at America’s Cardroom. And not when the bad beat is eligible for the site’s progressive Bad Beat Jackpot.

Put simply, a bad beat is a hand that shouldn’t have lost, but did. To qualify as a bad beat in America’s Cardroom’s book, that hand must be at least four-of-a-kind 8s or higher and it must lose. Also to qualify, both of the player’s hole cards must be used in order to make the qualifying hand.

When the bad beat jackpot is hit, America’s Cardroom pays out 30% of it to the person who hit the jackpot (i.e. the one holding the bad beat hand), 20% of it to the hand’s winner, and divides 10% among the remaining players at the table (provided the eligible players have participated in at least one hand where a contribution was made to the bad beat jackpot). Then 30% of it is used to reseed the next bad beat jackpot and 10% of it goes to the house.

Players must be playing on jackpot tables in order to be eligible for the bad beat jackpot. At every Texas Hold’em table that is marked in the Americas Cardroom lobby with Jackpot and which has at least 4 active players dealt into a hand, a Jackpot fee will be taken by the house to feed the Bad Beat Jackpot and The Beast. That fee is $0.33 for games at table stakes of $2/$4 or higher and $0.08 for everything lower.

Last Week to Win $50K Dream Car at Americas Cardroom

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There’s one week left to try to win a $50,000 car of your dreams from America’s Cardroom in the Rank Point Overdrive promotion. It’s been going on for months now and it’s hard to believe it’s almost over, but on the fast approaching deadline of Saturday, December 1, 2012 if no player has yet achieved the milestone mark of earning 3 million rank points the promised reward will be forfeited.

That promised reward is a dream car of the winner’s choice worth up to $50,000 (or the cash equivalent!)

What’s more, you don’t have to cash in those rank points in order to win the prize. So you can still use them to climb the ranks in the America’s Cardroom Elite Benefits program. Players earn rank points at all real money tables at America’s Cardroom, both cash games and tournaments. Players earn rank points at tournaments at a rate of 5.5 rank points for every $1 paid in tournament fees. In cash games, America’s Cardroom awards rank points at a rate of 5.5 rank points for every $1 in rake the site collects from each hand with those total rank points divided evenly among all the participants in the hand.

Players can earn rank points faster than ever at The Beast jackpot tables, the site’s progressive rake race, the world’s first of its kind. Then there are regular cash tables at all stakes levels so you can stay within your bankroll by climbing closer toward winning that dream car.

Certain promotional terms and conditions apply so be sure to read all the details on the America’s Cardroom site.

Final Month To Win Dream Car In Americas Cardroom’s Rank Point Overdrive

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November is the final month of Americas Cardroom’s Rank Point Overdrive promotion in which players try to win a $50,000 dream car.

Only one dream car is up for grabs in this promotion and it has yet to be claimed. The first player at Americas Cardroom to earn 3,000,000 rank points (that’s 3 million) will win their choice of dream car worth up to $50,000 in value. The rules are simple: you must be the first to meet that benchmark and you must do it before December 1st, 2012.

That makes November 2012 the final countdown to see whether anyone at all will walk away from this promotion the winner of a brand new car of their dreams.

All the rank points players earn in this promotion are still valid for benefits in America’s Cardroom’s Elite Benefits program, so trying to win the car, despite failing, still comes with its own rewards.

Except in The Beast tournaments where players can earn rank points even faster, players earn rank points at Americas Cardroom’s cash tables and tournaments at a rate of 5.5 rank points for every $1 contributed to the rake taken from each cash game pot or every $1 paid in tournament fees (the number after the “+” sign in a tournament buy-in: e.g. the $3 in $30 + $3). P.S. for all you cash game players–Americas Cardroom uses the Dealt Rake method of calculating rake, which means that as long as you were dealt cards in a hand, you earn equal credit for the rake taken from that hand, even if you fold before the flop.

Poker Maximus II begins September 6, 2012

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Carbon Poker introduces Poker Maximus II, an online tournament series that is US player friendly! Poker Maximus II begins on September 6, 2012. Thirty-five guaranteed events will run through the next eleven days for a total guarantee of $1,300,000 in prize money.

The opening event is an affordable $11 buyin tournament with a staggering $15,000 guarantee. The series features the affordable $11 tournaments as well as higher buyin $33, $60, $109 and $215 tournaments.  All budgets should find something to like in this schedule of tournaments. Satellites of all varieties are available in the sit and go format as well as the traditional multi-table tournament style.

Poker Maximus II Tournament Schedule

Thurs, Sept 6th
18:00		 Event #1: $15,000 NLH Freezeout $10+1
Thurs, Sept 6th
19:00		 Event #2: $60,000 NLH Freezeout $200+15
Thurs, Sept 6th
20:00		 Event #3: $30,000 NLH Shorthanded $100+9
Fri, Sept 7th
18.00		 Event #4: $15,000 Unlimited Rebuy and Addon $10+1
Fri, Sept 7th
19:00		 Event #5: $20,000 Second Chance NLH (3000/5000) $30+1
Fri, Sept 7th
19:00		 Event #6: $30,000 NLH Freezeout $100+9
Sat, Sept 8th
16:00		 Event #7: $10,000 NLH Freezeout $10+1
Sat, Sept 8th
16:00		 Event #8: $20,000 Unlimited Rebuys / 1 Addon NLH $30+1
Sat, Sept 8th
16:00		 Event #9: $50,000 NLH Freezeout $200+15
Sun, Sept 9th
15:00		 Event #10: $10,000 Guaranteed Heads Up NLH $30+3
Sun, Sept 9th
16:00		 Event #11: $60,000 Unlimited Rebuys and 1 Addon $55+5
Sun, Sept 9th
16:00		 Event #12: $125,000 Guaranteed NLH $500+30
Sun, Sept 9th
17:00		 Event #13: $6,000 HO Tournament $55+5
Mon, Sept 10th
20:00		 Event #14: $15,000 NLH Unlimited Rebuys / Addon Shorthanded $10+1
Mon, Sept 10th
19:00		 Event #15: $20,000 Guaranteed $30+3
Mon, Sept 10th
20:00		 Event #16: $40,000 NLH Freezeout $100+1
Tues, Sept 11th
16:00		 Event #17: $10,000 Guaranteed NLH Second Chance (Option of 1 Rebuy) $10+1
Tues, Sept 11th
17:00		 Event #18: $30,000 Guaranteed NLH Freezeout $55+5
Tues, Sept 11th
19:00		 Event #19: $75,000 Guaranteed NLH Freezeout $200+15
Wed, Sept 12th
17:00		 Event #20: $15,000 NLH Freezeout $10+1
Wed, Sept 12th
18:00		 Event #21: $40,000 NLH Shorthanded $100+9
Wed, Sept 12th
20:00		 Event #22: $10,000 Guaranteed HORSE $30+3
Thurs, Sept 13th
19:00		 Event #23: $20,000 NLH Freezeout $30+3
Thurs, Sept 13th
19:00		 Event #24: $20,000 HORSE $200+15
Thurs, Sept 13th
20:00		 Event #25: $15,000 Pot Limit OMAHA $55+5
Fri, Sept 14th
19:00		 Event #26: $15,000 Guaranteed NLH $10+1
Fri, Sept 14th
20:00		 Event #27: $40,000 Guaranteed Unlimited Rebuys and 1 Addon $10+1
Fri, Sept 14th
19:00		 Event #28: $10,000 PLO8 – Deepstack Freezeout $30+3
Sat, Sept 15th
16:00		 Event #29: $40,000 – NLH – Unlimited Rebuys and 1 Addon $55+5
Sat, Sept 15th
17:00		 Event #30: $10,000 NLH Shorthanded TURBO $30+3
Sat, Sept 15th
16:00		 Event #31: $25,000 NLH Shorthanded $100+9
Sun, Sept 16th
15:00		 Event #32: $30,000 NLH Freezeout $10+1
Sun, Sept 16th
15:00		 Event #33: $40,000 NLH Second Chance One Rebuy One Addon $30+3
Sun, Sept 16th
15:00		 Main Event Low Stakes: $150,000 Guaranteed NLH Freezeout $55+5
Sun, Sept 16th
16:00		 Main Event High Stakes: $200,000 Guaranteed NLH Freezeout $500+30

Intertops Poker’s 26-Day Endurance Challenge Returns

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Earlier today we brought you word of one online poker site’s monthly race renewing for August 2012; now we bright you word of another monthly race renewing at a different poker site. That site is Intertops Poker and the race: the 26-Day Endurance Challenge.

Like the Lock Poker Battle of the Ronin described this morning, the Intertops Poker 26-Day Endurance Challenge invites players to compete against the clock, not each other, for individual prizes (although some of those prizes, admittedly, are tournament entries, pitting player against player anyway.)

The prizes in the Intertops Poker 26-Day Endurance Challenge are smaller, but they’re also easier to win. Instead of having to contribute increasingly large amounts of money to rake and tournament fees, that is, earning increasingly more VIP points, here you simply must earn a modest number of the equivalent, Frequent Player Points (FPP) but sustain those daily earnings over several (not necessarily consecutive) days.

Freeroll entries of increasing value are available for sustaining targets of 14 to 224 FPP for 5, 10 or 15 days of the 26-Day period: August 1 to 27. Cash prizes are also available for the highest of those daily and or FPP targets. Players are entitled to one freeroll entry and one cash prize in each 26-Day Endurance Challenge, those prize being, of course, the highest valued ones for which a player is eligible.

Freeroll entries have guaranteed prize pools of, respectively: $750; $1,000; $1,500. Cash prizes range from $3 to $43. Freeroll qualifiers and cash prizes will all be awarded on August 31, 2012.

Lock Poker August Battle of the Ronin Underway

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With the start of annother month is the start of another month-long Battle of the Ronin at Lock Poker. The event features of 2,900 individual cash prizes, meaning that you compete for these prizes not against other players but against the clock.

All the VIP points that you earn throughout the month of August by playing at Lock Poker’s real money tournaments and cash tables will be tracked by the site, and each and every time you hit a new target number of points you earn a new prizes. The prizes increase in value as the points targets increase, and you get to keep all the cash prizes you earn as you continue to earn even more.

There are many prizes available to be won at each level, although not an unlimited number of prizes, so there is some competition against your fellow player to reach a new level before all its prizes have run out. If that happens however, you can still continue to climb to higher levels and earn any of those prizes that haven’t yet run out.

There are, for example, 400 prizes of $1.50 available for contributing to $10 in rake or fees (the lowest prize on the ladder) and only 4 prizes of the highest level, $7,500 for adding $8,000 more in rake in fees to your previous total for a combined total of $66,600. Contribute that much in rake and fees over the month of August before any prizes have run out and you’ll win $45,142 individually. And that’s not even including what you may win in all those poker games.