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Party Poker Launches WPT Five Diamond Satellites

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It’s time for another satellite series to take place for another esteemed World Poker Tour main event. This time the event is the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic happening in Las Vegas, Nevada between December 6th and 11th, 2011.

Players winning Party Poker prize packages into the WPT Five Diamond will receive, in addition to the $10,300 buy-in into the main event, accommodations for 7 nights at the Bellagio, where the tournament will be taking place, and $2K in expense money. That’s a $14,000 value for each prize package.

These prize packages will be awarded at Party Poker’s WPT Five Diamond Satellites, taking place every week between October 17th and November 20th, 2011 on Sundays at 3:20 pm ET. These satellites have a direct buy-in of $700 + $50 but players can win their way into the event for cheaper than that via daily satellite qualifiers for $80. These award one player in ten seats in the satellite where one prize package is guaranteed to be given away each time.

Likewise players can win their way into the satellite qualifiers as well via a choice sub qualifiers. Both are daily events and both are speed events, although one, with a $3 buy-in, has rebuy whereas the other, with a $9 buy-in, does not. Players can even win their way into the $3 sub qualifier speed rebuy event via freeroll WPT Five Diamond Freeroll tournaments, also running daily. The highest 25 finishers at each freeroll will advance to the next stage of the series.

Party Poker WPT National Bohemia On Now

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Party Poker has begun its satellite series for the newest stop to be added to the World Poker Tour itinerary: WPT National Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

The Party Poker WPT National Bohemia satellite series runs from October 10 to November 6, 2011. It starts with daily qualifiers costing only $1 to buy-in. There are two such $1 daily sub qualifiers: a speed event from which 1 in 10 players will advance to the next stage and a speed rebuy event from which 1 player will advance to the next stage for every $18 in the prize pool.

That next stage is the WPT National Bohemia Satellite Qualifier, taking place daily and as a Turbo tournament on Sundays. It costs $18 to buy-in directly and advanced 1 in 10 players to the next stage, the actual WPT National Bohemia Satellite where at least one prize package is guaranteed to be awarded. These take place on Sundays for a $150 + $12 direct buy-in and award prize packages to 1 player for every $3,000 in the prize pool.

WPT National Bohemia will take place November 18 – 20, 2011 at the King’s Casino located right near the Czech / German border in Rozvadov, the Czech Republic. Each $3,000 prize package into the WPT National Bohemia will include the $2,100 buy-in into the main event, hotel accommodations while the tournament is taking place and $400 for expenses.

Winners are responsible for their own transportation to the Czech Republic for the event and are affirming by playing in these satellites and qualifiers that they will be able to attend if they do win a prize package. Prize packages are non-transferrable and non-refundable for any cash value.

Party Poker WPT Prague Satellites On Now

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Party Poker has begun its satellite tournament series for the World Poker Tour stop in the Czech Republic. Party Poker’s WPT Prague satellite series runs October 3 through November 20 during which the site will be awarding multiple prize packages into the WPT Prague worth $7,500 a piece.

The Party Poker WPT Prague satellite series starts with daily freerolls that each award advancement into a sub qualifier speed rebuy event for the top 50 finishers. That sub qualifier speed rebuy is also a daily event, this time with a $1 direct buy-in, and which awards seats in the satellite qualifier to one player for every $44 in the prize pool. There’s also a daily sub qualifier speed event without a rebuy that has a $5.50 + $0.50 direct buy-in and awards seats in the satellite qualifier to one in every eight players.

That WPT Prague satellite qualifier takes place daily and is a Turbo event on Sundays. It has a direct buy-in of $40 + $4 and awards seats in the satellite final to one in ten players. That WPT Prague satellite final takes place weekly, on Sundays, for a $375 + $25 direct buy-in and awards one seat for every 20 players competing, with one prize package minimum guaranteed.

The WPT Prague is the latest addition to the World Poker Tour itinerary, taking place at Prague’s Corinthia Casino betweeen December 1 and 5, 2011. Each Party Poker prize package into the WPT Prague includes the $5,000 buy-in into the main event, $1,300 in expense money, and luxury hotel accommodations during your stay.

Party Poker Hosts 2011 Pokerfest Online

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There’s a new online poker festival at Party Poker. Called Pokerfest Online it features a bevy of tournaments at a wide range of stakes with a $1 million main event and a total guaranteed prize pool for the entire series of $3 million.

Buy-ins for Pokerfest Online 2011 events range from $55 to $1,060 but players can win their seats in these events instead through a satellite series. Each tournament buy-in has its own series of satellites awarding seats worth that amount. Each satellite structure features low-cost daily qualifier tournaments leading into similarly inexpensive satellite tournaments that in turn awards tickets worth a particular amount into a Pokerfest Online 2011 event of the winner’s choice with that buy-in.

There are 47 events in all in PartyPoker’s Pokerfest Online 2011, with this inaugural incarnation of this new series taking place between October 23 and November 6.

There is also an assortment of Side Events in Pokerfest Online 2011. There is a prize draw for prizes like iPads and poker chip sets. You get a ticket into the drawing for every Pokerfest Online 2011 event you play in. There are two Daily Dollar Tournaments each day, at 1:45 pm ET and 4:00 pm ET, each with a $1 buy-in and each day with a new twist. And there are three Pokerfest Jackpots worth a total of $35,000: a $20,000 jackpot if you win three Pokerfest Online events, a $10,000 jackpot if you reach the final table in any 10 series events, and a $5,000 jackpot if you cash in any 10 series events.

PartyPoker Announces the Pokerfest

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Party PokerWhile the PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is now over, the online poker world now shifts back to their normal daily grinds of playing which games and or tournaments that they would typically play.  The next poker tournament series on the schedule would typically be the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series (FTOPS), but with the fallout of Full Tilt, that event will be no more.  This is where PartyPoker has decided to come into play, and has decided to start its own online poker series, called Pokerfest; which will kick off at the end of October.

Pokerfest is an event that will feature 47 events, and give away over $3 million in guarantees.  It will run from the 23rd of October, all the way through the 6th of November.  The Pokerfest has decided to go a different route than just offering huge events, as there will typically be three events each day; with the buy-ins offered appealing to multiple different levels of players.  The first events will feature buy-ins based around Party Points (the loyalty program on PartyPoker), the other events will be between $6 and $33 for mid stakes players, and then the high stakes tournaments will be between $55 and $1,060 to enter.

There will be multiple different satellites offered into the events that have buy-in’s larger than $55, and these satellites will start as low as $1.  Some of the events that caught our eye right off the bat are Event #1, a $215 NLH $300k guarantee, Event #23, a $215 NLH $350k guarantee, Event #46, a $33 $50k guarantee, and Event #47, a $640, NLH Championship Event with $1 million guaranteed in the prize pool.

There will also be leaderboards which will pay out prizes for how well you do during the events, with a $500 first place prize going to the low buy-in events, a $2,500 prize going to the mid sized buy-in events, and a $5,000 prize going to the higher buy-in event winner.  To top that off, PartyPoker has decided to give $20k to the person who is able to win three Pokerfest events, $10k to the person who final tables 10 events, and $5k to the person who cashes ten times throughout all of the events.  There will also be random giveaways for iPads, different chip sets, and also different merchandise and prizes from PartyPoker.

Party Poker Brings Back $5,000 Bankroll Booster

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The Party Poker $5,000 Bankroll Booster has returned. In this popular promotion, PartyPoker hosts a special weekly tournament with a $5,000 guaranteed prize pool and no direct cash or points buy-in. Instead there are a handful of other ways you can enter this tournament week after week.

While there is no cash buy-in for the $5,000 Bankroll Booster, which is held each Sunday at 14:30 ET, cash deposits can land you tickets into the event, whether you’re a new or existing member.

New players who made their first deposit of any amount into a real money Party Poker account gain access to daily qualifier tournaments for a whole month. The top 50 finishers in each of these tournaments win tickets into the following Sunday’s event.

Existing players can win tickets directly into the Bankroll Booster by making a deposit into their real money PartyPoker account without having to excel in any qualifier tournaments first. These players need only remember to use the bonus code: BOOSTER when making their reload deposit to be credited their ticket into the following Sunday’s event.

Likewise, while there is no points buy-in for the Bankroll Booster there are two other ways that you can earn or win tickets into the event by using points. You can either earn 60 points over the course of the week prior to any given Sunday’s event and automatically earn a ticket into that event. Or you can enter a qualifier tournament for just 1 point and if you’re one of the top 25 finishers you’ll win a ticket into the event.

Party Poker Hosts WPT Amneville Satellites

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Party Poker is now hosting satellite tournaments awarding seats into the next World Poker Tour stop in Amneville, France, otherwise known as WPT Amneville.

Each satellite awards $8,000 prize packages that include the $5,000 buy-in into the WPT Amneville main event, hotel accommodations during your stay November 1 – 6, and $1,100 in spending cash to use as you see fit.

The WPT Amnéville Satellite takes place every Sunday at 15:20 ET for a direct buy-in of $425. Party Poker guarantees they will award at least one prize package at each of these events, although the actual number of packages to be awarded at each of these events in one for every 25 players competing.

Players can avoid paying the $425 buy-in and instead win a seat in the satellite for only $46 at one of Party Poker’s WPT Amnéville Satellite Qualifier, held every day at 13:45 ET, with Sunday’s event being a Turbo event. One in 10 players from each of these events will win seats in the satellite.

To win a seat in the satellite qualifier, you can either pay $5 to enter a daily Sub Qualifier Speed event from which one in 8 players will win satellite qualifier seats or pay $2 to enter a daily Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy event from which one player for every $35 in the prize pool will win a seat in the satellite qualifier.

You can even win a seat in the sub qualifier speed rebuy event and avoid paying buy-ins for this series altogether by winning a daily WPT Amneville Freeroll tournament.

Party Poker Hits The Accelerator for $67,000 in Cash & Prizes

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Party Poker has launched a new points race promotion for the month of September, 2011, and like other similar races of past PartyPoker promotions, in this one players are racing only themselves and the clock. In the Party Poker Accelerator race, like their previous Snowball promotion, players try to earn as many PartyPoker Points as they possibly can in the time allowed — in this case the one month period between September 1 and 30. The more points a player can accumulate, not only the bigger the prizes in store, but the more prizes also — as every prize a player earns the player gets to keep, even as they advance up the tiers toward ever-increasing rewards.

The prizes start out with freeroll entries, worth $2,000 for 5 PartyPoker Points, $5,000 for 25 PartyPoker Points, $10,000 for 50 PartyPoker Points, $15,000 for 100 PartyPoker Points and $25,000 for 200 PartyPoker Points. Then, with entries to all $57,000 in freerolls, players start to earn cash, climbing from $3 for 300 PartyPoker Points all the way to $10,000 for 75,000 PartyPoker Points.

Players will be awarded each of the prizes they earn in succession as soon as they reach the set number of points to release each one. After one minute before midnight on September 30, the Accelerator promotion ends and the Accelerator freerolls begin, taking place one per day starting with the $2K event and ending with the $25K event between October 3 and 7, each at 2:30 pm ET.

Remember: you must opt-in to the Accelerator promotion at the Party Poker website or the “My Accounts” section of their PartyPoker lobby before the points you earn in September will start being applied toward earning you prizes.

Party Poker Qualifiers for GSOP Greece On Now

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Party Poker is now holding qualifiers for the Grand Series of Poker Greece event coming up October 12th through 15th, 2011. Only players 21 and older are eligible to participate in the qualifier series, running August 22nd through September 25th.

The GSOP Greece Satellite tournaments take place every Sunday at 14:20 Eastern. One out of each 15 players will win a prize package valued at $3,600 and that includes five nights at the site of the event, the Porto Carras Grand Resort and Casino in Sithonia, Greece with $700 to spend as you like, and of course the seat in the GSOP Greece main event, worth $1,650 itself.

The buy-in into the GSOP Greece Satellite is $260 but you can avoid paying that by winning your seat in the satellite instead. Satellite qualifiers run daily for a $28 buy-in. On Sundays, play in the satellite qualifier turns into a turbo event. These events will each award 10% of the participants seats in the GSOP Greece Satellite.

You can win your seat in the satellite qualifier just as well, through one of two routes: either a $3 sub qualifier speed tournament that awards 10% of players seats in the satellite qualifier or a $1 sub qualifier speed rebuy event that awards a seat in the satellite qualifier for every $28 collected in buy-ins. Finally, there’s a freeroll entry into the $1 sub qualifier taking place every day as well. This event awards seats in the $1 event to the 20 highest finishers.

The Party Poker GSOP Greece prize package is non-transferrable and there is no alternative cash redemption value.

Party Poker Oktoberfest Promotion For Locals

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Palladium VIP members aren’t the only players at Party Poker eligible for free tickets to this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. (See our earlier post on Oktoberfest VIP for information on that promotion.) You can also win free tickets to the festivities if you live in Austria, Germany or Switzerland. Party Poker is offering six prize packages to the 2011 Oktoberfest celebrations, set aside soley for players residing in that area.

Between August 15 and September 18, Austrian, German and Swiss players at Party Poker can enter two different points races and one freeroll tournament to take their best shot at one of these Oktoberfest 2011 prize packages, which include a two-night stay at a five-star hotel, activities of your choice during the daytime, private areas for dinner and/or drinks in reserved areas at an exclusive night club and the Oktoberfest tent, invite to a private poker tourney, complete transportation during your stay and more.

Race 1 is from August 15 to 26 and race 2 is from September 3 to 14. Opt-in to the race you wish to enter and then start collecting as many PartyPoints as you can in the time allowed. The progress of the most successful contestants will be monitored on a leaderboard posted on the site. The two best performers in each race will win Oktoberfest prize packages while the remainder of the top ten will win cash. The player who earns the most PartyPoints over the course of both races will also win a 2011 Oktoberfest prize package.

To enter the 2011 Oktoberfest PartyPoker freeroll, either be a new player making a first deposit into your real money account between August 15 and September 15 or, if you’re already a player at PartyPoker, collect 25 PartyPoints in that same time frame.