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Poker 770 Adds BackBet Feature to Games

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Poker770 has introduced a new feature for adding new betting value to each game, allowing players to make side bets on the cards while they’re in the midst of their regular online poker game.

Players can made BackBet side bets on the next card’s color, number, or if it will be a face card. Poker770 claims to be not only one of the select few online poker rooms that lets players make real money side bets on the cards, but the first one to do it as well.

Poker 770 provides a full Flash-based video introduction to the BackBet tool, including a step-by-step tutorial on how to use it.

Players can find BackBet under its own tab in their Poker770 lobby menu, listed as New BackBet! You can also activate the BackBet tool from a convenient icon at the top of your online poker table screen.

Once activated, the BackBet window will open up as a sidebar on your screen. Then the next possible bets you can place appear between each deal of the cards. You can Bet the next pocket card; Bet the board cards; or place a folded card bet. For each bet you see the odds and have a field to enter your bet. Then the total possible win (based on your bet times the odds) appears. To confirm, you click Bet and then watch the action continue.

If you win the bet, the amount you win is shown in green and added t your chip stack. And at the very bottom of the Poker770 BackBet window is listed, for your convenience, your entire side bet Betting History.

Bovada Poker Anonymous Poker Series Goes to Asia

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Bovada Poker is awarding weekly $300 cash bonuses plus a shot at a $5K trip to Asia for a live Anonymous Poker Series event.

Just play at the Bovada Poker tables between July 1st and August 11th and you could earn up to $300 in bonuses per week, plus entries into a random drawing for a trip worth $5,000 to Southeast Asia.

To participate, first opt in to the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button on the promotion’s page at the Bovada Poker site or through your Bovada Poker player software, and then following the registration instructions given.

Following that, just play your heart out at the Bovada Poker tables.

The grand prize $5K trip to Southeast Asia includes a $2,500 round trip flight for 1, 7 nights of hotel accommodations, $1,100 for expenses, and an invitation to the Anonymous Poker Series social activities and events. There will be a $2,500 cash alternative grand prize made available to the winner at his or her choice.

Players can earn drawing tickets in two different ways. The first is to earn poker points and play in qualifying Anonymous Poker Series (APS) tournaments. This is also how you earn your weekly bonus of up to $300, with up to 3 grand prize drawing tickets per week also available for each player to earn.

The second way to earn tickets in the grand prize drawing is to refer friends to the site. Refer up to 3 friends and get up to 3 grand prize drawing tickets plus bonus rewards.

Bovada Poker Already Qualifying Players For Next Year’s 2014 WSOP

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The 2013 World Series of Poker is barely underway and already Bovada Poker is giving players a way to win seats in next year’s WSOP – that’s the 2014 event! And the way to win it is through what Bovada Poker is calling Poker’s Mini Series.

Qualify for a seat in Bovada Poker’s Mini Series and you’ll win a $4,000 prize package that includes entry into a WSOP 2014 side event. Only two such prize packages are on offer. Third through 9th places in the Poker’s Mini Series Finale will each receive a $162 entry into the next Bovada Poker $100K Guaranteed.

To stake your claim on one of those two $4K prize packages, play in Daily Qualifiers and Last Chance Qualifiers running from June 24 through July 14, 2013 when the site will holds its $40K Guaranteed Main Event.

Meanwhile, between June 24 and July 18, Bovada Poker will hold 35 Poker Mini Series tournament events featuring more than $150,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Every day will feature a minimum of two Poker Mini Series tournament events. Either buy-in directly to these events or win your seats through those aforementioned qualifiers.

Buy-ins for daily qualifiers start at just $0.55 and at each award between 1 and 2 seats guaranteed in the corresponding Poker’s Mini Series event. The series events themselves have direct buy-ins starting at $5.50. At each event the top 3 finishers will land seats in the finale where the two WSOP 2014 prize packages will be awarded, while the fourth through 9th place players win seats in the semifinal at which the top 50 players will qualify for the finale as well.

Lock Poker Battle of the Nexus Leaderboard

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Yesterday we brought you word of Lock Poker’s latest rake race: The Battle of the Nexus, including Nexus tables where you can earn even more indivdiual prizes, up to over $45,000 per player. We also hinted at a leaderboard promotion taking place as part of Lock Poker’s Battle of the Nexus.

Offering a separate set of prizes, the Lock Poker Battle of the Nexus leaderboard promotion is made up of two separate leaderboards: one for cash game players and one for sit and go tournament players (sorry, scheduled MTT players; seems there’s none for you).

Each leaderboard comes with its own set of prizes for the top 200 placers, with the prizes for the top 5 being the following:
1.    For 1st place: a WSOP Europe $5,000 buy-in
2.    For 2nd place: 4x SuperStack tickets (or cash alternative) along with two hours of coaching from a poker pro
3.    For 3rd place: 2x SuperStack tickets (or cash alternative)
4.    $100K GTD entry and a Lock Poker hooded sweatshirt
5.    $100K GTD entry and a Lock Poker t-shirt

Players can feasibly earn prizes on both leaderboards by playing in both types of online poker games at Lock Poker.

And remember, all the while that you’re climbing the Battle of the Nexus leaderboard, you’ll also, for the same play, be climbing levels in the Battle of the Nexus promotion. That’s two sets of prizes you can win a share of with the same online poker dollar. You don’t find pot odds like that every day.

“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.

Play Live Poker At Old Trafford On Party Poker

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Party Poker is giving sports fans a unique opportunity to play poker live in Old Trafford Stadium opposite some legends of the Manchester United Team in a promotion it’s calling the Road to Old Trafford.

The Party Poker Road to Old Trafford begins with a Freeroll tournament that takes place daily and awards the top 50 players seats in a sub qualifier speed rebuy event that also runs daily. That event has a $0.50 buy-in, and there’s a corresponding daily event with no rebuy that has a $1 buy-in. Both of these events award a seat in the next event up the chain for every $9.20 collected in the prize pool.

That’s because $9.20 is the direct buy-in for this next link: the Road to Old Trafford Satellite Qualifier. It runs once daily and two times on Sundays (one of these as a Turbo event), and it awards a seat in the final 1 package guaranteed Road to Old Trafford Satellite for every $85 in the prize pool. Or you can skip all that, pay the $85 buy-in directly and enter this event where a prize package to play live poker in Old Trafford will be awarded for every $1,575 collected in the prize pool.

And that, of course, is because $1,575 is the value of this prize package, which includes the $365 buy-in for the Old Trafford main event, a 3-night stay in Manchester with hospitality included, $550 to spend as you like, and a charitable gift made in your name of $35. The prize package winners will also receive a VIP stadium tour, some official football merchandise, and an invitation to an exclusive VIP Player Party.

These Road to Old Trafford Satellites take place at Party Poker from May 27th to August 4th, 2013.

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.

America’s Cardroom Announces $100,000 Guaranteed

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America’s Cardroom Poker has announced that it will be holding a $100,000 guaranteed tournament on June 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET. This is a doubling of the guaranteed prize pool of its usual $50K guaranteed tournament.

The direct buy-in for this event is $200 + $15 but players can win their seat instead through a satellite tournament. $100K GTD satellites are being held daily at the site, with the stage 1 satellites taking place hourly at 35 minutes after each hour for a $0.90 + $0.10 buy-in and awarding 1 seat into the stage 2 nightly satellite at each running of the event. Then, that stage 2 satellite, takes place once nightly at 6:35 pm for a $22 + $2 buy-in. This event awards the top two finishers seats in the June 9th $100K guaranteed tournament.

The America’s Cardroom $100,000 guaranteed starts all players out with a starting stack of 10,000 chips and raises the blinds every 15 minutes.

This event is scheduled in place of the $50,000 guaranteed event that normally takes place in this time slot on Sundays. The regular America’s Cardroom $50K GTD event will resume as of the subsequent Sunday.

Remember, this tournament may boast the biggest guaranteed prize pool that the site offers, but it’s hardly the only guaranteed tournament on the schedule, which also features the following ongoing tournaments:
•    $1,500 guaranteed
•    $1,000 guaranteed
•    $2,500 guaranteed
•    $3,500 guaranteed
•    $7,500 guaranteed
•    $10,000 guaranteed
•    $15,000 guaranteed
•    $50,000 guaranteed

Bovada Poker Holds $1K Blackjack Draw

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On the heels of the successful $15K Blackjack WSOP Draw that wrapped up earlier this month at Bovada Poker, the site is now offering $1K Blackjack Draws every week. Just play the blackjack game made available in the Bovada Poker software (not the Bovada Casino blackjack game) at stakes of at least $5 per hand and gain entry into that week’s $1,000 grand prize draw. For every hand you play of blackjack in the Bovada Poker software you will get an additional ticket in that week’s drawing.

The $1K Blackjack Draw itself happens each Monday, and players can earn unlimited tickets into each one of them. The promotional week for the Bovada Poker $1K Blackjack Draw is from Monday at 00:00:00 ET through the following Sunday at 11:59:59 ET.

Remember, blackjack play at Bovada Casino does not count for this promotion. Only the blackjack you can play through the Bovada Poker software.

There is no rollover requirement (aka playthrough) for this cash award. Other standard Bovada Poker terms and conditions apply.

Meanwhile, in other Bovada Poker news, keep in mind you still have until June 2, 2013 to earn a VIP Vegas Vacation to play in the World Series of Poker. In addition to the $5K Vegas VIP Weekend prize package being awarded as the grand prize, players can also each earn $300 worth of bonuses, just by earning a requisite number of poker points in a given promotional week. Plus you get an entry into the drawing for the Vegas VIP Vacation grand prize.

And be sure to opt in to the promotion with the red Enter Now button on the Vegas VIP Vacation page at the Bovada website so that your poker points earnings will count toward cash bonuses and $5K grand prize package drawing.

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.