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Last Americas Cardroom LSOP Super Satellite Coming Up: 4 Seats GTD

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The last chance to win a prize package from Americas Cardroom to the Latin Series of Poker $500,000 guaranteed main event in Lima, Peru later this month is this coming Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 pm ET. That’s the start time and date for the final LSOP Lima Super Satellite, and in honor of that fact, Americas Cardroom has made it a 4 seat guaranteed event. That means the site promises to award not just one but four prize packages to the LSOP Lima.

Each Americas Cardroom LSOP Lima prize package is valued at $3,500 and includes the $1,500 + $150 buy-in for the $500K GTD main event, up to $800 for round trip air fare, a 6-night stay for two at the So de Oro Hotel, breakfast for two at the hotel, round trip transportation between hotel and airport, Wi-Fi access a the hotel, a 24/7 VIP support line, gift bag, and access for two to an exclusive welcome party. The LSOP Lima runs from May 20 to 25 at Casino Atlantic City in Lima, Peru.

The final LSOP Lima Super Satellite with 4 seats guaranteed costs $140 + $12 to buy-in directly, but it’s not too late to win your seat in the event through a satellite. There are two taking place daily at the site (one at 6:35 am and one at 6:35 pm) each awarding 2 seats GTD into the Super Satellite.

Americas Cardroom is frequently running satellite series into the Latin Series of Poker, and with the LSOP Lima satellite series about to wrap up, keep on the lookout for the next LSOP Super Satellite series on Americas Cardroom’s coming slate.

Bovada Poker Offers $15K WSOP Packages To Facebook Crew

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The 2013 World Series of Poker is coming up this summer and Bovada Poker is looking for “America’s Best Poker Crew” to send there to play in a $1,500 WSOP event. And it’s looking for this crew on Facebook.

Bovada Poker is now offering $15,000 prize packages to the World Series of Poker to one American poker crew on Facebook. If you believe that you are a part of “America’s best poker crew” then here’s what you do to win a $15K WSOP prize package for five:

1.    “Like” Bovada Poker on Facebook
2.    Send in a 2-minute video showing why you and your crew are the best in America

The $15K prize package for Bovada Poker’s best poker crew in America on Facebook includes the following:
•    five $1.5K buy-ins for you and four members of your crew to the NL Hold’em event #60, taking place July 5th in Las Vegas
•    $7.5K in cash for traveling costs
•    Bovada Poker merchandise for all 5 of you
•    an invitation to the Team Bovada WSOP party

The second and third place runners-up will each be given a private freeroll tournament for themselves and eight friends of their choice with a $5,000 prize pool for the 2nd place private freeroll and a $2.5K prize pool for the 3rd place private freeroll.

Send your 2-minute video of you and your crew to contest {at} bovada {dot} lv by May 12, 2013.

Stay abreast of all the latest Bovada Poker contest and promotional updates when you Like Bovada Poker on Facebook and Follow Bovada Poker on Twitter.

Daniel Negreanu Wins WSOP Asian Pacific Main Event

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Kid Poker, known on his Canadian birth certificate as Daniel Negreanu, has racked up another big win in the poker world, capturing the title at the first World Series of Poker Asian Pacific main event of 2013. Beating out a 405 player field at the event held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, Negreanu has now officially notched his fifth WSOP bracelet, his first since 2008. His payout, meanwhile, of AU$1,038,825 (or USD $1,038,825) was his first 7-figure payday in any WSOP event.

In heads-up play against the man that would become runner-up Daniel Marton, Negreanu had a commanding chip lead of 9 to 1. This also gives Negreanu the lead in the 2013 Player of the Year contest, admittedly still early in its running. But having finished fourth the Event #3, the WSOP APAC AU$2,20 Mixed Event, certainly helps. That event, incidentally, comprised of 8 games in one, was won by Kid Poker’s good friend and fellow poker pro Phil Ivey, who claimed with this win his 9th World Series of Poker bracelet.

Neagreanu’s first WSOP bracelet came in 1998 when he was just 23 years old, at the time the youngest player ever to pick up a WSOP bracelet. This WSOP APAC Main Event win brings his career winnings to over $17 million. Daniel Neagreanu travels the world representing the Poker Stars team of professional players in events like the upcoming PokerStars and Monte-CarloCasino European Poker Tour Grand Final, Europe’s largest poker tournament, taking place in Monaco, as well as the upcoming World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this summer.

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.

Latest Bovada Poker Blackjack Promo For WSOP

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The latest blackjack promotion being held on Bovada Poker (as opposed to Bovada Casino) is called the Bovada WSOP Class of 2013 promotion and just like it sounds, it promises $15K prize packages into the 2013 World Series of Poker for playing online blackjack, not through Bovada Casino, but through your Bovada Poker software. And yes, there is an online poker freeroll tournament involved as well.

Bovada Poker members have between Tuesday, April 9 and Monday, April 29 to play just 21 hands of blackjack through the Bovada Poker software. You must enter the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button on the Bovada Poker website or through your Bovada Poker software before you start playing, though, or your hands won’t be counted toward meeting the requirements.

Once you play those 21 blackjack hands, Bovada Poker will award you a seat in a Private Freeroll tournament taking place Saturday, May 4 at 2:05 ET with the grand prize being a $15,000 Vegas Prize Package that includes entry into the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event (worth $10K), plus $5K in cash to apply toward hotel and travel, an invite to a private party while you’re in Vegas and access to an exclusive suite. The runners-up, meanwhile, will cash in a combined prize pool of more than $5,800, with 2nd place getting the top cash prize of $2,100, 3rd getting $1,000…all the way down to 14th through 21st places, who each get $21 cash for their efforts.

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.

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.

Full Tilt Poker to Open .EU Site; DOJ to Announce FullTilt Player Remission “Soon”

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A Full Tilt Poker spokesperson announced recently that the site would soon be launching a new FullTilt online poker room at .EU.

Coming soon to FullTiltPoker.eu, the site is expected to offer all the same game profile, features and promotions that the old FullTiltPoker.com offered. PokerStars, the new owners of FullTiltPoker, already has experience in this area, having successfully launched its PokerStars.eu branch back in February of 2011. When that site launched, PokerStars phased its players from Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and other countries from pokerstars.com over to pokerstars.eu. It is expected that this is the same thing they will do with fulltiltpoker.com and fulltiltpoker.eu.

The difference between the two boils down to one thing: licensing jurisdiction. .EU websites are lienced in Malta while .COM websites are licensed on the Isle of Man.
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It appears this may be a tactic to help players avoid paying income taxes on cash prizes they win at these sites. By switching licensing jurisdictions from the Isle of Man to Malta, players in such countries as those named above (those who would be switched from a Full Tilt Poker .COM membership to a Full Tilt Poker .EU membership) may be able to enjoy tax-free online poker winnings.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is behind schedule in announcing remission plans for the some 1.3 million former U.S. players at Full Tilt Poker who haven’t seen their funds from those accounts, totalling some $159 million, since April of 2011. But they have said that announcement can be expected soon. We’ll bring it to you here when it happens.

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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.