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Every Sunday’s a Super Sunday at Bovada Poker

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ssEvery Sunday is a Super Sunday at Bovada Poker with the Super Sunday Schedule that features more than $250,000 worth of guaranteed prize pool tournaments. There are more than 1 dozen guaranteed tournaments on the Super Sundays schedule at Bovada Poker, including The Big Deal $100,000 Guaranteed event.

For your convenience the full Bovada Poker Super Sundays Schedule follows:

•    2:00 pm ET – $5K GTD with a $5,000 prize pool for a $33 buy-in
•    2:10 pm ET – The Big Deal $100K Special Qualifier with a prize pool of 50 seats into the $100K GTD later that day for a $19.80 buy-in
•    2:30 pm ET – $4K GTD with a $4,000 prize pool for a $22 buy-in
•    3:00 pm ET – $10K GTD with a $10,000 prize pool for a $109 buy-in
•    3:30 pm ET – $2K GTD Turbo with a $2,000 prize pool for a $11 buy-in
•    4:00 pm ET – The Big Deal $100K Guaranteed  with a $100,000 prize pool for a $162 buy-in
•    4:30 pm ET – $8K GTD with a $8,000 prize pool for a $11 buy-in
•    5:00 pm ET – $3K GTD Turbo Super Stack (SS) with a $3,000 prize pool for a $33 buy-in
•    6:00 pm ET – $10K GTD with a $10,000 prize pool for a $60 buy-in
•    6:05 pm ET – $3K GTD with a $3,000 prize pool for a $22 buy-in
•    7:00 pm ET – $4K GTD with a $4,000 prize pool for a $55 buy-in
•    9:00 pm ET – $15K GTD Turbo Deep Stack (DS) with a $15,000 prize pool for a $109 buy-in
•    9:15 pm ET – $2.5K GTD with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on, a $2,500 prize pool for a $11 buy-in
•    11:00 pm ET – $7K GTD Turbo with a $7,000 prize pool for a $82 buy-in

Lock Poker Hosts $1.5 Million “The Big Chase” Rake Race

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Lock Poker is now hosting a new rake race promotion called “The Big Chase – Double Agent” that promises to award 52,000 individual cash prizes amounting to more than $1.5 million of the course of December 2012 and January 2013. With 58 individual prize levels each player can advance through, any single player can win up to $75,000 in this event.

In The Big Chase – Double Agent, Lock Poker tracks your MGR earned playing at the site’s real money tables over the course of the promotional period. Every time you hit a certain milestone number of MGR, the site will deposit the associated prize as cash straight into your Lock Poker account.

Lock Poker awards cash prizes every hour in The Big Chase promotion, so there’s no long wait to receive your prizes once earned.

There are only a certain number of prizes available at each level and once they’re won, any players reaching that level won’t win a prize, though they will continue climbing toward the available prizes at the next levels higher. If that’s not enough to impel you to get playing, it also seems the folks at Lock Poker let their existing players get a leg up on the promotion, only announcing The Big Chase on their public website after the prize pools for the first dozen or so of the 58 prize levels had been exhausted But that still leaves more than half the levels remaining.

Next up: we’ll post the full chart of The Big Chase prize levels, requirements and prize amounts.

Poker Stars Looking To Purchase Atlantic City, NJ Casino

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It looks as though online poker giant Poker Stars is looking to branch out into land-based poker as well, with the revelation made in The Wall Street Journal last Thursday, December 6, 2012 that the site recently lauded for buying out beleagured former rival Full Tilt Poker and bailing out its debt with players worldwide is now about to make another big purchase in the form of a brick and mortar casino in none other than Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The state of New Jersey has been in the headlines a great deal, of late, with its nearly successful attempts at landmark passage of legal intrastate online poker. It’s widely viewed now that the success of one of these attempts is imminent.

So which Atlantic City casino is Poker Stars in the process of negotiating a deal to buy? How about the Atlantic City Hilton, aka The Atlantic Club Hotel-Casino, formerly known as the Golden Nugget. The estimated cost? Only $50 million. The sellers? Colony Capital.

In its deal with the DOJ, Poker Stars has agreed to pay $731 million to the U.S. government to settle a 9-count federal indictment. New Jersey’s gaming licensing regulations are notoriously strict. So it remains unclear whether Poker Stars’ recent settlement with the United States Department of Justice regarding the Black Friday seizures of April 2011 would affect the company’s ability to secure a gaming license from the state of New Jersey to operate that casino.

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.

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.

Last Week to Win $10K in Bovada Poker Bingo

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This is the last week to win a $50 bonus and a possible $10,000 grand prize playing Poker Bingo at Bovada Poker. The promotion that started on November 5 is about to finish up on December 2 (that’s one week from Sunday) giving you just a little over a week left to win an individual bonus of $50 and a ticket into a random drawing for a grand prize of $10,000 in cash.

To enter the competition you first must opt in to the promotion by pressing the red Enter Now button on the promotion’s page at the Bovada Poker site and then following the instructions given on the page you’re taken to.

Then check out the Poker Bingo card for the week coming up, week 4: November 26 to December 2, and complete the line combinations (the portions highlighted red) to win a $50 bonus. If you can go a step further and complete all 25 of the boxes on the card, then you’ll win an entry into the $10,000 grand prize drawing.

The grand prize drawing will be held on Monday, December 3 and the award will be paid out to the winner in monthly portions over the course of a year. The $50 bonus is subject to a rollover of 3 poker points per dollar.

Hop on this promotion fast enough and you can still win another $50 and another ticket in the $10,000 grand prize drawing by completing the week 3 Poker Bingo card which is currently active until November 25.

New Mystery Online Poker Player Rises

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There’s a new dark knight rising in the online poker world. Last year it was the mysterious Isildur1 only revealed after he racked up million of dollars in wins against many of poker most serious players as Viktor Blom. This year it’s the player with the difficult to pronounce username 1Il|1Il|1il|, nicknamed Barcode for convenience. In fact recently Barcode beat Isildur1 out of $173,000.

Starting out on the scene in late 2011, Barcode suffered a brutal $200,000 loss, but if that’s where his battle ended, you wouldn’t be reading this story. He finished out 2011 $1 million ahead and now, in just October 2012 alone (a month that’s not even over yet) Barcode has won $1.2 million so far, $500k of which he earned in just a single day.

Barcode’s player account is registered in Canada making some prognosticators predict that he is a Canadian, but that conclusion isn’t automatically true. There is no word yet on the mysterious player’s nationality, age or, as it happens, gender either. So while we’ve been saying “he” in talking about 1Il|1Il|1il| he could be a “she”.

Other well-known online poker players to lose big to Barcode include Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky and Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen. Some of the players suspected to be Barcode are Di “trex313” Dang, XBLINK, or even Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

Barcode’s game of choice appears to be Pot Limit Omaha and over the past few weeks he could frequently be found at the $200/$400 PLO tables.

Bovada Poker Hosts WPT Montreal Satellites

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Bovada Poker is now hosting satellite tournaments into the 2012 World Poker Tour main event in Montreal, Canada.

Bovada Poker’s WPT Montreal satellite series runs from October 1st thru 28th. Buy-ins start at just $1. Weekly Satellites take place every Sunday starting October 14th that each award a $5,000 prize package to the WPT Montreal, which takes place from November 23rd thru 27th.

Each $5,000 WPT Montreal prize package from Bovada Poker includes the $3,300 buy-in for the main event, $1,700 to use for travel to and from the event and accommodations while you’re there, and of course a handy Bovada Swag Bag. Players winning these prize packages are responsible for arranging all their own travel and accommodations for this event, and any amounts over the $1,700 provided by Bovada Poker in the prize package is the player’s responsibility to cover.

Players can enter this 4-stage satellite series at any level. There’s $1.10 cheap seats, leading to the $3.30 quarterfinals, leading to the $22 semifinals, leading to the $270 satellite at which the actual prize packages to the WPT Montreal will be given away.

Bovada Poker’s daily qualifiers into the WPT Montreal are available in regular tournament style and turbo tournament style, with 6 handed single table tournametns running all throughout the day, every day of the promotional period. The Sunday satellites, meanwhile, Run thru October 28th, promising 3 seats guaranteed to the World Poker Tour Canada event in all, with last chance qualifiers running just minutes before the start of each Sunday Satellite.