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Players Only Poker Promotional Rundown

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Players Only Poker is a sister site to Sportsbook Poker, and as such holds the same selection of promotions that Sportsbook Poker does. Over the past weeks and months, we’ve brought you these promotions one by one. This time, in light of Players Only Poker’s partnership with Sportsbook Poker, we’ll give a quick refresher of all those promotions in one handy post. Here we go:

The World’s Bet Poker Bonus – a 200% match on your first deposit up to a maximum bonus of $2,000.

The Better Bad Beat Jackpot – a new and improved bad beat jackpot that lowered the requirements for the “losing” hand to a full-house jacks or better.

The $20K Wolf Pack – a VIP points leaderboard promotion that awards $20,000 monthly

In addition, both Players Only Poker and Sportsbook Poker hold a pair of promotions for their Sit and Go tournament players too:

Sit & Go Tournament Leaderboards – with $25,000 monthly guaranteed to be awarded to players at the real money 6-max and full-ring sit and go tables.

Step & Go Tournaments –  a step tournament series of sit & go tournaments; a 6-step series that gives players the chance to turn a $1.10 buy-in into a $250 payout.

Players Only Poker also participates in the Poker Maximus, when it comes around. Currently, the sites are finishing up their 6th installment of the beloved featured event, but members can always look forward to the next Poker Maximus tournament series to be coming up around the bend. This time around, the prize pool stood at more than $3 million guaranteed across 85 events over 2 weeks.

Sportsbook.ag $160,000 Turbo OPS Coming Up

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The next Sportsbook.ag Turbo Online Poker Series (Turbo OPS) is coming up this Thursday through Sunday, July 25 to 28. Made up of 18 events, all turbo tournaments, the series features a guaranteed prize pool of more than $160,000.

The action starts on July 25th at 18:00 with a $5,000 GTD with 1 rebuy for a $1 + $0.10 direct buy-in. From there direct buy-ins range up to $100 + $9 for both the $25,000 GTD and $10,000 GTD 6-max turbo No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha main events, on Sunday, July 28 at 16:00 and 16:00, respectively. There’s one other Po Limit Omaha event on the schedule, taking place Friday, July 26 at 19:00, this one a 6-max hyper-turbo for a direct buy-in of $5.24 + $0.26. The rest of the events on the Turbo OPS schedule are in No Limit Hold’em.

Many of the events are 6-max games and some have rebuys. There’s also one heads-up event, on Saturday, July 27 at 16:30 for a $5,000 prize pool, with a $30 + $3 buy-in. The lowest prize pool on the schedule, in fact, is $5,000 guaranteed.

And Sportsbook.ag is now hosting lower cost satellite tournaments throughout the day every day until and throughout the series, awarding seats in its various events.

To find the Turbo OPS tournaments and satellites in the Sportsbook.ag Poker software, just go to the tournament lobby and look under the special Turbo OPS tab.

Other Sportsbook.ag Poker promotional terms and conditions apply.

Sportsbook and Players Only – Last Chance for US Players

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Sportsbook.com and Playersonly.com, two large U.S. friendly online poker sites on the Merge Poker Network are leaving the U.S. market. This action is most likely in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of three online poker sites; PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com and Absolute Poker, who have stopped accepting players from the United States. Sportsbook is one of the oldest and most trusted gaming companies in the world so it comes as no surprise that they would want to protect their business.

While Sportsbook and Players Only poker sites will be closed to new traffic from US players, they will continue to service players who currently have accounts or who sign up for new accounts before May 1, 2011. So we strongly suggest that all players from the US sign up today even if they don’t plan to use the account any time soon. Both poker sites have excellent processing and both are Mac compatible US poker sites.

This is a a huge blow to the online poker community since April 15, 2011. Some of our sources have suggested that other major online poker sites are planning to exit the U.S. market as well.

Stay tuned to the Holdem Poker Chat for more information about this and everything else that’s taking place in poker. Should you be readn this after May 1st, have a look at our top poker sites still accepting players from the US.