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Race You To The 200th Oktoberfest In Munich On partypoker

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partypoker Palladium Oktoberfest Poker RaceFrom August 2nd until August 29th, partypoker will be hosting a special Oktoberfest Poker Race for its Palladium Lounge players in honour of the renowned annual German Oktoberfest.

It’s midsummer and fall is just around the corner, which means another exciting Oktoberfest celebration. You can be there as an honored VIP guest of partypoker at the hub of all the Oktoberfest excitement, in Munich, Germany, with a guest, enjoying all the finest VIP level hospitality.

This is the 200th Oktoberfest, and you can be sure it will be one bicentennial celebration never to forget. Each partypoker Palladium Oktoberfest Poker Race prize package is a real treat and includes a 2 night stay for you and a guest (including breakfast) in one of Munich’s finest luxury hotels, dinner and an open bar in the Allianz Stadium’s Davidoff Lounge, an invite to the VIP Party at Club Pacha, a free spa treatment or activity, and let’s not forget 2 passes to Saturday night’s main event, Oktoberfest 2010.

partypoker is giving away 35 of these prize packages as well as $75,000 in cash. The competition will be broken down into four VIP points races, one each week of the promotion. Week 1 is August 2nd to 8th, Week 2 is August 9th to 15th, Week 3 is August 16th to 22nd, and Week 4 is August 23rd to 29th.

partypoker will pay out the top 100 players amounts ranging from $2,000 plus 1,000 overall Oktoberfest leaderboard points to $25 plus 375 overall leaderboard points each and every week. Also if you are outside the top 100 but within the top 500 you will at least receive leaderboard points, to be exact 325 points for places 101 to 150 down to 50 points for places 401 to 500.

Players finishing in the top 30 after the 4 weeks of competition automatically win a partypoker prize package to the 200th Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $500 will also be added to these prize packages for the top 20. A freeroll will be held for the top 500 players to award the remaining 5 prize packages.

bet365 Poker Offers Big Summer Reload Bonus

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This week only – between Sunday, July 26 and Monday, August 2 – bet365 Poker will be offering all its players a Summer Reload Bonus.

The bet365 Poker Summer Reload Bonus is open to all bet365 Poker players new and old who opt in to the promotion and then deposit or transfer some amount of money into their bet365 Poker real money account. How much of a Summer Reload Bonus you get for your deposit depends, as you might imagine, on the size of the deposit.

bet365 Poker is offering 3 different bonuses in their Summer Reload Bonus promotion: $20, $100, and $500.

If you deposit less than $20 (that’s $19.99 or less) you get $20. If you deposit between $20 and $99.99 you get a $100 bonus. And if you deposit $100 or more then you get the full $500 cash Summer Reload Bonus.

You can make multiple deposits during the Summer Reload Bonus promotional period (July 26 – August 2), but only the highest deposit will be counted toward deciding the bonus amount you receive. In other words, they will not add up all your deposits over the course of the week and base their determination of your bonus amount on that. So make sure you make one big deposit that counts. Even just $100 gets you $500. That’s a 500% deposit bonus. You can’t find that on most poker sites.

bet365 Poker Summer Reload BonusYou are credited for the bonus not when you make the deposit but within 24 hours of the promotion’s end (so that’s 23:59 GMT on August 3. As with any cash Bonus Dollars you receive at bet365 Poker (or virtually any other poker site, for that matter) you must “clear” the bonus to access the funds, meaning you must play in bet365 Poker’s real money games and tournaments to earn a certain number of Merit Points. In this case, the Summer Reload Bonus Dollars will be redeemed at a rate of 1,200 Merit Points for every $10.

You have 60 days from the time of receiving the Bonus Dollars to clear the entire bonus. Any portion of the bonus not cleared by the end of the 60 day term will be forfeited. For more details on how to earn your Merit Points you can also see our info on the bet365 Poker Bonus for first depositors.

Let bwin Poker Take You To The Partouche Poker Tour

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Partouche Poker Tourbwin Poker is now hosting online satellite tournaments awarding as their top prize a package that includes a free seat in the upcoming Partouche Poker Tour Final in Cannes, France.

The Partouche Poker Tour Final will be taking place between August 29th and September 8th at the Palm Beach Resort in Cannes. The event boasts a guaranteed prize pool of EUR 3 million. The playing field will no doubt include the gamut of players from starry-eyed amateurs to the poker pros themselves, including members of the bwin Poker Team.

bwin Poker is offering its members two different ways to win free seats in this main event: the $15,000 Partouche Finals and the $160,000 Partouche Final.

The $15,000 Partouche Finals will be taking place each Sunday at bwin Poker at 20:00 GMT. At each of these events, at least one Partouche Poker Tour Final prize package is guaranteed to be awarded. These events have a $300 + $20 direct buy-in, although satellite tournaments are running at a rate of twenty per day qualifying players for this event for buy-ins as little as $2. The first of these events took place on the 4th of July. The last of these is scheduled for August 15, 2010.

The $160,000 Partouche Final will be the pinnacle of this promotion at bwin Poker, a 10-package guaranteed event, meaning that at least 10 players in the event will win Partouche Poker Tour Final prize packages. What’s more, $10,000 in cash prizes will also be awarded to the runners-up in this event. Satellites qualifying players for the $160,000 Partouche Final start with buy-ins as little as $1.

The prize packages into the Partouche Poker Tour Final include the $10,500 buy-in into the main event plus $1,300 spending cash, and accommodations at hotel 3.14 for the dates of the event.

partypoker’s Card Rush Instant Prize Promo Is On

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partypoker Card Rush XLpartypoker has held Card Rush promotions before, but never one so big on prizes as this one, thus the name Card Rush XL, with XL standing for “eXtra Large”.

partypoker is holding an instant prize promotion called the Card Rush in which players need only play poker online as they normally do at partypoker and in the process of earning partypoker Points for their real money play also earn instant cards, each worth some prize amount up to $5,000. Every instant card holder is a winner, and all the fun started on Monday, June 28, 2010.

The partypoker Card Rush XL promotion runs through July 31st, unless all $1,800,000 in instant cards is handed out before then.

It only takes 15 PartyPoints to earn a game card, except for your first game card which partypoker will give you after you earn only 5 PartyPoints.

In addition to the regular prizes being awarded with each Card Rush XL game card, partypoker will be maintaining a leader board keeping track of players as they win and cash in their instant game cards. The top performing players in the promotion, as determined by their ranking on the leaderboard, will win bonus prizes. This party of the promotion is called the partypoker Card Rush XL Race.

Players can earn from $1 to $5,000 cash or freeroll entries for tournaments with guaranteed prize pools of $2,000 to $50,000, from each and every game card. Card Rush XL Freeroll tournaments run from August 5 through 8.

In addition to awarding prizes to the top 200 players on the leader board in the partypoker Card Rush XL Race, partypoker will also be awarding prizes to every twentieth finish from the 220th to the 2000th. The top 3 of these prizes will be $10K luxury travel packages that include tickets to various big sporting events around the world, including F1 auto racing events.

partypoker Launches 2010 WPT Legends Of Poker Satellites

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WPT Legends of Pokerpartypoker has just launched online satellite tournaments awarding players entry into the upcoming 2010 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker main event, which will take place in Los Angeles, CA from August 18th until August 24th.

The partypoker prize package for the winners of these satellites is worth $8,000 and includes not only the buy-in for the 2010 WPT Legends of Poker main event but accommodations during the tournament and cash to apply towards travel expenses.

partypoker is now holding daily freeroll sit ‘n’ go WPT Legends of Poker satellite tournaments, awarding the finest fifty players from each a seat in the next level up the satellite ladder, the WPT Legends of Poker Sub Qualifier Rebuy. The Sub Qualifier Rebuy in turn advances winning players to a satellite Qualifier, which in turn advances the winning players to the WPT Legends of Poker Satellites themselves, in which the actual main event prize packages will be given out.

You can alternatively opt to skip over any of these levels and pay the direct buy-in for the level above. For example, there is a $1 direct buy-in for the daily Sub Qualifier Rebuy sit ‘n’ go satellites, a $5 direct buy-in for the daily Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy sit ‘n’ go satellites, a $46 direct buy-in for the Satellite Qualifiers, and a $430 direct buy-in for the Satellites directly into the WPT Legends of Poker main event. Twenty percent of all players competing in one of these final weekly satellites, taking place on Sundays, will win $8,000 partypoker prize packages into the 2010 WPT Legends of Poker main event.

partypoker is the main sponsor of the WPT Legends of Poker and almost all of the stops on the World Poker Tour. As such, partypoker is constantly holding satellite series that award seats in the various WPT main events as their top prizes. Currently, in addition to offering seats in the WPT Legends of Poker in L.A., partypoker is also holding satellites for the first ever World Poker Tour main event to take place in London, England, the inaugural WPT London Poker Classic.

Enter Celeb Poker Satellite And Win A Seat In The Apt Philippines

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APT PhilippinesThe Manila Philippines stop on the Asian Poker Tour is coming up August 23 to 29, and a bunch of successful online poker players will be going there courtesy of Celeb Poker.

As part of the iPoker Network, along with other sites like bet365 Poker that are also running similar APT Philippines satellite tournament promotions, Celeb Poker will be sending several players to Manila to play some live high-stakes poker in the Asian Poker Tour Philippines.

On the Celeb Poker APT Philippines 2010 satellite schedule are $200 + $15 Freezeout Super Satellite events happening every Saturday between June 21st August 14th at 21:00 GMT. Additionally on the 2010 Celeb Poker APT Philippines satellite schedule are $80 + $8 re-buy/add-on Super Satellites happening every Thursdays between June 24th and August 14th at 21:00 GMT.

You can satellite into one of these Saturday or Thursday Super Satellites in the APT Philippines that Celeb Poker is holding for much less money (and even for poker points) through Stage 1, 2, and 3 Sit ‘n’ Go qualifiers and Scheduled qualifiers.

Prize package winners will receive from Celeb Poker the $2,500 + $200 buy-in into the APT Philippines Main Event, running August 25th through Aug 28th, $750 to put toward a 6 night stay at the luxury Manila Marriot Hotel, for the dates of August 23th to August 29th, $50 to apply to registration fees, and spending cash for airline tickets and such in an amount up to $2,000. The total value of this 2010 APT Philippines prize package is $5,500.

bwin Poker Hosts The Joker Sit & Go Promotion

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The Joker Sit & Go TournamentsBetween June 14 and July 25, 2010, bwin Poker will be hosting The Joker Sit & Go Tournaments.

This return of a previous player favorite, the wild and crazy Joker Sit & Go format, features double the freeroll prize pool from $500 to $1,000 and an additional $1,000 added to the total pot, claimable by way of the weekly leader board.

The prize structure for The Joker Sit & Go Tournaments is as novel as the tournament format, with 50% of the prize pool going to the 1st place winner, while 30% of it goes not to the runner-up but to the 5th place finisher, and the remaining 20% going not to the 3rd place finisher but to the player in 9th place.

For the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th place finishers, bwin Poker offers as a consolation prize, an I Lost The Joker Freeroll entry granting them access to a $1,000 freeroll tournament that runs weekly at bwin Poker on Saturdays from June 19 to July 24 at 17:00 GMT.

First, fifth, and ninth place are the only places that pay out leader board points as well, with 3 points going to 1st, 2 points to 5th, and 1 point to 9th. The Joker Leader Board is weekly and runs from Monday to Sunday. First place on any given week’s Joker Leader Board gets $500, with 5th place getting $300 and 9th getting $200.

Neither in the leader board race nor in The Joker Sit & Go Tournaments themselves, no players other than 1st, 5th, and 9th pay out.

The Joker Sit & Go Tournaments are all 10-seat events with buy-ins of $2 + $0.20, a starting stack for each player of 1,500 in chips and with a Turbo game structure in which blinds jump every 3 minutes. All Joker Sit & Gos are in No Limit Hold’em.

bwin Poker Running $1 Million World Cup Challenge

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World Cup Million Dollar ChallengeOn June 9 bwin Poker launched a promotion that will run through July 11 called the World Cup $1,000,000 Challenge.

To participate in the bwin Poker World Cup Million Dollar Challenge, you simply need to acquire betting tokens during the promotional period and then use those tokens to accurately guess the results of the various matches in the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg South Africa, which just started on Friday, June 11 and runs through Sunday, July 11.

Each betting token qualifies a player to compete in a single One Hand Heads-Up Sit & Go tournament. For each match of the 2010 World Cup, three such Sit & Gos will be held, one for each team competing (which represents that team winning the given) and a third representing a tie.

A bwin Poker player places their bet by using the token to enter the respective One Hand Heads-Up Sit & Go representing their bet. Prizes are awarded based on a pair of factors, namely: whether the player entered the right or wrong Sit & Go, and whether the player won or lost the Sit & Go they did enter. The more matches the player accurately predicts the results of, the more money from the prize pool they are eligible to split with the other players who achieved the same accomplishment.

The qualifying period to earn a betting token toward the bwin Poker Million Dollar World Cup Challenge is two days (48 hours) prior to the start of the game they wish to bet on.

So far in the opening weekend of the 2010 World Cup, Ghana beat Serbia, Slovenia beat Algeria, and the U.S. and England tied. That gives Serbia and Ghana the lead with 3 points each and puts England and the U.S. in second with 1 point each.

Chase Those Chips Again With bwin Poker’s Chip Chaser

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Chip Chaser Sit & Gos at bwin PokerBetween now and June 28 players at bwin Poker are being given the chance to chase those chips again with an unparalleled fervor. The promotion is called Chip Chaser and it’s likely to be the speediest online Sit & Go tournament you’ve ever played.

The big twist to the bwin Poker Sit & Go Chip Chaser format is that there are no blinds, only antes, and the game has a strict time limit. Giorgio might have exaggerated a little bit by saying that this format is “expected to become one of the most popular Sit and Go poker games”, however you will definitely have some fun while playing them, and they are a nice addition to mix up your regular poker game selection.

Chip Chaser Sit & Gos

In bwin Poker’s Chip Chaser Sit & Gos, players start with a chip stack of 1,000 chips. The game is made up of 100 antes, no blinds, and lasts for only 10 minutes and not a second longer. At least, not a second longer within the players’ control. Because at the end of the 10 minute countdown, all players in a bwin Poker Chip Chaser Sit & Go are put all in. From there, players continue to be placed all-in until only two players are left, at which point the player that has the largest chip stack is declared the automatic winner.

The winner of the bwin Poker Sit & Go Chip Chaser gets 70% of the prize pool and the runner-up gets 30%. bwin Poker Chip Chaser Sit & Gos are offered with a range of buy-ins: $20 + $2, $10 + $1, $5 + $0.50, and $1 + $0.20. All games are 10-handed No Limit Texas Hold’em.

But even though bwin Poker is calling the Chip Chaser its new Sit & Go format, the site is only promising to run Chip Chaser Sit & Gos every day until June 28, so if these fast-paced online poker tournaments sound exciting to you, you’d better hurry to bwin Poker and play.

World Cup Warm Up At bwin Poker

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bwin Poker World Cup Warm-UpMost of the sports enthusiasts of the world are fond of soccer, a game that promises the thrill of competition, plenty of excitement, wealth, and fame. A number of soccer teams are currently getting ready to fly to South Africa to participate in the prestigious World Cup Soccer Tournament, which offers a chance to one talented team to emerge as the champions.

bwin Poker seeks to reproduce the excitement of this prestigious soccer event by offering a thrilling two-week long poker event called World Cup Warm Up. The site hopes to provide its loyal poker players, who also happen to be soccer enthusiasts, the thrill of competition similar to that of the World Cup Soccer Tournament right in the comforts of home.

The World Cup Warm Up will last for two weeks, providing plenty of poker action and excitement and the unique opportunity for talented bwin Poker players to fight for the championship title. However, just as a soccer tournament allows only one champion, this bwin Poker event also permits only one talented poker player to emerge as the champion.

bwin Poker will first organize 4 World Cup Warm Up Semi Finals at 8 pm on May 5, May 27, June 1, and June 3. These semi finals will help talented players to qualify for the prestigious and lucrative World Cup Warm Up Finals. In the first place, bwin Poker will classify interested players who wish to participate in eight groups from A to H based on their geographic locations. Four players of each group can qualify for the finals. Each lucky semi final winner will receive an attractive cash prize plus a ticket to the finals.

The World Cup Warm Up Final will be organized on June 5 at 8 pm with a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000. Players who enjoy the competitive spirit of the World Cup can fight for the title of champion at this awesome World Cup Warm Up event organized by bwin Poker.

bwin Poker is also offering exciting promotions such as Chip Chaser Sit & Gos, Weekly Country Showdown, and Contender Series, giving players the exclusive chance to win plenty of cash.