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Easter Egg Hunt At bwin Poker

Posted on 03/30/2010 by kurt

Can you remember? Can you remember when we were little kids and became excited each and every Easter when it was finally time to go and search (and subsequently eat) the Easter eggs our parents carefully hid before? While most of us stopped living out this custom at some point in our lives (at least the active part of it), bwin Poker lets you relive the hunt for Easter eggs. At least digitally.

Easter Egg Hunt at bwin Poker What we are talking about here is a unique – and admittedly somewhat weird – poker tournament. It will take place on the 4th of April at 21:00 (GMT +1) and is called the $10,000 Easter Egg Hunt. You can find the tournament in the lobby of bwin Poker by going the the scheduled tournaments. You can register for a buy in of $10+$1. So far so good and still nothing weird about it, right? Well, here it comes:

While you will fight for each and every final position that you can gain in a regular tournament, the pay out structure of the $10,000 Easter Egg Hunt tournament is somewhat different. As in all other poker tournaments the winner will of course get the highest amount of prize money ($1,950) – places 2 to 10 however will only receive $50. If you finish eleventh you will be rewarded with an Easter egg in the form of $1,240! This structure goes on until a finishing position of 161 which will still earn you $80. To make it short: Every tenth position will receive such an Easter egg while all the positions between will earn between $15 and $50.

You will in any case receive more than your buy-in when finishing in the top 161 but you should preferably try to end up at one of the mentioned places to get rewarded with an Easter egg. If you think you can win it all, by all means play for the win. If for you ending in the top 50 is already a big success, why not try going out at 41, 31, 21 … At any rate this poker tournament is something very different. Give it a try (unless you are out there looking for real Easter eggs that is)!

partypoker Premier League IV Points Race

Posted on 12/28/2009 by kurt

Palladium Lounge Poker Points Race

The race is on for Points at partypoker as players log on and play so they can get to Las Vegas, Nevada. The newest points race to hit partypoker is the Palladium Lounge Poker Points Race.

partypoker is going to be giving away a total of $155,000 dollars in prizes plus there are also Premier League Poker Playoff prize packages to be won that are valued at $9,000 dollars.

Premier League Playoff Prize Packages

Each partypoker Premier League Poker package is worth $9,000 dollars and includes the $6,250 buy-in at the televised qualifier where the top player will win a $100,000 entry into the partypoker Premier League Poker final.

You will also get seven days accommodations from the 7th to the 14th of February at a luxurious hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada plus $2,000 dollars for airfare and spending money.

partypoker is also going to be awarding only one player with a Team Party contract valued at $100,000 dollars. This means one lucky player will get to be a sponsored play at partypoker for an entire year.

How to Win

Just play poker keeping in mind that different stakes award a different amount of points, then If you are on of the 250 top Party Points earners between December 7th and January 3rd you will be getting a share of the $155,000 dollars. If you finish first you will get one of the Premier League Poker packages.

Prize Breakdown
Position 1-10	Points	Position 11-250	Points
1st	$9,000 Premier League Playoff Event package
2nd	$6,000	11th-18th	$1,200
3rd	$4,500	19th-30th	$1,000
4th	$4,000	31st-45th	$800
5th	$3,500	46th-60th	$700
6th	$3,000	61st-75th	$500
7th	$2,500	76th-100th	$400
8th	$2,100	101st-125th	$300
9th	$1,800	126th-150th	$200
10th	$1,500	151st-250th	$100

If you don’t finish in the top 250 don’t worry because the top 600 finishers will get to play in the Premier League Poker Playoff Freeroll on January 10th. At the freeroll you can win cash and the top two players will win a prize package.

Top 50 Players Payouts
Rank	Prize
1st	$9,000 Premier League Playoff Event package
2nd	$9,000 Premier League Playoff Event package
3rd	$2,000
4th	$1,700
5th	$1,500
6th	$1,300
7th	$1,100
8th	$900
9th	$700
10th	$500
11th-18th	$300
19th-30th	$200
31th-50th	$100

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posted on 12/23/2009 by kurt

Max Poker Bonus wishes Merry Christmas And once again it’s that time of the year where we gather around a tree and celebrate together with our loved ones. While the many special Christmas offers of our featured poker rooms are tempting and definitely worth taking a look at, we hope you do find the time to relax and share Christmas with your family or close friends.

For Max Poker Bonus this year ends with a lot of promise for the future. We want to thank you all for the continued trust in our project and the support that has helped us improve our site steadily. We are in the fortunate position of having developed a high quality product that enjoys great renown in the poker industry. This effort from our side has in turn translated into excellent offers by our partners for you, our customers (like our special poker bonus offers or the free Titan Poker Calculator to name a few).

We would also like to thank our partners at all our featured poker rooms. We appreciate their effort and their time spent. You guys really earned your Christmas holidays. Actually we all did.

While this year ends on a high note for Max Poker Bonus we also want to make it clear that this is no reason for us to slow down or be content with our achievements. We still have things on our to-do list and have also already come up with new ideas that are being developed and worked on – and some are actually already being implemented as we speak.

If you are a frequently returning visitor (be it to check for new poker bonus offers, to use our Poker Odds Calculator or to read our poker blog) you will have noticed some enhancements to the site over the past few weeks including a dramatic performance increase thanks to Giorgio’s magic fingers. He has re-done a lot of our code and vastly improved the speed of the site.

We hope you will find lots of nice Christmas presents under your tree (let’s hope you have been a good boy or girl and Santa brings you gifts). And if you feel like giving yourself a present, feel free to participate in the various Christmas promotions.

Everyone at Max Poker Bonus wishes you a merry Christmas and lovely holidays!

Depositor Freerolls At PokerStars

Posted on 11/30/2009 by kurt

PokerStars Depositors Freerolls It pays to be new at PokerStars not only do you get free money when you make your first deposit but often there are new player perks and promotions. But what about existing players that have already gotten their great deposit bonus?

Well PokerStars is offering a great promotion for both new and existing players. In this new promotion there is a total of $500,000 dollars being awarded to the players that win during their new $500K Depositor Freerolls.

How to Qualify for a Freeroll

All you need to do in order to participate is make a deposit and put in one of the following deposit codes:

500K – if you’re an existing real money player
FIRST500K – if this is your first deposit at PokerStars

Players that are making their first deposit can still take advantage of any deposit bonuses as well so don’t forget to claim your first deposit bonus as well your ticket to the PokerStars Depositor Freerolls.

It doesn’t matter if you are a brand new player or an existing player switching to a real money player account you will still get a first deposit bonus at PokerStars.

After you’ve entered one of the codes above when making a deposit then you get a ticket to play in any of the $500,000 dollar Depositor Freerolls.

Details about PokerStars’ Freerolls for Depositors

PokerStars is going to offer eight freerolls a day but only for only 15 days. So don’t forget to play each ticket you earn. Each freeroll is going to have a $2,500 dollar prize pool. If you make it in the money in any of the freerolls then you qualify to play in any of the eight $25,000 dollars finals held on December 13th.

One deposit will get you a ticket for all of the $2,500 freerolls so make sure to make most of the tickets and play, play, play. The $500,000 dollar Depositor Freerolls start on November 28th and will continue until December 13th at different times throughout the day.

The times are 5am, 8am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 8pm and 11pm EST. You can find the list of freerolls in the PokerStars Lobby by going to ‘Tourney’ then ‘Freeroll’ and then type ‘Depositor’ in the Tourney Filter.

You can make deposits anytime to get your ticket as long as it’s before December 13th. Each Depositor Freeroll will pay the first 500 places so you have a pretty good chance of winning something and you may be one of the players that win big during the $500,000 dollar Depositor Freerolls.

PokerStars First Deposit Bonus

Now, when making your first deposit, you’re not only getting entries into these freerolls, but you’re also given the PokerStars first deposit bonus of 100% up to a whopping $600 dollars. You can read the in-depth details about this deposit bonus deal on our special page if you follow the link.

Aussie Millions Satellites At partypoker

Posted on 11/06/2009 by kurt

partypoker is going to send some of their best players to compete in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event in Melbourne where the 1st place winner is going to be taking home at least AUS $2 million. If you want in on the action there are many ways you can win your way to Melbourne.

partypoker Australia Ambassador Stewart Scott is the defending champion and commented:

“I’ve been playing at PartyPoker.com for five years. These great packages are an amazing opportunity for other players to play in this huge tournament. Claiming the Aussie Millions title has been the highlight of my career and I’d love to see another PartyPoker.com player take the title.”

25 Aussie Millions Prize Packages

You can win one of partypoker’s 25 luxury Aussie Millions Main Event packages by playing in one of two $600+$40 Aussie Millions Qualifiers on Sunday, December 13th.

The 1st satellite is for players in Australia and New Zealand and will award five prize packages worth $12,000 dollars each.

The second satellite is open to players from all over the world and will award twenty prize packages worth $15,000 each. There are also less expensive satellites you can compete in that award a seat into these satellites if the $640 buyin is too steep.

Aussie Millions Satellite Tournaments

There are also other ways you can win a Aussie Millions Main Event prize package. You can use your PartyPoints, choose to participate in freerolls or play at small satellites with buy-ins starting at $1 to make your way into a tournament that awards seats to the main event. If you are from Australia or New Zealand you can also opt to play in special Stewart Scott Bounty Hunt Tournaments.

Aussie Millions partypoker As of November 1st you can play against the defending champ Stewart Scott in the $64+$6 buyin Aussie Millions ANZ Satellite Qualifiers at 4:05ET every Tuesday and Thursday. The player that knocks out Stewart Scott will win his $70 dollar bounty. Keep in mind that this opportunity is meant for Australian and New Zealand players only. While there has been mentioned that anyone can participate and win one of the Aussie Millions prize packages this way we have no official statement by partypoker. We also want to emphasise that the packages won this way have a value of $12,000 unlike the Aussie Millions Main Event prize packages for the rest of the world that are valued at $15,000 – mostly due to the higher travel expenses.

You can win more then just $70 dollars in one of these tournaments, you can also win a seat to one of the Aussie Millions Qualifiers. First place will get a seat at the $640 dollar qualifier, second place takes a seat at the $128 dollar qualifier and third will win a $70 dollar qualifier seat.

You don’t have to necessarily leave home empty handed if you’re not one of the top 3 players there are also cash prizes awarded and of course the $70 bounty on Stewart Scott.

Those with a larger bankroll can also play in the Stewart Scott Highroller Aussie Millions Invitational on Sunday, November 22nd at 3:05ET for a $250+$20 buyin. The First place winner will be awarded a Aussie Millions prize package. If you finish second you will be awarded your $640 ticket for the Aussie Millions Final.

The qualification method for the rest of the world is via various satellites. If you do not wish to spend any money and still qualify for the Aussie Millions, you may choose to play in the daily freerolls or use your PartyPoints as buy-in for the first level satellites. Or you may want to play in the low buy-in satellites starting as low as $1. You actually have a lot of different options as to which satellite you prefer and depending on your bankroll you may want to participate in the more expensive satellites (additionally to the afore mentioned freerolls you have the option of $1, $8, $30, $70 or $140 buy-ins) in order to avoid having to play all those crazy people you will find at low buy-in satellites.

All these satellites take part on a daily basis. Alternatively you may of course choose a direct buy-in to the big Aussie Millions Final on December 13th. The choice is yours. Just make sure you don’t let this chance go by without at least giving it a shot. Honestly, with these low buy-ins and the option to qualify via freerolls you simply can’t go wrong.

bwin $250k Guaranteed

Posted on 11/03/2009 by kurt

bwin Poker Champion Chip Every Sunday, it is time for the Champion Chip at bwin Poker. The Champion Chip is the name of $250,000 Guaranteed NL Hold’Em weekly tourney, held at bwin’s online poker room.

The Champion Chip winner is assured of a huge payday of more than $50,000 on a buy-in of just $190+$10.

This tournament was a monthly affair until February this year, when bwin Poker decided to make this a weekly event due to popular demand from its players. Now every week, approximately 1,300 to 1,500 players buy-in to have a shot at their share of the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The Champion Chip Final starts with every player having 2,500 chips and levels are of 20 minutes each.

Qualifying for the Champion Chip Finals

Players can either buy-in directly to Sunday’s final by paying $190+$10 or can try to satellite their way into the final for as low as $1+0.20.

bwin Poker runs regular Sit&Go Qualifiers and scheduled tournaments providing entry to this dream tournament.

Sit&Go Champion Chip Qualifiers

bwin Poker runs three different buy-in Sit&Go Champion Chip Qualifiers. These tournaments start as soon as the required number of players on the table have registered.

- $10+$1 Buy-in

20 Players Sit&Go

one seat to the winner.

$20+$2 Buy-in

10 Players Sit&Go

one seat to the winner.

$30+$3 Buy-in

10 Players Sit&Go

one seat to the winner and prize money to runner ups.

These Sit&Go qualifiers are available 24 hours a day.

Scheduled Tournament Champion Chip Qualifiers

bwin also runs 30 special Champion Chip qualifiers daily. The buy-ins to these qualifiers start from as low as $1+0.20 to a maximum of $30+$3. All these qualifying satellites payout as many Champion Chip tickets worth $190+$10 each as the total prize pool allows with the remaining cash also being distributed to the winners.

Champion Chip Mad Tilt Rebuy Qualifiers – Daily

Everyday, 6 qualifiers with buy-ins of $1+0.20 or $2+0.25 are offered by bwin Poker based on the popular Mad Tilt format. All players start with 100 chips each and blinds go up every 3 minutes. The rebuy period lasts only 10 minutes, making it a fast paced game with lot of action every hand.
Each of these 6 Champion Chip qualifiers guarantee 5 tickets to the finals.

Champion Chip Rebuy Qualifiers – Daily

For players who like to play rebuy qualifiers but not the Mad Tilt kinds, bwin Poker offers 6 tournaments daily with buy-ins of $5+$0.50 or $10+$1. These tournaments allow rebuys for an hour as well as an option to addon.
There are total 10 Champion Chip tickets guaranteed in each of these satellites.

Champion Chip Qualifiers – Daily

For players who believe in their poker skills and do not like the fast paced action offered by the rebuy games, bwin Poker offers 6 tournaments each everyday with buy-ins of $10+$1, $20+$2 and $30+$3 respectively.
Each of these tournaments offer one seat on a minimum to the Champion Chip finals on Sunday.

Champion Chip Last Chance Qualifier – Sundays

Every Sunday, just two hours before the Champion Chip main event, bwin Poker offers all its players a last chance to have a shot at playing that day’s finals. Players can buy-in for $5+$0.50 to this biggest weekly satellite to the Champion Chip. This rebuy tournament offers 50 Guaranteed seats worth $190+$10 to the $250,000 Champion Chip Finals.

Choose your path to the finals by playing the qualifiers or just directly buy-in. You are assured of one hell of a tournament and a huge payday if you make it deep in the bwin Poker’s $250,000 Guaranteed Champion Chip Tourney every Sunday at 18:00 CET (17:00 UK).

bwin Poker is one of our most recommended online poker rooms. If you are not registered on bwin yet, download bwin Poker today using one of our links and take advantage of one of our three first deposit bonuses for bwin Poker, $100, $250 or $500 respectively.

Win The Million Dollar Hand At partypoker

Posted on 10/26/2009 by kurt

partypoker Million Dollar Hand For those of you who are not aware, let Max Poker Bonus point you in the right direction: partypoker offers you the chance to win $1,000,000 by playing your regular games of poker. You will automatically earn PartyPoints while playing for real money and with every 15 points you will receive a card for the Million Dollar Hand. If you manage to build a Royal Flush with these cards you will win $1,000,000. And this is not restricted to only the first player to succeed, it will be paid out every single time someone achieves it!

Of course we all know how hard it is to get a Royal Flush – partypoker wouldn’t give away a million dollars for a pair or three of a kind. However – while they may not pay you the sought after million dollar amount they do reward you for a pair, two pairs, a triple and so on. For example, if you manage to complete a Flush with these special cards, this feat will earn you an instant $100 extra.

Make sure to go to partypoker now and possibly earn extra money for free while playing your regular poker games. And who knows, maybe you can beat the odds and complete the Royal Flush. That certainly would be the easiest $1,000,000 ever earned. partypoker even gives you the first card for free.

In case you are not a member of partypoker you should definitely check out our partypoker Bonus info and use one of our links to make sure you get the best out of your chosen poker bonus. No matter whether you are a new player at partypoker or a partypoker veteran, make sure not to miss out on this great opportunity. And be aware, the promotion only lasts until October 31st!

bwin’s Big Bounty

Posted on 10/10/2009 by kurt

Big Bounty by bwin Poker If you always felt that you can take on some of the best poker players but you didn’t want to invest a lot of money, the Big Bounty at bwin Poker is your opportunity. You can compete for your share of $100,000 in the Big Bounty Final which takes place every other Sunday. And if you don’t want to pay the buy-in of $93+7 you may choose to qualify for the Big Bounty Final by playing either Sit&Go or scheduled tournaments. Your investment can be as little as $1+0.10 in order to play for $100,000 – that’s quite a winning margin.

Also let’s not forget why the Final is called Big Bounty Final – you will be able to knock some of bwin’s poker players out of the tournament and collect a $100 bounty for each. Well, technically you will get the chance to do so – whether or not you are actually able to kick them out depends on you and your game. Be warned, these guys know what they do at the table. They have proven their worth in some of the world’s biggest and toughest tournaments so if you think you are the shark in this particular fish tank, you may want to reconsider.

The Big Bounty Final is played every other Sunday

The $100 bounty equals your buy-in if you decide to enter the tournament directly. However don’t let that blind you – these players know very well that everyone is after them. If you make the wrong move they might instead take you off the table. But even if that happens you will be able to plan revenge, sweet revenge. After all the Big Bounty Final at bwin Poker is a bi-weekly event and every other Sunday you will be able to show how much you have improved over the past 2 weeks.

Don’t delay and kick them out today. Or at least as soon as the next Big Bounty Final takes place.

Estoril – Portuguese Poker Paradise

Posted on 09/10/2009 by kurt

For those of you trying to catch the last glimpse of summer the idea of going to Portugal and laze around at the beach surely sounds tempting, right? Well, let’s make one thing clear: While bwin will offer you the chance to earn your trip to Estoril, Portugal, sunbathing won’t be your main concern. For one thing it will be November (7th – 10th) and even the Portuguese beaches will not be crowded with half-naked people at that time of the year.

Also the reason for you to go there is to participate in one of Europe’s greatest live poker events as part of the bwin poker team. Estoril is home to Europe’s biggest casino and you will find out that this doesn’t only show in the magnitude of the event itself but also the amount of money that you play for. With a buy-in of $1,400+$100 you can count on not only a nice prize pool but also fierce competition.

bwin Estoril Live No need to worry for you however. You don’t need to pay the buy-in, bwin will do that for you. They will also pay for your trip to Estoril as well as your accommodation for 5 nights. And on top of that you can use the remaining money of the $3,600 Estoril Live Poker Package as your personal spending money.

Another reason why you shouldn’t worry is that if you are able to compete at the Estoril Live Poker Event as member of bwin’s prestigious poker team you will have proven your worth by besting thousands of other players. See, bwin doesn’t simply give everyone a $3,600 package to go to Estoril as you may have imagined. They do offer you the opportunity to qualify for one of these packages however.

You may enter one of the 10 online finals for a buy-in of $300+20 and compete directly for your personal $3,600 poker package. Or you may choose to make use of one of the many qualifiers each day starting at as little as $2+0.20 and make your way to the finals. Whatever your choice is, make sure to keep an empty spot in your calendar for November 7 – 10 cause that’s when you will be playing in Estoril.

In an Estoril that will be too fresh for spending the night at the beach. But honestly, who cares?

Win The Cup For Your Country!

Posted on 08/30/2009 by kurt

PokerStars World Cup of Poker VI It is back. The World Cup of Poker (WCP) is being brought back to life on PokerStars and you can be part of your country’s four men team. You can represent your country playing poker in the Bahamas and take your share of the $290,000 prize pool. This promotion is available for every PokerStars player no matter what, no matter where.

The teams will be made up by 4 players – 2 of these places will be automatically awarded to the top two of the Tournament Leader Board of each specific country while the remaining 2 will be determined by the National Team Decider Freerolls. If you manage to qualify for one of the prestigious spots on your national team you will be contacted by PokerStars via e-mail. You will have to confirm whether or not you wish to represent your country at the Live Grand Final in the Bahamas (but honestly, tell me one reason why you would choose not to).

After that each team will participate in the so called Regional Play-offs where the various squads will compete in Team Play-off Tournaments. The winning national teams of each of these qualifying tournaments will advance to the final stage, the Grand Final with a prize-pool of $290,000.

You will of course be treated like a VIP in the Bahamas. It starts with PokerStars covering your travel expenses and accommodation in the Bahamas. Basically all you will have to concentrate on is playing your best game and looking good when the cameras are on you in this televised tournament. And with good cards, great poker and some luck you may be part of the team that may call themselves the World Cup of Poker VI Champions.

If you are already a PokerStars player make sure not to miss this great opportunity to play poker in what has to be one of the most beautiful venues. And if you are not a PokerStars player yet, make sure to use link to get the best out of your PokerStars poker bonus for first depositors. Especially after their recent upgrade that grants you a 100% bonus up to $600 (compared to their earlier regular poker bonus of 100% up to $50).