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Massive Variety Of Tournament Styles At PKR Poker

Posted on 08/27/2010 by giorgio

PKR Poker Tournaments PKR Poker offers a massive variety of both Multi-table and Sit & Go online poker tournament styles.

Re-buy/Add-on Tournaments: Familiar to most online poker players at any poker, these forgiving tournaments allow players the chance to re-buy into the tournament when they bust out and add-on to a diminishing chip stack before you bust out.

PKR Points Tournaments: Also familiar to online poker players everywhere, these tournaments don’t have cash buy-ins; the only way to register for these big money events is with PKR Points.

Freerolls & Premium Freerolls: PKR offers more than its fair share of freeroll tournaments, free to enter with large money or live tournament entry payouts.

Shorthanded Tournaments: And PKR offers more than its share of Heads-Up, 6-Max, and 10-Handed tournaments.

Winner Take All: Just as the name says, PKR will give the winner of these rewarding tournaments all the money in the prize pool; no cash payouts for 2nd, 3rd, or any places lower than 1st.

Break Thru: In these breakthrough events, PKR promises all players who survive into the final third of the player pool will get their money tripled.

Double Thru: Like the Break Thru tournaments, Double Thru tournaments double the buy-ins of all players lasting into the top half of the playing field.

Terminator Tournaments: These bounty style of tournaments offer big bonuses for taking out other players, however you finish in the event.

Double & Triple Chance Tournaments: A special style of re-buy tournament, the extra fee for these PKR tournaments pay in advance for extra chip stacks kept for you in reserve to use during rebuy periods or breaks, as you see fit.

Phase Tournaments: As the name implies, these are tiered events, in this case Sit & Go style, in which you enter for a low buy-in and then advance through levels, or “phases”, until you graduate to the big money final table; PKR offers two types of Phase Tournaments currently – Ten Seat Phase Tournaments & Heads-Up Phase Tournaments.

Private Tournaments: PKR allows players to create their own private tournaments with an invite-only player pool.

PKR also offers deep stack, speed, and turbo tournaments. And many of these tournaments are available not just in Texas Hold’em but in Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo Split as well.

Next PKR PokerStars Event Coming Up

Posted on 08/18/2010 by giorgio

Have you ever won a major poker tournament event sponsored or co-sponsored by PKR Poker? If so, then you are eligible to enter an exclusive PKR Poker online tournament with a low buy-in and an added prize pool called the PKR Superstars of Poker. The next Superstars of PKR tournament is coming up on August 19 at 20:35 GMT and this is your chance to find out if you qualify to enter.

In order to qualify to enter a Superstars of PKR tournament you must have won one of the following headlining tournament events:

Aussie Open or Canadian Open
Club PKR Money Added
PKR Gold Rush
PKR Grand Prix
PKR Late Night (6-handed)
PKR Masters
PKR Open and PKR Open Bounty
PKR Omaha Showdown
PKR Sunday Open

You may also enter the Superstars of PKR tournament if you won any PKR Poker festival tournament, such as the Springfest, the Super Series, or the Xmas Cracker series or, of course, any of the PKR Poker Live tournaments.

Keep in mind, you only ever need to qualify for a Superstars of PKR tournament once (as long as it’s been since 2008). After you’ve won any of these above-mentioned PKR headlining tournaments, you have earned the right to play in every Superstars of PKR tournament from then on.

No longer counted as qualifying tournaments for the Superstars of PKR tournament are: the Big Shot, Daily $17K, Deeper & Steeper + Antes, High Roller, Nifty Fifty, Saturday Showdown, Sunday $30K, or Sunday Classic.

The buy-in for the Superstars of PKR tournament on August 19th is $25. The prize pool added by PKR Poker to the Superstars of PKR prize pool varies at each event. This time, for the August 19 Superstars of PKR event, the prize pool added is $2,000.

Whether you are able to compete in this Superstars of PKR tournament or not, you can watch all the excitement on PKR.TV.

partypoker Monthly Million Returns Next Month

Posted on 08/14/2010 by kurt

You may have noticed that there was no Monthly Million tournament at partypoker on the first Sunday of this month (Sunday, August 1) as there usually would be. That’s because of the partypoker Summer Special that took place on Sunday, July 18, combining the rewards of July and August into a single, blowout event (and what blowout it was!). But fear not, the Monthly Million returns to partypoker on Sunday September 5, and the time to start qualifying for that event is now. And it only costs $1.

That is to say, there are many ways to qualify for the partypoker Monthly Million, but the cheapest of these paths starts at a mere buck.

Here is the full qualifying structure for the partypoker Monthly Million:

Daily $1 Monthly Million Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuys and $8 Monthly Million Sub Qualifier Speed event lead into daily $64 + $6 Monthly Million Qualifiers which each guarantee 19 seats in the Monthly Million.
Daily $1M: MEGA Friday Satellite Qualifier Speed Rebuys for $2 and daily $1M: MEGA Friday Satellite Qualifier Speed events for $6 lead into the $50 + $5 Friday night $1M: MEGA Friday Satellite, with each guaranteeing 20 seats in the Monthly Million.
Daily $1M: Super Satellite Saturday Qualifier Speed Rebuys for $1 and weekly $1M: Super Satellite Saturday Qualifier Speed events, running three times each Saturday, for $4 buy-ins lead into one of two weekly $32 + $3 $1M: Super Satellite Saturday qualifiers, one promising 15 seats guaranteed and one promising 3 seats guaranteed for a total of 18 seats guaranteed in the Monthly Million.
Daily $47 Monthly Million Sub Qualifier Extra Speed events lead into daily $160 + $12 Monthly Million Qualifier Extras, each awarding one in four players seats in the Monthly Million, with at least 3 seats guaranteed to be awarded.
Daily Country Specific Freerolls and Daily Player Points Qualifiers lead into Friday Monthly Million Specials with no direct buy-ins and 20 seats in the Monthly Million guaranteed.

There is also a new championship style blind structure to be aware of for the partypoker Monthly Million from now on. See the partypoker site for the exact blind structure in complete detail.

Race You To The 200th Oktoberfest In Munich On partypoker

Posted on 08/04/2010 by kurt

partypoker Palladium Oktoberfest Poker Race From 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.

bwin Poker B’inside Tournaments – Points For Buy-in, Cash And More Points For Prizes

Posted on 08/02/2010 by giorgio

bwin Poker B'Inside Tournaments B’Inside is the name of the bwin Poker VIP Club (or player rewards programme). The currency that bwin Poker uses in this program are called Market Points. And one of the great benefits of earning Market Points at bwin Poker is all the exclusive online poker tournaments with real money prizes (and big ones too) that you can gain entry to. Prizes for B’Inside Tournaments also include additional Market Points. Collectively, B’Inside Tournaments award a guaranteed $55,000 every month and 10 million Market Points every 2 months.

Buy-ins and other eligibility requirements for various B’Inside Tournaments vary based on a player’s status level in the B’Inside programme, but regardless of status level, these events have Market Points buy-ins only. No cash buy-ins available. Green level is the lowest status level and has access to the least number of big money B’Inside Tournaments. Then comes White level, which has access to all the B’Inside Tournaments with cash awards but not the 10 million Market Points event, which is only available to Yellow level members, the highest level in the B’Inside program.

The B’Inside Tournaments currently running are as follows:

Daily $500 GTD
Weekly $5,000 Qualifier (every Sunday)
Weekly $5,000 GTD (every Sunday)
Monthly $20,000 Qualifier (last Sunday of each month)
Monthly $20,000 GTD (last Sunday of each month)
Bi-monthly 10 million Market Points (3rd Sunday, every other month)

bwin Poker recommends you boost your bankroll by availing yourself of the sundry poker bonuses the B’Inside programme makes available to you. Just buy in to any of the B’Inside Tournaments, trade your Market Points in for poker chips, and get a bonus.

For example, redeem 6,000 Market Points for poker chips into a B’Inside Tournament, and get $5 as a bonus. You just have to collect 40 Poker Points while playing at bwin Poker in order to activate or “clear” your bonus. Bonus amounts tend to vary depending on the player’s status level, with the highest bonus available at $500 (for Yellow players who redeem 200,000 Market Points, then needing to collect only 4,000 Poker Points to clear it).

Qualify For partypoker’s $300k Guaranteed Sunday

Posted on 07/23/2010 by giorgio

Each Sunday, a multi-table online poker tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000 takes place at partypoker called, appropriately, the $300K Guaranteed Sunday.

Starting every Sunday at 12:45 pm ET, the partypoker $300K Guaranteed Sunday has several ways to enter. You can buy-in directly for $215 or you can enter one of partypoker’s many qualifiers for much less and win your way in. And now, partypoker has introduced even more $300K Guaranteed Sunday qualifiers from which to choose.

There are both Multi-Table and Single-Table Tournament Qualifiers into the partypoker $300K GTD Sunday.

The MTT qualifiers include the following:

$300K Guaranteed Sunday Qualifier Speed for $21.50 + $1.50
$300K Guaranteed Sunday Qualifier Rebuy for $2.40 + $0.60
$300K Guaranteed Sunday Qualifier for a buy-in of 50 partypoker Points
$300K Guaranteed Sunday Qualifier for $10 + $1
$300K Gtd Sunday Qualifier Turbo for $11 + $1
$300K Guaranteed Qualifier Turbo for $107 + $9.50
$300K Gtd Sunday Qualifier Speed Rebuy for $5 + $1

All of these events guarantee to award at least one ticket into the next scheduled partypoker $300K Guaranteed Sunday, but some of these events guarantee even more, up to as many as 15 seats in the $300K Sunday Guaranteed sometimes being awarded in a single qualifier.

partypoker also offers a $300K Guaranteed Sunday Qualifier Special for $53.75 + $4.25 that you can qualify for through one of its own satellites, $300K Gtd Sunday Sub Qualifier Special Speed for $14.50 + $1.50 and a $300K Gtd Sunday Sub Qualifier Special Speed Rebuy for $5 + $1.

Most of these events are daily, at least 5 days a week, with several being offered 6 and 7 days a week.

As for the Sit & Go single table tournament qualifiers, partypoker offers the following:

$3 Sit & Go Qualifier (10 handed)
$3 Sit & Go Qualifier Speed (10 handed)
$66 Sit & Go Qualifier (6 handed)
$26 Sit & Go Qualifier (10 handed)
$26 Sit & Go Speed Qualifier (10 handed)
$120 Sit & Go Qualifier (2 handed/heads-up)

bet365 Poker Offering Ongoing Satellites Into Weekly Guaranteed Tournaments

Posted on 07/16/2010 by giorgio

As part of its regular schedule, bet365 Poker hosts a bevy of guaranteed tournaments each week, and also as part of its regular schedule, bet365 also hosts an equally impressive bevy of satellite tournaments into these various guaranteed events.

Details on the 7 regularly scheduled bet365 online poker tournaments with guaranteed prize pools into which the hosts regular satellites are as follows.

$20,000 Double Stack Freezeout – This is a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event taking place every Friday at 19:45 GMT for a direct buy-in of $320. Stage 1 SNG (Sit and Go) satellites are $70 for a 5-player game.
$40,000 GP High Roller Monday – This is a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event taking place every Monday at 19:45 GMT for a direct buy-in of $530. Stage 1 Satellites are available as ongoing 10-player Sit and Gos for $58 and Rebuy/Add-On Tournaments taking place every Monday at 16:35 GMT for a $55 buy-in.
$40,000 GP Super Tuesday R/A – This is a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event taking place every Tuesday at 19:45 GMT for a direct buy-in of $109. Stage 1 Satellites are available as ongoing 10-player SNGs for $13 and a Turbo events every Tuesday at 16:45 GMT for a $12 direct buy-in.
$45,000 GP Rebuy – This is a No Limit Hold’em Re-buy event taking place every Monday through Thursday at 18:45 GMT for a $55 direct buy-in. Stage 1 Satellites into this event are available as 10-player Rebuy SNGs for a $6 buy-in and as Rebuy Turbo R/A events every Monday through Thursday at 15:20 GMT for a $6 buy-in.
$50,000 GP Freezeout – This is a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event taking place every Saturday at 18:30 GMT for a $109 direct buy-in. An array of Stage 1 Satellites are available into this event, including MTQ R/A events, Turbo events, regular Freezeout satellites, and of course SNGs. Buy-ins for these satellites range from $8.80 to $24, although most of them are $12.
Friday $100,000 Guaranteed R/A – This is a No Limit Hold’em Rebuy event taking place every Friday at 20:00 GMT for a $109 direct buy-in. An array of Stage 1 Satellites are available into this event, including R/A events, Turbo and Speed events, and of course Sit and Gos. Buy-ins for these satellites range from $8.80 to $26.
$250,000 Guaranteed Big Sunday – This is a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event taking place every Sunday at 18:00 GMT for a $320 direct buy-in. A wide array of Stage 1 Satellites are available into this event including R/A events and Sit and Gos. Buy-ins range from $27 to $70.

All new sign-ups at bet365 Poker referred by Max Poker Bonus are eligible for a first deposit bonus of 100% up to $500. Interested? You can read the exact details, such as the clearing requirements, about this bonus offer on the bet365 Poker Bonus page.

bwin Poker Introduces New Snowball Sit & Go And Super Secret Poker Freeroll

Posted on 07/14/2010 by giorgio

bwin Poker Snowball A way to stay icy cool on a hot summer day, bwin Poker’s new Snowball Sit & Gos create an avalanche-like snowball effect from the first deal to the last, meaning it doesn’t take very much time at all from start to finish, and at the climactic end the results are near-catastrophic (for one of the player’s at least)!

In bwin Poker’s new Snowball Sit & Go tournaments the blinds increase slowly at first, only to pick up pace as the game progresses. Specifically, the blinds make start out increasing every 10 minutes, but then go up progressively quicker each time, next coming every 8 minutes, then every 6, every 4, every 2, and at last, when the snowball effect is at its most ginormous (that’s gigantic + enormous), they increase every minute.

It won’t take long for many of the players in these 10-seater sit & go tournaments to dwindle their 1,500 starting chip stack down to nothing. The top three positions get paid out in these events.

bwin Poker’s Snowball Sit & Go tournaments are available at the following buy-in levels: $1 + $0.20; $5 + $0.50; $10 + $1; $20 + $2.

Super Secret Poker Freeroll

Also happening now at bwin Poker is the Super Secret Poker Freeroll, a chance to win cash prizes in a special freeroll tournament with only one entry requirement: a password, hence the “super secret”. In order to find out these super secret password you need only listen to the bwin Poker podcast or read the bwin Poker blog.

For an example, at the time of this writing, July 14, 2010, there is a YouTube video on the bwin Poker Blog (which means it’s also on YouTube, so we implemented it into this article) called the “World Series of Poker 2010 Secret Freeroll July 13th, 2010”. If you watch the video you’ll see the password for today’s Super Secret Poker Freeroll and you’ll learn where, when, and how to use that password to enter.

bwin Poker Champion Chip Promo Offers $150k Weekly

Posted on 07/02/2010 by giorgio

bwin Poker Champion Chip bwin Poker offers players a variety of fun and wacky ways to win large sums of money for little investment. One of them, bwin Poker’s ongoing Champion Chip promotion, gives players the chance to win a share of $150,000 weekly guaranteed.

There are several ways players can try to win bwin Poker’s weekly Champion Chip promotion: via Sit & Gos, Scheduled Tournaments, Special Tournaments, and Direct Buy-in.

You might as well want to read a previous article we have published about bwin Poker’s Champion Chip promotion, where you can read some more detailed about the tournaments’ structures, back then still a $250K guaranteed tournament.

Champion Chip Sit & Gos

The Sit & Go route is the most complex, with three choices of entry points: Step Qualifiers, Champion Chip Qualifiers, or Championship Turbo Qualifiers.

Step 1 Qualifiers cost $0.90 + $0.10 to enter and seed players into choice of two Step 2 Qualifiers, one with a direct buy-in of $5.40 + $0.60 and a Shorthanded version for the same price. These seed, respectively into a $23 + $2 Step 3 Champion Chip Qualifier or a $40 + $3 Shorthanded version which in turn seed players into the actual $190 + $10 Sunday Champion Chip Final for the $150K guaranteed prize pool.

Champion Chip Sit & Go Qualifiers and Turbo Qualifiers seed directly into the Champion Chip final for players choice of $10 + $1, $20 + $2, or $30 + $3 buy-in.

Champion Chip Satellites and Special Tournaments

Scheduled Satellites also seed directly into the bwin Poker Champion Chip Final for player’s choice of a range of buy-ins: $2 + $0.20, $3 + $0.30, $5 + $0.50, $10 + $1, $20 + $2, and $30 + $3.

Special Tournaments earn players chips into the bwin Poker Champion Chip Final include a variety of Mad Tilt Tournaments (in which every hand is All-In), Turbo Tournaments (in which the blinds go up every 3 minutes), and Rebuy Tournaments (which give players the chance to chase chips even faster).

Champion Chip Direct Buy-in

And of course, if you want to skip all the preliminaries and go straight to the $150,000 guaranteed main event, just pony up the $200 buy-in for the Champion Chip Final any given Sunday at 18:00 (GMT + 1) at bwin Poker.

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bwin Poker Hosts The Joker Sit & Go Promotion

Posted on 06/23/2010 by kurt

Between 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.