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Next PKR PokerStars Event Coming Up

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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.

Palladium Rewards – A Higher Standard Of Player Loyalty At partypoker

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partypoker has revamped its Palladium Rewards player loyalty programme, and it’s both simpler and more rewarding than ever. In apparent response to player feedback, partypoker has improved the Palladium Rewards programme with more status levels, greater bonus options and cash redemption options, and most importantly perhaps, a cleaner, more easy to understand points system.

partypoker Loyalty ProgrammeNow you just play at any real money game of any time – cash or tournament – and earn PartyPoints, at a rate of 2 points for every $1 spent in either rake or tournament fees. partypoker updates your PartyPoints balance as soon as you leave a table. You can apply those PartyPoints toward purchases at the PartyPoints Store, which includes gift certificates, tournament entries, and even cash redemption. Plus, players get a progressively increasing discount on items purchased at the PartyPoints Store the more PartyPoints spent at one time.

The only exception to all that is that you don’t get any PartyPoints for games played at private tables on the site.

partypoker Rakeback – up to 40%

As you earn PartyPoints, you advance up status levels, or what partypoker calls “Key Levels”, starting everyone off at Bronze, the lowest, and progressing up through Silver, Gold and beyond. At each level you can now redeem PartyPoints for cash, at increasing redemption rates as you advance levels, and what’s more, with increasing cash bonuses on top of the redeemed amount. And clearing poker bonuses are now a simple (and easy) 25% of the bonus amount.

The highest Key Level to which a player can aspire at partypoker is now not “merely” Palladium but Palladium Elite. At this level, players can purchase bonuses that give them as much as $20 cash back for every 100 PartyPoints earned, making for the equivalent of a 40% rakeback.

To advance to the Silver Key Level you must earn and maintain 400 PartyPoints per month. To advance to the Gold Key Level you must earn and maintain 1,000 PartyPoints per month. At the Palladium Key Level, the requirement shifts to a quarterly period, wherein you must earn 9,000 PartyPoints in a calendar quarter to maintain Palladium Key Level status and 50,000 PartyPoints in a calendar quarter in order to maintain Palladium Elite Key Level status.

partypoker Monthly Million Returns Next Month

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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.

Last Chance For Apt Philippines Seats At Titan Poker & Celeb Poker

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The Philippines stop on the 2010 Asian Poker Tour is almost upon us, docking August 23rd through 29th, which means there are only a couple of weeks left to win free tickets in the APT Philippines 2010 main event at two leading poker sites – Titan Poker and Celeb Poker.

These are the last chances players will get to win free 2010 APT Philippines main event tickets at Titan Poker and Celeb Poker. To reiterate some of the crucial information on these satellites that we’ve previously mentioned in case you still want to take your shot at an all-expenses (or most-expenses) paid trip to Manila to play against some of poker’s finest:

The 2010 APT Philippines prize packages from both Celeb Poker and Titan Poker are worth $5,500 each – each with 6 nights in luxury accommodations, about two grand in spending cash (helpful in getting those flights), and of course the $2,500 + $200 main event buy-in.

Where Celeb Poker and Titan Poker differ in their 2010 APT Philippines satellites is in the tournament structure. Celeb Poker’s is simpler but more restrictive, Titan Poker’s by turn is more complex but also allows for greater choice in how you climb to the top and grab one of those $5,500 APT Philippines prize packages for yourself.

The Celeb Poker APT Philippines satellite structure involves a three stage ladder with a variety of buy-ins, most of the events rebuy/add-on events. The Titan Poker APT Philippines satellite structure gives players three different choices of paths to follow to a variety of Super Satellite finals exclusive to each path. Within each Titan Poker satellite structure are both Sit & Go and MTT ladders to climb, both with a variety of buy-ins.

Whichever path you take, or if you decide to try every one available, you’d better hurry. Only two weeks of Celeb Poker and Titan Poker satellites into the 2010 APT Philippines main event in Manila remain.

WPT Borgata Poker Open Coming Up, partypoker Running Satellites

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partypoker WPT 2010 Borgata Poker Openpartypoker is running freeroll tournaments, single-table Sit & Go tournaments, and scheduled multi-table tournaments as satellites for their players to qualify for the premiere event on this season’s World Poker Tour schedule, the WPT Borgata Poker Open, held in Atlantic City, NJ, at the Borgata Hotel and Casino.

The $7,500 partypoker prize packages for the WPT Borgata Poker Open 2010 include the $3,500 main event buy-in as well as the costs for the accomodation in the hotel throughout the event and a little spending cash to play around with.

The qualifying structure for the 2010 WPT Borgata Open partypoker satellites is as follows.

It starts with daily freeroll tournaments, the WPT Borgata Freerolls, awarding the top 50 finishers a seat in the WPT Borgata Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy. These events, also running daily, have direct buy-ins of $1. One seat in the WPT Borgata Satellite Qualifier will be awarded for every $70 collected in buy-ins.

There’s also a WPT Borgata Sub Qualifier Speed tournament, also running daily. There is no freeroll qualifier for these events, only a direct buy-in of $3.50 + $0.50. At these events, one out of every ten players will get a seat in the partypoker WPT Borgata Satellite Qualifier.

The WPT Borgata Satellite Qualifier has a $32 + $3 buy-in. It takes place on partypoker daily at 1:45 pm ET. On Sundays, it is a Turbo event. At these events, one out of every ten players will win a seat in the WPT Borgata Satellite.

The WPT Borgata Satellite takes place every Sunday at 3:20 pm ET on partypoker and has a direct buy-in of $300 + $20. One 2010 Borgata Poker Open partypoker prize package is guaranteed to be awarded at each of these events for every 25 players registered.

The 2010 WPT Borgata Poker Open main event is scheduled to take place from September 19 – 24. The prize package includes accommodations for September 17 – 23, though more nights will be added for players who continue to the final table.

The partypoker WPT Borgata Poker Open 2010 promotional period is from August 2 – September 5.

bet365 Poker Holds $2,500 Beginners’ Races

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bet365 Poker $2,500 Beginners' RacesIt doesn’t take years of experience to win big at online poker. Sometimes you’ve just got to be in the right place at the right time, like at bet365 Poker while they’re holding their $2,500 Beginners’ Races.

bet365 Poker’s Beginners’ Races are just what they sound like: leaderboard tracked points races for new bet365 Poker players with a guaranteed cash prize pool of $2,500. What should be especially appealing to new online poker players about the bet365 Poker Beginners’ Races is that these races are only played on low limit tables.

Eligible table stakes to qualify for the bet365 Poker Beginners’ Race Leaderboard are only $0.25/$0.50 (or in other currencies: £0.25/£0.50 or €0.25/€0.50) or lower. New players will be eligible for 5 Beginners’ Races on bet365 Poker and each raked hand counts the same (regardless of the stakes).

How players are ranked on the bet365 Beginners’ Races Leaderboard is not by performance in the hands they play but simply the amount of raked hands they play. That’s perfect for players new to poker who may put in a lot of time playing raked hands but may not necessarily do so well in those hands.

The top 100 finishers in the bet365 Poker Beginners’ Races win cash prizes with the lowest possible cash prize awarded (for 61st place through 100th place) being $10. All players reaching 4th place and above win more than $100 each, with the 4th place finisher getting $105, the 3rd place finisher getting $120, the 2nd place finisher getting $135, and the 1st place finisher, the winner of the Beginners’ Race Leaderboard, getting $150.

Interested players must opt in to the race after opening their new bet365 Poker account. At that point, there are 5 different races you may compete in, the first being the one which is in progress when you opt in to the promotion. You may also compete in the following 4 races which would allow you – in the best case scenario – to come away with $750 overall (if you win all 5 races).

bet365 Poker Beginners’ Races Leaderboard periods typically run about every two weeks.

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.

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

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bwin Poker B'Inside TournamentsB’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).

partypoker Offers You A Full House Of Promotions

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partypoker Full House PromotionThis hot month of August is doubly hot at partypoker … or should we say triple hot as there are three major promotions running at partypoker, which makes for a Full House of Promotions happening at partypoker this summer. Between the Sit & Go Jackpots, the $50,000 Cash Game Race, and the $100,000 Grand Final, players have a chance to win a share of over $350,000 in guaranteed prize money.

As would only be fair in a three-in-one promotion designed to appeal to all different players, partypoker is offering one promotion to Sit & Go single tournament players (Sit & Go Jackpots), one promotion to players who enjoy scheduled MTTs or multitable tournaments (the $100,000 Grand Final), and one promotion to players who prefer the cash game tables (the $50,000 Cash Game Race).

The Full House Sit & Go Jackpots promotion, for Sit & Go tournament players, offers jackpots of $10,000 to $50,000 (depending mainly on table stakes), for players who win 5 Full House Sit & Go tournaments of the same table stakes in a row.

The Full House $100,000 Grand Final is an event taking place on August 30th with, you guessed it, a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. There is no direct entry, you can only qualify for the event by qualifying for at least two of the weekly $10,000 Freeroll tournaments. To qualify for the weekly event, just earn at least 1 PartyPoint each day for a minimum of three days of the week leading up to the freeroll. When we said there is no direct entry, we were fibbing a bit. There actually is but it is not money you need: You can reserve your place at the $100,000 Grand Final with 1,000 PartyPoints.

The Full House $50K Cash Game Race, for cash game players, is a leader board based events where players are ranked based on how many points they earn while playing at partypoker’s cash tables during the promotional period (August 2 – 29). Only partypoker’s Bronze, Silver, and Gold members can participate.

More info on how to earn PartyPoints can be found on the partypoker website or in our review of the partypoker Bonus offered for player who sign up at partypoker through Max Poker Bonus.

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.