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partypoker Premier League IV Points Race

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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

partypoker Premier League Poker IV Playoffs

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partypoker Premier League IVAt partypoker you can win your seat in the Premier League Poker IV for as little as $2 dollars. The Premier Poker League is one of partypoker’s largest live events and if you’re one of the playoff winners you will be off to Las Vegas.

In Las Vegas you could find yourself up against 11 world famous poker pros all competing for the largest share of the $1.5 million dollar prize pool. This isn’t all if you win the playoff you will be winning a whole lot more.

Premier League Poker – How To Win

The cheapest way to win is by playing in the Premier League Poker Sub Qualifer Speed for $5.20 + $0.80 where one in 10 players will win a seat in the next Satellite Qualifer.

There is also the Premier League Poker Sub Qualifer Rebuy for $2 dollars and there will be one entry into the next satellite qualifier for every $52 dollars in the prize pool awarded.

Satellite Qualifiers will cost you $48.00 + $4 dollars to directly buy into if you don’t win your seat. They run every day at 3:20pm EST and award one player with a seat into the Super Satellite.

Super Satellites are definitely only for those with a large bankroll with a $450 + $30 dollar buy-in and are offered every Sunday at 3:20pm EST. One out of 20 players will win the prize package.

Premier League Poker – What You’ll Win

Your partypoker Premier League Poker Package is worth $9,000 dollars and includes your $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 award one lucky Premier League Playoff qualifier with a Team Party contract valued at $100,000 dollars. This means one lucky player will get to be a sponsored player by partypoker for an entire year.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Max Poker Bonus wishes Merry ChristmasAnd 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!

bet365 Unlimited Christmas Bonuses

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bet365 Poker Unlimited Christmas BonusEven though this promotion started on December 1st there is still time to get your share of the Unlimited Christmas Bonuses at bet365 Poker. Since this promotion is unlimited you can rack up the money fast as long as you play a lot of poker at bet365.

In order to participate you will need to look at your emails or web messages from bet365 Poker. In the messages there is going to be a target and if you make your target you will get a bonus.

Unlimited Christmas Bonus Details

Then you just accumulate real money points by playing to reach your target and you get a bonus. If you earn more then your target you will get a bigger bonus, it’s that easy.

If at any time you want to see how much cash you’ve earned you can look at the ‘Total Banked Page’. Just put in your poker nickname and click enter and you will see how big your poker bonus is.

Getting Your Bonus

If you hit your target on any day before December 24th you will be awarded $1 dollar for every 200 Christmas Points you accumulated on that day. You will receive 24 points for every $1 dollar that is paid in either rake or tournament fees.

Every player that wants to participate in this Christmas promotion has to ‘Opt In’ by December 28th at 23:59 GMT or else you won’t get your bonus. All bonuses will be credited to players accounts in one payment on December 30th.

bet365 Poker Irish Open Promotion

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bet365 Irish Open 2010The Irish Open 2010 is going to take place in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland on April 1st and will end on April 5th. This is a big event and there is big money to be won, last year the winner of the Irish Open Main Event won over €600,000.

Irish Open Prize Package

The Irish Open Prize Package which you can win at bet365 Poker is worth $7,200 dollars and includes everything you need and more to make this one of the greatest experiences ever.

Each prize package includes the €3,200 + €300 buy-in for the Main Event plus €350 for six nights accommodations at the Burlington Hotel from March 31st through April 6th.

There is also €800 to be used to for other travel expenses and spending. You will also get to go to the Irish Open Party, so you can rub elbows with the other players in the event.

How to Qualify for the 2010 Irish Open

In order to get a prize package at bet365 Poker you need to play in one of the $250 + $18 Super Satellites every Sunday at 7:30GMT. If the buy-in is too steep you can play in less expensive qualifiers to win a seat into the Super Satellite.

For the complete list of satellites including time, buy-in and the prize just login and go to the bet365 Lobby and click Sit & Go’s. You can also find the Irish Open Satellites in our live tournament schedule.

December Promotions At partypoker

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partypoker December PromotionsJust in time for Christmas you could win up to $1 million dollars during the Full House of Promotions happening in December at partypoker.

The Full House of Poker Promotions is actually three different promotions.

The promotions that make up the Full House are the $50,000 dollar Cash Game Race, Full House Jackpot Hunter and $1 million dollar Multi Table Tournament Jackpots.

$50,000 Cash Game Race

The $50,000 dollar Cash Game Race is made for everyone no matter what game you like to play and is for partypoker Bronze, Silver and Gold players. The race starts on December 3rd and ends on December 23rd.

The way to win is by earning PartyPoints while playing cash (ring) games to climb the $50,000 Cash Game Race leader board. PartyPoints that you earn while playing tournaments doesn’t count for the promotion.

The higher you are on the leader board equals the more cash you will win at the end of the month. You will receive your cash within 48 hours of the promotion ending.

$50,000 Cash Game Race Payout Structure
Rank Prize $ Rank Prize $
1st 3,000 11-15 250
2nd 2,500 16-20 225
3rd 2,000 21-25 200
4th 1,750 26-50 175
5th 1,500 51-100 150
6th 1,250 101-150 125
7th 1,000 151-200 100
8th 750 201-250 75
9th 500 251-300 50
10th 375 301-400 25
401-500 10

Full House Jackpot Hunter

The Jackpot Hunter starts on December 1st and runs to December 31st at partypoker. You could win one of the jackpots totaling in $160,000 dollars by winning five single table tournaments in a row.

The jackpots are $50,000 dollars, $20,000 dollars and $10,000 dollars.

$50,000 Gold Jackpot

  • Only one jackpot available to be won by playing in $55 dollar and above buy-in tournaments.

$20,000 Silver Jackpot

  • There are three jackpots available to win by playing in $12 to $54 dollar buy-in tournaments.

$10,000 Bronze Jackpot

  • There are five jackpots this size to win by playing in $3 to $11 dollar buy-in tournaments.

$1 Million Multi Table Tournament Jackpots

This promotions starts on December 1st and runs to December 31st. In order to participate all you need to do is use your PartyPoints to buy-in to tournaments that run Monday through Saturday at partypoker.

Each tournament will have $5,000 dollars and only costs 20 PartyPoints to enter.

The top 200 players in each $5,000 dollar tournament will be entered into the $250,000 dollar Grand Final on Sunday, January 3rd. If you want to directly buy into the Grand Final it will cost you 1,000 PartyPoints.

There is still more money to be win with the Full House Jackpot Prizes. If you win two of the daily tournaments you will win an extra $100,000 dollars. Win three and you will take the top prize, a million dollars.

Depositor Freerolls At PokerStars

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PokerStars Depositors FreerollsIt 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

Depositor Freerolls PokerStars

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.

Qualify At bwin For The Aussie Millions In Australia

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bwin Poker Aussie MillionsIt’s almost time to play in the Aussie Millions and bwin Poker is offering many ways to help you win your seat so you can compete for your share of the prize money.

The Aussie Millions are going to get under way in January at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia and there are going to be 18 great events ending in the AUD10,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event.

The Main Event is also going to televised by Fox Sports Net and aired all over the world so not only could you win part of the prize pool but you could also be on TV!

Aussie Millions Prize Package

Each Aussie Millions prize package includes your $8,800 Main Event buy-in, $1,800 dollar 6 Handed Event buy-in, $2,500 for airfare and spending, and $2,900 dollars for accommodations at the Crown Casino.

Winning Seats at bwin Poker

There are several ways to win a seat into one of the Aussie Million events at bwin Poker.

bwin Poker Aussie Millions QualifiersOne way is through playing the Aussie Millions Head Hunter Tournaments. Each Head Hunter Tournament will award at least one Aussie Million prize package every week. If the prize pool reaches $32,000 dollars then another prize package will be awarded.

The player that knocks out the most players will win a Aussie Millions prize package worth $16,000 dollars.

The Head Hunter Tournaments cost $20+$2 dollars to buy into and $5 dollars will go the regular prize pool and the remaining $15 dollars goes into the Aussie Millions Head Hunter prize pool.

Aussie Millions Online Finals

You can also win a prize package by playing in the Aussie Millions Online Finals. You can qualify for the Online Finals by playing in one of the daily live event qualifiers for only $2 dollars to win a seat into one of the finals or you can buy-in directly.

The Aussie Millions Online Finals happen every Thursday and Sunday at 8PM CET and cost $300+$20 dollars to buy-in. Each Final will award at least one Aussie Millions prize package.

Aussie Millions $100,000 Freeroll

There are going to be three chances a day to win your seat at bwin Poker. All you need to do is finish in the top 150 in the daily qualifiers to get a ticket into the Semi Final. Then you need collect one poker point to validate your Semi Final Ticket.

The Semi Finals run every night at 8PM CET from January 4th to January 8th and the top 10 ten of each Semi Final will move on to the Saturday Final on January 9th. Once you make it to the Saturday Final at 8PM CET you will be competing for one of six prize packages.

Aussie Millions Big Bounty

bwin Poker Aussie Millions Big Bounty

The Aussie Millions Big Bounty isn’t just a tournament that awards prize packages it’s also going to be a great event to play. Players are going to be up against ten bwin Poker pro’s and if you manage to knock one out you’re buy-in will be immediately refunded and you’ll get an extra $100 dollars for every big player you take out.

These Big Bounty tournaments run every other Sunday at bwin Poker and they reward three Aussie Millions prize packages.

Poker Tournament Strategy – Part IV

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The previous poker strategy articles from LadyHoldem about tournaments covered up most of the game before reaching the money. This episode continues how to play after you’ve made the money.

How you play once you’ve made the money really depends on where you are chip-wise. If you’ve played very tight, you are probably a little bit low by now. On the other hand if opportunity arose, and you dug in, you might well have needed help getting your chips to the table.

Being Short Stacked

Let’s go with short stacking and then we’ll work our way to the chip mountains.

If you’ve made your way to the final table there are two things I want you to keep in mind. One is if you’re in last place, you’ve already won last place, so don’t be afraid to shove your chips into the middle often and with every playable hand.

Whenever there’s considerable money in the pot and you have a plausible hand – go for it. Don’t let the blinds eat you here, and if you have less than 10 times the big blind, call nothing, shove everything.

Worst that can happen is you’ll double up.

However, the second thing I’d like you to keep in mind is that a passive game here may well get you more money. If you get to 3 or 4 players, and you still have a seat, it might be a good time to ask about a chop. (We’ll get into making chop deals later in this article.)

Hang onto your seat, it might prove to be quite valuable.

In most cases the longer you stay in the game, the more money you make. Each person sent to the rail usually doubles your money. So you do have last in the bag, and if ever there was a time to gamble, this was it. However, there’s also reason to hang onto your chair with all your might. That’s why the big bets, they’re harder for your opponents to call, and make it easier for you to pick up a few extra pots. This alone can often take you out of last place, and put you solidly into a better position.

If you came to the table with a larger sized stack, then take that last bit of advice to heart. The longer you stay at the table, the more money you make. If you have a considerable chip lead for one you’re poised for first, don’t donk off that lead thinking it’s your job to call every idiot bet.

Use Large Chip Stacks as a Weapon

There are bets that are just equitable calls. However, just because the short stack is short doesn’t mean you should call. You’ll just bleed off chips if you lose here. With the large stack however, you do have the ability to shove the other players around a bit.

When playing against smaller stacks, they really only need two choices, if you’re going to be involved with the hand at all, let them choose, all in, or fold.

As the seats at this table empty, you should also be thinking of chop possibilities. Because with the majority of the chips in your possession, the remaining players should be anxious to chop.

You might for instance suggest that they just give you first place money, and chop what’s left evenly. If you have a large stack, and are playing with very inexperienced players, tell them you’ll chop, as long as you get 1st place plus an additional 10% to cover your entry fee.

You’ll be surprised how often you can get away with that move.

partypoker Monthly Million

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partypoker Monthly Millionpartypoker offers $1 million dollars a month guaranteed in the Monthly Million. The Monthly Million will run the first Sunday of every month at 12:45 EST and will cost you $600+$40 dollars to buy-in directly.

The competition in the partypoker Monthly Million is fierce, but due to the many qualifiers there’s plenty of fish to help your stack grow.

If you manage to finish first, you will receive a nice share of the pot. Depending on the amount of participators this will be approximately $150,000, but even the second and third prize are life changing prizes for many of us.

Win Your Seat

If the buy-in is a little steep you can also win your seat into the Monthly Million by playing in qualifiers that run all month long every month starting at $1 dollar. But if you play in $1 dollar qualifiers you’re going to have a lot of work to do to get to the final prize of your seat into the Monthly Million.

partypoker Monthly Million Satellites

Most satellites are offered daily but some of the higher priced satellites only run once a week or once a month. You can choose from Speed Satellites or Speed Rebuys and more.

For a complete list of satellites for the Monthly Million including buy-ins, times and prizes take a look at the Monthly Million qualifiers page on the partypoker website. You can get there by clicking one of the links or buttons on Max Poker Bonus.

Monthly Million Details

As mentioned above the Monthly Million happens the first Sunday of every month at 12:45 EST. Every player will start out with 20,000 chips and blinds are increased every 20 minutes.

Players will get a 5 minute break after every three levels are played until there is a winner.