Category: Online Poker

Sportsbook Poker Holds Poker Maximus 7

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pm7Sportsbook Poker has announced the coming of Poker Maximus 7, scheduled to start this Thursday, November 21 and run through Sunday, December 1, 2013, featuring 56 events in that time, all with buy-ins of less than $22.

The Sportsbook Poker Maximus 7 also features more than $225,000 in guaranteed prize pools total, with at least 4 events scheduled to run each day. Buy-ins start as low as $0.25 and players can use cash or VIP points to buy-in. There are satellites running around the clock for all the events, and players can even freeroll their way into several of those events’ satellites.

During the week, Poker Maximus 7 events take place at 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, and 21:00 each night. On the weekends, events take place every hour on the hour between (and including) 15:00 and 21:00.

All events on the Poker Maximus 7 schedule are in No Limit Texas Hold’em. There are 5 main events total, all on December 1, each for a different buy-in level. There’s a $0.25 main event with a $2,500 GTD prize pool, a $1.10 main event with a $4,000 GTD prize pool, a $3.30 main event with a $4,000 GTD prize pool as well, an $11 main event with a $15,000 GTD prize pool, and a $22 main event with a $7,500 GTD prize pool (yes, you read that right.)

Events on the schedule include turbo and hyper turbo events, rebuy events, and several combinations thereof. For the complete Poker Maximus 7 schedule, see the promotion’s page on the Sportsbook Poker website.

New Jersey Legal Online Gambling Launch Update

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There are several bits of news out of the state of New Jersey as regards its eagerly awaited launch for legal online gambling.

For one, the state Division of Gaming Enforcement has now expanded the list of companies approved to offer legal online gambling when the launch occurs. This includes new online gaming vendors and the ancillary companies that support them. Of the new online gambling vendors now permitted to operate legally in New Jersey are ooVoo, the video chat company, Proloxic, a DDoS mitigator, iSEC, a security firm, and and individual, Christopher Oukes. As of yet, Poker Stars has still not been added to New Jersey’s permitted Internet gaming vendors list.

The update also includes more companies given a waiver that allows them to engage in online gaming activities as well, these including the Atlantic City casinos Caesars, Tropicana, Bally’s, Trump Taj Mahal, Golden Nugget, Borgata, and Trump Plaza, along with their gaming partners.

In other New Jersey online gambling launch news, the state has decided to postpone allowing deposit bonuses of the kind that involve wagering restrictions on funds until 30 days after New Jersey’s legal online gaming launch date.

Also, New Jersey has added a self-exclusion list to its offerings, with players able in person or online to request a 1 year, 5 year, or lifetime self-exclusion from online gambling within the state. This option is being made available for people who feel they have a gambling problem and need the extra measures in place to support their efforts to avoid and refrain from gambling.

The New Jersey online gaming launch date is November 26, 2013.

Party Poker Giving Away Sony PlayStation4s Daily in November

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Party Poker is giving away a Sony PlayStation4 a day, minimum, in its PlayStation4 Freestival giveaway running throughout 2013 November.

Enter daily qualifiers into an $11 buy-in tournament with a PS4 added to the prize pool three times each day, all throughout the week. You’ll find the complete schedule of qualifiers on the promotion’s page on the Party Poker site, but there are three slots each day with two $1 buy-in qualifiers and 1 freeroll qualifier each day.

There are two different $11 PS4 added events then to choose from. One on M, Tu, W, F, and Sun at 14:30 ET with an $8K GTD prize pool. And one on Th and Sa at 21:00 ET for a $4K GTD prize pool.

Then there are three of Party Poker’s Sunday Majors where a PS4 is added to each one’s prize pool: the $200K GTD Sunday at 13:30 ET for a $215 buy-in, the $10K Super Bounty at 13:00 ET for a $54 buy-in, and the $5K 5-Max Speed Rebuy Sunday Majors at 15:45 ET for a $2 buy-in.

There are even daily PS4 giveaway freerolls during this event: one every M, W, F, and Su at 13:00 ET and one every Tu, Th, and Sa at 19:00 ET.

Party Poker players should also look out for surprise opportunities to win other gadgets by Sony throughout the November PlayStation4 Freestival. Win a 16GB WiFi Tablet Z, an Xperia i1 smartphone, a Smart Watch, and any number of other prizes.

Bovada Poker Power Play Tournaments Offer $140K Weekly Extra

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From November 12th through December 15th Bovada Poker is giving players $140,000 each week in extra daily guaranteed tournaments. The Poker Power Play Tournaments run during the 9 o’clock hour Mondays through Saturdays evenings Eastern Time and during the 4 o’clock hour Sunday afternoons Eastern Time.

Bovada Poker’s Monday through Saturday Poker Power Play Tourney schedule is as follows:
9:01 – $1K GTD Turbo Rebuy for $1.10
9:03 – $2K GTD Deepstack for $3.30
9:05 – $3K GTD Rebuy for $5.50
9:07 – $2K GTD Turbo Short Stack Pot Limit Omaha for $7.70
9:10 – $10K GTD Deepstack for $11
9:12 – $4K GTD Turbo Short Stack for $13.20
9:15 – $4K GTD Action Hour Turbo for $16.50
9:20 – $8K GTD Deepstack for $22
9:25 – $3K GTD Deepsstack for $27.50
9:30 – $3K GTD Super Knockout Deepstack for $33
9:35 – $3K GTD 6-Hnaded Deepstack for $38.50
9:40 – $6K GTD Turbo Short Stack for $44
9:45 – $500 GTD Turbo Rebuy for $0.50
9:50 – $4K GTD Deepstack Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo for $55
9:55 – $10K GTD 10 Minute Levels Deepstack for $60

Bovada Poker’s Sunday Poker Power Play Tourney schedule is as follows:

4:01 – $1K GTD Deepstack for $1.10
4:03 – $5K GTD Turbo Rebuy for $3.30
4:05 – $5K GTD Short Stack for $5.50
4:07 – $2K GTD $2 Knockout Short Stack Pot Limit Omaha for $7.70
4:10 – $15K GTD Deepstack for $11
4:12 – $5K GTD Action Hour Turbo for $13.20
4:15 – $5K GTD Deepstack for $16.50
4:20 – $5K GTD Deepstack Pot Limit Omaha for $22
4:25 – $5K GTD Turbo 10K Chips
4:30 – $5K GTD Short Stack
4:35 – $5K GTD 6-Handed Deepstack
4:40 – $5K GTD Super Knockout Deepstack
4:45 – $1K GTD Rebuy
4:50 – $5K GTD Short Stack Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
4:55 – $10K GTD 10 Min-Levels 10K Chips

Qualifiers run daily at Bovada Poker for all these Poker Power Play Tournaments with buy-ins starting at just $0.22.

Bovada Poker’s Mystery Month Awards Cash Bonuses & Tournament Tickets

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Win cash bonuses and tournament tickets weekly at Bovada Poker during its Mystery Month, lasting between Monday November 4th and Sunday December 1st and during which eligible players can win themselves a surprise reward each and every week.

Bovada Poker offers two tiers of Mystery Bonus awards: Tier 1 Mystery Bonuses including cash bonuses of $5 to $20 and tournament tickets of $5.50 to $11; Tier 2 Mystery Bonuses including cash bonuses of $10 to $50 and tournament tickets of $7.70 to $162. In both tiers, players can also win a Weekly $5K PTS Freeroll Ticket worth 1,000 Poker Points.

To earn a Tier 1 Mystery Bonus in a given week, just earn 75 Poker Points minimum at the Bovada Poker real money tables that week. To earn a Tier 2 Mystery Bonus, earn 150 Poker Points that week. Players can only qualify for one mystery bonus per week, that being the highest for which they’re eligible.

To have your Poker Points earned during Bovada Poker’s Mystery Month count toward a weekly reward, you must opt in to the promotion through the Bovada Poker website or your player software. Each weekly promo period is counted as Monday at 00:00:01 am ET to Sunday at 11:59:59 pm ET. Bonuses will be issued November 11th, 18th, 25th and December 2nd. Other important terms and conditions apply to this promotion, so be sure you read all of them closely when you participate.

New players at Bovada Poker now get a 100% welcome bonus of up to $1,000 cash depending on your Bovada Poker Points earned during your first 60 days at the site.

888 Poker Holds $2.5 Million XL Series

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888 Poker’s XL Series offers players 3 tickets to a share of a $2.5 million guaranteed prize pool. It’s all for new players signing up at 888 Poker for their first real money account with the site. No deposit is even required to take advantage of this offer, though you can get up to a $400 welcome bonus when you make your first deposit. But you’ll get your 3 freeroll tickets just for signing up. Then, the top 100 players from each daily freeroll tournament will advance to the Super XL Series Main Events as follows:

First place each day gets a $500K Super XL Main Event seat.
Second through 4th places each get a $200K Super XL Opening Event seat.
Fifth through 12th places each get a $50K Super XL Mini Main Event seat.
Thirteenth through 42nd places each get a $30K Super XL Mini Opening Event seat.
Forty-third through 47th places each get a $10K Super XL Mini Turbo Deep Event seat.
Forty-eighth through 52nd places each get a $3K Super XL Mini Nitro 4 Max Event seat.
Fifty-third through 100th places each get a $1K Super XL Micro Main Event seat.

The promotional period for 888 Poker’s $2.5 Million XL Series is November 3 to December 8, 2013. Extensive terms and conditions apply to this promotion so be sure to read up on them before beginning to participate. They include information for VIP, MVP, and High Roller players, Mobile players, New Members, and information on Super XL Leaderobards and TrT awards, or Tournament Tickets, among other important promotional details.

Party Poker Launches Multiple World Poker Tour Satellites

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Party Poker has satellite series’ going on now into multiple World Poker Tour main events. In addition the WPT Montreal satellite series which is still raging strong, on October 14 and 15, respectively, Party Poker launched its WPT National UK and WPT Prague satellite series’, and on October 28, Party Poker launches its WPT Borgata satellite series.

The WPT National UK satellite series runs through December 15 and awards seats worth $310 in the WPT National Milton Keynes Main Event taking place December 19 to 22, 2013. The series starts with daily freerolls and ends with $33 satellites, also daily, awarding 1 seat guaranteed at each running, and one for each $310 in the prize pool.

The WPT Prague satellite series runs through December 8 and awards full $6,100 prize packages into the WPT Prague main event that includes accommodations and expense funds. The WPT Prague itself takes place December 15 to 21, 2013.The series starts with daily freerolls and ends with weekly $325 satellites awarding 1 prize package guaranteed at each, and 1 for every $325 in the prize pool.

The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open satellite series runs through January 12, 2014 and awards full $6,000 prize packages into the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open main event that includes accommodations and travel and spending cash. The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open itself takes place January 25 to 31, 2014. The series starts with daily freerolls and ends with weekly $325 satellites, that award prize packages to 1 in every 20 participants.

“Runner Runner” Movie Incites Political Debate

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The new Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake movie “Runner Runner” about a young man (Timberlake) who believes he got fleeced by an offshore poker site (run by Affleck’s character.) The movie has already sparked quite the political debate about legalizing online gaming in this country.

On the surface, this “cautionary tale” of a film appears to be bad for the burgeoning legal U.S. online gaming industry, representing all that’s wrong with illegal online gaming, aka unregulated offshore gaming. But land-based casinos in the United States are seizing on the film’s illustration of the potential dangers of unregulated online gaming in order to push for online gambling legalization in the country so the industry can be properly regulated.

The American Gaming Association, which boasts a membership that includes MGM and Caesar’s, even bought ads on Google, Twitter, Facebook, and IMDB.com calling for a nationwide law legalizing and regulating online gaming in the country. The ad will pop up anytime a user conducts a search for the title of the movie. The AGA’s President Geoff Freeman said that illegal offshore online gaming sites raked in $2.6 billion off U.S. players in 2012.

Meanwhile, anti-gaming organizations like the nonprofit Stop Predatory Gambling Foundation wrote a letter to the lobby for the casino industry calling the ads dishonest, pointing to comments quoted directly from the film’s screenwriters stating the script was never meant to be taken as a “political parable”, with the demand that the ads be taken down.

Whether or not this politicization of the “Runner Runner” film will have an affect on the push to launch intrastate legal online poker in various states in the country (the first being Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey) remains to be seen. Ultimately box office audiences may have the final word.

Delaware Launches Legal Online Poker On Halloween

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This Halloween, Thursday, October 31, 2013, Delaware will become the second state in the country to legalize online poker for its residents. Delaware was the first state in the U.S. to legalize intrastate online poker, but it fell behind Nevada in getting their online poker live.

As part of Delaware’s online poker regulatory controls, all demand in the state will be consolidated to one poker platform that players can choose to access from any of three different branded poker sites.

This also opens the door for Delaware to partner with Nevada, the first state to launch legal online poker, and New Jersey, what will become, later in November of this year, the third state with intrastate online poker, in allowing residents of each other’s states to play real money online poker at partner states’ sites. Currently Nevada has one poker site, Ultimate Poker, and New Jersey, when its online poker launches in November, will launch at least 5 sites that have already received licenses.

Such partnerships between Delaware and these other states, however, do not currently exist, which bodes poorly for Delaware’s real money player pool, considering its population (only about 1 million) is but one-third that of Nevada, and Nevada’s singular poker site only reports 250 or so players at its peak.

Delaware did already launch free play versions of online poker to players in the state as of August 2013. Delaware’s real money online poker platform will be 888 Poker and IGT. On its October 31st launch, Delaware will offer online poker as well as limited video lottery, video poker, and online slots.

Poker770 Now Offers Toast Notifications

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The latest innovative new feature at Poker770 is Toast Notifications, now allowing players to surf the web, check up on your email, watch a video, all while playing online poker at Poker770, and all without missing a single beat of the action at the table.

Next time you go to Poker770 you will see, if you haven’t seen it already, a pop-up notification explaining that from now on, a helpful pop-up notification will appear anytime you have a table minimized and either receive new cards or it’s your turn to act. This feature can be enabled or disabled from the Poker770 Settings menu.

That pop-up “Toast” notification is divided into two “zones” – the Notification Zone and the Action Zone.

The Notification Zone will show in the top bar your username, the name of the game, and the table stakes. In the main window the notification will show your hole cards, and the current community cards dealt, with the remaining positions (e.g. Turn, River) also shown, so you know how many cards are left to be dealt.

The Action Zone shows the current Pot and Stack sizes in the top bar, and in the main window shows buttons to Fold or Check directly from the notification window, along with a timer bar to show you how much time you have left to make a decision.

With Toast Notifications Poker770 now makes it easy to enjoy real money online poker and all the other things you do on the web, at the same time.