Each month Poker 770 holds a Free Festival 770 full of freeroll tournaments with a total of $50,000 worth of real money prize pools.

The Free Festival 770 features unlimited Sit ‘n’ Go freerolls with $0.10 prize pools and freeroll tournaments every hour: with a $10 prize pool each hour from 2:00 am to 1:00 pm, and with $27.70 prize pools each hour from 2:00 pm to 1:00 am. All Free Festival 770 freeroll tournaments can be found in the Poker 770 software in the Tournaments section, under the Freerolls heading listed as Free Festival770.

Players can also qualify for the next Mega Poker Series (MPS) when they play at any Free Festival $27.70 tourney and land in the top 10. Those players will each get a €2.20 entry into the the daily Mega 1 -1 ticket €21 GTD tourney. There is also a complete schedule of MPS satellites offered in cooperation with Carbon Poker.

Meanwhile, Carbon Poker also regularly offers $50,000 worth of daily freeroll tournaments monthly, on top of its Free Festival 770. These promise at least $1K in cash and tournament token prize pools available each day. The full schedule of these daily freeroll tournaments can be found at the Carbon Poker website.

And in addition to their Free Festival770 Freerolls and regular daily freerolls, Carbon Poker also offers two ongoing tournaments with tiny buy-ins, both Hyper SNGs. One has a $0.05 buy-in and the other has a $0.10 buy-in. Both have an additional $0.01 fee.

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From now until May 31, 2013, Carbon Poker is offering all existing players a reload of 75% on a single deposit up to a maximum bonus of $375. To redeem this bonus, use the code MAYPK, which is valid until 11:59 pm server time on Friday, May 31st.

The Carbon Poker reload bonus will then be released to eligible players in increments of $5 at a time after the player meets the redemption requirements of earning 150 VIP Points per dollar of the bonus. That means a player must earn 750 VIP Points in order to have each $5 increments release. Once a bonus or portion of the bonus is released, it is then withdrawable as cash from the player’s account. However, if there is any portion of the bonus still left to be redeemed when an already released portion of the bonus is withdrawn as cash, the unredeemed remainder of that active bonus would then be forfeited. Any unredeemed portions of the active bonus will also be forfeited in 90 days from being claimed.

New players to Carbon Poker, meanwhile, can get a 200% initial deposit bonus of up to $5,000. The bonus code for this initial deposit bonus is CARBONPK and the minimum eligible deposit is $10. VIP Points earned playing Carbon Poker’s side games like blackjack, roulette, Caribean Stud, video poker, backgammon, and euchre do not count toward meeting the redemption requirements for this bonus.

Whichever bonus you claim, all players new and old making a deposit into their Carbon Poker account in any given month are also rewarded with a seat in the $10,000 Depositors Freeroll taking place on the second Sunday of the subsequent month at 13:00 lobby time.

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American poker wunderkind Phil Ivey is now facing a new type of heads-up battle, this one against a UK casino that has accused the proclaimed “Tiger Woods of poker” of cheating at (of all games) baccarat. The dispute involves a two day period in August of 2012 when 9-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey notched up almost $12 million in winnings at the high stakes baccarat tables at Crockford’s Casino.

Crockford’s claims that Ivey, with the assistance of a female accomplice, inspected the backs of the playing cards used at the table for minor imperfections — information which they then allegedly used to track the deal and beat (or cheat) the odds.

The exact amount in dispute: £7.6 million, which equates to approximately $11.9 million USD. At the time of this writing, the casino has still refused to pay Ivey his winnings.

The baccarat variant Ivey was playing at the time is called punto banco, a game in which the player draws between two and three cards aiming to reach closer to the number nine than the dealer (similarly to how the player and dealer compete to reach closest to 21 in blackjack).

Before 10 security cameras Ivey and an unidentified woman played against the dealer in the Mayfair, London casino, starting with a bet of £50,000 (or $77K) per hand, raising it later at the casino’s approval to £150,000 (or $230K) per hand.

Right now all Ivey has is a receipt for his winnings that Crockford’s refuses to pay out. It is likely the final hand in this game will play out in court.

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America’s Cardroom Poker has announced that it will be holding a $100,000 guaranteed tournament on June 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET. This is a doubling of the guaranteed prize pool of its usual $50K guaranteed tournament.

The direct buy-in for this event is $200 + $15 but players can win their seat instead through a satellite tournament. $100K GTD satellites are being held daily at the site, with the stage 1 satellites taking place hourly at 35 minutes after each hour for a $0.90 + $0.10 buy-in and awarding 1 seat into the stage 2 nightly satellite at each running of the event. Then, that stage 2 satellite, takes place once nightly at 6:35 pm for a $22 + $2 buy-in. This event awards the top two finishers seats in the June 9th $100K guaranteed tournament.

The America’s Cardroom $100,000 guaranteed starts all players out with a starting stack of 10,000 chips and raises the blinds every 15 minutes.

This event is scheduled in place of the $50,000 guaranteed event that normally takes place in this time slot on Sundays. The regular America’s Cardroom $50K GTD event will resume as of the subsequent Sunday.

Remember, this tournament may boast the biggest guaranteed prize pool that the site offers, but it’s hardly the only guaranteed tournament on the schedule, which also features the following ongoing tournaments:
•    $1,500 guaranteed
•    $1,000 guaranteed
•    $2,500 guaranteed
•    $3,500 guaranteed
•    $7,500 guaranteed
•    $10,000 guaranteed
•    $15,000 guaranteed
•    $50,000 guaranteed

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A new draft of a bill to legalize online poker in the state of California, written in collaboration between the sate’s Native American tribes, has just been released. The bill is called the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2013 and eight tribes in all have shown their support by signing onto the bill.

This is a poker only bill that does not include other forms of online gambling, like online casino gambling. The aim is to protect the revenue-generating interests of the land-based casinos that these tribes own and operate. The bill also omits the possibility of allowing international or even interstate online poker, which means that states like New Jersey and Nevada, which have already passed legal intrastate poker and are looking to partner with other such states to allow each other’s residents to play on their respective legal poker sites, would not be able to benefit from the immense online poker playing pool in the great big state of California.

Online Poker in the USA

In addition, the bill has what’s called a “bad actor” clauses, which means that any company operating online poker illegally before implementation of this bill would be forbidden from offering online poker legally in the state after the bill has passed.

Poker players around the country are decrying this bill as terrible for players as it restricts the entire California player pool to California sites only, and only sites other than those popular ones that most players elsewhere in the legal poker universe are playing.

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On the heels of the successful $15K Blackjack WSOP Draw that wrapped up earlier this month at Bovada Poker, the site is now offering $1K Blackjack Draws every week. Just play the blackjack game made available in the Bovada Poker software (not the Bovada Casino blackjack game) at stakes of at least $5 per hand and gain entry into that week’s $1,000 grand prize draw. For every hand you play of blackjack in the Bovada Poker software you will get an additional ticket in that week’s drawing.

The $1K Blackjack Draw itself happens each Monday, and players can earn unlimited tickets into each one of them. The promotional week for the Bovada Poker $1K Blackjack Draw is from Monday at 00:00:00 ET through the following Sunday at 11:59:59 ET.

Remember, blackjack play at Bovada Casino does not count for this promotion. Only the blackjack you can play through the Bovada Poker software.

There is no rollover requirement (aka playthrough) for this cash award. Other standard Bovada Poker terms and conditions apply.

Meanwhile, in other Bovada Poker news, keep in mind you still have until June 2, 2013 to earn a VIP Vegas Vacation to play in the World Series of Poker. In addition to the $5K Vegas VIP Weekend prize package being awarded as the grand prize, players can also each earn $300 worth of bonuses, just by earning a requisite number of poker points in a given promotional week. Plus you get an entry into the drawing for the Vegas VIP Vacation grand prize.

And be sure to opt in to the promotion with the red Enter Now button on the Vegas VIP Vacation page at the Bovada website so that your poker points earnings will count toward cash bonuses and $5K grand prize package drawing.

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We already brought you word of the immense qualifier schedule for the 2013 World Series of Poker at Bovada Poker, and today we’re going to zoom in for a closer look at that schedule.

Qualifier run daily from April 2 to June 24 according to the following schedule:

•    10:50 AM – Main Event Cheap Seat 4 Seats Guaranteed (Rebuy) for a $1 + $0.10 buy-in
•    12:50 PM – Main Event Quarterfinal 2 Seats Guaranteed for a $10 + $1 buy-in
•    2:50 PM – Main Event Semifinal 1 Seat Guaranteed for a $69 + $6 buy-in
•    3:10 PM – Main Event Cheap Seat 4 Seats Guaranteed for a $1 + $0.10 buy-in
•    5:10 PM – Main Event Quarterfinal 2 Seats Guaranteed for a $5 + $0.50 buy-in
•    7:10 PM – Main Event Semifinal 1 Seat Guaranteed for a $35 + $3.50 buy-in
•    7:40 PM – Main Event Cheap Seat 3 Seats Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $1 + $0.10 buy-in
•    8:40 PM – Main Event Quarterfinal 2 Seats Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $10 + $1 buy-in
•    9:40 PM – Main Event Semifinal 1 Seat Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $69 + $6 buy-in
•    10:40 PM – Main Event Cheap Seat 4 Seats Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $1 + $0.10 buy-in
•    11:40 PM – Main Event Quarterfinal 2 Seats Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $5 + $0.50 buy-in
•    12:40 AM – Main Event Quarterfinal 2 Seats Guaranteed (Turbo) for a $35 + $3.50 buy-in

Also, all day at Bovada Poker are Sit & Go Main Event Quarterfinal, which are all 6-Handed events costing $15 + $1.50 to buy-in.

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The $1K GTD event takes place every Mon, Tues,Thurs, Fri and Sat at 8:00 pm ET for a $12 + $1 buy-in with a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The $1.5K GTD event takes place every Mon thru Fri at 11:00 pm ET for a $20 + $2 buy-in with a $1,500 prize pool.

The $2.5K Omaha GTD is a rebuy/add-on event that takes place every Saturday at 6:00 pm ET for a $25 + $2.50 buy-in.

The $3.5K GTD takes place every Sunday at 8:00 pm ET for a $5 + $0.50 buy-in.

The $7.5K GTD takes place every Sunday at 6:00 pm ET for a $100 + $9 buy-in.

The $10K GTD is a deep stack tournament that takes place Mon thru Fri at 9:00 pm ET for a $25 + $2.50 buy-in.

The $15K GTD takes place every Wednesday at 8:00 pm ET for a $150 + $15 buy-in.

The $50K GTD takes place every Sunday at 7:00 Pm ET for a $200 + $15 buy-in. There’s also a $50K Freeroll Series with daily events awarding seats in a weekly final from which the top 3 finishers will win a seat in the $50K GTD event that week. There’s also a full weekly satellite schedule for this event and many other guaranteed tournaments on the America’s Cardroom slate.

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Season 10 of the European Poker Tour starts with the EPT Barcelona in Spain on August 28 to September 7, 2013, with the main event starting on September 1 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Next is the EPT London, taking place in the UK from October 2 to 12, 2013, with the main event starting on October 6, for a £5,000 + £250 buy-in.

Then there’s the EPT Prague taking place in the Czech Republic from December 8 to 18, 2013, with the main event starting on December 12, for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

After that is the popular 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) taking place in the Bahamas from January 4 to 13, 2014, with the main event starting on January 6, for a $10,000 + $300 buy-in.

Euro Poker Sites

Then comes the EPT Deauville in France from January 22 to February 1, 2014, with the main event starting on January 26 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Next there’s the EPT Berlin in Germany from March 12 to 22, 2014, with the main event starting on March 16 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

Then it’s on to the EPT San Remo in Italy from April 6 to 16, 2014, with the main event starting on April 10 for a €5,000 + €300 buy-in.

And finally, EPT10 wraps up with the PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final in Monaco from April 23 to May 2, 2014 with the main event starting on April 25 for a €10,000 + €600 buy-in.

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The International Stadiums Poker Tour is reputed to be the largest organized poker event in the world, gathering thousands of poker players from across 38 different countries. Since February of this year, the ISPT Main Event has been running online at participating online poker sites, Lock Poker being one of them, and this merry month of May 2013 sees three more such events on the list.

What’s more, these three May ISPT qualifiers will be the last online poker qualifiers, as the event goes live, heading to Wembley Stadium in London from May 31 to June 5. Here the main event that has been playing since Feb 2013 will finally finish out, gathering thousands of poker players from over 38 countries and promising to award the winner 1 million Euros.

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The ISPT Main Events at Lock Poker this month take place on Sundays May 5, 12, and 19, each starting at 21:00 GMT.

Qualifiers into this mammoth event take place at Lock Poker every Sunday according to the following schedule (all event start times listed in GMT):
•    17:00 – $5 + $0.25 Super Satellite
•    17:30 – $8 + $0.40 Super Satellite
•    18:00 – $5 + $0.25 Super Satellite
•    18:30 – $8 + $0.40 Super Satellite
•    20:00 – $40 + $4
•    21:00 – $10 Rebuy

Among the celebrity poker players expected to be there playing live at Wembley Stadium are Michael Mizrachi, Liz Lieu, David Benyamine, Sam Trickett, Francisco Y Cota, and The Hendon Mob.

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The last chance to win a prize package from Americas Cardroom to the Latin Series of Poker $500,000 guaranteed main event in Lima, Peru later this month is this coming Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 pm ET. That’s the start time and date for the final LSOP Lima Super Satellite, and in honor of that fact, Americas Cardroom has made it a 4 seat guaranteed event. That means the site promises to award not just one but four prize packages to the LSOP Lima.

Each Americas Cardroom LSOP Lima prize package is valued at $3,500 and includes the $1,500 + $150 buy-in for the $500K GTD main event, up to $800 for round trip air fare, a 6-night stay for two at the So de Oro Hotel, breakfast for two at the hotel, round trip transportation between hotel and airport, Wi-Fi access a the hotel, a 24/7 VIP support line, gift bag, and access for two to an exclusive welcome party. The LSOP Lima runs from May 20 to 25 at Casino Atlantic City in Lima, Peru.

The final LSOP Lima Super Satellite with 4 seats guaranteed costs $140 + $12 to buy-in directly, but it’s not too late to win your seat in the event through a satellite. There are two taking place daily at the site (one at 6:35 am and one at 6:35 pm) each awarding 2 seats GTD into the Super Satellite.

Americas Cardroom is frequently running satellite series into the Latin Series of Poker, and with the LSOP Lima satellite series about to wrap up, keep on the lookout for the next LSOP Super Satellite series on Americas Cardroom’s coming slate.

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On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 the state of Nevada became the first to have launched a legal online poker site, and the first in the country since the events of Black Friday that effectively shut down legal online poker in the United States. This inaugural legal poker site for Nevada residents is called Ultimate Poker and is run by Station Casinos, which operates live, brick-and-mortar casinos in the state as well.

Right now Station Casinos has just a 30-day license for the Ultimate Poker site while it handles meeting the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s requirements to be granted a formal license.

Right now the Ultimate Poker site will offer 21-year old Nevada gamers nightly online poker games with a $1,000 prize pool and two $10,000 games on Sundays. Right now players can either deposit funds through bank wire or by mailing in a check, or visiting one of the brick-and-mortar Station Casinos.

It is no doubt that the 20 or so other providers looking to set up shop in Nevada, as well as those way across the country in New Jersey and Delaware where online poker and Internet gambling intrastate also got recenlty passed, will be watching closely how this first legal US poker site in several years fares.

Notice that instead of the old 18 year old age requirement, in order to play at Ultimate Poker, a player must certify and prove that they are 21 years of age or older.

Ultimate Poker is affiliated with the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship).

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Last week we brought you information on the Medals of Achievement and Levels of Distinction you can earn as part of Americas Cardroom’s Elite Benefits player rewards program. Those are just one kind of benefit you can get through this program, which increases the size and rate of rewards earnings the more you participate, by advancing you through the program’s Military Ranks.

Earn combat points playing at America’s Cardroom real money games and then climb the Military Ranks to earn increased benefits, as follows:

Lieutenant rank is automatic and gives you a combat point multiplier of 1, Medals of Achievement, Site Freerolls, Lieutenant Store Access, and points earned in dealt rake.

Captain rank requires reaching and maintaining 750 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 1.5 and adds to the above benefits $50 cash in the store and Captain store access.

Major rank requires reaching and maintaining 3,000 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 2 and adds to the above benefits $300 cash in the store and Major store access.

Colonel rank requires reaching and maintaining 7,500 CPs per month and gives you a combat point multiplier of 2.5 and adds to the above benefits and adds to the above benefits $600 cash in the store, Colonel store access, and the ability to redeem combat points for Punta Cana Poker Classic and Latin Series of Poker prize packages.

General rank requires reaching and maintaining 100,000 CPs per year and gives you a combat point multiplier of 3.5 and adds to the above benefits $1,500 and $4,000 cash in the store, General-Elite store access, annual status, and Levels of Distinction declassified.

5-Star General rank requires reaching and maintaining 1,000,000 CPs per year and gives you a combat point multiplier of 5 and adds to the above benefits a Luxury Live LSOP Peru package, a Luxury Live Punta Cana package, $10,000 cash in the store, and 5-star General-Elite store access.

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888 Holdings has announced that it expects to be able to launch online poker in Nevada by the summer of 2013. According to what CEO Brian Mattingly to Reuters this past Tuesday, April 23, 888 plans to open its online poker room to Nevada players this summer, right after its software finishes passing approval by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Once that occurs, 888 Poker will be available to players in Nevada via 3 different state approval online gaming partners.

The UK based 888 will also be providing the online poker software platform for the World Series of Poker branded site being run by Caesars Interactive Entertainment. It will also provide a poker platform for several slot machine makers, including Treasure Island and WMS Industries.

Already the Nevada Gaming Commission has given its approval for more than 20 online gambling licenses to be awarded, including The Golden Nugget, MGM International, and Boyd Gaming, but none of those already granted licenses have yet announced a launch date for online poker.

Mattingly says that the complete effects of this launch financially will be experienced in around 2015. In related news, 888 Holdings is also looking at setting up shop in New Jersey where intrastate online poker has also been signed into law by Governor Chris Christie. Mattingly also says that a huge marketing push by 888 is expected in 2014.

If 888′s performance in Italy and Spain over the first few months of this year are any indication, the company is set to make a huge splash in legal US online poker when it comes to pass, and present in each state paving the way.

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As part of its larger Bovada WSOP Class of 2013 promotional offerings, the site has most recently added a Vegas VIP Vacation promotion, awarding players $300 in individual bonuses and a $5,000 Weekend VIP prize package.

Running from April 22nd through June 2nd the Vegas VIP Vacation promotion is made of two parts: the cash bonuses and the prize drawing.

Bovada Poker awards three Vegas VIP Vacation Cash Bonuses based on a player’s Poker Points earnings.

1. Earn 50 points in a single week and get a $10 bonus.

2. Reach 100 points in that week and make the bonus $25.

3. Earn 200 points in one week and get the full $50 bonus.

Weeks are considered Monday at 1 second after midnight ET through Sunday at 1 second before midnight.

As for The Grand Prize Draw, there are 3 ways to earn entries:

1. Get 10 tickets for every friend you refer to Bovada Poker who signs up for an account and makes their first real money deposit or transfer.

2. Earn 1 entry each time you pass one of the three above-listed cash bonus levels.

3. Earn 1 entry each time you enter a WSOP Main Event qualifier at Bovada Poker

At the drawing, two winners will be chosen at random to each receive a Vegas VIP Vacation prize package worth $5,000 that includes 1st class round trip airfare to Las Vegas for two people, 3 nights at a hotel while you’re there, VIP transport to and from the airport, an invite to an exclusive Team Bovada party and a personal Bovada host.

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As part of America’s Cardroom’s Elite Benefits player rewards program, players can earn Medals of Achievement and Levels of Distinction worth cold hard cash.

Both Medals of Achievement and Levels of Distinction are cash rewards that you can redeem with the Rank Points you earn by playing at Americas Cardroom’s real money games, both the cash tables and tournaments.

Earn your first Medal of Achievement with 750 Rank Points and get $10. Keep earning Rank Points and every time you meet another milestone number of points (within 1 year’s time) you’ll receive another Medal of Achievement. The next 4 Medals of Achievement after the first (for 1,500 RPs, 2,250 RPs, 3,000 RPs, and 4,000 RPs) are worth $10 each. The next 8 Medals of Achievement, every 5,000 RPs from 5,000 to 45,000, are $50 each. The next 5, every 10,000 RPs from 50,000 to 90,000, are worth $100 each. And at 100,000 RPs you get a $200 Medal of Achievement. All told, that’s $1,200 in Medals of Achievement, just for playing as you normally do at America’s Cardroom.
Then there are Levels of Distinction, which are even larger cash credits available only to America’s Cardroom’s Generals in the Military Ranks of its Elite Benefits Program (Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel, General and 5 Star General). Levels of Distinction are awarded for even larger annual RP earnings, from 200,000 RPs and up. Get $2,600 for 200,000 yearly RPs up to $19,200 for 3 million yearly RPs.

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The 2013 World Series of Poker is coming up this summer and Bovada Poker is looking for “America’s Best Poker Crew” to send there to play in a $1,500 WSOP event. And it’s looking for this crew on Facebook.

Bovada Poker is now offering $15,000 prize packages to the World Series of Poker to one American poker crew on Facebook. If you believe that you are a part of “America’s best poker crew” then here’s what you do to win a $15K WSOP prize package for five:

1.    ”Like” Bovada Poker on Facebook
2.    Send in a 2-minute video showing why you and your crew are the best in America

The $15K prize package for Bovada Poker’s best poker crew in America on Facebook includes the following:
•    five $1.5K buy-ins for you and four members of your crew to the NL Hold’em event #60, taking place July 5th in Las Vegas
•    $7.5K in cash for traveling costs
•    Bovada Poker merchandise for all 5 of you
•    an invitation to the Team Bovada WSOP party

The second and third place runners-up will each be given a private freeroll tournament for themselves and eight friends of their choice with a $5,000 prize pool for the 2nd place private freeroll and a $2.5K prize pool for the 3rd place private freeroll.

Send your 2-minute video of you and your crew to contest {at} bovada {dot} lv by May 12, 2013.

Stay abreast of all the latest Bovada Poker contest and promotional updates when you Like Bovada Poker on Facebook and Follow Bovada Poker on Twitter.

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Kid Poker, known on his Canadian birth certificate as Daniel Negreanu, has racked up another big win in the poker world, capturing the title at the first World Series of Poker Asian Pacific main event of 2013. Beating out a 405 player field at the event held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, Negreanu has now officially notched his fifth WSOP bracelet, his first since 2008. His payout, meanwhile, of AU$1,038,825 (or USD $1,038,825) was his first 7-figure payday in any WSOP event.

In heads-up play against the man that would become runner-up Daniel Marton, Negreanu had a commanding chip lead of 9 to 1. This also gives Negreanu the lead in the 2013 Player of the Year contest, admittedly still early in its running. But having finished fourth the Event #3, the WSOP APAC AU$2,20 Mixed Event, certainly helps. That event, incidentally, comprised of 8 games in one, was won by Kid Poker’s good friend and fellow poker pro Phil Ivey, who claimed with this win his 9th World Series of Poker bracelet.

Neagreanu’s first WSOP bracelet came in 1998 when he was just 23 years old, at the time the youngest player ever to pick up a WSOP bracelet. This WSOP APAC Main Event win brings his career winnings to over $17 million. Daniel Neagreanu travels the world representing the Poker Stars team of professional players in events like the upcoming PokerStars and Monte-CarloCasino European Poker Tour Grand Final, Europe’s largest poker tournament, taking place in Monaco, as well as the upcoming World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this summer.

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Bet Online Poker runs freeroll tournaments held hourly that award real cash prizes ranging from

But although the site calls these tournaments “On The Hour Freerolls”, hardly any of them actually start literally on the hour. Therefore we’ve taken the liberty of providing you the full schedule of these so-called On The Hour Freerolls below, as it really is a fine opportunity to whet your poker chops and walk away from the table with some real cash in your pocket for doing so.

Notice in the below schedule that two events actually have a buy-in, although not a cash buy-in. They’re the 11:20 am and 5:20 pm events and they each cost 1 poker point to buy-in. Beside each listing is the number of players receiving a pay-out in the tourney (e.g. top 10 pays out the top 10 finishers.)

The Bet Online Poker On The Hour Freerolls Schedule is as follows (all times listed EST):

•    12:20 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    1:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    3:10 am – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    4:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    6:00 am – $100 European Nooner Freeroll, top 40

•    8:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    9:10 am – $25 Freeroll, top 30

•    10:10 am – $10 Freeroll, top 10

•    *11:20 am – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    12:00 pm – $140 Nooner Freeroll, top 50

•    1:20 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    2:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    3:10 pm – $25 Freeroll, top 20

•    4:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 30

•    5:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    *5:20 pm – 1,000 POP Freeroll — costs 1 POP to enter — top 10

•    8:10 pm – $10 Turbo Freeroll, top 10

•    9:10 pm – $50 Freeroll, top 10

•    10:10 pm – $25 Turbo Freeroll, top 20

All Bet Online Poker freerolls cap their player pools at 3,000 registrants, so be sure to register early and secure your spot.

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The latest blackjack promotion being held on Bovada Poker (as opposed to Bovada Casino) is called the Bovada WSOP Class of 2013 promotion and just like it sounds, it promises $15K prize packages into the 2013 World Series of Poker for playing online blackjack, not through Bovada Casino, but through your Bovada Poker software. And yes, there is an online poker freeroll tournament involved as well.

Bovada Poker members have between Tuesday, April 9 and Monday, April 29 to play just 21 hands of blackjack through the Bovada Poker software. You must enter the promotion by clicking the red Enter Now button on the Bovada Poker website or through your Bovada Poker software before you start playing, though, or your hands won’t be counted toward meeting the requirements.

Once you play those 21 blackjack hands, Bovada Poker will award you a seat in a Private Freeroll tournament taking place Saturday, May 4 at 2:05 ET with the grand prize being a $15,000 Vegas Prize Package that includes entry into the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event (worth $10K), plus $5K in cash to apply toward hotel and travel, an invite to a private party while you’re in Vegas and access to an exclusive suite. The runners-up, meanwhile, will cash in a combined prize pool of more than $5,800, with 2nd place getting the top cash prize of $2,100, 3rd getting $1,000…all the way down to 14th through 21st places, who each get $21 cash for their efforts.

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