Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Party Poker is 7 years old this summer and to celebrate 7 great years online they are holding a $1,000,000 guaranteed Birthday Million Tournament.
The Birthday Million Tournament is to be held on Sunday 10th August at 5.45pm UK (12.45pm New York), you’ll get 20,000 starting chips and there will be 20 minute blinds. To get your name on the guest list you can buy in directly for $640. If your poker bankroll does not allow such an outlay then you can have fun qualifying by way of daily satellites.
So, go onto the Party Poker software lobby, access Tournaments - Qualifiers - Birthday Million, the qualifiers are marked in bold and there are so many to choose from, for ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The fantastic PokerStars 2X promotion is now well under way and as the event rolls out everyone is getting a chance to participate. The First Depositor’s freerolls start today, Tuesday the 8th July, please see our
First Deposit Freerolls blog for full details of this generous rookie offer.
Briefly, use the marketing code DIRPOKER when you register and then when you are depositing use the bonus code FIRST2X to get in on this July only promotion. The freerolls are easily found on the Poker Stars.com software - just access lobby/Tournaments/All and they will be identified as PokerStars 2X - $2,222 First Depositor Freeroll.
Now.. I want to tell you about 2X Guaranteed, PokerStars already have some massive cash prizes for ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
This summer got to be even more fun for poker folks with Doyles Room’s Real Poker Invitational Freeroll Series worth $8000 over 4 weeks - exclusive to new players at
Doyles Room.
Make a first deposit of just $30 (or more) within 15 days of signing up and for a limited time you will receive an invitation direct from Doyle Brunson to play in eight consecutive $1,000 freerolls over 4 weeks, how amazing is that!
The $1,000 freerolls are played on Thursdays and Sundays at 6pm UK (1pm New York) and, as the name indicates, are exclusive invitation only freerolls for new players so number of players joining each one is expected to be relatively low. The invitational freerolls are ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
This summer just keeps getting better and better for us online poker players – now,
Pokerstars have just announced are the dates for this years’ WCOOP – billed as the biggest online poker tournament series in the World.
The prize pool has doubled since last year and is a massive $30,000,000 and that’s Guaranteed. This series has certainly gone from strength to strength from it’s beginnings in 2002, the WCOOP Roll of Honour is below, just look at those winnings grow!
2002 ‘multimarine’ won $65,450
2003 ‘DeOhGee’ won $222,750
2004 ‘Rogde’ won $424,945
2005 ‘Panella86’ won $577,342
2006 J C Tran (Pro) won $600,000
2007 ‘Ka$ino’ won $1,378,330
2008 YOU - $?
The action starts on September 5th and culminates in the ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Pokerstars promise their 2X promotion will be the biggest online poker promotion ever. As part of the promotion Pokerstars are going to give you double loyalty points as you do what you love best - play poker.
From July 1st at 5am UK (midnight New York) until July 7th at 4.59am UK (July 6th 11.59pm New York) double VPPs (VIP Player Points) will be credited to you when you play your favourite cash (ring games) and sit n go’s. Sorry, offer excludes heads up.
It really is that simple, just keep playing and earning and you’ll get twice as much as before!
As well as this double VPP offer PokerStars have promised further surprise promotions as they roll out this 2X promotion ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Everyone loves a freeroll and poker players just love PokerStars so if you are in a position to make your first ever deposit with Poker Stars this July then there is a terrific treat in store for you - $119,990 worth of exclusive freerolls!
There will be 2x $2,222 freerolls daily, with all players who make the money being entered into a grand final on 31st July where the prize purse will be $22,222 – not bad for free!
The First Depositor Freerolls start on Tuesday the 8th July and will be easily found on the Poker Stars.com software - just access lobby / Tournaments / All and they will be identified ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
This is so exciting, the dates have just been announced for the EPT Season 5 and
PokerStars will be giving you hundreds of opportunities to qualify. Last year PokerStars sent 1,682 players to the EPT, this year make sure you are one of Team PokerStars playing in some of the most glamorous of casinos, in the most wonderful cities.
Satellites for EPT Season 5 begin on July 7th for the first event in Casino Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain which will take place September 10th to 14th. Satellites buy ins start from as little as $2.22 or 111 Frequent Player Points, once the Satellites are up on the PokerStars software ...
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