PokerStars New Year Reload Bonus

PokerStars is celebrating New Years by offering all of their players a 25% reload bonus. You can collect this bonus by making a deposit between January 1 until just before midnight on Sunday, January 10.

This reload bonus is worth up to $150 if you deposit $600. Use the promo code 2010 and the bonus will be credited to you account.

How do I get the $150?

In addition to the deposit you make within the given time frame, you must also make two additional deposits within 60 days to be eligible for the full bonus.

You will not receive the $150 in you account right away. They dollars are earned through play at PokerStars.com. You have to earn VIP Player Points to be able to collect bonus money. Every 20 VPPs that you earn will credit a bonus dollar into your account.

Depending on your VIP Level with PokerStars, VPPs are collected faster through you poker playing.

Poker Beginner-Only Tables

PKR Poker is a great place for both advanced poker players and beginners. They offer a very good poker school to get you started and on your way to advanced poker playing.

If you are  a beginner at online poker, you are sometimes left wide open at the tables full of poker sharks, and it can be nerve racking at times. But now, with PKR poker you can play for cash prizes on their  ’10 cent giveaway’ tables totally free.  They have Poker ‘Beginner Only’ real money tables, where you can play against other beginners to gain your confidence and train your poker strategy.  Just make your first deposit at PKR and you will get exclusive 60-day access to 1c/2c and 2c/4c Beginner only cash games.

If you like Multi Table Poker Tournaments, then PKR has an enviable tournament schedule which alternates each Saturday. The $100,000 PKR Masters and the $30,000 High Roller – with satellites to suit all budgets. They’ve also added lots of other new tournaments starting from under $1.

If you make your first deposit at PKR, using bonus code PKRBONUS they will match it dollar for dollar, from as little as $10, up to as much as $800 with special 100% first deposit bonus.  As well as the special bonus, they will also give you six free tickets to Premium Freerolls totalling over $2,250 in prizepools and 1,500 PKR Points to spend as you please. Hurry on over to PKR Poker Now.

Large Sunday Real Money Poker Tournaments

What are you doing on Sunday’s now that Football season is almost over? There’s the dreaded mid-Winter lull that leaves you cooped up inside with nothing much to do. If you are like me than you like to play at real money online poker sites like Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars, right?

How would you like the chance to play in one of two large online poker tournaments taking place every Sunday? The two poker tournaments are the PokerStars Sunday Million with a total prize pool of $1,500,000 guaranteed every week and the $750K Sunday Guarantee hosted by Full Tilt Poker.

PokerStars Sunday Million

PokerStars host the largest weekly poker tournament in the world. The Sunday Million is a no limit holdem tournament that has a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 Million. Players all over the world sign up and play their way into this tournament every week. They are all trying to get the $240,000 first place prize.

There are two ways to get into this poker tournament. The buy-in to play in the tournament is $215. If that is more than you can afford, you can play for this tournament by qualifying in a satellite for as little as $2.20 or 400 FPP credits.

How do you qualify for the Sunday Millions

After you have downloaded their software and have created an account and signed in, you will find yourself in the PokerStars Lobby. All you have to do is select Tourney and Regular or you can type in Sunday Million in the tournament filter.

You can buy into the tournament directly or register for a satellite. The satellites run every day throughout the week. The Sunday Poker Millions will start every Sunday at 4:30PM ET.

Other Sunday Tournaments at PokerStars

There are also 5 other major tournaments that take place each Sunday starting in the afternoon to night. The Sunday Warm-Up cost $215 to buy-in, a $750,000 prize pool and starts at 1:00PM ET. The DNG Sunday Special has a $55 buy-in, a $300,000 prize pool and starts at 3:00PM ET.

The Sunday 1/4 Million has an $11 buy-in, a $250,000 prize pool and starts at 3:30PM ET. The Sunday 500 cost $530 to play, has a $500,000 prize pool and a start time of 5:30PM. Finally, the Sunday Second Chance starts at 6:30PM ET for all players that bust out of the main tournament. Buy-in is still $215 and the prize pool is $250,000.

Full Tilt Poker $750K Sunday Guarantee

Full Tilt Poker’s biggest weekly tournament is also on Sunday. The $750K Guarantee tournament starts every Sunday at 5:00PM ET. This tournament will feature 5,000 in starting chips and late registration through level ten.

You can buy-in to this tournament for $200+$16 or you can qualify for this tournament through a satellite. The buy-in for the satellite can be as little as $2+$.25 or 300 Full Tilt Points. There is a new satellite tournament almost every hour between Sunday and Tuesday. Then there is one no limit holdem satellite for each day between Wednesday and Saturday.

First Time Depositor Bonus

Both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars offer a 100% deposit poker bonus for your initial deposit with their site.

Full Tilt offers a 100% for as much as $600. The $600 is earned through your raked hands and tournament entry fees. You are also given a free ticket to the $100K First Deposit Freeroll Tournament. Every Full Tilt point that you earn is worth $0.04.

PokerStars also offers a $600 signup bonus. If you only deposit $300, you will only be eligible for a $300 bonus. You will earn this bonus through playing raked hands and tournaments. You will earn a dollar for every 17VPPs that you acquire.

The New InterPoker

Although InterPoker.com has been around since 2001, they had not gotten very good reviews. This is why they have recently revamped their website and resolved issues such as poor rakeback and long cash out times. With help from sister site InterCasino.com, InterPoker is determined to grab a foothold in the online poker community.

InterPoker is giving away some great poker bonuses for all new InterPoker players. You can receive a grand welcome from InterPoker in the form of a match bonus worth up to €1000 on a deposit of the same value. If you would just like to try out their new software, you can deposit a minimum of $10 and receive $10 free to poke around and see their new tournaments and cash games.

Also, for the rest of October, InterPoker will be giving away 200 prizes a day to lucky players of $1000, $250, $50 or $10. The only requirement to qualify is that you have to had played one raked hand the prior day.

Plus, InterPoker is on the third and final leg of their €60,000 Cash Race promotion. You can win a piece of the €20,000 prize pool. Cash Race 3 started 21st October but runs until 28th October, so you still have time to play.

You can also play in their weekly €10,000 Headhunter Day every Sunday starting at 17:00 GMT. All players who enter this tournament will pay the same buy-in + entry fee – €30 +3. The prize pool will then be divided, with 25% being allocated to heads, and 75% going towards the standard prize pool. Of the 25% prize pool that is allocated to the heads, this is split evenly amongst each player, on knocking someone out you receive 100% of their head value.

Make sure you get your chance at some of these great prizes, sign up to InterPoker.com today!

The Aussie Millions Jackpot Winners

The Aussie Millions Poker tournament has seen a glut of winners over the years. The tournament started out on a modest scale but rapidly grew into one of the most prestigious events on the Poker calendar. It is today the most famous Poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere and these mega-winners can attest to that fact.

• Peter Costa from England won $394,870 in 2003 and defeated 122 players

• Tony Bloom from England won $ 426,500 in 2004 and defeated 133 players

• Jamil Dia from New Zealand won $1,000,000 in 2005 and defeated 263 players

• Lee Nelson from New Zealand won $1,295,800 in 2006 and defeated 418 players

• Gus Hansen from Denmark won $1,500,000 in 2007 and defeated 747 players

• Alexander Kostritsyn from Russia won $1,650,000 and defeated 780 players

• Stewart Scott from Australia won $2,000,000 and defeated 681 players

The 2011 Aussie Millions Tournament begins in January. Tournament organizers expect that there will be in excess of 800 individual Poker players in the $10,500 Buy-In NLTexas Hold’em Main Event. The home to the grandiose event – the 6th largest in Poker Tournaments – is the Crown Entertainment Complex. The Crown is among the largest entertainment resorts in the world with 13 cinemas, 2 nightclubs, the Palladium, the Crown Casino, the Crown Towers and Crown Promenade Hotel, the Palms and a rollicking 40 restaurants and 30 bars. It’s anybody’s guess who’ll take the pot, but one thing’s for certain – it’s going to be absolutely huge!

Full Tilt Creates Rush Poker

Do you like to play Texas Holdem, but the tournaments you play with your buddies ends up taking too long? That’s why a lot of the online poker players got online in the first place. The games are dealt almost twice as fast as a regular game. But that isn’t nearly fast enough for a lot of players.

For years, people have had up to four tables going at once on their computer, although some expert online poker players could manage many more than that. People that could make the correct decisions just by looking for a split second started to earn a lot more money for their bankroll.

But only a select few people could manage more than a couple screens at a time. And through my own experiences, it always seemed like things were very easy for a while followed by intense periods where you have to make several crucial decisions at the same time.

Inexperienced players will call for more time so that they can make decisions on each table that they are playing at. This can considerably slow down the time per hand on the average online poker game.

Rush Poker

With this in mind, Full Tilt Poker has come up with a new innovation which will take online poker speed to the next level. This innovation is being called Rush Poker. Here’s how it works:

When you are dealt a hand, a lot of people will click the quick fold button when they receive bad cards. In previous card games, this means that you will have to wait until the other players finish betting on the hand before the next hand is dealt. This can mean you will sit out for up to 2 to 3 minutes without having to make a decision.

With Rush Poker, once you press the quick fold button, you are immediately sent to another table with a whole new set of players. The only time that you stay at a table is when you are participating in the action of the hand.

This will greatly increase the amount of hands of your favorite poker game that you can play in a set period of time, say an hour. People have claimed to have been able to play up to 300 hands of poker with only the Rush Poker table open.

For the average player, this will almost eliminate the need to have multiple tables open on a computer screen and you won’t be as stressed to make multiple decisions at the same time. At the same time, you won’t have to wait for other people to play, sometimes very slowly.

I would guess that most online poker pros won’t be that into the randomness of the players that they would be facing and the speed wouldn’t be that significant to these players either. They usually prefer knowing their opponents tendencies by playing them for a little while and usually make their bankrolls this way.

The most action seen at Rush Poker included the Six hand and Nine hand ring game tables at the $0.25/$0.50, $0.10/$0.25 and $0.05/$0.10 betting levels. The one drawback to this style of play that I have seen is that the betting on any particular hand tended to be a lot more tight then you may be used to. Bluffing seems to take a back seat when the players get shuffled up after each hand.

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