2012: The Year of the $500,000 Latin Series of Poker
February 4, 2012
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Today the organizers of the Latin Series of Poker (to live in infamy as LSOP) announced they will guarantee a prize $500,000 prize pool for the first annual Latin Series of Poker tournament. This Texas Hold’em tournament is scheduled from June 5th to June 10th at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, Peru. .
In order to entice some of the top online and live poker players, the LSOP is featuring a re-entry methodology and an attractive buy-in; for just $1,500 + $150, poker enthusiasts can get an exceptional return on their investment if they play their cards right.
As the February 3, 2012 LSOP press release noted, “US-poker players have been craving land-base poker tournaments ever since the Aruba Poker Classic ended its run in 2009″ adding that the Punta Cana Poker Classic, now in its third year, is a huge success based on that need.
We’ll continue to keep you updated as more online poker rooms jump on board to host qualifiers and prize packages. In the meantime, keep playing your favorite online game of skill.
Love (of Winning) is in the Air at Intertops Poker
February 2, 2012
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Intertops just announced its February promotions, and we couldn’t wait to show them to you.
Have you ever played the Intertops Match & Win game? Its “Heart Edition” for February 2012 will award you with single Gold Card cash prizes–up to $1,000. All you need to do to play is log in, and match the Gold Cards you earned during the month of February to the ones shown on the game board. Match ‘em and win the displayed prize quicker than a cupid’s arrow!
Every other weekday in February look for a Knock-Out Challenge bounty tournament at Intertops Poker. During these Knock-Out Challenge tournaments, you’ll get points for every player you eliminate. Leaderboard winners could win up to $1,000.
Get in on the weekly FPP Race tournaments with individual prize pools of $6,250 during the Intertops $25,000 FPP Race. Action just started on February 1s so there’s plenty of time to dig in and grab your piece of the action.
Don’t forget–there are still two weeks left to qualify for the Super Poker Event of Europe 2012. Super 2012 is gearing up to have 4,000 players compete for the €1.2 million prize pool–shouldn’t you really be one of them?
Let us know your thoughts!
Purple Lounge Poker Bids Farewell to Microgaming
January 17, 2012
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As of January 16th, 2012, Purple Lounge online poker room will no longer be touting Microgaming poker software. The move to Entraction (the online poker software powered by heavy-hitter IGT) was, as the Purple Lounge website puts it, part of its “evolution”.
“Entraction means pure poker with more fish,” claims Purple Lounge, and the game list backs up this description. Telesina, 7-card Stud, and all of your traditional favorites like Texas Hold’em and Omaha are all there already waiting for you. And, since Entraction also heads up the magnetic European Masters of Poker tour, you’ll have an inside scoop on all of the live action games coming down the pike.
It appears that the most current players have to worry about are downloading the new software and picking out a new nickname. Once this is done, account balances remain the same, and the player experience should explode from there.
While Purple Lounge does pick up Danish players in the transition, the migration will also result in a few casualties. Due to certain rules, Entraction does not support players from Russia, Estonia, and Canada. Purple Lounge has promised full customer support for these players as they transition to another poker room (even joking that they would help move them to an Entraction-supported country).
Those online poker players that did make the cut and who download the new software will be handsomely rewarded. The “Stay and Play” promotion will give players a 200% deposit match bonus up to €1,000 on their first deposit into their new Entraction wallet.
If you are one of the players affected by this migration, we would love to hear your first impressions!
Bodog is now Bovada: How Poker Players Will Be Affected
December 18, 2011
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It seems all the speculation has been proven true: Bodog is re-branding for US-players.
Since the Bodog Brand licensing agreement with the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group expires at the end of 2011, MMGG will no longer be operating under the Bodog name or the www.bodog.eu website.
As of today, the operation-formerly-known-as-Bodog is now branded as Bovada. What does this mean for the thousands of online poker players loyal to Bodog?
Essentially nothing. Unless you have an “I love Bodog” tattoo. Then it may get complicated.
Otherwise, all of you faithful Bodog US poker players have nothing to worry about and even less to remember. Your accounts will remain entirely the same, the business is still owned by the same group, an the same products and games will still be there. All you need to do is point your browser to a different location: www.bovada.lv
That’s right. The ONLY things that have changed are the name and the website. So update your bookmarks and get back to playing your favorite poker games without missing a hand.
Bodog Debuts Anonymous Poker Tables
December 3, 2011
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Bodog Poker’s new software creates a new realm of online poker with a whole host of new features, including their revolutionary anonymous online poker tables now featured site-wide. Bodog’s own Jonas Odman emphasizes these measures as necessary to create fair and fun environment for players of all levels. “We’ve shown before that we are not afraid of controversy by changing the way rakeback was viewed and starting to black data mining sites,” says Odman. “These new features now give players a less biased ‘pure poker” experience.”
We know what you are thinking–where’s the glory if no one knows who you are? As most players know, however, having a name in the game means that resourceful poker pros can use poker software (like PokerTableRatings.com and SharkScope) to dig up all kinds of information on how you typically play your hands, giving these pros an encyclopedic knowledge of the statistics behind your every move. Bodog’s anonymous tables make accessing hand histories impossible to collect, thereby leveling the playing field. This no-name-no-gain poker model may just change how the game of poker is played.
And while the anonymous tables and data protection systems may be getting the lion’s share of the attention, there are several other features of Bodog’s new online poker software that will continue to raise the bar for poker player experience. Things like:
- The Rabbit Cam. Now you’ll never have to wonder what your hand would have looked like if all the cards would have been dealt. Be warned, sometimes this information is best left to mystery.
- A more competitive rake
- Improved table and tournament accessibility (as well as new tournament formats), as will as upgraded site speed.
- A new in-client blackjack game.
- Online poker players can now play up to 20 tables at a time.
With this new software upgrade, the online game will play more like a live and physical game where you hardly know your opponents; you’ll play the game (or 20) with your inherent skill set and make plays strictly with the information provided to you during the course of the game.
No telling what implications this may have on legalizing online poker in the United States, but it certainly couldn’t hurt to empower other poker sites to amp up their level of player protection and commitment to site-wide fair play.
A question I would ask our readers is whether or not any of you have ever used poker data mining sites to give you an edge in an online poker game or tournament. What do you feel are the odds anonymous poker tables will catch on?