LEAGUE CONCEPT ANOTHER UNIQUE OFFERING FROM CELEB POKER
April 22, 2006
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Celeb Poker calls itself “a serious poker room with more gaming options and valued tournaments than anyone else.” In furtherance of this point, Celeb Poker has initiated the CelebPoker League, which brings individual players together over the course of a regular schedule for the opportunity to win cash prizes along with entries into big land-based tournaments.
The fulcrum of the league’s activities is its ratings system, in which players gather points for their individual performance in league play. It is in effect on a continual basis in pursuit of determining the league’s top player. That player, when all is said and done, will win either $15,000 or a seat in the World Poker Tour 5 Diamonds Tournament, which takes place at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on December 14 and will be televised nationally, as all World Poker Tour events are.
The Celeb Poker League conducts a schedule that includes three multi-table tournaments per week, held on Monday, Friday and Saturday. Friday’s tournament is a $250 added event.
As mentioned, points are based on performance in the tournaments. Participants get 11 points for a first-place position, 10 for second, and so on, down to two points for finishing tenth. Everyone else below that gets a point, just for playing in the tournament.
There is a healthy system of bonus points connected with the “Celebrity Knockout Bonus.” Celebrity poker players often show up in league events, and competitors can receive an extra five points for knocking a celebrity out of a tournament (although a player has to finish in an event’s top ten to qualify for the bonus). There are also “Double Points Sundays,” where players can rack up twice the number of league points as usual.
A comprehensive leaderboard is kept, with all players able to easily access their position in the league at any given time, giving them the chance to know at least how well they have to do in upcoming events to stay within striking distance of the lead.
To the eventual league champion goes the spoils. And the spoils are potentially very prestigious.
At last year’s WPT 5 Diamonds Tournament, there was an $8 million prize pool. The winner took home $2 million, and received an entry into the World Poker Tour Championship.
So as you can see, it makes a lot of sense to join up with the “league”! Visit Celeb Poker today for more information and find out how easy it is!
CRAZY POKER OUTDOES ITSELF – AND OTHERS – WITH “HIGH ROLLERS SATELLITE” INTO WORLD SERIES OF POKER
April 22, 2006
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A lot of sites are offering satellites into one event or another in this summer’s World Series of Poker. But one of the leaders in online poker – Crazy Poker – steps to the forefront with the Mother of All Satellites for the major poker tournament season.
Crazy Poker is offering a slew of satellites for this year’s World Series, but by far the most newsworthy of all of them is the High Rollers Satellite, in which on Sunday, May 21, one incredibly lucky and skillful player will be able to sit at one of Crazy Poker’s virtual tables and, in the words of the promotional announcement, become “an instant poker legend.”
Clearly the offer is legendary – the ultimate winner will get to compete in every event possible during the 2006 World Series of Poker. To gain a proper perspective on that, consider all the events that are going to be taking place at this year’s World Series, including No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha Hi-Lo Split, Pot-Limit Omaha, 7-Card Hi-Lo Split, 7-Card Razz, Pot-Limit Hold’em, 2-7 Draw Lowball, H.O.R.S.E., and more.
Very few people could ever compete in all of those. First of all, who could afford all of the entry fees? The answer to that question is, the winner of the High Roller Satellite tournament. The package, all told, is worth a whopping $130,000, far outdistancing most any satellite connected to a major event – and includes entry fees into all the events, multiple buy-ins, travel expenses, and sixty nights accommodations in Las Vegas.
The World Series of Poker takes place at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas from June 25 to August 10. It begins with the Casino Employee No-Limit event and concludes with the final table of the main event – the Texas Hold’em Championship, in which the winner will likely take home over $7 million.
For more information on the most lucrative satellite of this year’s big-time poker season, visit the people at Crazy Poker
Hollywood Poker’s $1,950,000 Guaranteed Grand Series of Poker
April 22, 2006
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Play now and qualify for your chance to play in Hollywood Poker’s Grand Series of Poker! $1,950,000 Guaranteed across six events – The Grand Series of Poker is a week packed with high-stakes tournaments all leading up to the $1,000,000 Guarantee Grand Tournament VII!
• 5 different $475+25 Tournaments
• $1,000,000 Guarantee Grand Tournament VII
• $50,000 Table of Champions Freeroll
Qualify now through Hollywood Poker’s Sit & Go qualifiers or through multi-table satellites. Hollywood Poker can always be counted on to bring you the biggest and best quality Tournaments online.
Hollywood Poker Presents $5,000,000 Guarantee Poker Classic
April 19, 2006
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How would you like $1,000,000, a trip to Barcelona and a chance to make online poker history??
Presenting Poker Classic, a Hollywood Poker tournament with an outstanding and unprecedented guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000. The first place finisher will take at least $1,000,000 away from the final table!
The tournament begins on Saturday, September 2nd and ends with a live tournament awarding the biggest ever guaranteed prize for this kind of event. Once there are 45 Hollywood Poker players remaining in the tournament, it will be put on hold and those 45 players (it could be you!) will be on their way to the Casino de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain where you’ll finish the tournament ‘live’ on September 30th, continuing the tournament with the same amount of chips you had when the tournament was paused.
Your travel and hotel expenses are not coming from the prize pool either! For an entry fee of $5000+$200 the top 45 Hollywood Poker players will receive both the tournament buy-in and $5000 in travel expenses. You can’t lose! And get this! All players qualifying for the live phase are guaranteed ‘in the money’ and your winnings will be paid out to your player account.
Is $5000+$200 a little rich for you? Well Hollywood Poker has the solution! Players can qualify for entry through a number of scheduled tournaments and Sit & Go qualifiers. Check out the schedules for dates and times under the Tournament tab on Hollywood Poker’s website. Look for ONPC Qualifier.
Keep in mind that there is no direct buy-in for the live event. The only way you’re going to participate in the live tournament is to be one of the top 45 players in the online final and the only way to enter the online final is through direct buy-in of $5000+$200 or through a Qualifier.
It’s your deal! Make history with Hollywood Poker and the $5,000,000 Guarantee Poker Classic!
Platinum Poker Giveaways Abound — Wednesday Freerolls, and Sometimes When Players Least Expect It…!
April 18, 2006
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PlatinumPoker is now giving away prizes at random. If you’re in action playing at a table for real money, or in a tournament, you could at any time be awarded a free prize from the people at the Curacao-based PlatinumPoker, one of the more well-established poker rooms on the internet. One player will win in this fashion every day, and is notified by email of his or her good fortune. The prizes mostly carry the PlatinumPoker brand, and they include:
– Playing Cards (Manufactured by Gemaco)
– Sweat Shirts
– T-Shirts
– Poker Chip Sets
– Also, something extra special – long-sleeve, indigo-colored VIP shirts, made of 100% combed cotton, which sell for as much as $50 in department stores. The shirts come in sizes of medium, large, extra large and XXL.
In addition to that, there’s more. PlatinumPoker’s Wednesday night freeroll tournament every week has a special giveaway associated with it. The winner of this weekly tournament always winds with a great prize – in the rotation are iPods and laptop computers, for example. During this particular week, the site is giving away a PlatinumPoker Home Poker Chip Set. It consists of 500 poker chips, emblazoned with the casino’s logo (in denominations of $1, $5, $25, and $100), along with two decks of PlatinumPoker playing cards and a dealer’s button.
The “Free Stuff Freeroll” is a No-Limit Texas Hold’em affair and was instituted with the first event on March 22. On its regular schedule, it starts every Wednesday night at 9 PM Eastern time. There is no buy-in for these tournaments but they do require a “fee” of one “Action Point,” so they are open to real money players only.
For more information, head over to PlatinumPoker, now part of the Doyle Brunson Poker Network.