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A week on the beach with the UB Army. The chance to party with Phil Hellmuth and the pros. And a shot at a million bucks.UltimateBet Poker are sending a ridiculous number of UltimateBet players to the Aruba Poker Classic - FOR FREE. Your chance to secure an $8,500 prize package and live in paradise for a week on them starts right here, right now.

STEP 1 - Play poker at UltimateBet.com between 12:00:01am ET on June 20th and 11:59:59pm ET on July 17th.

STEP 2 - Follow your rank on their Aruba Giveaway leaderboard. Climb your way to the top by earning RAI$E Status Points through play in any real-money poker Sit ‘n Go, ring game or multi-table tournament at UltimateBet.com.

STEP 3 - On July 18th, they’ll take a look at the leaderboard and award prizes as follows:

• 1st place - Congratulations, king of the leader board. You’re on your way to Aruba to play in the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic this September. The prize package is worth $8,500 and includes the $5,500 Main Event buy-in and $3,000 for travel and accommodations.
• 2nd through 70th - Kudos are still in order. You’ve secured a spot in their exclusive freeroll at 1:30pm ET on July 19th where you’ll have a 1 in 10 chance of scoring an $8,500 prize package. That’s an additional 7 Aruba Poker Classic prize packages at stake.
• 71st through 225th - You’ve earned a spot in the 50-seat Guaranteed Tournament (a $500+30 value) to be held on Saturday, July 19th at 5:30pm ET. For those keeping track, that’s a whopping 155 seats in the 50-Seat Guarantee.
• 226th through 1025th - You’ve secured a spot in a freeroll at 11:15am ET on July 19th where you’ll have a 1 in 5 chance of winning your $500+30 seat in the 50-seat Guarantee.

FIVE REASONS TO PLAY POKER AT bet365

More Prize Money

bet365 give away more than $10,000,000 in Tournament prize money every month. They have a wide selection of Tournaments to choose from, and with buy-ins starting from as little as $0.50 they ensure no one is left out of the action. Not only that but they also offer four Progressive Jackpot Sit & Gos with Guaranteed Jackpots ranging from $2,000 to $250,000+.

bet365 also offer prize packages to some of the world’s most popular land based tournaments, such as the World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour. For all of these events a series of Satellite tournaments are usually on offer, allowing you to qualify for a fraction of the cost of the main buy-in.

More Games and Players Than Ever

At bet365 they offer all betting variations for Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 5 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud. There is a game for everyone, with blinds starting as low as $0.01/$0.02 and increasing to $100/$200. With over 20,000 people online during peak times, you will have no problem finding a table that will best suit your needs.

For those wanting to practise their skills they also have a wide range of free play tables, as well as several daily Freeroll Tournaments.

Secure Banking and the bet365 One-Wallet System

In addition to a Poker room, they also have first-class internet based Casino, Sportsbook and Games areas. bet365 operate a simple one-wallet system, meaning you have the same username, password and payment method to play at all of the above with the minimum of fuss.

The bet365 site uses Thawte SSL web server certificates to offer secure communications by encrypting all data to and from the site. SSL is used to protect the sensitive information that is sent and received including personal information and credit/debit card details.

Promotions

bet365 like to reward their poker players with some of the biggest and best promotions around. All new players will receive a massive 200% bonus on their first deposit up to $600! Simply deposit $10 or more and your bonus will be activated instantly.

You will also earn Merit Points for simply playing poker with bet365. The more poker you play at bet365’s tables the more Merit Points you’ll accumulate. What you then do with those points is up to you. You can decide to cash them out, or another great option is to use them to play in bet365’s amazing selection of tournaments, where your Merit Points can win you some fantastic cash prizes!

They will also give everyone the chance to enrol for the bet365 VIP programme. This rewards frequent players with a chance to increase their VIP level and receive a selection of benefits such as increased Merit Points accumulation, special tournaments and a number of exclusive monthly bonuses.

First Class Customer Support

You, the Customer, are very important to bet365 and that’s why they put a great deal of time and energy into customer service. They pride themselves on their speed, efficiency and friendliness when dealing with any questions or queries that may arise.

Their highly trained customer service team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and can be reached by telephone, email or live chat.

Not long ago Unibet launched new poker tables, so now is a great time to check out the site.

“The new tables mark the very latest in poker software design, with a lot of new features which make playing poker at Unibet even better than before. The new features include:

The new features provide a much improved user experience for both fun and serious players alike, so whatever a player’s level, there is something here for them to enjoy.

To check out the new tables, either click on the banner below and download the software or if you already have an account, just start the client as you normally would and the upgrade will happen automatically.

ParadisePoker are now offering a 100% up to €500 bonus to every new player. If you make a first transfer of €500 they will credit your pending account with a bonus of another €500 . If you decide to transfer less than that for the first time they will match exactly the amount you transfer.

This is one of the most generous signup bonus in planet poker, every customer can get up to €500. Start playing today at any of their cash tables or real money tournaments and you will be earning points against your bonus.

Purple Lounge Poker Room have re-designed their poker software to bring players an even better poker playing experience.

Re-sizeable tables and Mini-view

Their tables are now re-sizeable, allowing you to play more games at once while still managing to keep an eye on the all the action. With Mini-View you can cut down the graphics on your screen, leaving you with just the important information you need to win. (Tip when using Mini-view: Move tables by clicking in the middle of them!)

Avatars and Improved Visuals and Sounds

Let the other players know who they are up against by uploading a picture of yourself to be displayed at the table, and enjoy the enhanced animations and sounds. If this is affecting your play, no problem. Just visit the Options menu to customise or turn these off.

Discover What Hands Other’s Were Holding

Use the hand replay feature to find out what the other players called you to the river with, even if they muck their hand! All of the above features and many, many more are customisable by you the player, meaning the choice is yours as to how you play!

IF you have not tried Purple Lounge before, get over there now and take the opportunity to earn a $1000 bonus and to take part in their $20K freeroll.

It’s all change at 32Red Poker in March. Starting on the 1st we’re amalgamating the Honeypot, Wise Guys and the Bullets Clubs into one super promotion called The Elevator – a clear, new way of rewarding player loyalty.

Based on the collection of Express Points – loyalty points similar to RedBacks and connected to raked hands – players start on the lobby floor and rise as they play all the way to the Penthouse and a guaranteed $200.

Attached to The Elevator is the Express Lift – a $20,000 prizepool linked to Elevator performance. Healthy slices of the prizepool become available when your referred players travel up and on to the 2nd floor, with the most generous chunks of all awarded to our Executive floor and Penthouse players.

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, now guarantees more than $10,000,000 in monthly online poker tournaments.

The guaranteed prize pools at Titan Poker are rising on a weekly basis, based on the rapidly growing number of players that regularly play poker at the popular online poker room.

Titan Poker staged a $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament on December 9, as part of its European Championship of Online Poker 2007 (ECOOP) tournament series. The highly successful ECOOP tournaments proved to be this year’s biggest online poker event with more than $2,500,000 in Guaranteed Prizes in ten consecutive days of poker tournaments.

Every Sunday night Titan Poker stages a huge guaranteed prize tournament with $200,000 in cash prizes. Huge cash prizes are also awarded at tournaments that take place on Fridays and Saturdays, and daily tournaments award prizes suitable to poker players with different gaming preferences and budgets.

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments. Titan Poker players have played at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, international tournaments of the World Poker Tour, and at various European Poker Tour events.

Online poker players have one more reason to break out the champagne this New Year, thanks to Absolute Poker. The online poker room recently released its 2007 Bad Beat Jackpot figures and the numbers are undeniably impressive.

“2007 was an extremely profitable year for our Bad Beat Jackpot players,” stated David Clainer, Senior Vice President for Absolute Poker. “In just six months, we introduced the Bad Beat Jackpot game to US players, handed out over $6.5 million in Bad Beat Jackpot winnings, and broke an industry record.”

2007 was an extremely profitable year for our Bad Beat Jackpot players Absolute Poker introduced Bad Beat Jackpot to its lineup of online poker games on June 22nd, 2007. Since then, Absolute Poker has become one of the most popular destinations for players looking to grab a piece of the multi-million dollar Bad Beat Jackpot pie. A glance at the 2007 Bad Beat Jackpot data released today reveals the following numbers:

• 39 - The number of jackpots that have been hit since Absolute Poker launched Bad Beat Jackpot on June 22nd.

• $8,555,664 - The total value of all jackpots hit

• $6,581,280 - The total value of jackpot money won by players

• $821,670.69 - The August 29th Bad Beat Jackpot that shattered all industry records, including the largest Bad Beat Jackpot record of $739,621 previously held by Party Poker.

Bad Beat Jackpot is just like regular Texas Hold’em but with a slight twist. When seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, if a player loses a Texas Hold’em hand holding four 8s or anything better, they’ll win a large piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot.

To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The jackpot keeps growing until someone hits a qualifying bad beat, at which time a large percentage of it is distributed amongst the bad beat victim and the participants in the online poker hand. The next player to lose a hand holding four 8s or anything better will win a large piece of the new jackpot. The participants in the bad beat hand will also share in the jackpot.

The Betting Directory have added Prime Poker to their directory of online poker rooms.

Prime Poker is a brand new online poker room which also offers a no download instant game action, for those who want to get straight into the action, using your browsers and a java plug-in.

Its poker game software is very realistic and almost resembles real poker game around the table with your friends or family.

Of course, they offer all cutting-edge features like statistical analysis of your game play, overall player rankings or options to graphically create the poker interface you like to play with.

The no download version means that you will not have to deal with long and annoying download times and as such you could play the games on any public computer in the world, if the place permitted gaming. In locations such as libraries or at airports where it is generally not possible to download software onto PCs.

Prime Poker provides you with their famous “Grand Prix” poker tournament, having a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool, and also powers several others named “Big Deal” or “Lucky Dollar” games.

Furthermore they offer you so-called private tournaments, a wide range of regular daily tournaments and “Sit and Go” cash games with limit no limit and pot limit games.

If you are new to the game a comprehensive poker school right on site is designed to help you. With instructions in the basics of the games, poker hand rankings, proper poker etiquette at the tables as well as a more in-depth history of game play, from which you can then analyse your bad plays and errors, to make sure that everything is covered at Prime Poker.

Current promotions at Prime Poker include a 50% Welcome Bonus for all new players up to $100, a 15% Reload Bonus every time you fund your online poker account with them and a $50 Refer-a-Friend Bonus when you successfully recommend Prime Poker to one of your friends or colleagues.

Needless to say, Prime Poker is officially licensed and regulated and features a friendly and competent 24/7 customer support operation, to answer your questions, there’s also an arsenal of hassle-free depositing options including (Neteller, InstaCash, Firepay, and most major credit cards etc.) which are also used when you cash out your winnings, of course.

Not only do they offer all well-known poker games. Part of their website is an online casino enabling you to play the most famous and popular casino games right in your browser. Again, there is no software download necessary.

The bottom line is you certainly can’t go wrong when you play poker at Prime Poker, sign up today and claim your deposit bonus.

32Red Poker is part of the Microgaming Poker Network, the fastest growing network with industry-leading software. Players can choose from Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 5 Card Stud and 5 Card Draw. With tables at every limit, cash games, single table and multi table tournaments, there are games to suit every level of player!

32Red Poker offers the widest range of Guaranteed Tournaments – with at least $4 Million in Guaranteed Prize Pools every month. Our monthly highlight is the $250,000 Guaranteed on the first Sunday of every month, but to keep you entertained in between, we’ve got $25,000 Guaranteed every day and $125,000 Guaranteed every week.

Where 32Red Poker really stands head and shoulders above other online poker rooms is in the level of service players can expect when visiting the poker room. Available 24/7, 365 days of the year, our in-house Player Support Team are knowledge, efficient and friendly, and regarded as the best in the business. Players can also expect personal service from 32Red’s Operations Director, Pat Harrison, and CEO Ed Ware.

Current promotions at 32Red Poker include a Limited Time Welcome Bonus offer of $500 for New Players, plus a $32 Monthly Match every month of the year. Players can also enjoy a share of the $20,000 Honey Pot and the $6,000 Wise Guys promotions, plus earn RedBacks loyalty points every time they play.