The Poker Blog

The brand new 888poker 3D experience has landed! To celebrate the official launch of its new revolutionary 3D software on 27th July, 888poker is offering ALL players the chance to turn 8¢ into $30,000, iPads, Sony Home Cinemas and Kindles.

To go with its NEW look and NEW name 888poker has been given a complete makeover! Rewritten from scratch, the new 888poker software gives players a whole different gaming experience and is definitely something to shout about.

Here’s a taste of what’s new:

• The first web-based 3D poker experience

• Quick-Click Beginners’ Lobby

• Table Layout

• Fabulous graphics & gameplay

• Amazing Avatars

• Choose your deck

• Colour Indicators

• Personalised Lobby
Based on intensive tests and feedback from members, this upgraded version is sure to improve conversion rates, player satisfaction and overall usability, making 888poker more profitable for affiliates.

The amazing new 888poker software is available now in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese and 27th July in Russian and Italian.

888poker has also launched the brand NEW 888poker Rewards Store, where players can swap poker points for prizes such as iPods, poker accessories, cars and even holidays! Plus, if all this wasn’t enough, my.888poker.com provides a new social network for poker faces to connect off the tables.

This is the news that poker players have been waiting for, so be sure to check out the new 888Poker site now!

Great value every day, for everyone.

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Everest Poker Guarantee Tournament Schedule

*Sundays only

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Everest Poker have lowered the buy-in to their biggest guarantee tournament! Play for $50,000 every Sunday for $100 + 9 or a Step 4 Token in this deep stack tournament. You can also win your way into Sunday’s big event—$50,000 Guarantee Super Turbo Satellites run eight times a day, every day and there is a Super Satellite every Saturday at 18:00 GMT that guarantees 25 seats to the $50,000 Guarantee Sunday.

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Four days, Four events, Ten packages guaranteed worth a staggering £4,000 each… Ladbrokes Poker are launching their Cruise Mini Festival next month! Ladbrokes Poker is planning four days of poker events from September 16-19, 2010 with each event having added Poker Cruise IV places as prizes. The cruise mini festival will allow players extra ways of buying into games in order to win a cruise package.

The Poker Cruise IV itself will include eight days of luxury cruising aboard the ‘Oasis of the Seas’ setting sail for the Caribbean on January 22, 2011. As always, the cruise will include a full tournament, STTs and a variety of cash prizes for players obtaining a Cruise Place by winning in the Cruise Weekly Finals held every Monday at 20:15 GMT, or during the Cruise Mini Festival in September.

Ladbrokes Poker are pleased to announce that Snooker legend Steve 5K2 Davis will be joining them each month for a night of Poker Fun and frollics. Join in for an evening of snooker loopy poker.

Steve will play in a special bounty tournament at the start of the evening, so get those snooker and poker questions ready to fire at him in the chat.

After Steve is eliminated, he will join some cash tables and play in a Sit and Go tournament where Ladbrokes will set some questions in the chat and reward some Ladbrokes Poker Cruise Tournament tickets which you can use to try and win a £4,000 Ladbrokes Poker Cruise setting sail in January 2011.

Remember to turn on your poker room messages, we will send system messages to let you know which cash or sit and go tables Steve joins, the succesful players who join the table will get a £13 Cruise Steps Tournament ticket credited to their accounts. They have 50 tickets to give away, so don’t miss the action at the tables and in the chat.

Next monthly tournament: 18th August 2010

• Tournament name: Steve “5K2″ Davis Bounty
• Lobby Location: Tournaments/ Special
• Time: 19:30
• Bounty: £200 on Steve “5K2″ Davis and £50 on MGR-Richard
• The bounties will apply after the rebuy period has ended
• Steve Davis has won 6 World titles so the 6th place finisher will receive a pair of tickets for a top snooker tournament
• 2000 chips, 10 minute blinds
• £5 + 0.50 buy in with half price rebuys and 1 add on
• No Limit hold’em rebuy

The Purple Lounge 50K rake races continue this month so if you missed out last month there is no need to worry because there is another chance for you to win a share of $50,000 again.

It doesn’t matter what stakes or level you play these races are suitable for everyone. It would not cost you anything so you got nothing to lose. The $50,000 rake race prize will consist of two races; $40,000 to top 75 raked hands and $10,000 to top 10 VIP points.

The race began 00:00:00 BST on the first day of August and continue until 23:59:59 BST on the last day of the month. The leader board will be updated daily on weekdays so you can keep track of where you stand.

So get over to Purple Lounge and check it out now!

Tower Gaming have gone crazy from the heat! Play in their Summer Cheaprolls and Win-Win Sit’n'Gos for an amazing chance at success, every single day!

Buy-in to the Summer Cheaproll Tournament is just 11 cents and it guarantees a whopping $1000, while Win-Win Sit’n'Gos ensure that everyone wins.

Impossible?

Never!

It’s all part of a brand of Tower’s pledge to keep you on your way to the Top. Find out more right now:

Live the dream in Vegas.

If you’ve ever wondered how it feels to be treated like a legend in Las Vegas, you can stop daydreaming. DoylesRoom is giving their poker players the chance to live it up for 48 hours on the strip with Doyle Brunson.

Nobody knows the who’s who and what’s what in Las Vegas like DoylesRoom.com does and they’re about to let poker players in on what most people never get to see. Every month, Doyle Brunson will host DoylesRoom.com players to spend the weekend in Vegas for an experience that even the city’s highest rollers will envy.

Your weekend begins the moment you set foot on the plane and continues the second you grab your room key at one of the city’s best hotels. The next two days will be crammed with VIP club access featuring complimentary drinks, tickets to an amazing Vegas show and a dinner/photograph session with Doyle Brunson.

Do your best from now through July 31st.

1 - Hit the cash tables with a vengeance. The most active real money ring game player that sits atop our Vegas Experience Leaderboard will be packing their bags for Sin City.
Register from the poker lobby: Ring Game > Texas Hold’em > Real Money

Summer is here and CarbonPoker’s Money Tree is back. They’ve even mixed things up a little, based on your suggestions. Instead of only winning cash for just 1 day’s worth of VIP points in the month, this time they’ll pay you for as many as 10! Plus you only need to earn VIP points once within the month to qualify.

During July, Carbon will track all your VIP Points earned at the tables and you can follow your progress by watching your money tree grow from your play. The more points you earn, the bigger your tree grows and the more money it pays… Its that easy!

How It Works:

1. Visit the ‘Money Tree’ page in your player admin and click the ‘activate’ button.
2. Play any real money ring games, tournaments or sng’s and earn just 75 VIP points within any 24hr period.
3. At the end of the month, they will pay you $1 for every 75 VIP Points earned on your top 5 qualifying days. But don’t stop at just 5 days…
   • Reach 10 x qualifying days of 100+ VIP Points for the month and receive $1 for every 55 VIP Points earned on your 10 qualifying days…
   • Reach 20 x qualifying days of 100+ VIP Points for the month and recieve $1 for every 25 VIP Points earned on your 10 qualifying days…

Be sure to activate the “Carbon Money Tree” in your player admin to get things growing.

In this promo, there’s no levels or limits to how much Carbon Poker will give you - whatever your money tree says, they pay. Grow your tree all month long and earn real cash prizes.

Join Paddy Poker’s C*A*S*H Army, the most player simple and flexible poker loyalty programme you will find. This new and improved scheme includes the following benefits.

• Earn Paddy Points for all of your play on the poker tables. As you play on Paddy Power Poker you  will be rewarded with Paddy Points. These Paddy Points will be used to calculate your rank in the C*A*S*H Army and you can exchange them anytime to claim cash rewards or tournament tokens. See the redemption  page for full details of all the great benefits.
• Exchange your Paddy Points at any time for cash, tournament entries or entries to their live events, the Irish Open and the Irish Winter Festival.
• Monthly Cash Bonuses for maintaining and achieving VIP levels.
• Free to Enter VIP Tournaments exclusive to your rank in the C*A*S*H Army.

On the 1st day of every month, they will review your play and determine your rank based on how many PADDY POINTS you have earned in the previous month. It’s that easy!

Once you reach Level 6 of the C*A*S*H Army Paddy Poker will begin to award you with cash bonuses on the 1st of every month. These start at $50 for level 6 players and rise all the way to $800 for the most active players.

This cash reward is in addition to being able to exchange your Paddy Points at any time!

Celebrate the Biggest Tournament in Poker With a Special WSOP Reload Bonus

Poker is in the air and DoylesRoom is rolling out the Vegas VIP treatment for all our players with a special 4-day bonus offer. Deposit now through Sunday at midnight ET and scoop up to $300 in bonus cash!
Don’t miss out on this massive offer which is valid with any of our fast and easy deposit methods.

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