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World Cup Promotions Include 100% Rakebok, Cheaters, Wags, and Greek Bailout Specials

paddypowerpoker.com today announces its suite of World Cup promotions sure to keep poker players and football fans glued to their monitors while watching the World Cup this June.

Headlining the fixture list is the 100% Rakebok promotion where paddypowerpoker.com will give players all of their rake and fees generated during matches back to them in the form of bonus dollars.

Kicking off at the same time are the World Cup Specials which include :-

Cheaters Never Prosper - A series of $5+50c tournaments during France matches where paddypowerpoker.com is adding $100 to the prizepool and refunding all buy ins if France lose.

The Greek Bailout - A series of $3+30c tournaments during Greece matches where we will bail out players who lose their chips with a free rebuy

Playing Away From Home - While the cat’s away, the mice will play… poker! A series of $5+50c bounty tournaments featuring the England players wags (wives and girlfriends) as bounties.

The promotions run from June 11th through July 11th, ensuring that paddypowerpoker.com is going to be the best place to spend your World Cup.

“In honour of the World Cup we’ve decided to move from Money Back Specials to Money-bok specials. We’re sure our players are going to love it as much as a stick of biltong at a braai on a hot Summer’s day” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com. “We’re making sure that the poker is going to be as exciting as the football”

November sees €25,000 on offer in DevilfishPoker.com’s Endurance Challenge plus €28,000 in Free EMOP Ljubljana Packages

DevilfishPoker.com is testing its players’ stamina and determination in the month of November in its new Endurance Challenge, which will see €25,000 divided equally among all those who complete it. To take part, players must earn 25 VIP points on 25 consecutive days between November 6 and 30. At the end of the 25 days, all remaining players will share out the prize pool equally. However, if a player misses a day, they are immediately disqualified from the competition. The full list of players still in the competition will be available each day on the Devilfish Poker site.

Also in November, DevilfishPoker.com will have €28,000 in free European Masters of Poker Ljubljana packages up for grabs. 14 packages worth €2,000 will be divided up between freerolls, VIP races, and Raked Hands Races.

Every second day from November 2 to 20, there will be a freeroll with an EMOP Ljubljana package on offer for first place. To be eligible to enter, players must earn the required number of VIP points between November 1 and the start of each tournament.

A Sprint VIP Race will run over 10 days from November 1 to 10, and another from November 11 to 20. The players who earn the most points in each will receive a free EMOP package. As will the lucky two who play the most raked hands during the same dates in the Sprint Raked Hands Races.

Circus Poker is pleased to announce the launch of ECOOP V, The European Championship of Online Poker. The finals will be played over 14 days between 23rd of November to the 6th of December 2009 and satellites start on the 21st September.

All tournaments feature guaranteed prize pools. In total, an astonishing $4.55 million in prizes are guaranteed during the competition.

This year ECOOP V will also be presenting the winner of each event with an exclusive Tag Heuer watch with the nickname and event name engraved on the back too!

Lots of different poker games

ECOOP is a unique set of tournaments that include events played in several popular poker variations:

• no-limit holdem
• fixed-limit holdem
• pot-limit Omaha
• pot-limit Omaha high-low

Of course, for all players who don’t want to put up the entire buy-in, Circus Poker offers a range of satellites. You’ll be able to play both Sit-N-Go and multi-tables satellites to all the fourteen ECOOP V events.

23rd November – 6th December

With over $4,500,000 guaranteed across 14 events, the European Championship of Online Poker is back!

Massive prizes are on offer and all event winners will also receive an individually engraved Tag Heuer watch.

Qualify now for all ECOOP V events by participating in bet365Poker’s wide range of great value satellites. You could claim a seat for just $1.10. Direct buy-in is also available for each event.

The full ECOOP V schedule is displayed on their website along with all upcoming scheduled satellites. More options are available in the Sit & Go lobby.

 And dont forget, their……

Opening Bonus

Open a Poker account at bet365 today and enjoy the benefit of our fantastic $500 New Player Bonus. We’ll give you a 100% bonus on the amount of your first Deposit/Transfer up to a maximum of $500.

It’s easy to open an account, so get involved now and don’t miss out on your free chips! Your bonus is released at a rate of $10 for every 1,200 Merit Points earned on the poker tables.

New Depositor Freerolls

There’s a great opportunity to claim some extra bonuses when you make your first Deposit/Transfer to Poker at bet365. We’ll credit your account with a Tournament Token for our weekly 100,000 Merit Point New Depositor Freeroll.

With a prize-pool of 100,000 Merit Points, this tournament is the perfect chance to boost your Merit Point balance and get off to a great start with bet365. The cash equivalent of 100,000 Merit Points is $1,350. You can exchange your Merit Points for cash and Tournament Tokens as part of our VIP Scheme.

This November, Phil Ivey will be playing for his first Main Event title and the $8.5 million prize for first place. Claim your Piece of Ivey by playing in the 5% of Ivey Main Event.

On Friday, November 6th at 10:00 ET, Full Tilt Poker will hold a drawing awarding seats to an exclusive nine-person Sit &Go with players competing for a share of a prize pool equal to 5% of Phil Ivey’s Main Event winnings. Win your tickets for the drawing by playing in your favorite real-money games from October 8th through November 5th.

Earn Your Tickets

Here’s how you can earn tickets for your chance to play in the 5% of Ivey Main Event:

• Ring Games: You will receive five tickets for each Full Tilt Point earned in a winning hand during ring-game play
• Tournaments or Sit & Gos with at least 30 players: Players will receive 20 tickets for each Full Tilt Point earned in a tournament with at least 30 players when they finish in a paid position; players who finish in a paid position at the final table of a tournament or Sit & Go with at least 30 players will also receive a bonus of 50 tickets
• Tournaments or Sit & Gos with fewer than 30 players: Players will receive five tickets for each Full Tilt Point earned in a tournament or Sit & Go with fewer than 30 players when they finish in a paid position

Every ticket that you earn will be entered into the 5% of Ivey Main Event Drawing – the more you play, the more tickets that you’ll earn for the drawing. All tickets earned over the entire promotion will also be entered into the 1% of Ivey $50K Freeroll drawing and the Daily Cash Draw for the day they are earned.

Participate to Win

Follow these steps to participate in the 5% of Ivey drawing:

• Log in to Full Tilt Poker
• Click on the Cashier button and select My Promotions
• Select Piece of Ivey and click Participate in this Promotion

The 5% of Ivey Main Event will take place on Saturday, November 7th at 14:00 ET. This nine-player Sit & Go will award total prize money equal to 5% of Ivey’s Main Event winnings, with the winner receiving 3% and second and third places each receiving 1%. Prize money will be paid directly into winners’ Full Tilt Poker accounts within two business days of the completion of the WSOP* Main Event.

Winners will be notified by email – make sure that your personal information is up to date. You can find and edit your personal information by clicking on the Cashier button in the game lobby.

For more information, please see the Piece of Ivey Rules page.

* World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (”Harrahs”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with Full Tilt Poker or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

Play Online Poker

He’s back from Europe and is spending poker night, every night, at our $5/$10 and $10/20 NL Texas Hold’em tables. Tex_Dolly won’t be alone, as we expect to see Todd and Pam Brunson, Hoyt Corkins, many of the Brunson 10 and other friends and pros dropping in to play cards and chat with our players firsthand.

The action starts on October 6th, don’t miss out on this very rare opportunity to sit in Doyle’s cash game and go head to head with the legend.

Play or Watch From the Poker Lobby:

Ring Games > Texas Hold’em > Real Money

Remember, you can also bounty hunt our pros and guests for $1,000 each, up to $50,000 in our weekly Doyle’s $50,000 Bounty tournament every Wednesday night at 9:30pm ET.

Join Coral Poker in October, and they will guarantee you will be a winner. It’s as simple as that.

SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE – BUT IT’S NOT!
There are no catches - every new member of their poker room in October will receive a free ticket to a tournament where every player gets a cash prize of at least $5.

OK – SO HOW DO I GET MY SHARE?
Simple.  They will issue a ticket to every customer who registers a poker screen-name for the first time between 1/10 and 31/10, to one of four free tournaments, in which the top ten players will share $250, and then everyone else gets $5. Tickets are issued up to 24 hours before the event.

NEW CUSTOMER OR JUST NEVER PLAYED POKER WITH CORAL?

1. Create an account - if you haven’t already got one, click on the banner below
2. Register a payment method
3. Create screen-name - go to the poker homepage, and select ‘Instant Play Version – Play Now’ or ‘Download’ and you will be asked to register your screen-name
4. Register for the tournament – launch the poker room, go to ‘Scheduled Tournaments’ and select ‘Special’ from the drop down menu. Find the tournament, highlight it and click ‘Register’. Make sure you do this before the start time (see below) - tickets will be issued 24 hours before the event
5. Read Coral’s welcome guide for new players

Important note: only accounts with a verified payment method will receive a ticket.

Schedule revamped to celebrate New Product Features

paddypowerpoker.com has announced details of its new weekly schedule of exclusive tournaments, consisting of freeroll, money-added, guaranteed prizepool and bounty tournaments. The new schedule is headlined by Fantastic Fridays, which sees a total of $1,350 added to various tournaments starting between 6.30pm and 9pm each Friday evening.

The schedule was revamped in tandem with the roll-out of the poker room’s latest software upgrade, which includes a number of features to improve the playing experience. An automatic top-up feature allows players to better control the amount of cash used on each table, while the new tournament lobby layout allows players to find their favourite tournaments more easily and get onto the tables faster than ever.

“By revamping both our tournament schedule AND our poker software, we’ve ensured paddypowerpoker.com is the place for those that love their poker!” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager at paddypowerpoker.com. “With a greater number of freerolls and money-added tournaments to choose from, players have a whole lot of choice and a whole lot of value to enjoy!”

For just a $1.10, the first 50 Tower players to register for the Lucky Dollar Tournament on October 3rd will get their chance to play for top-spots in this very exclusive tournament. Register now and grab your spot!

Experience the thrills of this one-and-only World Class $1+.10 Tournament and win your share of the lucrative ‘Flat’ payout structure to add to your bankroll.

The road to the Aussie Millions

This is one poker offer you´d be crazy not to hop to. It´s the 2010 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia, and DoylesRoom is the only place to play if you want to turn $4.40 into a downright fantastic down under dream worth $13,000.

The Aussie Millions takes place from January 24 – 31, 2010 and while the rest of the world curses Old Man Winter´s frigid wrath, DoylesRoom players will be thanking Doyle Brunson for giving them the chance to play for millions in the middle of an amazing Australian summer.

Win your way to the 2010 Aussie Millions – From Now to December 27th, 2009

Play in Doyle’s Aussie Millions qualifiers and turn just a few bucks into a phenomenal poker package that includes the following:

The Prize Package

A $13,000 prize package that includes:

• $10,500 AUD NLH Main Event seat playing January 24th to January 31st, 2010.
• A 10 night stay at the luxurious Crown Promenade January 22nd to February 1st
• Entry to the official Aussie Millions Welcome Party- January 22nd.
• Entry to the Aussie Millions $50,000 Freeroll - January 26th.
• Entry to the Aussie Millions Farewell Party - January 31st.
• $1,500 cash to help with travel expenses.
• DoylesRoom tournament gear pack.
• Autographed copies of Super System 1 & 2