Thursday, 12 February 2009
A little over 18 months since PokerStars dealt their 10 billionth hand, they are preparing to deal number 25,000,000,000. That’s way too many zeroes for us to comprehend.
As part of the promotion, this week PokerStars are setting up a 25% deposit bonus up to $250 between now and February 18, if you deposit using the code 25BASH. The milestone hands promotion is back, and over the next 150,000,000 hands every millionth hand dealt will deliver a prize to its participants. At micro limits, the hand’s winner will get $300 and everyone else $125. However at the high-stakes the winner will get $2,500 and the other players $1,000. In addition these will increase depending on your VIP level.In addition the guarantees on the Sunday tournaments will be increased, but the best part? The winner of the 25,000,000,000th hand will receive $100,000 cash as well as n EPT Monte Carlo package, a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure package, a World Series main event package and a WCOOP Main Event ticket.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
$200 GTD ‘East of Eden’ Poker Tournament Monday night at Intertops Poker will be a freezeout tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
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