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Poker Sites Updates - Latest Poker Promotions February 2, 2012

Online poker sites constantly have new promotions, tournaments and bonuses on offer to their players. At PokerSites.com you will find a wealth of information to help you choose the best poker site to play at. Below is a weekly roundup of the latest news and promotions from each of the best poker sites.

Titan Poker's Team Titan – their stable of professional poker players associated with the site – continues to gain attention by winning awards around the world. The latest Titan player to gain recognition is Sam Trickett, who won the 2011 Player of the Year award at the European Poker Awards this week. Trickett won over $4.5 million in live tournament play in 2011.
If you're looking to be one of the top players of 2012, you can begin by taking part in the Titan Turbo cash game races in February. Each week, from Wednesday to Sunday, the most profitable cash game players at various stakes levels can earn a share of $2,000 in prizes. To participate, you'll need to opt in on the Titan Poker website.

Have you ever wanted to go one-on-one with a professional poker player? Lock Poker Elite Pro Jared "Jhub" Hubbard is giving players the chance to do so by answering trivia questions on his personal website. The first person to correctly answer each question can play a match at any stakes with Hubbard – on Lock Poker, of course. If you manage to win your match against Hubbard, he'll even give you 30 minutes of free coaching on any poker topic you desire.

888 Poker may be taking further steps to position themselves as a player in the United States' online poker market. According to reports, Dragonfish - a subsidiary of 888 Poker - will be used to power some poker brands owned by Caesars Entertainment, the gambling giant based in Las Vegas. Should the United States create a regulated online poker market, this would put 888 in prime position to capitalize on that.
Players at 888 Poker have their own opportunities to capitalize on. Each week, the site is hosting an LG 2012 Mega Event in which you can win numerous LG prizes, like 3D televisions, smartphones, and more. New players can even earn a free seat into one of these tournaments by using the promo code LG2012 on their first deposit.

The rake free tournament promotion may be over at Party Poker, but February has new deals in story for their players. This month sees the return of the Card Rush promotion. For every 15 Party Points earned by players in the poker room, they'll receive a Card Rush scratch-off card. These cards can award cash, freeroll entries, free Party Points, or points towards the Card Rush Race, which will award more bonus cash to the top 200 finishers.

Executives at Full Tilt Poker got some good news this week, as a U.S. District Judge dismissed many of the RICO charges filed against them as part of a class-action lawsuit by Full Tilt players. The judge said it was unclear as to whether one or more individual had decided to cut off player withdrawals, or whether the inability to pay was caused by the Black Friday indictments themselves. Similarly, the suits against individual Full Tilt Poker pros were also dismissed. However, claims against various units of Full Tilt Poker's businesses were allowed to proceed.

There's still a month to go before the Poker Maximus series begins on the Merge Poker Network, but there's plenty to do at Carbon Poker in the meantime. All month long, players on Carbon Poker can play in one of three daily qualifiers for a $25,000 freeroll that will be held on Sunday, February 26 at 14:00. Finish in the top 10 in any of these qualifiers, and you're in! You can also qualify through special tournaments held each day for players who have earned a sufficient number of VIP Points.

Bodog have entered a new phase with some new software to support their great sign-up bonuses. Folowing their split from their US licensee (who has since moved on to become Bovada) they are still offering some great tournmanet action with $2.5 million in guaranteed tournaments each month.

It's nearly that time again - PokerStars is about to hit yet another milestone hand. This time, the site is closing in on dealing the 75-billionth hand in the history of the room. The faithful hand is expected to be dealt sometime on February 3, though it's difficult to determine exactly when the hand will occur.
As usual, this means there will be lots of rewards given out to players on various hands leading up to the milestone. Players in each milestone hand will earn a flat reward, as well as bonus prizes based on the number of VPPs they have recently earned. It all culminates in hand number 75,000,000,000, which will reward at least $20,000 to the winner, along with smaller prizes to other players who participate in the hand.

Poker Sites Updates - Latest Poker Promotions January 26, 2012

If you log into Titan Poker, you'll notice a huge upgrade in their poker software. The enhanced poker software features an improve menu system, better graphics in the lobby, and a quick seating function that makes it easy to quickly get into a game that meets your specifications. All of this comes in a new, higher resolution package, allowing Titan to fit more on the screen at one time. Best of all, if you don't like the new version of the software, it's simple to switch back to the older style with a single click.

Lock Poker is sponsoring the 2012 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year race, a competition in which players earn points through live tournament performances. The early leader in this race is John Dibella, who won the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure Main Event earlier this month.
While you can't earn Player of the Year points in online play, Lock Poker does have plenty of big tournaments in which you can boost your bankroll. Each week, Lock Poker hosts a $109 buy-in tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. This great tournament begins each Sunday at 15:00.

One of the biggest stars in poker faced off against one of the biggest legends in cricket at the 2012 Aussie Millions. 888 Poker's Shane Warne – the former Australian international – was all in against Phil Ivey himself, holding a set of aces on an ace-queen-jack flop (all hearts). But when Ivey called, it turned out he held the 8-6 of hearts for a flopped flush, which held up, leaving Warne with just 300 chips and effectively ending his tournament.
Hopefully, you'll have better luck than Warne if you decide to play in 888 Poker's Daily Challenge series. These tournaments start each day at 20:35, and offer guaranteed prize pools of up to $100,000 – a total of $1 million guaranteed each month.

Party Poker has announced plans to stage the fifth installment of Party Poker Premier League Poker. The event will take place in April at the Montesino Casino in Vienna, and will feature many of the world's top players, including Tony G, Vanessa Selbst and Andy Frankenberger. The tournament will take place as a special World Poker Tour event.
One great way to check out the action is to play in the WPT Vienna Main Event. You can win a $4,700 seat, hotel accommodations and $900 in spending money by playing in qualifiers that are now running daily on Party Poker.

This has been a quiet week for Full Tilt, but not for other poker sites that have been affected by scandals. Eight players have filed suit against Excapsa Software – the company that previously owned the Ultimate Bet poker site. The RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) suit alleges that Ultimate Bet embezzled $20 million or more from players through their version of the "superuser" scandal, saying that it was a planned operation originating from within the company. The plaintiffs include some well known poker pros, including Brad Booth and Dustin Woolf.

Carbon Poker announced its first ever major tournament series, which will be run throughout the month of March. The series, known as Poker Maximus, will begin on March 4 and last through March 25. The tournament series will feature over $1.5 million in guaranteed prizes, with tournament buy-ins ranging from just $1 to $530. In addition, the tournament series will have its own leaderboard system that will provide another $25,000 in bonus prizes. Satellites for the higher buy-in tournaments begin this week.

Bodog livens up your Sunday with a $100,000 guarantee that kicks off each week at 16:00. And if you need an extra dose of tournament action, but are finding your bankroll a bit depleted, check out the two $7,500 freerolls Bodog runs each month.

With the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure having wrapped up, the action now moves back to the online world, where PokerStars' Turbo Championship of Online Poker began this past week. This high speed tournament series features 50 tournaments over a ten day period, culminating in some huge events on the final days of the series. A $700 no-limit hold'em tournament will feature a huge $1.5 million in guaranteed prizes, and high rollers will want to get in on a $2,100 buy-in tournament on Sunday, January 29.
If you don't yet have an account at PokerStars, you can get a great bonus offer that should give you the bankroll you need to play in the TCOOP. Currently, PokerStars is offering a 100% bonus of up to $600 for new players, and you can get that $600 in bonus money on up to three separate deposits over the first 90 days after you join the site.

Poker Sites Updates - Latest Poker Promotions January 19, 2012

It's time to start gearing up for one of Titan Poker's most popular promotions: the Monthly Bonanza. This monthly tournament is back for 2012, as the first edition of the year has been scheduled for January 31 at 20:30. Players can buy into this tournament directly for 2,000 points, or can participate in a number of different satellite tournaments: free tournaments that award seats to the top two finishers, a 10 point rebuy event held several times a day that awards five seats, or the Depositors satellite that is available each Monday to players who have made a deposit during the previous week. This satellite is the most promising option, as it awards 50 seats into the Monthly Bonanza!

Lock Poker continues to expand their Lock Pro Elite team, now adding American tournament player Melanie "Callisto" Weisner to their ranks. Weisner may not be a household name, but she is ranked among the Top 100 live tournament pros in the world by the Global Poker Index, and has become one of the most feared heads-up tournament players in the online world.
If you'd like to join Weisner at Lock Poker, now is the perfect time to join up. Currently, Lock is offering a 150% matching bonus of up to $750 to players who make their first deposit into a new Lock Poker account.

888 Poker is giving depositors the chance to get involved in its LG 2012 giveaway. There is over $5,000 in prizes to be won and all you need to do is put some cash into your account and you gain a free entry.

If you haven't taken advantage of Party Poker's rake-free tournament promotion, there's still time to jump into the action. Until the end of January 31, there will be absolutely no rake or entry fees charged on multi-table tournaments at Party Poker, cutting your costs to play in these events by nearly 10% on average.
As an additional incentive to play in these events, Party Poker is offering a 100% reload bonus of up to $100 throughout the month of January for players who deposit using the bonus code RAKEFREE. In addition, if you use that code, you'll earn a seat into a $50,000 freeroll on February 5.

While there has been little news directly related to Full Tilt Poker this week, one of the other men indicted in the Black Friday scandal has chosen to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy. Ira Rubin was one of the payment processors for Full Tilt Poker and other sites doing business in the United States, and entered a guilty plea to three charges of conspiracy that could earn him up to two years in prison.

Last week, we talked about the huge Bad Beat Jackpot that was quickly growing towards the $1 million mark on the Merge Gaming Network (which includes Carbon Poker). That jackpot was hit this week, when a player named "123maryc" won a hand with four queens over the quad sevens held by "Eulson." When the jackpot was triggered, the total amount had reached just over $1 million. Eulson took home just over $355,000 of the amount, while "123maryc" was the recipient of over $177,000. The other players at the table each won $25,000 for being at the table when the massive jackpot was hit.
If you'd like your own chance at winning a massive Bad Beat Jackpot, there's still plenty of money to be won at Carbon Poker. The jackpot has started at well over $200,000, and will continue to grow until the next lucky player suffers a qualifying bad beat.

It's difficult to say just how Bodog's recent changes have affected their bottom line, but the move to protect casual or recreational players has definitely made waves in the online poker world. Between the addition of anonymous tables and preventing the use of heads-up displays, many of the tools used by professional online players are now unavailable at Bodog, presumably giving casual players a better chance at winning. If you'd like to see just what kind of effect these changes are having, Bodog is currently offering a 100% bonus of up to $1,000 to new players.

PokerStars' CEO Gabi Campos announced that he'll be stepping down from that position effective February 1, ending a short but successful reign as the leading executive of the poker giant. Campos began as the PokerStars CEO in October 2010, meaning he was only on the job for 15 months. Previously, Campos had been the managing director of Dragonfish, part of 888 Poker. The news comes on the heels of John Duthie's exit as CEO of the European Poker Tour, which is operated by PokerStars.

Poker Sites Updates - Latest Poker Promotions January 12, 2012

Don't miss the Winter Edition of the Titan Time promotion which continues throughout January. In this promotion, players have the opportunity to win a piece of a $3,000 prize pool each week, with $500 going to the top player. In order to win, you'll need to opt into the contest and play in cash games at Titan Poker from Money to Wednesday each week. A total of 50 players will earn cash awards each week, with the next race beginning on January 16.

Lock Poker continues to grab some of the best young players in poker to be a part of their Lock Pro Elite team. The latest addition is Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen, a 23-year-old Belgian pro who has already won over $1.4 million in his young career. You might just run into Kevin if you play in Lock's weekly $100,000 guaranteed tournament, held each Sunday at 15:00.

888 Holdings – the parent company for 888 Poker – is rumored to be considering applying for an online poker license in Nevada, which would give the company a foothold in the US market. But while 888 may not hit the States for a while yet, players currently on the site can play in the Sunday Challenge, held each Sunday at 20:35. The prize pool guarantee for this event has recently doubled to $100,000, making it an even more attractive weekly event.

Party Poker's rake free tournament promotion has proven to be extremely popular, and if you haven't had a chance to take advantage of it yet, there's still time to get in on the action. From now until the end of January, every multi-table tournament on Party Poker will have the entry fee waived, meaning that every dollar of your buy-in will go directly into the prize pool. Depending on the size of the tournaments you enjoy playing in, this could cut your cost per tournament by up to 10%.

While the fine details of the agreements between Full Tilt Poker, Groupe Bernard Tapie and the US Department of Justice are still being hammered out, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission has released a statement alerting players that they no longer have any authority to arbitrate disputes between the poker site and its players. The AGCC made no mention of the proposed buyout, in which GBT will reportedly pay $80 million to the DOJ in exchange for Full Tilt Poker's assets. The $80 million will likely be used to help reimburse American players who had accounts at Full Tilt.

If you're looking to move some holiday cash into your Carbon Poker account, the site has created a 10% Instant Reload Bonus to kick off the New Year. Whether you already have a Carbon Poker account, or you're simply considering joining, there's no better time to play here: the Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot is now worth more than $925,000! Will the jackpot be hit this week, or could we soon be looking at a million dollar prize? We'll be keeping a close eye on what could become one of the largest prizes ever awarded in online poker.

If you're living in the United States, you may have noticed that you can no longer access Bodog's poker room, or their other gambling sites. But don't fear: you can still get the same great poker action by moving over to Bovada.lv.
Bovada has plenty to offer in its own right, including a King of the Felt promotion that gives players a shot to win a $1,000 heads up challenge. Simply place in three sit and go tournaments during a week, and you'll earn an entry into the drawing for the King of the Felt heads up challenge, where you'll take on the reigning King of the Felt. Win the match, and you'll earn $1,000 and become the new king. If you can defend your title ten times, you'll also win a seat in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event.

This week, PokerStars has been making waves both online and in live poker. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is underway, and we've already seen a huge win by Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, one of the most popular high stakes online poker pros in the world. Meanwihle, Randy "nanonoko" Lew spent his time at the PCA setting a Guinness World Record for the most online hands played profitably over an eight-hour session, playing 23,493 hands and showing a profit of $7.65.
On the virtual side of things, PokerStars has made changes to their VPP allocation methods, switching to a "contributed" model they feel will provide a more equitable distribution of points to each player. If you're seeing yourself earn more VPPs and FPPs, you might want to check out the VIP store, where PokerStars has marked down many items during their 2012 January Sale.