WPT France Entry Celebrated at Party Poker

The World Poker Tour has been all over the place in Europe, but one country has been notably absent from the proceedings at Party Poker This country is of course France, but recent procurements in the legal structure of the country have started to allow poker events to take place within its borders.

As a result, the World Poker Tour has added a stop in Amneville to the overall tournament tour and this in turn will allow the French population to get more directly involved in the expanding poker activities taking place all over the world.

This year, WPT Amneville will be starting on November 2nd and will run through to November 6th In order to celebrate this newfound interest in their poker tournament series, Party Poker ahs decided to pull out all of the stops and host one of the most involved satellite tournament structures available for any WPT event in their history At least, this is true relative to the size of the event in its first year.

Players that are able to wade through the satellite structure at Party Poker will receive a WPT Amneville prize package that is worth $7000 This includes not only the $4500 that is needed for a buy-in at the event, but it also includes money on top of that for you to spend on accommodations, travel and spending money during the times when you are in the city but not necessarily playing poker at one of the tournament tables.

Another thing that players will get from this prize package is the hospitality of the Party Poker online poker organization, something that has been world renowned for some time especially as it relates to their World Poker Tour festivities.

This time around however, Party Poker will be pulling out all the stops to make sure that their online poker operation goes as smoothly as possible A successful 2010 WPT Amneville festival will certainly give rise to more stops in France in the future and that of course is what Party Poker is after A good investment for the present that allows players to truly appreciate this tournament will lead to even better things down the road.

World Poker Tour Festa al Lago big at Party Poker

The World Poker Tour Festa al Lago tournament is one of the more popular ones each year, partially because of the fact that it comes with an impressive prize pool that numbers in the seven or even eight figure range and partially because it is run at the Las Vegas Bellagio, one of the legendary casinos of the world.

Whatever the reason, people do seem to take an intense liking to this tournament and Party Poker has recognized that enough to run a series of new online poker promotions that deal with the Festa al Lago.

Players can start from the bottom playing for $2 or less in tournaments that allow them to go through different steps until they get into a qualifier that allows them to win a prize package by winning the tournament. In this way, it is possible for you to parlay nothing, $2 or $9 into a seat at the event and potentially a six-figure payday if you are able to get high enough in the final tournament rankings. Players going from the freeroll and $2 qualifiers can win their way into the $9 qualifier and from that point you have a chance of exactly 10% to get into a tournament that offers one of the prize packages.

If you’d prefer to skip all of that and just take a shot at the prize package right away, you can enter the daily satellite tournament that allows you to get in for $75 + $5. The same 10% number applies here to players that get directly to the full $700 + $50 satellite taking place each Sunday which awards at least one prize package per tournament.

Any players winning a prize package will be claiming a prize worth $14,000 in value. This includes not only the buy-in for the tournament which is worth $10,000 + $300, but also an extra $2000 to spend and seven nights at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas. Overall, it is one of the juicier prize packages offered by Party Poker and there is no reason why someone can’t parlay a single-digit buy-in into one of the biggest tournament stakes in history.

Play Aces Poker Offering Players the Full Package

Play Aces Poker has become an online poker site of noteworthiness lately through not only its creation out of other online poker sites like Sportsbook Poker, but also the fact that its tumultuous creation has apparently allowed it to prosper.

Another reason that Play Aces Poker has the ability to prosper in these tough economic times is the fact that its software package appears to be rich in features. Some of these features are relatively standard in the world of modern online poker, but some of them are not.

In the standard column would be things like the bad beat jackpot, although the one with Play Aces Poker activates the jackpot at a loss with four of a kind in sevens or higher, something that is a bit lower than many other online poker websites that have been around a lot longer. The time back feature that allows you to call for time on a particularly difficult decision is another example of a great feature that is standard in the world of online poker today.

Other relatively standard features from Play Aces Poker include the ability to play poker instantly if you are not too picky about the type or the place, the ability to play more than one table at the same time, the ability to use emoticons in real player chat and the ability to take notes on the other players.

All of these features are great, but they can be seen anywhere. What really makes Play Aces Poker such a great online poker website is the fact that it has a lot of great features that are less common in the world of online poker. These features include the “deal it twice” function which allows you to deal a hand twice just like you’ve seen on television shows like High Stakes Poker. You can also go rabbit hunting, giving you the opportunity to see cards that would have come up on the board after a hand was folded before the river. If you’re looking to put an opponent on tilt, you can even choose to expose just one of your hole cards to keep them guessing.

Poker Stars Offering EPT London Prize Packages

The European Poker Tour (EPT) has many great stops but the Ladies Event that takes place during the London leg of the tour is definitely one of the highlights of the overall tour. Many women poker players have been put on the map by their victory in ladies events, two popular examples being Jennifer Tilly at the World Series of Poker Ladies Event and Vicky Coren who won this particular tournament four years ago.

Poker Stars is definitely eager to send some of its own female players to this tournament and that is why they will be holding satellite events that will have GBP 1500 prize packages available covering entry into this particular tournament.

Entry into the actual tournament with a prize package is $109 and these tournaments will be held at 1530 ET on August 9th as well as on the 16th, 23rd and the 30th. All four of these tournaments will result in the winner getting a seat to the EPT London event in question.

As is usually the case for these types of qualifiers, players that are not interested in paying that much money can go for super satellite tournaments to try and win their way into the final qualification event. In this way, it is possible for a player to pay as little as $3.30 to get into a satellite tournament and then parlay that seat through victory into a seat at the $109 tournament and eventually the main EPT London event.

The smaller qualifiers will run throughout the month of August with different qualifiers on a weekly basis draining into the final tournaments on the dates mentioned above. Furthermore, Poker Stars will also offer freeroll qualification tournaments for people that would like to pay an even smaller amount of money to beat a larger field to earn that spot in the final.

Overall, Poker Stars offers many different options for people that are interested in getting a seat at the table. That is why it is definitely a good idea for you to play online poker here for the next little while if getting to the EPT London is something you want to do.

Party Poker Celebrating 200th Oktoberfest with a Bang

This year, Munich will be the home to a festival never seen before as it rings in the 200th year of Oktoberfest. This milestone will never come again and because of that authorities in the city are organizing a big deal party over the course of the festival. Anyone that attends it won’t soon forget what happens and to help send some people there Party Poker is offering 35 different prize packages relating to the festival. Each package is worth an impressive $75,000 and players only have to keep playing in order to have a chance at getting one.

The prize package itself includes two tickets for Oktoberfest as well as accommodations at a world class hotel for three days and two nights and added amenities like free spa access and open bar meals for breakfast and dinner. Overall, you and a friend could have a blast there with these prize packages if you are lucky enough to win one.

Speaking of winning the prize package, Party Poker will be holding an all out points race over the course of August in order to see who gets these prize packages. It starts with four weekly races taking place August 2-8, 9-15, 16-22 and 23-29. Each week will see the winner receive $2000 in cash and 1000 points towards the overall race with cash prizes going all the way down to the top 100 with 100th place receiving $25 in cash. The points awards go all the way down to 500 however and anyone finishing 500th will get 50 points.

In that way, points are awarded for individual excellence in a particular week but also for consistency throughout. At the end, the top 500 places will be calculated and the top 30 will receive prize packages to Oktoberfest 2010. The remaining players will enter a freeroll tournament and the top five in that tournament will get the last prize packages.

However, even if you don’t win one of those there is still the possibility of picking up cash prizes in each of the four weeks as well as prizes of $500 to $1000 in the second chance freeroll. That means that even without the benefit of a prize package this could still be a lucrative promotion for you.

World Series of Poker 2010 Will See Tournament of Champions

It is an interesting event that has been run in different ways through different years (and not been run at all in other years), but there is no question that the Tournament of Champions at the World Series of Poker always draws a lot of attention. Anyone can win the Main Event, but only the best of the best will emerge as the winner of the WSOP ToC.

The field for the 2010 running of the ToC will contain 20 names that will be familiar to most people that even casually follow the world of professional poker. Seven slots were chosen beforehand and include previous ToC winners like Annie Duke, Mike Matusow and Mike Sexton. Joe Cada, the winner of 2009’s Main Event will also be there and joining him will be the winner of WSOP Europe 2009 Berry Shulman. Bertrand Grospellier and Andrew Barton round out the seven pre-selected individuals, respectively the winner of the WSOP Academy tournament and the WSOP online qualifier for the United Kingdom.

Joining these seven people are 13 that were selected by a popular vote from all of the fans of poker. Starting with a field of 500 players, WSOP officials asked players to vote for their favorites and eventually lower-placed players were removed and their votes recast. Overall, more than 350,000 votes were put into the selection process with the top five placements going in order to Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Chris Ferguson.

Overall, the field at the 2010 ToC will be the same competitive field that it always is. Although other WSOP events can end up with final tables that do not have many stars in them because of the swings of variance and luck, the ToC is only going to contain people that are the best poker pros around or people that have made it into the event by winning a big name title such as that of the previous year’s WSOP Main Event. Therefore, it could seriously be considered the toughest 20-player field in the world of tournament poker.