Make a New Year resolution to improve your game with PartyPoker.com. Whether you start 2008 by aiming to boost your bankroll, change your style of play, or win a seat at an exotic live event, this is the place to be.
We’ve even organised three special New Year’s PartyRoll tournaments on January 5 - including one with a $10,000 prize pool – as an incentive to get your 2008 bankroll off to a winning start.
To enter you simply need the PartyPoints you receive while enjoying your normal real money games. The more points you earn from January 1 through 4, the bigger the tournament you can play.
Gaining points will be easier if you stick to your New Year’s Revolution poker plan. For example, you could:
Try something different by playing Omaha or 7 Card Stud
Break with your routine and experience the Hellkats or the $300K Guaranteed Sunday
Be more adventurous and play two cash tables at the same time
Focus on what you’re best at and aim to win five cash sessions in a row
Think outside the box by learning to read your opponent and mixing up your own style of play
Experience new places and qualify for a live poker event
Stick with some of these resolutions between 00.01 (ET) on January 1, 2008 and 23.59 (ET) on January 4, and you should collect enough PartyPoints to enter one of the New Year’s PartyRoll tournaments with no buy-in needed.
You can even play in more than one if you earn enough points.
Enjoy your New Year’s Revolution, and good luck at the tables.
Blackjack is now awailable at Party Poker as a single player game where you can win further cash prizes!!
The objective of Blackjack is to accumulate cards with a total value of as close to 21 as possible without going over 21. The value of a hand is the sum of the point counts of each card in the hand. The value assigned to the cards is as follows:
Cards 2 through 10 are valued as indicated.
Face cards (Jacks, Queens and Kings) are all valued at 10 points.
An Ace counts as one or 11, whichever is to the player’s advantage. It is worth 11 unless that would cause hand value to exceed 21 (bust), in which case it has a value of 1.
Soft total - a hand that contains an Ace that can be counted as 11 without the total going above 21. For example: Ace-6 is soft 17.
Hard total - a hand that contains an Ace that can be counted as only 1 because counting it as 11 would make the hand go over 21. For example: Ace-6-10 is hard 17.
If the player and the house tie, it is a push and no one wins. Ace and 10 (Blackjack) on the first two cards dealt is an automatic player win at 1.5 to 1, unless the house ties.
Game Details:
The game is available only in ‘real money’ mode.
The minimum bet in the game is $1 and the maximum bet is $200. The maximum bet applies for the initial bet of the game.
Eight decks are used and each deck has 52 cards.
The deck is shuffled after 10% of the cards in the decks are used.
The dealer draws a card on soft 17.
Three maximum splits are allowed
The number of cards dealt to the dealer or the player is limited only by choice (by clicking on ‘Stand’) or by going bust.
If the dealer has a 10, Jack, Queen or King as the up card, it is possible he has a Blackjack. In this instance, the player’s hand will lose except with another Blackjack. The dealer will check whether a Blackjack is possible and will collect the losing bet immediately if he does have a Blackjack.
Party Poker have got a treat in store for fans of Sit & Go tournaments: The PartyPoker.com Steps Challenge.
The idea is simple. Buy in to any of the six levels and place first, second, or even third in some levels, to move up to the next step. Place further down and you can still win a chance to try either the same level or a lower level step again.
You don’t even have to win to do well in the Steps Challenge.
There are six levels, each one consisting of a 10-handed no-limit Sit & Go tournament. All levels are available 24/7 and will start once 10 players are seated.
Party Poker is one of the world’s largest poker rooms, and they always have some fantastic promotions and Prizes to be won!
Now you can win up to $100,000 by if you manage to get dealt one of these perfect poker hands.
Just earn 20 PartyPoints by playing at PartyPoker.com to get a card. Accumulate a five-card hand containing a pair or better and they will give you a cash prize.
You have from 00:00 ET on December 5 through 23:59 ET on December 15 to win the cash.
A Royal flush will bag you the top prize of $100,000, but there are plenty of consolation hands - a Straight flush gets you $500, Four of a kind $200, Full house $100, Flush $75, Straight $40, Three of a kind $20, Two pair $10, Pair $5.
And for the consolations thats obviously on top of the winnings you may make by having the hand if the hand wins! If you get the royal flush, you’ll probably have won the poker game anyhow unless you manage to be daft enough to fold!
Uncover a horde of Incan gold this November with our Treasure of the Incas promotion. You could win up to $500 every day for five days from November 21!
All you have to do is play poker as normal. You’ll get the chance to reveal a prize for every day that you earn 10 PartyPoints from November 21 through 25, which means you could win five great prizes during the promotion. Visit your PartyAccount the day after you earn your points to find out what you’ve won.
Here’s what you could win:
A $500 prize
A $25 prize
A $15 prize
A $10 prize
Free entry to one of five $2,000 tournaments
The five $2,000 tournaments will take place at the following times:
14 :00 ET on November 23
14 :00 ET on November 24
14 :00 ET on November 25
14 :00 ET on November 26
14 :00 ET on November 27
You can find these tournaments under the ‘Events’ tab in the Lobby. You can use your free entry to take part in any of the tournaments listed. If you win five free entries, you can even take part in all five tournaments!
Ireland’s James McManus was the big winner of PartyPoker.com’s The Grind promotion, scooping a Mini Cooper S Convertible in the prize draw and a Nintendo Wii when he came sixth at the final table of a Grindroll. If that was not enough, James was already celebrating after winning $52,000 in the famous PartyPoker.com Bad Beat Jackpot just two months before!
Dubliner James, 22, recently finished studying maths at college and intends to work in the finance industry or as a maths teacher - and he’s now got a bumper bankroll to get him going.
“It has been a good couple of months,” said James with great understatement. “I didn’t have many debts but I’ve paid off all that I did have! I intend to use some of the money to build a bankroll for online cash games. I’ve thought about the tournament circuit a bit but I would need a bigger bankroll and I’m happy where I am now.
“I opted to take $40,000 rather than the car. A Mini Cooper S Convertible would be great but I don’t really have the need for it at the moment. I’m looking forward to getting my Wii though. I also won the Bad Beat Jackpot two months ago. I had pocket queens and flopped quads, my opponent had quad nines! They got $104,000 and I got $52,000 and I won the hand! That was brilliant but to win all of this in such a short period of time is fantastic!”
James acknowledged that his maths skills can come in handy in his play but that he had just been on a very, very good run. “It has been going great recently. I normally play 2/4 or 3/6 no limit cash games and the odd tournament. I intend to stick to the same stakes for the time being and build on what I have.”
A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “To bag a Wii, win a sports car in a draw and pocket $52,000 for flopping quad queens in just two months almost beggars belief, it is unprecedented. James is a great guy but it almost seems that someone is out there looking out for him!
“The Grind promotion featured $100,000-worth of Grindrolls and ran until September 9, 2007. To qualify for Grindrolls, players had to earn at least 25
PartyPoints per day over a three-day period by playing on the site. Once this was achieved they then qualified for the $2,000 Grindroll. The more PartyPoints a player earned in a day, the bigger Grindroll they were entered for. James managed to Grind for five days in each of the two weeks of the promotion and was automatically entered into the prize draw to win the Mini Cooper S Convertible. Other prizes won in Grindrolls included 80 Nintendo Wii’s and 120 80GB video iPods.
With party Poker, you can take on players from all over the world by entering the online qualifiers for the Latin American Poker Grand Final.
This rebuy tournament will see top players from all over the globe play for the ultimate Latin American poker crown and a slice of an expected $1 million prize pool. The atmosphere and action are sure to be hot - and we’d like you to be there.
Party Poker have got a minimum of two $7,500 packages to the Conrad Poker Tour Final Event to give away, which include:
$2,500 buy-in
$2,500 rebuy allowance (or extra spending money if no rebuy option taken)
5 nights accommodation in a Barradas hotel
$1,250 spending money
The Grand Final will be held on December 6th until 9th at the luxury Conrad Resort & Casino on the beautiful beachside of Punta del Este in Uruguay.
Get ready to play for $1 million and enjoy some warm hospitality at the PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship in January.
Party Poker have got some superb $5,000 packages to be won so you can take your seat in luxury and mix it with poker’s finest.
The tournament will be held in the magnificent Radisson Hotel Galway, overlooking the beautiful Galway bay in the first week of January. There’ll be 400 players battling it out in front of TV cameras, including Irish and international poker pros. Players expected to play so far include Ireland’s Ciaran O’Leary and Padraig Parkinson, plus Mike Sexton from the US and Sweden’s Rehne Pedersen.
The $5,000 packages for the PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championships include:
$2,800 buy-in
$1,000 spending money
Accommodation in a luxury Hotel
$200 airport transfer costs
The tournament will be held on January 3 through January 6, 2008. Charming Galway City is often known as the ‘Cultural Capital of Ireland’, and hosts many festivals and cultural events.
Hundreds of offline qualifying games will be held in pubs and clubs all over Ireland. You can qualify online through PartyPoker.com for as little as $3.
To celebrate the launch of their new Danish, Swedish, and Finnish software, PartyPoker.com is hosting a $50,000 Nordic Freeroll.
The freeroll is open exclusively to Nordic players and takes place at 14:30 ET on Thursday, November 22.
Register for your seat at this amazing freeroll from November 1. The $50,000 prize pool means that 1,000 lucky players will walk away with a great cash prize.
You’ve got the rest of October to sharpen your game, so start practicing now. To find out more about our other promotions and tournaments, visit PartyPoker.com today.
PartyPoints is the rewarding new loyalty scheme from PartyGaming.
Earn valuable PartyPoints every time you play a game on any site.
Redeem PartyPoints for cash at any time.
Remember, every point you earn takes you one step closer to the next level and that means bigger rewards, increased benefits, and wallet-busting cash back offers.
On the level
There are four different PartyPoints levels: Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces.
The more PartyPoints you earn, the higher your membership level.
Each level gives you access to unique benefits and features.
You earn PartyPoints at a faster rate, as you advance through the levels.
You can use the points as follows:
Use them to play in PartyPoints program freeroll tournaments
Exchange them for cash, entry into specific tournaments and gift certificates
Take advantage of a host of exciting promotions exclusive to PartyPoints program members
Earning PartyPoints will also help you move to higher membership levels, which in turn entitles you to even more exclusive privileges and benefits.
