Coral Poker is proud to present the new and improved Grand Tournament – now with heats running over three days every month!
This fantastic $1000 + $40Three-Day Tournament will run over the last weekend of every month. If you like big-ticket, deep stack tournaments then the Grand Tournament is for you! And with multi-stage qualification running up to 12 times daily and available from as little as $1.20, you’ve got plenty of chances to get involved in the best monthly tournament online!
All qualifying tournaments will be found in the ‘Tournaments’ lobby of the poker room, each having ‘GT’ in the name of the tournament.
The Ladbrokes.com European Ladies Championship (ELC) has returned for a third year!
In 2008, fifty of Europe’s top female tournament players will compete over two days in a multi-table tournament for the title of “European Champion” and guaranteed first prize of $30,000.
The highest-placed Ladbrokes qualifier will also win an added $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP package!!!
The tournament will be filmed over the May bank holiday weekend at the London Studios on London’s South Bank, overlooking the Thames. The play will be edited into six one-hour shows, and broadcast on Sky Sports.
You can secure your seat by qualifying through the ELC Weekly Final which is held every Monday at 21:00 GMT.
Winners of the $2,500 ELC package will each receive:
$2,000 buy-in to ELC 2008,
Two tickets to the ELC Party on Friday 2nd May in London,
Accommodation for two in London on Friday 2nd May,
Four Green Room passes for London Studios on 3rd & 4th May.
Transport between the hotel and the studios.
ELC 2008 will have a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, which will be shared amongst the top eight finishers who make if to the final table:
1st - $30,000
2nd - $20,000
3rd - $16,000
4th - $12,000
5th - $10,000
6th - $6,000
7th - $4,000
8th - $2,000The highest placed Ladbrokes qualifier will also win an added $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP package, which will entitle them to join Europe’s largest team at the 2008 WSOP Main Event and enjoy Ladbrokes legendary WSOP hospitality.
How to take part in ELC 2008
There are three routes by which you can secure your seat for ELC 2008:
Qualify online from just $5!
You can secure your $2,500 package from just $5 in the satellites that are held each day for the Daily Final. Check the lobby at Offline Events > ELC > Satellites for full details of today’s satellites.
In the $30 ELC Daily Final, which offers the option of one $15 re-buy and a $15 add-on, one seat will be awarded in the ELC Weekly Final for every $270 in the prize pool.
ELC Daily Finals are held 6 days a week at 21:00 GMT (Tuesday to Sunday)
In the $250 ELC Weekly Final (Freezeout), one $2,500 ELC package will be awarded for every 10 entrants, with one ELC package guaranteed.
The ELC Weekly Final is held every Monday at 21:00 GMT whilst seats remain available.
Online qualification for the ELC is exclusive to Ladbrokes.com.
Participation in online qualification is exclusively for female players registered at Ladbrokes Poker. Any male players entering the online qualification for ELC 2008 risk having their accounts suspended.
Direct Buy-in
A limited number of packages have been reserved for direct buy-ins.
This year, the rules on branding have been relaxed by the broadcaster, which means that players who buy-in will be allowed to wear their sponsor’s branding.
Offline Satellites
During the qualification period, Ladbrokes Poker will be holding offline satellites across Europe, so look out for forthcoming details of satellites in your country.
Some quotes from last years ELC:
‘I can honestly say without reservation that The Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship of Poker 2007 is officially one of my favourite poker experiences to date.’
‘With such a collection of well-known faces mixed in with the unknown quantities that were the online qualifiers, what could have been a very daunting experience was actually surprisingly inclusive and friendly. It was hard to believe that in a few minutes time the warm smiles would retreat behind dark glasses and solemn faces as the cards were dealt.’
For more information on how to qualify for the ELC, please click here
Ladbrokes newest gaming experience has just arrived at a computer screen near you!!
Now you can play in a true 3D environment: Ladbrokes Poker 3D is set in a stylish casino!
Features include:
Change the camera angles to suit your taste: Zoom in on players or follow the action!
Express tells and emotions.
Create your own Character and be whoever you want to be in the eyes of your competitors!:
Customize the look of your character, including eye color, facial features, clothing and accessories!
‘Randomise’ and have the computer set your character’s appearance for you! ‘Freak’, and the computer will generate the weirdest, freakiest characters you’ve ever seen!! ‘Taunt’ other player with actions to move all in, tell them to hurry up, stare a player down or point out what a fiiiiiish they are!
Use ‘Tells’ to disguise your hand…or let everyone know, and see if they believe you! Scratch your chin while you ponder your hand, punch the air or just put your feet up!
Show off with some ‘Chip tricks’, or do a spot of juggling a sword-swallowing to keep the other players entertained!
All this and much more is now available in the most complete poker experience on the net!
The perfect gift this Christmas? Betfair Poker is about to burst with excitement as we announce details of a unique poker tournament for December.
From November 6th we will be running satellite qualifiers to an amazing, only available at Betfair, once in a lifetime chance to pick up a seat at both next years’ World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and a place in the second World Series of Poker Europe in London next September. Two of you will win probably the most sought-after prizes in poker!
Each dream package is worth $40,000 and includes the ‘buy-in’ to the tournaments ($10,000 WSOP / $20,000 WSOPE), flights, luxury hotels and expenses for both events. Both packages will be won in the Grand Final on Sunday 23rd December with an extra $20,000 cash for the runners up. This amazing event is sure to be the most desired prize under the tree this Christmas and tops $100,000 GUARANTEED.
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!
Europe’s richest and most prestigious live televised poker tournament is back for a sixth year offering players:
$2,150,000 Final Table
$1,000,000 First Prize
$500,000 Added Prize Money
And again online qualification is exclusive to Ladbrokespoker.com.
But who will be the champion this year? Will it be another Ladbrokes online qualifier?
This year, the rules on player sponsorship have been amended by the tournament organisers Matchroom Sport, Europe’s leading provider of televised poker, so that players can now wear their sponsor’s logo when competing in the televised stages of the Ladbrokes Poker Million.
In recognition of this change 28 seats have been reserved by Matchroom Sports to recruit the cream of the world’s Sponsored Professionals to compete against the cream of Ladbrokes Poker players in Europe’s most prestigious tournament. Qualification
Online qualification for a $27,500 Poker Million VI package will run from February on a while seats available basis.
Package Winners will receive the $25,000 tournament buy-in and a $2,500 expenses package and be invited to London for the filming of the heats and semi-finals in late July.
The victors from the Semi-Finals will be invited back to London on 21st December for the Final Table which will again be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
If you do not make it to the final table, you may still be able to join in all of the excitement by attending the now legendary Poker Million Live Final Party in central London with 500 other poker fans.
Most poker player’s dream of landing the big one, that will let them give up the day job. The last two Poker Million tournaments have fulfilled the dream for Tony “spider99” Jones and Rajesh “foggy71” Modha. Will it be you this year?
The losing hand must contain at least Aces full of Tens (with at least one Ace in the hole cards if the qualifying hand is a Full House).
Four or more Players must be dealt into the hand.
The hand must be a raked hand and the Jackpot contribution is collected from the hand.
The best hand of the winner and the loser must include both the hole cards, and the hand must go to a showdown.The Jackpot contribution is only collected once during a hand.
The value of the Jackpot contribution is $0.50. Once the rake has reached $1.00, an additional $0.50 is taken for the Bad Beat Progressive.
The Jackpot contribution is displayed as a separate rake chip stack, to the right of the normal rake chip stack, on the poker chip tray.
Jackpot contributions are accumulated until the Jackpot is won.
The current Bad Beat Jackpot value is displayed in the Lobby and on every Jackpot table.
The Bad Beat Jackpot applies to specified tables only. Players must be seated at one of these tables and actively participate in the hand to qualify for any payouts.
Players can qualify for the table share of the Jackpot if they were dealt into the hand but folded before the showdown.
If the minimum number of Players do not participate in the hand, the hand does not qualify for the progressive and the progressive rake is not taken.
If there are more than two hands involved in a Bad Beat in a hand, then the two highest hands are considered for the Jackpot. The higher of the two hands is the winning hand and the other hand wins the Bad Beat.
In the event that two qualifying Jackpot hands occur at the same time, the hand that is completed first is awarded the Bad Beat Jackpot.
Players must play their hands independently. Players cannot tell opponents what to do or to reveal their hand to other Players. Any contravention of this will result in the hand being disqualified for the Jackpot.
The percentage payout of the Jackpot is as follows:
- 70% is distributed as winnings:
50% to the losing hand, the Bad Beat
25% to the winner of the hand
25% evenly split between the other Players who actively participated in the hand
- 20% is used to seed the next Jackpot - 10% is used for administration.
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.
From December 6th William Hill Poker will finally have rebuy tournaments.
They may have taken some time coming but rebuys have finally arrived at William Hill. Simply look out for the word ‘Rebuy’ in a tournament name.
Also, unique to William Hill, some of our extremely popular Headhunter tournaments will have rebuys for added excitement.
What is a Headhunter rebuy tournament?
When a player reaches zero chips during the rebuy period in a Headhunter rebuy tournament, they get the option to rebuy. Every time they rebuy, they are “resurrected” and a percentage of their rebuy fee goes into the prize pool, with the remaining amount going onto the player’s own head.
The real fun begins after the first break, when the rebuys and add-ons are over but the players’ head values have swollen with their rebuy funds! Knock a player out after the rebuy period to collect some real cash!
Ladbrokes have TWO Great Player Point Promotions for November!!
1 – Receive up to 30% Cash Back!
Accumulate over 25,000 Player Points and receive 30% Cash Back!
Accumulate 10,000 to 24,999 Player Points and claim your 25% Cash Back!
Accumulate 5,000 to 9,999 Player Points and claim your 20% Cash Back!(Cash Back is directly proportional to your cash table rake contribution during the qualifying period). 2 – $150,000 of Player Point Freerolls!During November, you can redeem your Player Points and share in $150,000-worth of free-to-enter tournaments, including weekly Player Point Freerolls with prize pools of up to $30,000 (1,500-3,000 PP entry)! Player Point Cash Back
The Player Point Cash Back reward system for November’s Player Points promotion offers you three redemption levels, with 25% cashback for players collecting 10,000 to 24,999 Player Points and 20% for players collecting 5,000 to 9,999 Player Points. The three-tier scheme works as follows:
Players with a balance of at least 25,000 Player Points at midnight on 2nd December will receive a cash payment of 30% of their rake contribution for the period 1st November – 2nd December.
Players with a balance of at least 10,000 Player Points at midnight on 2nd December who have submitted the relevant claim form will receive a cash payment of 25% of their rake contribution for the period 1st November – 2nd December.
Players with a balance of at least 5,000 Player Points at midnight on 2nd December who have submitted the relevant claim form will receive a cash payment of 20% of their rake contribution for the period 1st November – 2nd December.Your Player Point balance at the end of the month will be the total of the Player Points you have been awarded in the month, less any Player Points you have used to register for Player Point Freerolls.Depending on your game of choice, you will accumulate different levels of Player Points.
