Cake Poker promotions

Cake Poker is now serving up over 4.5 million in guaranteed tournament prize pools each month. Finding the right tournament is made easy by Cake’s round the clock action offerings along with awesome guarantees that range from $1,000 to a monthly blockbuster $250,000 which plays on the final Sunday each month. Be sure to check out Cake’s website for their guaranteed tournament schedule which includes huge daily guarantees, their Sunday $100,000 and $250,000 schedule.

Join Cake Poker for their ‘Freeroll into Millions‘ satellite series which is running through January 2009, giving you the chance to turn your freeroll wins into thousands of dollars while playing the biggest guarantees. The ‘Freeroll into Millions’ satellite series opens the door to over $1,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools! Get in on the action while its hot, playing now under the Freeroll tab within Tournaments.

Get ready for your chance at the 2009 Aussie Millions! Team Cake is gearing up to storm the competition this January at the 2009 Aussie Millions tournament, hosted by the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Join us at the table amongst an estimated 800 players all competing for a seat at the internationally broadcast final table and the guaranteed first place prize of $2,000,000! You’ll be competing for a Cake Aussie Million Prize Pack, which lands you:

- A seat in TWO Aussie Millions events
- Aussie Millions 2009 Main Event, January 18th to 24th
- Aussie Millions 2009 Feature Event (Pro Bounty) January 16th
- Ten nights at the spectacular Crown Promenade Hotel January 15-25
- $4000 USD added to your Cake Poker Player’s Account for travel expenses
Join Cake every Sunday at 8pm ET now through December 21st for Aussie Millions direct qualifiers. Check under the Satellite tab within Tournaments for the entire qualifier schedule.

Sun Poker moving to iPoker Network in 2009

Sun Poker announced on Tuesday of this week that they will be moving to the iPoker Network, home to other poker sites such as Betfred Poker, CD Poker, and Titan Poker. Currently a member of the Cryptologic Network, Sun Poker is able to offer rakeback to their player base. The move to the iPoker Network will signal the end of the rakeback and Sun is expected to offer a loyalty program instead.

Players currently playing at Sun Poker will be allowed to play on the Cryptologic Network until January 31st, 2009. After that they will have to transfer their funds from the old account after setting up a new account on the iPoker Network. According to a representative from Sun Poker, this process will be made as easy as possible “within their current account”.

If you currently play on Sun Poker you’ll also need to note that your MPP’s will not transfer over to the iPoker Network. A special promotion is planned by the management of Sun Poker to allow players to somehow redeem these unused points. The details of exactly what that promotion will be are unavailable at this time. It’s likely a safe bet that Sun Poker simply hasn’t determined what this promotion will be or how it will be facilitated.

As to what precipitated the move to iPoker, Sun Poker officials are remaining mum on the subject. However, if any official information becomes available we will report here right away.

PPA considers class action lawsuit against US Government

In the face of UIGEA being passed and signed into law by a Lame Duck President, the Poker Players Alliance is considering a very bold action to help hammer home a point, that the UIGEA is counter-productive and is a direct attack on our freedoms as US citizens. Ever since the inception of this bill, lawmakers have presented arguments both in favor of and against the UIGEA. The proponents of the bill insist that it will help curb online gambling in the US. The opponents argue that the language is too broad and will actually hurt legitimate gambling operations. Poker players argue that since poker is a game of skill,the game should be exempted from anything related to UIGEA.

In an email that went out to it’s membership today the PPA is asking poker players, in part:

“Right now, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is preparing for a potential lawsuit against the UIGEA because its vagueness will likely force banks and other payment processors to over-block lawful Internet poker transactions. Thusly, the PPA is looking for a few good men and women to stand with us in a potential lawsuit. As a paid PPA member, your support has been crucial to our successes. The PPA is prepared to underwrite the complete cost of potential litigation[;] we just need members like you to be part of our action.”

It’s not unprecedented to file a suit against the Government but it’s an interesting tactic. If nothing else, it will hopefully serve notice that the lobbying group and it’s members are not going to take this laying down. If you’re not already a member of the PPA, please consider visiting their site and joining today.

Full Tilt Poker FTOPS X concludes

The $5,000 + $200 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em event concluded late yesterday, capping a great run for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series X. The unique event, which forgoes the standard nine-handed tables in favor of smaller, more action-oriented six-handed table, attracted 500 players and created a $2.5 million dollar prize pool.

Hosted by Craig Marquis, who had quite the exchange with Tiffany Michelle at the 2008 WSOP. Was sporting his new “Red Pro” status as a new Team Full Tilt member and fresh off his big win the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event cash, the tournament ran deep into the night before a victor was finally declared. After surviving a tough field of players including Marquis, who placed 24th and cashed for $17,500, the ultimate winner was Amit “amak316″ Makjiha. Amit has had success in both online and brick and mortar tournaments having ran deep in several live events. His last big score was coming in second at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event in 2007, cashing for $560,000.

His victory in the FTOPS X finale almost matched his biggest win to date as he took home exactly $550,000.

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European Poker Tour Announces Poland Stop

Casinos Poland Ltd announced today that it will host the Grand Polish Open 2008, a four day Texas Hold’em No Limit tournament from November 15 to November 19, as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw.

The number of tournament entrants have been limited to 400 players who will play for a prize pool of up to 8,000,000 PLN or approximately $2,700,000 with buy in for the tournament set at 21,000 PLN or approximately $7,000. The official EPT website has announced that many of poker’s most well known stars are already planning to attend the next stop on the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour in Warsaw.

Set to compete in the four day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand Final winner in Season 4 , EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Alex Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier.

The 5th Season of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, which was kicked off in Barcelona on September 10, is Europe’s most prestigious and popular poker tour. Season 5 features 11 scheduled events. The EPT’s Grand Final is set to take place in Monte Carlo in April/May 2009. The Polish Open 2008 hosted by Casinos Poland is the third stop on the European Poker Tour.

Casinos Poland is the number one casino operator in Poland with a 50% share of the Polish casino market. The company owns and operates seven casinos in four and five star hotels and one slot casino throughout Poland.

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