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Right now you have the chance to win big at Sun Poker with their special Sun Poker coupon code that was just released to the public. When entering the coupon code  PBSBONUS during the signup process you will get a free $500 bonus that is instantly credited to your pending bonus account. On top of this bonus you will also get access to all of the cool freerolls that are offered to new players at Sun Poker.

You will also be able to play a lot of qualifiers for this years World Series of Poker at Sun Poker. These tournaments are starting at as little as $1 so if you are really good you might be able to pull a Chris Moneymaker and win the WSOP Main event after winning your spot in a satellite. You never know until you try!

PartyPoker are going to run a promotion called “The Gladiator” during the month of April. During the month of April you will need to generate at least 10 Party Points on at least 10 different days. Depending on how many points you manage to generate and how many days you are playing you will earn different types of cash bonuses.

The least amount you can earn is $5 and that will be awarded to you if you manage to generate at least 10 points per day on 10 days in April. The maximum bonus according to the table presented at the PartyPoker website is $1000 and this will be yours if you generate at least 400 points on 20 different days.

According to the people at PartyPoker you will also be able to earn even more money if you are playing more days and earning more points. If you are one of these players we suggest you contact PartyPoker support and they will let you know what kind of poker bonus they can offer you.

Between the 23rd and 28th of March PokerStars is arranging something known as the All Star Week. During this week all of the “All Star Challengers” who consists of VIP players, Event winners and tournament qualifiers will challenge Team PokerStars professionals in a series of heads-up matches.

For every match that is won by an All Star Challenger the player will be awarded with $1000 and the same amount of money will go towards a common prize pool for the team to share. But if a Team PokerStars player should be victorious in one of these matches the $1000 will go to a charitable organization of Victor Ramdin’s choice. Victor Ramdin gets to pick the charitable cause as he is acting as the Captain for Team PokerStars.com.

In order to be able to participate in the All Star Challengers team you will have to achieved one of the following things during 2008:

• Have won the PokerStars Sunday Million
• Reached a final table in WCOOP
• Finished at the top of the PokerStars Tournament Ranking.
• Have reached SuperNova Elite

If you haven’t done any of these things during 2008 there is one last option for those of you looking to qualify for the All Star Team. You will be able to play your way into the team by winning a wild card in one of the satellites that are running for the All Star Week. The buy in for these satellites is $11 and you will find it in the tournament lobby at PokerStars under the satellite tab.

PokerStars will also add a supporter tournament to the mix where you can register as a supporter for either team. For every victory that your supporting team takes down there will be $1000 added to a tournament prize pool for a tournament that will only be open for the supporting members of that team.

Right now you can participate in the Million Dollar Hand promotion at PartyPoker.com. For every 15 Party Points that you earn you will get a card, and if you manage to make a Royal Flush out of all the cards you have earned at the end of the promotions you will win $1 Million.

Even if you should not manage to scrape together enough cards to make a Royal Flush there are still a lot of other great prices that can be won. This promotion started at the 11th of March and will run until the 22nd of March 2009.

The prize structure o this promotion is as follows:

Royal Flush - $1.000.000
Straight Flush - $5.000
Four of a Kind - $1000
Full House - $250
Flush - $100
Straight - $50
Three of a Kind - $25
Two Pair - $10
One Pair - $10

As you can see on the prize structure for this Million Dollar Hand promotion you will not have to be one of the bigger players at PartyPoker in order to win something. This promotion is made in such a way that all players at all levels will be able to win the biggest prize.

At the same time as this promotion all new players who create an account at PartyPoker using the Party Poker signup bonus code EASYBONUS will get a 100% bonus up to the maximum amount of $500 when they make their first real money deposit.

We would like to inform all of our readers about the latest changes that has been made in the PokerStars VIP Program. These changes that are mentioned in this post are active as from the 1st of March 2009 which means that by the time you are reading this the new system has already been implemented. Usually when changes are made to VIP programs and loyalty schemes it always changes for the worse, but in this case the changes are actually made in favor of the players at PokerStars. This just goes to prove that PokerStars is the best poker room on the internet today.

What will be different with the new VIP Program at Pokerstars?

The amount of VIP Player Points (VPPs) have been lowered when it comes to reacheing SilverStar, GoldStar and PlatinumStar levels.

 The VPP requirements to reach SilverStar status has been lowered from 1500 VPPs to 1200 VPPs.

After the changes that were made on the 1st of March you now only have to earn 3000 VPPs per month in order to reach GoldStar status compared to 4000 VPPs like it was earlier.

Reaching PlatinumStars has never been easier. As from the 1st of March you only need to generate 7500 VPPs in order to reach PlatinumStar status at PokerStars. This is a lot less compared to the 10.000 VPPs you had to earn before.

The changes to these levels have been made in order for more players to be able to reach higher status levels and make the VIP program more accessable to the general poker public.

Bigger Prize Pools in VIP Events at PokerStars

The weekly VIP Tournament at PokerStars that earlier had a prize pool of $50.000 will now have a total prize pool of $75.000 instead. The structure of the tournament has been updated and it now features 12 minute blind levels.

The $20.000 weekly VIP event with a 100 FPP buy in has now been changed to a $30.000 tournament instead.

After this amazing increase to these tournament the total prize pool for the PokerStars VIP tournaments are up to over $6.5 Million.

Extended status period for SuperNova and SuperNova Elite

After the new changes made to the PokerStars VIP Program all SuperNova and SuperNova Elite players will be able to keep their VIP status until the end of September the following year. With the old VIP program these members were only able to retain their status until the end of June thje following year. This means that all these members will get to keep their status for a longer time.

MileStone Bonuses become MileStone Cash Credits

All the MileStone bonuses at PokerStars are now awarded as Cash Credits as of the 1st of March 2009. If you are a SuperNove member for example and earn 200.000 VPPs you will be able to trade 50.000 FPPs for $2000 in cash without have to earn an additional 10.000 VPPs in order to clear the bonus like with the old system. These MileStone Cash Credits are going to be released in the VIP Shop at PokerStars in the coming weeks.

Changes to the Concierge Service

For those players at PokerStars using the Concierge Service we can report that you will now only be able to make use of this service once a month with a maximum of three receipts. The minimum value of the receipts must be $500. For all the new guidelines on this service please refer to the PokerStars website.

As you can see there has been a lot of great changes made to the PokerStars VIP loyalty program and there has never been a better time to become a member if you dont already have an account. When you create your account at PokerStars make sure to use the PokerStars marketing code PAWSUB465 as this code will entitle you to a $50 bonus for free and entries to resctricted freerolls at PokerStars.com.

This coming Sunday is going to be a big day for all the soccer fans across the world; Super Bowl XLIII or the World championship of American Football at the Tampa, FL is going to start along with a whole world of festivities. So, it is time for all the poker fans to try out their hands at a game or two while the pre-game shows are being telecasted. Keeping his in mind, Bodog Poker is launching its own poker tournaments where everybody stands a chance of winning great prizes. There will be three different events clubbed along with the festivities of Super Bowl.

The week long tournament will be flagged on the evening of 27th at 9:34PM Eastern Time. The spirit of Super Bowl will be celebrated on the Media day with the “Media Day Combo Qualifier”. The $27+$2 buy in of the combo qualifier will move on to the two special tournaments. These two tournaments will be part of the Super Bowl Weekend schedule. Two seats at the combo qualifier are guaranteed for the two winners, while one more combo qualifier seat is to be added for every $244 prize pool.

The winners of the previous rounds will then be competing in the Bodog organized Super Bowl during the Weekend slate. There is more on the offing on Saturday which will provide the players a chance to get in to the “Bodog “Flight Club”. Now comes the biggest event; the $125+$10 buy in during the Special Flight Club Semifinal and it is a seat at the American Poker Tour to be held at Punta del Esta that is on the offing for the winner. More seats will be offered for each pack of 48 players joining the tournament.

Bodog is offering a $6000 package for the winner to take part in one of the most rapidly growing tournaments around the world. Bodog is pumping in $2300 for accommodation and travel along with the LAPT Punta del Este tournament, which has a buy in of $3700. At least one seat is guaranteed irrespective of the number of players taking part in the tournament that starts at 4PM Eastern Time.

This Sunday afternoon when the whole world will be glued on to their T.V. sets watching the Pre-game analysis, you can just satiate your hunger of poker by taking a dig at the Bodog’s $100, 00 guaranteed events. There will be a little more of the sweet money at the “$100+$9” Super Bowl Special because Bodog has pumped in $20,000 in the pool. 4PM Eastern time is when the “Super Bowl Sunday” kicks off.

Bodog has given you an opportunity to celebrate the Super Bowl this weekend irrespective of being a fan of American Football. So, just log on to the website of Bodog to be in the middle of the hullabaloo and pocket some cool bucks this weekend.  Dont forget to enter the Bodog Poker referral number 2429054 when you create your account for a nice $550 bonus when you make your first deposit.

Poker770.com is a relatively new poker room on the iPoker Network and they are offering all new players a no deposit poker bonus in order to have them try out their poker software.

All you need to do in order to get this free poker cash from Poker770.com is to follow the instructions i am about to give you.

You will need to click this link in order to download the Poker770 software.

Once the software in downloaded you need to install the poker client on your computer and create an account in real mode at Poker770.

When you have finished the registration process you will have to send an email to promotions@poker770.co.uk with the bonus code “bonpok” and your username.

Once you have done this you will just have to sit back and wait for your account to be credited with this no deposit bonus at Poker770.com.

Right now you can all get a free no deposit bonus at Virgin Poker of €30. The good thing with these kind of bonuses is that you can try out a new poker room without even having to make a deposit.

In order to take part of this €30 free money offer at Virgin Poker you need to create at account at BankrollMob and follow the instructions on their site and you will have the free poker cash within one or two working days.

And once you are a verified member at BankrollMob you will be able to request a lot of other no deposit poker bonuses as well since they offer free money at more poker room than VirignPoker.com.

This is how the no deposit bonus works at Virgin Poker.com.

You request the no deposit bonus for Virgin Poker via BankrollMob and within a couple of days you will get the first part of the bonus credited to your account which is €10.

Once you have received this free money you can start playing at the real money tables and start earning Virgin Points. Once you have reached 60 Virgin Points the remaining €20 of this no deposit bonus will be credited to your account.

Players that reach 60 Virgin Points will also get a free entry to a tournament at Virgin Poker where you can win trips to Las Vegas and many other destinations.

Click here to get your free €30 at Virgin Poker today!!

Cake Poker have just announced that they will be offering a reload bonus to all players during Halloween. The offer is a 25% reload bonus up to $100 if you make a deposit between 31st October and 3rd of November.

You will not only get a $100 reload bonus but you will also be credited with 10 Gold Chips once you have made your deposit.

In order to take part of this reload offer you will need to enter the Cake Poker bonus code TREAT when you make your deposit and the bonus will automatically be credited to your account.

Looks like christmas came early this year for all of you players who are looking for a no deposit poker bonus at a poker room where you dont already have an account.

The poker room that offers a free $140 no deposit bonus is Million Dollar Poker Club. All you need to do in order to get this free money bonus is to click here and create an account at BankrollMob where you request this bonus. After a couple of days of waiting the guys at BankrollMob will credit your Million Dollar Poker Club account with the free money.

Million Dollar Poker Club is a part of the Action Poker Network so they dont have a whole lot of players online but who cares about that when you are offered a no deposit poker bonus.