If you are a Party Poker or WPT Poker affiliate, you have likely seen the benefits of increased interest in the poker room from promotions such as World Domination, Gladiator and Card Rush. With the introduction of the Championship Challenge on Monday, Party Poker is introducing it's latest cash-based promotion that is sure to be of interest and line the pockets of your valued members from now through the end of June. About the $100,000 Championship Challenge The promotion works much in the same way World Domination has in previous months, so if you are familiar with that promotion, you should have no problem understanding the Championship Challenge. Instead of cities and countries, players earn one "Football Player" for every 10 Party Points that are accumulated during the promotion period. Like World Domination, only a certain number of Football Player game pieces are awarded, so players are encouraged to get rolling on the promotion as soon as possible if they are interested (there are still 3.3 million left so not that much rush). Players can earn up to 100 Football Player game pieces per day. The football players will feature prizes ranging from freeroll entries (a $1k freeroll entry for the Italy Striker, for example) to cash prizes up to $20 (the Poland Goalkeeper). Not all football players will yield instant prizes, but they will contribute to "Team" prizes. The prizes increase when completing Teams -- four players from a country. Earn the entire England team and receive $50; earn all the Poland players to receive a $1,200 prize. There are over a dozen additional countries that players can complete that will yield prizes ranging from $75 to $900. The prizes don't stop there, however. Earn all four countries in a group to receive huge prizes ranging from $1,000 to $7,000, depending on the group. If a player manages to complete all four groups, Party Poker will award an incredible $100,000 cash prize. Championship Challenge Freerolls Many of the instant Football Player prizes that are awarded by Party Poker are freeroll entries ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. These freerolls will be held after the promotion from July 5th to July 8th. Marketing the Party Poker Championship Challenge If you have Party Poker members that have registered through your sites, make sure they are aware of this promotion through social media, news posts, front page features, mailers or any other high visibility marketing channels. The benefits of this promotion combined with VIP rakeback up to 50% can be unbeatable. New players can also take part in a 100% up to $500 sign-up bonus and of course, all players can currently enjoy the exclusive $20,000 Tournament Fever Series running through May.
If you have high volume Party Poker players, take notice of the latest promotion for the poker room's top players. Starting April 23rd and running through May 13th, Party Poker will offer the VIP 500 Club, an opt-in promotion that will allow Palladium VIP players to receive instant prizes for their play during the promo period. Like the Gladiator and other similar monthly cash-game promotions, the VIP 500 Club should prove quite appealing to your high volume players. VIP 500 Club Prizes For every 500 Party Points that a player earns (the equivalent of $250 in rake), a Palladium player will receive an instant prize card that will yield one of the following prizes:$5-$500 cash$25-$100 poker bonus100-500 Loyalty Points BonusiPad 2 or iPodSuper high generating players will receive $1,000 in cash and 5,000 in points. Unfortunately, to qualify for this special prize, a player will need to collect 50 cards. That's the equivalent of $15,000 in rake, a milestone that few players will reach. Don't Forget to Opt-In To participate in the VIP 500 Club, Palladium players will need to opt-in to the promotion via the Party Poker site. To qualify for the Palladium status, a player needs to earn 9,000 Party Points per quarter, the equivalent of $1,500 in rake per month. The 500 VIP promotion will appeal mostly to ring game players, due to a relatively high Party Point requirements. Tournament players should take a look at this month's PokerFest II, starting a day earlier on April 22nd and giving away over $3.5 million prize pools over 47 events.
At the beginning of each month, we post the top standard promotions for the month in the Poker Marketing Forum. Often times as the month moves along new promotions are announced by poker rooms. The promotions below are some of the best that you should be informing your players about for the rest of January. Party Poker Rake Free Tournaments: For the remainder of January, Party Poker is slashing buy-in fees on all multi-table tournaments. To celebrate this offer, Party Poker is offering a 100% up to $100 reload bonus and a $50,000 Depositor Freeroll entry to all players that use bonus code RAKEFREE. Minted Poker $1 Rake Caps Minted Poker has continued $1 Rake Caps on all USD tables through the month of January. Euro tables are not eligible for this promotion. Minted Poker will also be holding a large €10,000 guaranteed tournament on January 29th. Red Kings $85,000 Points Race Ongame's Red Kings is offers a huge $85,000 Points Race each month, and players only need to play for three days in a row to qualify for a prize. A player simply needs to finish in the top 120 chart for three consecutive days to receive a prize based on their performance during those days. The next three-day cycle starts with the accumulation of more Player Points. Betsafe Second $60,000 Race It's not too late for players to start accumulating Race Points towards Betsafe's second $60,000 January Race, which started January 17th. The leaderboard will pay cash prizes of up to $7,500 to the top 100 Race Point earners. In addition to the cash prizes, the Top 15 finishers from Race 1 and 2 will receive an entry into a $6,000 January Race freeroll in early February. Red Star $27,000 Rake Race The $27,000 Rake Race (really more like a Rake Chase) is one of the best offered by a Cake Poker Network site. Players that generate rake at 1 of 14 levels are paid predetermined cash prizes of $3 to $2,000. Many of the smaller cash prizes have been claimed, but there are plenty of opportunities remaining for players that generate at least $350 in rake for the rest of the month. These cash rewards effectively pay more than 10% extra rakeback to players. Intertops FPP Race Intertops, a popular Cake Network poker room, offers $6,250 FPP Races each week exclusively to their players. The weekly leaderboards pay the top 100 FPP earners during each promo period. Race 4 gets underway on January 22nd at 04:00 GMT and runs through January 29th at 04:00 GMT. Poker Heaven €20,000 Cash Race This race started on January 16th, but players have until January 29th to accumulate points towards this large race. The leaderboard will pay cash prizes to the tpo 50 point earners during the promotion period. This promotion is offered network wide but Poker Heaven seems to be offering the largest prizes. Players must opt-in via the Player Zone. True Poker $65,000 Points Race, $75k Gtd. Tournament The $65,000 Points Race has become a monthly staple and players joining the race today still have a chance to get on the leaderboard. A $50 prize is for the taking for currently just over 1100 points. On January 29th, True Poker will be offering a $75,000 guaranteed tournament. Players can enter by buying in directly for $109 for satellites for a low as $2.20. NoiQ €60,000 VIP Races There are two remaining promotion periods remaining in NoiQ Poker's main VIP Races. The Entraction Network room will be giving away €15,000 each from January 16th to January 24th and January 24th to January 31st. Cash prizes are awarded to the top 100 VIP Points earners during each period.
The Merge Gaming Network Bad Beat Jackpot reached a large milestone this morning as the progressive prize surpassed the elusive $1 million dollar mark. The jackpot is currently increasing at a rate of approximately $30,000 per day and is currently hundreds of thousands of dollars beyond the threshold when the jackpot becomes +EV to play. Update: The BBJ was hit on the evening of January 14th as it stood at $1,014,549.59. Quad Sevens were beaten by Quad Queens. The loser of the hand received a $355,000 prize. Merge Gaming is no stranger to large Beat Jackpot jackpots. Last summer we anxiously followed a Bad Beat Jackpot on the network that grew to over $800,000. Three years ago, Merge Gaming was home to a record (at the time) $1.2 million dollar jackpot that paid $420,000 to the winner. Carbon Poker posted the YourTube video of that historic hand. The largest Bad Beat Jackpot ever hit occurred on the Boss Media Network last summer, which ran around the same time as the last big Merge Bad Beat Jackpot. The record progressive prize was €1,265,583.34 at the time the jackpot was hit, or $1,834,426 based on exchange rates that day. To qualify for a Bad Beat Jackpot on Merge Gaming players must be seated at special Bad Beat Jackpot tables, available at No Limit tables cash games from $0.50/$1.00-$2/$4 and Limit Hold’em tables from $1/$2 to $30/$60. If a player loses with Quad Sevens at one of these tables and meets some other basic criteria they will trigger a Bad Beat Jackpot prize. Progressive jackpot prizes pay 35% of the total jackpot amount to the loser of the hand, 17.5% to the winner and another 17.5% split between the players that were dealt into the hand. Of the remaining 30%, 20% is used to reseed the next jackpot and 10% is taken by Merge Gaming as an admin fee. The jackpot is fed via a $0.50 jackpot drop whenever rake is taken from the table. When the jackpot is low it is technically –EV to play, which essentially means the extra “rake” paid by players does not justify the potential prizes, given the odds of hitting the prize. The +EV threshold is open up for interpretation and can vary according to specific jackpot rules but is generally considered to be around the $300k-$400k range at most games.
Party Poker is starting 2012 with a bang by offering a series of promotions that are sure to be attractive to every type of player. Most significantly, Party Poker is bringing back Rake-Free tournaments for a limited time through January. Online poker's third largest room will also be offering a reload bonus, a $50k depositors freeroll and satellites/freerolls to the $1 million guaranteed in early February. These promotions are without even mentioning the $22,000 in special freerolls available exclusively through PAS. Rake Free Tournaments: Last offered in July, the Rake-Free Tournament promotion proved to be a big hit with Party Poker's tournament players. If July is any indication, the tournament buy-in will still be the same but the fee will be applied to the prize pool. Reload Bonus: Everyone loves a Party Poker reload bonus. During the entire month of January, players can deposit on the site and receive a 100% match when using bonus code RAKEFREE. Clearing the bonus will require 8 Party Points per $1 of bonus money within 30 days. The RAKEFREE bonus will release in 10 equal parts, or $10 if you received the maximum bonus. $50,000 Depositors Freeroll: Players that use the RAKEFREE bonus code in January will not only receive a 100% up to $100 reload bonus but also an entry into the $50,000 Depositors Freeroll to be held on February 5th at 11:00 AM ET. Summary of Additional Promotions at Party Poker Of course, this isn't the extent of the promotions players can receive when playing at Party Poker. Players can also take part in the following lucrative promotions: $22,000 Exclusive Freerolls -- 4 $3,000 freerolls for new players and 2 $5,000 freerolls for non-new players (PAS Exclusive)Free Poker Coaching through Drag the Bar or DeucesCracked (PAS Exclusive)Qualifiers to the Winter Million held on February 5th100% up to $500 sign-up bonus (New Players)VIP Program yields up to 50% VIP Rakeback
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