Cake Poker is hosting satellites to this years Canadian Poker Open Heads Up Main Event taking place May 14th to 17th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  You can win a $5500 prize package from Cake Poker every Monday at 9:30pm EST in the $200 + $15 heads up shootout satellite, that will run every week until the start of the live event.

The Canadian Poker Open Heads Up Challenge will draw in some of the best heads up poker players in the world.  Each round is a best 2 of 3 series with each player starting with 10K in chips.  Don’t miss out on your chance to play against some of the best poker professional in the world.  Sign up at Cake Poker today using Cake Poker sign up code THECAKEBC.

If you are from the States and can’t make it to Canada for the Challenge, here are some California Poker Rooms for you to check out.

Pokerstars is close to dealing it’s 25 Billionth hand and because of this monumentus milestone, PokerStars is having a huge promotion called the 25 Billion Bash!  The poker promotion involves many rewards for players including milestone hands, a reload bonus, the mega milestone hand and more!

Milestone Hands
Every millionth hand, starting from 24.5 billion, PokerStars is giving away cash prizes to the winners and the players dealt into the hands.  The bigger the limit you are playing at the bigger the prize will be.  At the micro limits the winner of a milestone hand wins $300, whereas if you play the high limits and win a milestone hand you would receive $2500.

25% Reload Bonus
PokerStars is also offering at 25% reload bonus to all players.  This is a very rare thing for PokerStars to offer reload bonuses, so rare in fact that this is the biggest reload bonus PokerStars has ever offered.  You should take advantage while you can and make your deposit now.  The bonus is a 25% matching bonus up to $250.

Mega Milestone Hand
The 25 Billionth hand at PokerStars is going to be one to remember.  Over $250K will be given away just on one hand of poker.  The winner receives a prize package of over $150K which includes $100,000 in cash as well as packages to the EPT Final, the WSOP, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the World Championships of Online Poker main event.  All other players that were dealt into the hand split $100K.

Those are the main parts of the 25 Billion Bash put on by PokerStars, but we shouldn’t forget that Stars is also having $60K in new depositors freerolls for the days leading up to the 25 billionth hand.  They are also increasing the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up guaranteed prize pools so to coincide with the “25″ theme.  The Sunday Million will have a guarantee of $2.5M and the Sunday Warm-Up of $1,250,000 on Sunday February 15th. 

This is a perfect time to sign up at PokerStars or deposit to take advantage of the bonuses.  Or you could just try to play more ring games and hope for the best!  It would be quite the lottery, but somebody has to win it.