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Free Poker Training From Carbon Poker

May 112012

Carbon Poker has a new promotion in place where Carbon Poker players can receive free online poker training from the professionals at DragTheBar. The poker training has a retail value of $30 per month and Carbon Poker players can get this training absolutely free simply by playing online at Carbon Poker.

How To Get The Free Training

In order to get the free training at DragTheBar you simply need to rake $1 at Carbon Poker cash games. Once you rake that $1 you receive the rest of the current month and the following month of free poker training from DragTheBar. If you rake $500 before the months end then you can tack on an additional free month of online poker training!

You do need to opt in to take part in this promotion. To do so visit Carbon Poker and click on the DragTheBar Free Poker Training promotion. If you don’t yet have a Carbon Poker account you will need to open one and be sure to use a Carbon Poker bonus code to get the best bonus possible at Carbon Poker.

What You Get

You get a full membership at DragTheBar for two months just by raking $1 at a Carbon Poker table. The full membership includes training from over 30 coaches, access to DragTheBar’s library of over 1000 poker instructional videos (40 new videos added monthly), and access to the active forums where players attempt to help each other and pose questions to the coaches.

DragTheBar is one of the top online poker training websites online and access to the site for free is a great promotion from Carbon Poker.

Does Poker Training Work?

Most poker players believe they know more about the game than they do, but the fact is that poker is such a complex game that is always changing and training sites such as this one do have their place even for the most advanced players. If nothing else the videos will help you to understand how other players think when they are in a similar position, which should increase your ability to put your opponents on a range of hands when they make certain plays at the Carbon Poker tables. Poker is a game where you should never stop learning and Carbon Poker is giving online poker players the tools to improve their game just for playing at their site.

The Merge network has had some difficulties lately and with Lock Poker leaving to start their own online poker network Merge needs to continue to offer great promotions such as this one to attract new players and keep their current ones. The Last Man Standing promotion for the month of May was a solid promotion, but it is geared towards only the higher stake players who rack up the VIP points at Carbon Poker. This free poker training promo is perfect for the newer, lower stakes players, which is where I have found Carbon Poker to be lacking with their promotions over the years. A player should be able to rake $1 in less than an hour playing at very small stakes, so this promotion is really set up for anyone. A quick poker download of Carbon and a few minutes at the table should be enough to gain you access to DragTheBar for the next couple months.

In order to get the best return out of the promotion I suggest opting in and raking the $1 early in the month so that you have 2 full months of access to the DragTheBar website.

Free $5 No Deposit Bonus at Bet365 Poker

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May 092012

Bet365 announced this week that they will be offering new UK registrations a free $5 credit with no deposit required. Simply open a new Bet365 account, create a nickname and you will have $5 waiting for you to use in your account. This is an amazing offer for new players because they can try out the Bet365 real money tables without ever having to make a deposit. If you play your cards right you may be able to build that $5 into a sizable bankroll. It would make a great story if somebody was able to turn their $5 credit into $10,000 playing at Bet365.

Of course Bet365′s normal 200% matching bonus up to $1000 will still be available for those players who wish to deposit and play at higher stakes than the free $5 allows. A new deposit will also credit your account with a free ticket into the €100 New Depositors Freeroll. This free $5 bankroll won’t stay around for every so visit Bet365.com now and start playing poker for real money with absolutely no risk.

There are some small restrictions on when you can withdraw the free money so that people don’t just sign up and ask for a withdrawal right away. You must play at least 50 raked hands or make a deposit of at least $10. These are very simple clearing requirements that should be easy for all players to complete. If you play 50 raked hands at the lowest level tables you should still have a decent amount left from your $5 and you may have even increased the $5 to an amount more worth of a withdrawal.

This free $5 bonus is one of the best free bankroll offers I have seen from an online poker room in some time. It is important to note that the offer is only valid for residents of the United Kingdom. If you are not from the UK then you are not eligible to receive the free $5 and I suggest you visit pokerdownload.co.uk to learn about some other online poker room that may be worth your time downloading and trying out.

But if you are from the UK stop wasting time. Click here to visit Bet365 and try to build your free $5 into a million….why think small!

*I could also add that the Bet365 sportsbook is offering a money back special on all Champions League Finals correct score, halftime/fulltime and scorecast bets if the match finishes 0-0 after 90 minutes. Once you clear the 50 raked hands you should be able to transfer the poker funds to the Bet365 sportsbook and take advantage of this promotion.

Last Man Standing Promotion at Carbon Poker

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Apr 242012

Carbon Poker is running a Last Man Standing competition that begins on May 1st and lasts for 60 days. There is $35,000 up for grabs from this promotion if can master Carbon Poker’s tests of poker endurance and be the last man standing. This promotion is for the grinders who play every day at Carbon Poker, so it is not for the feint of heart.

Details

You will have to earn VIP points at Carbon Poker every day in order to qualify for this promotion. The number of VIP points required each day increases as the Last Man Standing promo gets further along. The first day you must earn 50 VIP points and by the 60th day the goal is to earn 25000 VIP points! You are allowed to take 3 days off during the promotion, but once you miss that 4th day you are eliminated. And to make matters more serious after the 45th day the days off go out the window and you must play every day to stay alive. Visit Carbon Poker to check out how many VIP points are needed every day of the promo.

It is important to note that you must opt in to this promotion by clicking on “activate promo” in your player admin area.

Prizes

The 25 players who last the longest will win the money. Here is the money list for the top 5 finishers;

$6,000
$4,000
$2,500
$2,000
$1,500

If you squeak into the cash the 25th place finisher wins $250. Visit Carbon to see the entire prize table. I’m sure the top finisher will get one of those sought after Carbon Poker accolades.

Last Man Standing Freerolls

If you don’t make it into the top 25 all is not lost. The longer you stay in the promotion the more freerolls you will be able to enter. Every Sunday throughout the first four weeks of the promo there will be a freeroll tournament. The total value of the four freerolls will be $10,000 so there is still money up for grabs if you can hold your own the first few weeks of the grind.

Value

This is another Carbon Poker promotion that is geared solely towards the professional players. Players at higher limits earn VIP points faster than players at lower limits and casual players will not stand a chance in this promotion. For those players who do grind away every day at Carbon Poker this is a great promo because you will be rewarded for doing what you are doing anyways.

This is just one of the Carbon Poker pros and cons that you see from almost every promotion they offer. The promos are always geared towards the professional players which is a pro for them, but a con for the casual player who keeps the poker ecosystem going.

Bovada WSOP Freeroll Promotion

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Apr 202012

Bovada has started a new promotion that is awarding new players who have signed up via one of their affiliates (click this link to sign up) a ticket to 1 of 8 exclusive weekly $1000 WSOP Main Event Satellite freerolls. A $470 + $30 main event satellite ticket is awarded to the winner of each of these freerolls, with the other $500 spread among the rest of the entrants.

The first Bovada WSOP freeroll tournament takes place this Saturday April 21st at 7pm EST and these tournaments will continue every week until Saturday June 9th.

How It Works

This promotion is only for new signups who have registered via an exclusive Bovada link and have made a deposit. Upon your first deposit you will receive the tournament ticket that you can use in 1 of the exclusive freerolls on any Saturday between now and June 9th.

If you do win the $470+$30 satellite you are able to play in any of the Main Event Satellites for your chance to win a $12,000 prize package to the 2012 WSOP Main Event. Therefore if you do pull off the win in one of these freerolls you will have about a 1 in 25 chance of winning the $12k prize package.

Promotion Quality

This promo is great for new signups to Bovada. You will still receive Bovada’s typical 100% matching bonus up to $1000 and I have also heard that Bovada is giving away free $25 bankrolls with no deposit required. No deposit poker bonuses are very rare so these bonuses along with the WSOP Main Event Satellite freeroll ticket make signing up to Bovada a no brainer.

More About Bovada

Bovada only accepts US residents because it is the US facing poker room of the Bodog online poker brand. The 100% matching bonus up to $1000 is awarded at 6 levels which are determined by the number of poker points you earn. The first $10 bonus is issued after you have earned 50 poker points, with the remainder of your bonus being released after 250, 750, 1500, 3000 and 5000 poker points are earned, so the bonus is released at a rate of $1 per 5 poker points. In tournaments you earn poker points at a rate of 3 points per $1 spent so this equates to you earning $0.60 of your bonus for every $1 that you pay in fees, which is a very good rate compared to other online poker room bonuses. You have 60 days to release as much of your bonus as possible, with whatever amount you don’t clear being lost after the 2 months.

Bovada is a great online poker room, but it also has a very popular online sportsbook and casino which allows players to entertain themselves with more than just online poker. Bodog has built up a great reputation within the industry and seeing as Bovada is a branch of the Bodog brand you should feel safe having your money online with Bovada.

Carbon Poker April $25,000 Chip King Promotion

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Apr 082012

April is another exciting month at Carbon Poker with $25,000 in extra freeroll cash available to be won. Every Sunday throughout the month the freeroll prize pool will grow and the more VIP points you have earned to the point the bigger your starting stack will be for the tournament. Carbon Poker is one of the best poker websites online and one of the few remaining that allow American poker online. This is a great value promotion for the month and to learn more continue reading.

Chip King Freeroll Tournaments

As mentioned earlier a freeroll tournament will be held on every Sunday throughout the month, starting today April 8th. In order to participate in the first three freerolls you must opt-in to the Chip King promotion and earn at least 50 VIP points in the month prior to each of the tournaments. So if you have already earned 50 VIP points heading into the April 8th freeroll you are able to participate in each of the first three freerolls. That being said the more VIP points you have earned in the month the bigger your starting chip stack. Here is the information on the first three tourneys:

Freeroll #1 – April 8th @ 16:00 – $2,500 pot
Freeroll #2 – April 15th @ 16:00 – $5,000 pot
Freeroll #3 – April 22nd @ 16:00 – $7,500 pot

For each of these tournaments your starting chip stack depends on the amount of VIP points you have earned in the month:

50 – 99.99 VIP points – 250 chips
100 – 249.99 VIP points – 500 chips
250 – 499.99 VIP points – 750 chips
500 – 999.99 VIP points – 1000 chips
1000+ VIP points – stack size equal to number of VIP points you have earned

As you can see even though you gain entry into the tournament with just 50 VIP points a larger amount of VIP points will give you a significant advantage in the tournament.

Exclusive Fourth Freeroll

The fourth freeroll tournament is an exclusive $10,000 freeroll that only the top 100 VIP point earners for the month gain entry to. You can check where you stand on the leaderboard at the Carbon Poker website. This final freeroll takes place on April 29th at 16:00 and once again the starting chip stacks are determined by the number of VIP points you have earned over the course of the month. If you do manage to be in the top 100 in VIP point earnings then this tournament could be very lucrative for you.

Good Value?

This promotion has a value of $25,000 but in reality this $25k will mainly go to the players who rack up the VIP points this month at Carbon Poker. And seeing as you rack up the points faster at the higher stakes this probably isn’t that great of a promotion for the lower level players at Carbon. You can easily gain entry into the first three freerolls, but if the players with huge amounts of VIP points decide to participate it will be very difficult to cash.

Overall this is a great promotion for the higher stake players at Carbon, but not a great one for the players whose bankroll only allows cash games around $0.25/$0.50.

Visit Carbon Poker to learn more about this promo.

Bet365 Poker Premium Cash Ladder Promotion

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Mar 012012

Bet365 is giving cash game players the chance to earn up to $1,000 every week by playing at their Premium Table cash games. You can work your way up to the Premium Cash Ladder rungs each week working your way up to the 17th rung to earn $1000 from Bet365!

How It Works

First things first you must opt in to participate in this promotion from Bet365. Do so by visiting the Bet365 Poker promotion page and clicking on the OPT IN NOW button on the Premium Cash Ladder promotion page.

The promotion works by you earning Merit Points at the Bet365 cash game Premium Tables with stakes up to $0.50/$1. It is important to note that the Premium Tables are exclusive to Bet365 poker players (the rest of the network can not see the tables) and this likely means that the competition is also weaker because Bet365 is primarily known as a sports betting website, so many of the players will likely be casual poker players.

Every week you then earn Merit Points and the number of Merit Points you finish the week with determines how big of a cash award you receive. It takes 40,000 merit points to reach the 17th rung, which gets you $1000 in cash. The lowest run is 200 points, which earns you $5 and there are the remaining rungs in between. Basically every merit point you earn gets you $0.025 in online poker real money, but you have to reach the next rung in order to receive the equivalent of that amount.

This is not a rake race where you are competing against other players. With this promo you are simply competing with yourself. In order to get the most value from this promo you should make sure you get to the rung you are attempting to by the end of the week or many of the points you earn may not be worth anything.

Bet365 Poker

Bet365 is a great online gambling site that is extremely well respected in the industry. The poker room usually takes a back seat to the sportsbook, but like all aspects of the Bet365 brand the poker room runs smoothly and is a great place for poker players. Bet365 even gives new players a crazy 200% matching bonus up to $1000 which is one of the best bonuses in online poker. Bet365 is on the iPoker network, which is one of the largest networks online, and this means that you will be able to find a wide variety of poker games at all levels and there will be new tourneys starting every few minutes.

Visit Bet365 Poker now to get in on the action….

Bodog Black Diamond Poker Open

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Feb 162012

Bodog has announced an exciting event that will be taking place in March and April at the Bodog Poker room. The Black Diamond Poker Open is a series of events, both low buy-in and high buy-in tournaments are offered, and there is $750,000 in prizes up for grabs.

The Contender Series (low buy-ins) starts on March 5th and runs until the main event of the series, which takes place on March 18th. There is over $115,000 in prizes up for grabs in the series, which makes it a great event for low and mid level tournament players.

The Championship Series (mid to high buy-ins) begins on March 19th, the day after the Contender Series wraps up. There is two weeks of high stakes tournament action with over $615,000 in cash prizes up for grabs leading up to the main event on April 1st. The winner of the main event is guaranteed $50,000 and a $5k championship watch so you can wear your victory on your arm.

There will be all types of poker being played. The majority of the tournaments will of course be no limit hold’em, but you will also be able to find some seven card stud, limit poker and various tournament types such as knockouts and shootouts.

There are satellites into every event from just a few cents making it possible for players with all sizes of bankrolls to play in each of the big tournaments if they are able to win their seats.

This is a perfect time to start playing online poker at Bodog. If you sign up now you could be clearing your Bodog bonus of 110% up to $1100 while you play in these great tournaments. Remember to use Bodog referral number “3178530″ when opening an account in order to receive that bonus.

If you are from the States and not able to play at Bodog Poker don’t worry, Bovada.lv, the US facing portion of the Bodog brand is running the same events and you can participate through their skin. You can use Bovada referral number “3178530″ when signing up there to receive a 100% bonus up to $1000 on your first deposit.

Visit Bodog.eu now to learn more about this event and to open an account.

Best New Online Poker Rooms in 2012

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Feb 022012

2012 is a month in and there are a few online poker rooms that are starting to emerge as real options for players looking for a new online poker room. There are many reasons why online poker players may be looking for new rooms, even though the new poker rooms will not have had enough time to fully distinguish themselves as legitimate options for players looking for reputable online poker rooms. That being said new online poker rooms often offer great bonuses and promotions in order to entice new players to try them out and they are also often filled with fish because the stronger, professional players are unlikely to move to a new poker room, especially a new one where there is always the risk of not seeing there money again. Add in the fact that you won’t find many higher limit games and the new rooms are generally filled with fish and casual players.

Without further ado let’s take a look at some of the best new poker site options for 2012:

BetOnline.com

BetOnline has started to really push their online poker room to go along with their strong (but still new) online sportsbook. BetOnline offers new players freerolls running 24/7 and 25% in free play bonuses on every deposit up to $900. That’s right, BetOnline isn’t just trying to bring new players to their room with a sign up bonus, but they are instead rewarding loyalty by offering the same bonus for every deposit you ever make at the site. On top of that you also receive a tournament bonus of 200 promo bucks for every $50 you deposit. These promo bucks can then be used to play in BetOnline tournaments! Those are some great promos and the best thing is they keep coming, it’s not a one time bonus and then you are forgotten about.

BetOnline is quickly getting the reputation for having a very fishy online poker room and they accept US players, which is great, especially after all of the big poker rooms (PokerStars, Full Tilt, UB) stopped allowing Americans at their sites.

WinnerPoker.com

Winner Poker had a great 2011, but they are still considered a new poker site heading into 2012, and the online poker room will look to continue to build their reputation moving forward. Unlike BetOnline, Winner Poker does not accept US players and they are on the popular iPoker network, that is currently the second largest poker network in the world. Winner Poker is enticing new players to try out their site by offering a massive 250% matching bonus up to $2000 on first deposits. This is definitely one of the biggest first deposit bonuses in the industry, but to be fair the clearing conditions are horrible. When you look at the bonus in detail you earn $5 of the bonus for every $27.78 in fees that you pay. This is much worse than the clearing conditions of other smaller bonuses at other rooms, so it’s important to read the fine print. If you plan on sticking around and playing out the entire bonus then the $2000 may still be worth it.

It will be interesting to see what new online poker rooms continue to improve and gain momentum in 2012 and which ones inevitably falter. I expect these two to continue moving in the right direction, but I think Bet Online is the best bet right now. Visit BetOnline.com to check it out for yourself.

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