Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for the upcoming FTOPS XIII online poker series.  The action gets underway on August 5th and 25 events with a total guarantee of $16 Million run until the series finishes up on August 16th.  The FTOPS events always bring out a ton of top online poker players who are looking for their cut of the huge cash prizes available in FTOPS events.  The buy-ins for the series range from $100 to $2500 and there are plenty of different poker variations for all types of players to enjoy.

Like the past FTOPS events the winner of each tournament will receive a limited edition FTOPS gold jersey and all players who make the final table will receive an FTOPS jacket.  These are very sought after items and if you win one you will have marked your place in Full Tilt Poker history.  On top of this the top finisher on the FTOP XIII leaderboard will win a custom avatar (worth approximately $1 Million Full Tilts Points) as well as entry into each of the next FTOPS series events excluding the 2 day event.

Full Tilt will also be bringing back the popular FTOPS satellite challenge where you win either tournament dollars equivalent to either 2 buy-ins or 1 buy-in if you are won of the 2 players to win the most satellites into the particular event.  Also, Full Tilt has come out with a new promotion attached to FTOPS, which is the FTOPS challenges.  These challenges will be completed by doing in game tasks.  The prizes for completing the challenges have not yet been determined, but they are sure to be something to do with FTOPS or MiniFTOPS events.

Speaking of MiniFTOPS, from September 9th to 20th Full Tilt will be running the exact same 25 events, but the buy-ins will be 1/10th the size.  This will give players with smaller bankrolls a chance to win the coveted Silver MiniFTOPS jerseys.  MiniFTOPS XIII guarantees $3 Million in cash prizes and is sure to draw some big fields of lower buy-in players.

Overall, both FTOPS XIII and MiniFTOPS XIII will be fun events for all players involved.  If you haven’t signed up to Full Tilt Poker yet, this would be the perfect time.  Use Full Tilt Poker referral code “THEFULLTILT” when signing up in order to receive a Full Tilt Poker bonus of up to $600.

Online poker is taking over Europe is booming. Those are the words you can these days find from a lot of different places. And online poker truly is taking over Europe. Just as with many other things the online poker first gained popularity in America and when it became a major thing “across the pond” the Europeans started realizing how much fun playing poker online really is. The first countries that got swiped over with the poker pandemic were a bit surprisingly the Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden. It can be speculated that this was mainly because practically every home in those countries had a fast and reliable internet connection already over ten years ago. It didn’t take a long for the online poker sharks in those countries to become main stream media figures. Poker players such as Erik “Erik123” Sagström and Bengt Sonner aka “pkrbt” were soon featured in major news magazines and TV programs. After Scandinavia the poker boom began taking over the central Europe and soon major European countries such as France and Germany witnessed their own poker boom. Currently the poker boom doesn’t show any signs of slowing down and every year a new European country finds itself in middle of the online poker storm.
Every year the player numbers keeps going up on the European Poker Tour and other on other European poker tournament series such as European Masters of Poker.
This is mainly caused by countless online poker sites focusing more of their marketing efforts on Europe and running satellites to those tournaments. PokerStars has taken it the furthest and is the official partner of the European Poker Tour. You can find satellites to all the European Poker Tour events at PokerStars. Another site where you can find major satellites is LuckyAcePoker.
Besides the online poker sites focusing on the European poker market, several poker news sites have decided to focus on Poker in Europe as well.  Most famous of them is the Euro Poker Pro which offers daily poker news and poker articles that focus mostly on European poker.

Titan poker has started their Million Dollar Rake Race.  From January 12th to April 28th Titan Poker is giving away $1,000,000 in cash to all of their players who are playing cash games at Titan Poker.

The main event challenge is running throughout the entire event and is giving away a prize pool of $300,000.  First prize in the main event is $75K and after 2 days vader793 from Canada is off to an early lead.  Prizes are paid right down to 3000th position, which is a $30 prize.

There are also monthly and weekly rake races, with monthly races giving away $50K each and weekly races handing out $5K each.

On top of this there are 3 day Country races, where players from a specific country compete for the prize pool.  For example from Jan. 25 to Jan. 27, Canadians will compete in a $3000 rake race.  26 countries in total have their own personal races.  To see if your country is included check out the schedule.

By playing in Titan Poker cash games you are already competing in every race you are eligible for at any given time.  You can participate in all of the races at once, including the main event, the monthly, weekly and country rake races.

By playing in Titan Poker cash games you will automatically earn Titan Points which will determine your placement in the races.

Sign up to Titan Poker now to take part in this amazing promotion!

Rating 3.5/5

Targeted: Loyal Titan Poker players (Silver VIP and Above)
Value: More than $30K to be won!
Chance of Big Payday: Yes!  There is $10,500 Sun City Million package and three $4,500 Irish Winterfest packages available to be won.
Type of Promotion: Freeroll seat earned from frequent play.
Take Advantage?  YES

Details
Earn 10,000 points between August 11th and August 20th to gain entry into the $30K guaranteed Olympic Challenge tournament. 
*This tournament is only available to Titan Poker VIP silver and above players.

Overview
This is a great promotion to take advantage of if you are eligible.  If you are a silver player at Titan already, then you won’t need to increase your play too much to reach the requirements of 10K in points.  There likely won’t be a ton of players taking advantage of this promotion, so you have an excellent opportunity to win one of the big prizes like the $10,500 or $4,500 seats to major tournaments!  If you can, make sure you take advantage of the Titan Poker Olympics Challenge promotion.