March 26 2012, PokerNews Staff

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the PartyPoker Weekly, your one-stop shop for all the latest PartyPoker news, views and gossip! Today we have the terrific news that the Pokerfest is returning for its second showing, the Bad Beat Jackpot being hit, how to qualify for the 2012 World Series of Poker and more! Enjoy.

Pokerfest II Online Kicks Off April 22

PartyPoker have announced that the popular Pokerfest will make a return to the virtual felt and will be bigger and better than every before! Pokerfest II Online will boast no fewer than 47 events, combined prize pools of at least $3,500,000 and a $1,000,000 guaranteed Main Event!

Along with the 47 tournaments there will be multiple side events taking place between Apr.22-May 6 meaning PartyPoker is the place to be when it comes to tournament poker.

Pokerfest II Online gets underway at 13:30 ET on Sunday 22 April with the first of four events scheduled for that day; the $214 buy-in $350,000 guaranteed No Limit Hold’em event. Half hour later there is a $2,500 guaranteed No Limit Hold’em event that costs just 20 PartyPoints to enter then at 14:30 there is a $22 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event with a $35,000 guaranteed prize pool. Rounding off the day’s action is a $530 event that will see at least $250,000 in prize money be won.

Other highlights include a $99 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha event with a $75,000 guarantee, a second $350,000 guaranteed tournament with a $215 buy-in that you can win a seat to for as little as $2.50 and of course the grand finale, the $640 buy-in $1,000,000 guaranteed Main Event on Sunday 6 May.

Daily Dollar Side Events

Every day during the Pokerfest II there will be two tournaments, each with a $1 buy-in, running at 13:45 and 16:00 ET that have “a twist.” The reason for the inverted commas is the fact nobody knows what these twists will be and they will only be revealed in the lobby at the last minute! Interested? So are we!

Pokerfest II Jackpots

Not only could you be walking away with bags full of cash after your Pokerfest II exploits but you could also find yourself heading to the 2012 World Series of Poker armed with a package worth $14,000, iPads and cash bonuses of between $2,500 and $20,000 if you manage to trigger one of the five Pokerfest II jackpots.

• Win any three Pokerfest II tournaments and you will win $20,000 plus a $14,000 package to the 2012 WSOP Main Event!
• Reach the final table in any 10 Pokerfest II tournaments and receive $15,000 and a brand new iPad
• Reach the final table in any five Pokerfest II tournaments and receive $7,500 and an iPad
• Finish in the money in any 20 of the Pokerfest II tournaments and $5,000 and an iPad will be yours.
• Cash in any 10 Pokerfest II tournaments and you will win an additional $2,500 and an iPad

Leader Boards

If the chance to walk away with a $20,000 bonus and a $14,000 WSOP package is not enough to whet your whistle then how about leader boards with combined prizes of $50,000? There is a leader board for points buy-in, the low buy-in ($6-$33) and high buy-in ($55 and above) tournaments that pay out between 250 and 500 place with prizes of up to $2,500!

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Win Your Seat To Poker’s Biggest Tournament For Free!

PartyPoker are offering their customers the chance to play in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event for free! That is correct, absolutely nothing! Until June 17 there will be a series of satellites in the PartyPoker lobby that feed into the weekly $750+$50 WSOP Satellite where one in 20 entrants will win a $14,000 package to the 2012 WSOP!

Each package consists of:

• $10,000 WSOP Main Event buy-in
• $2,000 spending money
• Hotel accommodation in Las Vegas for 10 nights

Feeder satellites into the weekly $750+$50 WSOP Satellite start with a daily WSOP Freeroll and increases in buy-in sizes to $2, $4, $9 and $75+$5. Players can buy-in at any stage but wouldn’t it make an amazing story if you won yourself a $14,000 WSOP package from a freeroll entry?

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Bad Beat Jackpot Hit! $90,000 Paid Out To grujo_grujo!

A couple of weeks ago a player with the alias grujo_grujo was playing cash games on PartyPoker and got $100 into the middle of the felt holding what he thought was a lock, four-of-kind jacks. However, his opponent was sat there with the extremely unlikely quad kings to crush him. Disappointed with his bad luck grujo_grujo simply reloaded and kept on grinding; that was until his checked his PartyPoker balance.

When he looked at his balance he discovered that there was an extra $90,000 showing and it was then and only then that he realised he had triggered the bad beat jackpot with the quads-over-quads hand! Dany Willis from partyPoker caught up with the lucky loser over on the PartyPoker blog and you can read the full interview here.

A $50 Bankroll For Free!

Would you like a free $50 bankroll? Well thanks to the special relationship between PokerNews and PartyPoker, you can help yourself to a free $50, all you need to do is follow the simple steps below, and $50 is all yours to keep!

• Download the PartyPoker software through PokerNews
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• Fill in the registration form in the PartyPoker cashier
• Return to PokerNews and fill in our small registration form
• Check your email inbox for a confirmation email from free50@pokernews.com

Once you have received the confirmation email, $20 will be placed into your PartyPoker account. You must earn at least 40 PartyPoints before you will be able to withdraw the free $20. If you do not earn 40 PartyPoints within 60 days, the initial $20, or whatever remains of it, will be forfeited. PartyPoints are earned at a rate of two PartyPoints per $1 in rake or tournament fees, so earning 40 within a 60-day time frame is quite an easy task.

Once you have earned 40 PartyPoints a further $30 will be deposited into your account bringing the total free cash amount to $50. You must then generate 160 points before you can cash out any of the the $30 and must do so within 120 days otherwise the $30, or the remainder of it will be forfeited.

Boost Your Bankroll With PartyPoker

Each and every week you can boost your bankroll with a share of $5,000 thanks to the ongoing Bankroll Booster promotion. The $5,000 guaranteed freeroll runs every Sunday at 14:30 EDT and you can grab a seat into it absolutely free of charge!

To grab a free seat, simply make a deposit using the bonus code “BOOSTER” and you will immediately be rewarded with a seat in the next available $5,000 Bankroll Booster Freeroll! But if you are not in a position to make a deposit into your PartyPoker account you can earn or win your way into the freeroll very easily.

If you earn just five PartyPoints during the week you will be eligible for a seat. It’s very easy to achieve, because PartyPoker awards two PartyPoints per $1 in rake or $1 in tournament fees! There are also daily freeroll qualifiers available, one costs just a single PartyPoint to enter and they run three times per day. The other is a twice daily freeroll for new cash game players.

Get involved now and win a share of $5,000.

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March 25 2012, Chad Holloway

Day 4 of the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Chile concluded on Sunday by crowning the first champion of Season 5. The final eight players of a 651-player field returned to the Enjoy Casino & Resort in Viña del Mar to play down to a winner, which took approximately five hours to determine. At the end of the day, Aliro Diaz hoisted the trophy and took home $76,560 in prize money.

2012 LAPT Chile Final Table Payouts

At the start of the final table, which included three Chileans, two players from Colombia, two Brazilians and one Argentinian, the big question was whether of not a local would capture the LAPT Chile National Poker Championship title.

Here’s a look at how the final table stacked up at the start of the day.

2012 LAPT Chile Final Table

It took about 40 minutes for the first elimination of the day to occur, and it happened right after Nicholas Batt doubled Javier Venegas. It began when Felipe Velasquez opened for 90,000 and was met with an all-in shove by Batt, for around 725,000. Velasquez made the call with and was off to the races against Batt’s .

The railbirds were on their feet as the dealer put down the flop of . The Velasquez contingent erupted in cheers as their man had hit an ace to take the lead. The turn was of no consequence, and neither was the river. Velasquez chipped up to 2.8 million on the hand, while Batt became the eighth-place finisher worth $13,040.

Not long after, action folded to Diaz in the cutoff and he opened for 95,000. After the button got out of the way, Halysson Sala moved all in from the small blind for 505,000 total holding . The big blind got out of the way, and Diaz called with .

It was a classic race, but Sala needed to improve to stay alive. The flop was not what he was looking for, and neither was the turn, though it gave him some extra outs. Unfortunately for Sala, salvation would not be delivered on the river as the bricked, and he was eliminated in seventh place for $17,470.

It was at that point that a six-handed deal that was struck. Chip leader Velasquez guaranteed himself $60,000, while each of the other five players locked up $40,000. Per the terms, each would add to their respective totals depending on their finish as follows: first – $36,560; second – $26,000; third – $18,000; fourth – $14,000; fifth – $10,000; and sixth – $7,000.

It took some time for the next elimination to develop, but it came when Velasquez opened to 140,000 in the hijack and was called by Diaz in the cutoff. From the small blind, Sergio Escobar, who began the day as chip leader, shoved for about 475,000, and Velasquez isolated with an all-in re-raise.

Showdown
Velasquez:
Escobar:

The flop paired Velasquez and left Escobar in a world of hurt. Neither the turn nor river offered help, and Escobar’s Main Event run ended in sixth place for $47,000.

A few hands later, action folded to Venegas on the button and he wasted little time in moving all in for 710,000. Leonardo Olivares was in the big blind and thought for a solid minute before making the call. Venegas turned over , and seemed excited his cards we live against the of Olivares.

When the flop came down and Venegas hit his king, his supporters erupted with cheers from the rail; however, it was short lived as the peeled off on the turn. This time it was Olivares’s rail that erupted. During the commotion, the harmless was put out on the river, and Venegas shook hands with the victor before taking his leave in fifth place for $50,000.

In a blind-versus-blind battle of Chileans, Velasquez moved all in from the small for around 1.4 million and Diaz snap-called from the big blind. Velasquez flipped over and was in trouble against Diaz’s , especially after the flop delivered the latter a set. Velasquez picked up a gut-shot straight draw to a three, but it was not meant to be as the hit the turn followed by the on the river. Velasquez was eliminated in fourth place for $74,000.

A short time later, Joao Lopes opened to 300,000 on the button and Olivares folded his small blind. Diaz, though, re-raised all in from the big blind with the big stack. Lopes called all in for about 1.3 million.

Showdown
Lopes:
Diaz:

Lopes’ cries for a three failed to materialize as the board came down to end his Main Event in third place.

On the seventh hand of heads-up play, Diaz opened for 185,000 and then called Olivares’s three-bet to 500,000. When the flop fell , Olivares thought for a moment before announcing all in for around 2.5 million. Diaz thought long and hard, approximately two minutes, before announcing a call.

Showdown

The crowd was on its feet as the dealer burned and turned the . In order to survive, Olivares needed either an ace or queen on the river. The dealer burned one more time and put out the . With that, LAPT Chile was over as Olivares shook hands with his opponent and made his way to the payout desk to collect $66,000.

The next stop on the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour will be in May at the Mantra Resort, Spa and Casino in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and of course PokerNews will be there to bring you all the action straight from the felt.

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