November 06 2012, PokerNews Staff

The latest edition of the PartyPoker Weekly brings you details on how to qualify for the Aussie Million main event for nothing, the Accelerator promotion that is in full swing and more besides. Keep reading to discover all the latest PartyPoker news and promotions.

Win Your Way To The Aussie Millions

The Aussie Millions is one of the most eagerly anticipated live poker events and you could be heading there for some January sun, armed with a $16,000 package to the Main Event!

Qualifiers will start to appear in the PartyPoker lobby from Nov. 12 and will stay there until Jan. 6, 2013. There will be freeroll tournaments, freezeouts starting at $8 and rebuys from just $2, that eventually feed into the weekly $640+$40 Aussie Millions Satellite where one package will be guaranteed.

Each luxury $16,000 package consists of:

• $11,000 Aussie Millions Main Event buy-in
• Eight nights accommodation
• $2,500 spending money

The Aussie Millions Main Event kicks off on Jan. 27 and with a little bit of luck you will still be in Australia on Feb. 2 when the final table takes place. How fantastic would it be if you managed to navigate through to the final table after qualifying from a freeroll tournament? Do you think you could do that? There is oly one way to find out.

Keep your eye on the PartyPoker lobby from Nov. 12 and start your qualification route to the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event.

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Win Up To $5,000 Cash And $30,000 In Freeroll Prizes With The Accelerator Promotion

The Accelerator promotion has only been running since Nov. 1 and already there have been thousands of prizes given away. You have until Nov. 30 to participate in this fabulous promotion, so do not delay, get involved today!

What makes this promotion so special is the fact you get to keep each prize that you earn along the way and not just the highest value prize! Some of the prizes include freeroll entries where you could in an iPad or share of $15,000 plus there are cash prizes ranging from $5 and increasing up to a massive $1,725! Check out the graphic below for a rundown of the prizes.

All you need to do if you want to win your share of these prizes is:

• Opt in on the PartyPoker site
• Earn just five PartyPoints to claim your first prize
• Collect more prizes and you earn more points

The more points you earn, the better your overall prize haul will be. Earn just 500 points and you will receive each and every prize up to that rung of the ladder. This means you would win $20 in cash and entries to the iPad freeroll, the $5,000 freeroll, $10,000 freeroll and a $15,000 freeroll! Earn 40,000 points and you will receive every single prize on offer, which adds up to $5,000 in cash and $30,000 worth of freeroll entries!

We think the Accelerator promotion has some amazing value and we are sure you will think the same.

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Win Your Way To WPT Prague

Last year, the Prague leg of the World Poker Tour broke the record for the best attended European-based WPT Main Event when 571 players bought in, creating a prize pool of “1,753,202 ($2,336,512). This year the tournament could be even bigger thanks to the festival of poker and mind games that will be taking place and the fact there are going to be three starting flights, which means the first-place prize could exceed the “450,000 ($599,720) that was awarded to Andrey Pateychuk last year, and you could be in with a chance of winning a WPT title if you qualify for WPT Prague on PartyPoker.

This year’s WPT Prague Main Event is part of the Prague Winter Festival that will see a number of other well-established poker tours host their Main Events in the Czech capital. What is more, there will also be the inaugural Mind Sports Festival where games such as Risk, Counterstrike and even Scrabble will be played for real money. Prague is an amazing city anyway but these extra activities going on around the WPT Prague Main Event make it a “must not miss” event.

In addition, if you buy into Day 1a of WPT Prague and bust out you can register for a freeroll tournament where one in 11 players will win a seat to Day 1c!

Satellite tournaments have been running in the PartyPoker lobby for a couple of weeks now, but they will cease to do so on Nov. 18. There are freerolls, rebuys, and freezeouts that all feed into the weekly $300+$25 WPT Prague Satelllite where one package is guaranteed to be awarded.

Each $6,000 WPT Prague package consists of:

• $4,250 WPT Prague Main Event buy-in
• Six nights accommodation
• $800 spending money

Do not delay, start the ball rolling today and you could be jetting off to Prague in December for a shot at the WPT Prague crown! PokerNews will be there, will you?

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Kara Scott Talks WSOP and Marathons!

PartyPoker sponsored pro Kara Scott was the hostess for ESPN’s coverage of the recent World Series of Poker Main Event final table, a duty she performed impeccably.

In here latest PartyPoker blog, Scott talks about having to “raise her game” whenever she steps out in front of the cameras; gives her thoughts on the WSOP final table and talks about a friend who ran six marathons in six days in th Sahara Desert!

Read the full entry here.

Grab A Free $50 Just For Creating A PartyPoker Account!

Now is the perfect time to create a PartyPoker account through PokerNews because we can give you a free $50 for doing so! Everyone loves free money and all you have to do to get your hands on some free cash is follow the simple steps below, and $50 is all yours to keep!

• Download the PartyPoker software through PokerNews
• Create a new PartyPoker account and enter the bonus code “PN50FREE”
• Fill out the registration form in the PartyPoker cashier
• Return to PokerNews and fill out 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 in 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 60 days is easy.

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 $30 and must do so within 120 days otherwise the $30, or the remainder of it will be forfeited.

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November 06 2012, Chad Holloway

After being offline since June 2011, Full Tilt Poker relaunched in much of the world Tuesday at 7:00 ET (12:00 GMT). The company, which was acquired by FTP’s former competitor PokerStars, is once again offering real-money gaming on the same platform while making available $184 million in balances.

“The return of Full Tilt Poker fills a hole in the community that’s been felt by millions of players,” FTP Team Pro Gus Hansen said in a press release. “A lot of people have been waiting for this day to come and now that it’s here we can all look towards a brighter future.”

The relaunch has been in the works since the Rational Group, operator of PokerStars, acquired the assets back in July in a deal that included the United States Department of Justice. As part of the deal, PokerStars agreed to pay back worldwide customers while forfeiting $731 million to the DOJ, which will be in charge of repayment of U.S. players through a remission process.

Operations actually recommenced on Wednesday, October 31 when FTP allowed players to sit down at play-money tables, view their balances, and transfer funds to their PokerStars account. It was also at this time that Shyam Markus, FTP’s Poker Room Manager, provided additional information, answered questions on TwoPlusTwo, and highlighted the ability to link their account with PokerStars.

Players in segregated markets like France, Spain, Denmark, Estonia and Belgium are unable to play real-money games on Full Tilt Poker at this time, but they can withdraw their balances though PokerStars.

“Full Tilt Poker is now a sister site to PokerStars, whose parent company acquired Full Tilt Poker this summer,” said the FTP press release. “One of the advantages of the sister sites is a new feature which enables players to quickly and easily transfer cash between Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars to play in an even larger selection of games and tournaments and participate in the promotions that interest them most. The two sites represent the largest pool of online poker players in the world, making it possible to offer the greatest number and variety of cash games and tournaments.”

In preparation for the launch, FTP geared up its promotional efforts. They highly publicized the signing of a group of ambassadors known as “The Professionals” that includes Hansen, Viktor Blom and Tom Dwan, who are all expected to fuel the high-stakes action. However, FTP will not be offering the famed $500/$1,000 tables upon launch, so they’ll have to settle with the highest stakes being offered-the still healthy $400/$800 games.

In addition, FTP is “offering a series of promotions, including $250,000 in freerolls and $300,000 in added FTOPS tickets. A ‘Happy Hour’ promotion allows players to earn double player points ‘around the clock’ and every player will be receiving a minimum $200 ‘Deal Me In’ bonus.”

“Full Tilt Poker is back and better than ever,” said Sarne Lightman, Head of Marketing for Full Tilt Poker. “We are bringing back to the players everything they loved about the site and we invite them to help us celebrate by joining our ‘Deal Me In’ launch promotions.”

While residents of the U.S. and some other countries are unable to play for real money on FTP, they can still sit down at the Play Money-only site FullTiltPoker.net.

Stay tuned to PokerNews.com as we bring you news, views and reactions of the Full Tilt Poker relaunch throughout the week.

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