June 04 2012, PokerNews Staff

Hello and welcome to the latest publication of the PartyPoker Weekly, where we bring you all of the latest PartyPoker related news, views and gossip. In this week’s edition we have details on how to qualify for the WPT National Series in Madrid, how to bag a seat to the WSOP Main Event and much more.

Win Your Way To WPT National Madrid!

You have less than one week left if you want to win your way to the WPT National Series Madrid Main Event. Qualification is only open until midnight on June 10 so you better get your grind on and win a package worth $4,000.

The WPT National Madrid runs from June 28 to July 2 at the Casino Gran Madrid. A seat to the $2,250 Main Event, hotel accommodations and spending money could all be yours – and yours for free!

Every day there is a WPT National Madrid Freeroll where the top 25 players receive an entry into the WPT National Madrid Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy that costs just $1 to enter. This and a $3 turbo freezeout feed into a daily (13:55ET) $25 WPT National Madrid Satellite Qualifier where for every $225 in the prize pool a ticket to Sunday’s $200+$25 WPT National Madrid Satellite is awarded. For every $4,000 in the prize pool in this final satellite one package to WPT National Madrid will be awarded; each package consisting of:

• $2,250 Main Event Buy-in
• Hotel accommodation for five nights
• $750 spending money

Start qualifying now!

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Head To The 2012 WSOP With PartyPoker

If you have been following PokerNews’ live reporting at the World Series of Poker we are certain that you will have an itch to fly out to Las Vegas and play in some WSOP events. They don’t come much bigger than the WSOP Main Event; a tournament you could be playing in thanks to PartyPoker.

There is just under two weeks left to win a package to the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event worth $14,000! Qualifiers are only open on PartyPoker and will run right up to June 17 so time is running out if you want to claim a $14,000 package, which consists of:

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

Daily freeroll qualifier tournaments are running so you could win your package for absolutely no financial outlay at all. There are also plenty of other satellite tournaments running that have buy-ins ranging from just $2 to $80 that feed into the weekly $700+$50 WSOP Satellite.

This particular tournament kicks off at 14:50 ET every Sunday and awards one $14,000 package for every 20 entrants! Win a seat and you will be joining the rest of Team PartyPoker.com in Las Vegas!

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Tournament Leader Boards

PartyPoker is the place for Sit & Go and Multi-table Tournaments thanks to its weekly and monthly leaderboards that add a new level of competitiveness to the games. Can you prove you have real skill and talent?

Each week between 00:00 ET Monday until 23:59ET Sunday your play in tournaments counts towards the weekly leader boards where the overall winner will walk away with $600 in cash and a $1,000 Tournament Leader Board (TLB) Freeroll entry while those players finishing in positions second through 10th will walk away with a seat in the $200,000 Guaranteed Sunday tournament and a $1,000 TLB Freeroll entry. Finish in places 11th through 50th and you will be entered into the $1,000 TLB Freeroll also.

These prizes are superb, but it’s the monthly leaderboards that yield the most value and the biggest prizes as you can see in the screen shots below:

SNG Monthly Leader Board Prizes

MTT Monthly Leader Board Prizes

Each tournament you play will see you earn leaderboard points and the more you earn the better your chances of winning one of the excellent prizes. Your points are worked out with the following special formula: (√Buy-in/2 + √wins)

Good luck!

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$200k Guaranteed Sunday

Sunday is traditionally the day for online poker, and that is certainly the case on PartyPoker where every Sunday at 13:30 ET its flagship tournament – the $200,000 guaranteed – takes place.

The June 3 edition of this amazing tournament attracted 1,075 runners and created a prize pool of $215,000; the lion’s share of which finding its way to “Kostenkiso’s” balance after he was awarded $45,150 for taking down the Sunday Major.

If the $215 buy-in is too costly for you then there are a plethora of satellites running throughout the week that feed into this tournament, which is one of the most eagerly anticipated weekly in online poker. Check out the PartyPoker lobby for full details.

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Help Yourself To a Free $50 Bankroll!

Thanks to the special relationship between PokerNews and PartyPoker you can help yourself to a free $50 bankroll! That is correct, $50 absolutely free.

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

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March 15 2012, Eric Ramsey

Thursday was Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Madrid “5,300 Main Event. From the starting field of 477, the final 112 players returned to the Casino Gran Madrid to play through the bubble and on down to the final 24. That goal was reached right around the bewitching hour of midnight, and João Paulo Simão carries the biggest stack of 1.973 million into Friday’s penultimate day.

It took a couple of hours to reduce the field to within a few eliminations of the bubble, and a slew of notables were among the early casualties. Matthew Frankland was one of the very first to go, and he was soon joined on the rail by Yorane Kerignard, Ondrej Vinklarek, Joep van den Bijgaart, David Benyamine, and Ebony Kenney in the pre-bubble madness.

On the first of the hand-for-hand shuffles, McLean Karr was the one who bit the bullet and took matters into his own hands. He three-bet shoved for about 30 big blinds with pocket fives, but Javier Etayo’s had him crushed. Karr had a sweat on the turn, but the board meant the end of the road for Karr, and a small celebration for the 72 players who outlasted him.

Once the bubble burst, the pace of the eliminations began to quicken further, and another batch of notables were dispatched. The second wave of knockouts saw Vadim Markushevski, Barny Boatman, James Sudworth, Dermot Blain, Jan Collado, Olivier Busquet, Kenny Hallaert, and Melanie Weisner all sent off.

At least one of those players made good use of the rest of their day. Hallaert went promptly to his computer to late register for the $1 Rebuy Micro Millions event as his alter-ego, “SpaceyFCB.” Five hours later, he was sitting at the final table trying to collect the rest of the 1.6 billion chips in play. He outlasted 44,739 of the 44,740 players, besting everyone but the last man standing. A runner-up finish earned SpaceyFCB $12,562.45 – just a bit more than his middling cash in the EPT Main Event. Not a bad day, all in all.

Back to the Main Event where the Day 3 starters’ list included a quartet of Team PokerStars Pros. Unfortunately for the sponsor site, none of them were able to survive to night’s end. Mexico’s Angel Guillen fell out just a few spots short of the money, and Norway’s Johhny Lodden managed to squeak into a small payday before being relegated to the rail. His pocket threes were ahead of ace-jack until the last card, but the proverbial ace on the river ended his run in 60th place. Henrique Pinho was relieved of his short stack just a few minutes later, and that left only Alex Kravchenko flying the PokerStars banner. He lasted until 35th place before losing his short stack and his tournament life.

For the bulk of the day, Ilan Boujaneh weilded the big stack, and he and Simão were hovering around the million-chip mark hours before anyone else even came close. Boujaneh’s biggest boost came one hand before the dinner break when he played a pot for his tournament life against Simão.

Boujaneh had raised and four-bet preflop, and Simão called another bet on the flop. He raised the turn, but Boujaneh led right back out on the river. Simão called him down with two mystery cards, and the appeared in front of Boujaneh to give him a monster pot and a commanding chip lead.

The two men traded the big stack back and forth for the remainder of play, but Simão got the last laugh in the last hand of the night. His ace-king toppled two players, one with pocket queens and one with pocket sevens. A king on the river locked up the biggest pot of the tournament, and Simão’s count of nearly 2 million gives him a big cushion heading into Day 4. It’ll be his largest cash regardless of where he finishes, though he does have some other results of note. In 2010, he won the WCOOP $215 Heads-Up event playing as “IneedMasari,” and he took down a side event at LAPT Florianopolis the same year. He’s got the chips, but he’ll have to deal with the likes of Michael “Timex” McDonald, Clayton Mozdzen (783,000), Taylor Paur (734,000), Nicolas Levi (526,000), and Tristan Clemencon (395,000) on his way to what he hopes will be a final table appearance.

Eight seasons in and the EPT is still looking for its first double champion. A few players entered the day with glowing aspirations of making that happen. It came mostly unraveled, though. Season 7′s San Remo champion, Rupert Elder cold-four-bet shoved pocket sixes into pocket nines to end his day shy of a cash. Near the end of the night, EPT6 Berlin champion, Kevin MacPhee four-bet ace-queen into two aces, though he did manage to pick up a little spending money on his way out the door. Toby Lewis and Joao Barbosa have won EPTs in Portugal and Poland, respectively, but they too fell short of super deep runs in Madrid.

We’ve still got one former champion left looking for the double dip – Canada’s Michael “Timex” McDonald. He won in Dortmund in 2008, and he’s since made two more EPT final tables. Those efforts have come up short, but he’ll return with a top-five stack of 883,000 on Friday and another crack at the trophy.

Also worth a mention is the presence of Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes in the remaining field. Kool Shen is one of the most prominent figures in French rap, and he also dabbles a bit in acting, break dancing, and graffiti art. Oh, and poker. You’d be forgiven for underestimating him as just another celebrity-turned-poker-player, but Lopes has been doing some serious work on the felt. He won a “5,000 event in Paris earlier this year, and he’ll likely creep over $400,000 in career earnings with this cash.

Lopes’ progress was impressive throughout Day 3, and he first came onto the radar when a chip-leading stack suddenly appeared in front of him during the early stages of the day. He took a nice pot off McLean Karr with on a board full of undercards, and he won a big flip later in the day with pocket nines against Javier Piazuelo’s . At the end of the night, Kool Shen was sitting pretty with 1.103 million chips – good enough for third place overall.

End of Day 3 Top 10 Chip Counts

Day 4 will begin on Friday at 1200 CET (0400 PST), and play will proceed until the final table is set.

If you missed any of the action from Day 3 in Madrid, head over to the Live Reporting page to catch up. While you’re catching up with things, catch up with us on Twitter, too.

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