May 28 2012, PokerNews Staff

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls welcome to this week’s edition of the PartyPoker Weekly; your one-stop shop for everything PartyPoker related. This week we touch on the Championship Challenge, last-gasp WSOP satellites and how to boost your bankroll with a $5,000 freeroll every week!

Championship Challenge Is In Full Swing

Running until midnight on July 1, the Championship Challenge will give yPartyPoker players the chance to walk away with a cool $100,000 cash prize. For every 10 PartyPoints you earn you will be randomly awarded one of 64 different football players, each of which award you a prize. These prizes include freerolls with prize pool ranging between $1,000 and $10,000 and instant cash prizes of between $1 and $20.

Each team has four players in it and there are special prizes awarded for completing them. For example, find yourself with the goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and striker for England and $50 will be credited to your PartyPoker account, while doing the same for the Polish team will net you a bankroll-boosting $1,200!

Furthermore, massive prizes are awarded for completing full groups. Each group has four teams in it, each with four players in each team and your reward for filling group D is $2,000, Group C – 3,000; Group B – $1,000 and Group A – $7,000. However, complete all four groups, that is all 64 players, then $100,000 is all yours!

You can earn up to 100 footballers per day and your first footballer is awarded when you earn just five PartyPoints! There are a finite number of footballers available and this number will be visible on a ticker inside the PartyPoker software.

For more details on the amazing Championship Challenge check out their dedicated pages.

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Time Is Running Out To Qualify For The 2012 WSOP On PartyPoker

There is less than a month left if you want to win a package to the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event worth $14,000!

Qualifiers are open on PartyPoker and will run until June 17 so time really 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! Bag yourself a seat and you will be joining the rest of Team PartyPoker.com in Las Vegas!

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Boost Your Bankroll With PartyPoker

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 afternoon at 14:30 EST 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 too.

Earn just five PartyPoints during the week and you will be eligible for seat. This itself is 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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• Download the PartyPoker software through PokerNews
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• 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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April 25 2012, Donnie Peters

The PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Super High Roller played down to a champion on Wednesday. The man walking away with the title and “1.64 million first-place prize was start-of-the-day chip leader Justin Bonomo.

Bonomo was one of the seven players to re-enter this event, firing in two bullets worth “100,000 each. He was the only one of the seven to cash, and his move to re-enter ultimately proved to be correct. At the start of the day, Bonomo held over 40 percent of the chips in play at the final table. He never lost the lead, eliminating five players en route to victory.

The first player eliminated on the day was the short-stacked Eugene Katchalov, one of four Team PokerStars Pros to make the final table. He fell in eighth place to set the tournament on the official money bubble.

The bubble was a very large one, with the difference between cashing and not a whopping “310,000. Falling in seventh place was 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel after he ran into the pocket aces of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

With the blinds at 15,000/30,000/4,000, Grospellier raised to 60,000 from the hijack seat. Duhamel reraised all in from the small blind and Grospellier quickly called after Daniel Negreanu folded from the big blind. Grospellier rolled over the and Duhamel’s was in bad shape. Duhamel was drawing dead on the turn and headed out the door empty-handed.

Shortly after Duhamel’s exit burst the bubble, Negreanu was all in preflop with against Bonomo’s pocket tens. The dealer flopped Bonomo a set of tens, and he held from there to send Negreanu out the door in sixth place.

Fifth place belonged to Japan’s Masa Kagawa as he fell at the hands of both Bonomo and Tobias Reinkemeier. In a three-way all-in pot, Reinkemeier held , Bonomo and Kagawa . The board ran out to chop Kagawa out of the tournament.

Patrik Antonius was eliminated in fourth place after he stuck the last of his chips in on a board with . His hand was second best to Bonomo’s , giving Bonomo a massive chip lead with only Reinkemeier and Grospellier in his way.

Grospellier was the third-place finisher when he jammed a combo draw against Bonomo’s top pair and failed to get there, setting up the heads-up battle between Reinkemeier and Bonomo. When the match began, Bonomo had a massive advantage with 9.58 million chips to Reinkemeier’s 1.675 million. From there, things didn’t last too long.

On the final hand, Reinkemeier opened the button to 125,000 with the blinds at 25,000/50,000/5,000. Bonomo three-bet to 350,000, and Reinkemeier moved all in for around 1.5 million. Bonomo called and tabled the . Reinkemeier held the .
The flop came down and Bonomo took the lead with top pair. The turn left Reinkemeier needing a four on the river to double up and stay alive. The dealer burned one final time and then dealt the on the river. Reinkemeier had missed and was eliminated in second place.

Before this win, Bonomo’s largest score came in 2009 when he took fifth in the WSOP’s $40,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for $413,165. When we wrote Bonomo’s bio, we said that if he cashed, he’d eclipse the $3 million mark for live tournament cashes. Not only has he done that, but he has surpassed the $5 million mark, as well, and scored the second major title of his career.

Final Table Payouts

Our very own Lynn Gilmartin spoke with Bonomo table side after his victory.

PokerNews is not done here from the EPT Grand Final, so be sure to follow along with our coverage of the Main Event over the next several days.

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