February 27 2012, PokerNews Staff

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the PartyPoker Weekly where we have details on how you can play at the 2012 WSOP for free, give you information about the upcoming Spring Million, the penultimate day of the amazing Card Rush promotion and Vince Van Patten talking about fake beards and wading in fountains looking for change!

Win a 2012 WSOP Main Event Seat For Free

Today PartyPoker are starting their 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event satellites and it is possible to win a $14,000 package for absolutely nothing, zip, nada! Imagine playing in poker’s biggest and most prestigious tournament knowing that it has not cost you a single cent to do so!

Every Sunday at 14:50 ET, until Jun. 17, there will be a $700+$50 WSOP Satellite that will award one in every 20 players a $14,000 package to the 2012 WSOP. Each package consists of:

• $10,000 WSOP Main Event Buy-in
• $2,000 Spending money
• Hotel accomodation in Las Vegas for 10 nights

Obviously not everyone can afford to enter a $750 satellite so PartyPoker are running sub-satellites. There will be a daily freeroll where the top 25 players gain entry into the daily $2 WSOP Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy. Here a seat to the twice-daily $75+$5 WSOP Satellite Qualifier is awarded for every $80 in the prize pool. In the $75+$5 satellite, one in 10 players will win a seat to Sunday’s $700+$50 WSOP Satellite.

You really could be jetting off to Las Vegas to play for millions of dollars for absolute nothing!

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Win a Share of $1,000,000!

Do you fancy winning a share of a massive $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and doing so for as little a $1? Then the Spring $1 Milllion is just the tournament you are looking for.

The $600+$40 Spring Million kicks off at 13:30ET on May. 6 and it promises to be an amazing tournament. Due to the sheer amount of satellites running, costing between $1 and $172, there are going to be plenty of weaker players in the field meaning it could be your best chance yet of that elusive big score.

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Card Rush Promotion Ends Feb. 28!

The fantastic Card Rush promotion is drawing to a close but you still have until midnight on Feb. 28 to get your hands on a range of free prizes. At time of writing there are around 181,000 cards remaining, each of them awarding a prize ranging from 10 PartyPoints, $1 in cash and a $2,000 freeroll up to 25,000 PartyPoints, $5,000 in cash and a $20,000 freeroll!

Some will also award Card Rush Race points, up to 20 per card, which are used to determine your position on the Card Rush Race leaderboard. Here the top 200 Card Rush Points earners will pick up between $100 and $9,000 in free cash plus every 20th spot from 220 to 2,000 will be given $50 so it is not too late to grab some free money!

You will receive one Card Rush card for every 15 PartyPoints you earn, though your first card can be snapped up for just five PartyPoints. You can collect up to 50 Card Rush cards every day but if the 181,000 remaining cards are awarded between now and Feb. 28 there will be no more available go get involved right now!

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Win a WPT Vienna Package

Vienna has traditionally been one of the biggest stops of all the European legs of the World Poker Tour and you can be part of this year’s action by winning a value-packed $7,000 package on PartyPoker.

Last year 555 players packed into the Montesino Pokertainment Centre in Vienna, creating a prize pool of “1,776,000! The lion’s share of this was won by Dimitry Gromov who picked up “447,840 after defeating Maksim Kolosov heads-up for the title. This year we could be writing about you taking down a mammoth-sized first place prize.

Satellites will be running until Mar. 25 with each $7,000 consisting of:

• $4,700 WPT Vienna Main Event buy-in
• $900 spending money
• Hotel accommodation for six nights

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PartyPoker Speak To Vince Van Patten

Dany Willis of PartyPoker spoke to the legendary Vince Van Patten during the recent WPT Vienna Grand Prix and he revealed that on his first trip to Las Vegas he armed himself with $18 and a fake beard, then lost all of his money and had to wade around in the MGM fountains for loose change!

Have a watch of the interview over on the PartyPoker blog.

Help Yourself to 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
• Create a new PartyPoker account and enter the bonus code “PN50FREE”
• Fill in the registration form in the PartyPoker cashier
• DO NOT make a deposit when prompted
• 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.

If you experience any problems with this or any of our promotions, please contact our Ticketed Promo Support System.

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November 11 2011, Brett Collson

It’s Friday, and we want to get your weekend started off on the right foot. What better way than to talk about strip poker? In this edition of the Nightly Turbo, we bring you a strip poker game in New York City, a chance to freeroll for thousands of dollars courtesy of poker pro Matt Glantz, and more.

In Case You Missed It

This week, the United States Department of Justice filed a response to the pretrial motions of John Campos and Chad Elie, two of the 11 men indicted on Black Friday. Take a look at the 52-page response to find out more.

How was the high-stakes action at the PokerStars tables this week? Read the Online Railbird Report to find out the week’s biggest winners and losers.

It was recently announced that Poker Players Alliance chairman Al D’Amato will testify next week in one of two hearings on Internet poker on Capitol Hill. What could each of the hearings mean for online poker?

The PokerNews Team was at the Penn &Teller Theater for every moment of the 2011 WSOP Main Event final table. Take a photographic look back at the November Nine festivities in WSOP Through the Lens.

On Thursday, we brought you Part 1 of our post-WSOP interview with world champion Pius Heinz. In Part II, Heinz discussed his marathon heads-up match against Martin Staszko, and more.

Sunday is almost here and that means football. All 32 teams are in action this week, and we discuss all 16 games in the latest Pigskin Diaries.

Miss anything this week? Kristy Arnett gets you caught up on the latest news, views and gossip in the PokerNews Weekly.

Strip Poker in The Big Apple

On Saturday, a group of card players will engage in a week-long strip poker game in New York City that intends to deliver a serious economic message. Each day for a week, for seven and a half hours every day, seven players will gather around a white table in a TriBeCa storefront to gamble away their clothes. At the end of each game, the players will get dressed and begin another game.

The demonstration, called I’ll Raise You One…, will be fully visible from the street and will surely attract a crowd on onlookers. Artist Jeffrey Throwell will be one of the exhibitionists in the display and explains his inspiration for the piece by saying, “In a world where money has taken supreme importance and all functions of life are commoditized, I’ll Raise You One… is a project where clothing, charisma and a good bluff are the only currency.”

The last time Throwell used nudity as a political message, he dressed dozens of people up as bankers, hot dog vendors and secretaries, and had them strip bare on Wall Street. Three people were arrested for disorderly conduct during that display, but Throwell doesn’t expect any police action this time since the strip poker game will take place indoors.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing updates from TriBeCa all week so be sure to check in for the latest photos.

(Sadly, not really.)

Get more on this story at artingeneral.org.

Matt Glantz Offers Freeroll

Poker pro Matt Glantz has a new website, and he’s celebrating the launch by giving away percentages of himself in three future tournaments. Glantz is offering six players a chance at free money just by creating an account on his website and doing a little recruiting.

According to the site, one new sign-up will receive 10 percent of Glantz in the World Poker Tour Jacksonville event on Nov. 18, 2011. Then, five more sign-ups will win percentages of Glantz in the Bellagio Five Diamond Main Event on Dec. 6 and the Epic Poker League Main Event on Dec. 14. Those prizes will be awarded to the top five individuals who refer the most sign-ups to Matt’s blog.

Glantz has more than $4 million in live tournament earnings in his career. He’s cashed in each of the first two EPL Main Events, taking 14th place in Series 1 for $43,190 and then 12th place in Series 2 for $46,020. His biggest win came at the 2009 PokerStars European Poker Tour London High Roller event for $882,736.

Get more info at www.mattglantzpoker.com.

“Major” Announcement from PKR

Nowadays, we can’t help but roll our eyes when an online poker site makes an announcement about a future announcement (see Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday). On Friday, PKR.com said it is set to unveil the newest member of Team PKR Pro. However, we have to wait until next week to find out who it is.

The site will reveal the player’s identity on Thursday, Nov. 17. He or she will join the current crop of six Team PKR players that includes Vladimir “Beyne” Geshkenbein, Scott Shelley, Sofia ‘welllbet’ Lovgren, James “james666″ Sudworth, Sascha “locodice” Walter and Marc “Waswini” Bariller.

According to PKR, the new arrival “is among the best poker players in the world, and will represent PKR in the biggest events across the globe.” Could it be Phil Hellmuth? Phil Ivey? Howard Lederer? The anticipation is killing us.

Read the PKR press release at marketwatch.com.

Poker Encore Welcomes New Pro

Poker Encore, a skin on the iPoker Network, announced the latest edition of its pro team this week. British pro James Williams, who plays under the handle “LJAMESL,” joined Karl Mahrenholz, Paul “Action” Jackson, Simon “Amatay” Jones and Constantine Paparestis as the site’s sponsored pros.

Williams, 25, can be found playing no-limit cash games as high as $10/20 online, but he also has more than $200,000 in live tournament earnings. His biggest score came in 2009 when he took second place in the GUKPT Blackpool Main Event for a £52,400.

“I first played with James two or three years ago and recognized the raw talent he had,” said Mahrenholz, who is also one of the co-founders of Poker Encore. “Not only is he a fearless player but he plays the game with a great attitude, which is so important to make it in the poker world.”

Read more at UK.PokerNews.com.

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