Party Poker Oktoberfest Race Dates

• Race #1 – August 12th 2011 – August 21st 2011

• Race #2 – August 22nd 2011 – August 31st 2011

Party Poker Oktoberfest Race Prizes

• Finish 1st – 7th – Win Oktoberfest Prize Package
• Finish 8th – 25th – Win $250
• Finish 26th – 75th – Win $100
• Finish 76th – 400th – Win Entry into Oktoberfest Freeroll

Don’t forget that there are two races and you can win prizes in both of them. In fact, Party Poker encourages players to play in both of the races and they’re even giving away two special prizes. Any player that finishes in the top 25 in both races will win a 16GB Apple iPad 2 and any player that finishes in the top 75 in both races will win a 64GB iPod Touch.

If you win an entry to the Oktoberfest Freeroll you don’t want to miss the event. The Freeroll won’t take place until September 4th, but there are some awesome prizes and the playing field will be fairly small. The top 2 players will win an Oktoberfest prize package and players that finish in 3rd – 30th will win one of multiple Apple products. The Oktoberfest prize package includes 2 nights at the 5-star Le Meridien, VIP access at P1 Nightclub, entry into poker tournament, $600 spending money and much more.

You’ll also get to hangout with the team at Party Poker and other Party Poker players. This is a party you don’t want to miss and it’s completely free to participate in this promotion. The 1st race starts in a few days, so make sure you get ready to grind as much as you can for the rest of the month.

Party Poker Reload Bonus

Party Poker is currently offering any player with a Party Poker account a reload bonus. Right now PokerStars is offering a 20% reload bonus, but Party Poker is giving players a massive 100% reload bonus for up to $200. If you’d like to add $200 to your poker bankroll this month there isn’t an easier opportunity than the reload bonus from Party Poker.

Players need to make a deposit and use the reload bonus code “200JULY” in order to receive the bonus. The reload bonus from Party Poker will be released in 10 increments regardless of how much of the bonus you claim. You need to earn 6 Party Points to clear every $1 of the reload bonus and there isn’t a time limit on how long you have to clear the bonus. You only have until August 7th 2011 to claim the reload bonus, so make sure you make a deposit sooner rather than later.

Party Poker No Rake MTT’s

For a limited time, Party Poker will be offering no rake multi-table tournaments in their poker room, which is a promotion that I’ve never seen before. Every single MTT will have the tournament fees (Rake) waived, which will save players up to $50 every single tournament they play. The No Rake MTT’s promotion from Party Poker is only available for a limited time and they haven’t stated how long it’ll last, so make sure you start playing in some MTT’s today.

Party Poker has a huge schedule of daily MTT’s in their poker room that players can choose from including several massive GTD tournaments every week. Party Poker is also hosting freerolls everyday right now and the winner of each freeroll wins a ticket into a $1 million tournament that’s going to take place at Party Poker later in the summer. Make sure you check out the Summer Million promotion to learn about the details of the freeroll promotion.

Party Poker has recently been dropping in traffic and many people are starting to try and smaller skins that are offering the bigger bonuses and promotions. The iPoker Network actually passed Party Poker in traffic recently, but with the new merger all of the poker players at Bwin will now play on the Party Poker platform. Both companies offer much more than just poker and they’re in the process at merging all aspects of their portals together, as best they can.

Many countries have started regulating online gambling and bwin.party feel like they’ll be in the perfect position to capitalize on the emerging regulated markets. There is no doubt that the merger has strengthened both brands and it should be interesting to see what they have planned. Party Gaming and Bwin have always been good to players and there should be no problem with the new merger that current or new players need to worry about.

Bwin operates a solid online sportsbook and it should be interesting to see what they plan on doing with Party Bets and the Bwin sportsbook. Party Bets doesn’t have that big of a market share, but with the merger between Bwin and Party Gaming the two companies should be able to form one very promising online sportsbooks. Most people have played online poker at Party Poker or Bwin Poker already, but if you haven’t you should definitely give either poker room a chance. With the recent merger the traffic at both sites plays on the same network, which means traffic will start to grow at both poker rooms now.

If you don’t finish 1st or 2nd on any of the leaderboards you still might receive a second chance. Players that finish in 3rd – 20th on the high stakes leaderboard will be entered into Freeroll #1 and fight it out for one Big Game V prize package. Players that finish in 3rd – 200th on the medium stakes leaderboard will win a seat into Freeroll #2 where there will be one prize package up for grabs. Low stakes players aren’t left out either, as players that finish in 3rd – 600th on the low stakes leaderboard will also get the chance to win a prize package to the Big Game V.

Apart from the nine Big Game V prize packages, Party Poker will also be handing out $20K in cash and $10K in freeroll tickets to the players that finish near the top of their leaderboard. The nine prize packages to the Big Game V include a $13K buy-in to the cash game plus $2K that you can use to help cover your travel expenses. Players that win a free starting bankroll from Party Poker will have to pay it back if they profit in the cash game, but you get to keep all of the profits you make.

The Party Poker Big Game V is an amazing cash game that you may have watched on television in the past. Poker players from around the world compete in the 48-hour marathon cash game and many of them are the best in the game. The rules of the game are simple and one unique rule is that the players on the table get to vote a player off the table every few hours. The Big Game V will be played from April 15th – April 17th 2011 at the Dusk till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham, England.

If you plan on playing online poker over the holidays, you should make sure you earn 5 Party Points on five different days of the month. For those of you that earn 5 Party Points on 5 different days this month, you’ll be entered into a massive $50K Grand Finale Freeroll that’ll take place on January 2nd 2011. With a little over two weeks left in December, there is still plenty of time to try and earn a seat into the Grand Finale.

Earning 5 Party Points in a single day will only take a few minutes for cash game players that play on low limit tables or higher. If you play micro limits it might take up to 30/60 minutes to earn the 5 FTP’s. Tournament players will also earn the points quickly although it might take a few hours if you’re playing in micro limit sit and go tournaments.

Party Poker will also be offering jackpots to players who happen to win multiple freeroll tournaments throughout the month. This isn’t an easy feat, but the prizes are huge for the few lucky players that might end up earning more than one freeroll victory throughout December. The jackpots are as followed.

• Win Two Freerolls – $5K Jackpot
• Win Three Freerolls – $50K Jackpot
• Win Five Freerolls – $500K Jackpot

This is definitely a great promotion for players with limited bankrolls, as the requirements are simple. Even micro limit players will have an excellent chance of earning 5 Party Points every single day they play poker. Since the promotion itself doesn’t cost any money, anything that you make in the freerolls will be all profit. Party Poker is handing out plenty of Christmas Cash and you don’t want to miss out so sign-up for a Party Poker account today.

PartyPoker recently re-signed Sexton to their site and he is now the ambassador for the online poker room. The fourth largest online poker room would love to see their ambassador added to the list of poker pros that have been added to the Hall of Fame.

A spokesman for PartyPoker reiterated that they would like to see the poker community vote for Sexton. The spokesman stated: “We encourage the poker community to vote online for Mike Sexton’s induction into poker’s hall of fame. Mike famously said that poker takes five minutes to learn and a lifetime to master- it takes five minutes to vote and mark the lifetime achievement of the master! Mike meets all the criteria and deserves to be top of the list when the process gets to the Hall of Fame committee.”

How the Million Dollar Hand Promotion Works

Players at Partypoker will receive a random card for every 15 Party Points that they accumulate along with a prize for every five-card hand accumulated. If a player puts together a pair from these cards, they will receive a cash reward of $5 and 2 pairs will earn $10. There is no limit to the number of hands that can be hit and players will be able to continue to collect cards and play as long as they continue to collect Party Points.

Here’s the full break-down of possible hands and their values:
Pair – $5
Two Pair – $10
Trips – $25
Straight – $50
Flush – $100
Full House – $250
Four of a kind – $1,000
Straight Flush – $5,000
Royal Flush – $1,000,000

Party Poker has stated that they “have had to insure ourselves against the possibility of multiple royal flushes. All a player has to do is collect points and cards throughout the period.” There are many chances to win $1,000,000 and all the player has to do is stick around long enough to collect enough cards.

This birthday party celebration is based on a series of online poker tournaments, finishing up with a big money event where the guaranteed prize pool totals one million dollars. It is going to be a great game; with championship style blind and massive prizes, this tournament will have the feel of professional play, but it’s all for a fun cause.

Tournaments are going on now so go to Party Poker and check the schedule, find a game you like, and reserve your place up to three weeks in advance. These big money tournaments will be played on August 10th, so make sure you start qualifying now with the satellite games.

Where this celebration makes its mark is in the big payout: with one million dollars in prizes, you’ll want to bring your best poker face to the games.

There is also a $3 Multi-Table SubQualifier that offers one entry for every $64 in prize pool money, as well.

The main daily Friday WSOP SubQualifier (played at 3:40 EST daily) buy-in is $64 and for every ten players that enter, one ticket to the weekly, Friday WSOP qualifier will be awarded.

The weekly Friday WSOP buy-in is $550+30 and for every ten poker players at this event, one WSOP $11,000 prize package will be awarded.  PartyPoker is also guaranteeing a minimum of 2 WSOP prize packages a week.

Our Thoughts

PartyPoker has been around for ages, it’s a shame that they don’t accept American players or I’d be all over this and their PartyPoker Sign Up Bonus Code getting an extra $25 FREE.