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The maelstrom that was Black Friday has thrown up all sorts of interesting results. Among them, renewed chatter about the potential for online poker’s legalization. As the news of the DoJ’s indictments spread to the mainstream media, more and more outlets are discussing the likelihood of a regulated and taxed online poker market.

This has also spurred politicians and advocacy groups to up their rhetoric, almost all of them calling for the full legalization of online poker or condemning the strong-arm tactics of the FBI. Posting on a poker forum to lodge your outrage has become a regular occurrence.

One member of the Capitol Hill brigade you’d least expect to lend poker a sympathetic voice is Jon Kyl. The Arizonan senator was one of the prime supporters of the UIGEA . The 2006 bill effectively outlawed online gambling and practically ripped the industry in two. The list of PartyPoker were forced to morph into the best euro poker sites.

Whenever poker bills have been launched, often by former financial big-wig Barney Frank, Kyl has been there to stand in their way. When regulations allowing the UIGEA to be fully enforced were delayed last year, Kyl petulantly blocked the… READ MORE

If you play the free slots download on PartyPoker on a regular basis but have recently gotten a little sick of it, you could give online poker a try. Holdem games on PartyPoker are becoming progressively more popular, and a large player base means excellent game selection.

PartyPoker always has great live tournament opportunities, and this article will describe the WPT Spanish Championship. The site has been running satellites to this event since March 21st, and they are only running until the 8th of May. You better hurry because your time to win a package is running out!

The Spanish Championship takes place in the city of Barcelona from May 25th to 29th. You must be age 18 and over to play the event, and the buy-in is €3,200+€300 (which is roughly $4,900 US).

PartyPoker is one of the best Euro poker sites available, so it’s to be expected that they want to send their players to this event. You can win an $8,000 package that includes your Main Event buy-in, $1,200 spending money, and hotel accommodations for six nights.

To win one of these packages, you must play the WPT Barcelona Satellite on Sundays at 13:45 ET.… READ MORE

Today’s article will highlight yet another poker site running WSOP satellites. I wasn’t joking when I said that all the sites online offer Main Event qualifiers at this time of year! Today I will talk about Tiger Gaming, a skin of the Action Poker Network. This site does not accept players from the US.

Tiger Gaming’s Main Event package is worth $13k. To win it, you must play the $20k WSOP Final Event at 19:00 ET on June 11th. You pay $60 to enter the event ($55 to prize pool, $5 as rake), and the prize pool will be a minimum of $20,000. The winner of the tournament will receive 65% of the total prize pool, which means that the smallest prize they can win is the $13k ME package. In an event in which the prize pool exceeds the guarantee, the first place winner will receive even more than this!

If you know your way around a slot machine download better than a poker download, then you might not want to risk too much money on the WSOP Final Event. In this case you should give the preliminary satellites a try. There are two ways to do… READ MORE

PartyPoker recently was merged with bwin to create the largest Internet gaming site in the world. Site users have the option to play casino games, bingo, free bet sportsbooks, and poker. PartyPoker currently has a number of WSOP promotions so that fans of Texas Holdem can try to win their way to Vegas.

PartyPoker has been running World Series of Poker satellites since February, and they will keep doing so until June 19th. The Main Event packages have a $14k value, with most of it funding your Main Event seat of $10k. You can use $2,000 of your package to fund food and travel expenses, and then the remaining $2,000 is used for eight nights in a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

To win one of these prize packages, you will need to play the $700+$50 WSOP Satellite that runs daily at 15:20 ET. A $14,000 WSOP package will be given out for every twenty players that enter.

If $750 seems like a lot to pay for a poker tournament, you can play the $70+$5 WSOP Satellite Qualifiers. These qualifiers run daily at 3:10 PM ET and 8:40 PM ET. The top 10% of the field will receive… READ MORE

With TV networks surveying the carnage after Black Friday, it’s no surprise that the only shows to survive unscathed from the snafu are High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. Long time rivals, the productions have become very different animals of late. They now share little, beyond being a showcase for high profile poker.

The latest season of HSP has been more about fun-filled amateurs mixing it up with the big pros, than any kind of seriously interesting play. Poker After Dark, on the other hand, is a much more sombre affair with all manner of cerebral moments.

PAD benefits in this respect from having a skilled co-commentator, something HSP did away with two seasons ago. Last week, Andy Bloch was on hand to talk viewers through a rare Pot Limit Omaha cash game.

With Full Tilt banning their players from appearing on HSP, it seems only right that PAD should play host to one of the very few televised PLO games. Full Tilt famously plays host to the biggest and best Omaha games and perhaps the three most famous participants were on hand to showcase their skills.

Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, and Patrik Antonius have traded millions back and… READ MORE

If you chose the PokerStars bonus code because you love huge prize pools, you will be pleased to know that SCOOP is just around the corner. SCOOP is an acronym for Spring Championship of Online Poker, and it is a series of online tournaments with huge guaranteed prize pools. If your bankroll is small, you don’t need to worry because SCOOP features low, medium, and high buy-ins for each of its events.

SCOOP 2011 features 36 different events between May 8th and May 22nd. The weekend events take place at 10:00 ET and 14:00 ET. Weekdays see events three times per day at 11:00 ET, 2:00 PM ET, and 5:00 PM ET. Last year, when PokerStars was still the best online poker site for Americans, the events started much later in the day than this. Since US players are no longer permitted on the site, the start times were changed to accommodate more European players.

This series has been designed to suit the needs of all kinds of players. There are, of course, plenty of No Limit Holdem tournaments. Event 1 features 6-max at buy-ins of $22, $215, and $2,100, and the guaranteed prize pools are $200k, $500k,… READ MORE

April 20th saw the Department of Justice make a deal with Full Tilt and PokerStars, agreeing to give them access to their original dot-com domain names. The deal was made in order to facilitate the withdrawal of American funds. American players have not had access to accounts since last Friday, so news of this deal was more than welcome.

The US Attorney’s Office released a statement that said freezing accounts held by these US friendly poker sites did not prevent them from releasing funds to their customers. It might take a few weeks for withdrawals to get underway and hit accounts, so both sites are asking their players to remain patient.

For some reason the agreement did not include UB or AP. This could lead some people to believe that Cereus is not interested in returning funds to its players. If you have money in AP or UB, though, don’t panic quite yet. The US government would be willing to strike the same deal with Cereus if it wanted to do so.

In other online poker news, the Million Dollar Challenge and the PokerStars Big Game will no longer be shown on the Fox network. PokerStars had invested a… READ MORE

All the best Euro poker sites are running World Series of Poker satellites right now, and Betfair is part of the party. Between April 5th and June 5th there are a total of nine Main Event and thirty Side Event packages guaranteed.

If you are lucky enough to win a Main Event package, you will receive much more than your $10k Main Event buy-in. Also included is spending money, admission to a special welcome event, and breakfast with your hotel accommodations. In total the package is worth $14.5k.

To win a Main Event package, you need to play the Main Event Qualification Final every Sunday at 20:00 CET. It will cost you $320 to buy-in. If this is too rich for your blood, $320 tournament tickets can be won by playing one of the twelve daily WSOP qualifiers. Forget about your Roulette bonus and try winning your way to Vegas instead!

If you would rather win your way into a smaller side event, you need to play the Side Event 54 Qualification Finals on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The buy-in for these events is also $320. The Side Event package includes an entry into the $1,000 Event 54. You… READ MORE

The Department of Justice has given an indictment to eleven people involved with payments to and from Full Tilt, PokerStars, and the Cereus sites. The alleged crimes committed include money laundering and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Payment processors that served the three money poker sites are also among those charged.

Bradley Franzen chose to plea not guilty to a US magistrate in New York. Franzen is a payment processor and has been accused of creating fake businesses and sites in order to hide transactions with poker sites. He is also accused of tricking banks about these transactions.

FBI agents saw Franzen surrender himself in New York yesterday. He was released on a $200k bond that was secured by the home of his parents. If he is found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, he could receive up to 30 years in prison.

Also pleading guilty is Chad Elie, another payment processor for online poker rooms. Charged for bank/wire fraud and money laundering, he was arrested on the 15th in Las Vegas. Like Franzen, he has been accused of tricking banks about transactions to poker sites.

Elie was due to get married the day after… READ MORE

Today we will talk about yet another way to get into the WSOP on the Titan Poker download called the WSOP Warrior League. This league features tournaments in which you can earn points for a leaderboard. Earn more points than your competition to win a portion of the $100k in prizes up for grabs.

The WSOP warrior league features eight Texas Hold’em tourneys. Since the best six out of eight tourneys earn you points, you should be aiming to play as many of the eight schedule tourneys as possible. To play all the tournaments, you pay a one time entry fee of $215 and are automatically eligible for all the events.

If you are an active member of a poker forum and feel that your edge versus the competition is huge, then perhaps you don’t even need to play all eight league tournaments. You can play 7 for $193 or 6 for $171.

The WSOP Warrior league’s regular tournaments are scheduled twice per week between April 26th and May 21st. There is a ninth tournament scheduled for May 24th called the Warrior Grand Final, and the top 50% of the league are eligible to play. You can earn… READ MORE