Each of the 20 events in UBOC 5 will be hosted by own of Absolute Poker’s celebrity pros, and the tournament schedule will include a $1,050 deepstack six-max championship and a $1,050 heads-up championship, as well as events in Omaha, mixed game, and Absolute Poker’s own Sniper tournament style, among others. It’s all leading up, of course, to the $1 million guaranteed main event on Sunday, August 29, a $1,050 Monster Stack NL Holdem event.

In addition to the $4 million guaranteed prize pool, players will also be competing on a Leader Board for bonus cash prizes and awards.

The Absolute Poker UBOC 5 equivalent of the World Series of Poker bracelet (and by some standards a more practical trophy) is a commemorative watch. These will be distributed to the winners of the UBOC 5 events, to the Mini-UBOC 5 Championship Main Event winner, and to the UBOC 5 and Mini-UBOC 5 Leader Board champions.

Satellites into the various UBOC 5 events are running now at Absolute Poker, which by the way is one of the webs best poker sites.

The PokerStars 2010 SCOOP—running Sunday, May 2 through Sunday, May 16—is offering lower stakes versions of each event with buy-ins of approximately 1% of the cost of the “regular” (high stakes) version. Best of all, the prize pool is far more than 1% of the prize pool for the original versions—a full 25% of 1/4th the prize pool.

So that means for event #2, the 1st of three 2-day events in this year’s PokerStars SCOOP, you low-stakes players would pay only $22 instead of $2,100, and yet be able to win a share of a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool rather than the original’s $2 million.

By the same token, the main event buy-in for low stakes players in the 2010 PokerStars SCOOP is the 2-day main event is $109 rather than $10,300 and the prize pool is $1 million guaranteed rather than $5 million.

As for the medium stakes players, the buy-ins for your 2010 PokerStars SCOOP seats are all approximately 1/10th (10%) the cost of the originals, but the prize pools are much closer to their originals, in some cases even matching the originals. Look at the kickoff event on May 2, the original being a $2,100 buy-in for $1 million guaranteed. Well the medium stakes equivalent has a $215 buy-in, but still offers a $1 million prize pool.

The prize pools for the mid and high stakes 2010 PokerStars SCOOP events aren’t always identical, but the mid-stakes prize pools are never less than half of the original high-stakes versions. And the prize pool for the PokerStars 2010 SCOOP main event for mid-stakes players, instead of $5 million, is a still handsome $3 million guaranteed.

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Titan Poker is probably the best online poker room when it comes to promotions. Not only do they award players with free money on their first deposit, they also have other promotions such as Club Titan which is a great VIP program. The more you play at the real money Titan Poker tables the more you will be rewarded with their VIP program. Titan also runs qualifiers for players to live events, where you can win a seat to prestige events such as the WSOP for a very small fraction of the actual buy-in price. You will also receive travel and accommodation expenses to go along with the tournament entry for these promotions. Overall Titan Poker is rated one of my top 5 favourite online poker rooms, don’t forget to enter the Titan Poker coupon code when you are signing up for an account.

So what is a better player supposed to do? He can try to negotiate with poker sites directly to get a way better deal. Sometimes this works (depending on the poker rooms policy) but it’s a waste of time more often.A better idea is to look for somebody with good contacts that can arrange such deals with poker rooms that are ready to give better players better deals, so called VIP rakeback.

It’s easier to find good rakeback deals at some of the networks like ipoker, ongame, entraction, boss media, microgaming, cake and so on. It’s almost impossible to find special Full Tilt or Pokerstars deals. We can highly recommend entraction rakeback. This network is the fastest growing network and one of the best places for European players. And you can get some good deals there.

Well, as far as most people are concerned, online poker is already everywhere. It’s really old news to read posts that talk about the growth of online poker. What is interesting to note is the places where poker played online is legal and where it is not. 888 poker is very vibrant in the Asia pacific, particularly in Australia. New Zealand currently has relaxed laws pertaining to online poker. Various promotional campaigns unique to the Asia Pacific prove very successful, utilizing both sports and television personalities from the respective countries. This can be seen in the recent poker ashes.

It’s very important when discussing this topic to refer to the skill game nature of poker, as opposed to the chance luck games of casino, i.e. craps, roulette and blackjack.

Arrests made over the legality of online gambling were rampant over the past few years. The arrest of BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers in Texas in 2006, followed by Bwin CEO’s arrest in France in the same year. Bush’s piggy backing of the UIGEA on to the Safe Port Act in 2006 was viewed adversely by many avid gamblers and admirers of the culture alike.

Yet again, we gaze back upon the events transpiring in the arena of online gambling, and one question pops up … What’s changed?

Pictures of 888 events can be viewed here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/s_w/3474953449/in/photostream/

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With a little more then 1 week to go in this years WCOOP there are still some large guaranteed prize pools to be won, including the $3 million NL Hold’em event on 9/14 and the guaranteed $10 million NL Hold’em Main Event on 9/21/08.

Players may qualify for both of these tournaments and all of the other remaining events via satellite tournaments at PokerStars for as little as 500 frequent player points or $2.20.