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September 2012 PartyPoker Bonus Code

Poker Bonus

The PartyPoker Bonus is big and easy to get, worth up to $/£/€500 back on your first real money deposit. Just register a new account using PartyPoker Bonus Code 500PS and make a deposit. Then, as you play real money tourneys and cash games online at PartyPoker, you’ll clear your bonus in 10 equal payments, which clear automatically to your account as you earn PartyPoints. For every $1 you pay in rake or tourney fees, you’ll earn two PartyPoints. If you’re playing in USD, you’ll need six times your bonus amount in points. If you’re playing in Euros, you’ll have to earn eight times the bonus amount, and for Sterling, you are required to earn nine times the initial bonus amount. This bonus will expire 60 days after you claim it.

Tony’s House

Beginning September 3rd and running through October 7th, 2012, the Tony’s House promotion will award $200K in prizes including iPhones, smart TVs, game consoles, and even a Volkswagen Golf GTI. You can start the action with just one PartyPoint.

Every Monday through Friday, $5K in prizes will be awarded. Each Sunday during the promotional period $15K in prizes will be given away, and $20K plus the VW Golf GTI will be rewarded at the Tony G’s House Grand Final.

To get involved, collect one PartyPoint per day to earn a Daily Giveaway ticket (you can obtain on point by playing in a $6 tournament). Twenty points per day will earn your participation in all 20 Daily Giveaways. New PartyPoker Players will get five free entries into daily $5K tourneys.

Autumn $1 Million

The Autumn $1 Million promo at PartyPoker will run all fall, through November 4th, 2012, and you could win your fair share of $1 million for just $1. One-dollar qualifiers are running now, as well as others, so you have plenty of opportunities to get in on the action. The $640 buy-in main tournament will take place on November 4th. You can’t win if you don’t play!

International Stadiums Poker Tour Gets Sam Trickett as Ambassador

A tournament series that will change poker forever, the International Stadiums Poker Tour, will make its debut in London in May of 2013. This series is picking up buzz in the poker world and many will be very excited to see it become reality. An estimated 30,000 players are expected to compete, and this number may actually increase.

The inaugural event will be held at London’s Wembley Stadium and this completely novel concept for a tournament that is both online and live is anticipating tens of thousands of players present and accounted for, playing online in the arena. The top 3,000 players who make it through the initial online preliminaries will then advance from the stands to the live tournament to be played on the field at Wembley.

The event will be televised and guarantee a prize pool of €20 million.

Joining Michael Mizrachi as ambassadors for the tour is Sam Trickett, high stakes British pro who has been quite successful in poker, namely in live tournaments like the ISPT. With more than $16.4 million in career earnings, Trickett is currently the all-time money earner in the UK.

Trickett announced his new title via Twitter: “I just want to announce that I will be an @ispt_poker official ambassador. Will be one of the Biggest tournaments ever held May 31, 2013.”

Trickett told Poker Channel Europe, “As a poker player, I have to be associated with such an enormous event. Being part of this tournament means being part of the history of poker.”

October Nine: Robert Salaburu

With just over 15 million chips, 27-year-old Texan Robert Salaburu has the seventh largest chip stack in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table which will reconvene in late October at the Rio All Suites in Las Vegas, Nevada. He’s already guaranteed at least $750K, which will be the largest win of his career.

Salaburu began playing poker at 16 and has been playing ever since. Like many poker pros, he began playing Internet poker in college and then dropped out of school to pursue a career in poker.

Salaburu started out playing live cash games early in his career and then eventually began playing online poker tournaments. Most of his tournament experience came from online tournaments (his online handle, “treadindank”) and not live tournaments, though he has played in the Main Event the past three years, which has to count for something. He will definitely be feeling the pressure though as he heads into the Main Event final table.

Unfortunately, his career was lulled, like so many others, after Black Friday, and he now plays live and has opened a car lot to supplement his poker income.

With less than $50K in live tourney cashes, this car salesman by day, may never have to work again come October.

When asked, “Why poker?” he responded, “I have never been good at reporting to people and taking orders from people, so I had to figure out something in a hurry. I guess I just kind of stuck with what I knew.”

This seemingly grounded guy has just as good a chance as any of the other October Niners at taking the title, outside of a few million chips.

PokerStars Hopeful for Theirs and Full Tilt’s Re-entry in US Market

Since Black Friday when PokerStars was jolted out of the US market in April of last year, the online poker brand has been doing everything right in hopes to someday re-enter the US market. The very recent three-way deal between the DOJ, PokerStars, and Full Tilt Poker (for which Stars paid $730 million) was one more foot in the US door. So it is not surprising that there’s already speak between Stars execs about a return in the near future.

PokerStars Head of Corporate Communications Eric Hollreiser recently said that the company certainly expected to be back on future regulated US soil. He further said that in the DOJ agreement, PokerStars admitted to no wrongdoing, put it in writing, and signed it, so that when the time comes that the US will be taking applications for online poker licenses, both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker will for sure be submitting an application.

PokerStars clearly views the deal with the DOJ as a get out of jail free card. Hollreiser says, “We are the leading online poker site and licensed in more countries than anyone in the industry. We bring tremendous value, credibility and integrity to the marketplace.” He continues, “With our US legal issues now resolved, we are a very qualified candidate for a license.”

Some view the deal between PokerStars, the DOJ, and Full Tilt as a sign that regulated and legal poker will be introduced into the US in the near future. Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas says, “The Justice Department could have very easily banned PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker from the United States forever. Yet it chose not to. It chose to clearly recognize that online poker can and should be a viable industry in this country.”

Joe Hachem in Hot Water

Recently Joe Hachem, Australian poker pro and 2005 WSOP main event champ, got into a bit of a pickle after posting a pic on Twitter of a baby that appeared to be smoking a shisha pipe. While the baby only seemed to be “teething” on the pip in the pic, his caption that accompanied the photo stated, “Go blues, shisha for all, can never be too young.”

He then got an overflow on anti-baby smoking activists when the Australian Herald Sun quoted Australian Childhood foundation spokesman Joe Tucci: “I don’t think that anybody in that photo intended to harm that child, but inadvertently they have put that child in some sort of danger. This photo minimizes the rights of a child.”

Hachem then followed up with another tweet, “Take a chill pill man as if it’s real, geez so uptight.”

And so the haggling continued for a few more days, and Hachem finally tried to make right by the world when he tweeted, “If my shisha tweet from Saturday has offended anyone I sincerely apologize. It was not my intention to offend anyone let alone condone underage smoking. I never have and never would do that intentionally. Once again my sincere apologies.”

And in other Aussie news, Aussie poker player Shane Warne was in controversy recently when ads for 888 Poker (his sponsor) showed up on a porn site, which may not be so bad, but Warne runs a children’s charity, so not the best choice of sponsorship/advertisement.

First Intrastate Online Poker License Granted in Nevada

The first real money intrastate online poker license in Nevada has been granted to South Point Poker, LLC, owned and operated by Michael Gaughan. This is the first license of this type in the US.

South Point Poker COO Lawrence Vaughan says, “We are pretty excited to enter the online gaming world. This is an incredible step forward. It’s going to redefine gaming and what the state can do.”

And while there will be undoubtedly more license like these to follow, what makes this first one different is that South Point Poker won’t be using a third party to supply software, as it has its own proprietary platform and has received licensure from Nevada as a gambling service provider as well as an interactive gaming manufacturer.

Vaughan says, “We built this home-grown in Nevada from scratch, to the regulations,” which makes it much more well-received by critics.

South Point hopes to launch sometime in the fall, ideally in October of this year. It will be interesting to see if online poker pros who have relocated out of the country in order to make a living playing real money online poker will return to the states and set up shop in Nevada.

A play money version of South Point Poker has been up and operating for a few months now, but according to Vaughn, the software used for real money will in fact be different.

South Point will require 30 employers to run the new online poker website, update software, and ensure that no one under 21 gets on the site, as is a big requirement under Nevada regulations.

“We have to make sure you are who you say you are,” comments Vaughn. “We’ll know if the person playing is the person who is supposed to be playing.”

Everest Poker to Join iPoker Network

It is rumored that Everest Poker will be moving over to the iPoker Network in order to increase online player traffic. Over the past couple months, the brand has had a significant decrease in activity and is hoping that a network switch will increase their numbers. While Evererst Poker does rand third in the French online poker market, before iPoker, it is a risk they will be taking to lose their third place ranking.

Because traffic is decreasing at Everest Poker, they are losing revenue and even sponsorships, so while this is a big step, it’s a strategy to save the site. Internationally, Everest Poker has lost nearly 40% of cash game traffic in only the past six months, according to Poker Scout reports. Whether or not the merger will affect the French market is unknown at this point.

On the new network, Everest Poker players will have access to more gaming options such as Speed Poker, iPoker’s version of the original Rush Poker at Full Tilt, a fast fold variation of online poker.

While there has not been an official announcement from iPoker Network headquarters or Everest Poker, but close sources stated the merger is impending and more information should be released very soon.

October Nine: Michael Esposito

At only 44 years of age, Michael Esposito is the second oldest player in the 2012 WSOP October Nine. Hailing from Seaford, New York, Esposito is an amateur poker player, only playing poker as a hobby a few times per year. By day he is a commodity broker in NYC who may have been quite the legendary player had he chosen a different career path. He’s actually played in the WSOP before and cashed in 2006 when he was knocked out in 540^th place earning him more than $22K in cash, so while he may be an amateur, his opponents should still take heed because he seems to have a little bit of that thing we like to call “luck,” as well.

Esposito is also a triathlete, is single, and has two children, a 21-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter. He’s the typical American bachelor, who is now living the dream and come October 29^th will be seated in Seat #9 with 16,260,000 chips—the sixth largest stack at the table. His typical day starts at 4:50 a.m. when he runs or rides his bike. After a 10-hour work day, he comes home to swim, except on Wednesdays when he has dinner with his daughter. He also rides up to 60 miles on his bike every Saturday, but he hasn’t always been so disciplined. In his early 30s, Esposito says he was a smoker and 223 pounds. He felt like he was 55. Now at 43, he feels like he’s 25.

And while he admits that he’s more interested in winning the $8.5 million than the bracelet or all the hype that comes with it, he’s a down to earth guy who says, “I have a pretty content, happy life. I don’t need cars, I have a nice house, I have a nice quiet life. I like my life.”

When asked what his objective was for coming to the WSOP, he said, “My expectations were really the final table. That was the only reason I came. I came in with a mindset just to go. I played in it a few years past where I tried to win it early on. This year I kind of went in with a different philosophy that I would just go day to day and play day to day. Now I’ve got a shot.”

Apparently his philosophy worked, but is he good enough to beat the young guns and the lifelong pros he’s up against?

October Nine: Steven Gee

The oldest player of the WSOP Main Event October Nine, 57-year-old Steven Gee resides in Sacramento, California but was born in China. He won his first WSOP bracelet in 2010 and has more than $1.2 million in live tourney winnings. He sits fifth in chips at the final table with 16.8 million.

His 2010 bracelet came when he defeated more than 3,000 other players in a $1K NLH event and won more than $470K. He also has three additional WSOP cashes under his belt. He and Greg Merson are the only two players in the October Nine who have previous WSOP bracelets wins.

Gee started playing poker in his early 20s in California casinos where he played draw lowball. In the late 70s Gee went pro, but later he drifted away and took a job in software development as a project manager. Throughout the years, he just couldn’t shake his desire to go back to poker, and in 2007 he got back into cash games at the Bellagio, and the rest is history.

“At that time,” he says of his early days in poker, “I was the only young guy at the table. Poker was not popular back in those days like it is today.” Now, at the final table of the 2012 WSOP Main Event, he’s the only player in his 50s. In fact, five of the October Nine are 27 or younger, while two are in their early 30s and Michael Esposito is in his early 40s, so needless to say, this is a very young October Nine. We will find out if age equals experience when final play of the 2012 WSOP Main Event resumes on October 29th at the Rio All-Suites in Las Vegas, Nevada.

PokerStars Road to 100 Billion: 85 Billionth Hand

The 85 billionth hand will soon be dealt at PokerStars online poker site, proving that the Internet poker phenomenon was hardly phased by Black Friday and the US DOJ. And to celebrate this amazing event, PokerStars will be paying out $1 million to cash players participating in online poker at PokerStars.

The 85 billionth hand is predicted to fall sometime in the next couple weeks at a PS cash table. The winner of the 85 billionth hand is guaranteed $10K. Other milestone hands between 84.7 billion and 85 billion will also be celebrated.

PokerStars celebrated its 80 billionth hand earlier this summer, and it’s only taken a few months for another five billion hands to fall. A Spanish player won more than $22K back in May when he won the 80 billionth hand, and his fellow opponents at the table also got $10K for just being dealt into the hand, and it wasn’t a high-stakes cash game either. It could literally happen anywhere at any time on the site.

This promotion is part of the Road to 100 Billion, as PokerStars celebrates every five billion hands dealt on the site. At the current rate, the 100 billionth hand is expected to fall sometime next year.

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