Bovada This Week
Bovada Launches Its Version of Fast Poker – Zone Poker
From the days of Rush poker on Full Tilt, U.S. players have not seen this high-speed format in cash games where you don’t have to wait for the whole table to decide what to do with their hole cards if you want to just fold and move on – until now. Fast-fold poker is a quantum leap in playing experience and is offered now by Bovada at their $0.02-$0.05 and $0.05-$0.10 cash tables aptly named Zone Poker. Letting go of trash hands has never been easier: check the “fold” option and you will be instantly relieved of your subpar holdings, sat at a new table, and dealt a new hand.
Zone Poker has its own tab in the main poker lobby at Bovada and is quickly gaining popularity with the pool of players easily reaching into hundreds already.
The $5K PTS Freeroll
If you are raking Poker Points at three to four times the usual speed while playing at Zone poker tables, it only seems natural to invest these points in the Weekly $5K PTS Freeroll. The main tournament is held once a week in alternating formats: turbo on every other Thursday at 9:20 PM ET and regular every other Saturday at 2:20 PM ET. There is a direct buy-in option for 1,000 Poker Points or you can qualify via satellites offered at two buy-in levels: 25 PTS and 200 PTS. Top 20% of the field in the freeroll shares in the $5,000 prize pool.
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New Promotions from Carbon Poker
Heads Up Sit & Go Leaderboard
This new leaderboard just launched by Carbon offers $10,000 in combined prizes across four different stakes categories by the end of the month. Qualifying is easy: each Heads Up Sit & Go tournament entered in any category will earn you one point on the category’s leaderboard.
Sit & Go Boost
This promotion that runs through the end of August offers a 10% boost in the VIP points earned during every even hour for playing at Sit & Go tournaments. To be eligible to receive the ten per cent increase you need to activate this promotion under Promotions > Sit & Go Boost.
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Full Tilt Claims Processor is Poised to Announce Start Date
After more than two years of diminishing hopes in what the saga of lost Full Tilt Poker funds has become for a lot of U.S. players, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. According to an e-mail posted on the 2+2 forums, a date for the start of the repayment process may be announced as early as the end of this week.
The e-mail from The Garden City Group, Inc., payment processor hired by the U.S. Government to handle Full Tilt claims, goes on to explain that, once the date is announced, instructions on how to submit a claim will be sent to all eligible players electronically. To identify the potential claimants GCG will use the data provided by Full Tilt Poker.
A website, fulltiltpokerclaims.com, has already been set up to inform about the reimbursement process; it contains a link to register for e-mail notifications and provides an e-mail address and a phone number for the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administration. What is also known is the amount available to repay the U.S. players – about $184 million as part of the U.S. Department of Justice deal with PokerStars, who acquired the FTP brand and assumed its debt in 2012. The uncertain part, however, is whether players will receive the full amount that was on their accounts on Black Friday. According to the disclaimer posted on the site ,” If the aggregate balances of all eligible Petitioners exceed the funds available for distribution, payments shall be made to eligible Petitioners on a pro rata basis.”
With fairly simple inferences from this statement we can conclude that, since the pool of eligible petitioners and the amount of their balances will determine whether to calculate prorated payments, a better chance of getting the full amount is offered to those who stake their claims first or, simply put, the sooner the better.