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The Weekly $5K PTS Freeroll
Put your poker points to good use with the weekly drive for $5K to score a payday without risking any cash!
The Weekly $5K PTS Freeroll will be held every week with an option to buy-in directly for 1,000 points or get in through a 25 points qualifier. The freeroll will alternate every week between a turbo tournament on Thursdays at 9:20 PM ET and a regular one on Saturdays at 2:20 PM ET. Below is the list of all qualifiers and tournaments; be sure to check the lobby for complete start and registration times.
$5,000 PTS Freeroll Qualifier – 200 PTS buy-in.
- These run daily at 5:10 PM ET.
- The top-15 finishers get a ticket for the weekly $5,000 PTS Freeroll Tournament.
$5,000 PTS Freeroll Qualifier (Turbo) – 25 PTS buy-in.
- These run daily at 11:10 PM ET.
- The top-15 finishers get a ticket for the weekly $5,000 PTS Freeroll Tournament.
$5,000 PTS Freeroll – 1,000 PTS buy-in or use a tournament ticket won in the qualifiers above.
- This is run on the first and third Saturday of every month at 2:20 PM ET.
- Top 20% of the field shares in the $5,000 Prize Pool.
$5,000 PTS Freeroll (Turbo) – 1,000 PTS buy-in or use a tournament ticket won in the qualifiers above.
- This is run on the second and last Thursday of every month at 9:20 PM ET.
- Top 20% of the field shares in the $5,000 Prize Pool.
The Caribbean Craze
Win a $2.5K trip to the tropics by playing Caribbean table games in the casino. Through August 11, for every $100 wagered on Caribbean Stud Poker, Caribbean Hold’em Poker or Caribbean Draw Poker you will score a $5 Casino Chip and an entry into the grand prize draw.
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The Wall Street Journal Discusses “New Science” of Poker
In a recent article, the online edition of The Wall Street Journal gave a compact overview of the progress and current state of theory or “collective intelligence”, as the author calls it, in poker.
The article, by any means, is not a crash course on poker math or theory because the depth and details required for such an exercise are certainly beyond its intent. Rather, it examines how growth in poker popularity has, over the years, led to a corresponding increase in the strategy of the game. It touches on the critical concepts in the theory of poker, such as results vs. expectations, ranges and balancing, and equity in enough detail to at least spur the interest in a curious type new to the subject. It also mentions some of major contributors to the theory, like Sklansky and Phil Galfond, and does not overlook the role of computers in the development of the game. But the main merit of the article is, perhaps, the fact that poker here is treated as a mental exercise, on the pages of a prominent paper no less: every little bit that helps the glacial crawl of poker official acceptance is welcome .
Read the full article here.
New TV Poker Show Announced
Rush Street Productions, headed by Heartland Poker Tour co-founder Todd Anderson has announced the creation of a show Poker Night in America with the expected debut on TV sometime in early 2014. The show will film the biggest events at best poker venues with the emphasis on fun, variety, entertainment, and story-telling. It will feature pros and celebrities playing at stops around the country, with the first scheduled one at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York, on August 10 with the annual Empire State Poker Classic, a $1,650 buy-in event that is open to anyone.
This is what Todd Anderson said on his recent blog post about his plans. “My goal is to make it very different from any other poker show…There will be events across the country that anyone can play and get a chance to be on TV… In a word I want Poker Night in America to be ‘fun’”.
Read more on this on pokernews.com here .