Bovada This Week
Poker’s Mini Series
From June 24 to July 18 Bovada is running a massive promo for tickets to side events at WSOP 2014. You can play your way to the World Series of Poker and compete for huge WSOP-sized prizes for a fraction of a buy-in. Daily qualifiers into Finale for the main $4K prize, which includes a buy-in to a WSOP side event, travel/hotel, and spending cash; are offered for $0.55. You can also buy-in into Last Chance Qualifiers starting at $5.50. Top three finishers of Last Chance Qualifiers, events numbered 1 through 35, will play in Finale, and fourth to ninth place will qualify for the semifinal. You can also earn your seat at a semifinal by playing 20 events or a spot at Finale by playing 30.
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Carbon Poker Promotions
Free Seats to Sunday
This new promotion from Carbon Poker lets you earn a seat in a freeroll to the $215 Big Sunday tournament. To qualify, you need to earn 100 poker points in one week – between 00:01 on Sunday and the freeroll start time of 15:00 on Saturday. Top 50 finishers will receive a $215 ticket to Big Sunday.
Tourney King
Carbon Poker will track your tournament results on two leaderboards: Lo-limit for buy-ins from $0 to $19.99, and Hi-limit for buy-ins over $20. By placing in the top 250 in either leaderboard you will qualify to the monthly Grand Final Leaderboard tournament with the combined value of $20,000. Each finalist will be assigned a unique stack based on the points accumulated for the month.
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John Pappas Discusses PPA Plans at WSOP
John Pappas, the Executive Director of the Poker Player Alliance, a group that has been rigorously lobbying legislation at both the federal and states level, made a stop at the WSOP in Las Vegas last weekend to meet with attendees and discuss his various online gaming legalization efforts.
The PPA is 1.2 million member organization, whose goal is to legalize online poker in the United States. With the legal landscape in the country continuously changing, PPA has to adjust its lobbying tactics to get the most bang for its buck.
According to Pappas, the most effort is currently spent on legislative activities in individual states because this is where the momentum is. The immediate prospects of seeing a federal legislation are not very optimistic, in Pappa’s words, as “Congress has a lot of challenges, and having this issue rise to the top of things they tackle in the next 18 months is hard to believe”.
Therefore, the hope lies with the individual states. Pappas believes California and Pennsylvania could legalize online gaming by next year. “Once you get some of the bigger states”, he says, “that are not viewed as a traditional gaming state, then momentum can build”. As soon as the bigger states join, the interstate compacts to pull players and share resources and revenues will start forming.
Read the full article at Las-Vegas Review-Journal here
VISA Now Accepted at Ultimate Poker
According to an e-mail sent to UP customers last week, VISA credit or debit card is now accepted for deposits at Ultimate Poker. Other options, available since the launch of the website are e-check, bank wire, check by mail, and direct payment at the cage at Station Casinos. Mastercard was added soon after launch.
One problem with VISA deposits could be that some deposits may be rejected by the issuing bank since VISA continues to use code 7995 for these types of transactions. This code is commonly rejected by the banks because of its relationship with online gambling before it was regulated.
Mastercard, on the other hand, has adopted a new banking code, specifically for “legal and regulated” online gaming.