Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 15, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

In honor of their purchase of the Cake Poker Network, and their upcoming move to the new network, Lock Poker has announced its first order of business will be reinstating the Ronin Rake Race, one of the most popular promotions ever run at the site. The new versionRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 17, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Edit: We are sorry to announce that currently the LockOps has been cancelled. Less than a month after successfully wrapping-up their first online poker tournament series, the Poker Maximus, Lock Poker is back at it, this time with the announcement of the LockOps Tournament Series. The LockOps TournamentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 02, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Playing online poker in April just got a whole lot better after the details for the most recent promotion at Lock Poker was announced this weekend. Throughout the month of April, Lock Poker will be running their Lock Lotto Extreme promotion, where players can earn daily and grandRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 27, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

On Monday, just a day after the conclusion of the site’s MicroMillions tournament series PokerStars announced the preliminary schedule for the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). The schedule is not finalized according to the PokerStars blog, with PokerStars looking for feedback from players before theyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 21, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Yesterday the Party Poker Premier League added the thirteenth player to its roster, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, leaving only a single slot to be filled before the event begins on April 10th, 2012 –in addition to the 14 professional players there are two qualifiers. ElkY, who added the TripleRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 15, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

This past Sunday Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom took part in the first Superstar Showdown match on PokerStars since last June. Unfortunately the match, scheduled for 2,500 hands, was halted just 692 hands in when Haxton’s Internet connection went “1993” on him and caused him to continuouslyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 12, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

An online duel between two of the best heads-up poker players in the world, Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, was abruptly called short yesterday when Isaac Haxton started experiencing Internet problems due to bad weather! The two had played roughly 1,000 hands of their scheduled 5,000 handRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 10, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Poker players have been pining for the fast-paced Rush Poker developed by Full Tilt Poker (or a similar version from another online poker site) ever since the site went offline in late June 2011. Now it appears that PokerStars is preparing for their real-money launch of their RushRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 09, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

After a very long hiatus (the last Superstar Showdown took place in June 2011) the Superstar Showdown is coming back to PokerStars, and it will be a rematch of the very first Superstar Showdown that saw Isaac Haxton defeat Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the 2,500 hand heads-up battle.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 05, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

Sunday marked the launch of Lock Poker’s massive tournament series dubbed Poker Maximus. Lock Poker, along with the rest of the Merge Gaming Network, will be hosting the 70 event tournament series over the next three weeks, and Day 1 got off to great start, with four tournamentsRead Full Article