Mansion Poker is very generous when it comes to freerolls and now they are throwing up another exclusive and private freeroll. The prize pool is also pretty big for a freeroll. This time it is $500. Are you ready for some action?

Now, the best thing about this freeroll, is that you don’t any buy-in points. So basically, you can participate in this freeroll with 0 buy-in points. The $500 private freeroll will start on 26th of July 2009 at 20:00 GMT.

To be eligible for this freeroll, you have to sign up with Mansion Poker first. To do this, just click HERE and follow the sign up process. When you are signed up, login into your account and find a tournament named $500 private freeroll. There you go. You’re done and ready to play. Now you just have to wait for the 26th of July. Good luck!

Hello everybody! As sun starts to shine in our windows, more and more poker players are preparing themselves for this summer. You need some cash to be ballin, ya know? So here’s the deal I’m gonna offer you, Mansion Poker is hosting a $500 private freeroll on 26th of April and it’s a great chance for you to prove yourself make some cash.

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After 10 years of business, PokerRoom.com has decided to shut its doors. Launched in 1999 PokerRoom was at one time one of the biggest online poker sites. It was the first site I ever downloaded to play online poker back in the early 2000’s so its a big shock to see them go.

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WSOP 2009 is nearly upon us, and it’s time to start speculating about which players are going to make all the headlines this year. There are so many famous players now it’s tough to call out a select few to emerge as the big winners. One can’t avoid mentioning the obvious names like Hellmuth, Brunson, and Chan; they’ve all earned that right. But besides the big three, who looks like they’re poised to play well at the right time this year? Read the rest of this entry »

Following months of preparation, the new poker training site ProPlayLive.com was introduced this week, distinguishing itself from the pack of other educational sites thanks to the credentials of its impressive roster of instructors. Among those creating training videos for ProPlayLive are two World Series of Poker Main Event champions, Greg Raymer and Tom McEvoy, as well as WSOP bracelet holders Erik Seidel, Bill Chen, John Lukas, and Annie Duke.

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This year’s edition of the World Series of Poker will be structured in a deeper stack format a little more than it has been in the past. With the natural aggression of the internet player changing the tempo of the lower buy-in events, the small chip stacks were not providing players with enough room to operate, and many felt that the events forced the action too early in the tournament. To change this WSOP tournament director Jack Effel announced that players will receive 3x the buy-in as a starting stack for all events. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Bigger chip stacks. The 2009 WSOP will be giving players three times the buy-in amount as a starting stack. Last year the stacks were two times the buy-in. There will also be extra blind levels added to many of the events. These changes will allow players to go deeper into the tournament, therefore getting more from their buy-in.
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The Asian Poker Tour has announced it has received government approval to expand its offerings at APT Macau. As a result, the 2009 APT Macau event coming this August has been expanded from six days to 12 and has been renamed the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival. The event will run August 12-23 at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The APT also sponsors the poker room at the StarWorld.

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Full Tilt Poker today released the schedule and assorted other details for the site’s upcoming twelth Full Tilt Online Poker Series. FTOPS XII is scheduled to run May 6-17, 2009, and will again feature 25 events across a variety of poker disciplines, as with other recent FTOPS series. The collective guarantee for the 25 events will be $18 million, highlighted by the final-day Main Event ($2.5 million guarantee) and the star-packed two-day high roller event, which spans the final weekend of the series and features a $2,500+120 buy-in this FTOPS. Read the rest of this entry »