Sky Poker is building up the WSOP excitement with the Viva Las Vegas Grand Finals on Sunday 31st May at 9:30pm. Players can buy-in for as little as £1.45 and they could win a package that includes flights for two people, 14 nights hotel stay in Las Vegas and a cash prize big enough to buy into the main event of the 2009 World Series of Poker. What a great way for the poker beginner to go to the WSOP.

paddypowerpoker.com today Blasts Off for Las Vegas by announcing a WSOP Mega Satellite with 40 packages guaranteed. The WSOP Blast Off MTT is a $500 + $35 NLH freezeout scheduled for Sunday June 14th. Feeder satellites will run daily from Monday June 1st with buy-ins starting at less than $1.

Each WSOP package is worth $13,000 and is made up of WSOP Main Event entry ($10,000), 7 nights’ accommodation and $1,900 to cover travel and spending money.

Bet365 Poker have some fantastic specials for players this April.

New Players
Bet365 Poker have updated our New Player bonus, giving new customers the chance to earn a fantastic $500. The bonus is redeemed through continued play at the tables and the accumulation of Merit Points. As an added incentive, Bet365 Poker also offer new players the chance to play in an exclusive $100,000 WSOP* Freeroll tournament where players can win a package to Las Vegas for zero outlay. Sign up here

All new Betfair Poker players now have the opportunity to receive an iPod Touch!

An ipod touch is just like an iphone but without the phone or an ipod with a touch screen depending on how you see things. Worth over £150, this is an unbelievable offer open to all new betfair poker players. Click here to sign up.

paddypowerpoker.com have announced the European Championship of Online Poker IV (ECOOP IV), scheduled from May 25th to June 7th 2009. ECOOP IV features fourteen tournaments and a guaranteed prizepool of $4.55 million!

The tournaments include many poker variants including Holdem, Omaha and 7 Card Stud events with buy-ins ranging from $100 + $9 to $2,500 + $100. The ECOOP IV $1,500 + $80 Main Event takes place on Sunday, June 7th and features a $1.5 million guaranteed prizepool. Satellites to the ECOOP IV tournaments run daily on paddypowerpoker.com, with buy-ins as low as $1. Even a poker beginners can have a go at winning.

LADBROKES POKER SERVE UP SKALIE SPECIAL SUNDAY!

Ladbrokes Poker sponsored pro, Jon “skalie” Kalmar has launched a new online tournament called “skalie’s Sunday Deepstack”. According to ‘skalie’ it doesn’t get much better than this….the tournament takes place on his favourite day of the week Sunday, a day which he reserves for watching sport on the telly and playing good poker – So, if you want to join him online and sharpen up your deepstack game, there’s no better place to start than by logging on to Ladbrokespoker.com

To play poker, one has to be smart, but to win consistently, one has to acquire or develop three key skills. The first skill that a winning poker player must have is a good grasp of mathematics. He must know the likelihood of winning in every game, the different probabilities when playing a hand and the importance of the system of outs in each game. For example to win in limit texas holdem playing solid hands is essential. A good poker player will know that it is better to rake in a small pot than to lose a big one.

paddypowerpoker.com announces Paddy’s Cheap Date $1 Rebuy for Irish Open package

Spank My Ace Freeroll and Big C Stalker tournaments also scheduled

paddypowerpoker.com today announces Paddy’s Cheap Date, a $1 rebuy tournament awarding an Irish Open package to the outright winner.  The tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, February 10th and the winner’s package includes a €3,500 Irish Open main event ticket plus $500 in expenses.  Additionally, the winner will be eligible to participate in the poker room’s €100,000 Sole Survivor qualifier promotion.

Weekly super satellites begin on January 22nd

paddypowerpoker.com today announces weekly Irish Open Ticket-Only satellites, with the first $300 + $30 freezeout super satellite scheduled for Thursday, 22nd January at 8.05pm. An Irish Open main event ticket will be awarded for every $4,700 in the prizepool. Feeder satellites will run daily from Monday, 19th January and buy-ins start from $2.20.

Over $10,000 in cash and prizes to be won each week

Paddy Power has announced that Back That Ace Up III: Back With A Vengeance, the third instalment of the poker room’s popular cash race promotion, will start at midnight on Sunday, 18th January. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded each week to the top fifty finishers on the Back That Ace Up III leader board.