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Every new month brings a new crop of promotions at all your
favorite
online card rooms. Whether you're looking for big guaranteed prize
pools or satellites to the biggest tournaments at casinos around the world,
chances are there's something to suit your bankroll and appetite.
Full Tilt Poker
This month Full Tilt Poker seems to be going all-out to be the home of the
best tournaments online. No less than six major tournament promotions are
going on this month, and October 1 marks the start of a new tournament
schedule and new guaranteed prize pools. I may be understating the case when
I say it's a good month to play at Full Tilt.
Two of the new dates for this season's
WSOP Circuit
are in November at Paris/Bally's in Las Vegas and in December at Showboat in
Atlantic City. Starting this month, Full Tilt is holding "Return of the
WSOPC" tournaments that could net you a $12,000 prize package to play in the
championship event at either of these new circuit stops. Every Sunday from
October 9th to November 20th, at 4 PM ET, these $200+16 tournaments will
send another player to one of the two biggest gambling resorts in America to
play against some of the
world's best poker players. Satellites to the "Return of the WSOPC"
start at $4+.40, so even the smallest bankroll can afford to take a shot.
Satellite seats are also being given away to the Ultimate Poker Challenge in
Las Vegas. At 3 PM ET on Sunday, October 2nd, $200+16 will give you a shot
at winning an $11,000 prize package to this televised tournament.
In addition to all the satellite tournaments, Full Tilt is also expanding its
tournament schedule and beefing up its guaranteed prize pools this October.
"Post-Game Poker" comes just in time for football season. Every Sunday night
at 11:59 PM ET these $50+5 tournaments, in addition to regular first-place
money, will also pay the winner $1 for every point scored in all NFL games
that day. The new weekly guaranteed prize pool tournaments are worth more
than $400,000. With entry fees as low as $24+2, they are as good a deal as
you're going to find anywhere - and best of all they run 9 times daily. (You
can check out the full schedule
here.) The
biggest of these guaranteed tourneys is the Sunday $200+16, with a minimum
$50,000 being paid out. If that's not enough money on the line for you, make
sure you show up on October 23rd for the $200,000 Guarantee. The entry into
this tournament is also $200+16, and the winner will receive his own
personalized avatar on Full Tilt.
PokerStars
The European Poker Tour's second season is in full swing now, and PokerStars
is the home of all satellites to this prestigious tournament series. If
touring the Old World and facing down its best players sounds like a good
time, this is definitely where you want to play. The next stop on the tour
is in Dublin, Ireland, the capital of the nation that brought us Guinness
and
2005 WSOP Main
Event finalist Andy Black. On October 29th the Merrion Casino Club
will open the doors on a 4,000+200-euro main event. Ram Vaswani of the
Hendon Mob outlasted two native Irishmen to win last year's first prize of
93,000 euros. If you'd like to be the one fending off the Emerald Isle's
home-grown poker sharks this year, you can play in a $360+20 EPT Dublin
qualifier on Saturdays at 3:00 PM ET. Single-table satellites to these
qualifiers are available for $48+4, and multi-table rebuy satellites run for
$5+.50 and $12+1.
Outside of the EPT the biggest tournament from PokerStars in the near future
is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Last year this event brought poker to
the Bahamas for the first time at Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise
Island, and this year it's bringing it back, bigger and better. As sponsor
of the event, PokerStars is giving away more than $500,000 in seats to its
players - in satellites with buy-ins as low as $3. When you consider that
this year's prize for first place is likely to be larger than John Gale's
$800,000 last year, that starts sounding like an even better deal. Prize
packages for the Caribbean Adventure are worth $12,000, including $8,000 for
the tournament buy-in, seven nights at the 5-star Atlantis resort, $1,000 in
meals and $1,000 in cash. The full satellite schedule for this trip to poker
paradise can be found
here.
Tournaments in October Part 2
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