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Morning all

Apologies for no updates for a while - beleive you me I have a lot to report on with some superb news but have been waiting for confirmation so hopefully I will be able to do so soon. In the meantime I have heard from IPOKER about a rake race which takes place in February and a 2.5 million guaranteed tournament that takes place in March - below are all the details - please let me know if you need an account set up or any further details - I promise Ill update you on my last weeks play in the next day or two.


Febonanza Promotion

I. Cash tables race

♠ Starting February 1st, iPoker will give out a total of $400,000 to our cash table players.

♠ Players will be ranked in leader boards, by points derived from the gross revenue each player generated in cash tables during the leaderboard period.

♠ There will be one counting period of 28 full days, starting February 1st 2009 at 00:00, ending February 28th 2009, at 23:59:59.

♠ A sum of $400,000 will be divided between the 300 players with highest rank at the end of that period.

♠ The leaderboard is per the above period, spanning all stake levels, game and bet types, as detailed below.

Terms and Conditions:

1. Leaderboard Points are counted for each player who was dealt cards in a hand, and in which rake was taken from that hand. Players who were seated out of a raked hand will not have that hand counted towards this promotion’s leaderboard points.

2. In case there is a tie between players’ leaderboard points in paid places, all players with that number of points will be issued an average amount of their prize (as per their positions).

3. iPoker reserves the right to refuse payment to any player which is found colluding or slow playing.

4. Players will be paid for reaching the money on an ongoing 28 full day’s leaderboard, within seven working days of that leaderboard end time. (End time is February 28th, 2009 at 00:00).

5. All raked hands will be counted, regardless of stake levels, game type or bet type.

6. Accounts cannot be utilized from more than 2 different serial numbers (“machine ID”).

7. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.

Cash tables leaderboard ‐ February 1st – February 28th

• 300 Players with the most points during the counting period in cash tables will receive money into their poker account by this structure:
Place Prize
1 $20,000.00
2 $15,000.00
3 - 5 $10,000.00
6 - 10 $7,000.00
11 - 15 $5,000.00
16 - 20 $3,000.00
21 - 25 $2,000.00
26 - 75 $1,500.00
76 - 125 $1,000.00
126 - 300 $750.00

II. Golden Hands Bonuses

A Golden hand occurs every 1,000,000 hands, and hands are counted as per the consecutive hand ID.

The prizes will be split between the winner and the participants of the hand, as per the below table. The winner of the hand will walk away with the prize money, while all participants in the hand will split an identical amount (including the winner of the hand).
Table Stakes
Stakes
Winner Players in Hand Split
Fixed NL/PL
Micro $0.02/$0.04 ‐ $0.10/$0.20 $0.01/$0.02 ‐ $0.05/$0.10 $65.00 $65.00
Low $0.25/$0.50 ‐ $1/$2 $0.10/$0.20 ‐ $0.50‐$1.00 $250.00 $250.00
Med $2/$4 ‐ $5/$10 $1/$2 ‐ $2/$4 $1,000.00 $1,000.00
High $10/$20 and up $3/$6 and up $3,000.00 $3,000.00

♠ The “Golden Hand” with the highest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as“Platinum Hand”, and the winner of that hand will receive a $30,000 bonus.

♠ The “Golden Hand” with the lowest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as “Black Hand”, and the winner of the hand will receive a $20,000 bonus.

Terms & Conditions:

1. The promotion will start when the first hand ID is dealt on February 1st, 2009.

2. The first “Golden Hand” will be the first hand with a round million hand ID number. For example: if the first hand ID of the promotion was 1,364,900,000 the first “Golden Hand” will be 1,365,000,000, and so on.

3. Winner of “Golden Hands” will take a sum of money as per the above table.

4. All participants of “Golden Hands” will split an amount as per the above table. The winner will also split this amount.

5. Players must be dealt cards on the hand in order to be eligible for the bonus.

Players sitting out will not be eligible. Players passing on blinds will not be eligible as well.

6. The hand ID’s are determined by the number assigned to them by our system, as they appear on the table (on the top‐left corner).

7. Tournament hands do not participate in this promotion (they are assigned different hand ID’s).

8. Winning hands will be published by our cardrooms and their affiliates. Players who do not agree to this will not be entitled to the prizes.

9. If a winning hand has two winners or more, they will divide the sum of the winner bonus and the participating players’ bonus. For example: 5 players in micro table, winner takes $65.

Participating players split $65 ($13 each). Two winners will take $45.5 each ‐ ($65+$13+$13)/2.

10. Winners of the “Platinum” and “Black” Hands will receive a bonus as detailed above, in addition to the Golden Hand bonus.

11. Only golden hands that reached the “showdown” will be eligible to win the “Platinum” and “Black” hands prizes.

12. A “Golden Hand” is eligible for the “Platinum Hand” prize, only if both hole cards were used at showdown. Platinum Hand” and “Black Hand” will consist of 2 hole cards and 3 community cards.

13. The “Black Hand” will be the weakest hand to win a “Golden Hand” at showdown.

14. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.

15. In case there is a tie between players with the same hand rank (both for “Black Hand” and “Platinum Hand”), all players with that hand rank will split the prize.

III. $2,500,000 Guaranteed tokens

♠ iPoker will give away tokens to the participant players of the Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed events during February.

♠ Tokens will be won by participating players according to the following two options:
• Players who will play and finish among the top 100 players (including) of at least two Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event, which will take place on March 8th, 2009.

• Players who will play the whole four $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will be eligible to participate in a $2,500,000 guaranteed freeroll, regardless of their finishing position. The freeroll will give away 10 seats to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event.

Terms & Conditions:

1. The four $250,000 events to be counted in this promotion are: Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Feb 15th, and Feb 22nd.

2. Tokens are non‐refundable, non transferable, and cannot be converted to cash.

3. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed will be automatically registered by iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event, which will be held on March 8th, 2009.
4. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed freeroll, will be automatically registered by iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed Freeroll. The exact date and time of the freeroll will be determined and communicated by the end of February 2009.

5. iPoker will not compensate for any token that wasn’t used in practice by the winning player.