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Starting on February 15th, Bodog Poker will give players the chance to win tickets for some of the hottest sports events on the world with the new Ultimate Sports Fan Experience promotion.

The promotion will run from February 15th to March 14th, 2010, and is open to all players. Bodog Poker will be giving away weekly trips and tickets to an NCAA March Madness Game, UFC event, U.S. Open, or NASCAR event, plus seats at special $5,000 freeroll tournaments. To be eligible for the weekly prizes, players must enter at least 5 eligible “Sit and Go” Tournaments that week.

There is a new prize each week, so players who want to get in on all 4 draws, can come back every week and compete for the prize. Players can also get into one of the two $5,000 freeroll tournaments, by cashing out in 3 eligible real money “Sit and Go” Tournaments over the course of the promotion. All qualified players will be notified by Email with registration details.

In addition, Bodog will award one lucky player the Ultimate Sports Fan Prize Package consisting of 2 tickets to the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, Super Bowl, and World Series. Players can earn their entry into the draw by entering the qualifying real money “Sit and Go Tournaments”, and cash (receive a payout), in 3 eligible  Tournaments over the course of the promotion. Winners will also get Airfare, accommodations,  transportation, and $500 in spending money for each trip. For full contest entry details, please visit Bodog.com.

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Cake Poker is glad to announce the introduction of Gold Stacks, a new and innovative reward program that awards players instant bonuses for accumulating Gold Chips and completing Gold Stacks.

Every time a player wins a Gold Chip on CakePoker, they will also be building Gold Stacks, and every time a stack is completed, a player will get a special reward based on their level and specific number of chips in each stack. Cake Poker’s Gold Stacks Reward Program features 50 levels. In order to advance to the next level, players are required to complete a determined amount of Stacks. Players will earn rewards for each individual Stack you complete, regardless of how long it takes them to complete it.

“This is a great new program for Cake players. It rewards them simply for playing in our ring games, tournaments, and sit and gos. Furthermore, it does it automatically. The player doesn’t have to do anything; they’ll just see extra gold chips or cash drop into their account.” commented Cake Poker Manager, Lee Jones.

Cake Poker new reward program will kick off on December 9th. To learn more about the Gold Stacks  Program, please visit CakePoker.com.

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AbsolutePoker and UltimateBet are inviting customers to join the new “The Epic Nine” promo, which will give eight players a chance to play against Phil Hellmuth for a share of the $50,000 prize pool.

Players have several options to win an entry to this tournament. First, the winners of Absolute Poker and UB’s monthly Multi Table Tournament and Sit and Go Leader Boards will automatically win a spot in The Epic Nine Main Event. New real money players who reach Silver FAME status in October will participate in The Epic Nine Freeroll A, which will award 1 seat to The Epic Nine Main Event. New real money players who reach Gold FAME status in October will participate in The Epic Nine Freeroll B, which will award 1 seat to The Epic Nine Main Event. New real money players who reach Platinum or higher FAME status in October will participate in The Epic Nine Freeroll C, which will award 1 seat to The Epic Nine Main Event.

In addition, Daily Status Points Race, SNG Tournament Leaderboard and Daily Points Race winners will qualify for the Epic Nine Ring Game Freeroll on November 7th @ 8 p.m. ET, which will award 2 seats to The Epic Nine Main Event.

The winner of this tournament will get $25,000, second place wins $15,000 and third place takes home $10,000. Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are also placing a special bounty on Phil’s head consisting of a bonus entry to a $200K event.

For full details of the Epic 9 promotion and the many ways to qualify, check out AbsolutePoker.com or UltimateBet.com.

French poker pro and member of Team Pokerstars.com, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier is closing a remarkable performance at the World Poker Tour season VII by taking the prestigious WPT Player of the Year Award. Elky began his way to the Winning the Player of the Year Award after taking the $15,000 buy in Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event in October, 2008. This victory earned him over $1.4 million and 1000 Player of the Year points. Only a few months later he made a deep run in the WPT LA Poker Classic finishing 32nd place for $38,085. Going into final event of the year, Elky needed to finish at least in 4th place or better to win Player of the Year. During the $25,000 WPT World Championship held in April at the Bellagio, Grospellier managed to make another final table before going out in 3rd. At the end he earned $776,245 and added another 600 points, enough for taking the 2009 WPT Player of the Year with a total of 1600 points, 200 points more than the 2nd place finisher John Phan.

Grospellie’s total winnings at the moment sum more than $5.7 million, the former Starcraft player began his highly successful poker career in 2005 after finishing in 9^th place at the EPT French Open, followed by several cash outs at top class tournaments including the European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker. Grospellier’s resume includes two victories at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, one at the 2008 High Roller Event for a whopping $433,500 and another at the 2008 Main Event in where he took the $2,000,000 prize. He also went on to finish 4th at the 2009 NBC National Heads Up Championship. Grospellier also holds a Guinness World Record for most online Single Table Sit and Go Tournaments played in one hour with a total of 62, as well as a record for becoming the first player to reach the Supernova and Supernova Elite status on Pokerstars.com, which gave him more notoriety and a lucrative contract with the site.

With all of these great achievements and victories, Elky has made clear that he has the capability to transfer his exceptional skills to the poker tables and proved that has the ambition and the ability to take a spot among the best players in the world.

PokerStars.com is giving their players a chance to battle it out at the poker tables for over $3,000,000 in prizes each year. These Sit & Go tournaments are open to everyone, with buy-ins starting at only $1.

The Battle of the Planets tournaments are separated into eight divisions, each one representing a planet in the solar system. Each one of these planet divisions has a different prize pool with the lowest (Mercury) at $3,000 and the highest (Jupiter) at $10,000.

You will receive leaderboard points during the week for poker tournaments with less than 40 players, and these are accumulated during a set number of poker games each week.

Every poker player that finishes in the top ten any week will win a spot in the monthly $50,000 Battle of the Planets poker tournament. Head on over to Poker Stars today for more information on this exciting poker tournament.