All you got to do is collect five points and the following day partypoker.com will enable you to participate in one $5,000 free roll therefore offering each player 31 opportunities to claim their share of this Christmas extravaganza that will be playing out during the whole of December.

Players that manage to qualify for a total of 5 free rolls will have the opportunity to take their seat on the $50,000 final which will be played out on the 2nd of the New Year.

The above promotion is open to all new non US players that wish to issue an account at partypoker.com which additionally have the opportunity to join the action with a 100% bonus for deposits up to $500 by using the Party Poker Bonus Code LUCKYROOM. As for existing players; all players already registered at partypoker.com regardless if they have used a Party Poker Bonus Code when they issued an account or not are entitled to join the above promotion. The offer is also available for players that maintain account with Party Casino or with Party Bingo.

Mike Johnson of Pokercast.tv, started a thread in popular poker forum “2 +2″ in which there are chances that Phil Hellmuth will withdraw from Ultimate Bet. Johnson believes there is a conflict between the site and the popular player, which could result the end of their cooperation. As Johnson states – whose opinion is always respected because of its position and experience – Hellmuth does not wear the logo of the Ultimate Bet for several weeks now. This happened in the recent NAPT Bounty Shootout – which was filmed for television broadcast. Johnson believes that perhaps Ultimate Bet is not willing to meet the financial demands of Hellmuth who will remain – possibly – without a sponsor in the near future.

Many believe that Hellmuth is no longer the player who he was once, and that the fact that he states that he is is the “best player in the world” is a fact that can true only in his own complicated head which is what drives him to do what he has done during recent years in land based poker appearances! Even so, however, Hellmuth is one of the most famous players in poker worldwide which, itself, raises his value in the marketing of the game.

The scenarios discussed in this thread, after the eventual departure of the “Poker Brat” from Ultimate Bet (ub.com), were many. The main were a possible integration of the dynamic Hellmuth to one of the two giants of online poker, PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker as their increasing popularity lacks Hellmuths contribution which does have a big audience behind him.

Of course, given the personality and character of Hellmuth, it is not sure whether he would like to share the focus of “spotlights” with other professionals who are already part of the teams of the aforementioned poker rooms. For this reason, a good choice for Hellmuth seems that would be PartyPoker – if and when, of course, the poker room returns to the U.S. market. As Party Poker doesn’t have a “No. 1 Professional” on its team, Hellmuth would be the” No. 1 Poker Pro of the poker room.

However, there is another scenario that Hellmuth can follow – if he eventually stops cooperating with Ultimete Bet as he can always follow in the footsteps of Doyle Brunson and set up his own poker room – although, as someone pointed out very successful, “Few European poker fans will want to play at a poker site, whose owner called some customers ‘idiots from Northern Europe’! All this of course will remain only in the realm of fantasy, until the rumors / suspects of Hellmuth’s departure from the Ultimate Bet will be confirmed.

It is worth mentioning that several problems with security during the recent past with the overall network hosting UB.com and Absolute Poker have of course driven players away and have downgraded credibility of the network in a whole. During this period pokerstars.com and fulltiltpoker.com have increased their player volume and their overall online exposure with pokerstars.com increasing is sign up bonus from 100% up to $50 to 100% up to $600 with the new PokerStars Bonus Code while fulltiltpoker.com has introduced a patent pending product coming under the name Rush Poker which has changed the overall concept of poker online. Just recently the latter has announced that its patent pending game has been released for mobile play which is also expected to increase the overall popularity of both its name as an online poker room and its new product.

As far as a possible migration of the Poker Brat to any of the above mentioned online poker rooms we personally would like to comment on the threads posted on 2+2 as we don’t believe that Hellmuth would take the hit on moving to pokerstars.com or fulltiltpoker.com as his way of thinking is just not fit to be confronted with Ivey or Negreanu; as far as opening his own online poker room we again think that its just not going to be a profitable business with the way things are evolving with processing in the USA. We would put our money on a possible retirement or a possible reinforcement of Hellmuth to Party Gaming as the brand is said to be preparing for a possible entry to the US later in the New Year.

France passed the bill on the online poker last April despite their initial intentions to protect the state monopoly as EU forces all countries to liberate the gambling market on all forms including betting, online betting, horse races, lottery, poker, online casino and more. According to the Daily Telegraph that hosts recent statements of Mr. François Baroin, – the Finance Minister, “This legal framework enables us to eliminate the ‘black market’ by creating a legal environment that complies with the rules and subject to the relevant control”. Of course, what all the European online poker sites hope for is without any doubt the legitimacy of the U.S. market although it seems that U.S will adopt a similar plan like the French one – were each state will issue its own gambling licenses and will be responsible to regulate the online games.

Its worth mentioning that rival poker rooms online have recently cut off rakeback players as simply said offering rakeback on top of sign up bonus was just proving to be a non efficient business therefore leading to the decision to cut off players with accounts offering rakeback payments; we would say that pokerstars.com has once again stood on to their position widely with the usual policy which simply clarifies to rivals a strategy saying “once your done with your experiments and left broke; we’ll step in and get the job done”; wise?

Well yes as being the worlds largest online poker room is a title that does not come for free and pokerstars.com has surely played its own cards correctly as It has replayed the same strategy twice when it use to give maximum 100% sign up bonus for deposits up to $50 when other rooms where tossing out 200% up to €1000 plus 30% rakeback on top of that and after everybody else was left breathless and penniless the popular card room stepped in and said as from today we give players 100% up to $600; so how’s that?

Simply said competition attempted to fool themselves by faking the numbers by offering more than they could really afford and forcing skin or white label owners to sustain the losses that resulted from a non efficient and non effective marketing strategy. In poker and generally in online gaming businesses the trick is not getting players in its keeping them in by having something to offer them and in this case it’s mathematically clear that when you pay the player all that money to get him in your realistically left with no liquidity to keep the tables busy by running attractive promotions attractive tournaments or being able to reward the players that will keep your site alive; meaning that sooner or later you’ll be left with a dead network and a lot of expensively paid acquisitions. Wise? Well I wouldn’t really say so.

The bottom line is that with the UIGEA still in act and candidate threat for the position of the world’s largest card room partypoker.com out of the competition zone for now pokerstars.com is still enjoying the luxury of the valuable time to gain liquidity and seal its position as market leader as its only serious rival in the booming US market is Full Tilt Poker and maybe UB.com therefore allowing the card room to make poker promotions as attractive as the Micromania PokerStars Promotion which will be running this July.

All said pokerstars.com is today offering players not only 12 times the old bonus but even more a revised rakeback equivalent program which makes rakeback look meaningless; timing might be a contributing factor but the marketing strategy followed by pokerstars.com can be very much fit for a good practice case study. Important note* The PokerStars VIP Program can be enjoyed by both new and existing players where the new sign up bonus which is applicable with use of the PokerStars Bonus Code and the PokerStars Marketing Code is only available for players that do not have an account at pokerstars.som. New players have the luxury to enjoy both the sign up bonus and the rewards that come with the PokerStars Rakeback equivalent.

Players interested in claiming the opportunity to win a WSOP package for Life (20 years is the duration of the term Life) need to be either Bronze, Silver or Gold level player in terms of the Party Poker VIP Program. The goal is to earn as many points as possible through regular poker play starting from 24th May through June 20th in order to climb up higher in the WSOP for Life leader board standings currently running at Party Poker. The top ranking player will receive a WSOP for Life Package while players ranking on spots 2,3 and 4 will also receive a WSOP package for the 2010 event.

Furthermore the top 500 players will share a prize pool of $50,000. More information regarding the promotion can be found directly at partypoker.com Main page.

Someone can say that winning a WSOP package through an online poker rooms is almost impossible to happen but history has proven this wrong as a number of current world recognized poker players including world famous Chris Moneymaker managed to win a WSOP packages through a PokerStars.com freeroll.

Now players that cannot compete with the big wallets who will earn points much faster than others will be pleased to know that partypoker.com has figured out the solution with opportunities to join the daily freeroll “WSOP for Life Satellites” where the top 25 players qualify for the $1 next level satellite. There, for every $35 in the prize pool an entry will open for the $32+$3 qualifying tournament. Entries to the $32+$3 tournament are also available to the $4 satellite where 1 place for every 10 players will gain an entry. Players reaching the $32+$3 qualifier then again 1 entry for the Main WSOP for Life Grand Final $300+$20will be available for every 10 players. The above mentioned satellites run on daily basis so there are no excuses. Of course, all those who would like to buy-in an entry to the final tournament the cost is $300+$20 and it is scheduled for Sunday June 20th at 15:35 ET.

On the particular event, the winner will receive the WSOP for Life Package while those ranking on spots 2,3,4 will have the opportunity to claim a WSOP 2010 package for the main event #57, those on spots 5th to 50th will share the prize pool on a sliding scale. More information regarding the promotion can be found at the Partypoker.com Main page.

Want even more? If you think that the satellites procedure is too boring or the Buy-in of the final tournament is too expensive; try the STT Jackpots. The STT jackpots will book for you a seat to the WSOP for Life Final. The rules are quite simple as all you have to do is to win 5 single table tournaments in a row between May24th to June 18th.

You need to win 1 * $50,000 Gold Jackpot available in the $55 buy-in tournaments, OR 3 * $20,000 silver Jackpots ($12 to $54 buy-ins) OR 5 $10,000 bronze jackpots ($3 to $11 buy-ins).

About PartyPoker.com

Partypoker.com also known as Party Poker is a European facing online poker room running under the wing of the popular PARTYGAMING (PRTY.L) family which is a Gibraltar based and London Stock Exchange listed company offering online gaming and online gambling solutions for online casinos, online poker, web bingo and online betting. Party Poker currently ranks as #1 stand alone online poker room in Europe based on ring game revenue and number of players. New players have the opportunity to claim a 100% sign up bonus for deposits up to $500 with the use of the Party Poker Bonus Code: LUCKYROOM which ensures 5 x the normal bonus. Returning players have the opportunity to take advantage of an excellent loyalty program offered at Party Poker which allows indirect returns equivalent to 40% Party Poker Returns. Read more under the Party Poker Rakeback section or alternatively read more about Party Gaming and all the products under its wing under Party Gaming on Wikipedia.

An announcement has been already made stating that Party Gaming which amongst others operates popular online gaming establishments Party Casino, Party Bingo, Party Poker and Party Bets is going in full throttle on preparations for a possible legalization later this year.

It is well mentioned that preparations on the Party Gaming camp were more than obvious earlier in the year as the European Super Power had acquired the rights of use of the WPT (World Poker Tour) and its website which would prove to be a most signifigant asset in the case of a possible return to the currently oligopolistic exploited US market. Party Gaming which has presented increased profits by 27% at a time when rival 888 has dropped by 10% would be one of the big beneficiaries of a possible change in legislation as it is currently in the position to be offering a full range of class A gaming products ranging from online poker to online casino to bingo to financial betting and even sports betting.

It is worth mentioning that out of the total range of products under its wing its online bingo and its online sports betting service where the two products left slightly behind but have both been attacked as to be improved and reach the calibre of its poker room and its casino games with its online bingo been more or less a solved case after the acquisition of Foxy Bingo earlier this year. As for its sportsbook the Gibraltar based gaming giant is said to be in discussion with Austrian based Bwin BWIN.VI for a possible merge of powers which would undoubtly create a new superpower.

It is worth debating if a successful bill passing on poker as a skill game and not as clear gambling would mean a green light to processing and would more or less mean chaos across the industry as online casino players would be processed from operators as poker players due to common wallet features offered at the majority of sites; this would open the boundaries of processing to underground operations which leads to the best case scenario being legalizing online gaming universally in order to avoid operations moving in to grey zones. CEO of Party Gaming Jim Ryan has announced to have set up an operation in Los Angeles powered by 38 professionals which are currently making preparations as a possible legalisation would open the boundaries for Party Gaming to license the rights of use of its software to other operators which might not be in the financial status to comply with the regulations and tax regulations which could possibly set by the US senate for operators offering their services to US tax payers.

About Party Gaming

PartyGaming Plc (LSE: PRTY) is an online gambling company, well known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com and its online casino PartyCasino.com. The company is headquartered in Gibraltar Europe and is quoted on the London Stock Exchange. PartyGaming Plc was founded in 1997 with the launch of Starluck Casino from a successful partnership of Ruth Parasol with Anurag Dikshit. Prior to the introduction of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006 which forced stock listed or stock listed to be online gaming companies from accepting wagers from US tax payers PartyGaming Plc held the world’s largest online poker brand (based on ring game revenue and number of players). Its market share has diminished since then but it remains the fourth largest online poker room in the world and the largest European stand alone online poker room.

More information can be found at the original source of information under the Party Gaming section on Wikipedia.

Partypoker.com offers both new and existing players the opportunity to win tickets for the Valencia Grand prix which is scheduled on June 27th as well as the opportunity to meet Alguersuari on the Barcelona WPT which is scheduled to May 17th. Don’t miss this opportunity to play against Alguersuari who will participate to many online poker tournament events.

Alguersuari stated that he loves to play poker but due to driving commitments needs a lot of practice and training. He also said that poker is quite popular among the Formula 1 Drivers and his intent is to be the best of all!

The popular European facing online poker room offers the chance to win the ticket for the Valencia Grand Prix through satellite events.

It is well mentioned that Party Poker is running an ongoing promotion with first prize set to be an Aston Martin DB9 Coupe. If you would like to take your chances and claim the opportunity in winning this great car you can participate on the “Drive the Dream” tournaments which will give you a seat for the live event that will be held in London on September 12th.

Party Poker is a European facing online poker room which is a member of London Stock Listed Party Gaming software provider and managing group of a number of successful online gaming operations covering areas including online bingo, online casinos, online poker, betting and even money markets. New players can join PartyPoker with a 100% up to $500 sign up bonus by using the Party Poker Bonus Code: LUCKYROOM which will release the ongoing offer allowing new poker players to claim 5x the normal bonus offering. You may read more about partypoker.com under the Party Poker Review or under the Party Poker Rakeback equivalent which explains the structure of the Party Poker loyalty program.

Jim Ryan, CEO of PartyGaming said:

“Today’s agreement with PMU shows the strategy to ensure consistency in our part of a small number of high quality partners in legal markets. The PMU is widely recognized as one of the leading European companies in the business of betting services.”

Roma’s Captain followed in his interview saying: “I have faced many challenges in my career and always tried to improve my skills and be possessed of patience, faith and intelligence. Thanks to PartyPoker.it, I have the opportunity to combine my passion for sport and challenge of poker. The ability to become a successful poker player is not far from those of a sport”. The agreement between the popular European facing poker room and Totti will be presented on Italian television and additionally in advertisements of the Italian press in the coming days. Party Poker is the largest European stand alone poker room and a member of the Party Gaming group which is a Gibraltar based company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Party Gaming powers the popular Party Casino and Party Bingo and is the proud sponsor of a number of prestigious land based poker tournaments and additionally the corporation holding the rights of the WPT; new players have the opportunity to find out more about Party Poker and read how they can claim $500 in sign up bonus by using the Party Poker Bonus Code which has been made available offering x 5 the normal bonus.

Players winning the first hand get their $1 doubled and the player has the choice to take part in the next hit or run with his winnings; players remaining in the arena can continue multiplying their $1 until they lose or until they decide to run with their winnings. Players at Party Poker will have the opportunity to win up to 10 entries; players striking big on 10 consecutive heads up hands qualify for $1,024 in cash which means that players can take away up to $10,240 daily.

It is well mentioned that during this period Party Poker is running satellites for the WPT LA Poker Classic which is to be hosted this month in addition to the up-coming Party Poker millions which will run on the 1st Sunday of this month. You may read more about Party Poker and how to sign up with $500 in bonus at the Party Poker Bonus Code section.