Carbon Poker will kick off this festive season with a bunch of Xmas poker promos for players including the Nightly Nine online poker series, Bankroll Builder and Winter Wish List Freeroll.

The Nightly Nine series features nine tournaments running daily for nine consecutive days with a total of more than $650k in guaranteed prize pools.

The Bankroll Builder offers each players the chance to win up to $10k in cash by earning the required amount of VIP points within the promotional dates.

The Winter Wish List Freeroll requires players to complete special Xmas tasks on the poker tables to qualify for a $5k freeroll.

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Take advantage of the PKR Half price weekend where buy-ins to selected tournaments have buy-ins reduced by 50%.

Pay only half the regular buy-in amount and get more value this weekend (22-24 November 2013).

PKR is a 3D poker site with intense graphics simulating the live poker experience and can be described as a combination of online poker and a Sims game.

The PKR app is also available for free download and is an excellent application to play mobile poker games on an iPad, iPhone or Android device.

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USA Poker is now licensed and regulated in three American states: Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey, however there are several banks and online payment solutions that are preventing players from depositing.

Banks and companies that are still blocking legal transactions include: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, American Express, Paypal and Discover Financial Services.

These are just some of the issuing prevent US poker players from playing legal poker online, although legal by state law the federal law seems to supersede everything which will become a problem to state-by-state regulated online poker.

Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sand Corp has also started planning his anti-gambling online ads campaign to try and discredit gambling online.

US Poker players who are hoping for the return of online poker to America should consider boycotting the companies and individuals who are preventing it from happening.

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The first ever Carbon Online Poker Series is scheduled for 3-17 November 2013 and guarantees more than $1,500,000 in prize pools.

The new Carbon OPS features 85 guaranteed poker tournaments over 15 days with at least four daily events.

Satellite tournaments are running now giving players the chance to qualify early for the events in November.

New players get a 200% first deposit bonus up to a maximum of $5,000, players who have already signed up still qualify for a 50% reload bonus up to $300.

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Most online poker sites offer guaranteed poker tournaments as daily, weekly or monthly events. The prize pool overlay is covered by the poker site if the players don’t generate the target amount.

The bigger poker events normally take place on Sundays where players can get their share of the prize pool on offer.

We’ve included a selection of some of the biggest guaranteed poker tournaments available on PartyPoker, 888Poker, Winner Poker, CarbonPoker and Bovada.

Satellite tournaments are a cheaper alternative for players to qualify for these guaranteed poker tournaments for a fraction of the direct buy-in.

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