PokerStars WCOOP 2009 Series is back with even bigger prize pools totaling up to $40 million dollars. The World Championship of Online Poker 2009 will take place between the 3rd – 20 September 2009 and will feature forty five events in the tournament series.

Qualifiers are now running for only $1 or 100 frequent player points, satellite your way to the biggest online poker series. PokerStars bonus code STARS50 gets you 100% match bonus up to $50 when making your first deposit.

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In the 40 years of the WSOP there has always been a top heavy payout structure which paid the top places really well. In fact the first few main events of the World Series of Poker only paid first place leaving runners up with nothing.

Being the biggest live event in the history of poker, the payout structure made it almost impossible for poker players to finish in the money in the WSOP Main Event. This year the WSOP payout structure will be very similar to what the online poker rooms use.
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Rumors have it that PartyGaming is possibly interested in purchasing GigaMedia Limited in doing so the merger would substantially increase PartyGaming’s market share should the two well established online gaming firms merge into one large corporation, the traffic levels generated are expected to rival those of the current number two Full Tilt Poker in terms of busiest poker room online.

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CarbonPoker host five daily $200 Freerolls which take place every 4 hours. Any Carbon Poker player can participate in these tournaments with no deposit required. Registration begins 2 hours before the freeroll begins.

Depositing players will get access to freerolls with larger prize pools and your CarbonPoker Comp Points can be used as your tournament buy-in.

Carbon Poker bonus code – 600PK for a bonus of 100% up to $600

Use the carbonpoker bonus code when making a first deposit of at least $10, click deposit in the lobby and enter the code in the Bonus Code (optional) field.

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FullTilt Poker have opened up four new tables to cater for Tom Dwan a.k.a “durrrr” whom recently challenged any poker player in the world bar Phil Galfond “OMGClayAiken” to a contest in which he (Dwan) will put up to $1,5 million of his money up against $500,000 of any rivals, the contest involves playing four $200/$400 heads up tables consecutively over a minimum of 50,000 poker hands, Durrrr has permitted his opponent to select from either Pot Limit Omaha or No Limit Hold’em or a mixture of the two, should the contender end up ahead of Durrrr after the allotted hands he will win the challenge and take down the $1.5 million side bet prize should the contestant loose he would be out of $500,000 in addition to keeping any money that was won during the sessions.

Full Tilt Poker bonus code WAP gets you a 100% deposit match up bonus to $600 at FullTilt-Poker.

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