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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The Pokerfest returns to PartyPoker this December for the Micro Turbo Edition a perfect promotion for recreational players during the festive season.

The micro stakes poker tournament series has more than $270k in guaranteed prize pools with buy-ins starting from a mere 11¢.

Get your piece of the action at PartyPoker between the 1-15 December with sixty seven turbo fueled events to partake in.

A leaderboard will be running to reward the players with the highest ranking scores throughout the series with a prize package to a World Poker Tour event for the winner.

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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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Getting great value in online poker tournaments is what it’s all about for tourney players.

This November there are some tournaments which offer excellent incentive to play and are available from PartyPoker, 888Poker, Befair and WinnerPoker.

If winning some cool gadgets and prizes is your thing check the PlayStation 4 Freestival promotion or if it’s decent guaranteed prize pools is what you’re after play at Betfair, WinnerPoker for the iPOPS V series.

Players might also want to start planning ahead for the massive $2,5 million Super XL Series on 888Poker, start qualifying in the daily satellites or win a seat for free in the Super XL Freerolls.

USA and Canadian poker players can play the Poker Power Play tournaments for daily guarantees, only available this November on Bovada and Bodog Poker.

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