PartyPoker Summer SuperStars is a new promotion taking place from 2 July – 19 August 2012 at Party Poker. Earn partypoints to get your seat into the daily Party Poker freerolls which offer players a chance to their share of $5,000 in prize pools.
There are also tournament leaderboards running where players can win cash and prizes for finishing in top positions in the daily freeroll tournaments.
Prizes for the three leaderboard winners include:
WPT Main Event prize package
WPT Main Event Seat
WPT National Series Seat
Play for your share of the prizes and become a SuperStars at Party Poker.
The 5th of June 2012 marked another day in online poker history as Spain awarded licenses to PokerStars, PartyPoker and 888 Poker who were among the most recognized online poker rooms of the 27 licenses awarded for online poker. Spain now joins the short list of European countries taxing online poker with the only other countries being France and Italy.
Licensing poker rooms for economically stricken European countries will go a long way in collecting much needed additional tax revenue, while the rooms seem only but eager to get into the action regardless of the expense as can be seen by the large amounts in back taxes that were needed for the mentioned rooms to be granted poker licenses in Spain.
All the Spanish .es poker rooms are currently segregated from the rest of the world due to legislation but it is hoped that early 2013 will see the reintroduction of Spain to the rest of the world.
PokerStars have yet to introduce all their poker games to the Spain with the current maximum table limits set to €0.50/€1 and Zoom Poker is still being held back from the pokerstars.es domain.
Little is known as of yet just how much PokerStars was required to pay the Spanish Government to be granted their license but the €200 million estimate seems to be mentioned quite often.
Bwin.Party the merged group comprising of PartyGaming (PartyPoker) and Bwin needed to fork out a massive 33.6 Million Euros ($42 million) in back taxes to be granted their Spanish license while 888-Poker needed to cough up €7.4 million and some €1.3 million in surcharges and interest.
Will Poker Taxation Kill Online Poker?
While it may all be well opening and regulating the online poker industry the major question is if players will actually join these regulated rooms with stringent government enforcement and insanely high tax rates will this be the death of online poker?
To celebrate the Euro 2012, play the PartyPoker Extra Time tournaments with a $1000 added to the prize pool. To make the deal even sweeter the top 10 players in each tournament will also win a football shirt of any of the 16 participating 2012 European Football Championship teams.
These low buy-in tournaments are only $1 and run on the same days as the European football fixtures. There are 19 PartyPoker Extra Time tournaments, don’t miss out on your chance to score a 2012 Euro shirt on partypoker.com.
PartyPoker are offering new players a no deposit bonus, to get your free $5, £5 or €5 PartyPoker no deposit bonus simply sign up and create a new player account at partypoker.com and register at the cashier.