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Gibraltar (PRWEB) — Online poker room bet365 are offering poker players a feast of offers to ensure the most exciting poker action at the tables during April.

There is over $500,000 up for grabs in 3 Cash Races in April. Every cash game in which you play will earn rake points, and the top 500 finishers on the leaderboard in each fortnight-long Race will share the huge prize pools. There’s $200,000 up for grabs in the first Race from April 1st-14th, and $240,000 in the second Race which runs from April 17th-30th.

The third race has $60,000 in WSOP and ECOOP Main Events packages waiting for the top 10 players on the leaderboard, plus those finishing in 11th-40th will win a seat at a special freeroll with one WSOP and 5 ECOOP Main Events packages to be won, and those finishing in 41st-200th position will be entered into a freeroll with 25 tokens to the $100,000 WSOP Freeroll given out..

Exclusive to Poker at bet365 is a fantastic $100,000 WSOP Freeroll, with a prize pool of 10 direct WSOP packages, including 5 Main Event packages worth $13,000 each, and up to 40 WSOP Super Satellite tokens. 1 in 5 players will win a prize in this great tournament. Players can secure their seat by one of several routes on offer in April, including:

* A top 50 finish on bet365′s unique Tournament Leaderboard in April and May;
* A top 3 finish on the Tournament Leaderboard in either April or May;
* Finish on the bubble of a WSOP Super Satellite at Poker at bet365;
* Buy in to every weekly $250,000 Guaranteed Tournament in April and May;
* Finish on the bubble in the Final stage of bet365′s Last Man Standing tournament series;
* Finish in the top 5 or knock out WSOP bracelet winner Jesper Hougaard in the WSOP Beat the Pro bounty tournaments.

Qualification for the 2009 WSOP and ECOOP IV events also heats up in April.

ECOOP IV runs from 25th May to 7th June, offering 14 different events with over $4.5million in guaranteed prizes up for grabs. Satellites to every ECOOP event are running now at bet365, where players can buy in for as little as $1. Or players can build up their loyalty points bankroll now to take advantage of our ECOOP sales coming later this month – where tokens for ECOOP IV events will be available at an exclusive discount for players buying in with bet365 Merit Points!

As well as the $100,000 WSOP Freeroll, bet365 is once again running the unique WSOP Last Man Standing tournament series, where unlimited WSOP Main Event packages are up for grabs for the Last Man Standing at the Final level in this exciting heads-up Sit & Go Ladders tournament. Players can enter for under $6, or just 500 MP loyalty points, and can buy in at any stage in the series.

Fans of the series should also watch out for special discounted periods, where Level 0 Last Man Standing Sit & Go’s will have a buy-in of just 365 Merit Points!

Satellites for WSOP events are also ongoing throughout April, with buy-ins of under $5 on offer.

In addition to all this thrilling action, new players at bet365 can also take advantage of a 100% sign up bonus when they hit the tables, with up to $500 free.

For more details on all these promotions, and to find out about bet365′s other exciting offers, check out Poker at bet365.

After Ladbrokes Poker qualifier Peter Eastgate won the WSOP 2008 Main Event, Ladbrokes Poker has decided to play its hand a little differently for this year’s World Series. Instead of concentrating on the Main Event, Ladbrokes are offering their players $5,000 Ladbrokes ‘Vegas Dream’ packages consisting of:

Seven nights accommodation at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
$2,000 expenses
Vegas Dream Satellite Bankroll to play three Main Event Satellites in Vegas for 20 Main Event seats1 – 2 of which are exclusive to Ladbrokes Vegas Dream package holders
VIP status in the hottest nightclubs in Vegas
Legendary Ladbrokes Poker hospitality

Qualification is now up and running online at Ladbrokes Poker and ‘Vegas Dream’ packages will be won every Wednesday night via the weekly finals. With seven Team Ladbrokes qualifiers in the first week, it’s already proven popular amongst the community.

The decision to offer ‘Vegas Dream’ packages instead of a straight Main Event package, was taken to after a review which identified that the vast majority of WSOP qualifiers leave Vegas each year disappointed. The reality is that only 10% of players actually cash in the Main Event whereas the majority put in a lot of hours to come away with nothing.

Edward Ihre, MD of Ladbrokes Poker commented: “Our goal this year is to deliver the ‘Vegas Dream’ to as many of our poker players as possible. Las Vegas is about more than just playing in the WSOP Main Event, there are so many other things to see, do and enjoy. We think we’ve got the balance just right – our customers will have a great time in Vegas courtesy of us and still have a chance to play live poker against other Laddies players to win one of our Main Event seats. If they win a seat into the Main Event, they can choose to take home the $10,000 or take a long shot at the big one.”

The Ladbrokes Poker ‘Vegas Dream’ package is about combining all that is great about Vegas whilst keeping alive the dream of playing in the WSOP Main Event. The primary objective will be to enjoy everything about Vegas during the World Series. And, of course, winning a Main Event package would be a very welcome bonus.

Winners of the ‘Vegas Dream’ package will arrive in Las Vegas on the 27th June and depart on the 4th July. During their time in Vegas they’ll be treated like VIP’s enjoying the legendary Ladbrokes Poker hospitality at world famous card rooms, including Binion’s Casino, the original home of the World Series.”

Players are just two or three short steps away from winning one of the Ladbrokes Poker ‘Vegas Dream’ packages with a range of very affordable satellites that start from $6. The satellites represents brilliant value for poker players wanting to visit Las Vegas during one of the most exciting poker tournaments of the year:

Step 1 – Daily Satellites

The $6 daily satellite will see one player qualify for the daily final for every $60 in the prizepool
One in six players will make it through to the daily final in the $10 rebuy.

Step 2 – Daily Final

One person for every $550 in the daily finals prize pool will qualify through to the weekly final

Step 3 – Weekly final

One in ten players in the $550 weekly final will win a Ladbrokes Poker Vegas Dream package.

Ladbrokes Poker as in previous years will make provision for accommodation and hospitality for players that remain in the Main Event as long as they continue to wear the approved Ladbrokes Poker apparel throughout the tournament.

Ladbrokes Poker ‘Vegas Dream’ packages online satellites

Daily Satellites $6
Daily Satellites $10 Rebuy
Thursday – Tuesday Daily Finals $55+$5
Wednesday Weekly finals $500 +$50

PRWEB – Edward Ihre MD of Ladbrokes would like to be one of the first to congratulate Peter Eastgate on his amazing and historical win at this years WSOP. And when all things are considered perhaps Ed is perhaps one of the first people that should do so! It was after all with [Ladbrokespoker.com that Peter came to Vegas, to play in the main event as part of Team Ladbrokes. And it was this ticket that sealed Peter's fate and propelled him into the history books as the youngest player ever to win the main event and a WSOP bracelet. Indeed his first step on what turned out to be a very long road to WSOP victory was in fact aided by Ladbrokes Poker.

Edward commented: "We brought Peter and 119 other players (Team Ladbrokes) out toLas Vegas to play in the WSOP main event this year and by that fact alone we are instrumental in him making it to the final table. Peter was very much a front-runner from the early stages of the main event within team Ladbrokes and by the latter stages of the tournament a very likely contender to make it to the final table. In fact there were two other Ladbrokes Poker players that we'd hoped would make it through, one of which was our sponsored player Jeff Kimber who unfortunately finished in 120th place."

"One of the primary objectives for Ladbrokes Poker this year was to provide a poker experience for our qualifiers unrivalled by any other operator and to produce a WSOP final tablist. The many positive comments that followed the trip proved that the former was achieved and now news of Peter Eastgates win is the icing on the cake."

Ladbrokes Poker are renowned for providing some of the best packages to the WSOP and usually start running qualifiers in January.

Edward Ihre finshed by saying: "Peter is definitely the most famous man in Denmark today and by the end of this week thanks to ESPN coverage most probably going to be one of the most famous Danes in the world and I am glad to say that Ladbrokes Poker made it possible; he came out to Vegas with us and won the biggest tournament in the world. We wish him all the best!"