During the month of September, one of the biggest names in UK gaming will be giving away $20,000 in cash, plus guaranteeing 4 €1,800 packages to the 2011 Irish Winter Festival of Poker.

Both cash and tournament players are invited to compete in weekly high and low-stakes leaderboards, in which the players who generate the most rake over each 7 day period will receive a slice of the $20,000 pie.

The high-stakes leaderboard will include all players playing with big blinds over $1/£1/€1 or paying tournament fees over $20/£20/€20. The low-stakes leaderboard is for all players playing with blind levels below $1/£1/€1 or tournament fees below $20/£20/€20.

The leaderboard periods are as follows:

Week 1 – 4 Sep to 10 Sep
Week 2 – 11 Sep to 17 Sep
Week 3 – 18 Sep to 24 Sep
Week 4 – 25 Sep to 2 Oct

Prizes will be paid out to the top 20 rakers each week, with a $864 top prize for the high-stakes winner and a $500 top prize for the low-stakes leader.

Additionally, the top rake generators during the promotional period will receive free seats to the September Fest Mega Satellite to the Irish Winter Festival of Poker. These 30 free seats will be awarded to the top 20 high-stakes players and top 10 low-stakes players.

This Irish Winter Festival Mega Satellite will take place on 9 Oct at 20:00 UK time. Players that fail to reach the top of the leaderboard can buy-in directly to for €100+10.

Click here to visit William Hill’s official website. You can read the full terms and conditions on their poker promotions page.

Victor Chandler will be launching a free online poker league with €2,000 up for grabs, dubbed the Free Play Poker Tour.

Click here to open a new account at Victor Chandler Poker and get in on the action.

How it Works

Victor Chandler’s freeroll poker league will be exclusive to Facebook users, so if you don’t already have a Facebook account, click here to open one now.

Every Monday and Wednesday at 8:30pm CET from August 29th until September 28th, Victor Chandler will run a freeroll tournament with a €50 prize pool. Participants who finish in the money will be rewarded with a share of the prize pool and leaderboard points in the league.

Tournaments will be password protected, and only provided to Facebook users who “Like” the Victor Chandler Poker Facebook page by 5:00pm CET on the day of an event.

The top 40 leaderboard finishers at the end of the league will divvy up €1,000 added by VC and the top 200 leaderboard finishers (including the top 40) will receive a seat to an additional €500 freeroll, which will be held on October 3rd.

Players who cash in the €500 freeroll and have earned a minimum of 25 VIP Points at the tables during the promotional period will also be awarded free bets equal to the value of their freeroll winnings on Victor Chandler Sports.

Few things get a poker player’s competitive juices flowing like an online poker league, especially a free one, so claim your share of the €2,000 prize pool by signing up at Victor Chandler today!

Click here to open a free account to play at Victor Chandler Poker and take part in their freeroll poker league.

Starting on Monday, June 20th, Genting Poker will run a weekly Hall of Fame tournament with amazing added value, including a weekly bounty prize, a progressive Jackpot, and a Palm Beach Big Game seat package worth £1500.

How does it work?

Take part in any of the Genting Poker Hall of Fame Tournaments, which will take place on Mondays at 19:30 UK time, starting on Monday, June 20th. The final tournament will take place on Monday, September 5th. Each tournament will be a NL Hold’em freezeout with a buy-in of $30+3.

What can I win?

Win the tournament and you will receive the following, on top of the regular first place prize:

- Free entry to the following week’s Hall of Fame tournament, which will be named in your honour
- A ticket into the £1500 Palm Beach Big Game freeroll, which will be held on Monday, September 12th
- Your name recorded forever in the Genting Poker Hall of Fame

Knock out Genting Poker’s Poker Manager Gary Oakes, aka Waldorf1 and receive:

- a $66 bounty prize

Win the tournament and claim the bounty in a single tournament and receive:

- the Hall of Fame progressive jackpot, which will start at $1000 and climb by $100 every week it’s unclaimed

How do I sign up?

Click here to open a new account at Genting Poker. Make a deposit and play in their weekly $30+3 Hall of Fame tournament at 19:30pm UK time.

For a limited time, you’ll receive a 200% up to $1000 first deposit bonus, eclipsing their standard $600 bonus, so be sure to sign up today!

Mansion will be giving away $105,000 in 5 leaderboard categories this month in a race designed to challenge your skills and your stamina.

Their back-to-back Sit-N-Go races will take place in two cycles, with the first already underway.

Cycle 1 – June 1st to 15th
Cycle 2 – June 16th to 30th

The 5 leaderboards are broken down by limit or style of SNG to give players of all levels a change to take down a share of the cash.

Leaderboard A – $100+ buy-in (50 places paid)
Leaderboard B – $30-99.99 buy-in (100 places paid)
Leaderboard C – $5-29.99 buy-in (100 places paid)
Leaderboard D – $0.5-2.99 buy-in (100 places paid)
HU Leaderboard – all buy-ins (50 places paid)

If you fail to finish in a paid place, Mansion is giving their loyal users another chance at pocketing some cash.

Following each cycle, Mansion will host a $2000 freeroll for the players who “bubble” the paid places. However, each bubble will consist of the same number of players who were paid. That means places 51-100 in Leaderboards A and HU will qualify and places 101-200 in Leaderboards B, C, and D.

The freeroll tournaments will be held on June 19th and July 3rd at 17:30 GMT+1.

So start earning points towards the leaderboard today and earn your share of the $105,000 up for grabs.

Click here to open a new account at Mansion Poker. When you do, you’ll also a first deposit bonus of 200% up to $1,000, available only for a limited time.

These amazing freeroll offers from Britain’s own Victor Chandler could be your ticket to an exotic destination courtesy of one of their many cash giveaways.

Maybe you will win a chance at the big time with one of the many free EMOP packages they’ll be giving away or even just spending your time wagering on your favourite sporting events at no cost to yourself.

Promotion One
VIP Points Required = 0

Every day in June, VC will run a €1,200 Freeroll at 19:15 CET (6.15pm BST).

Each freeroll will be capped at 2,000 runners and will open for registration on a “first come first served basis” one hour before the start of the tournament.

Promotion Two
VIP Points Required = 1

Twice daily in June, VC will also run a €600 VIP Point Freeroll at 15:15 CET ( 2.15pm BST ) and 22:15 CET ( 9.15pm BST ).

Entry can be secured for just 1 VIP Point, with the top 200 finishers finishing in the money. Each VIP Point Freeroll will also be capped at 2,000 runners and will open for registration on a “first come first served basis” one hour before the start of the tournament.

Promotion Three
VIP Points Required = 1, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 350, 500, 750, 900

Ten Iron Man Freerolls for the EMOP Dublin will take place in June with a €2,000 EMOP Package guaranteed in each. To be able to play in the Iron Man Freerolls, you simply need to earn the VIP Points Required between June 1st and 1 minute before the start of the respective tournament.

Promotion Four
VIP Points Required = 5, 10, 20

Thirteen VIP Freerolls will take place in June with combined prize pools of over €6,000. What’s more, you only have to earn 20 VIP Points a week to be able to play in all thirteen VIP Freerolls in June which take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 21:00 CET ( 8pm BST ).

Promotion Five
VIP Points Required = 10

There will be four Double Win Freerolls taking place in June, where you will have four chances of being a winner twice over for just 10 VIP Points a time! Each Double Win Freeroll takes place on a Monday at 20:30 CET ( 7.30pm BST ) and pays out €250 in cash prizes PLUS, €250 in free bets on Victor Chandler Sports!

Click here to sign up at Victor Chandler now and earn your share of their €100,000 summer freeroll frenzy.

Don’t have time to travel to Vegas for the world’s most prestigious tournament series?

BlackBelt Poker is currently running a great promotion, which gives all qualified players a piece of Team BlackBelt at the 2011 World Series of Poker.

To take part in this promotion, you simply need to:

- Earn an Orange Belt between now and June 1st (rake roughly $250)
- Maintain your Orange Belt throughout June (rake another $125)

3% of the winnings from BlackBelt Poker’s sponsored team, earned in the following events, will be put into a Vegas Prize Fund and distributed evenly to all BlackBelt Poker players who qualify for this promotion.

Those events are:

Event 43 – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – June 25th 2011
Event 45 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em – June 26th 2011
Event 48 – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – June 28th 2011
Event 54 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em – July 2nd 2011
Event 56 – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – July 5th 2011

You can keep track of BlackBelt Poker’s sponsored team on their website by clicking here.

BlackBelt Poker’s sponsored team includes several of the UK’s greatest players, such as Neil Channing, Richard Ashby, Sam Razavi, and many more names you probably already know.

Additionally, Team BBP will consist of all their Blue, Brown and Black Belt players, who have been invited to stay in a luxury house in Vegas throughout the WSOP and we receive exclusive discount staking deals throughout the series.

Click here to open a new account at BlackBelt Poker today and take part in this amazing promotion.

This year’s GUKPT Summer Series 1a and 1b, which took place at the G Casino Brighton and G Casino Dundee respectively, both consisted of 4 trophy events, as well as several satellites to the Main Event.

These events were the £500+50 Re-entry Hold’em Main Event, a £200+20 Double Chance Freezeout, a £150+15 Freezeout, and a £100+10 Bounty Event.

David Mcconachie was the winner of the Main Event of the 2011 GUKPT Summer Series Brighton, besting a field of 59 runners to take home his first GUKPT trophy.

David has been on somewhat of a tear of late, chopping the £300 March Main Event at the Fox Poker Club in London for £8,270 and finishing 12th in the same event in April. He can now add a GUKPT title to his resume and another £8000+ to his bankroll.

Other winners at the 2011 GUKPT Summer Series 1a Brighton were:

- Danny Toffel: winner of the £200 Double Chance
- Xenfofon Kalanas: winner of the £150 Freezeout
- Daniel Buckley: winner of the £100 Bounty

The GUKPT Summer Series 1b Dundee was won by Lewis Fowler, who had the unique experience of hoisting two GUKPT Summer Series trophies at this event. Lewis also took down the £150 Freezeout.

Other winners at the 2011 GUKPT Summer Series 1b Dundee were:

- Colin Gillin: winner of the £200 Double Chance

There are still 4 events scheduled for the 2011 GUKPT Summer Series, as follows:

Summer Series 2a Bolton – June 9-12, 2011
Summer Series 2b Plymouth – June 9-12, 2011
Summer Series 3a Sheffield – July 7-10, 2011
Summer Series 3b Southampton – July 7-10, 2011

If you’d like to earn a £500+50 Main Event seat to any of these upcoming 4 events for free, check out the May Promotions at PokerDome.com by clicking here.

Congratulations once again to all the winners at the first two events of the 2011 GUKPT Summer Series 1a (Brighton) and 1b (Dundee).

Take part in Mansion Poker’s biggest May promotion, a $5000 rake race that will be held over a 10-day period.

Starting on Friday, May 20th, all Mansion Poker players will receive a star for every $5 paid in rake and tournament fees. The top 100 star collectors will each receive a share of the $5000 prize, with $550 going to the winner.

As a new depositor, you will be eligible for the Power Race, several freeroll tournaments ranging from $25 to $2500, and their amazing 200% first deposit bonus up to $1000!

To take part in these special promotions, and join one of the best poker rooms available for UK players, simply click here and open a new account at Mansion Poker.

A large number of US-based players have decided to turn to casinos and live games. Others are simply moving to new rooms, securing the familiar rakeback deals and first deposit bonuses.

However, with the uncertainty of the future of online poker, especially in the US, we at BestPoker.co.uk are suggesting a simple solution to the many poker stars looking for a new home: don’t look for just one new room – look for several and capitalize.

The past few weeks have seen first deposit bonuses at a large number of room double or even triple. But for truly savvy poker players, there is much more available.

Did you know, you can get as much as 850% rakeback at some poker sites? How? Take a look at a poker kickback site, such as PokerDome.com.

Pokerdome.com is a poker bonus site, which offers players much more than a basic 25% or 30% rakeback deal. By signing up as a group at one of their partner sites, you’ll earn a special bonus for your group on top of the first deposit bonus or the built in rakeback or VIP Program.

More than 850% rakeback

Throughout the month of May, Pokerdome is running a special promotion aimed at sending players to one of the six GUKPT Summer Series Main Events (read about it here).

Simply open up new accounts at Titan Poker with a group of 6 players, deposit $20 each, rake 300 Titan Points each within 30 days and one of you will be off to one of the six GUKPT Summer Series events taking place across the UK over the next few months.

How does that work out to more than 850% rakeback? Well, 300 Titan Points equals roughly $17.50 in rake. 6 x $17.50 = $105 in total rake by you and your friends.

At today’s exchange rate, the GUKPT Summer Series £500+50 Main Event buy-in is roughly $900, amounting to more than 850% rakeback. That doesn’t include the addition money you will earn from Titan Poker’s built in VIP Program, which allows you to trade your Titan Points for cash and their first deposit bonus.

Deals like this don’t come around often, so we suggest you snap it up!

Other Deals with up to 450% rakeback

While their featured deal is especially impressive, many of their standard deals offer similar value. Here are just a few of their many deals:

Mansion Poker

+ kickback valued at 435% rakeback
+ VIP Points to Cash for life
+ 20% rakeback value for the first deposit bonus

Lock Poker (US Friendly)

+ kickback valued at 70% rakeback
+ 35% rakeback for life
+ 13% rakeback value for the first deposit bonus

Eurosuper Poker

+ kickback valued at 67.5% rakeback
+ VIP Points to Cash for life
+ 62.5% rakeback value for the first deposit bonus

Click here to visit PokerDome.com. We’d appreciate it if you would let them know that BestPoker.co.uk referred you when you sign up.

Their three biggest May promotions are designed to reward all of their loyal players, big and small, as well as give new players several great reasons to sign up.

What else would you expect from one of the most trusted names in the UK gaming industry?

Low Stakes, High Rewards

It’s fun to Endure at Victor Chandler.

This May, Victor Chandler will run 2 x €12,000 Endurance Challenges exclusively for low stakes players.

Simply play low stakes cash games every day and you could take home your share of €24,000 CASH MONEY!

Starting May 1st and May 15th, VC will offer two challenges, with each running for 15 days. €12,000 will be shared equally amongst all players that earn a minimum of 50 VIP Points each day during each challenge.

Thus far, only 5 players have qualified for the May 1st to 14th challenge, meaning they are already guaranteed a payout of €2,400 if they can endure to the end of the promtional period.

You don’t want to miss out on your share of the second €12,000 cash prize. Click here to open a new account with Victor Chandler today.

Note – Only VIP Points earned on real money NL Hold’em NL and PL Omaha cash game variants at stakes between €0.05/0.10 to €0.25/€0.50 will count as “VIP Points earned” in relation to both Endurance Challenges.

Two Billion Hands Later…

Celebrate Victor Chandlers 2,222,222,222nd dealt hand this May and win a share of over €22,222 in Cash Prizes!

The countdown starts with hand number, 222,000,000,000, with the winner of the hand receiving €1,000 and all other players dealt into the hand getting €100.

The winner of hand number 2,222,111,111 will receive €2,000, with €200 going to each of their tablemates dealt in.

The last stop will be hand number 2,222,222,222 where the winner will pick up a juicy €10,000, with every other player dealt into the hand being rewarded with a resounding €1,000!

I am Ironman!

Start you summer off right with a Victor Chandler EMOP Bulgaria Iron Man Freeroll Package. May freerolls will payout an astounding €20,000 in sponsorship packages to this amazing live poker event.

Use VIP points earned between May 1st and the freeroll start date to win your way to the EMOP. Hurry though, the tournaments have already started, and the longer you leave it, the more VIP points you need to enter. The final freeroll takes place on the 19th of May at 20:15 CET.

Package Details

* €1,100 Main Event Buy-In at the Crystal Crown Casino
* 7 nights accommodation at the 5* Chaika Beach Resort
* €350 Spending money for flights (credited into your account)

If you’ve never played at Victor Chandler, there’s never been a better time to open a new account and take advantage of these great deals.

Click here to visit their site, open a new account and take advantage of the industry leading €2500 bonus for all new depositing players.