Festivities kick off on April 22nd and the party doesn’t stop until April 25th. The Easter poker festival features nine tournaments and an enormous €600,000 prizepool. Highlighting the event is the 2 day main event that begins on April 24th at 18:00 UK time. The Easter Poker Festival Main Event boasts a €500,000 guaranteed purse.

To encourage participation, an Easter Poker Festival Leaderboard will run alongside the MTT Montly Leaderboard. The Easter Poker Festival Leaderboard top prize is a €550 seat to the Irish Poker Festival.

Ready to qualify for the Ladbrokes Easter Poker Festival? Satellites are running now! Simply log-in to the Ladbrokes lobby and navigate to Tournaments –> Satellites –> Easter Festival. Qualifiers for the Main Event can be found under Tournaments –> Satellites –> €500,000GTD.

Good luck at Ladbrokes Poker!

So what is a cash race? Well to allay some fears right off the bat, there’s no running involved so we can all partake from the comfort of our computer chair. You also don’t have to be a huge winner at online poker to be rewarded by this promotion, as the winner of the race isn’t the person who has earned the most money, but rather just the person who has played the most poker, thereby generating the most Ladbrokes Poker Points. That’s it, simply play as much poker as you can for two weeks and you could find yourself walking away with your share of €20,000.

The only catch is that the higher the stakes you play, the more points you earn. Ladbrokes has found a way to even the playing field somewhat, however, by offering in effect three separate levels of the cash race. Level One is for players playing at 0.10/0.20 and 0.20/0.40, Level Two for players playing at 0.25/0.50 and 0.50/1.00, and finally Level Three is for all stakes 1/2 and above. They’ve also changed up the process slightly, this time requiring players to opt-in to the Cash Race, thereby ensuring that the winners knew they were even competing in the first place. The three separate levels mean that even smaller stakes players have a shot at the cash, and the opt-in requirement is a huge advantage, as it significantly lessens the opposition. Just don’t forget to opt-in!

The prizes of this cash race are, true to the name, straight money which will be paid into your account. The Level 1 race pays out the top twenty finishers, while the Levels 2 and 3 races, which are for slightly higher stakes players, pay all the way out to the 25th place finisher. Full details can be found at the Ladbrokes Poker website, but to give you some idea of what’s up for grabs, if you finish first in the Level 3 race then you’ll be rewarded with a fantastic instant cash prize of €1,500.

So we know that to win the race you have to earn the most Poker Points, but how do you go about earning these in the first place? This month’s promotion is taking place between the 8th and the 21st of October, so during that time you simply need to play on any Texas Hold’em or Omaha tables at the applicable stakes and you’ll automatically be earning Ladbrokes Poker Points. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing Fixed Limit, No Limit or Pot Limit Texas Hold’em and the Omaha can be Hi/Lo or straight Hi, just as long as you’ve got cards and real money chips of any currency in front of you, you’ll be earning points and racing to the cash.

We’re already part-way into this month’s promotion, but there’s still more than enough time to earn your spot on a leaderboard and pick up a little bit of extra cash for the month’s poker!

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In November, Ladbrokes Poker is giving away over $1,000,000 in cash rewards to players each month! For every qualifying real money hand you play, you will be awarded with Player Points that can be used to qualify for Cash Back or to enter our Player Point freeroll bonanza action!

Ladbrokes Poker offers you 2 levels of rake back:

* 30% Rake Back – Players with a balance of at least 25,000 Player Points will receive an automatic cash payment of 30% of their rake contribution
* 25% Rake Back – Players with a balance of between 10,000 and 24,999 Player Points who have submitted the relevant claim form will receive a cash payment of 25% of their rake contribution

But now the roles may be reversed as wildrick has taken a commanding lead in the leaderboards race. He now leads his closest competitor by 408 points and this can be seen here.

SOXxxxxx has not been able to stay in second place either as cantona2243 has remained in this position for most of the month. The margin is 715 points to SOXxxxxx’s third place total of 652 points.

4th through 10th place isn’t separated by much at all as snowee currently has 633 points while Madison_dk is in 10th with 546 points. To get a better perspective on how top 10 are doing, here’s the way things look right now:

Rank/Player/Points
1 wildrick 1123.00
2 cantona2243 715.00
3 SOXxxxxx 652.00
4 snowee 633.00
5 Ken0007 614.00
6 butch_dk 610.00
7 rockingham1 572.00
8 1111poker 551.00
9 mitchhh 548.00
10 Madison_dk 546.00

While wildrick is in first by a far lead, there is still some time for people to make a move on him. It will definitely be tough to overcome 408 points in just 12 days though!

The 22 year-old from Odense, Denmark has managed to become one of the final nine players left in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Peter made it through the tough 6,844 player field to the final table where major guaranteed money awaits.

In fact, even if Peter busts out before everyone else at the table, he’ll still be guaranteed $900,670. But he’ll have to wait quite a while before finding out where he’ll finish as the WSOP Main Event final table won’t take place until November 9th.

Many people from Ladbrokes were extremely happy to see Peter Eastgate make it this far, including the MD of Ladbrokes, Edward Ihre.

Ihre commented on Eastgate by saying, “It’s great to see a Ladbrokes Poker player make it through to the final table. He has done brilliantly, and is definitely a top-class pro in the making. We’re proud to call him a Ladbrokes regular, he’s qualified through to the televised stages of Poker Million twice (2006 and 2007), so he’s no stranger to high stakes pressure.”

Eastgate will be entering the contest in fourth place with a total of 18,375,000 chips which gives him a strong chance to survive deep into the last leg of the lengthy Main Event.

The question many Ladbrokes players were wondering though is just how long cantona 2243 would stay in the lead.  The answer would be not long as SOXxxxxx wasted no time in relieving cantona2243 from the lead.

However, a twist would occur when SOXxxxxxx would quickly lose the lead to the champion from April in wildrick.  And ever since Thursday wildrick has been in the lead.   See this here.

Since the point where wildrick has taken over, he has been able to increase his lead over cantona2243.  wildrick is currently leading in the race for the monthly $2,000 prize by 145 points.  cantona2243 is still leading over SOXxxxxx for the second place prize of $1,250 by 104 points.

Here’s the top 10 as it stands now:

Rank/Player/Points
1. wildrick 813.00
2. cantona2243 668.00
3. SOXxxxxx 562.00
4. snowee 506.00 
5. TVHDK 492.00
6. mitchhh 486.00
7. 1111poker 453.00
8. Madison_dk 436.00 
9. drewster33 429.00 
10. mrpipespb 428.00 

The $2,000 first place prize was SOXxxxxx for the second month in a row and wildrick settled for the 2nd place prize of $1,250. JellyHead30 was a distant third from the two and received $900 for the effort. See the final results here.

As for the start of July, SOXxxxxx and wildrick have both made appearances at the top of the leaderboard so far but they have yet to stick there. So far, the top player has been cantona2243 who leads all players with 455 points. Trailing cantona2243 is a familiar face, SOXxxxxx. He has 416 points.

Here’s the rest of the top 10 so far:

Rank/Player/Points
1 cantona2243 455
2 SOXxxxxx 416
3 Dopeychick01 366
4 wildrick 310
5 WHU145 280
6 dylanist 231
7 drewster33 219
8 thechipmaker 212
9 lucky2611 206
10 Wizer1 205