Poker Expo All Set For Costa Rica Published: 2006-04-25
The 2nd annual Poker Industry Conference and Exposition will be held December 7-8, 2006 in San Jose, Costa Rica at the Costa Rica Marriott Hotel. The convention covers the business of poker and focuses on management, marketing and technology it will be attended by poker room and online poker executives.
As with last year, the event is planning to host a tournament in the evening for industry executives and professional players. The tournament is to be held at the Fiesta Casino, a licensed casino operating in San Jose, Costa Rica. The tournament is likely to show the very best of poker strategies and tactics as poker executives compete with some of the most seasoned poker players in the world.
Mike Caro and Doyle Brunson attended last year's event, as well executives from the largest Internet poker companies, major software providers, payment processors, marketing executives, poker affiliates and affiliate managers.
Online Poker Room Celebrates First Birthday Published: 2006-04-30
April 30 - A year in the online poker industry is a long time and Poker.com will look back on the first year in the life of its unique software with a great sense of satisfaction. The poker industry is fiercely competitive and not many new players can say their first year was a success...
Poker.com is celebrating its first birthday with a couple of really hot promotions. Players will be able to qualify between now and May 20 for the Birthday tournament.
There are several ways to qualify for the 1st Birthday Tournament, and new and existing players can qualify in the following ways:
Rank amongst the top players in your birth month. The top players for each month will qualify based on the number of comp points they accumulate.
You could simply get lucky when the Poker.com staff visit cash games as they will be handing out coupons randomly.
In addition to Poker.com's new player deposit Bonus, but will receive free entry into 7 consecutive days of free rolls. Finish third in a free roll and you will be entered into the Birthday tournament.
Random seats will be handed out to players making a deposit at Poker.com. You have to use NETeller, Click2Pay or Citadel as a deposit method.
Not a bad deal, considering that it is someone else's birthday!
Poker.com has also announced that a new software release is coming soon.
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