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Liz Lieu Set to Win Gold in Asia this Season

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:44 GMT

Liz Lieu will be hitting the green again this year, with her heart set on another few final table results during the upcoming Australasia Poker Season. Macau will definitely be a hot spot for poker players in the next week or so with pros heading that way for the Asian Poker Tour and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour drawing in plenty of players as well.

Liz Lieu is set to headline poker blog sites all around the web when playing for Gold this year at both the APT & APPT 2008. Last year Chilipoker very own Liz Lieu made it to the final table at both the Macau Main Event & High Roller Event.

"It's great for Poker in Asia that there's major tournaments like this in Macau, Seoul, Singapore and Manila" said Liz. "It's attracting all the top players in the sport from Australasia and from all around the world, it's letting the players know that poker is here to stay, and that anybody can win millions of dollars just from mastering the game."

Let us all take a moment to wish Liz lots of peace and love while she visits her homeland Saigon in Vietnam and all the luck in the world when she gets to Macau. YES! All you Diva fans can catch up on all latest gossip at at the Official Poker Diva Blog Spot, Spicy Poker News, Netvibes.

About Chilipoker.com
Chilipoker.com has become a leading Online Poker & Lifestyle site. Chilipoker.com is available in 5 different languages, all providing professional and friendly support. The poker room has at your disposal 5 different poker variants to choose from. Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud and 5 Card Stud offering $12.5M in monthly guaranteed and almost $10,000 worth in monthly freerolls.

Also, Chilipoker.com possesses the brand ShareTheChili.com which is a Poker Affiliate Program that you can easily sign up to online. Chilipoker provides a poker affiliate interface which has the marketing tools you need to start offering your clients all the exclusive features and promotions from the moment of your sign up.

Satellite Poker Cup Australia 2008

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:16:31 GMT

Win a major tournament and enjoy a wonderful trip! Melbourne proudly presents to you the Poker Cup Australia 2008! With a full package of $8,000, Chilipoker will send as many players as possible to this fantastic event in the most populous city of Australia.

The $8,000 Luxury package

- $2,200 AUD Buy-In to the Main Event.
- $230 AUD Buy-in to Event #1 - NLH $75K Guarantee.
- $2,200 USD for 10 nights accommodation for the player and a guest [October 11th - October 21st 2008] at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne.
- $120 AUD for a welcome party.
- A guided tour to the Healesville Sanctuary, where you’ll have an opportunity to observe native Australian animals in their natural habitat.
- Two course lunch at the DeBortolli Winery, followed by a wine testing seminar.
- $110 AUD: Transportation from and back to, the Crown Promenade is included.
- $110 AUD: River Cruise: The cruise will set off from the Yaara River dock: The cruise will include drinks and a three course sit down lunch. Enjoy one of Melbourne's most beautiful sites($110 AUD).
- Up to $3,100 USD for flights and spending (depending on currency conversion rates).
How to qualify?
You can qualify directly through the $300+$20 Super Satellites that will run weekly starting on 15th August or, in order to avoid higher buy-in payments, Chilipoker proposes that you qualify through our satellites from 8th August.

Qualify for the GUKPT leg of your choice at Chilipoker.com

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:17:58 GMT

The GUKPT is the biggest poker tour in the UK. The GUKPT tour is composed by £1,000 No Limit Texas Hold’em tournaments that takes place over four days each tournament. The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has expressed its competitive position since the first edition in 2007. The 9 legs are played in the Grosvenor Casinos around UK, from Brighton to Blackpool, passing from Newcastle or Bolton, to culminate with the Grand Final in London. Chilipoker.com wants to send it's players to attend all the major poker events, that's why is now adding the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour to its wide list of poker tournament satellites. Players will have the opportunity to play daily satellites until October as well as weekly Super Satellites giving away packages worth$4,000 covering buy-ins, flights and expenses!

In addition to winning big money, the top finishing players in each tournament will receive points and a place on the GUKPT leader board. At the end of the year, the top ranked players on the leader board will receive cash prizes and the overall leader will be declared the GUKPT Player of the Year.

Furthermore, this second edition the GUKPT counts with the Champion of Champions tournament on the 4th and 5th of December. This exclusive free tournaments is reserved for all 2008 winners, including main events, side events and even online events who will compete for a succulent £75,000 prize pool.

The first 5 legs of GUKPT 2008 edition have already finished and the lucky winners have walked with £86,800, £83,910, £119,780 and £90,420, £57,175 for Julian Thew, Jeff Kimber, Ketul Nathwani, Marc Goodwin and Ganesh Rao respectively. Many things can still happen at this years GUKPT, right up until the end and the coronation of the winner of the Grand Final and the Champion of Champions.

As usual, Chilipoker wants to send its players to attend the major poker events that's why is now adding the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour to its wide list of offers. Players will have the opportunity to play until October daily satellites and weekly Super Satellites giving away $4,000 packages covering buy-ins, flights and expenses.

Chilipoker.com will send its players to enjoy the last 4 legs of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour with a total package value of $4,000. The second edition of the GUKPT will gather the best players in 9 different casinos throughout UK, who will fight this year for over £200,000 final prize pool.

Qualify for the Partouche Poker Tour at Chilipoker.com

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:57:34 GMT

Win a free seat for the Partouche Poker Tour! From September 3rd until September 7th, at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes, Partouche casinos will be organizing one of the most amazing European tournaments ever with a guaranteed prize pool of 2 million Euros. In case you weren’t able to qualify for the numerous live satellite tournaments, Chilipoker is offering you an exceptional opportunity to win a Partouche Poker Tour Package worth $15,000. So what are you waiting for? Come and try your luck!

This package includes:
* The buy-in for the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour at €8,000
* Three nights at a four-star hotel: $800
* Travel and other expenses while in Cannes: $1,200

Thanks to the Partouche Poker Tour, becoming a millionaire is child’s play!

The Palm Beach of Cannes embodies the dream of any Partouche Poker Tour participant… And one can easily guess why the Palm Beach in Cannes is holding the Great Final, a two-million-Euro-Prize-Pool Main Event, which will take place from 3rd September to 7th September 2008 in one of the most prestigious casinos of the world. This is something not to be missed!

This year, the Palm Beach will roll out the red carpet for the best players of the season and will allow one of them to get to the top and win the million-Euro-reward guaranteed to the one and only winner. No deal possible! The check will be handed over to the winner by Mr. Eric Cantona himself in front of TF1 cameras. So who will be the winner of the first Partouche Poker Tour?

How do I qualify?
From July 21st until August 15th, Chilipoker will be offering a series of tournaments allowing each country to qualify for the August 20th final. For each free roll, the top 10 players from each tournament will qualify.

The final
For the 200 players who qualify, the final will take place on August 25th at 8pm. The winner will walk away with the exceptional $15,000 package and the other players will split $1,000. Coming in 1st at the Partouche Poker Tour means walking away with at least €1,000,000, and that’s what you’ll bet on by playing for free at Chilipoker!

August Sit&Go Race worth $3,000

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:39:49 GMT

Participate in the new Chilipoker challenge and share $3,000! Play a minimum of 40 Sit&Go's during August and you will be entitled to receive your share!

Chilipoker is bringing a new Sit&Go challenge for you during the month of August, all you need to do is play a minimum of 40 Sit & Go's during the whole month of August and you will be eligible to share $3,000. The S&G Race will have 3 different leader boards to reward players according to the stake limits played.

How do you win?
Easy! Climb the leader boards, get the best score on the SnGs, and just wait for the money to come! You can easily check where you are with the exclusive Chili tool “My stats” that gives you accurate info about your play!

For each Leaderboard, the ranking will be done according to the ROI. After playing a minimum a 40 SnGs your ROI will be taken into consideration.

Why have we chosen the ROI?
Because it will reward the most regular winning player!

But the more you play the more you increase your chances as you will receive a 1% bonus in the calculation of your ROI for every 100 SnGs that you play. For example if you play 230 SnGs in August you will receive a 2% bonus!

All about Chili Poker:
Chilipoker.com has become a leading poker and lifestyle site. Chilipoker is available in 5 different languages, all providing professional and friendly support.

Discover all the popular games, including: Limit Hold'em, No Limit Hold'em, Pot Limit Hold'em, Omaha Limit, Omaha Pot Limit, Omaha Hi/low Limit, Omaha Hi/low Pot Limit, Seven Stud and Five Stud. Chilipoker is also hosting $12.5M in monthly guaranteed tournaments and almost $10,000 worth of monthly poker freerolls.

Also, Chilipoker possesses the brand ShareTheChili.com which is an affiliate program that you can easily sign up for online. Chilipoker is proud to offer fun online entertainment and state of the art technology with all it's online gaming products. They also guarantee safety, responsible gaming and fair play.

$10,500 for exotic South Africa or $4,500 for the Emerald Isle?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:45:35 GMT

At Chilipoker.com players decide their desired destination to play poker! Winning players can choose a valuable $10,500 package to attend the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament Main Event in South Africa or to go to a beautiful green Ireland with $4,500 to spend at the Irish Masters.

On one hand the creative poker site is giving to its clients the opportunity of flying to the North West Province in South Africa to enjoy 7 nights in an all inclusive resort located about two hours drive from Johannesburg.

The chosen venue, the Super Bowl in the Sun City Resort, an auditorium which seats 6,230, providing the perfect location to celebrate such an important event. The Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament Main Event that will take place at the beginning of September 2008, has a minimum guaranteed prizepool of $1,500,000 and is awarding at least $650,000 to the first prize!

Chilipoker, the innovative iPoker web site is offering a $10,500 VIP package and apart from including flights, buy-in and expenses will bring loads of fun to the winners. The lucky ones will enjoy free entry to the spa, a golf round or even a hot-air balloon ride.

On the other hand, the pioneering poker room is spreading again the ecstasy of a major live poker event bringing the Irish Winter Festival to all its players.

The Annual Irish Winter Poker Festival, was first organised in 2001. Consisting of a full schedule of side events the must-attend contest culminates with the headline tournament - the Irish Masters main event.

This years Festival's main event has a buy-in of €1500 + €150, served as the Dublin leg of the European Poker Tour from 2004 to 2007 and has an expected prizepool of €1M!

Reuben Peters, a stock trader from Colorado, won last year's Irish Masters - EPT Dublin leg- taking home €532,620 while Roland de Wolfe, an English professional poker player, cashed out the amazing sum of €554,300 in the 2006 event.

Chilipoker is now offering you a full package of $4,500 to spend the October Bank Holiday weekend (October 25th-27th) at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, the largest city and capital of Ireland.

The package that will cover all your expenses and buy-ins can be won at Chilipoker for just $1.2!

WSOP 2008 Videos

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:57:16 GMT

Read all about it. Get your WSOP videos here. This year pokernewsdotcom had some spectacular video coverage of the World Series of Poker 2008. We are sure the Pokernewsdotcom video interviews of our favorite poker players have attracted more hits, posts and fan comments then ever before, many people are saying that watching the WSOP videos was almost as good as being there.

After 12 days of grueling Main Event competition at the record-setting 39th annual World Series of Poker with full coverage from the Pokernewsdotcom team, the stage is finally set for the most prestigious night in poker history.

Dubbed "The November Nine" the participants will have 117 days before they return to Las Vegas, where they will battle it out for the title on what is literally poker's largest stage - inside the Rio's state-of-the-art, 1,500-seat Penn & Teller Theater.

Tiffany 'Hot Chips' Michelle stops in for one last interview with pokernews. Tiffany talks about her not doing so hot day today and that she'll try and shake it off before getting back to the tables.

Here is where you can find more Pokernewsdotcom coverage of the World Series of Poker 2008, if you subscribe to the Pokernewsdotcom Youtube channel then you get new poker videos posted as soon as the are released:

Pokernewsdotcom Channel on Youtube
The November Nine by Chilipoker on Squidoo
WSOP Videos 2008 by Chilipoker on Squidoo

Stay tuned for more...

Hungarian Poker Cup 2008

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:42:54 GMT

Chilipoker's brand new hungarian promotion is just round the corner, this is a 12 round poker cup, which ends with giving our winners thousands of $$$ in cash.

Play with us from one round to the other, collect your points, and get the best place you can on the Final Standings. After that, you will have the possibility to prove - you are the Best Hungarian Poker Player - The Poker Champion!

Get points from one week to another. Meet with the 36 best placed players in the online final, where you can compete for the best 10 places, and meet up with these players in our LIVE Final in Budapest during the summer of 2008.

Hungarian Poker Cup Freerolls
04.07.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
18.07.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
01.08.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
15.08.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
29.08.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
12.09.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
26.09.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
10.10.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
24.10.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
07.11.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
21.11.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200
05.12.2008. Hungarian Cup Freeroll event Freeroll 21:00 CET 200

Hungarian Poker Cup 2008 Cheaprolls
11.07.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
25.07.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
08.08.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
22.08.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
05.09.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
19.09.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
03.10.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
17.10.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
31.10.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
14.11.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
28.11.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200
12.12.2008. Hungarian Cup Cheaproll Event $2+0,20 21:00 CET 200

ONLINE FINAL:
19.12.2008. Hungarian Poker Cup Online Final

OFFLINE FINAL:
10.01.2009. Hungarian Poker Cup Offline Final

Chilipoker's Sun City Million Dollar Poker Adventure

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT

Will you survive the wrath of the suicidal kings?
The Year is 2008. As the Third King continues it's reign of terror over the Lost Pocket Aces, Chilipoker is looking to send you and a friend on a quest to Sun City Resort in South Africa. Get you gear ready as this action packed adventure includes a high voltage rock concert, luxury spa treatment, a dangerous jungle safari and a poker tournament with a $1,500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

A tournament package fit for only a king and a queen!
The chosen poker hero will start of his or her quest with 7 nights accommodation at the Palace of the Lost City Hotel at Sun City. Before embarking on our mission you will be treated to a luxury spa treatment, a day on the green playing on a pro golf course or even a sky high hot air balloon ride. Next up, is a once-in-a-lifetime jungle safari and a secret ritual to summon lady luck for the $3,000 buy-in at the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament the following day.

Chilipoker and i-Poker are now offering you chance for full package poker tour worth a total of $10,500 including:
- $3,000 buy-in to the Main Event
- $600 for one re-buy
- $1000 for one add-on
- $2,800 for 7 nights accommodation and breakfast at the Palace of the Lost City Hotel
- VIP package including free Spa entry, a golf course or a hot balloon ride
- Up to $2,500 for flights & spending

We will run satellites from July 19th till Aug 23rd to avoid higher buy-ins. Qualify via sit & go stage 1 satellites for as little as $5.5 +$0.5 or via sit & go stage 2 satellites for $64 + 6. Super satellite are also available from the Chilipoker lobby between July 19th and Aug 23rd.

Freeroll to Plan your Summer Holidays

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:11:21 GMT

Are you saving like crazy trying to have a decent holidays this year? Waiting for the low season to get a cheap vacation?

Chilipoker will put an end to all this headache giving you a total of $6,000 this summer for your dream vacation!

Win your vacations with your first deposit.

All new players who make their first deposit from the 1st of July to the 31st of August will be entitled to play in a freeroll which will give away $1,500 every 15 days to the winner!