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 Febonanza Promotion

I. Cash tables points race

♠ Starting February 1st, iPoker will give out a total of over $400,000 to our cash table players.

♠ Players will be ranked in a points based leaderboard. Points will be awarded on all cash tables
where rake was taken, during the leaderboard period. Please find a detailed table below.

♠ There will be one counting period of 28 full days, starting February 1st 2009 at 00:00 GMT,
ending February 28th 2009, at 23:59:59 GMT.

♠ A sum of $406,250 will be divided between the 300 players with highest rank at the end of that
period.

♠ The leaderboard is per the above period, spanning all stake levels, game and bet types, as
detailed below.


Terms and Conditions:
1. Leaderboard Points are counted for each player who was dealt cards in a hand, and in which at least
$0.25 rake was taken from that hand. Players who were seated out of a raked hand will not have
that hand counted towards this promotion’s leaderboard points.
2. In case there is a tie between players’ leaderboard points in paid places, all players with that
number of points will be issued an average amount of their prize (as per their positions).
3. iPoker reserves the right to refuse payment to any player which is found colluding or slow playing.
4. Players will be paid for reaching the money on an ongoing 28 full day’s leaderboard, within seven
working days of that leaderboard end time. (End time is February 28th, 2009 at 23:59:59 GMT).
5. All raked hands will be counted, regardless of stake levels, game type or bet type.
6. Accounts cannot be utilized for the promotion purposes more than 17 hours per day. Any player
which will play more than that, his points will be determined by the following formula:
Points accumulated X 17 / number of hours played.
7. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.


Cash tables leaderboard ‐ February 1st – February 28th

• 300 Players with the most points during the counting period in cash tables will receive money
into their poker account by this structure:

Place Prize
1 $20,000.00
2 $15,000.00
3 ‐ 5 $10,000.00
6 ‐ 10 $7,000.00
11 ‐ 15 $5,000.00
16 ‐ 20 $3,000.00
21 ‐ 25 $2,000.00
26 ‐ 75 $1,500.00
76 ‐ 125 $1,000.00
126 ‐ 300 $750.00

• Players will be awarded with leaderboard points according to the below table:
Rake taken per hand Race points
$0.25 ‐ $0.50 1 race point
$0.51 ‐ $1 2 race points
$1.01 ‐ $1.50 4 race points
$1.51 ‐ $2 6 race points
$2.01 ‐ $3 8 race points
$3.01 ‐ $5 10 race points

II. Golden Hands Bonuses

A Golden hand occurs every 1,000,000 hands, and hands are counted as per the consecutive hand ID.
The prizes will be split between the winner and the participants of the hand, as per the below table. The
winner of the hand will walk away with the prize money, while all participants in the hand will split an
identical amount (including the winner of the hand).


See Pic 1

♠ The “Golden Hand” with the highest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as
“Platinum Hand”, and the winner of that hand will receive a $30,000 bonus.
♠ The “Golden Hand” with the lowest hand rank among all “Golden Hands” will be dubbed as “Tin
Hand”, and the winner of the hand will receive a $20,000 bonus.


Terms & Conditions:
1. The promotion will start when the first hand ID is dealt on February 1st, 2009 (GMT).
2. The first “Golden Hand” will be the first hand with a round million hand ID number. For
example: if the first hand ID of the promotion was 1,364,900,000 the first “Golden Hand” will be
1,365,000,000, and so on.
3. Winners of “Golden Hands” will take a sum of money as per the above table.
4. All participants in “Golden Hands” will split an amount as per the above table. The winner will
also receive a share of the “players in hand split”.
5. Players must be dealt cards on the hand in order to be eligible for the bonus. Players sitting out
will not be eligible. Players passing on blinds will not be eligible as well.
6. The hand ID’s are determined by the number assigned to them by our system, as they appear on
the table (on the top‐left corner).
7. Tournament hands do not participate in this promotion (they are assigned different hand ID’s).
8. Winning hands will be published by our cardrooms and their affiliates. Players who do not agree
to this will not be entitled to the prizes.
9. If a winning hand has two winners or more, they will divide the sum of the winner bonus and the
participating players’ bonus. For example: 5 players in micro table, winner takes $65.
Participating players split $65 ($13 each). Two winners will take $45.5 each ‐ ($65+$13+$13)/2.
10. Winners of the “Platinum” and “Tin” Hands will receive a bonus, in addition to the regular
Golden Hand bonus. “Platinum” hand winner will receive $30,000 and “Tin” hand winner will
receive $20,000.
11. Only golden hands that reached the “showdown” will be eligible to win the “Platinum” and “Tin”
hands prizes.
12. The “Tin Hand” will be the weakest hand to win a “Golden Hand” at showdown.
13. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.
14. In case there is a tie between players with the same hand rank (both for “Tin Hand” and
“Platinum Hand”), all players with that hand rank will split the prize evenly.

III. $2,500,000 Guaranteed tokens


♠ iPoker will give away tokens to the participanting players of the Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed
events during February.

♠ Tokens will be won by participating players according to the following two options:

• Players who will play and finish among the top 100 players (including) of at least two
Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will win a token to the $2,500,000
Guaranteed event, which will take place on March 8th, 2009.
• Players who will play the whole four $250,000 Guaranteed events during February, will
be eligible to participate in a $2,500,000 guaranteed qualifier freeroll, regardless of their
finishing position. The freeroll will give away 10 seats to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed
event.



Terms & Conditions:
1. The four $250,000 events to be counted in this promotion are: Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Feb 15th, and Feb
22nd 2009.
2. Tokens are non‐refundable, non transferable, and cannot be converted to cash.
3. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed will be automatically registered by
iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed event, which will be held on March 8th, 2009.
4. Players who will win a token to the $2,500,000 Guaranteed qualifier freeroll, will be
automatically registered by iPoker into the $2,500,000 Guaranteed qualifier Freeroll. The exact
date and time of the freeroll will be determined and communicated by the end of February
2009.
5. iPoker will not compensate for any token that wasn’t used in practice by the winning player.

I will post league tables as I get them, we will have to get some blonde cash games going and see if we can scoop on the "Golden Hands" ...

shame no MTT leaderboard promotion.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=34208.0

There is one ;)

shame you put this up 12 hours after the start of the promotion puts anyone on blonde at a slight disadvantage at the start (not that it effects me of course)

surely this was organised by ipoker long before today so why do they leave it so late informing there skins?

with notice i reckon a few blonde may have been able to get a cash staking thread going to maybe have a good crack at this thus increasing card room activity on blonde.

I only got the blonde cost estimate on Friday.

It was touch and go whether blonde would take part at all

I still havent been given all the promotional material I was promised by ipoker.

I was gonna say similar to Turny. I saw Byron's post on another thread last night about the 400k rakerace and was searching everywhere to see if it was included on Blonde, as that's the only place I get loyalty bonus then thats where I would have played. Now I am 12 hours behind and it's really too late to bother already.

Or STT

friday would have at least gave people 48 hours notice.

what promotional material did you need to post this thread and maybe spam a few others?

what costs does this incur to blonde kev? unless already started i cant see a blonde doing this so maybe not a good idea to be involved if theirs a serious cost to blonde especially in the current enviroment.

out of interest is there an opt out option with the ipoker promotions?

Like I said above, it really was a last minute decision ... Sorry if you feel that it has been posted too late, I was waiting for better promotional material, but as it hadnt arrived I had to announce today without it.

[   ]  IPoker are great.

not knocking you kev i just feel that an oppurtunity has been missed here to boost the cardroom activity bigtime.

good luck to any blondes that are participating in this

Kev...............does this affect loyalty payments for February or do they still remain as per the rest of the year?

Loyalty scheme is not affected.

 Febonanza Promotion

I. Cash tables points race

♠ Starting February 1st, iPoker will give out a total of over $400,000 to our cash table players.

♠ Players will be ranked in a points based leaderboard. Points will be awarded on all cash tables
where rake was taken, during the leaderboard period. Please find a detailed table below.

♠ There will be one counting period of 28 full days, starting February 1st 2009 at 00:00 GMT,
ending February 28th 2009, at 23:59:59 GMT.

♠ A sum of $406,250 will be divided between the 300 players with highest rank at the end of that
period.

♠ The leaderboard is per the above period, spanning all stake levels, game and bet types, as
detailed below.


Terms and Conditions:
1. Leaderboard Points are counted for each player who was dealt cards in a hand, and in which at least
$0.25 rake was taken from that hand. Players who were seated out of a raked hand will not have
that hand counted towards this promotion’s leaderboard points.
2. In case there is a tie between players’ leaderboard points in paid places, all players with that
number of points will be issued an average amount of their prize (as per their positions).
3. iPoker reserves the right to refuse payment to any player which is found colluding or slow playing.
4. Players will be paid for reaching the money on an ongoing 28 full day’s leaderboard, within seven
working days of that leaderboard end time. (End time is February 28th, 2009 at 23:59:59 GMT).
5. All raked hands will be counted, regardless of stake levels, game type or bet type.
6. Accounts cannot be utilized for the promotion purposes more than 17 hours per day. Any player
which will play more than that, his points will be determined by the following formula:
Points accumulated X 17 / number of hours played.
7. All decisions as made by iPoker are final.


Cash tables leaderboard ‐ February 1st – February 28th

• 300 Players with the most points during the counting period in cash tables will receive money
into their poker account by this structure:

Place Prize
1 $20,000.00
2 $15,000.00
3 ‐ 5 $10,000.00
6 ‐ 10 $7,000.00
11 ‐ 15 $5,000.00
16 ‐ 20 $3,000.00
21 ‐ 25 $2,000.00
26 ‐ 75 $1,500.00
76 ‐ 125 $1,000.00
126 ‐ 300 $750.00

• Players will be awarded with leaderboard points according to the below table:
Rake taken per hand Race points
$0.25 ‐ $0.50 1 race point
$0.51 ‐ $1 2 race points
$1.01 ‐ $1.50 4 race points
$1.51 ‐ $2 6 race points
$2.01 ‐ $3 8 race points
$3.01 ‐ $5 10 race points

What cash tables do iPoker rake over $3 on?

Pretty sure i used to pay $5 rake on 50-100+

apparently as i have been informed via pm unless you play a hand or two on blonde you are not entitled to comment or have an opinion on this thread.

my apologies to those concerned and whoever i may have upset by questioning something on an open forum.

Ya here you go:

Fixed Limit games of $50/$100 and higher, along with No Limit games of $25/$50 and up, take a rake of 5% up to $5.

anybody got any idea what you would need to play to make the top 300 ??? How many hands at what stakes etc?

A scandinavian housemate.

it's funny because it's true