Americas Cardroom Million Dollar Poker Tournament

ACR’s second Million Dollar Sunday of October went off with out a hitch on October 11th.

Here are the Details direct from this ACR Press Release:

A1phad0ggg Conquers Million Dollar Sunday at Americas Cardroom After Final Table Deal Made With NickYunis.

San Jose, Costa Rica – October 12th, 2015 – It was déjà vu for online poker players at Americas Cardroom this weekend as another $1 million guaranteed winner was crowned in the online poker site’s $5 Million Guaranteed promotion. Online poker player A1phad0ggg has taken the third Million Dollar Sunday title since Americas Cardroom launched its $5 Million Guaranteed promotion in September.

Last night’s tournament featured the lowest overlay of the series, a testament to Americas Cardroom’s growing popularity and commitment to squashing DDoS attacks.

Shortly after 5:00am ET, a final table deal was struck between A1phad0ggg and NickYunis, with the former taking $150,000 and the latter $140,000. With $20,000 set aside for the winner, the two played for the first place title and A1phad0ggg came out on top.

The Million Dollar Sunday is Americas Cardroom’s signature tournament that runs throughout the year. During October, Americas Cardroom is hosting a big event every Sunday with a 6-figure prize pool set aside for first place. It’s all part of the $5 Million Guaranteed promotion introduced on September 13th.

The last two tournaments featured significant overlays averaging over $211,000. However, with 1,726 entries in the October 11th tournament, players contributed $863,000 to the pot, resulting in an overlay of $137,000.

The reduced overlay is the result of Americas Cardroom’s handling of DDoS attacks, something the site had experienced in its first two installments of the Million Dollar Sunday. The DDoS attacks hit Americas Cardroom particularly hard in the September 13th tournament, causing players to choose not to re-enter. For the October 4th tournament, Americas Cardroom ramped up its DDoS Mitigation team, which resulted in downtimes of only 30 seconds and minimal impact to the playing experience.

Players responded by flocking back to the Sunday tournament in droves on October 11th, and those who played enjoyed an uninterrupted experience throughout the course of the tournament.

More information on the promotion, including available satellites, can be found at AmericasCardroom.eu.

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Your life time Rake Back will be paid to you on a weekly basis and can add up to thousands over the life of your play.

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Americas Cardroom pays $200K in Overlay

Here’s the details of a huge Poker Tournament Overlay on Americas Cardroom…..

Here is the exact Press Release from ACR on Monday October 5th:

Final Four Deal Struck in Million Dollar Sunday as Players Benefit From Another $200,000 Overlay.

San Jose, Costa Rica – October 5th, 2015 – It’s not every day that an online poker site reaches deep into its pocket and pulls out $200,000 to cover a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. But it is almost every Sunday. For the second straight Million Dollar Sunday event, Americas Cardroom players got to contend with a smaller-than-expected field. The tournament featured an overlay of $197,500, only slightly less than the $225,500 overlay seen in the first tournament of Americas Cardroom’s $5 Million Guaranteed promotion.

“First off, congratulations to our four final table participants who negotiated a deal with fairly equal chips in play,” said Americas Cardroom spokesperson Michael Harris. “And a special congrats to Runzgood, who finally dominated the tournament and won the $20,000 icing on the cake. As promised, we delivered on our $1 million guarantee, even in the face of a $200,000 overlay. And we’ll deliver on our promise next week too.”

The Million Dollar Sunday is Americas Cardroom’s signature tournament that runs throughout the year. Every week in October, Americas Cardroom is hosting a Million Dollar Sunday event with $1 million in guaranteed prize money and at least $200,000 earmarked for first place. If the overlay repeats itself week after week, there’s a potential for a total of $1 million, taking into account the September 13th overlay experienced just a few weeks ago.

Harris notes that the overlay is the result of DDoS attacks. On September 13th, Americas Cardroom experienced an onslaught of attacks, forcing the tournament to pause frequently for a few minutes. This time around, while DDoS attacks did hit the site, downtime was limited to about 30 seconds thanks to a DDoS Mitigation platform called Zenedge put in place by Americas Cardroom’s security team.

“Overall, players didn’t really notice any downtime, but the attacks experienced in September forced some players to rethink playing in the tournament,” noted Harris. “With a smaller field and fewer re-entries, it was a nice opportunity for players to conquer a $1 million guaranteed tournament. And there are three more opportunities this month, so we recommend players secure a seat through a satellite ASAP.”

Last night’s tournament played down to four players shortly after 4am ET. At that time, the chip counts were fairly evenly split, with most raises and all-ins being shunned by echoes of folds across the table. Pre-deal, the final chip counts were Curzdog with 4,898,288, Runzgood with 4,040,130, RepaidByScorn with 3,915,753, and payMefool with 3,195,829.

A final table deal was agreed to that saw Curzdog walk away with $113,339, Runzgood $105,902, RepaidByScorn $105,244, and payMefool $99,116. After the deal was agreed to by all parties, Runzgood won the tournament and pocketed the $20,000 set aside for the winner.

The next Million Dollar Sunday gets underway at 5:00pm ET on October 11th.

This start time is 2 hours later than previous Million Dollar Sundays.

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Free Buy Tournament Super Series on Americas Cardroom

Free Buy Super Series II

Americas Cardroom is holding their 2nd Free Buy Tournament Super Series of 2015.

Starting on August 28, 2015 and running until September 6, 2015.

In total, there will be 57 Free Buy tournaments over the course of ten days during the Super Series II.

Each Event can be entered with no buy-in and a total of $150,000 is guaranteed in payouts.

What is a Free Buy Tournament?

A Free Buy Tournament is a no buy-in, guaranteed payout Poker Tournament.

It costs nothing to join ($0 buy-in), but it allows for you to re-buy and make a final add-on to your tournament stack, as needed.

Each Free Buy will have 10 minute blinds and a 1000 chip starting stack. Each re-buy* will net you 2500 chips and the final add-on* is worth 10,000 chips.

*Re-buy and add-on costs will vary based on each tournaments GTD

You not obligated to spend any money at any time, the re-buys and add-on’s are up to you, completely up to your poker skill.

You can actually join any or all of these tournaments for free, play your way to a big chip stack and pay absolutely nothing and win some Nice Cash Prizes…………….

How the Free Buy Super Series works…….

There will be a full schedule of 57 Free Buy Tournaments set up on ACR starting on August 28th on Americas Cardroom and running until Sunday September 6th.

There will be at least 5 or 6 Free Buy’s each day, start times will be around the clock (allowing for international player to join in), you can register for any of them with absolutely no buy-in, you have the option of re-buying (for small amounts) and adding on (for small amounts) at the end of the predetermined re-buy periods.

These are all basically Free Rolls with no buy-in required, with generous prize pools ranging from $500 to $20,000.

Re-buys and Add-on costs will range from 1¢ to $20 (depending on the tournament GTD).

Games played will include NLHE, PLO and PLO/8.

The Main Event will be held on September 6 at 5:30PM ET, this is a $20,000 GTD tournament. This tournament has a $20 re-buy and add-on. A $20 buy-in $20K GTD is an excellent value, imagine not spending a penny to compete on this tournament…….

Tournament Guarantees will include: $500, $750, $1,000, $1500, $1750, $2000, $2500, $3000, $5000 and $20,000 prize pools.

Rebuy/Add-on amounts: Will start at 1¢, 10¢, 20¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6 and $20.

You do not have to deposit to play any of these Free Buy tournaments, however it would help you immensely if you had a small balance for re-buying and adding on to your stacks to increase your winning chances.

ACR also has hourly “On-Demand” Free Rolls, start playing today.

Timing: Each Free Buy Event will open registration 2 hours before the start time, there will be late registration for the first 2 hours of play, Re-buys and Add-ons will be completed after 3 hours of play on each tournament.

 

 

Million Dollar Warm-up

Americas Cardroom has announced their Million Dollar Warm-up poker tournament series.

The Series starts on Thursday, July 30 and runs through Sunday August 2nd.

This poker tournament series will lead all players up to the $1 Million Dollar Main Event on Sunday August 2nd at 3PM ET on Americas Cardroom.

The Million Dollar Tournament is a $540 buy-in, no-limit Texas holdem tournament that is structured with 15 minute levels and gives you a chunky 10,000 chip starting stack to build your fortune!

The Million Dollar guarantees the single winner $200,000 and multiple winners in the $10’s of thousands.

$540 is not really a lot to risk for such a large poker tournament and ACR is offering daily satellites to earn your entry to this rare poker tournament.

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This is the third Million Dollar tourney on ACR this year and I would expect another one before 2015 ends.

The Million Dollar Warm-up Series offers 46 tournaments, including a whopping 140 satellite seats to the Million Dollar tourney (each a $540 value).

Buy-ins of every limit and all the formats of poker you have played on ACR are offered during the series.

Complete Million Dollar Warm-up schedule

Date                            Time (ET)     Event / Buy-In

Thurs, July 30th     3:00PM     1     $2,000 GTD     $5 + 0.50
Thurs, July 30th     3:30PM     2     10-Seat Mega Satellite $1M GTD     $10+1
Thurs, July 30th     4:00PM     3     $2,000 GTD PLO8     $15 + 1.50
Thurs, July 30th     5:00PM     4     $5,000 GTD     $50 + 5
Thurs, July 30th     6:00PM     5     $20,000 GTD     $28 + 2
Thurs, July 30th     7:00PM     6     $25,000 GTD*     $100+9
Thurs, July 30th     7:30pm     7     25-Seat Mega Satellite $1M GTD     $40+4
Thurs, July 30th     8:00PM     8     $3,000 GTD     $30 + 3
Thurs, July 30th     9:00PM     9     $3,000 GTD 6-Max     $5 + 0.50 + 2KO
Thurs, July 30th     10:00PM     10     $2,000 GTD     $10 + 1
Thurs, July 30th     11:00PM     11     $2,000 GTD     $5+0.50
Thurs, July 30th     12:00AM     12     $1,000 GTD     $3 + 0.30
Friday, July 31st     3:00PM     13     $2,000 GTD     $5 + 0.50
Friday, July 31st     3:30PM     14     10-Seat Mega Satellite $1M GTD     $10+1
Friday, July 31st     4:00PM     15     $2,000 GTD PLO8     $15 + 1.50
Friday, July 31st     5:00PM     16     $5,000 GTD     $50 + 5
Friday, July 31st     6:00PM     17     $20,000 GTD     $28 + 2
Friday, July 31st     7:00PM     18     $25,000 GTD*     $100+9
Friday, July 31st     7:30pm      19     25-Seat Mega Satellite $1M GTD     $40+4
Friday, July 31st     8:00PM     20     $3,000 GTD     $30 + 3
Friday, July 31st     9:00PM     21     $3,000 GTD 6-Max     $5.50+ 2KO
Friday, July 31st     10:00PM     22     $2,000 GTD     $10 + 1
Friday, July 31st     11:00PM     23     $2,000 GTD     $5+0.50
Friday, July 31st     12:00AM     24     $1,000 GTD     $3 + 0.30
Saturday, August 1st     3:00PM     25     $2,400 GTD     $10 + 1
Saturday, August 1st     4:00PM     26     $4,000 GTD – 6 Max     $20+2
Saturday, August 1st     5:00PM     27     $4,000 GTD KO     $40 + 4 + $10B
Saturday, August 1st     6:00PM     28     $10,000 GTD     $100 + 9
Saturday, August 1st     6:00PM     29     70-Seat Mega Satellite $1M GTD     $60+6
Saturday, August 1st     7:00PM     30     $4,000 GTD     $30 + 3
Saturday, August 1st     8:00PM     31     $3,000 GTD     $10 + 1
Saturday, August 1st     9:00PM     32     $1,000 GTD     $5 + 0.50
Saturday, August 1st     10:00PM     33     $600 GTD     $3 + 0.30
Saturday, August 1st     11:00PM     34     $2,000 GTD     $5+0.50
Saturday, August 1st     12:00AM     35     $1,000 GTD     $3 + 0.30
Sunday, August 2nd     1:00PM     36     $3,000 GTD     $10 + 1
Sunday, August 2nd     2:00PM     37     $2,000 GTD     $5 + 0.50
Sunday, August 2nd     3:00PM     38     $1Million GTD     $500+40
Sunday, August 2nd     3:00PM     39     $5,000 GTD     $50 + 5
Sunday, August 2nd     4:00PM     40     $8,000 GTD – 6 Max     $20+ 2
Sunday, August 2nd     5:00PM     41     $5000 GTD     $10 + $1
Sunday, August 2nd     6:00PM     42     $25,000 GTD     $28 + 2
Sunday, August 2nd     8:00PM     43     $75,000 GTD     $100 + 9
Sunday, August 2nd     8:00PM     44     $7,000 GTD     $5+ 0.50
Sunday, August 2nd     9:00PM     45     $3000 GTD     $10 + 1
Sunday, August 2nd     11:00PM     46     $2000 GTD     $5+0.50

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Gone In 60 Minutes (GI60M Tournaments)

AMERICAS CARDROOM HAS ADDED A NEW GROUP OF POKER TOURNAMENTS TO THEIR DAILY SCHEDULE……..

Gone in 60 Minutes

Look for the new GI60M tournaments in the ACR main tournament lobby.

These are fast paced, 60 minute late entry, guaranteed payout poker tournaments that will make your head spin with how fast they start paying out winners……..No more huge player fields or dozens of late entries to beat….. You’ll be in the Money and at the final table before you know it!

Buy-ins start as low as $2.20 and have guarantees of $100 to $1500. The pools will grow as these tournaments gain popularity.

12pm – GI60M – $200 GTD PLO8 R/A – $2+0.20 – 10 min blinds – 3k SS

3.45pm – GI60M – $250 GTD 6 Max – $4+0.40 10 min blinds 3k SS

5.45pm – GI60M – $1000 GTD R/A – $20+2 – SS-1500,R-1500,A-2500 10 min blinds

8.15pm – GI60M – $500 GTD – $10+1 – 10 min blinds – 3K SS

8.45pm – GI60M – $1500 GTD – $50+5 – 12 min blinds – 3K SS

10.00pm – GI60M – $600 GTD Turbo – $30+3 – 5 Min blinds – 5k SS

10.15pm – GI60M – $200 GTD PLO Turbo 6 Max -$7+0.70 – 5 Min Blinds – 5k SS

11.15pm – GI60M – $500 GTD – $25+2.50 – 10 Min Blinds – 3k SS

As a Special Bonus to all, we have set up a special offer with ACR, only for players who have yet to sign-up on Americas Cardroom…….

Get 27% rakeback and a 100% Deposit Bonus , this special offer is limited, so sign up now and start playing on Americas Cardroom, the largest online Poker Room available to players in the USA.

Free – Buy-in Poker Tournament Series

Free Buy-in Poker Tournaments

Americas Cardroom is holding the first, all free buy-in, Poker Tournament Series.

From May 8 to May 17th there will be over 55 Free Buy Poker Tournaments on ACR with total payouts guaranteed to be over $150,000……..That’s over 5 Free Buys every day

Start times will vary around the clock, so there will always be one open for you to join.

Click here for the Complete Free Buy Schedule

Payouts on each tournament will range from $500 to $20,000.

NO DEPOSIT is needed to play, just sign up now and join the games.

The Sunday May 17, 5:30 PM tournament will be the main event, with a massive $20,000 prize pool guaranteed.

Each tournament has a 1000 chip stack start, 10 minute blinds and will pay the top 109 finishers free cash.

You”l find these Free Buy Events on the Special Tournament tab on the main ACR tournament lobby.

Registration begins two hours before each Freebuy tournament starts and the late registration is open for two hours (if capped players is not met). The optional add-on period is three hours after the Freebuy kicks off. The series is open to all players with an ACR account, whether or not you’ve ever made a deposit.  Simply register for the tournament and you’ll be sat at a table with a starting stack.  You may then choose to add to your stack with a re-buy and add-on or just fight it out with the chips you receive with your initial free entry.   

Re-buy and add-on units range from just 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 20¢ and up to $20 but you do have an opportunity to win whether you add to your chip stack or not!

This Offer is for a limited time only, Sign up Today!

This is a unique and unusual opportunity for everyone to try Americas Cardroom for free.

Make sure you look for the hourly $10 On-Demand Free Rolls offered every day on ACR on the main tournament lobby.

Jackpot Poker on Americas Cardroom

 

Americas Cardroom launched Jackpot Poker on Tuesday April 14th

I first heard about Jackpot Poker about 3 weeks ago, I have been waiting to see exactly how Americas Cardroom would present this Poker variation to their players before outlining all the details and giving it my review here on Online Poker Update…….

Read the our entire review

The “High Five” returns April 8th on ACR

Over $1.4 Million to be paid out April 8th – 12th on Americas Cardroom Poker Tournament Series

Americas Cardroom has scheduled their 4th HIGH FIVE Poker Tournament Series this April, starting on Wednesday April 8th.

There will be $1,420,000 in guaranteed tournament prize pools during the High Five Series, with a amazing $1,105,000 in Guaranteed Payouts on Sunday April 12th………

25 total events are scheduled, there will 8 events with buy-ins of $5.50 or less and it all finishes with the April 12th Million Dollar Sunday.

As usual, there are poker tournaments of every format you can think of and there is a tournament to fit your specific playing expertise.

Complete High Five Series Schedule

Americas Cardroom has set the bar extremely high on this Poker Tournament Series.

The first Million Dollar Sunday on ACR in February, 2015 paid out the $1 million dollar prize pool with only a slight over-lay and the April High Five – Million Dollar Sunday Event is expected to exceed over $1 Million Dollars in total prizes paid out.

Americas Cardroom offers a 100% Deposit Bonus for all new players and has the most liberal Bonus redemption plan ($1 for $5 in rake) available to online poker players.

In case you missed it, ACR introduced their all-new FREEBUY Tournaments on March 16th to start the ball rolling towards these April High Five Tournaments.

ACR has experienced their best player and tournament growth in 2015 and expects that trend to continue in March and into the April High Five Tournament Series:

Press Release March 4, 2015:

San Jose, Costa Rica – March 4, 2015 – Though February was the shortest month of the year it didn’t stop Americas Cardroom (ACR) from having its biggest month ever. ACR delivered on its promise to players to host Winning Millions, the online poker site’s $1,000,000 GTD poker tournament as a finale to their biggest online tournament series to date. As a result, overall player traffic in cash games and tournaments has reached record numbers throughout February for the US-facing online poker room.

“Exciting online poker is officially back in the United States,” commented ACR spokesperson Michael Harris. “We’ve expanded our regular tournament schedule and we’re pushing the envelope on our special events to make sure it stays that way.”

Since the beginning of 2015, ACR has aggressively added tournaments and satellites to its schedule with major appeal to all player types. On top of their weekly $50k GTD Sunday major, ACR added another $200+$15 buy-in Sunday Special tournament with a progressive guaranteed prize pool that increases every week the tournament covers. The tournament started as a $35k GTD but has already spiraled up to a posted $70k GTD for this upcoming Sunday.

Smaller stakes players are getting into the action as well. This past Sunday, ACR hosted a $25k GTD buy-in with the low buy-in of just $15+$1.50. Not only did the tournament cover, but it well surpassed the guarantee by reaching over $33k from buy-ins.

Americas Cardroom has already put some stakes in the Vegas ground. Players who want to participate in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event can also now win their package on ACR. ACR has promised to send at least 50 of its players to Las Vegas via weekly satellites. Online poker players can win a $12,500 package for just $55 every Sunday.

“We’ve received an overwhelming response from our players and have seen record new sign ups last month,” continued Harris. “The demand for a competitive tournament schedule for US players is bigger than ever and we intend to keep growing ours to make sure we meet the needs of our community.”

ACR has indeed shown no signs of slowing down. They just announced that they will be hosting yet another $1,000,000 GTD on April 12th at 3:00 pm ET. This time, ACR has renamed the tournament “Million Dollar Sundays” instead of “The Winning Millions”. The title says it all. ACR’s intentions for the future are clear.

Visit ACR Now to get in on all the easy to join and exciting online poker action today.

$25K FREEBUY Tournament on Americas Cardroom

Americas Cardroom is offering over $71K in Free Buy-in Poker Tournaments this week………

Are you interested in playing in a Free Buy-In $6,000, $8,000, $12,000, $20,000 or $25,000 guaranteed poker tournament this week?

I’m sure you are…….

Americas Cardroom has introduced their Free Buy Tournaments this week. The first two were on Monday and Tuesday and paid out $1000 Guaranteed in each.

I saw an average of just over 3200 players in each of these FreeBuy’s on Monday and Tuesday, so every one seemed to know they were available and they proved to be extremely popular.

Now ACR has added more FREEBUY-IN tournaments this week for all to play.

These are $0 (FREE) Buy-in Poker Tournaments

Each has a 1000 chip stack to start, 10 minute blinds and give you opportunity to re-buy and add-on during play. You can play with just your initial stack or try to improve your chances with the R+A.

Re-buys get you 2500 chips and the add-on is a huge 10,000 chips and allow for 2 hours of late registration.

There is a limit of 6000 players in each, so register as soon as possible each day.

Giant-free tourneys don’t come along very often, so make sure you enter and play as many as you can.

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Wednesday, March 18  $6K GTD FreeBuy $3 Re-buy and Add-on

Thursday, March 19  2:30PM $8K GTD FreeBuy $6 R+A

Friday, March 20 2:30PM $12K GTD FreeBuy $10 R+A

Saturday, March 21 12:30PM $20K GTD FreeBuy $15 R+A

Sunday, March 22 12:30PM $25K FreeBuy $25 R+A

You don’t have to deposit or buy-in to play in them, so you really have nothing to lose………

These are in addition to the hourly $10 On-Demand Free Rolls and New Depositor Free Rolls held every week on Americas Cardroom.

You can deposit as little as $25 to start and still get a 100% bonus and entry into the depositor free rolls on ACR to improve your FREEBUY tournament chances.