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SunPoker Newsletter

Newsletter: Volume 4 - Issue 8

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SunPoker Updates

This week you will notice SunPoker.com being updated with some of the new promotions starting in March and onward;



Spring Sale is up and satellites into the final events will commence on March 5th 2012 so be sure to check this out right away and start reserving your seats as we start our spring cleaning.


Also live are details on the Sunday Blast promotion, where the first Sunday of every month starting in April, the $200,000 Guaranteed tournaments will be discounted by 50%

No Limit Hold’Em players your Cash Point promotion is getting on its way, you will be able to opt into this promotion starting March 19th. Remember if you don’t opt in you will not be participating.

As we bring in the new, two of our land based tournaments are nearing a finally and just 1 package remains for the Mega Poker Series Nottingham and DeepStack Open Cannes, so be sure to read on below for details!


 

Tournament News

 

LAST CHANCE - Mega Poker Series Nottingham, 2012

If you haven’t secured your seat to the 2012 Mega Poker Series in Nottingham UK, this Monday, February 27th at 20:00 GMT is your last chance to grab a €1,500 VIP package!

The final €1,500 winning package includes:

  • €700 + €70 Buy In to the Main Event. 77,000 chips.

  • €300 for 5 nights’ accommodation at the Park Plaza Nottingham
    Check in: March 7th, 2012. Check out: March 12th, 2012.

  • €30 for handling fees

  • €400 for flights and spending.

  • Players party on March 8th, 2012.

Buy in to the final table is set for only €80 + €8. Register now to secure one of the final package and join us at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker club/Casino in Nottingham from March 7th – March 11th 2012.

Connect to www.sunpoker.com and your SunPoker account to register for the Super Satellite or make your way up the ladder through the series of satellites on going daily.

Looking forward to seeing you in Nottingham for a tournament closer to home!


LAST CHANCE – DeepStack Open Cannes 2012

Another last chance package is up for grabs at SunPoker; this one is to the city of the French Riviera, a vacationer’s paradise or in this case a poker player’s paradise, join Team SunPoker as we revisit the city of Cannes for the 2012 DeepStack Open Cannes.

The fast growing popularity of the DeepStack tournament will be once again held at the Casino Cannes Croisette, from March 15th to March 18th 2012.

The last Supper Satellite will be Thursday March 1st at 21:00 GMT for €80 +€8 R/A

Winning Package valued at €1,250.00 and includes

  • €500 + €50 Buy In to the Main Event. 50,000 chips.
    All players are registered to day 1B, March 16th
  • €480 for 4 nights’ accommodation at the Gray d'Albion, March 15th – March 19th 2012.
  • €15 for handling fees.
  • €205 for flights and spending.

Satellites to the final table are on going daily so be sure to join the final table and secure the final package as we all gear up to head to the luxuries French Riviera!

Poker Around the World

 

Jonathan Duhamel, WSOP Bracelet Found

We all recall the unfortunate robbery and battery that Jonathan Duhamel endured right before Christmas last year, the Poker Pro finally has something to smile about; Last Wednesday, the most prized item swiped in the break-in, Duhamel’s 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Championship bracelet, was found. It may be shinny as it first was but it has been reunited by its rightful owner.

The diamond-encrusted bracelet looks like it was run over by a car because it was. According to a report on PrincePoker.com,iIt was discovered by Montreal street cleaner Denis Theriault, who apparently sucked it up in his street sweeper when cleaning the Ville-Marie tunnel. Upon emptying the refuse collection bin, Theriault found the valuable piece of jewelry. There is no definitive explanation as to how the bracelet ended up on the street, but one could guess that whichever culprit was in possession of the poker award decided they could not risk keeping it or selling it, so they just threw it out the window of a car while in the tunnel.

The bracelet is almost unrecognizable now as links are missing and only the main plate is still intact, even sadder is Jonathan Duhamel’s last name has been scratched off.

In his blog in the days following the events of December 21st, Duhamel wrote of the items that were stolen, “The thieves stole some money, but mainly my WSOP champion’s bracelet and the Rolex watch that my sponsor gave me to commemorate the event. I won’t hide the fact that these two items have a much larger value for me than their commercial value, and I really hope we will be able to retrieve them in (the) near future.”

After the incident, WSOP Media Director Seth Palansky told the Montreal Journal, “The tournament director, Mitch Garber, contacted Jonathan after the incident and informed him that the bracelet can be replaced.”

Poker News Daily contacted Mr. Palansky to confirm that the offer was still in place, even though the bracelet was recovered. He reiterated that the WSOP will still do what it can to make Duhamel whole, saying, “We stated previously we will work with Duhamel on this issue and intend to do so if he determines he wants the bracelet replaced.”

The Rolex was found before the end of December and half of the $115,000 that was taken from a safe in Duhamel’s residence, was found earlier this year. Acting on a tip, members of the Longueuil Police Department located an envelope containing the cash in a mailbox. It was easily identifiable as Duhamel’s because much of it was in high denomination Euros, which are not frequently seen in North.

All in all, the ordeal seems to be coming to an end allowing Duhamel to move forward.

Message from the CEO

A busy week here at SunPoker but we are loving every second of it…

Stay tuned to www.sunpoker.com for all the updates coming your way!

Message from the CEO

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SunPoker is proud to introduce to you – Late Tournament Registration!

Starting March 1st 2012 late registration in all MTTs will be available with the following configurations:

a. Speed/Rocket tournaments: for 15 minutes.

b. Turbo tournaments: for 30 minutes.

c. Regular tournaments: 60 minutes.

d. Special tournaments (Sunday $200,000 GP, iPOPS, etc.): 2 hours.

Cash Games:

Starting March 5th at 06:00 GMT all network and private, 10 and 8 players’ cash tables, will be changed to 9 players tables.

To make the sitout parameters in cash games more relevant we are reducing the allowed sitout time from 15 minutes to 7 minutes before a player is removed from the table.

This reduction in time will improve the SunPoker experience for active players at the table, whilst still allowing adequate time for a short break


 

 

 


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