Party Poker has been around for a long time so it must be difficult for them to come up with cool promotions that are completely unique. Despite this difficulty Party Poker has once again developed a cool new promotion: The Winter Million. This is a special tournament promo and it provides an excellent opportunity for online poker players suffering the winter blues. The 2012 Party Poker deposit bonus program is also worth mentioning. Using the right Party Poker bonus code will enable you to claim a 100% match bonus up to £500, €500 or $500.  500 Euros is worth $632 USD and 500 British Pounds is worth $765 USD so playing with this currency provides the most value.

The Party Poker bonus code SKYHIGH will allow you to claim this bonus when you make your first deposit. I get in to the clearance requirements and other rules for this special Party Poker bonus at the bottom of this post. First let’s look at the Winter Million tournament promotion.

Party Poker Winter Million Promotion

This promo is running until February 5th, 2012. The Winter Millions promotion consists of a series of qualifiers and will finish with a $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament on Feb 5th, 2012. There are at least five different paths you can take to play in the main event. Party Poker is running free to enter qualifiers as well as micro, small and medium stakes buy-in satellites.  You can also buy directly in for $600 +$40. Here is a list of a few feeders to this million dollar tournament:

• $1 Daily Sub-qualifier (Rebuy) - This tourney offers seats to daily $27 satellite.
• $2 Speed Sub-qualifier (Rebuy) - This MTT is awarding tickets to a $70 daily Winter Million qualifier. This event is awarding one $640 tournament ticket for every 10 players in the playing field.
• $55 Friday satellite - This tournament has great potential for n overlay. There is a 5 seat guarantee so 58 players are needed just to cover the cost of the 5 tickets. I suggest keeping an eye on this tournament each Friday (17:00). If there are fewer than 58 players you will basically be getting extra value. \
• $172 Daily Qualifier - $172 is definitely a lot of money for a qualifier but this MTT gives a minimum of two Winter Million tickets so an overlay is possible.

The main event may also boast a nice sized overlay. 1,666 players are needed to cover the $1,000,000 GTD prize pool. Even with the variety of satellites Party Poker may have a difficult time getting that many players to sign-up for a $600 +$40 tournament.

Party Poker Download & Bonus Instructions

You can start the free Party Poker download by visiting their site and clicking on the red “Play Now” button. After you have downloaded the poker software you will then create a new account. The bonus code SKYHIGH will be entered on the same page as your username and email address. This bonus code is good though-out 2012 so you will still get the bonus mentioned above even if you do not make a deposit for several months.

Once you have funded your poker account you will be issued the bonus. To clear it you will need to play for real money and earn Party Points. The bonus has different clearance rates for each of the three main currencies:

• Canadian & US Dollars ($) - 6 points/$1.
• Euros (€) - 8 points/€1.
• British Pounds (£) - 9 points/£1.

The bonuses are paid at the same rate though: 5% intervals. Other Party Poker bonuses are available through their VIP program. Party Poker’s 2012 promotional line-up should provide you with plenty of opportunities to turn a small deposit into a large bankroll.

PokerView

Special 2012 PokerView Bonus Code

One of the exclusive bonus codes mentioned above is POKERVIEWBONUS. This PokerView bonus code is valid throughout 2012 and provides new users with a 150% match bonus up to $750. This is ideal because you only have to deposit $500 to claim the maximum of $750.  This Poker View bonus is setup so that it releases in 5% increments. Other rooms specify that you have to clear the entire amount before you receive any. This is a problem because there is always a strict time limit. Many players find themselves in a position that forces them to either play more poker then they want or to play at stakes higher than they prefer in an attempt to finish clearing the last 10-20% of the bonus.

The 5% increments at PokerView solve this problem in a way that benefits players.  This is also the best format for small stakes players because the size of the increment is based on the size of the deposit. Many small stakes players tend to deposit $20-$100 so the increments can be very low. The points you earn at PokerView’s real money tables are each worth 10 cents so earning 50 points will clear $5 in bonus money.

The rake and poker points system at PokerView is equally simple. For every 10 cents you pay in rake you will earn 1 point.

As I mentioned above new PokerView players will be able to benefit from other promotions after they have entered the bonus code listed above. Here is a general overview of these incentives:

• VIP Program - The PokerView VIP program has four tiers and three major benefits. The top benefit is definitely the cashback. You can earn 5%, 10%, 20% or 35% cashback depending on how often you play. This is paid daily so it can really make the difference between a losing day and a winning day. The other two benefits are freerolls and the ability to buy PokerView bonuses.
• Royal Flush Bonus - PokerView is one of the few poker rooms to offer a bonus when you catch a Royal Flush. If you catch poker’s strongest hand at one of the special Royal Flush tables you will receive a bonus of 100X the big blind, up to $1,000.
• Badbeat Jackpot - PokerView is home to the largest badbeat Jackpot in 2012. Losing a hand with 4 sevens or higher will trigger the jackpot. The jackpot is currently over $800,000 and everyone at the table wins a piece when it is hit. There are special BBJ tables and special rules regarding this jackpot so be sure to check out the PokerView web site for more information.

This is only a few of the promotions and bonuses available at PokerView in 2012. Just remember to enter the PokerView bonus code POKERVIEWBONUS and you will receive the top bonus and incentives available.

Benefits Of Mobile  Spread Betting

There are numerous benefits to spread betting on mobile devices. This blog post may focus on iPhone spread betting but this applies to other devices like the iPad, Blackberry, Android powered phones and tablets and other mobile devices.

People are always on the go these days. Many people receive real time alerts on their phones and tablets about financial news. Spread bettors will not have to sit on these important announcements until they get home to their home computer. When you get an important alert on your iPhone or other device you can simply load up your spread betting app and place your bet. This allows you to get in on something within minutes. When the news is bad you can also limit your losses by changing or canceling your ongoing bets.

A good example would be Irans recent threat to close off the Strait of Hormuz and the subsequent tension between the U.S. warships in the region and the Iranian wargames being held there. If you had places a spread bet on the price of crude oil this could turn into an extremely lucrative turn of events, provided you stayed up to date with the news and you had the ability to act quickly to any major developments using your iPhone.

Mobile spread betting I real time gives you a big advantage over those that do not take advantage over this tools. The apps are available for free so you really have nothing to loose by trying them out. Being “in the know” and being able to act instantly to global developments is what seperates those who view spread betting as a complex form of gambling and those that view it as skillful investing.

The possible oil crisis is one example out of the many that pop up every day. Regardless of what market you prefer to spread bet in there is a big inventive to start using devices like your iPhone. Many people like spread betting on currencies. Any news about the Euro and the issues facing the currency can help you decide which way to bet and will also help you cut your losses when a spread bet isn’t looking good.

Online sports betting sites have recently started to compete in the relatively new mobile market. The best mobile sports betting sites currently offer mobile apps for the two major types of smartphone: Android and iPhones. Mobile sports betting is not limited to this though. You can place mobile wagers on some Blackberry phones and some online bookmakers have simply developed mobile-friendly betting platforms that you can access with virtually any cell phone that allows you to visit websites. I mention this to debunk a common myth that you can only place mobile sports bet using the very latest and most expensive smartphones.

As an American my options are obviously limited but I could go to my local grocery store right now and buy one of those $20 pay-as-you-go phones and start placing bets at the top US mobile sports betting site right now. Here is a recap of what you have learned thus far:

• You do NOT need a very expensive phone to use many mobile sports betting sites.
• You do NOT need an extremely new phone to take advantage of mobile online sports betting.

To find the right mobile sports betting site you will need to consider several factors.

• Do they accept bettors from your country?
• Does your mobile device support their mobile betting apps or can it access their mobile platform?
• Are they a trustworthy, reliable and high quality online sports book?

I know that many of you are from the USA so the first question is very important. Only a small fraction of online sports betting sites accept Americans and only a small fraction of those offer mobile betting. Many  U.S. sports books accept few easy to use deposit options these days so you should definitely do some research before wasting your time signing up. BetOnline, Bodog and JustBet are the main mobile sports betting sites for U.S. citizens so they are a good place to start.

These three mobile sports books do things differently than the big mobile bookmakers in the UK. The common practice at the major non-US sportsbooks is to offer mobile apps that can be downloaded for free. These US sports books just have a mobile friendly web page that you can log onto using most mobile phones and almost every tablet, regardless  of operating system. I really don’t understand the importance of apps when you can just log into an online sports book and place your bets. This method is definitely more accessible.

Finding out if a mobile sports book is trustworthy and provides an excellent service will require the most research. You will want to stay away from small mobile sports betting sites because in my experience you might not be able to get paid in the time frame that you would want. Sticking with the brand name online sports books is always a good idea. When doing research use all three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bingo) to find a wide range of opinions. Be sure to avoid any of the advertisement links shown in the search results since these sites are paying for you to click on their ad and their only objective is to get you to signup.

Mobile sports betting sites can really change the way you bet on sports. Some are offering in-play betting, a popular choice for those who bet on the go. Hopefully these mobile sports betting tips have helped you understand the ins and outs of betting on your cellphone or tablet.

With 2012 fast approaching I thought that now would be a good time to write a post about playing poker online in 2012.  There have been many changes to the world of online poker in 2011. The industry is almost unrecognizable today compared to this same time a year ago.  There is still a lot of turmoil but things are starting to settle down. Playing poker online next year is going to be more difficult for people from the US but this may only be temporary. The US government has made deals with some online poker sites that would allow them to legally offer their services in this country once online poker is fully regulated. I am not aware of any particular Bill that would do this but other poker sites like Party Poker have also been very active in the USA.

This is very good news for Americans but I also have some good news from players from around the world. Full Tilt Poker is one of the companies that will be allowed to operate in the United States but that is just a side note to the deal they made with the DOJ recently. Millions of online poker players have been waiting to be paid the money owed to them by Full Tilt since around April of 2011. This money should be paid soon, hopefully by Christmas.

There have also been some popular innovations to online poker in 2011. I will cover a couple of the major developments that will have a big impact on the way we play online poker in 2012.

Time Tournaments - MTT’s Will Never Be The Same

Pokerstars recently launched a new tournament structure that is going to be a big hit in 2012. Time Tournaments have fixed time lengths that range from 15 minutes to a couple hours and they do not have a fixed prize pool structure. I will scale down a typical poker tournament to make it easier to understand. Let’s say you play in a $1 Time Tournament with 99 other players.  The time length is 15 minutes and each player gets 100 starting chips. This makes each chip in play worth one cent. If you are the chip leader with 1,500 chips after 15 minutes you would win $15. If you were the short stack with 8 chips you would win 8 cents. This new type of tournament is sure to be copied by other online poker sites in 2012.

Webcam Poker - An Old Idea Recently Perfected

Webcam poker surely isn’t something new or innovative but no online poker room has been able to pull it off successfully until recently. 888 Poker, a non-US room (for now) has been offering HD quality webcam poker tables for a little while now. This will likely spread to other rooms in 2012 and may one day become the standard quo. This adds some cools twists to playing poker online. You may want to start practicing your poker face and reading up on common tells.

Mobile Bingo Game Apps At Mecca Bingo

Bingo is obviously the main attraction but Mecca Bingo also offers a wide range of slot machine and video poker apps. The 90-ball bingo app is Mecca Bingo’s most popular mobile gaming app and it is available on both the iPhone and devices that use the Android operating system.  These apps are absolutely free and can quickly be downloaded on your mobile device. The quality of the graphics is superb (see right).

Mecca Bingo offers new real money mobile bingo players £50 for free. The actual amount of this bingo bonus depends on how much you deposit. They will match whatever you deposit up to £50 and the money will be credited to your account within an hour of your account balance becoming empty. This means that if you lose your initial deposit you will receive the free bonus money and you can basically do whatever you want with it.

Mecca Bingo currently features three bingo apps. As I mentioned above the main real money bingo app is their 90-ball bingo game. The other two bingo apps are special bingo games that are only available at this bingo site. One is for real money bingo play and the other is a complimentary bingo app that many players find addicting.

Britain’s Got Talent Bingo App

This real money bingo app is associated with the popular TV show Britain’s Got Talent.  This is one of Mecca’s most played online bingo games. The prizes and jackpots on this mobile app are the same as the regular online players compete for. There are several ways to in money when you play this game. At the start of a game you will pick three numbers and you can win up to £250 if your numbers come up in a certain way. Obviously you can win cash by getting a bingo before anyone else. The final win to win real money is via the scratch ticket that you will receive for free at the end of the game. You can win up to £10 in free bingo money on each scratch ticket.

Mecca Bingo is the only mobile bingo site that features two bingo apps for real money play. Playing the same bingo game can get kind of stale so having an exciting alternative that is packed with extra ways to win real money is the perfect solution to players suffering from “bingo boredom”.

Mobile gambling apps are likely the next “big thing” in online gambling. Online casinos, poker rooms and bingo halls have been developing gambling apps for the most popular smart phones, tablets and mobile devices is general. These mobile apps allow you to play Blackjack, slots, bingo, poker and more directly on your iPhone or a host of other devices. Getting the app installed on your phone is going to be a little different at each casino. The process is extremely simple regardless of which casino you choose to do your mobile gambling at.  These mobile gambling apps are completely free so you will never have to spend a few dollars buying a game app ever again.

How To Install Mobile Gambling Apps?

As I mentioned above there are different procedures at each casino. Many mobile friendly casinos offer a wide range of games but you will not have to download every single app in order to play.  Spin Palace Casino is the perfect example on how easy it is to download one of these apps to your smartphone. The image to the left displays the interface that you will use to have Spin Palace send you a mobile gambling app to your phone.

You simply submit which country you are free, select which casino game app you want, enter your mobile phone number and enter the security code.  After that Spin Palace will send the app to the phone you specified and you can begin playing for fun or real money. You will obviously need to signup if you do not already have an account there. Creating an account is free so that should be a big deal.

At other mobile casinos you only have to send a text message and you will receive the app for the casino game that you are interested in.

Mobile Gambling Apps For The iPhone

The iPhone is definitely the most popular platform for mobile gambling. There are countless casino game apps for iPhone users. The quality on the iPhone is simply amazing. It’s enough to make you wonder if the iPhone was developed for these mobile gambling apps and not the other way around. There are a couple online casinos that have outdone all others in regards to casino apps for the iPhone. Here are some mini reviews on each of these iPhone casinos:

- Spin Palace - Spin Palace is arguably the most popular casino online today. That statement includes both the regular casino and the mobile casino. They have been around for a long time and they offer 16 cool mobile casino apps. There is a healthy mix of mobile slots and table games.

- Slotland Casino - Slotland is really one of the only option U.S. players have for mobile gambling apps. This casino has been online since 1998 and has one of the best records for game fairness, security, customer service and prompts payouts. All of these qualities can be applied to their mobile online casino. Do not let the name fool you; Slotland does not just offer mobile apps for slot machine games. They also boast some great video poker and table game apps that run beautifully on the iPad, Android devices and of course the iPhone.

888 Games is one of the leading places to play video slots on the Internet these days. 888games.com is not a traditional casino or a traditional real money game room. I consider them to be a perfect combination of both. 888games.com’s instant win games like online video slots can be played instantly for fun or real money. No registration is required to check out the game variety, software or payouts. I like this because many slot machine players are very particular about the games they play. Some people prefer video slots that have huge jackpots, even if the odds of hitting them are remote. Just the possibility is enough. Other people, myself included, like video slot games that boast many medium sized payouts.

I think hitting several $100-$1,000 jackpots over the course of a year on a 10 cent video slot machine is better than potentially hitting a $10,000 jackpot over the course of a few years. A couple hundred jackpot, even on a 5 cent machine, is certainly nothing to write home about but I think winning small and medium jackpots on a regular basis is much more appealing than the low probability of a massive jackpot. Many of the video slot games at 888 Games are able to offer better short term odds because they focus on smaller payouts. 888 Games has a selection of over 40 video slot machines so regardless of which type of game you like you will find it here.

They have recently added some new video slot games that I wanted to share with you.

• Snakes and Ladders - This new video slot has a maximum payout of £/€/$10,000 and it is absolutely loaded with the smaller payouts. This game represents the best of both worlds in my eyes. The graphics and animations are flawless and there is an auto-play feature that I find to be very useful. You can wager as low as $.05 per spin or go as high as $200. This video slot has 20 pay-lines and features wild symbols.
• Gin Joint Jackpot - This video slot machine truly has it all. The largest regular payout is 10,000 credits but there is also a progressive jackpot that can climb much higher. There are wild symbols, scatter bonuses and multiple bonus rounds. The theme will bring you back to the prohibition era mafia underworld in the USA. This new video slot machine has 3 reels and 20 pay-lines. You can wager as little as .05 but I strongly suggest wagering no less than $1 so you can cover every pay-line. This will help in some of the bonus rounds and will qualify you for the progressive jackpot.
• Hole In Won - This video slot is the perfect example of a game that has a boatload of medium sized payouts that you will hit regularly. The highest payout in this video slot is 750 times the size of your bet but the pay table includes many payouts ranging from 3 to 75. You won’t need to hit unlikely jackpots to hold your own when playing this video slot. There are 15 pay-lines so the minimum wager is $.05 and the maximum is $150. I love the bonus round in this golf flavored video slot.

People are always asking me what the easiest poker sites are and I never understand what they mean. Poker sites are not women so I’m not sure how they can be easy. Some want to know an easy poker site to win money at. Others want to know about an easy poker sites to deposit at. Some can simply want to know what the poker site has the easiest to use software. Luckily the answer to all of these questions is the same: 888 Poker. This poker room is easy in every sense of the word. They have been around for over a decade so they have had time to perfect every aspect of their poker room.

The 888 poker bonus is definitely one of the easiest to clear. I love this bonus because there are two parts to it:

• A free money bonus to try out the poker room.
• A large deposit bonus for people that enjoyed the free chips and want to play for money.

They also boast freeroll tournaments for new players. You will receive seven tickets to 888’s $500 freerolls and a single ticket to a $1,000 freeroll. These free-to-enter tournaments do not have 10,000 players competing in them so reaching the prize pool is relatively easy. So you will receive $8 free, tickets to real money tournaments and a huge 888 Poker bonus.

888 Poker is nothing like any of the other major poker sites. The software is very easy to understand and use. 888 also boast webcam poker tables. These new poker tables are extremely fun and great for playing with friends. The atmosphere at 888 is ideal to novice and recreational players.

This in turn makes it ideal for seasoned played. 888 Poker has always been known as one of the easiest poker sites to win money at. You can verify this by viewing the players/flop percentages. There are three main reasons why 888 Poker is an easy site to win money at:

• The community-like atmosphere attracts many inexperienced and recreational players.
• The 888 brand is extremely trustworthy in Europe. It is also very well known. This means that when a poker player reaches the legal age to play poker online 888 Poker is going to be on the very short list of well known and safe poker site.
• 888 is not just a poker room. They are one of Europe’s largest bingo sites, casinos and sports betting sites. People that use these other products tend to try out the poker tables every now and then. Limited experience and well funded bankrolls create a very profitable table environment for seasoned poker players.

Since 888 is licensed and regulated by several governments and 3rd party companies they are able to accept more deposit methods than almost any other poker room. They can also pay players extremely fast. If you win £2,500 in a poker tournament at 1:00pm on Monday you can have that money in hand by 3:00pm on the same day with some of their accepted deposit and cashout options.

There really are not many online poker sites that can compare with 888. Some may have higher traffic but 888 is still very large. They are the 4th largest online poker room and they do not have to share traffic or software with other sites.

All In Poker is really one of only three US poker sites on the Internet in late 2011. If current growth trends continue they will be the largest US poker site online is 2012. From the minute you visit Allin Poker you will notice that something is different. If Mark Zuckerberg created a poker room it would probably look and feel a lot like Allin Poker. Social media plays a big part at this poker site. You can make hundreds or thousands of dollars per month by getting your buddies to play here. They have the most complex and rewarding Recruit & Earn program in the industry. Most poker rooms will give you $50 bucks to get your friends to signup but Allin Poker takes it to a whole new level.

We all have a lot of friends on Facebook. All it takes is a simply message and you could easily get 10-50 people to signup at Allin Poker within 48 hours. You can earn up to 51% of the rake generated by the players you recruited. Most players will only earn $5-$10 per day but some players can easily generate $200-$300 in revenue per day. Here is how you do it:

• · Visit All In Poker

• · Enter the Allin Poker signup code APBONUS during account creation.

• · Enter the All In Poker bonus code APBONUS when you deposit.

• · Log into your account and get your Recruit & Earn tools.

• · Use the link provided to send to your friends. Be sure to have them enter the sign up code and bonus code listed above.

• · Collect your payments!

These codes provide a first deposit bonus of 110% up to $1,000, $400 more than usual. You and the people you recruit also get 5 Gold Chips, basically tournament tokens. There is also a free $500 tournament and a free poker skill analysis. Use the link below to signup:

• · Visit All In Poker