For instance, their $15,000 Guaranteed will become a $30,000 Guaranteed, and their $7,500 Guaranteed prize pool will be increased to $15,000. This being said, here are just a few of the highlights in Double Guarantees Weekend (all times ET):

January 5th and 6th (Thursday and Friday) – $1,500 GTD R/A @ 00:00
$2K GTD NIGHTLY TURBO Deep Stack @ 22:00
$3K GTD Second Chance R/A @ 23:00

January 7th (Saturday) – $15K GTD 1R + 1A Deep Stack @ 21:00
$2K GTD NIGHTLY TURBO Deep Stack and $4K GTD Second Chance @ 22:00
$2K GTD Last Chance R/A @ 23:00 and @ 23:35

January 8th (Sunday) – $6K GTD Deep Stack 1R+1A @ 15:00
$12K GTD Deep Stack 1R+1A @ 18:00
$30K GTD Deep Stack @ 21:00

If you’re interested in playing for the doubled guaranteed prize pools, you should sign up at Americas Cardroom through RakeTheRake; doing so will get you a 100% up to $1,000 signup bonus and 27% rakeback. The rakeback will especially come in handy when buying into the poker tournaments at Americas Cardroom. For example, if you paid the $125 + $12 buy-in for the $30K GTD Deep Stack event during Double Guarantees Weekend, you’d receive $3.24 back ($12 x 0.27). And the more poker tournaments you play, the more this really starts to add up!

Also, don’t forget that Americas Cardroom is holding four Holiday Freerolls, where 40 seats to their biggest guaranteed poker tournaments will be offered. Here is the schedule for these events (all times 15:05 ET):

December 24th – 10 seats for $7.5k GTD
December 25th – 10 seats for $15k GTD
December 31st – 10 seats for $7.5k GTD
January 1st – 10 seats for $15k GTD

Kurt, or rumpleitis9 as he is known on screen, has been playing online poker for over 9 years and was playing at a 0.25/0.5nl table. And the prize he won was worth over 8,000 big blinds! Playing on average for just one hour a day, Kurt was overwhelmed to win this amazing prize, the biggest he has ever won.

It was through the poker forums that Kurt found out about MintedPoker and although he doesn’t intend to turn pro on the back of his recent success, he is content to continue with his day job in the produce sector.

Check out Minted Poker’s latest poker promotions.

So why should you sign up? Many new pro poker players began their poker careers online. Some even won invitations to play at major events through playing online. In a nutshell, unless you have thousands of dollars lying around your house then there’s no way you will be playing in the World Series of Poker*. But if you join Full Tilt or other major poker sites you will have the opportunity to play in the World Series of Poker* and other great tournaments.

Speaking of Full Tilt and the World Series of Poker*, there are currently 113 seats up for grabs for the WSOP* qualifier and 37 seats have already been claimed. The 1st place price for this year’s World Series of Poker* tournament is estimated to be worth over 10 million dollars. Qualifiers started on March 24th and will continue to run through June 27th.

So are you ready to earn a spot at the WSOP*? First you need to sign up at RakeTheRake.com. The sign up process is a breeze and only takes about 5 minutes. First you must choose a poker room. You can choose the aforementioned Full Tilt poker room, Party Poker room, the Absolute Poker room or Pokerstars room.

* World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with RakeTheRake or its partners, products, services promotions or tournaments.

The project hails itself as one of the great urban places of the world and hopes to embrace the best of luxury living in the world today. It certainly is quite a sight in the city as the lights from surrounding buildings bounce off the mirrored windows.

The Vdara Hotel and Spa has opened this week, which is a section of the CityCenter project. It is a massive 57 story resort that has 1495 suites for guests. The Vdara is actually a health resort that is non smoking and non gaming, which is certainly unusual in the location of central Vegas!

After the Vdara opening came Crystals, a shopping center to end all shopping centers, with its 50,000 square feet designed to satisfy every consumer impulse imaginable.

The latest part of the project to open is the 47 floor Mandarin hotel that provides another 392 rooms for guests. Many say that the 67 acre project is visionary and will bring a turnabout to Vegas’ popularity with its fresh new style and design. From the doomsayers, there are calls of over expansion and too many rooms appearing in the strip all at once that will drive down prices.

Whatever the opinions are about the project, these have all been put aside for the opening days and celebrations. This much anticipated event sees the return of the Elvis Presley Show to the ARIA Resort. The show will be done by the famed Cirque du Soleil team and will be a mixture of music, dance and acrobatics. Certainly the show will sell out for some time in advance, so if you are planning a trip to Vegas, then the CityCenter and Elvis show should most definitely be on your schedule!

If you can’t make it to Vegas to check all these new attractions out, then check out the latest online poker promotions for the month instead.

CryptoLogic have been chosen over other competing companies due to their innovative and creative slot games. Securing this contract with Rank is a massive success for the company that already has more than 280 games released. A unique aspect of CryptoLogic designs is the incorporation of famous film genres and having action characters as part of the design. 

One of the company’s advantages other than its variety and novel games is that it has always prided itself on regulation compliance and the stability of its software.

Justin Thouin, Vice-President of CryptoLogic, said, ‘Demand for our games remains strong as illustrated by this agreement with Rank Interactive, a well respected UK brand.’

This is certainly true, as being associated with Rank will mean a big boost for the CryptoLogic image. 

Rank Group will be integrating the games over the next 6 months into several of their online gambling websites. The contract extends past the six months, as it is a multi year contract. Angus Nisbet is the Gaming Director at Rank Interactive and feels that this contract is really going to make a difference with online customers.

He has said ‘By striking this deal with CryptoLogic our customers are gaining access to the very best and most innovative betting games on the market.’ 

Any good businessman knows that innovation and variety is key to success and this bold new partnership is sure to bring not only a great deal of excitement and fun to the players, but also a great boost in visitors to the Rank website slots.

Benefit from some massive poker promotions this month, from the King of innovation and variety in poker cashback – RakeTheRake.