Durrrr Challenge No. 2 is under way, Cereus is sold, and good news for U.S. online poker regulation. It’s all in today’s PTP Hit and Run.
Durrrr Challenge, version 2.0: Tom “durrrr” Dwan has officially kicked off his challenge against a second opponent, jungleman12, and he’s already up $130K. Head over to the tracking website to learn more. The original challenge against Patrik Antonius is still going on. The online poker community has higher hopes for this version than the original, which has been going on for a year and a half.
Why so Cereus?: The Cereus Poker Network has been sold by Tokwiro Enterprises to Blanca Gaming. Story here about the sale, which involves poker sites UB.com and Absolute Poker. It doesn’t appear that players at those sites will experience any major changes, at least from what we’ve seen so far.
Cancelled at UB: One of the tournaments for the UB Online Championship was canceled because of a “technical glitch.” Read more here. Players who were registered are being invited to a freeroll that can get them into the $1K buy-in $1M guaranteed main event.
Senate support: H.R. 2267 — United States legislation that would legalize and regulate online poker in the United States — got a bit of a boost this week, as Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said he currently supports the legalization of online poker in the U.S. More here. Reid is the Senate majority leader, so that’s very good news for online poker players in the U.S. The bill is currently still in the House of Representatives.
Commerce vs. poker players: The story on Reid above (linked here again) also talks about the stand-off between poker players and L.A.’s Commerce Casino. The Commerce opposes the legislation, saying it would send money out of the United States. Well-known poker players, who often get paid by online poker sites, obviously take exception to this stance. The Poker Players Alliance sent an open letter to the Commerce, co-signed by many of poker’s biggest names (Hellmuth, Ivey, et al), telling Commerce it should think about changing its stance. The casino responded by saying why it opposes the bill, and didn’t back off its opposition. Poker players are apparently considering a boycott of the Commerce in response. Looks like it might get messy.
JRB in the house: Part two of an interview with Jean-Robert Bellande has been posted over cardplayer.com. You can watch below:
Poker+charity: Want to give to charity in September? Just play some poker. Poker Gives is putting on National Poker Month, in which live tournament across the U.S. will be donating portions of prize pools to charity. Read more here.
Want one-stop shopping for rakeback at lots of popular sites? Check out all the rakeback offers PTP has to offer.
Get your daily dose of poker news with the PTP Hit and Run.
| Top offers from rooms that offer rakeback/VIP | |||||
| Room | Rakeback % | ||||
 |
Carbon Poker Up To 60% Cash back VIP |
60% VIP |  |
||
 |
True Poker Rake Race + Rakeback |
27% |
|
||
 |
NoIQ Poker Up To €500 Bonus + VIP |
35%+VIP | |||
 |
High Pulse Poker
Referral Code: PartTime |
50% | |||
| Prop offers pay higher rakeback than major rooms | |||||
| Room | Rakeback % | ||||
|
Online Poker Propping Exclusive Propping Offers
|
125% |
|
||
| Don't want to deposit? Try free bankrolls. | |||||
| Room | Bankroll | ||||
 |
Lock Poker
Merge Network, $50 deposit |
$175 | |||
 |
Titan Poker
Major room, easy qualify |
$150 | |||
 |
Sky Poker Good for MTT / SNGs Only |
£10 | |||
over $15,000,000 staked so far. sign up today and get in on the action; membership is free.
Online since 2004, PartTimePoker brings together a unique combination of the largest staking community online, top-paying rakeback and prop offers and a variety of poker-related content including poker news, strategy articles and free poker training videos from CardRunners.
PartTimePoker also works to bring our members exclusive offers from our partners, including free CardRunners memberships, free copies of Holdem Manager and no deposit bonus offers.
Some examples of the more popular content on our site include our PTP Daily Hit N Run, our weekly High Stakes Poker Report, our comprehensive list of poker training site reviews and our CardRunners review.
PartTimePoker is also well-known for our large poker forums, where over 30,000 members discuss staking, strategy, poker news, culture, and just about everything else you can imagine. Registering for our forums is free.
PTP offers several rakeback and free bankroll offers for our viewers. If you're not familiar with rakeback, read our guide to online poker rakeback. To learn how much you could be earning with rakeback, check out our rakeback calculator. If you're ready to get started, our most popular rakeback offers are Full Tilt Rake Back, Cake Poker Rake Back and Carbon Poker RakeBack.
Free and no deposit bankrolls (also called free poker money) are essentially promotional deals we've arranged with rooms where they give you a small amount of money (usually $10-$150) to try out their room. These offers are a great way to get your feet wet at a room without going through the hassle of depositing, and provide players nervous about depositing at an online gambling site with a risk-free way to play poker, bingo, and other games online. View our current free poker bankroll no deposit offers.
