With prize pools as large as $25,000, and small player fields, the next batch of upcoming freerolls are not to be missed.

The following events (with prize pools worth as much as $20,000) are open to all PokerListings players who qualify during the specified time period.

If you’re not a PokerListings registered player on any of the following sites, click on the site’s name in the list to sign up.

Upcoming Events

Carbon Poker

The bi-weekly freeroll from Carbon Poker is worth $2,500 and takes only 200 raked hands to get your seat. Take down this one tomorrow, or qualify for the next one coming on the 27th.

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Men have traditionally been the dominant gender in the poker industry but times are changing as the interest in our great game from the fairer sex has reached epic proportions of late. A recent poll has shown that the number of female players the world’s biggest tournaments, both online and live, is at an all-time high. I can certainly attest to this after donating half of my stack to the beautiful blonde vixen who sat across from me in the tournament I just busted from, so it is no surprise to see that women now make up almost 25 percent of the poker playing population.   Today, the world’s largest poker school, PokerStars.net, announced that it will be sponsoring the fast growing High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT). Read the full post …

Celebrating the second year at the prestigious Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, the PokerNews Cup is back and will be bigger than ever when it runs September 27th through October 5th!

With just a few weeks to go until the big party starts in the land ‘Down Under’ we want to make sure you know that you still have time to win your seat!

PokerWorks has been keeping you updated the last few months by listing all the satellite qualifiers and FreeRolls for the PokerNews Cup Australia, being held at various generous poker sites online and there are still some you can get in on – if you hurry!

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Three men received suspended sentences for their part in attempting to cheat a man during a high-stake poker game. Steven Phillips, James Harrison and Joseph Ingargiola avoided jail time when a judge gave them instead a three year suspended sentence. The three men were involved in a set up using surveillance equipment to try and fleece a target during a high stakes poker game. The State Police knew about the game in advance and raided it, arresting these three and two other men in the process.

Online poker room Titan Poker is supporting Omaha Pot-Limit players. The game, often called PLO for Pot Limit Omaha, is one of the more popular versions of poker, but still pales compared to no limit Texas Hold’em, but Titan Poker is launching something called the Omaholics Promotion which will award more than $140,000 to the PLO players who do well. The promotion is a leader board style series, which means that players will collect points as they pay and top point earners will be rewarded with cash.

The last two weeks of telecasts took us through the four days that made up Day One of the Main Event.  The focus, not surprisingly, was on well-known professionals, such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Mike Matusow.  The only one of the November Nine that we got to see was, again to no one’s surprise, Phil Ivey, who was as much under the spotlight as a player could be while playing at a table in the hinterlands of the tournament room.  Tonight, ESPN moved on to Day Two, with tonight’s two hours being devoted to Day 2A.  Let’s follow the action and see how the network continued to tell the story of this year’s World Championship.

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Boylesports.com today announced the betting market for the upcoming Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge making U.S. phenom Tom “Durrrr” Dwan 1/3 favourite with courageous British challenger Sammy “Any Two” George the outsider at 9/4.

The Matchroom Sport challenge sees both players buy in for $500,000 and play heads up live over 500 hands with blinds of $500 and $1,000. Players must play at least 500 hands and can only leave before this if they lose their buy in. If neither player has gone broke before 500 hands have been played, the winner for the purposes of the betting market will be the player who has won the most money.

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The biggest online tournament series in the world is almost here, which is of course the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) presented by PokerStars.

Players across the globe are gearing up, entering satellites and getting ready to take their seats in this amazing tournament series which will have a total prize pool of a staggering $40 Million Dollars. The WCOOP encompasses 45 events which include three High Roller events, concluding with the No Limit Hold’em Main Event grand finale that features a whopping guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000! And the best news for players is that they can qualify for these events for just a dollar! S Read the full post …

There has never been a better time to become a Titan Poker player. Why? Because when you choose to create your player account at Titan Poker and then make your first deposit, you will be eligible to play for your share of $20,000!

This is an unheard of deal for new players! And to get in on it, simply make your first deposit at Titan Poker and you will become the lucky recipient of FIVE FREE TOKENS good toward your buy-in to any of Titan Poker’s five weekly New Depositor FreeRoll Satellites. That’s five free chances to win your share of some serious bankroll-building cash totaling a whopping $20,000!
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PartyGaming, parent company of Party Poker, has acquired the World Poker Tour as part of a purchase of its parent company, World Poker Tour Enterprises.

This is somewhat surprising, as it seemed for a while that a deal with Gamynia, owner of such poker rooms as Titan Poker, would go through instead for $9 million and a percentage of future WPT and Professional Poker Tour revenues. Unfortunately for Gamynia, PartyGaming offered a more attractive $12.3 million with a 5% revenue share on monies made on the purchased assets.

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