Furthermore points are awarded on a scaled formula depending on what tournaments you play and only your top 25 results for the month will count towards your leaderboard score. Tournaments with more players and bigger buy-ins will award more points than those with few players and cheaper entries.

Every Live Seat that the Leaderboard Grand Final awards will include buy in, travel & accommodation, a personal player host* and invite to the official room Player party*.

The Package: The Poker News Cup prize package includes;

A $3,500 Tournament entry to the Main Event and accommodation.
$2,500 in travel and spending money
An invite to the Official CarbonPoker Player Party
A CarbonPoker Player Pack loaded with free merchandise.

To achieve this all our table images are vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics). Wikipedia explains this as the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics.

For those of us who don’t care for jargon, the only important thing we need to know, is that no matter what we do to our screen, the graphics are always crisp. Lets face it, if you are playing for hours on end the screen can get blurry enough as it is, you don’t need pixelated graphics as well.

On the left hand side of the lobby when you log in is a ‘Quick Start’ box with 4 drop down menus. Simply make your selections from Game Type, Table Type, Stakes and Minimum Players at Table and the click on Play Now and you will be taken straight to a table that meets your needs. No extra clicks, no time wasted searching through game lists to find the right game, just tell us what you need and we will send you straight there.

You can come back to the screen with the Quick Start at any time in the client, just click on the News tab.

Throughout August, your ‘player admin’ will track the comp points you earn and the cash prizes you unlock along the way.

There will be comp point increments, starting with the Bronze medal and once you have cleared each comp point requirement you will receive an INSTANT cash prize. Once you have won all 10 Bronze medals, you will unlock the Silver medals and even bigger cash prizes. The best part is every time you win 10 of the same medals, you’ll also receive a bonus cash prize - Up to $700!

Each medal will represent a set comp point requirement, and a corresponding cash payout. Every time you reach the next increment, the matching medal will light up and you’re an INSTANT winner. The more points you earn, the more cash you win!

You can win nearly $2,000 in cash prizes plus earn even more free cash with August’s reload code, simply by reaching all of the comp points goals and unlocking all the medals. The best part is you can win up to 33 different cash prizes!

Throughout July, your player admin section will track the comp points that you earn and prizes you have unlocked via the ‘Player Admin’. There will be Comp Point increments, starting at the two of Diamonds and going through to the Ace of Diamonds. Each card will represent a set task, and a corresponding cash payout. Every time you reach the next increment, the matching card will light up and you’re an INSTANT winner. The more points you earn, the more cash you will win!

You can win more than $2,500 in cash and prizes, simply by reaching all of the comp points goals and unlocking the all the diamonds. The higher the card you unlock, the bigger the payout you receive. The best part is you can win up to 13 different prizes!

Comp Points are automatically earned as you play real money games, so you can simply continue to play your favourite ring games or tournaments and work towards free cash at the same time! Keep an eye out for the Diamonds display in your player admin and stay up to date with all your free cash!

To tag a player while at the tables simply click on a player and choose a tag icon. You can also type notes on the player and even choose whether you want to see this players table chat or not.

You can also tag a player from the lobby. Simply click on the Add button in the contacts window in the bottom left hand corner of the lobby.

Under the options tag in the same window, you can personalize the labels of your player tags, as well as choose to be notified when certain contacts sign in.

So for our regular tourneys we have trophies and ribbons, and for our special events, we have extra special accolades. From snowmen for our winter tourney to a turkey for our Thanksgiving tourney and even a boxing kangaroo for our Aussie Millions winners.

Just because you haven’t won a big event it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be rewarded. Also in our player boxes are stars, which are rewards for regular play. So the more you play, the more stars you get, so when you sit down at a table, everyone knows they need to show you some respect.

When typing several words into chat, your works are magically transformed to animated smilies. Type fish and see a shark swim through for a quick meal, or type donkey and see a donkey kicking up his heels in protest.

There are heaps of well known smilies that you see regularly at the table, and our development team are always sneaking in new ones, some of which are still yet to be found!

So while you’re at the tables, be sure to have a play with some of your favorite poker terms and see if they come to life.

In any Texas Hold’em game, you will be looking to maximise your value when you pick up Quads. The chance to go all-in is automatic, but what happens if your opponent is holding higher Quads, or even a Straight Flush?

These are the worst of the Bad Beats, and usually result in thousands of chips being passed over the table. Our new Bad Beat Jackpot will ensure thousands of dollars in cash will be won, all for losing a hand.

On specially labelled ring game jackpot tables, we will collect 50 cents from every pot which contributes to the Bad Beat Jackpot. As soon as a player has a monster hand cracked, the jackpot will be won, with every active player at the table receiving a portion of the prize money! The player with the losing hand will pick up the biggest percentage, so if you have Quad sevens or better using both hole cards, you should definitely hope to get beaten!

Bad Beat Jackpot requirements:

• The losing hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 7s, with a 2 kicker
• The winning hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 8s, with a 2 kicker
• Both the winning and losing hands must include both hole cards, and in the case of a Four of a Kind must include a pocket pair.
• At least four players must be dealt in at the start of the hand
• The hand must have generated jackpot rake (ie. $0.50)
• Two or more players must be active at the end of the hand, and it must go to showdown.