You can win the Ultimate NZPC Main Event Package worth over $3000 – including your Main Event buy-in, flights and accommodation.

There are 12 packages up for grabs, 2 to be won every Sunday from this weekend until the end of July.

Every tournament is a $150+$13 Real Money Qualifier Tournament, NLHE.

OR, you can try and get to the RMQT by playing one of the satellites ($24+$2).

To find out more about how to win these packages, check out the full info page here.

Remember to use the promo code ‘GOKIWI’ when you register, so we know you’re a PokerNZ member.

Best of luck!

The PokerNZ Sunday Freerolls have become a mainstay of online poker in New Zealand and over the past year we have been very thankful for the efforts and contributions from PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker in helping to establish the Sunday games for our Poker NZ members.

As promised, we introduce a new platform for you this week, not strictly speaking a freeroll, but a free tournament with a twist.

The folk at 888 Poker are offering $8 FREE into every PokerNZ Member account to get them started for the upcoming tournaments that will be happening every Sunday on 888 Poker for our Poker NZ members.

Then you can use this free money to play in the $2 tournaments that will be kicking off from this Sunday. Not only that, 888 have also kicked in an EXTRA $100 to the pot, so depending on how many players we get, the prize pool could be quite a lot better than what we’ve been used to with our traditional freerolls.

If you haven’t got an account at 888 Poker yet, simply click any of the 888 links on this site, sign up as you would for any normal account and within minutes an email will be sent to you. Click the link to confirm your account and presto, you’ve got $8 to play with.

Our first $2 PokerNZ Sunday Slam tournament will be kicking off this Sunday, full details can be found on the Tournaments tab of our Facebook page.

We really want to get as many people on board for the first one as possible, so please encourage your mates to sign up, grab that free $8 and join us this Sunday on the new 888 Poker platform.

You can register at tournament #30109861, you can find this in the lobby by going to ‘All Games’ / ‘Tournaments’ / ‘Restricted’

The free $8 will only be given to new accounts sorry, but they do have some decent deposit bonuses anyway so you shouldn’t miss out!

We’ll be sharing more with you about the various platforms over coming weeks and would love to hear your feedback on the 888 Platform after the tournament this Sunday.

This week we’re joined by a special guest contributor, Deke from Wellington. He has kindly put together this article for us all to enjoy.

3. Joe the pro:

Also a series, but unfortunately Joe has not released a new vlog (video blog) in some time. His satirical look at a real life online grinder has me in stitches. I chose this episode because Jo discusses the infamous pee bottle that is an unfortunate ‘must’ when grinding.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zan9FQD0ir8&feature=related (a classic Hitler rant)

2. Bling Bbang Blaow + thread:

Probably the most epic poker thread / track ever made. This link is well deserving of a number 2 placing – rub it on my titties!

Thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/created-victory-song-when-i-beat-someone-headsup-491103/

Click here to view the embedded video.

1. The Raven:

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem in 1845, only for it to be adapted for poker humor. What makes this clip number 1 was that it was created from a thread in a forum (see number 2). It is just cool or in poker terms, – the stone cold nuts. Enjoy.

Click here to view the embedded video.

See you at the tables.

Deke

This week we’re joined by a special guest contributor, Deke from Wellington. He has kindly put together this article for us all to enjoy.

7. Water boat :

With the user gder01 on YouTube or water boat on Full tilt this guy has created a whole series of reverse poker strategy videos – engineered solely of comedic value. I have picked out my favorite one that goes into detail about “Reverse Twilighting”. However I must not fully understand this concept yet as according to my poker tracker stats it’s only cost me EV (excepted value) thus far.

Click here to view the embedded video.

6. The micros:

Now sponsored by Full Tilt, this web series follows 3 degenerate poker players that bink (win) a poker tourney. The more you watch it, the more you pick up. Props to John Wray for this one. A solid no. 6.

Click here to view the embedded video.

5 .Da Pokerz:

A Youtube rap hit. Da pokerz has so much poker lingo and inside references that it really hit a soft spot for me – very funny and well produced.

Click here to view the embedded video.

4. No Money heads up every ones solid:

This thread started as a frustrated player took to the forums to vent and how it ended, well……… poker comedy gold.

The thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/185/heads-up-sng/no-money-heads-up-everyones-solid-704340/

Disclaimer: Much funnier if you read over the thread first.

Click here to view the embedded video.

We’ll have the rest of the Top Comedy Poker moments over the weekend

This week we’re joined by a special guest contributor, Deke from Wellington. He has kindly put together this article for us all to enjoy.

As I sit here at my computer after a long session of online poker, I seek to unwind in my favorite way – checking the poker forums and consuming any new poker media that may have popped up in the last 30 minutes. You see I am a man obsessed with all things poker, a student of the game and a massive fan boy of the players and industry in general.

My name is Deke I play online and host 2 venues a week for my pub poker league in Wellington, Pokerfun.

Anywho, as I scroll the forums (2+2), I feel compelled to make a list of the 10 best poker comedy links. Things I have seen over the years that I find clever and funny. I rank them and give my reasons, as is standard in composing lists

10. Hellmuth getting owned:

We’ll have Part 2 from Deke’s list shortly……

It’s wonderful to see the NZ Poker Community pouring out their hearts and wallets for the people of Chirstchurch and this Sunday it’s South Auckland’s turn.

Starting at 1pm at the Mangere Cosmopolitan Club, this $20 buyin tournament will have 50% of the proceeds going to the prize pool and 50% going to the Red Cross for Christchurch.

Not only that but .50c off each pint will also be donated too.  It’s a great cause (and it’s not like we need an excuse to play anyway!) so head out the Mangere Cossie Club and play against some of South Auckland’s finest.

break and inviting everyone to join us on Full

Tilt Poker.

We’ll be kicking off the Full Tilt Freeroll (The

Sunday Best) at 2pm NZT.

If you don’t have an account on Full Tilt yet,

it’s easy.

1: Click the folowing link (this helps us to keep

the freerolls going every week)

http://www.pokernz.com/FTPNZ

2: When registering your account, identify

yourself as a PokerNZ member by using the promo

code ‘GOKIWI’

3: Ensure you have filled out all your details,

including which country you are from (these

tourney’s are country specific so this is

important).

4: Find tournament #218465740 and register.

(use CTRL T)

5: Password is KIWIPOKER27

Full Tilt can be played on Windows or Mac

computers.

If you have any questions regarding the software

please direct them to Full Tilt support, we don’t

run the platform so won’t be able to help you

there.

Or alternatively, please post your comments on our

Facebook page and someone else in the community

may be able to help.

http://www.facebook.com/PokerNZ

If you like playing home games, now you can take them online with PokerStars.

The newly released PokerStars Home Games lets you create and manage your own private poker club to play online with just your friends, on your timetable.

It’s really easy to create a club, you just need to pick a club name and create an invitation code.

Then you’ll be presented with your own lobby that you can customise with your own home game tables and tournaments of your choice.

Then to get friends to join, you just send them your club ID and the invitation code, then accept them as a member when you join.

When you want to schedule the games, you simply set the game type, the buy-in, then set the date for the game. The system will automatically notify your members.

This really is going to revolutionise the way people play poker online, and will go down as one of the big shifts in online poker in years to come (my prediction anyway).

PokerStars have been really clever where they are using the power of social pressure to encourage ‘non-onliners’ to join their friends online or get left out!

It’s a clever little system and no doubt we’ll see a lot more Home Games leagues sprouting up soon.

But if you thought that was cool, then check this out…..

To celebrate the launch of PokerStars Home Games, you can win a pro to play in your league and $1000 added to the prize pool! Full details can be found on the site. If you fancy going heads up with a PokerStars Pro, you’d better start a league!

To get set up, download the PokerStars software from here

PokerStars now have freerolls every night for Kiwi players

For those poker fans looking for a nightly fix without the budget, PokerStars run a nightly freeroll exclusively for NZ players.

It kicks off every night at 7:30pm NZ time and can be found by going to the Tourney>Regional tabs in the software client.

If you haven’t already got the PokerStars software, grab your copy by going to our special link:

http://www.pokerstarsnz.net

This year we’ve partnered up with some new poker rooms to bring you more online action so you can play against the rest of the crew here at PokerNZ.

Our first new partner is Full Tilt Poker.

You have probably already heard of Full Tilt, they signed a sponsorship deal late last year with our very own Simon Watt and are the 2nd largest poker network in the world.

This is an especially proud moment in NZ poker history as Simon joins the team of pros including Howard Lederer, Tom durrrr Dwan and Phil Ivey. You can view his Full Tilt profile here.

Ful Tilt run a solid game on a clean platform. They have any number of poker playing options, but their most popular new feature is Rush Poker.

Rush Poker is the ultimate high-speed poker experience available exclusively at Full Tilt Poker.

This amazing new poker format is designed to minimize your wait time between hands and keep you in the action at all times.

Whether you’re playing a Rush Poker ring game or a Rush Poker Tournament, you’ll join a large player pool and play with a different table of opponents on every hand you play.

When you fold your hand, you’ll then be rushed over to a new table for the next hand immediately. It certainly makes for an exciting game!

You can watch the video for it here

FREEROLLS

To celebrate our new partnership with Full Tilt, we’re going to be running a series of Freeroll Tournaments on Full Tilt and will also be promoting a number of specialty tournaments throughout the year on the Full Tilt platform.

If you don’t alkready have the Full Tilt software, you can download it from here. FULL TILT DOWLOAD

If you are asked for a promo code, identify yourself as a PokerNZ member and use the code ‘GOKWI’

Our tournament schedules are posted on our Facebook page and passwords are also listed there or sent to you via email.

The Freeroll on Full Tilt is called the PokerNZ.com Sunday Best, because we need you to bring your Sunday Best!

Tournament ID#211873939. You can find it by going to the Tournament/Private/Freerolls area in their lobby, but it’s probably easier to go to the ‘Requests’ menu at the top of the lobby, then scroll down to ‘Find a Tournament’ (or simply press CTRL T).

We look forward to seeing you at the next Sunday Best and trust you’ll enjoy playing at Full Tilt Poker.

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