The VIP point race rewards those that can earn VIP points and fast! Only the top 15 positions will see the cash, but if you’re this good, it’ll only add to your win in the hands race! With a top prize of $3,000 the total potential first prize is $11,500!

Win YOUR seat to the Master Classics during 6-14th November 09
Purple Lounge brings you the chance to qualify for one of Europe’s oldest tournaments, hosted in one of the continents favourite cities. Online satellite qualifiers, from as little as €3 + 0.30c buy in, are underway from 3 August 2009 to win a superb €8,000 package to the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, Holland.

There is always high demand for seats in the Main Event and side events, which sell out fast at Top Poker Bonus Sites. Buy-in for the Main Event tournament is €6,200, which should result in a massive prize pool of over €2 million.

Exclusive Daily FREEROLLS – NO ENTRY Requirements
This month Purple Lounge has even more FreeRolls to choose from, with a total of 8 every single day! These FreeRolls have no entry requirements, and the cash is yours to keep! The Daily schedule is: (all times BST):

01:30 € 50 FreeRoll - Razz PL
05:45 € 50 FreeRoll – Hold’em PL
09.30 € 50 FreeRoll Omaha PL
13:00 € 200 FreeRoll – Hold’em NL
17:45 $20 Hold’em FreeRoll
18:00 € 50 FreeRoll - Omaha H/L PL
20:00 $20 Hold’em FreeRoll
22:00 $20 Hold’em FreeRoll

This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

We will begin on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $100 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin on Cake Poker, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, and Reefer Poker! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with $800 added to the prize pools!

The Top 20 in each freeroll and the Top 30 in each buyin will receive points.

The leaderboard will consist of $250 up for grabs over the top 5 places.

Unlike some of the girls you see adorning the pages of many an online poker room Michelle Orpe is far more than just a pretty face. Although there’s no doubting her stunning looks Orpe has shown she has what it takes at the poker table, taking part in major events throughout Europe including at the European Poker Tour (EPT). Her poker brain has also been put to good use on air offering insight into poker strategy, on Poker night live and more recently as a key presenter at Sky Poker.

From our launch just 2 years ago Purple lounge has always been a home to a large community of women players and it’s something we’re extremely proud of. It’s natural that we sponsor a female player and we’re expecting great things from Michelle Orpe, she’s a true professional and we’re very lucky to have lured her to Purple Lounge
Purple Lounge has been seeing incredible growth in their female membership over the past year, way beyond the industry average. With women flocking to the site from all over the world to play in special women only tournaments or take part in the now legendary ‘Battle of the Sexes’ a gruelling schedule of online and live tournaments aimed squarely at seeing which gender really has the nuts. Says Purple Lounge marketing director Julia Wild “From our launch just 2 years ago Purple lounge has always been a home to a large community of women players and it’s something we’re extremely proud of. It’s natural that we sponsor a female player and we’re expecting great things from Michelle Orpe, she’s a true professional and we’re very lucky to have lured her to Purple Lounge”

The steady growth in online poker is also filtering through to the professional poker tours with fabulous women players like Kathy Liebert, Annie Duke or 19 year old Anette Obrestad, each winning well in excess of 2 million dollars. In this atmosphere Michelle is entering a tough field of players, but given what she’s achieved already who would bet against Michelle Orpe or her sponsors Purple Lounge from rising to the challenge

Beginning at 12pm EST on April 26th, 2008, HoldemPokerChat will be launching a ground-breaking 24 hour Poker Marathon!

What does this mean? 24 hours…24 poker tournaments!

Yes, you read that correctly. In the span of 24 hours, we will be hosting 24 poker tournaments!
This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

The tournaments will begin and end on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $250 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, Carbon Poker, Cake Poker, Ultimate Bet, and Poker Nordica! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with over $2500 added to the prize pools!

And… There will also be a tournament Leaderboard with over $1000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.

So, get your comfortable chair ready, bring the fridge to the computer (or the computer to the fridge), make sure to be stocked up on pizza and chips.

Visit HoldemPokerChat for more details.

The award itself was a pleasant surprise even if the reasons for winning it were clear. Says Purple Lounge CEO Matthew Larter “We knew our Customer service was exceptional because our members have been telling us so for years and their loyalty has proved the point. Purple Lounge Poker has some of the highest customer retention in the market and it’s the personal touch and market leading VIP program that keeps Purple Lounge players loyal. We knew we were doing things the right way but it’s great to have this recognition from our players and the gaming public in general. We didn’t know that we were even short listed for the award until we actually won it. We thought after we heard the good news that, hey we should be putting ourselves forward for more of these awards, but really it’s all about the customer and their experience so we’ll keep on focusing on what we’re doing.”

With this attitude and if customer loyalty is anything to go by then don’t be surprised to see Purple Lounge Poker lifting more awards in the months to come.

The deal follows in the success of Purple Lounge’s poker site, which has become one of the rising stars of the online poker world since it launched eighteen months ago. The addition is expected to drive growth among the operators predominately UK, Scandinavian and Spanish player-base, as well as attract new players into the lifestyle site from other countries. Purple Lounge recently reported that their players wagered over $188 million (GBP 94 million) in May, expecting this to rise to over $200 million in June. Their players have also been extremely successful, winning significantly over the last 12 months.

Microgaming’s casino software continues to go from strength to strength, offering players and operators the most aggressive games rollout schedule in the industry - last year averaging four new games every month. It currently powers some of the world’s most successful online casinos and its progressive jackpot network is also record breaking - recently creating its tenth millionaire and having paid out $225m plus to over 6,500 players since launch.

Chris Gorman, Chairman of Purple Lounge says, “Purple Lounge consistently delivers a fresh and cutting edge playing experience. The roll out of our new casino platform is another step towards offering our players the best online gaming and lifestyle experience available and we’re very much looking forward to building on our success to date,”

Roger Raatgever, CEO Microgaming says, “We are delighted to be making this announcement and look forward to providing thousands of Purple Lounge players with over 300 of the best casino games on the web. This deal is testament to the successful partnership we’ve built up over the last eighteen months through poker and we look forward to working with Purple Lounge to make casino equally successful.”

The tour has already caused quite a stir amongst the poker community, with news that the hot Moore magazine girls will be touring too receiving a warm welcome! Aylar Lie, top Scandinavian model, singer and the face of Purple Lounge has confirmed that she will once again be dealing at this year’s poker tour. Michelle Orpe, Poker Night Live presenter and newest member of the Purple Lounge team, will also be on hand, dealing as well as meeting players on the tour. And one of Sweden’s top poker players, the hugely successful Bo Sehlstedt has confirmed he will be playing on the tour as well!

Seats for the final will be hotly contested and the standard will be high, judging by last year’s Norwegian poker tour.

Seats won in the online qualification free rolls are valid for the tournament in the corresponding city (i.e. Umeå, Sundsvall , Gävle, Stockholm etc). The tour will stop at 10 cities across Sweden, and will run from June to August 2007.

The lucky winner and a companion of their choice will be whisked off to the new gambling mecca of Macau for a week of amazing sights, sounds and sensations, with the prize including flights, accommodation in a top hotel and $1000 spending money.

Final dates and venues for the live events will be released shortly. More information can be found at the Purple Lounge website.

Pitting guys against girls, the battle will be fought over the course of four months - May to August, culminating in the grand final at a secret London location. Online qualification tournaments are in three stages and start on Tuesday, May 1st. Players have the chance to qualify twice weekly, either via a free roll or through a buy-in ($10+1) with all winners going through to a semi-final at the end of each stage.

The grand final will be held in London, with players travelling from around the world to take part – travel and accommodation courtesy of Purple Lounge. With all the qualification tournaments set to go and the challenge laid down, the question on everyone’s lips is – WHO WILL WIN?

Details:

Starts: November 1st 2006

Ends: May 31st 2007

Value:

Main event package $12,000

Side event package $7,000

Side event package $3000

Required Rake:

Main event package: $80,000

Side event package: $50,000

The Apple iPhone was announced in a whirlwind of anticipation earlier this week, at MacWorld San Francisco 2007. The revolutionary iPhone combines three products — a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device.

Aylar, the face of Purple Lounge says “The iPhone is the height of cool and it will no doubt be the accessory to be seen with in 2007. Having secured several iPhones solely for Purple Lounge players to win, we’re sure there will be some stiff competition to lay their hands on one!”

The iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface, and will no doubt push the boundaries of design as well as technology with Apple once again setting a new standard for cutting-edge cool. A few lucky Purple Lounge players will be the owners of the coveted iPhone before almost anyone else in Europe, making them the envy of the gambling industry! Visit Purple Lounge  for further information and for your chance to win.