Excited about the upcoming U2 tour, but can’t afford to hand over your next month’s rent for tickets? Cool Hand Poker might be your answer. The up-and-coming online poker room is giving its players a chance to win tickets worth up to $500 for a concert or live event of their choice as part of its Let Us Entertain You promotion.
Cool Hand Poker began running $0.50 satellites on November 1st, with winners advancing to the Let us Entertain You finale on November 25th. The 7:00pm GMT tournament is a $5 buy-in with unlimited rebuys for the first hour. The winner(s) will receive a $500 voucher to be used toward the concert of their choice.
The site, which caters to the casual online poker player, offers several other prizes for its members, such as MP3 players, gaming consoles, laptops, weekend getaways, and land-based tournament entries.
Of course, Cool Hand Poker has cash prizes to play for as well. The site’s flagship tournament is its $2,500 Guaranteed Sunday Fun-Day Tournament, which takes place on the third Sunday of every month at 19:00 GMT. The $22 buy-in gives players 1,500 chips to start with and optional $5 rebuys and add-ons for another 1,500 chips. Freerolls to the monthly tournament take place every two hours each day during the month. Each satellite awards five entries to the Sunday Fun-Day Tournament and costs just 10+1 Cool Points to enter.
Users have numerous daily freerolls to choose from in which they can earn money, “points freebies,” or invitations to other tournaments. Cool Hand Poker gives away more than $20,000 in freerolls each month. The site offers daily freerolls in Hold’em, Razz, Omaha, and Omaha High-Low for those looking to improve at several different forms of poker. For newcomers to the site, Cool Hand Poker runs two daily $50 freerolls that are open to any player that has started an account within the past seven days. All new players are also eligible for a 100% deposit bonus up to $350 and if a user makes a deposit within seven days of registering, they’ll also find 200 free Cool Points in their account.
Those Cool Points can be used to buy into multi-table tournaments, sit and gos, and satellite events. Points are paid out based on the number of raked cash games hands played as well as the amount of money paid in tournament registration fees.
Cool Hand Poker’s feature promotion that began in October is the My Poker Challenge, in which players earned Cool Points based on their volume of play. Points are awarded for each raked hand on various tables, which can then be used for tournament buy-ins.
A maximum of 1,000 points can be earned each day, but if players end up with a positive balance on their cash game play, they will receive an additional 10% in points. The bonus points will be awarded to all players who earn a profit during the day.
Players that earn the maximum amount of points every day, along with the additional 10% for ending up with a positive balance, will win $10,000. Everyone who takes part in the promotion will earn some type of cash prize, but here’s a look at the top potential prizes based on the point requirements:
Prize/Points Required
$10,000/37,400 points
$1,250/32,000
$1,100/31,000
$1,000/29,000
$900/26,800
$800/24,800
$700/22,700
$600/20,600
$500/18,600
Cool Hand Poker does not currently accept U.S. customers and makes its home on the Microgaming Network.