New Poker League at Carbon Poker

Starting in November, IPM will have a monthly poker league at Carbon Poker. The league will have a private freeroll and a money added buy-in tournament every week. During November, the freerolls will be every Tuesday and the buy-ins every Thursday. To kick off the league, the first freeroll will have a $50 prize pool and the first buy-in will have $50 added to the prize pool. The league starts with a $5 buy-in tournament Thursday November 1st at 14:00 server time (GMT-5:00).

At the end of each month, the top 3 players will receive a coupon to play in a $20 buy-in tournament at Carbon Poker. In addition, $25 will be transfered to the 1st place winner and $10 to the 2nd place winner. You must register as a league member to earn points and win prizes.

You can visit the Carbon Poker League for more details.

Free Bankroll Offers

A free poker bankroll is probably the closes thing you'll ever get to free money. It's really easy to get and the bankroll is usually pretty significant. Most offers give $100 in free money!!

So how does this work? Why would anyone ever want to give away free money? To understand this you must know how affiliate programs work. Online poker rooms have programs that reward those who refer new players. The affiliate can promote the poker room through word of mouth, a web site or any other way. When a new player is referred to the poker room, the affiliate can earn money for the referral. There are usually 2 payment structures: a cost per acquisition (CPA) and a revenue share model. With CPA, the affiliate is paid a fixed amount for a new player who makes a deposit. With revenue share, the affiliate earns a percentage of the revenue generated by the player.

The free bankroll offers are therefore an extra incentive to attract new players. The sites that offer the free money want to send new players to the poker room. To get the bankroll, the player needs to sign up using a special bonus code that tracks his/her account to the affiliate. That is why these offers usually have very precise procedures that you must follow. The affiliate wants to make sure you are tracked to his account and that you are not trying to get the free money more than once.

Free poker bankrolls are really a win-win deal. The affiliate gets a new player that will generate some revenue, and you get some free money to get started at the poker room! The amount of the bankroll is usually split into 2 bonuses: an initial bonus that you get right away after signing up, and another bonus that you must earn by accumulating points or playing a certain amount of hands.

IPM currently has up to $680 in free bankroll offers! The free money is available to new players at CD Poker ($130), Absolute Poker ($100), Ultimate Bet ($100), Full Tilt Poker ($100), Titan Poker ($100) and Party Poker ($150).

$150 Freeroll at Gnuf Poker

IPM has a new featured poker room every month. At the end of the month, there's a special VIP freeroll at the featured poker room. The freeroll always has a prize pool of at least $100 and only VIP members can play in the tournament. The list of VIP members is updated every month. Active forum members with an avatar and quality posts will always be VIP members. There are also other ways of becoming a VIP member and these requirements change every month. The VIP Freeroll is announced in the VIP Section of the league page.

For October, the featured poker room is Gnuf Poker, a new stylish poker room that is growing fast. Gnuf recently acquired Dream Poker, which gave them a lot of new players and showed they're serious about being a big player.

The $150 VIP Freeroll will be on October 28th at 15:00 EST. VIP members will receive the password 1 hour before the tournament start time. Have a look at the Gnuf Poker Freeroll announcement in the IPM Forums for details on how to become VIP during October.