Heads Up to Win Your Share of £20,000 In the Sky Poker Cup and Bet365 Poker Opens The Vault

Bet365 Poker have had a busy summer with their excellent Road to Rio promotion only coming to an end on the day of the World Cup Final but the company have wasted no time in finding a new promotion to keep their poker fans very keen.

Unlike the last promotion, this new offer from Bet365 Poker is simplicity itself and is open to all existing Bet365 Poker players. Best of all, you may already have won! Read on below to discover how and why.

But first let’s take a look at a brand new offer from Sky Poker, the Sky Poker Cup, which is a fantastic new tournament celebrating one of the most dramatic, mentally exhausting and volatile forms of Hold’em Poker you can play today: one-on-one heads up gaming.

Do you have what it takes to lift the £20,000 Sky Poker Cup this summer?

By the time you read this Sky Poker may well have paid out one lucky player on winning the 800,000,000^th hand on the site, but fear not Sky Poker fans as there are plenty of other promotions still ongoing on the site. This includes a brand new offer that celebrates one of the most cerebral, intense and difficult of those poker arts: heads up poker.

There are many players who believe heads up poker is a game unto itself and certainly the skills required to thrive in this type of game are somewhat different to that you’d need to play well in a Six-Max or MTT.

Therefore, it is nice to see Sky Poker rewarding the players on its site who prefer to face just one opponent at the poker table on a regular basis. That reward is the Sky Poker Cup tournament, which has a guaranteed tournament prize fund of £20,000.

There are two stages to the tournament, which must be entered using the code HEADSUP, when you visit the account section of the site and click on the promotional code section.

The first stage is the group stage and this is where all heads up players are free to enter the event, although entry into the event is somewhat stringent.

In order to give yourself a chance of winning through to the next stage you must play at least 50 heads up games against other opponents at Sky Poker, with a minimum buy in of £5.25 per game.

Of course, not all players will play the same amount of games so to ensure fairness, Sky Poker will work out the leaderboard for the competition based on qualifying players winning percentage.

The higher your winning percentage of the 50+ heads up games of £5.25 buy in or better that you achieve, then the higher up the leaderboard you will go. That is important as only the top 16 on the leaderboard at the end of July will qualify for the knockout phase.

The knockout phase will see the top 16 battle it out on Tuesday August 5^th at 9pm UK time. They will contest several rounds of heads up poker until the winner of the Sky Poker Cup is announced later that same evening.

The winner of the event will receive a guaranteed top prize of £5,000, with the runner up receiving £3,000. The losing semi finalists will receive £2,000 each, the losing quarter finalists £1,000 each and the eight losers of the first knockout round will receive £500 each.

It is worth remembering that as you head towards the end of July, a greater number of players will become eligible for this tournament as they play more qualifying heads up games. Therefore the leaderboard can and will likely change considerably over the coming weeks as players achieve higher winning percentages and move up and down the leaderboard.

If you are quick, you can participate in this heads up only tournament now by joining Sky Poker today. You’ll receive a £10 no deposit Sky Poker signup bonus as a new customer, together with a fantastic deposit bonus of up to £500.

Bet365 Poker opens The Vault – is your special prize in your inbox?

It is fair to say that Bet365 Poker’s Road to Rio promotion was a huge success, the combination of cash awards and prizes of iPads really caught the imagination of the Bet365 Poker fraternity and as a result, the promotion was very well supported.

Therefore the heat was on Bet365 to come up with a suitable offer for their Bet365 Poker site to replace the last and with The Vault promotion, they may well have just achieved that.

This promotion is simplicity itself. Bet365 have opened a Vault which contains €9,000 worth of potential prizes, with a top single prize awarded of €500.

The great thing is, you don’t even have to do anything to claim a prize. Bet365 Poker have already allocated out all of the prizes from the Vault and all you need to do is check in to your Bet365 email to see if you have a prize.

There are a large number of prizes available. From the top prize downwards and you could have been awarded any of the prizes available. Prizes include cash awards which can be used in cash games or MTT’s as well as tournament tokens for specific types of poker games on Bet365 Poker.

The good news is that this new Vault promotion is also open to players via mobile, though one assumes that if this is the case, mobile players will receive prizes that allow them to be used on speed poker or cash table games, rather than MTTs or sit & go games which are not playable via a mobile device as yet.

Finding out whether you have won a prize is as easy as logging into your Bet365 Poker account and checking your email on this part of the site. If you have won a prize, then you will have been notified via email.

It is worth checking quickly as if you do not claim your prize within a stated time period it could be forfeit and you could lose your entitlement to the award.

Sadly, this offer is only open to existing Bet365 Poker customers, however if you want to join and be eligible next time The Vault is opened, doing so is a quick process. And new customers will also qualify for a €5 Bet365 Poker no deposit welcome bonus.