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Mothers Day Tournament 4PM Eastern 13 May

100 Million Guaranteed prize pool plus 50 million added.

A minimum of the top 10 finishers will share in the prize pool.

Participate in a Mother's Day Subscriber Sit'N'Go satellite at 550K+55K 01 May through 13 May or buy in directly for 1.5 Million plus 150K when registration opens one week in advance of the event.

Here is your chance to top up your balance!

Win a Subscription for You and a Friend in May

Win the “Subscription Giveaway” Hold’em No Limit tournament each Sunday in May at 5PM Eastern to cash in on a subscription for you and a friend. Open to both Subscribing and Non-Subscribing players. Buy-in is just 2000+200 tokens.

*Note: Winning non-subscribing players will be awarded a one month Hammerhead subscription while winning subscribing player will be extended one month at their current subscription level.

The Hold'em Masters Tournament Series

Are you the best Hold'em player in the cardroom?

We are running a series of various Hold'em format tournaments in May with the top two finishing players qualifying for the final event. All eligible tournaments are annotated as Hold'em Master with a buy-in of 400K+40K.

The winner of the final event will have receive 90 day subscription extension, 50 million tokens and will have a Hold'em table of their choice renamed to their preference for June though the end of August.

Find out if you are the best of the best.

Schedule of Hold'em Master Events (All tournaments 10 Million Guarantees except Terminator format)

* Top 2 finishers of each tournament will be pre-registered for the final event. Should a player finishing in the top 2 already be pre-registered through a previous win, staff will select the next highest finishing eligible player in the tournament standing for the final event.

**Top 2 terminators advance. In the event of tie for the final position, the player finishing highest in the tournament will advance to the final event.

The final event will be Hold'em No Limit format at 4PM Eastern, Saturday the 2nd of June with first place receiving 50 million tokens and places two through five sharing an additional 50 million tokens.

Bonus Hand Bonanza

Win your seat for the Bonus Hands Bonanza tournament at 4PM Eastern Saturday 19 May by winning an eligible bonus hand in ring game play from 12 May - 18 May.

75 million guaranteed prize pool paid to a minimum of 10 players.

Eligible Bonus hands as follows:
Royal Flush - must use at least 1 hole card in Hold'em or Omaha
Straight Flush - 5 suited cards in order, must use at least 1 hole card in Hold'em
Set of trips loses to bigger set - both players must have a pocket pair in Hold'em
Pocket Aces loses to any pocket pair in Hold'em
Quads with Pocker Pair in Hold'em
Quads loses the pot - 4 of a kind loses (must have pocket pair as part of the quads) in Omaha Hi and HiLo
Pocket Kings loses to pocket Aces in Hold'em

*All hands must be played to the showdown at bet limits $200-$400 FL & Above or $100K NL, PL & Above.

You must be a subscriber and you will be automatically registered for the Bonus Hands Bonanza tournament within 24 hours of winning. Only one seat in the tournament per player is permitted.

Terminator Tournaments Tuesdays & Thursdays

For each player you “terminate”, you receive the prize pool portion of their buyin!

The Terminator tournament are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 PM Eastern. Buyins are $300K+30K on Tuesdays and $1 Million +$100K on Thursdays. Good luck!

High-Roller Bonus Program

Skillride High-Roller Bonus Rewards We are rewarding our high-roller players! Each subscriber making total purchases of $100 or more in the calendar month will receive a percentage of their total purchases in bonus tokens as follows:

$100 to $500 - 20% of the their total purchases in tokens.
$501 to $1000 - 30% of the their total purchases in tokens.
Over $1000 - 40% of the their total purchases in tokens.

Examples:

The bonus tokens will automatically be awarded to your account between 1st and 3rd of the following month.

Secret Bounty Tournaments

Each Friday in May, we will be conducting a secret bounty tournament. Each tournament will have two secret bounties designated by management at the tournament start time. The player eliminating either of the secret bounties will receive 2 million tokens while the player designated as the secret bounty will receive their tournament buy-in back. Should a secret bounty player win a tournament, they win the bounty award of 2 million tokens.

Secret bounty winners are announced as the bounty players are eliminated. Registration opens to all subscribing accounts 48 hours in advance.

Following are the Secret bounties schedule:

Friday the 27th of April at 2PM Eastern
Friday the 4th of May at 3PM Eastern
Friday the 11th of May at 4PM Eastern
Friday the 18th of May at 2PM Eastern
Friday the 25th of May at 3PM Eastern

Bust the FloorMan - Win the Prize!

The FloorMan will be in the cardroom playing in single table Bust the FloorMan Sit'N'Go tournaments. Simply bust him out and collect Poker Gear Package or 3 million tokens. Available prizes will be announced in the cardroom when the Sit'N'Go is announced for signups. Open to subscribing accounts only.

The Sit'N'Go will be run in the cardroom at sometime during the following windows:

Thursday the 3rd of May between 2PM-4PM Eastern
Thursday the 10th of May between 5PM-7PM Eastern
Thursday the 17th of May between 4PM-6PM Eastern
Thursday the 24th of May between 2PM-4PM Eastern
Thursday the 31st of May between 3PM-5PM Eastern

Additional Bust the FloorMan Sit'N'Go events may happen at random times.

Subscriber FloorMan Bounties!

15 Million Token Guarantee with a 5 Million Bounty on the FloorMan

Buy-in to one of the subscriber bounty events for 300K+30K tokens. In addition to a guaranteed prize pool of 15 Million tokens, the player who eliminates the FloorMan will receive 5 Million tokens.

Scheduled events are:

Wednesday the 2nd of May at 4:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 9th of May at 2:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 16th of May at 3:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 23rd of May at 4:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 30th of May at 2:00PM Eastern

Weekly Holdem NL Cardroom Championship

Want to be the reigning cardroom champion for the week?

Qualify for the Saturday main event by winning your seat in a daily satellite qualifier held:

Sunday-Friday at 3:30AM Eastern, 2:45PM Eastern and 7:45PM Eastern
Saturday only at 8:15AM Eastern and 11:45AM Eastern.

The weekly championship tournament is held at 3:45PM Eastern each Saturday and is closed for registration to all players except those qualifying through a satellite entry to ensure it is a tournament of worthy opponents. The final tournament features a 30 Million token guarantee prize pool and entry into the following week's final.

Bad Beat Jackpots

We have added bad beat jackpots to the cardroom! All Hold'em NL tables 100K and above are eligible for the Bad Beat Jackpot. Play any of these tables for your chance at a portion of the monster pot.

Click here for Bad Beat Jackpot Rules. The rules are also accessible by clicking on the Jackpot Rules button on any bad beat table.
Recent winners are posted on the Announcement Board.

FloorMan Trivia Contest

The Floorman will be in the cardroom every week with his bag full of prizes for the players who correctly answer trivia questions.

The FloorMan will broadcast six trivia questions to the cardroom. After each question, we will determine the winner by the first subscriber who correctly types in the answer in chat and broadcast the winning player's nickname to the cardroom who will be credit with 1 Million tokens.

Keep an eye on the announcement board for dates and times.

Notices

Press Release (27 February 2007) - Skillride.com Launches Fun Play Poker Service. Today AceKicker.com Holdings Inc. of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada announced the launch of Skillride.com, the first internet game play site to offer a pure play for fun poker site. This service allows players to participate in play for fun poker games and poker tournaments. Skillride.com will focus on providing customers with a sense of community where players can accumulate tokens for bragging rights amongst their peers.

An AceKicker.com spokesperson said, "The demand for high quality multiplayer non-gambling games is increasing as consumers seek more realistic entertainment value. Customers want to compete at a level where they are separated from the millions of casual surfers that tend to dilute the true game playing experience. Skillride.com will offer consumers the opportunity to develop their skills in a realistic game environment without gambling or competing for money."