NOTE:
The Paradise Poker $1,000,000 Tournament
is a free poker tournament . Amateurs and
veterans alike are invited to play in the
next million dollar freeroll
We also offer both
a Paradise
Poker Review and Paradise
Poker.net signup guide.
Quick Overview of the Million Dollar Freeroll
Poker Tournament
Before we get to the online poker cheating,
let me give you a quick overview and background
of how the Free Million Dollar Poker Tournament
at Paradise Poker works..
This is the poker tournament you've seen
advertised on TV, offering you a free seat
in a poker tournament with a Million Dollar
first place prize, held online at Paradise
Poker.net. 1st place wins a million dollars
and 2nd through 10th are guaranteed $10,000
each. It's an awesome freeroll.
Here is how it works. If you are new to
Paradise Poker all you have to do is create
a play money account at Paradise Poker.
Once you create your play money account
you recieve a ticket into one of three daily
free roll qualifiers. You don't have to
deposit a single penny, you don't have to
give them a credit card, nothing like that.
Just create an account and take your seat
in one of the three daily free qualifiers.
If you finish in the top 10 of the free
qualifer you win a seat into the Free Million
Dollar Poker Tournament.
The next Free Million Dollar Poker tournament
is scheduled to take place on July 22nd,
2006 at Paradise Poker. 1st place in this
tournament wins one million dollars. Not
too shabby. Get more details in our comprehensive
review of Paradise Poker.
Paradise Poker.net has gained a lot of new
players with this promotion, so much so
that they are doing another one.
THE SCANDAL -
Player ''ZapAA'' busted
for violating Paradise Poker's T's and C's.
Looses 1.3 Million in Chips before the 1st
hand of the final table is even dealt.
The million dollar freeroll starts out online,
just like all the other multi-table online
poker tournaments. The tournament runs like
normal online until the final table is set,
with the top 10 players remaining.
Once the final 10 players are set, the tournament
is paused, chip counts are taken. The remaining
10 players are whisked away to a secret
tropical paradise to play the final table
out live. The final table is taped
for television and Paradise Poker plans to
air the event on national tv.
 When
''ZapAA'' arrived in Paradise, he looked
way too young to be playing
poker, he'd easily get asked for an ID
trying to get into a bar or even buying smokes...
Hiding your age online might be relatively
easy, but when you're sitting face to face
it's a bit more difficult. According to Paradise
Poker's Terms and Conditions, you must be
at least 21 to play online poker.
We haven't been able to find anything official
from Paradise Poker on this event as I imagine
they want to keep it fairly quiet, but the
rumor mill says he was only 17 years old!
The seventeen year old
had accumulated 1.37 Million chips,
which was third overall going into the final
table. Here are the final table standings
before ''ZapAA'' was eliminated as reported
in numerous public forums and newsgroups from
Professor77, aka Mark Pinsker. Mark was 8th
in chips going into the final table.
Here are the final table starting chip counts
prior to uncovering that ZapAA was only 17
years old as posted in numerous online forums
by Professor 77.
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1 sn-Ale -- Mike Darweesh 2,720,000
2 boon8 -- Lee Biddulph 1,580,000
3 ZapAA -- Brian Carney 1,370,000
4 StiMi -- Christopher Steudle 1,360,000
5 judgetim -- Tim Williams 1,090,000
6 mastershake -- Davis Pool 718,889
7 LordTranIII -- Thu V. Tran 506,388
8 Professor77 -- Mark Pinsker 403,944
9 jerryfoam -- Gerald Anderson 188,672
10 docshoggs -- Steven A. Detrick 34,705
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Blinds: 12,000 / 24,000
Antes: 3,000
This
is very interesting - .Check out the
"Official
Results From at Paradise Poker"
Notice that they say 'This is the Top 10 at
the final table, but only have 9 players listed!
They also don't have ZapAA listed at all...
As of 10/3/05 they still have the words 'Top
10' underlined!
SPECIAL NOTE - I checked the page on 10/5/2005
and they have updated it with a picture of
the winner, and they removed the refrences
to 'the top 10', but we snagged a screen
shot from the 2nd of October, 2005.
ZapAA' played a great game up to that point
but you've got to be old enough to holdem,
even online.
Paradise Poker disqualified ZapAA from the
tournament, removed his 1.3 million in chips
and we heard through the grapevine that they
donated his $10,000 prize to Hurricane Katrina
Charities, but don't hold us to that.
We hope this isn't a black eye for Paradise
Poker.net, because Paradise Poker
is a great online poker room. Click
here for our review
of Paradise Poker.
I'm sure ZapAA isn't the only underage online
poker player prowling the virtual card rooms...
he just happened to do very well in a major
tournament that dealt him a hand he couldn't
beat - the fact that you had to play face
to face to win it.
When is the next Million Dollar Freeroll?
Thanks
to lasvegasvegas.com
for the photo.
July 22nd, 2006 - The Next Million
Dollar FreeRoll at Paradise Poker.net.
You've probably seen the commercials on TV
for the free million dollar poker tournament
at Paradise Poker.net. There are
three
daily qualifiers running each and every
day that are completely free. All you need
to do to play in your first event is to download
the Paradise Poker Software and create your
account. No deposit is required.
If it's before 9PM EST you can still play
in one today, if not you can play tomorrow.
If you finish in the top 10 you're qualified
for the Million Dollar Tournament. Pretty
tempting offer.
Click
here to Play at Paradise Poker
(25% deposit bonus, deposit $500 to maximize
your bonus).
Paradise Poker.net Signup Guide
(great for new players)
Click
here for a Review of Paradise Poker
(1st person straightforward review )
More
Free Million Dollar Poker Tournament Details
- read all at paradisepoker.net
How do I win my seat?
Players MUST win their seat into the main
event, through one of the FREE daily heats.
Three heats every day. Each
heat will be titled "FreeMillion"
and will be FREE to enter. You can find
these tournaments listed under the Million
Tab in our Tournament Lobby.
The 3 daily "FreeMillion" Heats
will start at the times posted below and
will award seats as listed:
4pm ET = Top 10 players advance to $1,000,000
main event.
9pm ET = Top 15 players advance to $1,000,000
main event.
1am ET = Top 20 players advance to $1,000,000
main event.
* 9pm, 2am, 6am London time
***IMPORTANT***
- - > Tournament registration will open
2 hours prior to the posted tournament start
time! Register early to ensure yourself
a seat.
- - > Players can enter any Heat they
wish and as many as they wish (subject to
Paradise Poker's terms and conditions ).
Each Heat can accept a maximum of 4,000
players.
- - > Players are only eligible to win
1 seat into the $1,000,000 main event.
- - > The ParadisePoker.com Million Dollar
Freeroll is open to anyone that has a real
money account (no deposit necessary for
your first Heat attempt).
Can I enter more than once?
After your first free heat attempt, you
can enter further heats by collecting "Million
Points". Collect 100 points and you
will receive a pop-up message stating that
you are again eligible to enter another
heat of your choice.
"Million Points" will start getting
counted, starting at zero, for all players,
as of 12:01am Eastern on August 29th. For
specific details on how these points are
collected please click
here.
$1,000,000 Online Main Event
The $1,000,000 main event will take place
on December 3rd at 2pm Eastern (7pm London
time).
Note: Given the number of entries, this
tournament will be played over 2 days (December
3rd and 4th). Play will start at 2pm Eastern
and will continue until Midnight Eastern
(5am London) at which time the tournament
will be paused at the beginning of the next
break. Play will resume on Sunday, December
4th at 2pm EDT and will continue until only
10 players remain.
Final 10 will play face-to-face
in Paradise!
The 10 players at the final table will be
taken on an all-expenses paid luxury vacation
to an exotic Paradise location to finish
the remaining portion of the tournament
face-to-face in front of the tv cameras.
The winner will walk away one million dollars
richer.
The live final table is tentatively scheduled
to take place mid-January 2006.
Full Prize Pool Payouts
First Place = $1,000,000
(plus a free vacation for two to a mystery
tropical location)
2nd-10th = $10,000 (plus a free vacation
for two to a mystery tropical location)
11th = $1,000 12th-50th = $500
51st-100th = $100
101st -500th = $50
TOTAL PAYOUTS: $1,150,000
Click
to Play at Paradise Poker
(Deposit Bonus of $100 matched at 25%)
Here is a step by step
sign up guide for Paradise Poker and
here is a 1st
person review of Paradise Poker
Thanks
and we'll see you at the tables!
KAP
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