Starting February 1st and running through the rest of the month, PartyPoker will be holding its Card Rush promotion, giving real money players a chance to win cash and freeroll entries just for playing poker like they normally would.
Card Rush is a very simple promotion. For every 15 Party Points a player earns, PartyPoker will award one Card Rush card. Players can then check their accounts to “scratch off” the cards to reveal their prizes. Every card will award some sort of prize. Players can collect up to 50 cards per day, though if that maximum is not reached, any Party Points earned towards the next card will carry over to the next day.
Each Card Rush card will contain one of the following prizes:
Party Points – 10, 20, 50, 100, 150, 250, 750, 5,000, or 25,000
Cash – $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $50, $250, or $5,000
Freeroll Entry – $2,000 (prize pool), $3,000, $5,000, $7,500, $10,000, $15,000, or $20,000
Card Rush Race Points – 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20
The Card Rush Race Points listed above can only be earned via Card Rush cards. Every point collected will count towards the Card Rush Race leader board standings, where players can win more cash prizes. The player who finishes the promotion with the most points will bank $9,000. The top ten finishers will all win four-figure amounts, on down to $100 for 151st through 200th place. Additionally, the players who finish in every 20th place from 220th through 2000th, called “hot spots,” will win $50.
The freeroll schedule is as follows:
$2,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 2nd at 13:00 ET
$3,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 4th at 13:00 ET
$5,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 3rd at 13:00 ET
$7,500 Card Rush Freeroll – March 5th at 14:30 ET
$10,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 3rd at 14:30 ET
$15,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 2nd at 14:30 ET
$20,000 Card Rush Freeroll – March 4th at 13:00 ET
Unfortunately, if a player wins multiple entries to the same freeroll, no substitute prize will be awarded in place of the extra seats.
As already noted, the Card Rush promotion will run through the end of February, though it is limited to 1.8 million prize cards, so it could end earlier. Additionally, as a small bonus, PartyPoker will award every player their first card after only 5 Party Points, rather than 15.
PartyPoker just completed its January promotion, the VIP Rake Race, exclusive to Palladium and Palladium Elite players. Thousands of dollars in cash prizes were awarded to the top Party Points earners in each loyalty group every week of the month.
PartyPoker is currently ranked as the second largest online poker room in the world in terms of cash game traffic, according to PokerScout.com. It sits in the middle of the clear top three, way behind PokerStars, which has a seven day average of 26,000 cash game players, and the iPoker Network, with 4,000. PartyPoker is just ahead of iPoker with 4,550 cash game players.
