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Holdem Heat Main Event $1000 Cash / 150 Million Token Prize Pool

$1000 in cash payout to the Top 10 finishers.
100 Million guarantee plus 50 Million Added.

Participate in either a daily satellite or a Hold'em Heat Subscriber Sit'N'Go satellite at $550K+$55K to get your seat into the Hold'em heat Main Event at 4PM Eastern, Saturday the 14th of August..

Participation in the Holdem Heat Main Event is restricted to players winning a seat in a satellite event or by placement on the monthly cardroom chip ladder for July.

Daily Schedule of Holdem Heat Subscriber Satellite Events

Qualify for the main event on through one of the daily satellites from the 14th July through the 14th of August.

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.

Secret Bounty Tournaments

Each Thursday, 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:

Thursday the 8th of July at 3PM Eastern
Thursday the 15th of July at 4PM Eastern
Thursday the 22nd of July at 5PM Eastern
Thursday the 29th of July at 2PM 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:

Monday the 5th of July between 4PM-6PM Eastern
Monday the 12th of July between 5PM-7PM Eastern
Saturday the 17th of July between 10AM-12PM Eastern
Friday the 23rd of July between 9PM-11PM Eastern
Friday the 30th of July between 5PM-7PM 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 7th of July at 2:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 14th of July at 9:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 21st of July at 3:00PM Eastern
Wednesday the 28th of July at 4:00PM 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 with a poker gear package awarded to the tournament champion as well as entry into the following week's final.

$50 FreeRolls!

Take your shot at winning $50 each Sunday and Thursday. Our FreeRolls start at 3:30PM Eastern with a pay out $50 to the first place winner. Any registered account holder is eligible to play.
Any registered account holder is eligible to play.

Winners will have the option of putting the money towards a Subscription, a discounted Token Purchase, or Cash to your PayPal account! There is no way that you can lose!

• If you choose a Subscription we will credit you a 3-Month Tiger-Shark Subscription with an initial token allotment of 4.5 Million Tokens!
• With the Token purchase option we will give you a discount, with 7 Million Tokens for your win!
• If you choose the Cash, simply provide us with the e-mail address associated with your PayPal account and we will send you $50!

Pass the news to your friends – invite them along – see you at the tables!

*All winners must answer a mathematical skill testing question correctly and within a time limit to claim their prize pursuant to Canadian Sweepstakes law (ie. the Jurisdiction of the SkillRide Network)

**Non-subscribing accounts are required to take one of the available subsciption options or a combination of a subscription and cash or tokens.

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."