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Live and Bet High - October’s Massive Promotion

Posted in Poker News on October 1st, 2008

Live the high life with Purple Lounge in October – we have a range of promotions with prizes over $60K available, plus the chance to play against Swedish Poker Star, and Purple Lounge sponsored player, Stefan Mattsson. Read the rest of this entry »

Purple Lounge Pentathlon - $200K+ in Prizes Up for Grabs

Posted in Casino Promotions, Poker News on July 25th, 2008

Could you be the Purple Lounge Champion? To celebrate the Olympics we are offering prizes of over $200K in the month of August to our top performing players in both poker and casino. There are 5 events to take part in with prizes for participants in each, win all of them and we will also give you 5 times your winnings, meaning you will walk away with $150K! Read the rest of this entry »

Changes to our Free Spins Freerolls

Posted in Poker News on July 18th, 2008

Last week we made some changes to our weekly Free Spins Freerolls - tournaments with prizes being paid out in free slot pulls in our casino. In order to reward our loyal players more, we decided that rather than have these tournaments open to all, we would put in place a small requirement of just 10 raked hands in the 7 days previous to registering. The impact of this meant that in last weeks tournament only 11 players took part - with 10 prizes being awarded!!! Read the rest of this entry »

Stefan Mattsson Still Strong in WSOP

Posted in Poker News on July 11th, 2008

Purple Lounge sponsored player, Stefan Mattsson, is still very much in the WSOP main event in Las Vegas, finishing day 3 well in the top half of the field. Only 474 players are left now, out of nearly 7,000 who started the $10K buy-in tournament, and Stefan is in about 150th place. Read the rest of this entry »

Stefan Mattsson 5th at End of Day 1a

Posted in Poker News on July 4th, 2008

Purple Lounge sponsored player, Stefan Mattsson, finished in a very impressive 5th position at the end of day 1a of the 2008 WSOP main event, holding 154,275 chips. Starting the day against 1,297 players – an assortment of veterans, amateurs, internet pros and celebrities Read the rest of this entry »

Poker Tournaments with a Casino Twist

Posted in Poker News on June 19th, 2008

We’ve added some new tournaments with a twist for our players at Purple Lounge – the 50% Casino Bonus tournaments.  These work in the same way as a normal tournament, except that as well as taking their cash prize, the winner will also receive 50% of the tournament fees as a casino bonus Read the rest of this entry »