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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Sit & Go (or Single Table) tournaments have been extremely popular in the online poker world, ever since they were introduced quite a few years ago.  They fill a gap in the market for players who prefer to play tournaments as opposed to cash games, but also like the convenience of being able to play when they want, Read the rest of this entry »