Congratulations to player $Jackpotbaby, winner of our 2008 Series Gold Card promotion. $Jackpotbaby earned the most Gold Cards out of any other player and for his efforts received a cool $52,000.00.

2009 Series cards are now being released and we’ve put up another $52,000.00 for the top Gold Card earner. To add to the excitement, we’ve sped up the rate (10x) at which you can earn these Gold Cards.

Each of these Gold Cards will be stamped with a unique ‘2009 Series’ seal, making these 5 million cards the only 2009 Series Gold Cards in existence. By playing at any of our real money tables you could receive one of these valuable Gold Cards!

1. How do I win a 2009 Series Gold Card?
2. Are my Series 1, 2 and 3 Gold Cards expired?
3. What can I do with a Gold Card?
4. Where can I see my Gold Card collection?
5. How do I win the $52,000 jackpot?
6. What are the odds of each gold card appearing?

Start earning your Gold Cards today and you’ll be closer to earning the rewards that you deserve, including our $52,000 grand prize jackpot:

How do I win a 2009 Series Gold Card?

You can win Gold Cards by playing at any of our real money Ring Games. The higher the limits you play, the better chances you'll have of winning a Gold Card. Gold Cards are randomly selected via our Random Number Generator (RNG) and will be displayed at your table at the end of the hand:

 

If the displayed Gold Card matches one of your hole cards you win that Gold Card! You can still win even if you folded your cards during the hand!

Now there’s no guarantee that the selected Gold Card will match any players 'hole cards'. If there is no match then another Gold Card is randomly chosen each subsequent hand until a match is found. This may take several hands and may even coincide with the selection of the next Gold Card if enough rake has been collected. Therefore the same player may be awarded of 2 or more Gold Cards in a row. You can earn multiples of a single type of card (the quantity of each card type are displayed in numbers on the bottom right corner of your Gold Card)

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Are my Series 1, 2 and 3 Gold Cards expired?

No, you will still be able to use your Series 1, 2 and 3 Gold Cards towards several great promotions including our Gold Card Daily Lotteries. Check back soon for more ways to use your old Series 1, 2 and 3 Gold Cards.

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What can I do with a Gold Card?

Once you’ve won a Gold Card, the fun doesn’t stop there. You’ll have 4 ways to win:

1. Gold Card Daily Lottery
2. Gold Card 500 Weekly Race
3. 2009 Series Guaranteed Cash Prizes
4. $52,000 Grand Prize

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Gold Card Daily Lottery

Login to your Poker account every day to see if you’ve won the daily lottery. We’ll post a NEW winning Gold Card(s) under the Rewards tab > Card Daily Lottery link each day. If you are able to match the winning Gold Card(s) with your collection of Gold Cards you could win cash or seats into exclusive tournaments

Each Gold Card Daily Lottery card will have a preset expiration date and time. Multiple Lotteries may be in effect at the same time, so be sure to check the other Daily Lotteries to see if your Gold Cards are eligible. Once a Daily Lottery expires, you will not be able to redeem your Gold Cards for that specific Lottery. Once you redeem a Gold Card for a prize, it will be removed from your collection (and the site) for good.

The same Random Number Generator that Poker uses to ensure the fairness of all our poker games is used to ensure the equitable and random distribution of all Gold Cards over the set period of time.

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Gold Card 500 Weekly Race

It’s time to rev up your rewards with Poker’s Gold Card 500 weekly race.

Starting every Monday at 8pm ET the GC 500 race will begin. Every Gold Card that you earn from the moment the race begins will move you around the track. The race will finish the following Monday at 7:59pm ET.  The Top 50 point earners will receive the following payouts

Place	Win Amount (USD)
1	$         1,000
2	$            850
3	$            700
4	$            600
5	$            500
6	$            450
7	$            400
8	$            350
9	$            300
10	$            250
11	$            200
16-20	$            175
21-25	$            165
26-30	$            160
31-50	$            155

Miles Grid

Each card will move you along the track according to the Miles Grid chart below. You can also multiply the value of your card by playing at different limit levels. Here’s how far (in miles) each Gold Card that you earn will move you:

Mileage Modifiers

Multiply your card values by the following.

Poker players, start your engines!

Rules

• You will not be required to turn in your Gold Cards when you win cash for this race, they are yours to keep and use in the Daily Lottery or for Buy-in into Gold Card Giveaway Tournaments.
• You are free to use your Gold Cards earned during the race for promotions on Poker without losing miles in the race.
• Only Gold Cards earned from the published start time of the current race count towards miles for the current race.
• Players found to be abusing the spirit of this promotion will be disqualified at the discretion of Poker management.
• All decisions by Poker management are final

Poker players, start your engines!

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2009 Series Guaranteed Cash Prizes

Each month we’ll post a 2009 Series instant cash prize hand. If you’re able to match the prize hand using your personal collection of 2009 Series Gold Cards you’ll be able to cash those cards in for cash!

Series 1, 2 and 3 Gold Cards will not be eligible for redemption. Contact Poker at pitboss@GLOBAL_DOTCOM when you have the Gold Cards required for any of the Guaranteed Prizes

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$52,000 Grand Prize

In addition to our daily lotteries and the GC 500, there are several guaranteed prizes that are always available for you including our $52,000 Grand Prize.

Poker is giving away a guaranteed $52,000 jackpot to one lucky player who is able to collect all 52 2009 Series Gold Cards in the deck.

If no one collects the entire 52 card collection, 30 days after the last 2009 Series Gold Card is released, the player with the most unique 2009 Series Gold Cards will automatically win the $52,000. In the event of a tie, we’ll determine the winner to be the player with the highest total number of 2009 Series Gold Cards between the tied players.

This means, even if you don’t have the entire deck, you could still win the jackpot if you have more unique 2009 Series cards than anyone else!

Poker will award $52,000 in one direct cash deposit to the winner's real money player's account. All Series III Gold Cards will be surrendered and removed from the player's personal collection at that time. Should a player choose not to surrender their entire Gold Card 2009 Series collection, the $52,000 cash prize is forfeited and will be awarded to the next player.

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Where can I see my Gold Card collection?

To view your own collection of Gold Cards click on the Rewards tab in the Lobby and select ‘My Gold Card Collection’. Here you’ll be able to see which Gold Cards you’ve earned to date:

What are the odds of each gold card appearing?

The Gold Card Vault dispenses Gold Cards based on the statistics below. Each time a Gold Card is awarded to the player, it’s removed from the Vault and the total number of available Gold Cards diminishes. The 2009 Series consists of 5 million Gold Cards.

2009 Series Gold Card Odds

Poker’s random number generator is utilized each time a Gold Card is requested in order to ensure fairness.

The odds of winning each type of card are displayed below (1 in).