Can you predict if your Rugby team gets 15 points ahead in their next Six Nations match? If so, you could get your single bet on the match paid out by bet365! In addition, if you’re making multiple bets, the whole selection will be marked as a winner!

For any Men’s Six Nations Match, does this sound good to you? Let’s go straight into this promotion and find out more.

How Does the Six Nationals Promotion Work?

If you think you have what it takes to predict if your team will get 15 points ahead in the Six Nations, the next stage is understanding how this Bet365 promotion works.

Getting involved in this bet365 promotion couldn’t be easier, and in the following 3 steps we’ll explain how you can take advantage:

• Place a pre-match bet on the match result (3-way), or the To Win (2-Way) market. This is towards any men’s Six Nations match up to and including Saturday 18th March.
• If the team you back goes 15 points ahead, your single bet will be paid out. This is across any stage of the game regardless of whether any opposition comes back to tie or win the match.
• If the team you have backed goes 15 points ahead in multiple bets or bet builder bets, this will be marked as won.

The Important Terms and Conditions You NEED to Know

Before you scrum down with this promotion, there are some important terms and conditions which you need to know.

• This offering is available to everyone, so whether you’re a new or existing customer, you can get involved?
• This promotion applies to single and multiple bets and is applicable up to Saturday 18th March.
• The offer will not apply where a stake has been fully cashed out. Where a stake has been partially cashed out, and your selection goes 15 points ahead, the bet will be settled on the remaining stakes.
• If you’ve used the Edit Bet feature, and the qualifying bet is edited before the start of the match and your selection goes 15 points ahead, the bet will be settled on the new stake.
• However, where a bet has been edited to include or amend a selection for an event that is In-Play, the offer will no longer apply and be in play.

How Can You Get Involved in This bet365 Promotion?

If you think your team can tear up the Six Nations and go 15 points ahead in a match, now is the perfect time to put your money where your mouth is and join this promotion from bet365 poker. Download today via PokerNews and make your prediction today!

Remember you’ll get your bet paid back when you can get the correct prediction. You just need to join bet365 poker and create your account. Once you’re signed up, make your prediction, and watch the game to see if you can win!

The Global Poker Awards coming to Las Vegas on March 3 aren’t the only poker awards show in town. On Tuesday, February 21, the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) will host its first-ever award dinner as well as a charity poker tournament.

The CSOP 2022 Awards will honor charities, players, volunteers, sponsors, photographers, and emcees. A lot of time, effort, and planning goes into each CSOP event, and it wouldn’t be possible without sponsors and volunteers. Now, it’s time for those hard-working individuals and charity-supporting companies to get some time in the poker spotlight!

A limited number of tickets are still available for the upcoming CSOP. Here are the details you’ll need to know:

• Via Brasil Steakhouse at 1225 S Fort Apache Dr Las Vegas, NV 89117
• Dinner + Poker: $300
• Dinner Only: $150
• Rebuys & Add-Ons: $100
• VIP Reception: 5:30 p.m.
• Tournament: 7:00 p.m. (late registration closes at 9:30 p.m.)
• 10,000 starting chips; 10,000 chips per rebuy; 20,000 chips per add-on
• Silent Auction ends at 10 p.m.
• Attire: Business Casual

Click here to register for the CSOP now!

Silent Auction Live

The tournament, which marks the 45th in CSOP history, will also be accompanied by a silent auction, which is live now. Not only will attendees be able to place bids, but those unable to attend in person can do so online. In the auction, you can bid on multiple packages which include extraordinary items like Peonis by Janel Raihl, a $500 Via Brasil GC, a Celebrity Cash Game with Daniel Negreanu, a Palomino King of Clubs Experience, VGK Glass Seats, and so much more!

For more information including sponsorship, volunteering opportunities, or any other questions, please contact [email protected].

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Click here to check out the silent auction items.

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The CSOP 2022 Award Nominees

The CSOP, which was established in 2014 by Matt Stout, is entering its 10th season, which made it the perfect time for them to pay tribute to the players, sponsors, staff, and volunteers from throughout the years. They will be honored via the first-ever CSOP Awards, which is comprised of several categories including Event of the Year, Emcee of the Year, Mike Sexton Ambassador Award, Daniel Negreanu Extra Effort Award, and more.

Here’s a look at all the categories and nominees:

Vote now for the CSOP People’s Choice Award

Additionally, CSOP has already revealed that St. Jude won “Earner of the Year” while FEAT of Southern Nevada won Breakout Event of the Year.

What’s Next?

The CSOP is a non-profit company founded to organize and promote charity poker tournaments and other events that raise money and awareness for worthy charities and causes. We strive to make it easy for poker players and celebrities to give back to their communities and the world in a very tangible way while playing the game of poker.

In March, the CSOP will go Go all in to Slay Cancer with Poker! Benefiting Tyler Robinson Foundation. The “Slay Cancer with Poker” CSOP 46 will be held at The Stirling Club on Saturday, March 25.

Click here for more details on that event.

You’ll also want to mark your calendar for September 7-9, 2023, which is when the CSOP will partner with St. Jude for Viva St. Jude at Resorts World. It’ll be a weekend filled with golf, fashion, food, and poker. The St. Jude charity poker event has a long history and is one of the biggest and best in the world!

The excitement around Spin and Go tournaments has never died down since making their debut at PokerStars in 2014. Spin & Go games attract recreational and professional poker players in equal measure thanks to the jackpot element making it possible to turn a relatively small buy-in into a payout worth up to $1 million, and do so in a matter of minutes.

What is Spin and Go Poker?

Spin and Go tournaments are a variant of a sit-and-go that has no set start time, with each game starting as soon as enough players have bought in. A typical Spin & Go at PokerStars has three players, although the Spin & Go Max Hold’em has up to eight; more on that twist soon!

The so-called “jackpot sit and go” format first appeared online at Winamax in July 2013 under the name Expresso. Their popularity resulted in other online poker sites and networks creating their versions of these lottery tournaments. The iPoker Network launched Twister, the now-defunct Full Tilt released Jackpot, 888poker created BLAST, and PartyPoker got in on the act with SPINS.

You may be wondering why these popular poker tournaments are often referred to as lottery or jackpot sit & gos. That becomes apparent as soon as the games start. Rather than have a prize pool that the buy-in determines, the prize pool is randomly determined before dealing of the first cards. Most of the time, in fact, between 80-90% of the Spin & Go tournament you play, the prize pool will be either 2x or 3x your buy-in. However, if Lady Luck is shining down on you, you could find yourself playing in a game with a prize pool multiplier worth up to 240,000, meaning it is possible to win $1 million from some of the games!

This randomness adds an air of excitement to Spin & Go games because the potential payouts are massive, and playing in a tournament with one of the larger prize pool multipliers feels like you are enjoying a significant overlay.

Standard Hold’em and Omaha Spin & Go tournaments at PokerStars see you sit down with only 500 chips as a starting stack. The blinds start at 10/20, which means you only have 25 big blinds from the word go. The blinds shoot up rapidly, too. Check out the table below to see just how fast.

The action is even crazier in Spin & Go Flash because you start your quest for glory with only 300 chips, and the blinds increase every minute!

Mostly, Spin & Go tournaments play as a winner-takes-all format, which means only the champion is paid. However, if the prize pool multiplier lands on 10x, the winner and runner-up receive a payday. Prize pool multipliers of 25x and above see all three entrants win a slice of the pie, although the first-place finisher reels in the lion’s share of the pot.

How to Play Spin and Go Tournaments

Registering for a Spin & Go tournament is as simple s getting involved in any other PokerStars sit & go or multi-table tournament; you’ll be spinning and going within a few mouse clicks!

• Load up PokerStars and click on the Spin & Go tab
• Decide whether you want to play Hold’em, Flash Hold’em, Max Hold’em, or Omaha
• Click the buy-in that you want to play
• Choose how many Spin & Go you want to play at the same time (between one and five)
• Click Play Now and wait for your Spin & Go to fill up with players

Hold’em Flash Hold’em, and Omaha Spin & Go tournaments get underway as soon as three players are registered. Max Hold’em Spin & Go are slightly different in that they follow the same format but the number of entrants, between three and eight, are randomly determined before the tournament starts. Also, Max Hold’em games have a predetermined number of hands you play before the game forces every player all-in until the winner is crowned!

Buy-ins of $0.25, $1, $2, $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, and $1,000 are available, plus, on occasion, PokerStars runs special edition Spin & Go games that pay tournament tickets instead of cash. These usually appear in the run up to the Sunday Million or during major festivals such as the Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) or the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP).

Before you game starts and the cards are in the air, the PokerStars software displays a slot machine-like spinner that eventually settles on the prize pool you are playing for. No sooner has the prize pool been determined, you and your opponents receive your hole cards; you literally spin and then go!

How Much Can You Win?

The random prize pool multiplier means sometimes Spin and Go players win the lottery. Hitting the top prize pool multiplier of 12,000x at the lowest $0.25 stakes creates a $3,000 prize pool where second and third-place collect $250, and the champion wins $2,500, which is quite incredible for a quarter.

The $5 buy-in Spin & Go games have a 240,000x multiplier, resulting in a $1.2 million prize pool! Win this and you instantly become a millionaire, while both your opponents pad their bankrolls with $100,000 each.

As you can see in the tables below, most of the time you will play for either a 2x or 3x your buy-in prize pool. In fact, the prize pool multiplier will be 5x or above in less than 10% of the games you play, but the biggest multipliers do land, so there’s always a chance.

Buy-in: $0.25
Rake: 8%

Buy-in: $1
Rake: 8%

Buy-in: $2
Rake: 8%

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Buy-in: $5
Rake: 8%

Buy-in: $10
Rake: 7%

Buy-in: $25
Rake: 6%

Buy-in: $50
Rake: 6%

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Buy-in: $100
Rake: 5%

Buy-in: $250
Rake: 5%

Buy-in: $500
Rake: 5%

 
Buy-in: $1,000
Rake: 5%

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Are Spin and Go’s Profitable?

There was much talk on social media and on poker forums when PokerStars launched Spin & Go tournaments back in 2014, and most of the chatter suggested there were essentially unbeatable. The winner-takes-all format – for most of the games you play – combined with the hyper-turbo structure and the rake meant grinders did not expect to win consistently at Spin & Go.

However, once players began logging plenty of volume and devised strategies, they soon realized Spin & Go tournaments can be very profitable at PokerStars, even if you endure a long spell of not playing for the largest payouts, which is likely.

You see, this format attracts recreational players in droves, particularly at the lower end of the buy-in ladder. These players are happy to commit their stacks with less-than-stellar holdings in the hope of doubling up or busting and firing up the next Spin & Go. Sure, the shallow stacks and hyper-turbo blinds leaves little room to outplay these weak opponents, but you can still enjoy a significant edge over lower-stakes players if you put in enough study away from the tables and practice at them.

Of course, hitting one of the massive payouts will make Spin and Go very lucrative and profitable, but it is best to simply treat these as a bonus rather than relying on them to make you profitable in the games.

In addition, because a rake is charged in Spin & Go games, you progress through the Stars Rewards scheme, meaning you are earning the equivalent of rakeback all the time. Play enough games and you could be taking home four-figure sums of loyalty payments each month, which takes some pressure off your bankroll if you hit a dry spell.

Spin and Go Strategy: Tips to Win More

Winning Spin and Go players are well versed in short-handed, short-stacked, and heads-up play because these are the three main elements of this format. It is worthwhile studying these aspects of poker tournaments and working on improving your skills in each.

It is important to try and accumulate chips as soon as possible not only because of the rapidly increasing blinds, which will result in you becoming short-stacked sooner than you would like but also because you could find yourself with little to no fold equity if your stack dwindles and you find yourself heads-up for the victory.

The power of position is very real in this format, so be willing to show aggression when first in from the button or the small blind. You will find the better players either min-raise or make raises of 2.1-2.3 big blinds, so they put fewer chips at risk in case they are three-bet all-in, but it is still an amount that can win the pot preflop.

How Push-Fold Strategy Changes in Bounty Tournaments

Eventually, unless you manage to accumulate a big stack (in relation to the ever-increasing blinds), you are going to find yourself in push-or-fold territory where the only moves available to you are to fold or commit your entire shallow stack. One-hundred percent you need to study push-fold strategy because the knowledge will be the difference between showing a profit and being a losing player.

Team PokerStars’ Nick Walsh suggests studying push-fold ranges for the latter stages and always be on the front foot where possible.

“Just sit down and do your homework with regard to ranges. Have some guidelines on the kinds of ways you should be playing. It’s little things like adjusting your preflop raise sizes and ranges. Adjusting how wide you’re playing from all of the positions is huge. You want to be playing loads of buttons heads-up and defending your blinds extremely wide but in a controlled manner.”

Spin and Go FAQ

What are the Spin and Go tournaments at PokerStars?

Spin and Gos are a type of fast-paced sit-and-go tournaments available at PokerStars. These online poker tournaments feature a hyper-turbo blinds structure, 500-chip starting stacks, and a randomized prize pool that can reach up to 240,000x the buy-in.

What is a ‘lottery-style’ poker tournament?

In these tournaments, the prize pool is not determined by the sum of the buy-in fees paid by the participants but is assigned, at random, by an algorithm.

What’s the maximum you can win in a Spin and Go?

$1 million is the largest prize you can win in PokerStars’ Spin & Go tournaments.

Is PokerStars the only website with this kind of games?

Spin and Go tournaments are exclusive to PokerStars. However, PartyPoker, 888poker, GGPoker, Unibet Poker, and sites on the iPoker Network such as Betfair Poker and bet365 Poker have versions of jackpot sit & Go games.

For the past four years, led by Las Vegas blogger Scott Roeben (Vital Vegas), rumors have spread about the Oakland A’s relocating to Sin City, and specifically to the long-time site of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) — the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino.

Those rumors are now beginning to seem more realistic given Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s recent comments and following a report from the Las Vegas Review Journal and the NBC affiliate (KSNV) in Las Vegas.

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Worst Stadium in Baseball

The A’s, traditionally a competitive small-market franchise, have played in Oakland since relocating from Kansas City in 1968. But the team plays in what is almost universally accepted as the worst stadium in the league — Oakland Coliseum. Average attendance for the A’s in 81 home games last year was at 9,912 fans per game, easily the lowest out of 30 MLB teams (the Los Angeles Dodgers led the league with an average of 47,671 fans per game, in comparison).

As such, A’s owner John Fisher called upon the city of Oakland in the past few years to build his team a new stadium or he’ll be forced to relocate the team elsewhere. Unfortunately, for baseball fans in the Bay Area — and, yes, they still exist despite the pitiful attendance — it doesn’t appear that a deal on a proposed $1 billion waterfront stadium will ever come to fruition.

Speaking to Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on Sirius XM, Manfred wasn’t optimistic about the likelihood of the A’s remaining in Northern California. But that could be good news for baseball fans in Las Vegas.

“I think the A’s have proceeded prudently in terms of exploring the Las Vegas alternative,” Manfred said. “Given the lack of pace in Oakland, I think they have to look for an alternative.”

Oakland city councilman Noel Gallo told reporters that he wants the team to stay in the Bay Area, but will not support taxpayer funding for a new stadium. Fisher has given the city an ultimatum, and that is to pay for a new stadium or the A’s will do exactly as the Oakland Raiders NFL franchise did in 2020 when they moved to Las Vegas.

With that in mind, and even commissioner Manfred has said as much, a move to Las Vegas is becoming more likely. On Wednesday, reports indicated that the A’s were considering two Las Vegas locations — the Tropicana site on the south end of the Strip and the Las Vegas Festival grounds on the north end of the Strip.

But on Thursday, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported the team is also considering building a ballpark at a third site — the Rio, which is owned by Dreamscape Companies LLC, but still operated by Caesars Entertainment.

Iconic Poker Site to Become a Baseball Stadium?

The Rio is one of the most historical venues in poker as it served as the WSOP’s home from 2005-2021 before moving to Bally’s (now Horseshoe Las Vegas) on the Strip in 2022. Some of the most iconic moments in poker history took place at the Rio, such as Doyle Brunson winning his 10th WSOP bracelet in 2005 and Daniel Negreanu losing on a bad beat to bust from the 2015 Main Event just short of the final table.

One potential obstacle, and it’s a major one, to bringing Major League Baseball to the former WSOP site is that Dreamscape has reportedly been seeking an $850 million Rio renovation project.

But on Friday, Las Vegas’ NBC affiliate, KSNV, reported that a spokesperson for Dreamscape confirmed the company would entertain the idea of selling the land to the Oakland A’s.

“The company has been engaged in a dialogue about a portion of the excess land at the Rio as a potential MLB ballpark for the past several years. The company remains open to this idea,” the spokesperson said.

When Dreamscape purchased the Rio from Caesars Entertainment in 2019, the original plan was to renovate the casino hotel and rebrand it as a Hyatt, one of the top hotel chains in the United States.

Scott Roeben, who runs the popular Vital Vegas blog, has been making claims that the Rio could one day be torn down in place of a baseball stadium since 2018. He’s received some criticism for what some have said to be pushing false rumors. But on Thursday, the avid gambler who doesn’t particularly care much for sports took a victory lap on Twitter.

If baseball does indeed come to Las Vegas, it won’t be within the next year or two. Building a stadium takes time, and putting together the funding won’t be easy.

The 2023 Major League Baseball Spring Training season officially began on Tuesday with pitchers and catchers reporting in Arizona and Florida. Opening Day is scheduled for March 30. Oakland will start the season off at home with a three-game set against Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels. Ohtani, the first true two-way (pitching and hitting) star since Babe Ruth, might be the only reason to lure fans to the Oakland Coliseum for that series. The A’s figure to once again have the worst attendance in the league.