The death of online poker in America has been greatly exaggerated. Many players felt that the loss of online poker giants PokerStars and Full Tilt spelled an end to online poker in the United States, and although having these two major poker rooms end their allowing Americans on their sites did have a significant impact on the choices out there, it far from eliminated them.
The truth is there have been several online poker sites which continued to accept Americans and have thrived ever since. While some of these online poker sites ended up being less desirable due to not being able to meet the additional challenges of payment processing in this new era post Black Friday, some have been more than up to the task and have continued to provide Americans with a great place to play online poker.
One of these poker rooms is America’s Cardroom, which has been in business for quite a while now. They continue to offer play to players from just about every state in the country, with Washington, Maryland, Nevada and New Jersey being the only exceptions. America’s Cardroom is the flagship poker site of the Winning Poker Network which combines several poker rooms into one, sharing players and tables, which allows players the kind of good action they need. America’s Cardroom remains highly rated and has been one of the real favorites for Americans over the last few years and continues to be.
Since Black Friday though, with the reduced traffic levels that it brought, one of the things that you no longer see is Americans having access to the huge guaranteed tournaments such as PokerStars’ Sunday Million that Americans used to be able to play at. Big online poker tournaments like this are perhaps the most exciting form of poker out there, and they are still run, however Americans are no longer welcome there, and have had to settle for much smaller so called big tournaments. It is not that the poker rooms that remained serving the U.S. market haven’t wanted to offer these big tournaments, they certainly have wanted to, but they just haven’t had the traffic base to be able to do it, or anything remotely close in fact.
America’s Cardroom is now out to change all that though, with their million dollar guaranteed tournament set to run later this year. On Sunday, December 14, at 3 PM ET, players at America’s Cardroom will be sitting down to a very exciting $500 + $40 million dollar guaranteed tournament. This is the first time in several years that a tournament this large, or anything close to it, has been offered to U.S. players. First place in this tournament will be at least $200,000.
"We've hosted some big poker tournaments before, but seven figures have been completely foreign to US players for well over three years now." said Michael Harris, spokesperson for Americas Cardroom. "We're excited to raise the bar and set a new standard for poker in America with a $1 million tournament prize pool that's reminiscent of the glory days."
Players at America’s Cardroom can buy into the tournament directly for the $540, or earn their seat through playing in a massive amount of satellite tournaments, ranging from entering for free all the way up to their $109 satellites. So this is far from aimed at only the bigger players and everyone can get involved in all of this fun. The tournaments at America’s Cardroom are already among the best available and America’s Cardroom was already a top pick of ours, and this huge tournament only adds to the list of reasons to play there.
So if you are a U.S. player you definitely should have an account here, and even if you are from another country, this is a great spot to play at and well worthy of your time. If you don’t currently have an account at America’s Cardroom they also have a nice welcome package where you will receive up to $1000 in bonus money in addition to access to everything else they have to offer, sign up at Americas Cardroom now!
