PokerHub on September 24th, 2009
Aced Poker (Aced.com) has satellites running daily all year long. When it’s not for free seats into an upcoming major land-based poker tournament, then it’s for a guaranteed prize pool or VIP points or both.
Year-round, Aced runs daily satellites for whatever World Series of Poker is next (even if it’s 11 months away); these take place at 1:10, 3:10, and 5:10 pm “Aced Time” and have a $10 + $1 buy-in. Current $10 WSOP satellites are for the 2010 WSOP.
Aced also runs $5 Sunday Guaranteed satellites several times daily, as well as ongoing $2 Sit-n-Go’s into a $15,000 guaranteed finals. For Aced VIPs (which is all Aced Poker players enrolled in the site’s loyalty and rewards program), there are Daily VIP Satellites and a $50,000 Guaranteed VIP Satellite every day at 6:50 pm “Aced Time”. And among Aced.com’s Daily Sit ‘n Go Satellite Tournaments are 10-seated, 6-seated, and heads-up tourneys with VIP points for buy-ins.
PokerHub on February 23rd, 2009
Jamie Gold, winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, has just been signed by AcedPoker (at Aced.com) as the site’s latest celebrity poker pro endorser.
Gold, who prior to winning the big prize in the 2006 WSOP was a successful Hollywood talent agent and producer, signed a multi-year contract with Aced.com. The reported deal, somewhere in the range of $2 million, includes buy-ins at many of the most prestigious live poker tournaments around the world. Rumor has it that this is the most lucrative endorsement contract between a poker pro and online poker room in the history of internet poker.
Sponsoring Gold was a big move for little-known Aced Poker, who has only been hosting live poker tournaments since last September as is one of the flagship sites of the up-and-coming Merge Network. Gold has been patiently waiting for just the right sponsorship opportunity to come around, turning down numerous endorsement offers since winning the $12 million top prize in the 2006 WSOP main event and, shortly thereafter, parting with former sponsor Bodog.
