Anybody in Quebec played poker yet in the government-run espacejeux.com? See Loto-Québec launches espacejeux.com, which includes a funny ad with Oreo cookies ala Rounders.
■Rake seems to be competitive, e.g., 5% up to $3 for 2¢/4¢ to $25/$50
■Up to $20 cash bonus to play at table games
■Giant Launch Tournament with a total purse of $250,000 (registration free).
■The Espacejeux launch Bad Beat Jackpot is $100,000.
■Lucky hands:
■Each millionth hand (1 million, 2 million, etc. right up to 25 million), will offer $500 to be shared equally among players who were dealt cards at the start of the hand.
■Each hundred thousand hands (100,000, 200,000 etc. right up to 4,900,000) will offer $300 to be shared equally among players that were dealt cards at the start of the hand.
■Guaranteed Tournaments:
■Espacejeux will run daily Guaranteed Purse Tournaments, whatever the number of players
■There will be 5 Guaranteed Tournaments on weekdays, 6 on Saturday and 7 on Sunday
■A $50,000 Guaranteed Tournament will be run on the first Sunday of each month
■A free registration fee tournament for new members each week with $1,000 in prize money.
■Free registration fee cash tournaments open to all to learn poker risk-free with real money.
■Prizes for the best players of the week ($1, 000) and month ($7,500 divided among players on the Leaderboard).
■Sports event tournaments. Among available prizes, a first: five luxury evenings for two at the Jean Pascal Gala de Boxe on December 18, 2010.
■Québec Grand Championship of Poker in the spring of 2011.
BC is supposed to join the poker network soon, then the Atlantic provinces. Hopefully by the time Ontario joins in 2012, the government site will be as good as the so-called "illegal" sites. Software such as PT3 and HEM seems to be currently "prohibited since they are deemed to provide an unfair edge."
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Last edited by BlondeFish; Jan 13,2011 at 02:36 AM.
It’s been a little more than two months now that Loto-Quebec made history by launching the first government regulated real-money online poker room in North America. Since the official launch on December 1st, more than 28,000 Quebec residents have created accounts on the Government site, Espacejeux.com.
Last night, EspaceJeux hosted a major event, their much anticipated Launch Poker freeroll valued at a remarkable $250,000. By online poker standards this surely qualifies as one of the largest freerolls ever held on the planet. In order to play in this tournament, a maximum of 1,500 players qualified via more than 550 available freeroll satellites running between December 1st and February 12th, making the tournament exclusive but at the same time creating super value for the players involved who earned their spots.
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All in all, this is a huge step for regulated online poker in Canada. With tournaments of this caliber, a Bad Beat Jackpot just shy of $300,000, a generously staffed and very courteous customer support team to ensure quick efficient response (CanadaPoker tested them) and player membership growing, EspaceJeux is demonstrating that they have what it takes to narrow the gap with other long established poker sites.
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Yes, please move to the Online section if possible. There doesn't seem to be any posters from Quebec, but this could be important to the online players of Ontario, BC and Atlantic Canada when the government poker network expands.
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Originally Posted by The Prophet 22
Shouldn't this be under online section?
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Yes, please move to the Online section if possible. There doesn't seem to be any posters from Quebec, but this could be important to the online players of Ontario, BC and Atlantic Canada when the government poker network expands.
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