PartyPoker Weekly: Tony G Versus Jungleman, WPT Vienna Satellites and More!

PokerNews Staff

Jan 23, 2012 4 min read

Welcome to this week's edition of the PartyPoker Weekly where we bring you news of Tony G's progress at the Aussie Millions, World Poker Tour Vienna satellites now running and a whole lot more. Keep on reading for all the details!

Jungleman Wants To Take On Tony G

In December 2011 Daniel "Jungleman" Cates issued a challenge to the world where he offered to play anyone heads-up if they were prepared to sit down with at least €100,000 and play with blinds of €200/€400. Nobody took him up on that offer so the terms were changed and a ring game was played at the Prague festival. It was much the anti-climax, despite Tony G running his mouth with his infamous smack talking but it appears the challenge may be back on the cards.

Both Tony G and Cates are currently at the Aussie Millions, in fact Tony G just finished fourth in the $100,000 Challenge for $242,000, where during an interview with the pair Cates revealed he was hoping to resurrect the heads-up challenge.

Tony G said, "We want to play a bit of poker here, have a bit of fun. This is not Prague this is Melbourne and there is a lot of money about and I think we'll get a game for the greatest player in the world, Jungleman."

Cates was asked who he would most like to take on if a challenger could be found and he responded by saying he wants to face Tony G because apparently the PartyPoker Pro "talks so much s**t!"

See the full video here:

Be sure to check out Tony G's latest blog entry where he continues his quest of winding up fellow pros, including Phil Hellmuth and Dave "DevilFish" Ulliott.

Qualify For WPT Vienna

PartyPoker Weekly: Tony G Versus Jungleman, WPT Vienna Satellites and More! 101

Last year's World Poker Tour Vienna Main Event was the largest-ever European WPT tournament in history, a title it narrowly lost to WPT Prague in December. Can the Austria capital win attract even more than the 555 who participated last season? If so the €447,840 Dimitry Gromov won for taking down the title in Season 9 could be dwarfed and you could be in with a chance of walking away with a life-changing sum of money thanks to PartyPoker.

From Jan. 23 to Mar. 25 satellites will be running in the PartyPoker lobby that award $7,000 packages to WPT Vienna. Each package consists of:

The $4,700 WPT Vienna Main Event buy-in
Hotel accommodation for six nights
$900 spending money
PartyPoker's legendary hospitality

WPT Vienna promises to be one of the highlights of Season 10. Will you be there?

Rake Free Tournaments at PartyPoker - One Week Remaining

For all of January PartyPoker have not been charging rake on their multi-table tournament but the promotion will come to an end in just over a week's time. Players have until 23:59 on Jan. 31 to take advantage of this amazing promotion that has seen prize pools swell and players save hundreds and even thousands of dollars in tournament fees.

In addition to paying no rake in tournaments throughout January, players will also have the opportunity to cash in on a generous reload bonus and a $50,000 freeroll.

If playing 100% rake free tournaments is not enough to have you firing up your PartyPoker account then how about a 100% up to $100 reload bonus too? All you have to do to receive this reload bonus is to deposit at least $5 and enter the bonus code "RAKEFREE" between now and 2359 EST on Jan. 31 and the money will appear in your bonus account.

As an added bonus, anyone who takes advantage of the 100% match up to $100 reload bonus will be entered into the $50,000 Depositor's Freeroll on Feb. 5 at 1100 EST. This is a massive prize pool for a freeroll and the first prize should be thousands of dollars!

Get a Free Poker Bankroll

If you had a free $50 bankroll, you could start qualifying for WPT events and could even turn a small investment into millions of dollars at the Winter Million.

Thanks to the special relationship between PokerNews and PartyPoker, you can do just this when you cash in on a free $50 poker bankroll.

All players need to do is sign up for a PartyPoker account through PokerNews, and you will get an immediate free credit of $25 into your account. When 200 PartyPoints are earned, you will receive an additional $25! It really is that easy.