Best Online Poker Sites - Maria Poker - Microgaming's Poker Network offers a great range of satellites to land based tournaments.

Maria Poker - €5.00-€10.00 and above: you earn 1.5 VIP points per raked hand. Play for £10 and get a £25 Bonus!

Freeroll tournaments

Freeroll tournaments are tournaments with no entry fee or initial buy-in. Maria offers several freeroll tournaments with real money prizes every week.
Freeroll tournaments are clearly marked in the tournament area and are open to all Unibet poker players.

Satellites

Satellites are smaller and cheaper tournaments that lead to qualification for larger tournaments. Basically, satellite winners don't have to pay the entry fees for the larger tournament.
Microgaming's Poker Network offers a great range of satellites to land based tournaments. Satellites run regularly, and all poker network satellite winners receive flights, accommodation and spending money.

Both the 2003 and 2004 World Series of Poker were won by players from online tournaments. In addition, a Microgaming events team provides on-site support to card room players who have won seats at land based tournaments promoted by the Microgaming Poker Network.

Maria Poker players always get the VIP treatment and every time you play a raked hand at Maria Poker tables we'll add valuable VIP points to your account. When you have enough points, use them to buy into multi-table tournaments - without spending any of your own hard-earned cash on entry fees.

You earn the same number of VIP points whether you're playing limit, pot limit or no limit cash games. How many you get depends on the table stakes. For every raked hand, you get between 0.5 and 1.5 VIP points. A raked hand is a hand where the flop is seen. At least 25 cents - in the table currency - must also be taken from the pot.

VIP points earned and table stake levels

Up to $0.05-$0.10 you earn 0 VIP points per raked hand
 - $0.05-$0.10 and up to $0.50-$1.00 you earn 0.5 VIP points per raked hand
 - $1.00-$2.00 and $4.00-$8.00: you earn 1 VIP point per raked hand
 - $5.00-$10.00 and above: you earn 1.5 VIP points per raked hand
 - €0.05-€0.10 and up to €0.50-€1.00 you earn 0.5 VIP points per raked hand
 - €1.00-$2.00 and €4.00-$8.00: you earn 1 VIP point per raked hand
 - €5.00-€10.00 and above: you earn 1.5 VIP points per raked hand

Maria Casino license is provided by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority ("LGA"). This public regulatory body is responsible for the governance of all forms of gaming based in Malta. The official number and date of issues of the licenses, LGA/CL1/106/2000 Effective date 1st December 2005, LGA/CL3/414/2007 Effective date 4th June 2009, LGA/CL1/487/2008 Effective date 4th June 2009.