Party Poker recently held their first Online Cash Game Championship and the event was a roaring success. The winner hailed from the Eastern European nation of Slovenia and ended up walking away from the event with a cool $40,000 in cash.

Due to the success of the first instalment of the OCGC, Party Poker has confirmed that it will be running again at some point in time. At the same time that the site made that announcement however, they did not volunteer any information about the date and time of OCGC II and they did not provide any logistical information. As a result, players interested in that online poker event will just have to keep their eyes peeled to the online poker news for more information that will undoubtedly come down the pipeline at some point in the future.

It could be true that Party Poker is waiting for their current new player promotional drive to start and end before they run the OCGC II as this promotion is one that any new player having made a first time deposit within the last 60 days can participate in.

Quite simply put, the promotion is a freeroll tournament limited to 5000 players run every weekend starting Saturday afternoon at 4:00 in the Eastern Time Zone. The impressive part of this promotion is the fact that the prize pool is $1500 and aside from that caveat about new players, there are no other entry restrictions as long as you are in the first 5000 players to sign up for the tournament when it becomes available.

This means that a new player signing up for Party Poker and making their first real money deposit right now would get the chance to play in 8 of these tournaments (8 weeks is 56 days). Any money won from these freeroll tournaments is of course given in addition to any signup, reload and loyalty bonuses that a player might receive over the same amount of time. That makes it an extra new player promotion and one that is very welcome to just about every new player that has tried it out.