Suncoast Hotel & Casino giving away Ante Up Poker Cruise packages

Suncoast Hotel & Casino near Las Vegas, Nev., will be giving away at least four Ante Up Poker Cruise packages with airfare allowance for the Aug. 27 sailing out of Port Canaveral, Fla.

Two oceanview packages, good for two people sharing a stateroom plus up to $1,000 for airfare, each will be given away in drawings on March 13 and June 12. Players get one ticket for the drawing for every 20 hours of live play between Jan. 19 and March 5 (March 13 drawing) and April 1 to June 1 (June 12 drawing).

In addition, the poker room will hold $125 satellites on the third Sunday of every month (Feb. 19, March 18 and April 15) that will award one oceanview cruise package and $1,000 in airfare allowance for every 17 entrants.

The Ante Up Poker Cruise features a professionally run and equipped poker room aboard regularly scheduled Royal Caribbean cruises. Each cruise features cash games, multi-table tournaments, single-table tournaments, free poker classes and an open-bar cocktail party. Three cruises are planned for 2012: March 17 out of Tampa, Fla.; Aug. 27 out of Port Canaveral, Fla.; and Nov. 10 out of Baltimore, Md.