It’s almost time for the New Year. Poker players across the world will celebrate the arrival of 2012 in a variety of ways and, once you come home from whatever you’re doing tonight, you can hop on PartyPokerand play rake-free MTTs. Starting at 00:00 ET on January 1st, you can play rake-free MTTs on one of the largest online poker sites in the world. The promotion comes to a screeching halt at 23:59 ET on January 31st.

What’s the allure of no-rake MTTs? Text found on PartyPoker’s website succinctly explains, “That means that 100% of your money will go straight into the prize pool, with no fees to pay across the whole multi-table tournament schedule. Play for more cash, at no extra cost.”

If rake-free tournaments sound like a good time, you can sign up for PartyPoker through PocketFivesand get a 100% up to $500 deposit bonus. Plus, you’ll help support our online poker community and you’ll be eligible for any future promotions we run with PartyPoker. Just sign up through our links and don’t pay rake when the clock strikes Midnight on 2011.

If you already have a PartyPoker account, you can take advantage of a 100% up to $100 reload bonus by using the code RAKEFREE. That’s pretty easy to remember, right? Just deposit at least $50 to qualify. Additionally, there’s a $50,000 Depositor’s Freeroll available to anyone who deposits at least $50 using the same bonus code. So, if you reload for at least $50 using the code RAKEFREE, you’ll punch your ticket to a $50,000 freebie that runs on Sunday, February 5th at 11:00 ET.

Now, we’ll go through some of the red tape. You’ll need to reload on PartyPoker between 00:00 ET on January 1st and 23:59 ET on January 31st in order to get the special bonus and freeroll ticket. Only one entry per person into the $50,000 freeroll is allowed and the tournament is capped at 20,000 players, so reload early if you want to take part in it. Finally, the 100% up to $100 reload bonus will be released in 10 equal parts based on your deposit amount.

If you’re not familiar with PartyPoker, we thought it’d be useful to highlight several of the selling points of the site, including the weekly $200,000 Guaranteed that runs on Sundays. The tournament, which is run as No Limit Hold’em, has a $215 buy-in and, last week, it drew 838 players. The top 99 finished in the money, led by Andrei6868, who banked $34,000 for the win. Here’s how the final table of the weekly Sunday Major wrapped up on Christmas:

1. Andrei6868 – $34,242.00
2. kentavrrrr – $28,045.00
3. Cocomangos – $25,711.00
4. philipo111 – $12,000.00
5. IndiaILoveU – $10,000.00
6. Boing_Alert – $8,000.00
7. nandovarela – $6,000.00
8. AriGold – $4,000.00
9. druen666 – $3,000.00 (Lihn)
10. DrGoodhouse – $2,200.00

According to PokerScout, which keeps tabs on online poker room traffic, you’ll have plenty of ways to spend your first-time deposit or reload on PartyPoker. Besides its around-the-clock tournaments and promotions geared at new players, PartyPoker is the third largest cash game site in the world, holding down a seven-day running average of 3,450 real money ring game players. During peak hours, around 4,000 cash game players can be logged in.

PartyPoker’s traffic is virtually identical as that found on the iPoker Network and, like all other sites we work with here on PocketFives, PartyPoker does not accept players from the United States.

Sign up for PartyPoker today. And if you reload during January, remember to use the code RAKEFREE.