The holiday season is here if you haven't watching your waistline and credit card bills reach numbers you didn't possible. Along with all the retailers like Target, WalMart, and kmart, you'll find deals and specials at several online poker rooms good around this time of year. I'm choosing my favorite sites to promote because a) I live in America and outside of these two rooms the picking are a little slim and b) I play at these sites personally and enjoy their software greatly.

Full Tilt - "Ring In The New Year"

2007 is coming to an end, which means it's time to Ring in the New Year with Full Tilt Poker! Simply play in any of our real money ring games between12:00 AM ET on Monday, December 17th and 11:59 PM ET on Friday, January 4th and we'll double the amount of Full Tilt Points you receive for any and all days you earn at least 20 points.

Once you've reached 20 points there's no limit to the amount of bonus points you can collect per day. Earn 100 points in a day and we'll double that to a 200 point total - it's just that easy.

Use your extra points to get some great gear at the Full Tilt Store, including iPods, custom Full Tilt Poker jerseys, and Plasma screen TVs. You can also use your Full Tilt Points to buy into special Sit & Gos and Multi-Table Tournaments.

One word to note is "ring", as the points for you multi-tabling MTT and SnG players out there will not earn double points but only the time spent at the ring game tables will help you get that bath robe for mom.

PokerStars - PokerStars Passport

Dust off your passport and get ready to play in some of the greatest tournaments around the world. PokerStars is closing out the year in style with the biggest tournament leaderboard (TLB) promotion in the history of online poker!

The December TLB will be used to award more than $250,000 in live tournament packages and cash prizes.

Every player finishing in the TLB top 1,000 for December will have an opportunity to win one of four packages to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. But the top 100 players will play a tournament for the biggest prize of all - The PokerStars Passport!

This promotion already started, but the tournament leaderboard points are only counted for a certain amount of high finishes by one player so there's still time to get in on this!