Posts Tagged ‘ Poker ’

  • William Hill Poker $500K Springfest, Part I – Overview & iPOPS IV

     

    William Hill Poker is now running its Springfest of promotions worth a total of more than $500,000 in prizes, including several opportunities involving the fourth iPoker Online Poker Series, or iPOPS IV. Springfest 2013 is on now at William Hill Poker with an assortment of promotions offering more than $500,000 in prizes. These promotions include […]

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  • Bodog Poker Sending Players To 2011 WSOP

       

    Bodog Poker is sending players to the 2011 WSOP with three different ways to qualify depending on whether you’d rather get there fast or on the cheap. Many sites are starting their 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event satellites, but only Bodog Poker has three different ways to get there, depending on whether your […]

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  • Smart Live Poker Adds New Sit and Go Leaderboard Promotion

       

    Smart Live Poker now has a new Sit and Go leaderboard with prizes this October 2012 of up $10,000 in tournament tickets. Sit and Go players can now win up to $10,000 in tournament tickets with Smart Live Poker new Sit and Go Leaderboard promotion. Running from 00:01 GMT on October 12 through 23:59 GMT […]

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  • William Hill Poker Rolls Out Grand National Special Offers, Part II

     

    Our William Hill Poker’s Grand National Special Offers coverage continues with details on the Grand National Daily £500 Added Tournaments and the £2,000 Grand National Freeroll. In our last post we brought you word of William Hill Poker’s £5K Grand National Special Offers, detailing the £1,000 Grand National Free Bet Tournament and WH Points to […]

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  • SmartLive Poker Offers Over $3.5 Million in Weekly Guarantees & X2

       

    SmartLive Poker offers over $3.5 million in weekly guarantee tournaments and X2 Tournaments as well as daily freerolls. On any given day at SmartLive Poker tournament players can enjoy 70 opportunities to vie for guaranteed prize pools totaling $3.5 million per week. Among the special tournaments SmartLive Poker regularly offers its players are X2 Tournaments […]

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  • Card Hands and Rankings in Poker

    Poker is indeed one of the most enjoyable card games you can play with several people. There are many different variants of poker, with varying rules and styles. The game has been around for ages now and if ever you’re planning on starting to play, you’d best learn the basics first.   The most important thing you […]

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  • William Hill Poker Introduces New Player Exclusive Events

       

    lWilliam Hil Poker now offers a series of New Player Exclusive Events, with more than $4,500 monthly in freeroll tournaments, sit ‘n’ go tournaments and multi-table tournaments specially designated for new players only. William Hill Poker has just sweetened the pot for new members to enjoy when they sign up. Now, in addition to the […]

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  • New £500 Free Bet Freerolls at William Hill Poker Now

       

    William Hill Poker has just introduced a £500 free bet freeroll into its weekly schedule, in which 20 players each week will win a free bet token of at least £5 and as much as £100 a piece. The weekly calendar at William Hill Poker just got a new addition in the form of a […]

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  • William Hill Poker Running £100K GUKPT Goliath 2012 Satellites

       

    William Hill Poker has started running satellite tournaments for the upcoming second annual Grosvenor-UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Goliath this August featuring a £100K guaranteed prize pool. In August of last year (2011) the first ever GUKPT Goliath tournament happened at the Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry, home of Coventry City Football Club, promising a £100,000 […]

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  • William Hill Poker’s WSOP 2012 Promotions Include $100k Warrior

       

    Among the many promotions making up William Hill Poker’s larger WSOP 2012 promotion is a $100,000 WSOP Warrior Master League that, just as it sounds, promises to award $100,000 in 2012 World Series of Poker prize packages. Yesterday we brought you word of William Hill Poker’s WSOP Satellite Series, with special emphasis on the site’s […]

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  • Common Mistakes in Poker

    Poker is a fun game – but it’s one of those games that stop being fun when you realize how much money you’ve lost by being ‘carelessly fun-loving’. And, really, no matter how much others say that winning is not important, don’t believe them. Winning will be important when you find that your bankroll has decreased in […]

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  • William Hill Poker $10K VIP Rake Race On Now

       

    Starting this past Monday, September 3, 2012, William Hill Poker is running its September rake race with a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool. But as a VIP Rake Race, it’s only open to the most elite players. Head to William Hill Poker in September and get a chance at a share of an extra $10,000 in […]

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  • Amarillo Slim Passes Into Poker Legend

       

    Thomas Austin Preston, aka Amarillo Slim, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker Main Event, passed away yesterday, Sunday, April 29, 2012, while in hospice in Amarillo, TX. Amarillo Slim was already a living poker legend early in his life, but now, as of Sunday, April 29, 2012, he passes into true legend, as […]

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  • Staking in Poker

    Staking in Poker :

    Staking in poker is common practice in today’s global poker scene. Many players might be surprised to hear that many professional poker players will take a piece of each other as a stake. Staking is paying for a percentage of a poker players buy-in in order to take a percentage of their winnings. For the […]

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  • William Hill Poker Holds $50,000 March Madness

     

    This month, William Hill Poker is holding a March Madness promotional series with $50,000 in guaranteed prizes, awarded at four different promotions: Poker Boot Camp, $2,500 St. Patrick’s Day Freeroll, $10,000 Double-Up SNG Race, and $7,500 Top Gun. This March of 2013 at William Hill Poker, players can take part in four different promotions with […]

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  • William Hill Poker’s Two $10,000 February Frenzy Promos: SNG Race

    William Hill Poker has two promotions going on this month that both offer a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool: a $10,000 Double Up SNG Race and a February Frenzy $10,000 Freeroll Tournament. William Hill Poker players can take part in two $10,000 promotions this February 2013, with the February Frenzy $10,000 Freeroll Tournament and the $10,000 […]

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  • Preflop Strategy in Poker

    Poker is a game of skill and strategy.   A part of it depends on luck, but it’s not a particularly large part. Some even say that poker is 90% strategy, 10% luck. And with the birth of the newer variations, poker has just become much more challenging. Take Texas Hold’em for example. Unlike the original straight poker, the players […]

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  • Smart Live Poker Sit And Go Promotional Rundown

      

    Smart Live Poker hosts several ongoing Sit and Go promotions, including Double or Nothing Sit and Go’s, Mad All In Sit and Go’s, Sit and Go Qualifiers, Shootout Double Heads Up Sit and Go’s, Standard Sit and Go’s. Smart Live Poker’s sit and go tournament players can enjoy several ongoing promotions at the site namely […]

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  • William Hill Poker Has WSOP 2012 Satellites Aplenty

       

    William Hill Poker is serious about the World Series of Poker, with a bevy of 2012 main event satellites as well as Jackpot Sit ‘n’ Gos, Side Event Satellites, Experience Package Satellites, and more. All to get you to Vegas to play live against the world’s finest in the game. The 2012 World Series of […]

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  • Take William Hill On-The-Go With William Hill Mobile

       

    Meet William Hill Mobile: the mobile client for all of the online casino, sports betting, poker, bingo and other real money gaming enjoyment from the William Hill Gaming enterprise. Now you don’t have to sit at home on your PC or lug your laptop around with you everywhere you go when you want to play […]

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  • Introducing William Hill Poker’s Special Tournaments

       

    William Hill offers several special tournaments on an ongoing basis, including: Steps Tournaments and Super Stacks Tournaments. Besides the usual gamut of limited time tournament series’ and satellites, William Hill Poker has several special online poker tournaments ongoing, including the following three worthy of note: Super Stacks Tournaments and Steps Tournaments. WilliamHill’s Super Stacks Tournaments […]

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  • Intertops Poker Offers Limited Time Reload Bonus

       

    For a limited time only, Intertops Poker is offering all of its players a 100% reload bonus plus a free ticket to an exclusive $1,000 Depositor Freeroll as well. All Intertops Poker players will be given the opportunity to receive a 100% reload bonus along with a free tourney ticket between now and January 24, […]

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  • Smart Live Poker Adds Monthly $5K Points Races and $1K Freerolls to Calendar

       

    Smart Live Poker has now added two monthly $5,000 Points Races and one monthly $1,000 Freeroll tournament to its calendar. At the end of last year, Smart Live Poker added $1,000 monthly freeroll tournaments to its regular calendar. As of January 2013, the site now also offers two $5,000 points races each month. Earn you […]

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  • Manners and Etiquette in Poker

    In life, one cannot avoid meeting jerks. Jerks are facts of life. They’re as real as cockroaches, and just as pesky too. When these jerks sit on the poker table, they automatically attract all the negative energy from the other players. When the jerks lose a game, all the other players are secretly smug. When he wins, all the other […]

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  • Different Personas in the Felt

    Poker is a game that is often favored by the weirdest of players. This is where you’ll find players who wear sunglasses indoors, who have beards that rival those of the Norse Gods, who take a stuffed toy along with them while they play. Really, there’s no limit to the absurdity of some of the characters you […]

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  • Regular Friday, Saturday $250 Guaranteed Events at Intertops Poker

       

    Every week at Intertops Poker are two ongoing promotions, each with a $250 Guaranteed prize pool: one on Fridays–the Friday $250 Guaranteed Bounty tournament–and one on Saturdays–the Just One Dollar $250 Guaranteed. Most of the weekend action at most poker sites seems to center around Sundays, and indeed Intertops Poker has its share of big […]

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  • SmartLive Poker Introduces X2 Tournaments

       

    SmartLive Poker is introducing a new line of tournaments to its regular schedule: X2 Tournaments, in which players compete in 2 multi-tale NL Hold’em tournaments simultaneously. Multi-tabling has become such a popular pastime at poker sites that SmartLive Poker has decided to make it a sort of competition of its own: a chance to play […]

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  • William Hill Poker Holds WPT Vienna 2012 Satellites

       

    Enter satellite tournaments for the World Poker Tour Vienna 2012 main event at William Hill Poker now. The World Poker Tour makes a stop in Vienna between October 13 and 16, and while the direct buy-in for this live main event is €1,000 + €100, you can land yourself a seat there free, courtesy of […]

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  • William Hill Poker Runs October $10k Rake Race

       

    There’s another rake race underway at William Hill Poker with a $10,000 prize pool guaranteed for WilliamHill’s VIP Level 5 and above players. The October Rake Race at William Hill Poker is underway, running from October 4 to 31, 2012. To participate in this VIP Rake Race, you must be a VIP Level 5 or […]

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  • Poker Players Alliance Posts New U.S. Legalization Petition

       

    The Poker Player’s Alliance has posted its newest petition to urge U.S. legislators to pass legalization and regulation of online poker in the country. At the spearhead of U.S. online poker legalization is the Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA) and U.S.-based lobbying organization that is responsible for many successful intrastate online gambling law passages and for […]

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