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Bodog: Bodog Players in the Spotlight on ESPN's WSOP* Broadcast

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Team Bodog player Grant Hinkle and pros David Williams and Justin Bonomo will be featured the next two weeks during ESPN's final table coverage of the 2008 World Series of Poker* ... More

Cake Poker: $100,000 Gold Card Event

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

CakePoker is offering a $100,000 Guaranteed prize pool tournament that will be a private event with seats available only to players who have earned their entry via the Gold Card Daily Lottery. Its official name will be the $100,000 Gold Card Event. ... More

Ultimatebet: Bad Beat Jackpot Winner wins $309,042.38!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Congratulations to the latest Bad Beat Jackpot winner KoolAidBoston who hit on Monday, July 28 09:26:00 EDT at the table Oldtown to the tune of $309042.38! We're turning the poker world completely upside down and on its head! ... More

Pacific Poker: $20,000 Daily Guaranteed - at 15:35 PPT

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Check out the 'Multi-Table tab in Pacific Poker to find out how to play for your share of at least $20,000 every day at 15:35 PPT! ... More

Interpoker: Free Ipod to all new users PLUS a BONUS up to £250!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Interpoker are giving away a free 4GB Ipod Nano to all new users who sign-up and generate 1500 MPPs between now and end August 2008. ... More

Bodog: Freeroll Qualifiers to Asian Poker Tour Event in Macau

Friday, July 25, 2008

Bodog Poker is once again giving its online poker players the chance to freeroll their way to poker stardom and riches while traveling to exotic locations in total Bodog style. The Asian Poker Tour event in Macau, held Aug. 26-31, is guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize money, and Bodog Poker is now running freeroll qualifier tournaments where the winner receives entry to the APT Macau plus an all-expenses pa ... More

WSOP 'Mini Cooper' Winner takes VIP seat at WSOPE Main Event

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Marcus Gustafson is buckling himself in for one of the sweetest poker experiences of his life after guessing correctly how many chips were in the Betfair Poker's Mini Cooper Convertible in Vegas. It won him a VIP place at this year's WSOP Europe Main Event in London in September later in the year. ... More

Bodog: Announces Its Biggest Guaranteed Poker Tourney Ever

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

On August 10th Bodog is replacing their usual $100,000 Guaranteed tournament with their largest guaranteed tournament ever with a minimum prize pool of $250,000. From July 14th through the week of August 4th they will be offering hundreds of qualifiers with buy-ins ranging from $1+$0 to $54+4. ... More

Bodog: APT Macau Online Qualifiers

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Win a trip to Macau to compete in the APT as a member of Team Bodog from August 26 - 31. Score one of their four seats and you'll receive the Main Event buy-in ($5,300), flight expenses, six nights' accommodation in Macau and $500 in spending cash. ... More

Bodog Life: The Rumors are True... $250K Guaranteed Tournament!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Gossip is grand, especially when it's true! We've offered some pretty big poker tournaments in the past, but this one will go down in history. Join us for our largest guaranteed poker tournament ever, the $250,000 Guaranteed. Get in on the action August 10, 2008 at 4 p.m. (EST) for as little as $1. The winner will walk away with a minimum of $55,000. ... More

WSOP 2008: 9 Players will return to the Final on November 9th, 2008!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

After a record breaking amount of visitors at this years WSOP, only 9 players remains of 6,844 starting field. November 9th, 2008, these 9 players will return to the felt with 21 minutes and 50 seconds left in level 33: ... More

WSOP 2008: 27 players remaining out of 6844

Monday, July 14, 2008

It's Day 7 of the 2008 WSOP Main Event, and the 27 remaining players will return today at 12:00 to play down to the final nine. WSOP officials conducted a redraw at the end of Day 6 play, and have now released the Day 7 seat assignments. Here is how the 27 players will line up: ... More

Using Table Position to Improve Your Starting Hand Selection

Sunday, July 13, 2008

The most important decision you'll make in any poker hand is whether or not you're going to play the hand at all. Starting hand selection should be one of the first topics you learn about if you want to be a winning player. Novice players don't realize that each hand has a winning percentage, and if you choose more hands with higher percentages your results will improve. ... More

888 Poker: 888 Poker Open V with a $648,000 guaranteed prize pool!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

We are now exclusively running qualifiers for the 888Poker Open V, every Saturdays at 16:00 PPT, starting on July 05th and will run until October 11th, 2008! Qualify and give yourself a shot at the $648,000 guaranteed prize pool! ... More

FullTiltPoker: FTOPS IX - Guaranteed prize pool of $15 million!!!

Friday, July 11, 2008

In August of 2006, FTOPS I debuted on Full Tilt Poker with eight events and a combined guaranteed prize pool of more than $1 million. This past May, FTOPS VIII awarded more than $15 million in prize money over 24 events and in August, FTOPS IX promises to up the ante even further. ... More

WSOP 2008: Day 2b - 2,379 Players Remaining!

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Day 2b at the World Series of Poker Main Event began at noon today as 2,379 players took to their seats in the hopes of joining the survivors from Day 2a. As the players break for dinner, nobody is near the 500,000 chip mark set by Brian Shaedlich at this time yesterday, but plenty of changes have been made as more than 1,000 players were eliminated during the first half of the day. ... More

Absolute Poker: Juicy July - 31 day $20,000 FREEROLL!

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

It´s going to be a long hot summer with Absolute Poker, as we roll out a record-breaking run of freeroll action guaranteed to leave you grasping for breath. All you have to do to qualify our 31 day $20,000 FREEROLL Bonanza is deposit just $100! ... More

Ultimatebet: The Army Brat Arrives for Day 1d

Monday, July 07, 2008

The last few years Phil Hellmuth gone out of his way to make a big entrance at the World Series of Poker Main Event. Last year he was supposed to arrive in a race car but the plan fell through when he wrecked it in the parking lot of the Rio the day before and showed up in a limo instead. ... More

Absolute Poker: We belive all our customers are VIPS

Sunday, July 06, 2008

That's why we're rolling out the red carpet with an A-list loyalty program that rewards each and every single one of you. FAME is your chance to step into the spotlight and enjoy the perks, benefits, bonuses, freerolls, and rewards that you deserve. Every time you play a hand of poker, you earn both valuable CREDIT and FAME STATUS. ... More

Betfair Poker: GO ON - Serve Yourself a Double Scoop This July!

Friday, July 04, 2008

Get on Betfair Poker's daily tournaments this July and double winners will scoop a huge $25,000 bonus cash prize or a package to the WSOPE! ... More

WSOP: Day One - Royal Straight Flush vs Quads

Friday, July 04, 2008

Justin "Red" Phillips and his opponant sees the flopp A Qd 9. Both players checks. Turn comes Td and Justin's opponant bets and Justin just calls with his nut straight. River comes Ad. Justin's opponant calls and Justin raises, and the opponant goes all in. Justin calls with the nuts. The opponant shows quads in Aces and Justin shows his K J in diamond for a Royal Straight Flush. Justin Phillips was sitting ... More

Today: The World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54)

Thursday, July 03, 2008

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the largest set of poker tournaments in the world. Today starts the most popular event. The $10,000 buy in No-Limit Texas Hold'em. The winner of 2003 event, Chris Moneymaker, turned a $39 satellite tournament entry on online poker room, into $2.5 million! Follow all the action here at Poker.Net! ... More

Poker: Expected Value in Online Tournaments

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Every player has a different view on the ideal tournament; there are as many different types and structures as playing styles. Online tournaments have become the convenient choice for players of all kinds for their quantity, regularity, reduced fees and their high expected value! ... More

MidnightsPoker: Asia or the Caribbean - Choose your destination!

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION - Midnights Poker Club launches its exciting new live tournament promotion. Take your chance at the prizes from as low as 5 cents! ... More

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