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Hollywood Poker has made a habit out of offering players casino poker prize packages to events that nobody else offers seats for.  What this means is that you don’t have to stick to the same old venues where every other poker room is sending players. The latest interesting prize package offer rolled out by Hollywood Poker involves seats to the live Grand Series of Poker events.  If you haven’t heard of the GSOP via any poker sites, this is Hollywood’s flagship internet poker event where millions of dollars are offered to players through a series of tournaments.  But this year, …

We’ve all heard of ladies night but it seems like the poker championship playing field of 2010 might be shaping up to be ladies year. For starters, the NBC Heads Up Championship spot was taken home by Annie Duke who may have been inspired by her fellow heroine Vanessa Rousso’s runner-up finish the year before. Early April saw Liv Boeree take it all in the EPT San Remo which featured the largest EPT main-event field in all of the competition’s history; and last but certainly not least, Vanessa Selbst did some serious damage to the competition at the NAPT Mohegan …

A lot of online poker rooms have complicated promotions where you need to jump through hoops just to win something.  Luckily, Cake Poker isn’t one of these poker sites because you only have to worry about playing to win prizes through their promotions.  This is especially true with their Match and Win promo where you only need to match Gold Cards received at the Cake poker tables to win. All you have to do is play in poker games like normal, and watch for the Gold Cards to appear in your hand.  When you receive a Gold Card, you can …

A lot of online poker players are still trying to figure out what to do with all of the cash they made in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).  The 2010 SCOOP, which took place in April and May, gave out over $63 million to internet poker players with the Main Event alone offering over $6 million.  What’s amazing is that the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) might give out even more money than the SCOOP did. PokerStars recently released the schedule for the WCOOP, which includes 62 tournaments.  Considering last year’s event awarded a total …

There are very few people on this planet who have the luxury of being able to retire at the age of 20. Of course, being amongst the lucky few to be born into a multi-millionaire family helps, but for most of us this dream is just that; a dream that will never reach fruition, unless perhaps you posses the cunning skills to become a wizard at the game of poker. This was just the case for immense success story Shaun Deed; a poker player from New York who announced his retirement from the poker tables last year at the ripe …

Loyalty is an allegiance, faithfulness and devotion to a cause. Poker Loyalty Programs allows you to be added to a mailing list that will provide the latest VIP bonus offers and updates you on the latest promotions that are going on. A poker loyalty program will also offer monthly refunds to poker players as a incentive for constantly playing. At the end of each month, poker players will receive a rebate amount based on an assortment of factors such as rake contribution, number of hands played, number of tournaments entered and the number of tournaments won. Normally a player will …

Last year thousands of people participated in the special Face the Ace promotion. This promotion took place on Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt Poker players played against one another in qualifiers to determine who would play for up to $1,000,000 in cash against poker pros on national TV. All you needed to do was sign up at RakeTheRake and Full Tilt Poker and you were on your way to Las Vegas. Promotions similar this one are given out at various online poker sites daily. So why should you sign up? Many new pro poker players began their poker careers online. …

Ziigmund and Paris throw the party of a lifetime. PowerPoker.com celebrates the launch of it’s online casino, PowerVegas.com, with exciting news! PowerPoker.com and the most prestigious night club in London, Jalouse will host two parties during the Cannes Film Festival in May. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Paris Hilton and Mel B have already confirmed their attendance to the party of the year. “It’s going to be one sick party” Ilari says. “Once I heard PowerPoker has the chance to sponsor the party I immediately knew it’ll be something crazy – a true opportunity to have the best party in a long …

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) has been breaking records of attendance all over the world this season. The tournaments are held worldwide and are a series of no limit Texas Hold’em games that are played at a variety of selected casinos around the globe. The event is a run up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The event first began in 2005 and has been steadily growing in popularity as the years pass.  This particular tournament may still be in its infancy age wise but it certainly seems to be a healthy bouncing baby! The big event …

After so many recent battles regarding restrictions to the world of online poker playing, it is nice to be able to bring some good poker news to our readers! At the moment poker players in France have been restricted to playing only with two state companies which have held the monopoly on gambling. All other gambling online has been restricted and banned within the French borders. It seems that this regulation has finally been recognised as unfair and a bill has been proposed to the French government that would mean more access to foreign casinos and tournaments for French players. …