A $1.5 million donation has been raised by the online poker community for the fatalities of an earthquake with a scale 7.0 that did shock Haiti in previous weeks. This news was distributed by the Poker Players Alliances (PPA).

Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker site had contributed two times from its clients for a complete aid amount of $586,423 or more than one-third of the number quoted by the PPA. To raise donations for play or no play tournaments were held on Full Tilt Poker and an exclusive user account was developed to accept inward bound transfers assisting the liberation efforts.

As anticipated, PPA Chairman Alfonse D’Amato, an ex- three-term Republican Senator from New York, was delighted to see the charitable feel of the online poker community. During a press release dispersed by the lobbying organization this week, D’Amato mentioned, “similar to the rest of the world, the poker community is very eager to contribute whatever thing it can to support Haiti in the wake of the shocking earthquake.

I show appreciation to the PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Cake Poker for presenting poker players across the globe a simple manner to formulate a contribution. The liberality online poker players are presenting makes me feel even more happy and honored to be a part of this community.”

PPA Executive Director John Pappas echo D’Amato’s emotions during an interview through the online poker forum PocketFives.com, calling it the immense attempt “a tribute to the generosity of the poker community.” Pappas further added that the seven-digit contribution mark does not comprise of the personal offerings made by poker pros and other associates of the industry to associations similar to the Red Cross and UNICEF, which strike the ground in Haiti abruptly after the epic January 12th quiver.

The PPA exposed that around 50,000 online poker members have contributed a sum of $760,000, which is an average of about $15 each. Through online poker sites corresponding the resources dollar-for-dollar, the sum amount produced go beyond $1.5 million.

On PokerStars, offerings are being acknowledged until the end of January which would be 31st at Noon ET. Haiti Earthquake Relief ‘No-play’ tournaments have buy-ins varying from $1 to $1,000. Content established on PokerStars’ website concisely further clarifies, “You won’t want to participate in an actual tournament; instead, all of the entrance charges go instantly to the fund.”

PokerStars, one of the world’s major online poker website, moreover developed a unique player account called “Haiti Fund.” Customers can relocate finances to the account and PokerStars will match all money collected for the relief effort. The website has promoted for a range of liberal causes like Ante Up for Africa over the years, reminded its clients, “PokerStars has been very speedy to make this easy after preceding tragedies, and once again it is giving you an effortless mode to offer cash.”

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » January 28th, 2010

DoylesRoom.com has provided a lot more spending power than ever to the online poker players who gather Gold Chips. The Doyles Room store has been the only poker site online which has allowed the renowned Doyle Brunson name to take the wraps off.

An only online shop that has featured a huge range of in demanded products and the most unique items.

The online Poker players can purchase anything ranging from the video games and iTunes gift certificates to Doyle Brunson’s autobiography and a restricted edition in Doyle Resitol Cowboy Hat. The class includes DoylesRoom.com Device featuring apparel, laptop bags, Doyle Brunson’s autobiography and many more.

Electronics includes the most reputed devices like the GPS systems, iPod accessories, digital cameras and gaming includes all of the prominent consoles like the Nintendo Wii and Playstation3.

The DoylesRoom.com online store does not accept the cash or credit cards. To buy the goods from the DoylesRoom.com while the poker players should use their gold chips.

Gold Chips are outline of DoylesRoom.com exchange which is a reward to the players for consistent play. The Online poker players who wish to play for real money tables or pay tournament fees are mechanically awarded consistent player points. As those points are gathered, a Gold Chip meter starts to fill. Once the meter is full, a gold chip is rewarded.

The Online Poker players can find out something which they wish for just a hand full of Gold Chips. The DoylesRoom.com is an online store is available easily at the DoylesRoom.com. Click here!

Posted by Diana Sterling in Uncategorized | No Comments » January 27th, 2010

The online poker site Fantasy Poker has informed its player that it is moving to the US friendly Merge Poker Network and it will require up to 2 weeks completing the integration, starting from January 31st. A downtime of two weeks would put Poker Fantasy’s predictable re-launch around the 15th of February.

An e-mail sent by Poker Fantasy read in part, “As of January 31, 2010, Poker Fantasy will be moving to a new network, the Merge Gaming LTD, officially licensed and regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. There will be an expected downtime of approximately two weeks. During the downtime customer service support will be available to assist you at 24/7.

Poker Fantasy has given no reason for its move to the Kahnawake-licensed Merge network but they have also informed their players that their 24/7 Support will remain active to provide assistance to their players if they face any problem.

According to PokerScout.com; a traffic ranking site has said that Merge Gaming Network is the 19th largest worldwide in terms of cash game traffic, sporting a seven-day running average of 255 real money ring game players. While during its peak hours, almost 400 players who are playing with cash can play on the Merge Gaming Network’s virtual tables.

Fantasy Poker has also told those players who want to withdraw their credits before the move then they can do so by the end of January. While after this month all the account balances will be automatically transferred to the Merge network systems.

Poker Fantasy is the first move of the year 2010. In November, the iPoker Network site Noble Poker absorbed Fair Poker. The former site is based in Gibraltar and has been in working since 2004. Then thereafter, Third Bullet Poker merged its player base with that of Cake Poker.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » January 26th, 2010

Members of online poker community are planning to donate for victims of the earthquake that stuck Haiti last week. So they can take the advantage of several tournaments being held across cyberspace.

According to a rough estimate 200,000 people may have died because of this earthquake and 1.5 million people, or nearly 20% of the country’s population, are now homeless.

Now DoylesRoom is giving their players a chance to aid in relief efforts for the crises in Haiti. While some famous celebrities are also going to offer their time to the site for a celebrity bounty hold’em tournament and this will give participants to win huge cash prizes. Celebrity guest Mickey Rouke has also signed up for the tournament which is going to start on Wednesday night at 9:30 p.m. EST.

DoylsRoom is running the Haiti Relief Celebrity Bounty which is taking place of its regularly scheduled Bounty tournament. – Read more!

DoylesRoom is matching all bounty money won and donating the total to relief efforts. In addition, DoylesRoom will ship any first-time player’s $27.50 buy-in to charity.

Doyle Bruson wrote on his blog, “All you see on the TV news channels are about the earthquakes in Haiti. It is a real disaster area and America is trying to help and the online poker sites are no exception. Come play with us and help some unfortunate people.”

Any of the participants who knock out one of the celebrity bounties will get $1,000, for two knock outs can earn $10,000 while by knocking out three celebrities can get $50,000. In addition, those players who are participating for the first time get 100% refund on their buy-ins. But if you don’t like to play but you want to donate for aid or earthquake victims can also give their donations on DoylesRoom.com.

This tournament is organized by the efforts of other major online poker sites like FullTilt, PokerStart and CakePoker; each of them has reached into its database of players to donate for the cause. So play in Haiti relief tournaments which is taking place this week across on some of the world’s largest sites.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » January 25th, 2010

The latest innovation at Full Tilt Poker has reacted to entitle for quicker play on the virtual experience known as the Rush Poker, Full Tilt Poker has presented a new and unique game which could draw a grand deal of consideration from those with the need for speed.

A player is often dealt at the table with a hand like J-2 off-suit- and who does not wish to play the hand, the player can also connect to the “Fold” button and as soon as it comes in action, there is a “Quick Fold” button as well which can be used at any time period as an alternative of waiting for your spin.

The player is right away switched off to another table with an entirely new batch of players and a fresh hand is dealt rather than sticking to the old table and watching all the remaining players at the table encounter to it. The player continues at the table only when they are actually in stroke with a hand, and once again a player folds, the player shall go to the other table with a fresh group of players. This will direct to the colossal number of hands at any given session.

The Team of Full Tilt is determinedly at the back the Rush Poker diversified range and soon they will enter in to the fray along with their usual players. Howard Lederer, had commented on his Twitter account, “Had fun giving Rush Poker an attempt on FTP, a 300 hand per hour at each table. COOL.” Another Fellow team member of Full Tilt, Andy Bloch was uniformly overwhelmed when he said on Twitter that playing with the new Rush Poker on FullTilt Poker. The Online poker has never been the same.

The regular amount of hands transact throughout an hour of play vary among 277 to 318 opposing that require for multi-tabling. Typical pot sizes were relatively comparable to what takes place at the average speed tables. However, it did seem to be fine that players gambled even tighter on the Rush Poker tables, along with the players looking at the flop percentages ranging from around 19% to 25%.

At the tables, the action seems to run very effortlessly. Whether you wish to wait till your action to fold over or utilize the “Quick Fold” option and as soon as you decide, an entirely new and different table of players that heaps up for action. When you wish to move, you just simply land in any situation at the table. In the period of even less than ten minutes and this author played almost 50 hands, assembling for a bumpy average of around 300 hands per hour.

Whether Full Tilt Poker’s fresh Rush Poker will grab on is completely on the players to make the decision. At that instant of writing, the Rush Poker table accounted for around 10% of the complete action on the website. Full Tilt Poker has furthermore applied for a patent on this kind of diverse online poker, which makes it even possible dubious that other websites will also look forward to adapt to this fresh event.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » January 22nd, 2010

UltimateBet.com and Absolute Poker.com both are among the best online poker gaming services providers which offers top class poker rewards to their players and fast paced gaming experience. So this year they are planning to reward their players with a total of one million dollars in prizes in a grand series of leader board competitions.

Both sites are offering weekly, monthly and yearly tournament leader board competitions across a range of buy-ins with one lucky player a huge prize of $20,000. While the winner of Multi-Table Tournament Leader board completion will be given a prize package of $10,000 buy-in to the world series of Poker besides a seat worth $5,500 to the Aruba Poker Classic along with $4,500 in the tournament dollars. There is also an offer for the top 50 yearly winners which will be invited to participate in an elite tournament that will give the top three players a package of $8,500 to the Aruba Poker Classic while the fourth and fifth placed participants will win their $5,500 buy-in to the main event.

In the series of tournament there are also weekly Multi-table poker tournament are being held, whose winner will get $1,000 dollar as reward. And in monthly Multi-Table Tournament winner will be awarded with Aruba prize package of $6,500 that will be included in $5,500 of main event buy-in plus $1,000 for travel expenses.

UltimateBet.com is giving $1,050 buy-in to the winner of their Online Poker Championship. There will also be places for each of the weekly sit-and-go winners in its Diamond, Heart and Spade categories.

It’s said for UltimateBet.com, by the professional poker players Annie Duke that “We’ve revamped our leader board systems to make them more accessible for all players so that everyone has a fairer chance to win in a big way,”

“UltimateBet.com and AbsolutePoker.com continue to be a top choice for the world’s best poker players and a magnet for a growing number of young and emerging online poker guns. With one million dollars on the table in this year’s leader board competitions, expect the Cereus Network to be an even more exciting place for poker fans to park their chips.”

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » January 14th, 2010

Absolute Poker is one of the greatest players retaining sites which know better and trying hard to keep players coming back for more on their site. Absolute Poker has the perfect solution of poker reload bonuses for those players who want to build their bankrolls.

This reload bonus will give all the players a chance to get more deposit bonus than the first one. Absolute Poker offers more reload bonuses than just about any other poker sites. You will be given 6-7 reload bonuses every month after the first deposit bonus.

You can get bonuses of range 15% all the way up to 100% and many other bonuses. Click here!

You can get information about the latest bonuses in the Absolute Poker lobby and also you can get news updates via email. Choose Absolute Poker referral code PBS500 at the time you signup and you can get an extra 150% on your first deposit. It’s not compulsory to participate in every bonus but you can avail the opportunity of the various reload bonuses Absolute Poker gives away. Once you have created account at Absolute Poker then you will automatically receive updates of latest reload bonuses or you can also check by manually downloading the software.

At VIP Program; FAME club will let you know about the number of reload bonuses which you can earn at Absolute Poker along with the size of those bonuses. So you can start automatically as a member and can move up in level by earning points in real money games. The higher you move up in the Fame Club, the more you can get numerous bonuses. And at higher levels you will have the chance to earn bonuses and rewards equal to 31% cash back on your collect. Now if you are a high volume player; the more difficult will be to beat you. Like other bonuses you can also clear these reload bonuses at Absolute Poker.

So once you make a deposit, your bonus money account will be rewarded with the parallel bonus amount. And you can then clear the bonus by playing in real money ring games and other tournaments at Absolute Poker. You can earn Status points to release your bonus money. For every $1.00 in bonus money, you are required to earn 17, 18 or 20 Status Points, and this will depend upon your level in the Absolute Poker FAME Club.

It’s compulsory for all Bronze, Silver and Gold FAME members to earn different points:

1. Bronze 20
2. Silver 20
3. Gold 20
4. Platinum VIP 18
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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | 1 Comment » January 14th, 2010

If you are one of those guys who always desire for a poker-Starts sponsored tour in the states, then the announcement by PokerStars is for you. In this announcement they said that they will be launching the North American Poker Tour (NAPT), a three-stop tour with tournaments in the Bahamas, Lass Vegas and Connecticut. This tour is arranged by the poker player for the poker players with lots of huge prizes. Like other PokerStars-sponsored tours, Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will also be the part of its schedule.

The next event will be $5,000 buy-in at the Venetian Casino of Las Vegas fro 20th –24th of February. This Vegas tournament will serve as the Main Event for the spring part of the Venetian’s well-liked Deep Stack Extravaganza tournament series.

Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville, Connecticut will be the final stop of this tour. Northeastern casino is going to host a festival of poker that will feature twenty events with buy-ins that will range from $200 to $25,000.The Northeastern casino will play host to a festival of poker featuring twenty events with buy-ins ranging from $200 to $25,000. The series is set to take place sometime in April and is planned to last for two weeks.

Head of PokerStars.com, Jeffrey Haas said that as the NAPT will grow and develop; hopefully there will be more events across the US and Canada. It will be broadcasting in the coming few days but they said that the production team for the show will be 441 Productions.

So in the meantime, the first season will be filmed for television with supermodel, dancing with the stars contestant and poker enthusiast Joanna Krupa serving as the show’s hostess. Krupa, as well as pros of PokerStar Team Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano and John Duthie were all on hand at the press conference announcing the new tour.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » January 11th, 2010

NFL fans have gone crazy at Super Bowl XLIV with the leading Online Poker Sites are giving access to executive prize packages in three online Touchdown tournaments. The Leading Cereus Poker Network sites are Absolute Poker and UB which are going to be sending a few poker players to Miami, Florida for the Super Bowl XLIV.

Both the sites are awarding online poker facilities by giving the players a chance to win one of the three esteem prizes for two to the greatest sporting event 2010 Super Bowl which is going to be played on 7th February. The prize packages are worth $12,000 dollars and in order to get your hands on one you will have to work your way through one of the three Texas Hold’em tourneys on either Absolute Poker.com or UB.com.

Touchdown Main Event will cost players $200+$15 dollars to buy into or you can earn your way in by playing in daily satellites starting at $3.00 dollars. Every prize package is included with 4 nights stay at the Bold New Eden Roc, your own limousine to and from the Dolphin Stadium, while $2,000 will be given for airfare and other expenses.

If you don’t want to watch the game then you will be invited to dine with UB and Absolute Poker and VIP treatment will be given to you at a top Miami nightclub. So better come up at the top sport to achieve the main prize so that you would get the chance to go to the glare state in this February and enjoy the excitement big games by being the part of annual Super Bowl XLIV.

UB.com is one of the largest online poker communities in the world which offers top poker rewards to their players in different tournaments and fast paced action games. You can download the free poker software and enjoy the tournaments and free ring games. You cal also chat with the team member of the UB.com to learn about the playing strategy. UB.com is the best poker games providers on the net as part of the CEREUS poker network.

Absolute Poker provides their players the best online poker gaming services 24/7 and is committed as the most trusted and best online poker site. It is the part of CEREUS network and is created by Poker Players for Poker Players. Players can play games at Absolute Poker from PC or Mac and could enjoy the best multi-players online poker games.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » January 6th, 2010

Most of the online poker players are now migrating towards Apple systems, as result more Poker software vendors are trying to support Mac along with other platforms. Before the New Year begun Poker Tracker has announced recently about their new release i.e. Mac OS supported software having some enhanced new features. Right now it’s in testing phase but soon it will be released for commercial use.

As many poker players were moving towards other platforms; so with that Mac poker is also becoming more popular. Mac OS has the same functionality like it was for windows supported version, so the new Mac laptop user won’t have any difficulty to use Poker Tracker. It’s an in-time jackpot for new decade by the by the programmers of Mac OS.

The noticeable feature of Mac supported is that you can import your all windows hand histories for Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker and On game Network Poker Rooms. This beta release has also some new features; like it can also support those sites which support Mac in browser-based version and write hand histories of the computer.

PokerTracker programmers have designed wizard for those players who were having difficulty in configuration; so it has make it easier for them. They also offer useful feature of backup and restore; for those players who transform from PokerTraker’s windows based version to Mac version. It will allow them to backup your database along with all the settings like layouts reports, stats notes etc.

Another exciting point for poker players is that this new release also includes Omaha support. Omaha is a game that is growing in popularity by the day. But Omaha phase testing is not yet complete! They can import PokerStars, PartyPoker, Full Tilt Poker and the iPoker Network. It’s also been heard that Omaha beta is free to all owners of the Hold’em version as well as for the trial users. And it will also be available for those who have an expired version of PokerTraker.

Poker Tracker team has worked very hard to release this beta version at the end of year there’s a variety of bugs are also expected! Developers have asked that if you see any bug/issue you have to let them know about that so they can work them out as quickly as possible. The new release will be in front of you with-in next few weeks as issues are resolved so stay tuned.

It’s said by devilment team of PokerTracker that “We hope you enjoy the new changes in PT and we look forward to what the New Year will bring for all of us. Thanks for your support and for using PokerTracker!”

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » January 6th, 2010