Absolute Poker and UB Poker always have something exciting going on and during the month of August, the big news on these two popular online poker sites is the PokerWorks $1,500 FreeRoll series! Each poker room will be hosting two tournaments during the month and since each of them will be paying out $1.5K in prize money, that’s a total of $6,000 you can FreeRoll for!All online poker players can qualify now to play in these amazing FreeRolls which will feature $1,500 added to the prize pool to be distributed as per UB and Absolute Poker’s standard payout structure. If you already have an Ultimate Bet and/or Absolute Poker account through PokerWorks, you can qualify for the FreeRolls when you play 150 raked hands during the qualification periods. The
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It's really unreal that there are four Mizrachi brothers still in the WSOP Main Event, they are all ready for Day 3 with above average stacks – Rob, the eldest brother, has $204,000; standing at $217,000 is "The Grinder" and his twin brother Eric at $145,000; and Donny, the least experienced and youngest has $232,000. History is in the making if they can keep the momentum going into the next phase of the long road ahead.Without the players, there is no game, without great promotions and opportunities that provide ways for players to hone their skills and build their bankrolls, the WSOP would lack the massive numbers that each year's competition generates, and that is why PokerWorks would like to run a little refresher on great ways to build those poker playing skills and build your poker bankroll…because there's another World Series of Poker coming in 2011 and you will want to be there.Just in case you missed these:PokerWorks Rolls out the Freerolls All around the country summer is sizzling and in Vegas, the World Series of Poker is winding down and the final dance is underway – the Main Event No Limit Holdem Championship.
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Carbon Poker takes the preferences of online poker players seriously, that’s why when you choose to play at Carbon Poker, you will find all of the features and options online poker players have come to expect available with just a click of the mouse. Just like the Carbon Poker Quick Start feature that preserves precious poker playing time. Poker players lead busy lives, so when they have the time to play, they want to get logged in and start playing poker at the tables right away. Thanks to Carbon Poker's Quick Start feature, you won't have to be searching through the available game types, table types, and stakes – needlessly taking up valuable playtime. W
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Australian cricket legend, Shane Warne, is through to day two of the World Series of Poker. Warne is playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as the Captain of the 888poker.com team.
Warne has been tweeting throughout the WSOP direct from the poker table. Shane flagged on his twitter page how he’s been listening to Bruce Springsteen during sessions.
Shane Warne commented via his twitter page: ‘I had $33,000 in chips at one point but with three hands to go lost $12,000.
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888poker qualifier and PokerListings player Belinda Roberts is living the WSOP dream.
A 49-year-old former dealer from Australia, Roberts is hard to miss on Day 1b of the 2010 Main Event with her trademark Australian Bush hat and mosquito veil.
Roberts qualified through PokerListings’ exclusive VIP Champion Camp freeroll on 888poker where she outlasted over 700 players to win a seat in the Main Event.
“I’ve been dreaming of sitting under these lights for so many years,” said Roberts. “I was actually planning on 2011 Aussie Millions and hopefully satellite into the Main Event but I was instead able to qualify through PokerListings.”
Despite running a king-high flush into an ace-high flush in the first level, Roberts was optimistic about her chances in the tournament.
“I’m calming down a bit,” she said.
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For the third straight year the World Series of Poker has hosted players from more than 100 countries.
With three bracelets yet to be awarded, the 2010 WSOP has attracted players from 29% more countries than the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
It’s a stark contrast to when the event started in 1971 and was exclusively attended by U.S.
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Learning to read different board textures is a critical aspect in playing winning poker. Some players will bet and call with no regard to the board texture, which can be a costly mistake. By considering the board texture and assigning a hand range on your opponents, you are able to know with greater accuracy if your opponent has a hand.
The first thing you will need to identify is the flop board texture, however the concept of board texture can be discussed as a general concept. Once you get to the river card, you can consider the board texture with all 5 cards on the board, but there is betting and decisions which need to be made before you get to the river card, if the hand even goes that far.
When you think about and analyse board textures you should think of them in terms of being “dry boards” or “wet boards”. There a
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It wasn’t as if it was a day with no sunshine or a day without the internet. Nothing fell apart, and no one was hurt. But Day 33 was the first since the beginning of the 2010 World Series of Poker without any tournament hosting a final table. And it simply felt odd.The Tournament of Champions was wrapped until the weekend, and there were no events hitting their final table on Tuesday, June 29. And only one tournament began, as the $3,000 buy-in Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em launched at noon. The weekend’s $1K NLHE was in its third but not final day, simply playing down to the final table, and the previous day’s NLHE and PLO tournaments were moving along on their second days of play.And that was it. Though
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It’s now official – four very lucky players from UB Poker and Absolute Poker will settle their prop bets at the World Series of Poker tables on July1st in the No Limit Holdem Event #54 tournament. A few months ago, UB and Absolute Poker challenged players to come up with their own ‘Craziest Last Longer Bet’ and the crazy ideas submitted were very interesting to say the least, but ultimately only two winning teams were chosen.When UB and Absolute Poker set out to find the players with the Craziest Last Longer Bet idea; imaginative poker players who believed that they could last longer than their friend in a major World Series of Poker event jumped on the promotion. To en
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Mike Matusow, Huck Seed, Johnny Chan are among the chip leaders after another short day of the Tournament of Champions.
The world-class field of poker’s finest were back to the Amazon Room stage for Day 2 of the Tournament of Champions, and it appeared that no one wanted to hit the rail early.
There were only 10 eliminations through Level 8, and with 17 players still remaining WSOP directors came up with an alternate plan to finish the event.
“You’ve seen nobody has dropped in the last two hours, everyone’s a great player,” said Chan, who is in third place with 68,600 chips.
“There aren’t going to be any suckers dumping off chips.
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