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UltimateBet and RakeReduction Aruba Promotion

Ultimate Bet seems to really be enjoying their 10th Anniversary. And who can blame them? 10 years in this industry providing players with excellent games, service, and promotions is quite a feat and deserves to be celebrated.

Well, Ultimate Bet is sure celebrating this year with a slew of promotions that all have to do with the number ‘10.’ Their latest promotion is the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic which runs from October 3rd to the 10th and has to be one of the hottest tournaments of the year and offers close to a $1 million dollar first place prize.

So how does the ‘10′ theme fit in? That is the best part. Ultimate Bet is offering several ways to get to this tournament including their infamous 10₵/10 Step program where players can buy in for as little as a dime to fight and claw their way to Step 10. The players who win Step 10 will be awarded with an $8,500 tournament package which includes the $5,500 buy in and $3,000 for travel and hotel accommodations.

But this is Ultimate Bet and they like to do things big so they are also going to give an extra $10 million dollars to the player that gets to the Aruba Poker Classic via completing all 10 Steps and winning the tournament. It may seem like a difficult feat, but $1 million dollars is quite a motivator much less the extra $10 million that UB will give out for completing both the steps and the tourney. Aside from the 10₵/10 Step program, here are a few other ways to get to the Aruba Poker Classic via Ultimate Bet.

• Wednesday at 9:45 pm – $100+$9 satellite with re-buys – 1 $8,500 package guaranteed.
• Sundays at 8:45 pm – $200+$15 satellite – 1 $8,500 package guaranteed.
• Tuesdays at 8:30 pm – $500+$30 satellite – 3 $8,500 packages guaranteed.

The following are massive tourneys that are guaranteeing several seats all with a $500+$30 buy in:

• August 2nd: 25 Seats Guaranteed
• August 30th: 25 Seats Guaranteed
• September 13th: 50 Seats Guaranteed

Special RakeReduction Tournament

To add to the excitement Rake Reduction is holding a special promotion in addition to the Ultimate Bet promo and is exclusive to only Rake Reduction members and sub affiliates. From July 24th to August 24th, any new player who signs up for a real money account or any existing player who generates $50 or more in MGR at Ultimate Bet or Absolute Poker will be invited to play in a special tournament around September 1 with the prize being an $8,500 package to enter the Aruba Poker Classic.

In addition, there will also be a 2nd place prize, to be later announced, and there will be $5,000 added to the overall prize pool. How great is that! And this is all combined with the monthly and weekly rake races and loose change free rolls that already take place for Rake Reduction members. There is simply no better deal available online than at Rake Reduction.

So for those of you that are ready to hit the beach, enjoy the sun, and most importantly win some cash by playing poker, head on over to Ultimate Bet or Absolute Poker and win yourselves a seat to the Aruba Poker Classic that will be held October 3rd through the 10th.

Doyles Room Rakeback Offer

Players who don’t currently have an account at Doyles Room can now receive an exclusive rakeback deal that will give you 33% rakeback! This is an exclusive deal to players that was announced in 2009. The rakeback you will receive at Doyles Room will be awarded to you for as long as you play at Doyles Poker Room. For those of you who are unaware of Doyles Room, it is on the Cake Poker Network (lots of player traffic) and is owned and operated by the professional poker player Doyle Brunson himself. Read more details on how to receive Doyles Room rakeback below…

Not sure what rakeback is? Well you may or may not know that when you play poker the poker rooms take a % of the pot that goes towards the house. This % of the pot that the house takes is called rake. Rake is taken in both live and online poker by the rooms, and is the main reason poker rooms can stay running. For an example of rake, If the rake at a poker room was 5% the poker room would be raking $5 on a $100 sized pot. The rake doesn’t have a bankroll changing affect immediately, but over time each player will contribute quite a bit of rake to the poker room.

Rakeback is a way that players can receive some of the rake they contributed to the poker room back in cold hard cash! The basic concept of rakeback is that the room takes a certain percentage of the rake that the player has contributed and gives it back to them. The Doyles Room rakeback deal is an amazing 33% percentage (one of the highest rakeback deals you will find).

I will give you an example of the exclusive 33% Doyles Room rakeback offer. Lets say you played at Doyles Room for two hours a day and five days a week, for a month. During the time playing at Doyles Poker Room you contributed $500 of rake. Without the special Doyles Room rakeback deal you wouldn’t see any of that money again. But with the exclusive rakeback offer you would receive $165 cash back into your Doyles account balance (calculations were $500 multiplied by .33 or 33%).

Okay so now that you want to receive this cool rakeback deal at Doyles Room let me tell you how. Visit DoylesRoom.com and download the poker software. Now when you go to create an account at Doyles you need to enter the promotional code RBG33. This special promotional code activates the 33% rakeback deal that is exclusive to Doyles Poker Room.

Oh, and not only will you receive just the free money from the rakeback, you will also receive a sign up bonus too! When signing up and depositing at Doyles Room you will receive a 110% match bonus up to $550, on top of the special Doyles Room rakeback deal. Enjoy the free money at Doyles Room!

7 Card Stud Rules & Strategy

There is a web site out there that is specifically for Stud poker players. www.7CardStudStrategy.com is the internet’s #1 ranked seven card stud resource and has received accolades for their award winning 7 Card Stud and Razz poker strategy articles. This site covers all 3 major poker games that use the basic Stud format of 2 down, four up and the last one down:

• 7 Card Stud
• 7 Card Stud H/L
• Razz

They provide readers with easy to follow rules articles for each game and a large selection of strategy articles. Just about every online poker room offers Stud & Stud H/L but this web site only provides reviews for the top 5 poker rooms based on Stud poker action. Only the rooms with the highest 7 Card Stud traffic and overall quality rating will make it on this site. Being a Stud player is hard enough without having to read a misleading poker room review on a poker portal and download and sign up at the room only to find out that the room has virtually no traffic at the Stud tables.

Their 7 Card Stud news section is updated on a regular basis with posts related to Stud and/or the best Stud poker rooms. Not too much happens in the world of 7 Card Stud so this blog mostly consists of updates on the new promotions offered by their top 5 poker rooms.

If you are into Razz poker this is a great place to start. They have divided their Razz poker strategy articles into three different levels to make it easier for new players. The intermediate and expert Razz strategy articles are written in a way that allows readers to develop the basic tactics they learned in the beginner strategy article into more complicated strategies.

Overall, 7CardStudStrategy.com is an excellent resource for 7 Card Stud and Razz poker players. This is easily the largest web site dedicated to seven card stud on the internet. This site will be able to teach you something new regardless of skill level or experience.

Mixed Poker Games

Mixed poker games like H.O.R.S.E have become extremely popular at rooms like Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. There is a lot of money to be won by experienced players so I wanted to tell you a little about the top mixed poker game related web site on the internet. HorsePoker.net is the single largest web site about H.O.R.S.E poker and every other topic relating to mixed games. Their mixed game guide covers 10 popular poker games. This guide includes information on how each mixed format is played and where it is offered. Here is a list of the mixed poker games they offer content on:

• H.O.R.S.E
• H.E.R.O.S
• 8 Game Poker
• H.A.
• H.O.S.E
• Omaha Hi-Lo Mixed
• Holdem Mixed
• H.O.E
• H.O.
• O.E

Since a mixed game is just a collection of poker games played in a specific order this site wouldn’t be complete without a rules and strategy article for each and every poker game played online. For some of the more popular games like Texas Holdem they offer readers more advanced strategic articles written by well known internet poker players.

Only three poker rooms are listed on this web site because only 3 poker rooms boast enough traffic to make the mixed games they offer playable. You can receive an exclusive bonus at two of these rooms when you sign up through this web site. Each of these three rooms also accept U.S. players.

This site also offers readers with updates on H.O.R.S.E poker news. This blog is not limited to mixed poker games though. They also cover promotional and general poker news.

You will find over 100 articles about mixed poker games on this web site. Each article has been professionally written by someone that plays mixed games on a daily basis. If you want to get into mixed games like H.O.R.S.E and take advantage of the thousands of inexperienced players that can be found at the tables than HorsePoker.net is the only web site you will have to visit.

Buzzluck 3D Casino Launched

In the beginning of March this year a new online casino opened it’s doors. But this casino is not like all the other online casinos out there, the Buzzluck Casino refers to themselves as an online SuperCasino.

When you visit the Buzzluck website you will quickly see that this online casino is like nothing we have seen earlier. This is not only a place where you come to gamble a few bucks and then move on, you come to Buzzluck.com to be entertained…. And you will be.

The Buzzluck website is full of 3D animations and wherever you go on the site. There are also a couple of other 3D animated figures that you can meet and greet in the casino lobby at Buzzluck.

The actual casino games at Buzzluck are available both as a download version and as an instant play version on the website.

New players signing up at Buzzluck.com can enjoy a free €750 bonus that can be used at the various slots machines when making a first deposit.

The founder of Buzzluck.com had the following to say about his latest creation:

“Buzzluck.com offers a real entertainment alternative — that’s what makes it a ’supercasino.’ With everything going on, it’s never the same place twice.”

For more information about this new 3-D online casino we can recommend this Buzzluck Review.

Expekt.com Signs Scotty Nguyen As New Poker Ambassador

Scotty Nguyen, world champion poker legend will be the new exclusive poker ambassador for Expekt.com online gaming company, as indicated in a contract that took effect May 15th, 2009.

“This will be fun, baby. I am looking forward to working with Expekt.com and make their successful poker even more popular,” says Scotty Nguyen.

“The Prince of Poker” has won more than $10 million in various poker tournaments and is one of the most famous poker players in the world, many recognizing his face from televised poker tournaments.

When asked what exactly he will be doing in his position at Expekt.com, Nguyen claimed, “I will, for example, do an exclusive video blog twice a month, plus write a column once a month where I will focus on poker strategy. Overall, I will be the face of Expekt.com Poker and play WSOP and more live tournaments in the late summer and autumn. It will be great fun, baby.”

Nguyen, 46, was born in Vietnam. He won the title of World Champion of Poker in 1998 as the winner of the WSOP Main Event. He is one of the strongest and longest lasting poker players to ever play the game. Currently, he is the only poker player in the world to win both the Main Event of WSOP and the WSOP $50K HORSE events. Winning the HORSE tournament in the 2008 WSOP, gave him a title that many believe shows who is the actual best all-around poker player in the world, conquering the most challenging of poker tournament structures.

Dan Vikman, Expekt.com’s PR manager, says, “We are really looking forward to working with Scotty. He is the prince of poker and our poker customers have an exciting 2009 to look forward to with Scotty onboard.”

Most recently, Nguyen won first place in the LA Poker Classic HORSE tournament with a $339K+ payday.

Poker Dealers – It’s time to top up your income with Dial a Dealer

Dial a Dealer which recently launched in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand is a new website that connects dealers to customers wishing to host poker and casino nights in their local area.

Dial a Dealer, which is now inviting dealers in the USA and Australia to list on their site, allows listed dealers:

• The opportunity to supplement their income by picking up local freelance dealing jobs.
• The ability to create unique dealer profile which can be searched by thousands of potential customers.
• To manage customers and contacts through an online Dial a Dealer account.
• Access to the exclusive private Dial a Dealer chat forum and community centre.

Michael Needham, co-founder of Dialadealer.com, says, “This presents a massive opportunity for freelance dealers to make a decent living out of working the poker and casino events scene in their local area. We are now starting to market the Dial a Dealer brand to the wider population to ensure a constant flow of customers coming to the site to hire poker and casino dealers.”

Michael Needham goes on to comment, “The end customer also now gets a much more affordable poker night service as it is a direct transaction between him and his chosen dealer with no events agency involved in the transaction. Each dealer has total control over the prices they charge, and the packages they offer. Their profile is in effect their “shop window”. The more work they do and the higher the customer ratings they receive, the more they move up the pecking order. It is a total meritocracy. The best and highest rated dealers will be able to charge the most.”

Thousands of poker nights and casino events take place all over the world every day. Traditionally, freelance dealers depended on word of mouth to source dealing jobs in their local region. But for the first time, Dial a Dealer is aiming to bring together the fragmented poker dealer and casino events industry. Dial a Dealer now make it possible for customers looking to hire dealers to search for and contact freelance poker and casino dealers.

Dial a Dealer’s new site is being rolled out concurrently in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

About Dial a Dealer
Dial a Dealer is a London-(UK) based free to use website that connects users with professional dealers and casino events companies. Its easy to use search engine allows customers to find the best dealers at the best prices. So whether the goal is to organise a corporate casino night or a home poker night, users will find a wide choice of suitable dealers on Dial a Dealer.

Carbon Poker and Merge Network get a new software update

Merge Network and Carbon Poker have just released a software update version to their poker client. The new release is version 4.5 and is bringing some exciting ideas to the poker room. This was done this week, together with new VIP program details.

Carbon Poker’s players can now choose from a selection of tech graphics including floors, different backgrounds, table rails, and card backs, by which they can individualise the skin look of their poker game. Through the new ‘Poker Game Mini Mode’, players are now in a position to run their poker games with minimal interface while being still legible. Such a feature was created with those players in mind who play at a multitude of tables at the same time, this giving them better visuals of all tables. The ‘poker game grid mode’ on the other hand gives players the possibility to specify grid combinations with up to 5×5 games, also allowing players to split poker games into the separate window or back into a grid window.

However, the best new feature of this new software release is the updates on tournament entries and payouts. The rebuys, bounties, addon, payout schedules and tournament entries were re-vamped now to include greater variant of options. As for the payment schedule, players now have the option between multiple payment options for tournament event entries.

There is the ability to have re-matches following after the end of the game through the Head’s up Sit-n-Go games. The site makeover also affected the loyalty reward system together with the VIP program and a brand new points system. This system allows for players to use their loyalty points to enter guaranteed poker events, exclusive VIP level freerolls, real money SnGs, live seat satellites, or even cash in their points for cash or clearing a deposit bonus.

Carbon Poker also added a new freeroll schedule. From now on a new $50,000 weekly guaranteed poker tournament along with more new freeroll and guaranteed games will be hosted instead of the old games.

PKR 3-D Poker adds new Games

The website PKR.com has just announced that they have added various online poker games. The popular website is already well known among players for its revolutionary internet poker. PKR Poker offers their members the opportunity to take part in 3D poker games in a virtual environment, quite a unique and innovative poker experience.

This involves the players to select their physical look including appearance, dress code and even manner of behaviour at the gambling table. Characters are varied; starting from the silent disguised look on till the loud and assertive characters.

Other new features on the site are the Omaha High/Low – Pot Limit and Limit constitutes and Roulette games, a time bank and brand new shop with poker articles. On the other hand, there is the time bank feature which permits poker players in the cash games a wider time slot to decide on their next move. This means that with the more hands dealt to one user, the more time the players get to decide on plays.

Clothing items can be purchased on the PKR.com shop and this has proven to be very successful with the users so far. Besides the clothing items, there are poker books, various new accessories and subscriptions for partner poker advice site at BluefirePoker.com that have just been added to the shop shelves as well.

Simon Prodger, as Marketing Director, stated, “Our community is highly valued and as we grow we like to make sure we provide our players with exactly what they need. Many of the features in our updates are in response to popular demand and we are constantly working on improvements for the future.”

At the same time we would like to inform players that do not yet have an account at PKR.com that they PKR Poker bonus code EASYPOKER600 will give them a free $600 bonus when creating their account.

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