A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog poker, with the main poker tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. Total cash for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong Texas hold em tournament. The Bodog Poker tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” games, where the competitors can win $109 in tournament credits for each Team Bodog poker participant they eliminate from the poker eliminatories. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just a small number of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all competitors in the poker contest.

Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the poker contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has received over $1.4 million. He says that if you considered that the first poker championship was great, you will definitely be surprised with this year’s poker contest and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the Bounty Tournament to step forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker contest in the contest on Sunday. Any poker competitor has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other Texas Hold em games with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are presented every night during the poker contest week. Bodog will have six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen contests which will lead up to the main Texas Hold em contest Texas Hold em event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in prize money, regardless of the total number of players in the contest. All the competors who wish to enter the main poker tournament will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will obtain 10,000 in tournament chips.

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Can I win more by playing tight or a loose poker game?

You will unquestionably hear two theories from your poker buddies or even the so-called poker pros. Let’s take a look first at the tight players. All players including yourself will have a hard time winning, if the whole poker table is playing a tight game. Probably if you have a table full of tight players what could occur is the Texas holdem’ players will end up swapping the smaller pots back and forth to each other. In the meantime the casino hotel is raking in heaps of your hard-earned poker money, and that of your competitors. So now you could think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this circumstance the better players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to triumph.

How can I perfect my poker playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as easy as a piece of paper and a pen. A great approach to find out a lot about your playing method and tactic, is to keep track of your poker playing. It’s possible to write down this information during the Texas holdem’ game, and then pass it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your challenger’s playing style, and what is the best strategy to defeat them.

Is it a good idea to use the same strategy for every poker tournament?

If you consider that playing predictable poker is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should think about varying your poker strategy. The experts have the same opinion that changing your Texas holdem’ playing style is the greatest way to confuse and baffle your poker opponents. You should try a handful of methods, discover the best ones for each situation and adjust them for each Texas holdem’ game.

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According to the 2006 WSOP winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be recognized as the greatest bluffer in the game of poker. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not come true any time soon.

The site is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is close to the end of his run. The seat 4 player has just raised his bet to $300, a pretty small increase with only one player taking the bait. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie thought that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold thought that Booth had a passable hand, but he was in a great position to make a move taking into account the amount of dead money in the pot. Dicken folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a substantial move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Coming out of the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s first thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 laid down a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus changing his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to shield it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts showed up on the turn, and Jamie went ahead and folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 beat Gold by bluffing with a higher hand, he created a terrific poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the poker tournament.

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The game of poker used to be accessible only in Sin City Hotels or from video poker machines, but now it is more in style than ever in Sin City thanks to the TV.

The well-known Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, is now banking on this new found popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its Venetian Showroom, beginning in October.

Their new show will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to take part in the great game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the best poker players in the world. The show has many prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the game show about poker. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a trip to Vegas casinos want to play poker,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a world poker tournament with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” When the show begins, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to participate in the poker game. There are other ways to increase your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a poker champion in this game.

The show’s creators are also placing bets on the personalities of the pro poker stars to create some interesting moments. People like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely knows about entertaining the crowd and should provide some memorable moments in this new poker game show .

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Shortly after the opening of last week’s charity poker tournament to aid the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ben Affleck goes all-in with a flop of Ace-Nine-King and two diamonds. He squirms when two of his challengers call the bet. He yells “Re-buy”, but the turn is a seven of hearts. Affleck is upset when a jack of diamonds is dealt on the river. He took the hand seriously even though there was no real cash at stake. This is just the kind of thing that Affleck and several other poker enthusiasts are pushing for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only function of the celebrity poker tournament held in Coors Field. Members of the Poker Players Alliance are working very hard to legalize internet poker in the United States. As part of their agenda, they are pushing to repeal the 2006 legislation Congress passed which prohibits U.S. Banks and credit card companies from processing transactions related to online gaming websites.

John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, is optimistic about the direction that the new congress will lead this decision. Pappas says that the alliance is pushing for a licensed industry, just for internet poker, and not for all internet gaming. Pappas is interested in having a safe, regulated industry that all Americans can enjoy. The group is fighting for the rights of people and the privacy they deserve in their own home.

“There are misconceptions about poker and about internet poker,” poker pro Andy Bloch said in between hands during the charity poker event. “Some people think that internet poker is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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