April 24 2008

We welcome you to another sizzling edition of The Insider, HollywoodPoker's weekly newsletter for the latest on our celebrities, online poker news and hot promotions.

Here's what's up!

• Take a swig at our WSOP Happy Hour specials!
• Another player gets their hands on a free ticket to millions at the WSOP Freeroll Your Way To Fame!
• Insider fans! We've got something special for you!
• clubHOLLYWOODpoker members! Get set to freeroll this Saturday!
• Catch players' face-off with celebrities at our Celebrity Bounty Series round up!
• HollywoodPoker celebrity player John Carroll Lynch goes Traveling this time around!
• Hottie Michelle Bishop needs your help to get a spot on our 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar...willing to lend a hand?
• Want to be clued in on the ancient oriental game of Sic Bo?

Hope you have a good read. We also welcome your feedback, so please send them to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com

HollywoodPoker has taken our Happy Hour sessions up a notch this WSOP season, we're giving you the opportunity to make cold hard cash that you could use to get yourself on the road to this year's WSOP, where the big cash out awaits!

The merry making happens 12 hours a day, 4 days a week from 3:00pm to 3:00am EDT / 7pm GMT to 7am GMT every Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturday's, allowing you ample of time to hit the tables and cash in on our Top Set Pay Day and Quad Aces & Faces Jackpot special promotions!

For more information on the awesome WSOP promotions, head down to our HollywoodPoker WSOP Central!

Congratulations Nitten X! who walked away as tournament champion, bagging a $300+20 qualifier ticket last Saturday at our WSOP Freeroll Your Way To Fame . Nice one Nitten X, looking forward to seeing you at the WSOP tables!

Players' -RiverRaper-, Yukon_David, daniel neg.. , yon66, OlivarKlozof, FurFoxSake, Wiqqq, pkrvixen and mckennyj from the final table received a $30+3 qualifier ticket each. Great action guys!

Click on our foxy HollywoodPoker Model right here, on the right side of your Insider edition and you'll find that we have an exciting 1000% up to $200 deposit bonus crafted specially for you. We don't just tell you in words how much we appreciate your support, we show you! This reload bonus is super easy to clear, meaning speedier cash-ins and all that's required is a $20 deposit!

clubHOLLYWOODpoker's month long series of freerolls peaks at this Saturday's member exclusive $5,000 freeroll. If you've accumulated 1,250 Player Points or more, you will automatically receive a ticket to this tournament.

You will start at the tables with $1,500 allocated to you in your chip stack. Blinds will increase every 30 minutes allowing you many opportunities to play your chips right and make it through the tournament. For absolutely free, there's absolutely no reason for not saving this date for guaranteed rewards!

To find out more about this tournament and the great benefits of being a member, head over to clubHOLLYWOODpoker. If you already know what's in store, waste no time and get registered at our Tournament Calendar page.

At April 20th's WSOP/ HPCC Celebrity Shootout VI players' coinsrandy10, Yukon_David, ishkibobble and Foxhore2 took home $100 a piece for taking out two celebrities each at the tables.

But wait a minute! ishkibobble didn't only bag $100, he won the tournament and was awarded a $300+20 WSOP qualifier ticket to millions!! Way to go ishkibobble!

While Willie Garson stood tall as the Last Celebrity Standing, four celebrities weren't as lucky having been taken out by Irongeoff. Celebrity player Seth Meyers was Irongeoff's third victim at the table when his 10 pair pocket cards fell to Irongeoff's 5-A hole cards against the board's A-J-9-7-7 for an Ace pair win. Awesome play Irongeoff, hats off to you for collecting $500 in bounties!

More celebrities sighted at the tables were Kenny Johnson (The Shield), Kirk Acevedo (The Black Donnellys), Nicholas Gonzalez (The O.C.) and Lenny Venito (The Brave one) Catch more action at our star studded tables next week!

April 15th's Canadian Poker Night witnessed TripDiZ walk out of the tournament with an extra $250 after he skillfully knocked out three celebrities cashing in on bounties.

Player Mad_Engine was excellent at the tables on Tuesday taking out four celebrities, making him $500 richer. Pamela Gidley revealed J-3 hole cards and wasn't spared by Mad_Engine when he threw down 9-J hole cards next to the board's 5-8-7-6-6 giving him a 9-high straight to win. Fantastic job Mad_Engine!

Amongst HollywoodPoker celebrity players spotted at the tables were Christopher Rich (Boston Legal), Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers), Vince Lozano (E.R.) and Stephen Rannazzisi (NowhereLand). Head here next week and give our celebrities a run for their money!

Due to technical reasons, we were not able to host last week's Michael Wood's Celebrity Invitational. It's back on schedule this week, so don't miss out on the action this Saturday! See you at the tables!

HollywoodPoker celebrity player John Carroll Lynch gets a dose of romance in Traveling, his latest offering to fans. This endearing romantic drama follows a widower's unexpected success when his book on coping with death and loss turns him into a best-seller, thus propelling him to fame as one of the most sought after self-help gurus.

As his career skyrockets with invitation to conduct talks and seminars on what he has personally learnt from losing his wife, he soon finds himself falling for a woman who attends one of them, only to realize that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing and that he practices none of the principles he teaches.

John stars alongside Jennifer Aniston (Friends) and Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich) in the movie which is set to hit the golden screens soon. Find out more on other celebrities in the Famous Faces section of HollywoodPoker's online magazine The Green Room.

Sic Bo literally means dice pair, originating hundreds of years ago in China it has gained millions of fans since debuting on European and North American shores. Easy and exciting to play, the object of this Casino favorite is to successfully bet on the numbers produced by the throw of three dice.

Betting starts before the dice are shaken with all bets settled when the dice come to a stop. Winning areas on the table become lit, so there's no mistaking a winning bet.

You can bet on a single number, a pair, a triple, the total, or various combinations of numbers coming up. The unique Sic Bo table is separated into eight betting areas, used by players to optimize returns.

An idea of how the separate betting areas work is as follows:

Small - If the total of the three dice thrown is anywhere from four to ten in total, bets places in the small betting area at the top left corner of the table will pay out 1 to 1.

Big - If the total of the three dice thrown is from eleven to seventeen in total, bets placed in the big betting area at the top right corner of the table will payout 1 to 1.

However, if a triple is thrown, bets both in the small and big are lost because between the small and big areas, lie the doubles and triples area. Here's how doubles and triples work:

Double - If a double is thrown, bets placed in this particular area will be paid out 11 to 1.

Triple - If a triple is thrown, bets placed in the triple betting area are pay out 180 to 1.

Any Triple - This betting area, found in the middle of the doubles and triples area payout 31 to 1 if any triple is thrown.

Total - Beneath the double and triple bet area is the total bet area, numbered from four to seventeen. Here you can place bets on the total sum of the three dice with the possible totals paying varying odds.

Pair - In this area just below the total bet area you are allowed to place bets on different combinations of two dice being thrown. Winning bet payout is at 6 to 1.

Number - the row right at the bottom of the table is reserved for single number's one to six bets. Payout for one die throw is at 1 to 1, if the number is thrown on two dice payout at 2 to 1 and if the number is thrown on three dice, payout is at 12 to 1.

Now you have an idea of how you can multiply returns through various betting methods, head to HollywoodPoker's Casino and try your hand out at a game of Sic Bo!

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