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Due to the overwhelming popularity of our Top Set Pay Day, we’re extending its duration! Top Set Pay Day will continue in May, running every Monday at the regular hours, (3pm ET to 3am ET). It’s also to be joined by the return of Quad Aces and Faces! Every Wednesday will give you the chance to cash-in when you see Quads! Be sure to play at HollywoodPoker during these times for your chance to win!

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We’re hosting Big Deal Mania events, which cost $20+2 and guarantee 10 tickets to the $75,000 Guaranteed Big Deal. We’ll also be hosting Euro Grand Prix Mania events! These $10+1 turbo qualifiers guarantee 10 tickets to the Euro Grand Prix. Look for more exciting Mania opportunities in the coming weeks at Hollywood Poker!

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We’re teaming up with NSO Entertainment and Hollywood Fantasy Experience (HFX) to bring you the Live Like a Celebrity Dream Trip – the ultimate Celebrity vacation experience. You have the opportunity to compete for a 4 day, 3 night all-expenses paid trip to Tinsel Town. If you win, you’ll enjoy transportation in a private-chauffeured limousine, accommodations at a famed Hollywood Hotel, a private dinner catered by a Celebrity chef, an afternoon with a trainer to the Stars, VIP and Red Carpet access to the ESPY™ Awards as well as an invitation to the pre and post ESPY™ Awards Party. You’ll also get to put your poker skills to good use in a Celebrity charity poker tournament hosted by Hollywood Poker.

New to the site? No problem. You’ll automatically receive a ticket to a Live Like a Celebrity Dream Trip qualifying tournament if you use one of Hollywood Poker’s easy to clear first-time deposit bonuses. If you’re an existing player you can exchange 300 Poker Points to receive a ticket to a qualifier. Walk of Fame members will enjoy a private qualifying tournament of their own!

Qualifying tournaments run each Sunday up until June 3 rd, so don’t miss out! The final table will be held on June 17th, 2007 and the winner will head to California for the Live Like a Celebrity Dream Trip on July 9th -12th, 2007.

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Celebrity Player Ronny Cox is known for his ability to handle a crowd as well as he handles his cards. That’s why there’s been no shortage of enthusiasm since we announced that he’ll be hosting Hollywood Poker’s longest running Celebrity event, the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational. Join Ronny and his Celebrity friends every Saturday at 2pm EST to get in on this star-studded action. For a buy-in of only $10, you could win a bounty for up to $1,000 and of course, some serious bragging rights. The best part is your chances are good since we’ve already dealt out over $130,000 in Celebrity Bounties.

We have over 250 Celebrities at our site, like James Woods (Shark), Vince Van Patten (“World Poker Tour”), Jason Alexander (Farce of the Penguins), Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point), Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Jon Favreau (The Break Up), Joshua Malina (West Wing), Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers), Kevin Nealon (Weeds), Anne Heche (Men in Trees), Kelly Hu (In Case of Emergency), Meat Loaf (Fight Club). You never know who you’ll see at the tables!

Learn a little bit more about your competition by reading Ronny’s bio in our Famous Faces Gallery.

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This month the Poker Coach tackles a question from a player who busted out early. Take a look:

 Dan asks:

I have $4700 in chips, am on the button and the blinds are $100-$200. With pocket kings I raise 4 callers to $600, who all call again. $3200 in the pot and the flop comes 3 of spades, 4 of diamonds and 6 of spades. It’s checked to me and I bet $2500. Only the cut-off calls. I have $1600 versus her $1500. The turn is a Jack and she made her flush, holding 10 & 7 of spades. It was only the 5 th hand and everyone started with $5000. What did I do wrong?

Coach Responds:

I think your first raise was too small. As a general rule, you want to raise 3 times the big blind if you're the first to open the pot and then add an additional big blind for every player who calls in front of you. In this case that would be about 1400.

On the flop, your only move when checked to is to push all-in. You should never bet so much that you leave yourself with less than 2x your bet behind. In other words, if you had 3000 chips, do not bet anything more than 1000 out of this, and if you want to bet more than 1000, you have to push all-in. In this case, pushing all-in on the flop was the correct play even though you had 4100 in chips, because the pot was so big that you needed to try to take it down immediately, and you were pot-committed. Never bet off $2500 from a $4100 stack - either bet 1200 (or less if appropriate) or push. If you bet $2500, you're pot-committing yourself, and you might as well just shove all of it in to protect against draws as best you can.

Your opponent's play is irrelevant - I don't like their play at all (she would have been better off betting out the flop instead of check/calling a huge bet), but if I had been your opponent, I probably would still have put all my chips in on the flop since they have around 12 outs to your range of possible hands in this spot (although sometimes more, sometimes less). While she was 'risking all her chips to hit a flush', she probably thought she had more outs than just the flush (she did, by the way, because any 5, or combination of 7/T or 9/8 on the turn/river she also wins). She may have had the weaker of the two hands, but I think her play was less flawed and more straightforward than yours.

I think if you raise properly preflop, though, she'll fold. And if you shove the flop after betting properly preflop and she still calls, you've done everything you can to protect your hand and make them make a mistake. Played as it was, however, you provided your opponent with an opportunity to catch.

Good luck at the tables!

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