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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
$17,500 in hourly freerolls for a limited time only! This is your time to burst into the spotlight at HollywoodPoker.com! Read this week’s Extra to find out how you can make it big time with no-risk in our hourly freerolls, see stars in ‘Celebrity Shootout’ WSOP qualifier tournament and cash in with some sound advice from our very own star player, Vince Van Patten. Slow play your way into the exciting world of tournaments with $17,500 in hourly freerolls. There is no buy-in and you will always break even! Now is definitely the most lucrative time to kick-start your tournament career. All you have to do is real money enable your account by going to your ‘My Account’ page and clicking on ‘Real Money Enable’. It’s easy and absolutely free. Get ahead of the game before it’s too late! The ‘Celebrity Shootout’ tournament guarantees the biggest celebrity turn out to date, $40,000 in cash, prizes and WSOP tickets! Get in on the action! You can get in by racking up Poker Points, or buy-in for an uncommonly low $22. After all, life’s hard enough! So, just because you spent the better part of the morning trying to lure your cat, Mr. Bo Jangles out from under the sofa in time for his vet appointment and you missed your 2:30 meeting because you where in emergency being treated for some seriously inflamed scratches on your arms and face, doesn’t mean the day can’t get better. It looks like Lady Luck is at your table! Learn more about the $40,000 ‘Celebrity Shootout’ today! HollywoodPoker.com’s ‘Casting Call’ tournament is a no-risk, winner take all freeroll tournament! Here’s your chance to show off in front of some tough competition and win a $12,500 WSOP prize package. So, after you’re finished tearing up the felt online, you’ll get to be a HollywoodPoker.com star representative at the WSOP! The odds are in your favor! Remember, the WSOP 2003 and 2004 WSOP winners both scored their seats through online tournaments and won millions. Here’s your chance to make it big-time! Since HollywoodPoker.com is all about making our players the stars, we are adding a new section in the Extra called, ‘Spotlight’. Every week the Extra will feature a player. Players have the opportunity to share their thoughts about poker and life in general with the rest of the community. We already have a tight and friendly group of incredible players at HollywoodPoker.com, now’s our chance to get to know a bit more about the people at our table. If you are the week’s featured player, you’ll automatically win a ticket to a HollywoodPoker.com tournament. It’s time to share, kiddies! E-mail me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com if you want your turn in the ‘Spotlight’! May is the month to tell your friends all about HollywoodPoker.com. The already lucrative ‘Invite-A-Friend’ promotion has gotten even better with the addition of an exclusive $1,000 freeroll! Players who successfully invite their friends to play at HollywoodPoker.com not only score $50 for themselves and $25 for their pal, but they also qualify for the ‘Invite-A-Friend’ Freeroll. Learn more about the 'Invite-A-Friend' Freeroll! Last week I introduced the 'Write to Win' program at HollywoodPoker.com. You can win amazing prizes by simply writing about a specified poker related topic! This week's topic: Send submissions to julie@hollywoodpoker.com Last week's winner, Corey458, wrote an excellent article on the topic: Celebrities and Poker. Congratulations to Corey458, who's very fittingly scored a ticket to the star-studded Michael Woods Invitational tournament. Read his article below! THE CELEBRITY I’D MOST LIKE TO KNOCK OUT!!! By Corey458
For me, the answer to this question involves three factors: Star Power, The Lighting Rod Factor, and Skill Level. Let’s begin with Star Power. Obviously the bigger the star, the bigger the bragging rights. I mean, sure, it’d be great to knock out James Bond or Indiana Jones, but the truth is, star power alone is not all that important when compared to a big mouth. Take Tom Cruise for example. He’s the biggest star in the world, but I’d rather knock out Whoopi Goldberg any day. Which brings us to our next category, The Lightning Rod Factor. The Lightning Rod Factor refers to those celebrities you either love or hate. And with celebrities, there’s no shortage of people here. We’ve got Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher, Tim Robbins, Michael Moore and on and on and on. These celebrities love to express their opinions, they love to be controversial and they love to pretend to be experts on just about every subject imaginable. Basically, if he or she has appeared in an episode of South Park, then he or she fits into this category. Now for many of us, the celebrity we’d most like to knock out would be at the top of this list, however, for those of us who take poker seriously, our competitive nature leads us to our final and most important factor... Skill Level. Thanks to shows like Celebrity Poker, we have been able to witness some of the worst, best, and without a doubt most entertaining poker on television. Okay, maybe that “best” part was a wee bit over-exaggerated. No matter. The point is... we now know which celebrities can really play. Some of the best include: Timothy Busfield, Paul Rudd, Mimi Rogers, Mathew Perry, Neil Patrick Harris and Maura Tierney. On the flip side of that coin, some of the worst are: Chris Kattan, Bonnie Hunt, Colin Quinn (the guy calls everything with anything), and Dennis Rodman. As a quick side-note, Both Colin Quinn and Dennis Rodman were big winners. But... hey, that’s poker. Anyway, with respect to the very best, three celebrities stood out from the rest. And they are also the three who are at the top of my list of celebrities that I’d most like to knock out. Number 2... Lauren Graham. Not only did Lauren Graham kick butt on Celebrity Poker by being aggressive, but she also played smart. Plus, she’s hot. I don’t know why that matters, but I thought I should put it down. Number 1... James Woods. That’s right. James Woods. Although he may have lost on Celebrity Poker, Mr. Woods played with his chips like a pro and also has an IQ of like a million or something. (Okay. So I watch Inside the Actor’s Studio. Big deal.) Truth is, along with Ben Affleck, James Woods is probably considered one of the very best celebrity poker players in the world (make that Hollywood), which is also why he’s the celebrity I’d most like to knock out. However, having said this, Paris Hilton was a close second, but then I decided that she wasn’t really a celebrity.
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Vince Van Patten: Your personal bankroll manager! Some practical advice to keep your bankroll fat and you happy... Bankroll management is truly one of the most important elements of being a winning player. The strongest part of money management is to play a lot when you’re playing good and to pull back when you’re playing bad. Of course, it’s tough to succeed at doing this because you’re instincts will usually tell you to do just the opposite - that’s why there are so few winners in gambling. In the heat of the moment, it’s easier to lose common sense to pure instinct. The key then, is to wait for the other player’s tilt money. Easier said than done, I know. It truly takes great discipline to do this successfully. After years of practice though, I can honestly say it’s one of my strengths.
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