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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
$17,500 in hourly freerolls 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. Play in HollywoodPoker.com's freerolls and experience the beauty of no risk, no hassle and with tournaments every hour, no excuse playing! But your chance to take a piece of $17,500 in freerolls is almost over – now's the time to go to HollywoodPoker.com and get in on the next tournament! Cash in on a great thing! Visit HollywoodPoker.com today and find out more about our $17,500 in hourly freerolls Your chance to pit your skills against your favorite celebrities in the WSOP ‘Celebrity Shootout' tournament is less than a month away! This exciting tournament boasts $40,000 in cash and prizes, a $10,000 WSOP prize package and $100 Celebrity Bounties. That's right, you can score $100 just for knocking out a celebrity! And now you can qualify for the $40,000 ‘Celebrity Shootout' by pitting your skills in our Sit ‘n Go tournaments! Sit ‘n Go tournaments are perfect for players who enjoy all the excitement of multi-table tournaments, but can't commit the time to play. We want to make things a little easier by giving you another way to win your way to the ‘Celebrity Shootout' and the WSOP. As if that's not amazing enough! Our phones have been ringing off the hook with celebrities wanting to get in the WSOP 'Celebrity Shootout'. They can't seem to contain their excitment and are itching to play in this incredible WSOP qualifying tourney! Just think about it: What other site gives you the opportunity to play superior online poker with celebrities, the chance to score $100 Celebrity Bounties and $40,000 in cash, prizes and WSOP tickets! The WSOP ‘Celebrity Shootout' is by far our biggest event to date and it's sure to reconfirm HollywoodPoker.com's celebrity status as the hottest poker site on the net! Learn about how you can play in the WSOP ‘Celebrity Shootout' tournament. Learn more about the $40,000 ‘Celebrity Shootout' today! Hear that? Learn more about the HollywoodPoker.com ‘Casting Call' tournament today! 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 your 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'! Our ‘Invite-A-Friend' promotion is a resounding success and as our way of thanking all the players that have participated in this lucrative offer, we are proud to host our ‘Invite-A-Friend' freeroll. If you have successfully referred a friend to HollywoodPoker.com, you automatically qualify for this rewarding event! What's more, if you've successfully invited more than one friend to play at HollywoodPoker.com, we're going to multiply your winnings based on the number of friends you invited! It pays to have friends at HollywoodPoker.com! Learn more about the 'Invite-A-Friend' Freeroll! Every week, we at HollywoodPoker.com pose a truly intellectual poker related question and asks you, the experts, to write an article. We will pick the top articles and then post them in the Hollywood Poker Forums for the community to vote on. The winner as well as a randomly selected voter will score some sweet HollywoodPoker.com merchandise! Last week's winner Aces.Wired won a ticket to the famed Michael Woods Invitational – the most acclaimed online poker tournament on the net and our randomly selected voter, sweetpeach_x, scored HP gear! Congratulations to you both! This week's topic is: Your first time...Playing poker. Please send submissions to julie@hollywoodpoker.com. Read Aces.Wired's article! The Doctor is In: PokerPlayer Psychology. Ask any true poker player what they need to be successful at poker, and the answer is invariably the same: “Any two cards.” Poker is a game of psychology, manipulation, and intimidation. A good player can get a read on his opponent's methods and then turn and use this information against him. Watch any player that is on tilt, and then ask yourself “What happened to him on the previous hands?” Chances are he was tricked into over-betting a pot against a made hand. What he won't admit is that he was set up. He was weighed, measured and his play was manipulated by someone else. It's often pride and arrogance that keeps people from improving their game. Pride, because no one likes to admit that someone “knows” them. Arrogance, when a player can't acknowledge that someone has outplayed them. It's not until a person really humbles him or herself and becomes a student of the game that they will overcome these obstacles. A common misconception is that the aggressive player wins the big pots, but in reality it is the SMARTER player who sees greater success. Aggression by itself will often see short term success against tighter players, but it is often these aggressive players that the sharks seek out. Their egos grow to titanic proportions from their many little victories that they are unable to see the bear trap laid out before them. With the recent surge in poker popularity there is an undeniable amount of good poker players; however these players are often two dimensional and will never be a real threat on a global scale. They will not see the spotlight of the World Poker Tour. They will not win a significant prize until they are able to do what the pros do: Take control of the game and steer it to their own success. Aces.Wired
My celebrity partner Jimmy Woods is quite a character. Not only has he been playing poker for only about a year and managed to become a top notch player, but he really doesn't understand the concept of bad beat stories. In other words, no one likes to hear them but you can't explain that to Jimmy. While I was on a ship with him last year on a poker cruise, Jimmy - who's usually harassed by fans - was harassing fans to tell them these bad beat stories. You know, for 20 minutes its not that bad, but this went on for days until eventually even fans were walking away from him. No one really likes to hear them – well, maybe on occasion they do, but not as much as he likes to tell them. When you vote in HollywoodPoker.com's Weekly Poll, you are automatically entered into a draw for HP merchandise. All you have to do is visit our Hollywood Poker Forums and vote – it's that easy! This week's poll: Go to the Hollywood Poker Forums to vote! |
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