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In this week's INSIDER:

:: Poker News: The Green Room's Where It's At!
:: Poker World: It's High Time for Low Stakes
:: Celebrity Poker Night with Heidi Blair
:: Player Spotlight: JackOsborne
:: Player of the Week: Mena Suvari
:: Actor of the Week: Stan Kirsch
:: Girl of the Week: Miss August
:: Tournament News: More Ways to Take a Shot at $5,000,000
:: Special Promotions: Improved Invite-A-Friend Expires Soon!
:: Words from Vince Van Patten, WPT Host & Commentator
:: The Hollywood Poker Quiz: Win Hollywood Poker Gear!
:: Write to Win a Tournament Ticket!

Poker World: It's High Time for Low Stakes

If you want to aim for the top, then try starting at the bottom. Low stake games are a great way to add bulk to your bankroll, gain valuable experience, win entry into bigger tournaments and even rub elbows with the Stars – all for just a few bucks.

Here’s a run-down of some of our most popular low stake games:

Easy Money
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm EST.

Features: $5+.50 buy-in, $100 added to prize pool.

Turbo
Runs multiple times weekly. Check Tournament Calendar for exact times.

Features: $5+.50 buy-in, fast and furious pace with blind levels increasing quickly.

Lucky Dollar
Every Saturday at 3pm EST

Features: $1 buy-in, $2,500 added to prize pool.

Speed Zone
Runs multiple times on Monday. Saturday at 2pm EST.

Features: $5+.50 buy-in, $100 added to prize pool on Saturdays.

**Bonner Ave Sit ‘n’ Go
Runs as tables fill. Check Tournament Calendar for details.

Features: $2+.25 buy-in, available any time of day.

To learn more about these tournaments and check out all of our hottest tournaments, go to our ‘Featured Tournaments’ page.

Want to win a Hollywood Poker outfit? Tell me about your favorite low-stake tournament at Hollywood Poker in a paragraph or less and you’ll be entered into a draw. Please send entries to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com.



Words from Vince Van Patten, WPT Host & Commentator

Hey fellow poker junkies. How are they running for you? I hope well. Just flew back from our annual WPT event in Paris in which I hosted. I spent some time in Rome first, 3 days, jogged around the beautiful city just soaking in the ancient sites with my wife. Then onto Paris to commentate the final table where the winner took home close to 1 million dollars. The Aviation Club de France is where we played the event. A very exclusive and elegant club right on the Champs-Elysees– the kind of place you’d imagine James Bond playing high stakes chemin de fer. The event went well. The European poker boom is going through the roof. Poker is a national phenomenon there. New faces becoming famous everyday and you would not believe how many online players are striking it rich going from online poker to casino poker. It’s just amazing. Anyway, I never played any of the juicy side games – a little pact I had with my wife: When in Paris, keep it romantic. Of course some people might say that sucking out on the river with a pair of ladies could be very romantic. (Did I just say that?) Nevertheless, maybe my poker abstaining in Paris will pay off with double home-games in LA this week. It could happen. Nothing wrong with calculating the pot-odds. By the way, I stayed at a great hotel where 2 apple ciders from room service cost me $35. I’m not kidding. Guess who walked 6 blocks in the rain to the local grocery store stocking up on all kinds of bottled waters for a buck a piece after that? That’s right, moi. You guessed it. Talk about a house rake.

Another subject: Though I didn’t play poker in Paris, I still had action because my co-host and new host and noveau rich pigeon friend Mike Sexton was there again to fleece. As reported in my last blog, I bet Nadal over Feder at the French Open in tennis. I gave 8 to 5 odds. Would you believe it I cashed in. Now get this: We’ve already set our Wimbledon odds between us. This time, I’ve got Feder and he’s got Nadal. I gave him 18 to 10. I also made a crazy side bet on Agassi to win at 20 to 1 odds. I like my side, but it should be interesting.

Well, not more WPT events for me for a couple of months. I’m on a little hiatus from that. But there is a little thing called the World Series of Poker which I’ll be sharpening myself up for. I’m going play about 4 of the no-limit hold’em events and of course, the big one. They’re estimating 8,000 players this year. Our very own Hollywood Poker Team will be there. We’re going to have a huge Hollywood Poker display at the Poker Bowl Room at the entrance of the tournament at Harrahas. If you’re in town, be sure to come by and visit our Hollywood Poker Girls, James Woods and I. We’ll be spending a lot of time hanging out there discussing poker ticks.

Until next time, play loose and stay out of my pots.

~Vince Van Patten

Player Spotlight: JackOsborne

Want your chance in the Spotlight? Simply e-mail me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. If you’re chosen for the week’s Player Spotlight, you’ll win Hollywood Poker gear!

In this week's Player Spotlight meet JackOsborne!

Hollywood Poker is where I learned the basics of playing Texas Hold’em. Before I created an account here I did not even know what a flop was. It has been about 16 months since I started playing here. I never thought I would ever have the chance to play competitively against some of the players that I have played with and Hollywood Poker. To play poker against a Celebrity or a player that has a reputation to be a solid player is great but to be able to make it a challenge for them to win is very exciting to me. To have someone who you look up to or look at you as a great poker player and commend your poker game is the best feeling.

Good luck to all.

Your friend,

JackOsborne

Write to Win

Express your creativity by entering Hollywood Poker's popular Write to Win contest. If your entry is chosen as a finalist, you could win a tournament ticket to one of Hollywood Poker's Celebrity Tournaments.

All you have to do is write about anything poker related and send it to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. I’ll post all articles that qualify in the ‘Center Stage’ section of the Lounge where your fellow players will vote for their favorite article. Aside from the prestige and praise you’ll receive for your rhetorical brilliance, if you win you’ll also score a Hollywood Poker tournament ticket. It gets even better: Every week, one random voter will win Hollywood Poker gear.

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