|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
||
|
|
green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
The dog days of summer are definitely here and the best way to cool down is with HollywoodPoker.com - the hottest online poker site on the net! With events, poker promotions and online poker tournaments offering over $150,000 every single week, not to mention our one-of-a-kind star-appeal, we can help make your indoor hours not only exciting, but lucrative! In this week’s Extra:
With bonuses from 25% up to $50 for low-mid stake players, 500% up to $1000 to mid-high stake players and our exclusive Celebrity Tournament Package for tournament enthusiasts, there’s a bonus for every style of player! Still apprehensive about joining higher stake games? Then use a little of that bonus and practice at our micro-limit tables. You can experience the thrill of real money playing for pennies! Build a solid foundation for your poker career and find out more about HollywoodPoker.com’s deposit bonuses today!
You’re only a couple days away from the first of two WPT Celebrity Shootout tournaments! That means there are only two days until you could pit your skills against a horde of HollywoodPoker.com’s Celebrity players, win one of the many $100 Celebrity Bounties, snag an all inclusive paid trip to LA, a seat in the WPT Legends of Poker tournament, a slice of a combined $40,000 in cash and prizes and of course, bragging rights for the rest of your life. The WPT Celebrity Shootout I & II are more ways HollywoodPoker.com deals you its truly unprecedented combination of excitement, star-appeal and countless ways to win. Learn more about how you can get in on HollywoodPoker.com’s WPT Celebrity Shootout tournaments!
Every Thursday at 10pm EST, tons of poker players log-in to HollywoodPoker.com to play in the famed Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational tournament. The reasons are simple, but many. The Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational boasts a celebrity turn out like no other tournament on the net with $500 added to the prize pool, $20 Celebrity bounties, a $25 bounty on Michael Woods himself, and now, the bounty on the last celebrity standing has been increased to an unprecedented $100! So, just in case you needed another reason to play in the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational, you’ve got one! Find out more about the star-studded Michael Woods Invitational tournament.
Hundreds of lovely ladies from around the world responded to the call for submissions to the HollywoodPoker.com Model Search. Soon you'll be able to see some of the finalists online for the first time! Twelve lucky winners will grace the pages of HollywoodPoker.com’s premiere calendar! Last week in Hollywood Hills, readers were taken on an emotional thrill-ride as Hollywood Poker’s Player Manager, Julie, battled her inner-demons and finally won out thanks to an auspiciously timed e-mail from a player. With all right again in the HP office, it was business as usual. Well, as usual as anything at Hollywood Poker ever is... It was common knowledge that Hollywood Poker’s editor, Hollay, was somewhat of a poker anomaly and Mike decided to take it upon himself to reel in and refine her technique. “You’re a rogue, Hollay - a wild card. Poker is about skill, dedication, patience. You’re...well, you’re...” “Lacking?” Hollay offered. “Well, yes. I’d like to invite you to my weekly poker game. It’d be good for you. It starts at 8pm. Bring some cheese puffs.” Hollay accepted and spent the rest of the day brooding over how she was going to take Mike down and cause irreparable damage to his reputation right in front of his friends. As far as she was concerned, victory was in the bag. That night, at the appointed 8pm, Hollay showed up with her master plan and of course, the cheese puffs. The game started much like any other poker game. The pendulum swing of Lady Luck’s good graces left all the players on tilt, adamantly defending their precious chip-stacks and fragile egos. Three hours later, the cheese puffs were dwindling and it was down to Hollay and Mike – head to head, mono a mono, dedicated horticulturalist against fanatic turophile. Never before had anyone seen such skill, rapier wit and persistence executed in a single game. Never, that is, until the kitchen door burst open and Hollywood Poker’s esteemed player, Ella9750 emerged from a haze of smoke, dazzling in a pair of gold capris and a cowboy hat and offering forth a bag of cheese puffs. “Mind if I join?” she asked, flashing a truly daunting smile. Mike and Hollay exchanged a weary glance. They’d heard other players marvel at her merciless tactics and unrivalled playing. “Sure,” Mike responded uneasily. “Pull up a chair”. That night, Hollay and Mike learned humility. They were slapped by the cold hand of shame, crushed under the oppressive boot-heel of defeat. Though unknown to them at the time, they’d walk into the office in the morning changed people. Later, Hollay would confess, “I never saw it coming. I mean, it was like rapid-fire”. Mike would concur in a teary-eyed admission. “I still can’t get my mind around it. Horrible...just horrible”. Those that were not blinded by shock remember it something like this: Final hand. Pre-flop: Hollay: A,A Mike: A,K Ella9750: 7,2 OS Flop: 3, 7, 2. Hollay and Mike bet hard. Ella9750 calls. Turn: K. The air is thick with anticipation. Hollay’s face is smudged with simulated cheese flavoring. No one says anything because they feel awkward for her. River: 7. The rest, as they say, is history. Always the considerate player, Ella9750 left the rest of the cheese puffs for Hollay and Mike to munch on while lamenting their luck. Still, the tables can always turn, and in Hollywood Hills, plot development dictates that they always do – but we want your help to decide what’s going to happen next week! Will...
Go to the Hollywood Poker Forum and vote for which story-line you would like to see explored in next week’s episode of Hollywood Hills! Questions or comments about Hollywood Hills? E-mail hollay@hollywoodpoker.com.
Every week the Extra features a player in the Player Spotlight. Here's the opportunity to share your thoughts about poker and life in general with the rest of the community - and, if you are selected as our weekly featured player, it's also an opportunity to win a ticket to a HP tournament! Now’s our chance to get to know a bit more about the people at our table. E-mail me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com if you want your turn in the ‘Spotlight’! This week's Spotlight: xxMorpheusxx! My player name is xxMorpheusxx, but you all know me as either Morph, Morp or Morpheus! I am 29 years old and have been hooked on Texas Hold’em for about a year now. I have tried to play at other sites, but there are always too many other people playing than talking. As some of you may or may not know, I have a Graduate Diploma as a Network Engineer and as a Computer Specialist. Currently (due to the decline in the economy) I am seeking to further my education and bank account by becoming a Real Estate Agent. My plan here at HP is to play the freeroll tournaments to gain access to other tournaments. After all, if you can make it in the shark tank they call a freeroll, then you can make it anywhere. After that, I plan to be IN the WSOP. I know I can make it there after having made it here. As for anybody just starting out in this great game, NEVER give up. I am proof positive that anyone can play the game. I have been in 60 + freerolls to only finish in the money ONCE. My point is I don’t give up. I have played tight – loose – aggressive and a combination of the three. All you need in No Limit is a chip and a chair to win. Of course, a little luck goes a short way, too. In closing, I’d just like to tell you all that I truly do enjoy playing here at HP, bad beats and all. Until next time, I’m all-in!
HollywoodPoker.com wants you to submit articles, poems, short stories or anecdotes dealing with the weekly Write to Win topic to julie@hollywoodpoker.com. Submissions will be posted in the forums for HollywoodPoker.com members to vote on and the winner will score a tournament ticket. Even if you don't have time to write, you can still win HP gear by casting a vote for your favorite article! This week’s topic is ‘Talk the talk’. Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of smack-talk? Congratulations to minidoyleb, who wrote a killer article on the topic of ‘Life Lessons from Poker’. Also, congratulations to Skallagrim45 who has won HP gear just for voting. Sitting in my computer chair typing this, I'm trying to think about all the life lessons poker has taught me and which ones are the most important. For one, I think poker has taught me to be patient and wait. Just by sitting at the table and waiting for that big hand that doubles you up or knocks out an opponent. Another lesson would be to not be so greedy. For example, if someone traps you with a hand bigger than yours and you call an all-in bet, you’re out and you got too greedy. Poker has taught me to take what I can get and don’t expect to always get it. My third and final lesson poker has taught me is sportsmanship and how to lose with grace. Although I haven’t quite mastered this lesson yet, I have become more humble since I started playing poker and I have become a better loser. So in conclusion poker is a game filled with many life lessons and it’s up to you to figure out which ones it has taught you but these are the top three that poker has taught me. ~minidoyleb
You can track me down at a Hollywood Poker specific $.25/$.25 NL table with a $25 maximum buy-in and join in. Remember, Hollywood Poker specific tables are marked with the double asterisk(**). I will be there on August 3rd at 10pm EST. If I get knocked out, then everyone at the table will split a $100 bonus prize. So c’mon! Give it your best shot. Take a seat with me and see if you’ve got the poker skills to take me out!
If you take a few seconds to vote in HollywoodPoker.com’s Weekly Poll, you could win HP gear! This week’s poll question: Do you smack-talk at the tables? Go to the Hollywood Poker Forum and vote!
|
|
|
Deposit Bonuses & Micro-limit tables
$40,000 WPT Celebrity Shootout I & II
HP Model Search: Looking good!
Player Spotlight: xxMorpheusxx!
Vince Van Patten’s Corner: My Challenge to You!
Weekly Poll: Vote to Win! |
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
