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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
Aside from aiming to provide you with the ultimate online poker experience, HollywoodPoker.com also aims to add a little excitement to your life. That’s why the Extra is committed to keeping you up-to-date on all the new events, promotions and the $1 MILLION in monthly tournaments featured at the site! Of course, the Extra is also dedicated to bringing you your old favorites, including the Player Spotlight, the Write to Win contest and Vince Van Patten’s Corner. Let’s face it - the Extra keeps you on the fast track to online poker success! In this week’s Extra: :: Deposit Bonuses up to 500%! These deposit bonuses are a fabulous way to pad your bankroll while racking up invaluable experience in the exciting world of real money play. Your railbird days are over – there’s never been a better time to get in on some real play! Find out more about HollywoodPoker.com’s deposit bonuses!
If you missed your chance to win a slice of $40,000 in cash and prizes in the hugely successful July 31st WPT Celebrity Shootout, don’t cash out yet! You still have one more shot at an all inclusive paid trip to LA and a seat in the WPT Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino. We’re talking poker fame and fortune right at your fingertips! Players from the WPT Celebrity Shootout I were nothing short of ecstatic about their experience. The tournament embodied everything HollywoodPoker.com has to offer: Fun, Celebrities and of course, poker! Join us on August 14th at 2pm EST for your last chance to win your way to poker fame and fortune! Learn more about how you can get in on the final HollywoodPoker.com WPT Celebrity Shootout tournament! The winner of the first Grand III tournament scored $129,000 and on August 6th and August 7th, this monumental tournament returns along with the promise of an even bigger prize pool. The Grand III is a no-limit Hold’em extravaganza for players who are serious about winning big – and winning soon! After all, the first qualifying round is less than a day away! Learn how to get into the Grand III tournament by visiting our Featured Tournaments page.
Poker Points are a fantastic way to put all that hard-work at the tables to good use. Other tournaments you can exchange Poker Points to play in include the WPT Celebrity Shootout, the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational and our freeroll poker tournaments valued at $17,500. Poker Points are just another way that HollywoodPoker.com makes your love of online poker pay off! Learn more about Poker Points. Wondering what went on with HollywoodPoker.com at the WSOP? Ponder no further! Our very own HP Anthony regales us all with tales of HollywoodPoker.com’s presence at the WSOP. Join HP Anthony as he recounts tales of WSOP glory, friendship and lounge-hopping at Caesar’s Palace! In Anthony’s own words... As a poker player, it’s always been my dream to play in the WSOP. This year brought me one step closer to my goal when I ventured to the 2005 WSOP in Vegas with Hollywood Poker... Go to The Hollywood Poker Forum to read more! The search is over! We received thousands of submissions for the HollywoodPoker.com Model Search and after many grueling hours and sleepless nights spent pouring over photos of gorgeous ladies, we have painstakingly selected the finalists. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. The pictures and profiles of a few of the HP Models are now live on HollywoodPoker.com, so take a look at some of your future competitors. These ladies aren’t just pretty faces! More profiles will be added in the upcoming weeks, so be sure to keep checking back at the site. Anyone who’s ever played poker knows that the poker table does not exactly generate the same sort of propriety as a garden party. There’s bound to be some less than congenial banter and for the most part it can add a fun dimension to the game. But sometimes, there’s one person that takes it too far. When these people cross the line, most amicable players are thankful that they can simply leave the table or log-out– but what about when it’s not that simple? What about when one cannot escape the onslaught of smack-talk with a mere flick or click? What about when the barrage of slighting insinuations about your bad calls or your bad hair aren’t that easily ignored? What about when the jokes about your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your best-friend and yo’ momma are actually coming from...YO’ MOMMA? Yes, friends – nothing is implausible, especially in Hollywood Hills. One unfortunate player learned this the hard way... Charm319 was regular player at HollywoodPoker.com, and she prided herself in being able to dish out a healthy dose of smack-talk at the tables. Still, she kept her smack in check – she was there to play, not talk trash. One day, while playing ‘Lucky Dollar’ – her favorite economically friendly HP tournament - Charm319 was seated at a table that would change her life forever. It started when she tried to exchange a few niceties with her fellow players. Charm 319: hi everyone! gl! x_SuperMario: you too! DantesDeck: back at ya. Charm319 smiled to herself; it seemed like a friendly bunch. This was going to be a good game. Then suddenly another comment popped up in the chat window. DottieDanger: you sucka’s gonna need all the luck you can get! Charm319 felt a hard lump of dread rise in her throat. She hadn’t felt that way since her prom date, Greg, showed up in the same dress as her. DottieDanger – the most notorious smack-talker at HP - could intimidate anyone who crossed her path with just one quick witted insult. Rumors had it that she could make even the toughest players crumble like a week old macadamia nut cookie under her barrage of rhetorical bullets. Straight away, she decided that her best bet was to just stay quiet. No need to provoke. Unfortunately, her table-mate, DantesDeck, was ignorant of DottieDanger’s reputation and tried to start up a pleasant conversation after a few hands. DantesDeck: hey dottie, come here often? DottieDanger: sure, but usually i manage to avoid playing with amateurs like you. DantesDeck: wow, what’s the hostility about? DottieDanger: this isn’t a dating site, buddy. concentrate on playing and you might win a hand for once. x_SuperMario: hahahahahaha! this is awesome! DottieDanger: can it plumber-man. say, didn’t i play you the other night? x_SuperMario: don’t remember. DottieDanger: betting with pocket 4’s when the other guy obviously had a flush? yeah, that was you. nice work btw. go back to the fish pond small-fry. DantesDeck: hey now... DottieDanger: not that I’m complaining, the betting strategy has rewards – esp. for those of us who like your money. Charm319 couldn’t take it anymore. She was outraged by DottieDanger’s blistering tongue and her considerable chip-lead had sky-rocketed her confidence. She had to step in. Charm319: yeah, well...your mother! DottieDanger: excuse me? Charm319 summoned all her knowledge gained at the hype of the ‘yo momma’ era. She searched her brain for long forgotten episodes of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. No doubt, she was a force to be reckoned with. Charm319: you heard me. your mother’s so fat, she has her own area code! your mother’s so fat that when she goes to the beach, the tide comes in! DottieDanger: charm susan 319! how dare you speak to your mother in that way! Charm319: M-m-mom....? DottieDanger: 13 hours of labor for what? a foul mouthed, disrespectful daughter! for shame, charm319, for shame. Charm319: mom, i’m sorry. i didn’t know. i...i ... DottieDanger: i think it’s time for you to leave. these boys and i were just having a nice conversation and you took it too far. Charm319: but, i... DantesDeck: i think she’s right, charm319. maybe you should go. x_SuperMario: you really shouldn’t talk to your mother that way. Speechless and stunned senseless, Charm319 left the table, leaving behind her dignity and as it happens, her considerable chip lead. DottieDanger: she gone? x_SuperMario: think so. DottieDanger: haha. sucka. Well, folks, no one ever said that life was fair. Join us next week for another enthralling installment of Hollywood Hills where: - HP Dan collaborates with an HP player make the world’s largest snow cone. Chaos ensues. 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 one of our stellar players is selected to appear in the Player Spotlight. They snag a HollywoodPoker.com tournament ticket for being selected; you get the invaluable satisfaction of getting to know a little bit more about the people sitting at your table. Talk about a win-win situation! If you wish to be considered for the Player Spotlight, just e-mail me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. In this week’s Player Spotlight: TCCY! My name is Chris Yandek. I reside in Miami, Florida and am a college student and sports and entertainment journalist. My job has given me the opportunity to have interviewed sports personalities including Evander Holyfield, Dan Marino, Peyton Manning, Emmitt Smith, Ahman Green, Tom Brady, 1996 Heisman Trophy Winner Danny Wuerffel, and many others. The best freerolls I have ever seen are the ones on Hollywood Poker. There can be anywhere from 100 to 300 people in them. On so many other sites you have 5000 people in one freeroll. The odds are so stacked against you. One day in May on a Sunday evening I choose to play the $20 Hollywood Poker freeroll. There were 238 players and a few hours later I won the entire game with two pairs queens and three's. It was a real thrill to finally win a freeroll tournament. The odds were definitely in my favor! ~TCCY
Let’s face it: you’re here because you love poker and since passion breeds inspiration, we want you to write about it! We’ll post your submission in the forums and your fellow players will vote for their favorite. The player whose submission receives the most votes wins a HP tournament ticket and a random voter snags HP gear. Every week, HollywoodPoker.com encourages you to write on our weekly poker-related topic and send your submission to julie@hollywoodpoker.com. Use any form you’d like: An article, short-story, poem, song, anything! Congratulations to last week’s Write to Win champ, Skallagrim45, whose article on smack-talk redefined it as an art form! Read Skallagrim45’s winning submission: First, I generally dislike smack talk and usually refrain from it (see my post in the Weekly Poll for more), but a connoisseur is one who appreciates the finer points of the subject, be it food, wine or anything else. So the question to me is: are there finer points to smack talk? And my answer is yes - the finest smack talk is smack talk that shuts up other smack talkers, and I am definitely a connoisseur of that. Working every day in a profession built on talking and arguing (yes I am a lawyer) gives me some experience in using language to manipulate the thinking of others. It also helps that I have a degree in linguistic philosophy. Everyone I know avoids a serious argument with me, but enjoys a friendly argument because of my quick wit, generally pleasant nature, and good turn of a phrase. I use the same skills once I've decided to confront a "smack" talker (ST) at the tables. Of course, anyone can truly infuriate the smack talkers by simply ignoring them - but for those of us with the skills, a little smart smack back can go along way! First, one may disarm the ST with some indirect humor: "I'm sorry, what was the name of your championship poker book again?" If that doesn’t work, a remark specifying the limited value of their own play usually does - or at least starts them on a less offensive defense of themselves: "Yup, him calling with a 10-4 suited was almost as bonehead as when you raised with your 8-9 OS." And finally, you can push any smack talker to near meltdown by pretending to join them in the talk and then turn it on them fast; "yeah, what an idiot, reminds me of the ball-less idiots I played with the last time I was in __(insert the talker's home state/town or other info gleaned from nickname or table listing), I'll tell you no one from there should even be allowed to play poker." I'll save my last tricks for future encounters. In sum, though I dislike smack talk in general, sometimes you do have to fight fire with fire. Then I like to think: yes, I am a connoisseur of this stuff. But like any true connoisseur, I like my smack talk in very small choice bits, that have an artistic, gourmet flair, and I disdain the cheap, mean stuff. ~ Skallagrim45
Since I had such a great time playing in Wednesday’s no-limit game, I want to do it again. In HollywoodPoker.com tournaments, I play loose and simply like to have a good time and chat with everyone. Still, for best results and my A-game, my specialty is no-limit poker. So, to show all the members and poker enthusiasts out there my A-game, I’m going to play a series of 1 hour no-limit games. I'm playing all out and I'm playing to win. I know there are some great no-limit players that are going to test me - all the more fun! We'll be keeping track of how I do in the upcoming months and I'm betting that I'll be ahead. Even if I am ahead, though, anything I win I’ll throw it back in a freeroll tournament that will be determined at a later date. Last week I was up $46.60. That could go right on to your bankroll! These no-limit games are a fun way for me to play my best game, to challenge my own skill, to chat a lot with other players, and above all, lots of no-limit A-game poker. Join me this Wednesday night at 10pm EST and see how you’re A-game measures up! Your chance to win is only a click away! All you have to do is cast your vote in this week’s poll and you are automatically entered into a random draw for HP gear. This week’s poll question: Would you like to be a professional poker player? Go to the Hollywood Poker Forum to vote!
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