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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
Everyone’s feeling lucky this week! Just when you think HollywoodPoker.com’s got everything you want in an online poker site it keeps getting better! This week we’re bringing you all our fabulous regular events, promotions and tournament - like HollywoodPoker.com's exclusive Deposit Bonuses- and we're also introducing more. Read the Extra to find out what’s happening at HollywoodPoker.com! In this week’s Extra: :: Katrina Relief Tournaments Join us Thursday nights at 10pm EST for the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational and Sunday afternoons at 2pm EST for the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic. You play and we donate. All proceeds go to the American Red Cross.
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Among HollywoodPoker.com’s horde of A-list tournaments are the massive Grand IV and Big Deal tournaments. Both tournaments provide a perfect outlet for high-stake players to partake in some seriously exciting and enticingly lucrative poker! The Grand IV returns on October 1st and 2nd and promises a first prize payout of over $120,000. Qualifying has already started, so don’t miss out! Still can’t get enough of higher-stake play? Then join HollywoodPoker.com’s Big Deal tournament every Saturday at 4pm EST. You can buy-in or enter one of the daily satellite qualifiers. It’s time to play big and win bigger! As usual, HollywoodPoker.com stole the scene at the WPT Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino. Even though no one came home with the fat cash, everyone had a fantastic time. Congratulations to all our players who participated!
It’s time to spice up your computer screen with HollywoodPoker.com’s new wallpaper! You can download the wallpaper using any system, so with SIX fabulous designs to choose from, the only hard part is deciding which one you like best. Then again, we’re not making you choose, so you could always just download them all! The HollywoodPoker.com Model Search is over and now it’s time for you to vote for the finalists! Take a few minutes and peruse the profiles of these lovely ladies. The 12 HP Girls with the highest scores will be featured in the first ever HP Calendar, so make your opinion count! Meet the Hollywood Poker Girls and vote!
In this week’s Player Spotlight, meet Al N Smithee! Lucky Charms at the Poker Table? I may eat them for breakfast, but I don’t bring them to the games (anymore). Don’t get me wrong, they work for many people. They’re definitely an advantage to the ‘Linuses’ among us who are slightly intimidated by the surroundings or other players or other players abilities (real or perceived) or realization of the shortcomings in our own abilities, or our outright lack of experience. Okay, pick several or all the above. It would appear that we certainly need our own security blankets to offset the imbalance. Four Leaf Clovers still may be of value - though nearly every Clover Leaf I've traveled on is usually laden with warnings like ‘Under Construction’, ‘Reduced Speed’, ‘No Passing’, ‘YEILD’ and the like. So I am now thusly concerned about the condition and possible similar deterioration of the vegetative kind.
If love is blind, then infatuation is completely senseless. Ah yes - we’ve all been there. The thrill of the chase, that first kiss, hormones running high, common sense and integrity operating at crippling lows. So what if your friends don’t agree? This could be the one. You’re days of ordering dim-sum for one are over, right? Mike was anxious for his first date with hotpokergirl. He’d carefully considered what to wear and decided on his favorite pair of acid-washed jeans and a t-shirt cleverly displaying the front of a tuxedo. Classy, he’d thought to himself. Pure class. Mike was a man of unprecedented class. Around HP headquarters he’d quickly gained himself a reputation for being able to daintily sip chocolate milk through in nostrils. He wasn’t sure if he was going to break out that little jewel with hotpokergirl – at least on the first date. After all, he didn’t want her to fall too fast. For their first date, Mike had asked her to join him at the local art museum for the weekly ‘Fun with Clay’ class. The way a woman worked with her hands, he’d heard, said a lot about who she was. He wasn’t sure how, exactly, but he was sure he could figure that out. After clay, he planned to take her out for dinner and drinks at a local pancake house. While he was waiting for hotpokergirl outside the museum, a stranger approached him. “You don’t know me,” the stranger began “but I have some extremely important information about the woman you are supposed to be meeting here.” Mike opened his mouth to speak, but the stranger put his fingers to Mike’s lips. Mike tasted salsa and a slight tang of citrus. He was immediately hungry and considered forgoing the ‘Fun with Clay’ and moving straight to the pancake house. “Shh”, the stranger commanded. “Time is of the essence. She’ll be here soon.” The stranger began the story quickly. “You see, a long time ago, long before you or I were born, there lived a humble shoemaker and his wife. The wife was a shrill, heartless woman who constantly nagged the poor shoemaker with her demands for jewels and lavish clothing. One day, when the shoemaker was sleeping, the woman stole out of the house with what she thought was all of the money the shoemaker had saved and moved to Nepal, where it is said she opened at coconut plantation and married another man, named Pablo.” “What does any of this have to do with...”. “Silence! All will be revealed in due course.” The man glared hard at Mike then continued. “Despite her cruel demeanor, the shoemaker missed his wife horribly and lamented his loss everyday for the rest of his life. Years later, just before he died, he discovered that his wife had left bearing a child – his child – and that child was now a grown man, living in Hollywood Hills. Unfortunately, the shoemaker died before he could ever meet his son, but did manage to write him a letter before his death. Apparently, the shoemaker, unbeknownst to his greedy wife, had invested a modest portion of his meager earnings in the scented lip-gloss industry. He was a rich man and wanted to leave every cent to his estranged son.” The stranger took a deep breath then said, “I am that son. After I inherited all my father’s money, I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a professional poker player. I did very well for myself and thought I had everything I wanted: Money, fame and above all, a beautiful woman. This woman was phenomenal – or so I thought. I soon discovered that she was only with me because it brought her closer to her true love – poker – a game she adored without boundaries but was hopelessly clueless at playing. I was devastated and confronted her about my suspicions several times. Of course, she denied it, but I soon discovered she had joined an online dating site to meet other poker enthusiasts. I was not enough – and no one else will ever be enough. I’m here to warn you this hotpokergirl you’re here to meet is the fickle woman of which I speak. Yes, you’re HP Mike, Player Manager of Hollywood Poker – admittedly the best online poker site in history – and I should know, I played there - but rest assured she’ll ruin your life the same way she’s ruined mine. She’ll make you believe she’s what you want her to be and as soon as she thinks she’s found someone better, she’ll leave.” “Listen buddy, we’re only talking pancakes here.” “Beware”, the stranger said as he slowly backed away. “Bewaaaaaaaaaaare....”. Mike stood in relative disbelief for a moment until he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was her! Hotpokergirl stood before him as beautiful and as regal as the Queen of Hearts. He was instantly smitten and forgot all about what the stranger had said. His mind returned to the night ahead and he was still hungry alright, but this time he was hungry for looooooove.
a) HP Anthony burns down HP headquarters when he leaves his bagel in the toaster for too long. The burning smell leads him to believe he’s having a stroke and he makes what he thinks is his final confession about everything, to everyone. HollywoodPoker.com’s Write to Win contest has fast become one of the most anticipated events in the weekly Extra. Players only have to submit an article, poem, short story – anything really – that deals with the weekly topic and they could win a tournament ticket! All entries are posted in the Community section of the site in Hollywood Poker Forums’ Center Stage section. All players are welcome to cast their votes for their favorite article and the entry with the most votes wins its writer a tournament ticket. This week's topic: Love at first sight. Tell us what initially attracted you to poker. Congratulations to Aflanders111, who won last week’s Write to Win! Read Aflanders111’s winning submission: I have never been one for good luck charms or trinkets of sentimental value on the poker table. I always have kept the philosophy that good players win consistently, not lucky ones. However I have always had a love affair with the number seven, some of the best things that have ever happened to me have happened at 7am or 7pm and I have hit quads several times, but I have only hit quad sevens. I still don't believe in good luck charms, but as a result of one hand I now also despise the number that had loved me for so long. On a brisk October morning I started out of my house to begin the drive to my favorite casino and when I say favorite I mean the only one within an hour's drive. As I stepped out of my house I happened upon a half dollar laying "heads up" in my driveway. On a side note, when I was a child I thought half dollars were wonderful. They were my favorite type of "money". I put money in quotes because as a child I had no grasp of money having value, I just liked the way a half dollar looked. I decided to pick this half dollar up and use it as my card weight for the day. I finally get to the poker room and get my name on the list for my usual game at my usual stakes of $2/$5 No limit Hold 'em. After twenty minutes of sipping on a cup of coffee and chasing each sip with a swig of water my name was called. I sat down with a full buy-in, my coffee, my water, and my new card weight at table number seven. In the countless number of times I have played poker here they have never had a $2/$5 NL game on table number seven. I find this much to my liking. Within my first 2 hours of sitting down, I have made 2 buy-ins in profit. This card-weight combined with being at table 7 have really equaled up to be a lucky combination. I have been dealt the same two red aces 5 times in that 2 hour window. They got cracked one time but for a very small pot against a short stack. Getting the same two red aces six times in two hours is almost impossible online and it is even more of a phenomenon in a live game which moves much slower with fewer hands per hour. Then comes the luckiest pot I have ever won in my years on this planet. Call 600 to win 3000 or so. I flopped the flush and it held up. In fact it cracked the man's kings to my left, it also emptied half the table out and we got some fresh blood from the list seated. I should have left right then. I was up $3000 in less than a few hours. I stayed, won some more money, lost some too. After six hours of play I was at $2700, one of the gentlemen who sat down after half the table had been cleared out had been playing a very solid game and in 4 hours he had a stack of $2000. Then all hell breaks loose. I am in the button and I look down at "crabs" or two tres is the hole. Mr. $2000 bumped it to $70 straight to see a flop and only I call. The flop came 3, 7, 8, and I flopped a set. Mr. $2000 leads into me for $250, I raise him to $750 and he just pushes for what he has left. To me, this screams Aces or Kings, but after I called he flipped over two black deuces. This means he was drawing dead short of turning and rivering a deuce. I actually asked the floor man for a couple of racks because I planned on going home after I won this hand. Turn: Deuce....River: Deuce. I couldn't believe it, I just lost my biggest one day score on a million to one shot. I was crushed and knew I couldn't win anymore on that day, so I still racked my chips up and cashed out, but as I was leaving I flipped that half dollar to the gentleman who had just pulled off the suck-out of the century and said, "I think this is your good luck charm, not mine" He said “Thank you” as I left. I saw that man 2 months later at a different cardroom and he told me that 3 days later, the exact same thing happened to him, only for a lot more money...and he passed on that half dollar to the man who had pulled it off on him. So if you ever get a half dollar flipped to you at a table after sucking out, please don't accept it. And never play at table number seven. -Aflanders111 Always suspect that you could be beat at any time. Be a suspicious player and a sneaky player. Those are the ingredients you have to have to be very good. You have to be suspicious and you have to be sneaky. It’s a strength in poker. Not to be over-confident. Not to go to a table when you’re eager, it’s the worst thing you can do. I listen to these things and I, over the years, molded my game and nurtured my game and realized what it took to win. But it takes many different things. Now I also was a top professional tennis player and it takes something to get there too. I was top 25 in the World and it takes the competitive spirit of wanting to win. Having a great desire to win. If you want to just play and have social time that’s one thing, you don’t have to have certain attributes. But if you want to be a winning player and beat games you have got to have so many things going for you and one of them is that true competitiveness. The heart of a lion, a big heart, you have to have a big heart. And most importantly is the ability, not to lose your head. If you lose it you’re done. With poker, you have to find out the ingredients it takes you to be a winner and knowing when to quit. It’s the subtleties that separate the winners from the losers. ~Vince Van Patten Take HollywoodPoker.com’s Weekly Poll and you’re automatically entered into a draw to win HP gear. This week's poll question: What's your primary motivation for playing poker? |
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