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Read the Extra to find out more.

In this week’s Extra:

:: Katrina Relief tournaments!
:: Exclusive HP Deposit Bonuses!
:: Poker Points: Easier to earn!
:: Invite-A-Friend: Better than ever!
:: $50K and $40K Guaranteed tournaments!
:: Get lucky with Lucky Dollar!
:: Player Spotlight: quadjammer!
:: Write to Win
:: Vince Van Patten’s Corner
:: Weekly Poll


Katrina Relief tournaments

It’s time to put all that poker savvy toward a good cause and play in our Katrina Relief tournaments. For the month of September, HollywoodPoker.com will be matching the prize pools in the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational and the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic. Half the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross and the other half will go to the International Hospital for Children Foundation – the charity of choice for Dennis Quaid, one of HollywoodPoker.com’s Celebrity Players.

Tons of Celebrity Players have participated in the Katrina Relief tournaments so far this month, including: 

James Woods
Vince Van Patten
Wayne Gretzky
Lenny Dykstra
Mimi Rogers
Tom McGowan 
Ronny Cox
Michael Kane
Ricki Lake
Michael Woods   
Pamela Gidley
Yancey Arias
Andrew Hill Newman
Jimmy Van Patten
Michael Woods
Kane Hodder
Josh Charles
Tim Busfield
Norby Walters
Jonathan Baker
 
We’d like to thank all of our Celebrities for coming out to support this great cause and congratulate Celebrity Player, Wayne Gretzky, for snagging the coveted title of Last Celebrity Standing in last week’s Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic.

We’d also like to thank all of the players who have participated in the Katrina Relief tournaments and encourage everyone to join us in the upcoming weeks.

Read more about Katrina Relief Tournaments.

Exclusive HP Deposit Bonuses!

Count them with me: There’s not one, not two, but THREE ways you can get your real money bankroll off to a cushy start at HollywoodPoker.com! Depending on your style of play, you can get a 25% HP Deposit Bonus up to $50, a 500% HP Deposit Bonus up to $1000 or you can enjoy our Celebrity Tournament Bonus Package, which features a ticket to the famed Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational or the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic.  All HP Bonuses also include a ticket to the beginners’ only Red Carpet tournament so you can warm up before you jump in.

Find out how you can get an HP Deposit Bonus!


Poker Points: Update!

Poker Points are our way of rewarding you just for playing in real money tournaments and ring games at HollywoodPoker.com – and now, it’s even easier to accumulate them! You can acquire points quickly and with ease and exchange them for tickets to select tournaments, like the famous Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational, Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic, Speed Zone and Poker Points Freerolls.

Find out more about our improved Poker Points program and start earning!


Invite-A-Friend: Better than ever!

As part of our commitment to make you feel like a star, we’ve made it even easier to cash-in with our Invite-A-Friend program. When you successfully Invite-A-Friend, now you’ll score $100! We’re talking more money and all you have to do is tell your friends about HollywoodPoker.com, then sit back, relax and let them do the rest.

Find out more about how you can cash-in with our Invite-A-Friend promotion!

$50K and $40K Guaranteed tournaments

Hey there, high-rollers! It’s time to put on your big-player pants and join us every Saturday at 9pm EST for the $50K Guaranteed tournament and Friday at 9pm EST for the $40K Guaranteed tournament. This is your chance to really pad your bankroll and score some serious bragging rights!

Learn more about our $50K and $40K Guaranteed tournaments by visiting our Featured Tournaments page.

Get lucky with Lucky Dollar!

Let’s face it, inflation isn’t going away and the list of things you can buy with a dollar is only going to get shorter, but at HollywoodPoker.com one buck can go a long way in the Lucky Dollar tournament! That’s right! For a mere dollar you can join us every Saturday at 3pm EST and play in this fabulous tournament which boasts $2,500 added into the prize pool.

Learn more about the Lucky Dollar tournament by visiting our Featured Tournaments page.

Player Spotlight: quadjammer!

E-mail me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com, ask to be in the Player Spotlight and if you're selected, you win an HP tournament ticket! The Player Spotlight features a different HollywoodPoker.com player and every week, we get to learn a little bit about the people at our tables.

In this week’s Player Spotlight, meet quadjammer!

Each week I read the Player Spotlight and it’s interesting to get to know a little more personal stuff about the players I've sat at the tables with. I am 37 until Oct 1st. I own my own business and have been a custom painter for 21 years now. I have also been racing since I was 6 years old. I currently race Speedway Midgets and Quads professionally. Of all the classes I've raced, I have won numerous track championships and 2 national titles. I also spent 4 1/2 years in the Navy and 8 months of that was spent in Desert Storm. I was married for 6 years and been divorced for the last 6 years. My work and racing keeps me pretty busy but I hope to find that special someone that's actually the "right one" again.
 
I have made tons of new friends here at HP. It’s a pleasure to come here each day and get all the ‘hellos’ from friends in the lobby or when I sit at a table and have someone ask me, "How's it going quad?" because they remember me from a month ago sitting at their table and talking to them.

Recently, I have learned a very valuable lesson and I would like to share with everyone who takes the time to read the Spotlight. I know that there are hundreds of players who venture through the site and read the threads and posts in the ‘Green Room’ and such. To date there have been 5 pages generated on a thread about me. I made a serious error in judgment one night by letting my fingers type faster then I could think. I said something at a table just as I was getting booted for loosing all my chips for what I thought was a bad beat for the particular situation. I won’t get into all the details here because I posted a response in the thread and explained in detail what happened and what I said. I don't think a lot of people take seriously the outcome or emotion pain that talking with such hate causes others. I said one word that offended someone to the point of writing to HP and had my chat banned! I take full responsibility for what I said and have served my time. I truly found out a lot about who my real friends were and also how what I said made an emotional impression. Michael Woods even posted a reply in the thread and it was well put and to the point. After being banned, (and while I was banned), it has opened my eyes to what is really being said both in the games and in the lobby. HP is very serious about the kind of things we talk about and have taken actions in many ways to help keep HP a great place to play. You can get banned from chat or banned from the site completely for doing something like colluding or just by saying something derogatory. All it takes is for someone to see you say it or hear that you did it and HP can (and will) find out the details and take action!

So, in conclusion, I would like to say thanks to everyone who supported my UN-BAN effort and I look forward to seeing all of you not only in the main lobby but at the tables. HP is a great site and I plan on being here for a very long time.

~quadjammer

P.S.  Making new friends online is awesome and I do believe that what we have here is a new age in chat rooms. I live in So Cal and have made so many friends that a bunch of us are planning on getting together at a local So Cal casino; maybe the Bicycle Club. So, if you are in So Cal, drop me a personal message and we can all get together for a night of real table action and get to know our friends that we play with for hours on end each day here at HP. I for one have knocked out a celebrity and will be wearing my HP hat with pride.

Write to Win

Submit a poem, article or short story dealing with this week's topic to the Write to Win contest and you could win a tournament ticket.  All entries are posted in the Community section of the site in ‘Green Room’ 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: Table Etiquette: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Congratulations to last week's winner, pokerviper3. Read his winning submission below.

I rode the rush too far. I can see by the expression on your face you are wondering how. Well, one day I was sitting in my local poker room, and went on a $600 run in 4 hands at $2-$5 No’ Limit table. Then I decided to try to play conservatively, but the cards kept coming and I was getting premium hand after hand. Then it happened I started to loosen my game because I couldn’t miss a flop. By this time I am up $900. I sent a player packing and a new player took his spot bought in for $1000.

The cards were dealt. I looked at my first one: Ad. I looked at my second: As. Being on the button, I got to see how the table liked their hands. The new player pushed all-in under the gun. I was jumping for joy inside. I told myself I was going to leave after this hand. Of course, I call. He turns over Kc and 8c. I was so happy. The flop came 3c, 3d and 5s. I am in great shape.

As he pulls out his wallet getting ready to re-buy the turn came 9c. I am getting worried now. Although, I know runner-runner is unlikely, I start to sweat. The river comes an ace, but the only ace I didn’t want to see: Ac. I guess I rode the rush too long but held true to myself by leaving after getting busted by runner-runner.

~pokerviper3


Vince Van Patten’s Corner: Play Nice

I think there are 3 essential rules for table etiquette.

#1: You should never put down anyone’s play at the table. It’s the worst thing you could possibly do. They are gambling with their own money and you have no right to insult the way they play.

#2: Don’t be a gloating winner. It’s just plain unattractive.

#3. Don’t hit and run. This last rule is really more of a personal preference I guess. Unless I truly have to leave, I will stay in a game after a substantial win for a bit in order to give other players a chance to get some money back unless I truly have to leave.

~Vince Van Patten

Weekly Poll: Vote to Win!

When you participate in HollywoodPoker.com’s Weekly Poll and you’re automatically entered into a draw to win HP gear.

This week’s poll question: How important is table etiquette to you?

Go to the Hollywood Poker Forum to vote!

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