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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
Combine the Celebrity poker tournaments, the generous promotions and the unrivaled events and you’ve got just some of what makes HollywoodPoker.com the hottest online poker site on the net! Read the Extra to find out how you can cash-in with HollywoodPoker.com. In this week’s Extra: News travels fast, especially in Hollywood. That’s why HollywoodPoker.com’s exclusive Katrina Relief tournaments have proved a resounding success, attracting tons of players – both Celebrity and Non-Celebrity - every week! After all, why wouldn’t they? Katrina Relief is a great cause. Here’s how it works: For the month of September, HollywoodPoker.com will match the prize pools in the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational and the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic. All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross and The International Hospital for Children - HollywoodPoker.com’s Celebrity Player’s, Dennis Quaid’s charity of choice. Celebrity Players that have participated in the Katrina Relief tournaments this month, include: James Woods Thanks to everyone who’s played so far! The Katrina Relief tournaments are a fantastic way to help those who have been devastated by the Gulf coast disaster just by doing what you love. Read more about Katrina Relief Tournaments. HollywoodPoker.com will experience a downtime on Monday September 26, 2005 between 3am EST and 11am EST in order to perform routine maintenance. Think of it as a little face lift for your favorite online poker site. After all, looking this good isn’t completely effortless!
Learn more about the Big Deal tournament by visiting our Featured Tournaments page. Keep your eyes locked on the Extra for more updates on the Hollywood Poker Girls. Take a peak at the Poker Model Gallery! You can still use Poker Points to do everything you used to, like purchase select tournament tickets and participate in daily, weekly and monthly cash draws. The only thing that’s changed is that Poker Points are now easier than ever to earn – and why wouldn’t they be? Poker Points are your reward for playing at HollywoodPoker.com! Find out more about our improved Poker Points program and start earning!
I know you’ve been humming and hawing over how to kick off your real money playing career at HollywoodPoker.com. Rest assured - your days of indecision are over! HollywoodPoker.com offers you a choice of THREE incredible deposit bonuses, all of which feature a ticket to the beginners-only Red Carpet tournament. Here’s the run-down: Low to mid stakes players will benefit from our 25% Deposit Bonus up to 50%. Mid to high stakes players will adore our 500% Deposit Bonus up to a generous $1000 and tournament fanatics will fancy our Celebrity Tournament Package, which features a ticket to the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational or the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic. Learn more about our exclusive Poker Deposit Bonuses today! HollywoodPoker.com is thrilled to host the Grand IV tournament on October 1st and 2nd. Last time, this No-Limit Hold’em tournament paid out over $120,000 to the first place winner and this time around promises to pay out even more! In the past, the Grand tournament has been a resounding success and has attracted tons of players looking to have fun and play some serious poker with the prospect of scoring some major cash. Not too much is easy in life anymore. I, for one, spent the better part of this morning trying to figure out my new coffee maker. Thankfully, HollywoodPoker.com recognizes that life is tough and is happy to offer its dedicated players a little taste of the easy life – more specifically, the Easy Money. Every week, from Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm EST, HollywoodPoker.com hosts the Easy Money tournament – a tourney that features $100 added to the prize pool and boasts 50% of all players ending up in the money. Those are some attractive odds!
Tons of players have got their turn in the Player Spotlight and won a tournament ticket just by e-mailing me at hollay@hollywoodpoker.com! So, if you’re interested in being centre-stage for a week, just drop me a line telling me a bit about yourself. If you’re selected, you automatically win a ticket to the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational or the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic! In this week’s Player Spotlight, meet Kelliekrop24! I've been at Hollywood Poker for several months now and I can't tell you how much this great group of people has made me feel at home, from the regulars to the support staff. My first experience with poker started about 20+ years ago in Reno NV playing 7 Card Stud. I lived in Northern California, so a few times a year we would venture over the hill to Reno or Tahoe to do a bit of gambling. I soon found that Blackjack or Slots bored me crazy, but I found my love of cards at the poker tables. Over the years I just played 7 Card, but 2 years ago, my family moved to Las Vegas. Well needless to say, when you live here you have lots of visitors. My father in law became interested in Texas Hold’em, so I would take him downtown to play. He preferred playing at Binions Horseshoe so that is where I first was introduced to Texas Hold’em. I loved it! Soon after that I decided to check out online poker. I use a Mac and so I found that most sites didn't support Mac until I ran across Hollywood Poker. Well, from the first day I knew this was the place for me. I really enjoy interacting with people online and missed online chat. You see, I had done a lot of online chatting for years and then when I moved to Las Vegas, I really hadn’t made too many friends. It was nice to make some new friends online. I started chatting online about ten years ago and ended up meeting a great guy named Tom. After about 1 year we got engaged and married March of 1998. Back then it was unusual to meet people from online and everyone including my family thought I was nuts. Now, they all love him as much as I do. I really hit the jackpot meeting Tom. Tuff and I met for lunch, then of course, some poker. We both had wanted to see the poker room at Green Valley Ranch - a really nice Casino in Henderson that’s just next door to Vegas. It was so great to finally meet my first Hollywood Poker friend. She is a great gal and we both had a blast talking about poker and our experiences at Hollywood Poker. I hope to meet more people from Hollywood Poker and want to thank Hollywood Poker for having such a great site! ~Kellie (Kelliekrop24) 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: Poker Therapy - Forget yoga, tell us about how poker helps you relax - if it even does! Congratulations to last week's winner, dw0101! Read the winning submission below. Poker Etiquette Like the popularity of poker, poor sportsmanship has spread like the plague. And although I am ashamed to admit it, I have not been immune to this pesky epidemic. I think everyone who has parked themselves in front of their computer to play a few rounds of poker has found themselves face to face with their evil twin. Paranoia, judgment and ridicule all sneak their ugly heads out when things don’t go according to plan at the poker table. We’ve all been there. The cards just don’t seem to come some nights and we feel persecuted. Or we are out played by a check raise and feel victimized by our opponent as if they have some personal vendetta against us. And then it starts: the name-calling. It doesn’t take long to realize that at the poker table, it only takes one thing to make someone a moron, and that is your chips in their stack! One night, after a string of bad beats and the expansion of my vocabulary to include an inordinate amount of adjectives, I recognized it was time to take a step back. And then it hit me! I only get to play my cards! Wow! Really? Was it really that simple? Yes! From that night forward, I really started to enjoy poker and the people that I play with. I can’t say that I have never again felt a little steam rising after someone chased down their winning hand, but it is then I fall back on what my mother taught me a long time ago – “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!” ~ dw0101   Vince Van Patten’s Corner: On the run!Things have been super busy for me lately. Right now I’m filming the WPT in Atlantic City. We’re getting down to the final bit and let me tell you, the prize pool is huge! There aren’t that many players left, so things are getting really exciting. It’s so great to see poker in general take off like it has! On a personal note, I just went for a fantastic run along the board walk and jumped into the ocean. Atlantic City is great for doing that kind of thing. There’s all this fresh air and great weather! I have to run (again), so I’ll talk to you all again next week! ~Vince Van Patten 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 many tables do you usually play at once? |
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Katrina Relief tournaments
Downtime Scheduled!
Poker Point Improvement!
Player Spotlight: Kelliekrop24!
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