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green room > poker lifestyle > extra archives
A mere 2 weeks into December and Hollywood Poker has already been the scene of unprecedented poker action – and we’re just getting warmed up! Not only have we just announced the return of our famous $10K Freeroll Week, but we’ve revamped the Green Room and now our community is hotter than ever! :: Qualify for a shot at $10K in our THIRD Freeroll Poker Week!
If third time’s the charm, then you shouldn’t miss our $10K Freeroll Week III. The excitement starts in January and like all of our $10K Freeroll Poker Weeks, it rewards you for doing what you love: playing online poker! You have between December 5th at 12pm EST and January 9th at 5am EST to accumulate as many Poker Points as possible. Entrance into the four ascending value tournaments is based on how many Poker Points you acquire within this allotted time. Here’s the best part: You don’t have to exchange any of your hard earned Poker Points to enter – all you have to do is rack ‘em up! The freerolls are scheduled for 2006 starting January 10th, January 11th, January 13th and January 14th, so that gives you just over a month to make sure you’re dealt-in. Learn more about the $10K Freeroll Poker Week III.
The 2006 Hollywood Poker Girls Calendar is heating up this holiday season with the 12 hottest poker hostesses on the net. If you want to get your hands on these poker babes, just put your Poker Points to good use and exchange them for a calendar. Buy one for you, your friends, your uncle in the slammer – whoever you want! A whole 12 months of smoking hot poker bombshells is only a click away! Get a 2006 Hollywood Poker Girl Calendar today by going to your ‘My Account’ page and clicking ‘Exchange Poker Points’. Check out the Hollywood Poker Girls.
The poker babes are back by popular demand! Join the hottest poker girls on the net Saturday, December 17th at 4pm EST for the second Hollywood Poker Girls ‘Babes and Bounties’ Tournament. In addition to getting to tear up the felt with some seriously sexy ladies, you’ll also get to compete for the $2,000 guaranteed prize pool and $50 Babe and Celebrity Bounties. Competition never looked so good! Meet the Hollywood Poker Girls! Recently, Hollywood Poker Celebrity players participated in an offline charity tournament to raise money for MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers). Celebrities like Vince Van Patten, Dick Van Patten, Jon Favreau, Nick Gonzalez, Willie Garson, Kato Kaelin, Jimmy Van Patten, Billy Burke and Tony Denison rallied at the Bicycle Casino to pit their skills in for a shot at a $35K prize pool and most importantly, a chance to support a worthy cause. We’re thrilled to announce that Willie Garson finished 6th and Nick Gonzalez finished 3rd overall. Hollywood Poker is the title sponsor in the Hollywood Poker Goes MADD Charity Poker Tournament - a 10 event nation poker tournament supporting MADD. As promised, we’ll be bringing the charity tournaments online for everyone to play. For every offline event, we will host an online tournament to support MADD. Our Hurricane Relief tournaments made it clear that we have the most fantastic and supportive poker community on the net and we want to continue to host more charity events. Our first online charity tournament will be for MADD, so stay tuned for more details! The Stars were out and in full force for our $30K WPT Bellagio Celebrity Shootout. A $17,500 prize package including an all-inclusive paid trip to Vegas and a seat in the World Poker Tour, $100 bounties and a prize pool guaranteed at $10,000 attracted Celebrities like: Still, this star-power didn’t phase Danamal007, who bested the best to become the WPT Bellagio Celebrity Shootout champion. Danamal007’s headed for the WPT Bellagio in Vegas and as he said in an interview earlier this week, it’s a dream come true. “I still can’t believe it. I always dreamed about winning something like this, but I didn’t actually go into the tournament thinking I would win. You watch people drop off and suddenly you’re at the final table. It was amazing! I’m really looking forward to taking a seat at the WPT – it’s why I played the tournament in the first place!” Keep your eyes on the Extra for updates on Danamal007’s progress at the WPT. Thanks to everyone who played in this world class tournament. We’ll be hosting more exciting high-caliber tournaments in the future, so stayed tuned!
Thousands of players joined us for our Anniversary Freerolls – and when Hollywood Poker players hit the tables, you’re guaranteed action! Our two Anniversary Freerolls were a smash-hit thanks to everyone who came out to try their hands at a shot at $10K. Congratulations are in order for lilrichy5, who stole the stage and the big pot in the first Anniversary Freeroll on Friday and for ackanusz, who burned up the tables in a blaze of poker glory winning the final freeroll on Sunday. The $10K Anniversary Freerolls were our way of thanking the thousands of players who’ve made the first 365 days of Hollywood Poker so phenomenal. We look forward to many more amazing plays, wins and friends in the future!
Hollywood Poker has given the Green Room a facelift and it’s hotter than ever! Now you can navigate your way through pages dedicated to Hollywood Poker’s Babes, Poker News, Poker Community, Poker Productions and of course, Hollywood Poker’s Celebrities. Our new ‘Green Room’ online magazine is the place to meet new friends, find out what’s happening around the site, get cool Hollywood Poker downloads and much, much more! But you don’t have to take my word for it – check out the Green Room poker magazine and see for yourself!
A normal person once asked me if I would have a normal life without poker. Then I wondered, what is a normal person? Is a normal person someone who does the above and spends the rest of their life wondering, ‘What the hell did I do? What was I thinking? Surely there has to be something more than a piece of paper on the wall calling me a graduate and stating my worth! How about an inattentive spouse telling me all my faults! Not to mention screaming, complaining, ungrateful kids. To top it all off, I own a house that really owns me, because I will have to spend the rest of my life paying it off only to finally retire and break even’. I guess also there has to be a huge percentage of people that play poker who also fit in this category. Then I thought, ‘Do I think too much?’ Ha! Tell me a poker player that doesn't! I guess that's why we play. It helps us deal with normality, it helps us deal with stress, it takes us to another world where nothing else matters but being in the moment. It brings us to a place where people speak another language with sayings like "runner, runner", "you check you lose" and "dueces never looses" - a language that only a true poker player understands. When I am playing I live in a world where a sweater is something human and does not always keep me warm. I live in a world when on any given day a total stranger down on his luck can turn into an overnight millionaire and become an instant celebrity. I live in a world where I can sit at a table with a total stranger and feel his/her pain when that bad beat hits. I live in a world where no one has a mortgage, screaming kids an inattentive spouse and a boring job! Then I realized I already have a normal life and I am a normal person and a life without poker would just plain suck! What would I do with an extra 30-40 hours a week without poker? Is 30-40 hours too extreme? Who cares! Would I hang out with my spouse’s friends and pretend I am interested in what they have to say? Would I ask my kids to hang out with their uncool parent doing something that they would not appreciate anyway? Would I read a boring text book trying to educate myself for another piece of worthless paper. Maybe I could spend hours slaving away in my backyard building a deck to bring up the value of my home. I don't think so! A world without poker - is there anything worse? I think not! So to all of you other people out there without poker I send my sympathies. ~adamxy Congratulations are in order for adamxy, who received the most votes in this week's Write to Win contest and who's won a tournament ticket! You could win a HollywoodPoker.com tournament ticket for submitting an article in our Write to Win promotion! All you have to do is write about the week’s topic and send it to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. I’ll post all articles that qualify in the ‘Center Stage’ section of the Green Room forums and your fellow players vote for their favorite article. Aside from the prestige and praise you’ll receive for your rhetorical brilliance, if you win you’ll also score a tournament ticket. This week’s topic: Poker & Fashion. While I was on a poker cruise last year, James Woods, (who’s usually harassed by fans) was harassing fans to tell him these bad beat stories. Hearing about bad beats for 20 minutes or so is not that bad, but this went on for days until eventually even fans were walking away from him. Jimmy: Cool it on the bad beat stories, but keep up the game! No one really likes to hear them – well, maybe on occasion they do, but not as much as he tells them.
Better luck next time, Jimmy!
Last week we invited you to take our Hollywood Poker Quiz to qualify for a chance to win Hollywood Poker gear. The response was astounding! Hundreds of players flocked to the site to take the quiz. We’d like to thank everyone who took a few minutes to pick their brains and answer the five questions. Congratulations to burrellisgod, who not only possesses profound Hollywood Poker knowledge, but also possesses stylish Hollywood Poker gear! Did you take the quiz and want to know how you did? Wait no longer – here are the answers: Question: How do you make the avatars invisible in our download version? Question: If you are a tournament lover, which of Hollywood Poker’s Deposit Bonuses is perfect for you? Question: How many Poker Points does the referrer need to earn in our Invite-A-Friend promotion? Question: How much is the prize package worth in our WPT Celebrity Shootout tournament? Question: Name 5 Celebrities that played in the December 1st Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational. To take Hollywood Poker's Quiz this week, simply make sure you're logged in and then answer five questions about the site. If you get them all right, you could win Hollywood Poker gear. All the answers are on the site, so it's not only fast, it's also easy and above all, it pays out in style! Go to the Green Room and take the quiz! |
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Qualify for a shot at $10K in our THIRD Freeroll Poker Week!
Stay warm this winter with the Hollywood Poker Girls Calendar!
Player Spotlight: 
Words from Vince Van Patten, WPT Host and Commentator
Hollywood Poker Quiz: Test yourself and win! |
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