April 2008, Volume 1

We welcome you to another sizzling edition of The Insider, HollywoodPoker's weekly newsletter for the latest on our celebrities, online poker news and hot promotions.

Here's what's up!

• What's the buzz about the WSOP?
• Who had first picks at our WSOP Freeroll Your Way To Fame? Check it out here...
• Point your friends this way and get some extra cash!
• Find out who joined us at our $20,000 Annual Walk of Fame Freeroll Series?
• You got to know...
• Check out who cashed in on a handsome $2000 in celebrity bounties, at our Celebrity Bounty Series round up!
• HollywoodPoker celebrity cashes in and goes on holiday! Find out who...
• Will Jewel get a spot in our 2009 HollywoodPoker Girl Calendar - it's all in your hands!
• Here's a little something, something on Roulette - a simple game that's loads of fun!

Hope you have a good read. We also welcome your feedback, so please send them to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com

With just a little effort from your end, here's what we are going to do for you if you make it to the WSOP in Las Vegas coming up in June!

We understand that this feverish period could be a little stressful to you, so to take your mind off the nitty gritty tasks of booking a flight, placing a reservation at a hotel and thinking of your expenditure in the city of sin, how about you leave it to us!

We're extending three weekly indulgent packages that come with a choice of either the $16,000 Main Event Package - offering one main seat at the WSOP Championships OR the $13,000 Side Events Package - offering three seats at smaller events including Omaha Hi-Low and two Texas Hold 'em tournaments.

These luxurious packages promise to send you off, have you safely arrive and lavish you with celebrity class splendor at the glamorous five star Venetian Resort, Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. Not to mention providing you with a generous amount of traveling & spending allowance to be used at your leisure! We'll also be throwing in exclusive HollywoodPoker merchandise so you won't even have to think about what to wear!

Qualifiers are open now and there is a satellite for every bankroll - six daily WSOP Satellite tournaments with buy-ins starting at just $1+0.20 followed by followed by $2+0.25, $10+1, $5+. 50,$20+2 and $30+3 buy-in live event qualifiers. Check out our Qualifier Chart and choose one that's right for you!

For more information on the awesome WSOP promotions, head down to our HollywoodPoker WSOP Central!

Our WSOP Freeroll Your Way To Fame was off to a fabulous start on Saturday March 29th, with lucky winner John88888 taking home a $300+20 WSOP qualifier ticket after out playing the masses! Kudos John88888! We're rooting for you, take us to the championships!

Players' irek61, RC-ICEMAN, MAFIUSU, airfisher, cdnmoose06, .Kate., NEPatsfan69., leone1973 and steaveAustin from the final table received a $30+3 qualifier ticket each. Great work guys!

It's real simple, if you know a friend who wants to try their hand at a game of good ol' Texas Hold em', send them an invitation via HollywoodPoker and as soon as they make a Real Money deposit, you'll be able to watch the money cash into your account.

Successfully* invite 10 friends and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank with $2000 in your back pocket.

• Each friend can send you a total of $200 in bonuses
• Now you can even decide exactly when you want your bonus to start!
• At only 8 Poker Points per dollar, the $200 Invite-A-Friend bonus is easy to clear.

Find out more on how this works at HollywoodPoker's Promotions section.

In case you didn't know...we've also introduced great first time deposit bonus promotions- done WSOP style! So if you think you're friends would like to work their way to millions, point them over to our First Deposit Bonuses where they will be presented a variety of hard-to-resist offers, matching every player level and bankroll!

The second tournament of our Walk of Fame Freeroll Series that took place last Saturday saw nothing less than Tinsel Town glitz and glam at the tables!

Exclusive to HollywoodPoker's VIP members and celebrity players, WOF member Hupenmann cleaned out the tables that included a host of celebrity players. Ken Howard (Rambo) fell victim when he finished in ninth place, going all-in at pre-flop with A-J hole cards that unfortunately didn't hold up against Hupenmann's two pair, with his pocket cards, Q-10 when 6-K-10-6-5 fell on the board to make it two pairs for the winner. You've done us proud, Hupenmann!

The coveted Walk of Fame status that supersedes any monthly clubHOLLYWOODpoker level, offers VIP members all the benefits of our clubHOLLYWOODpoker Rewards Program including special privileges reserved only for Walk of Fame VIPs including our yearly Walk of Fame Freeroll Series!

As you might already have known, you don't have to be a ready-made star or poker pro to reap these VIP rewards. clubHOLLYWOOD members, who accumulate at least 25,000 Player Points within one calendar year and 1250 points per month subsequently to maintain it, will automatically have their VIP status renewed.

For those of you who won't be able to make it this time around, keep raking in the points and we might just see you at our 3rd tournament in the Walk of Fame Freeroll Series slated for July 5th, 2008. For more information on how to get there, head over to clubHOLLYWOODpoker Walk of Fame!

Hear Ye HollywoodPoker members! Please note that the weekly $110,000 Guaranteed - 1 Rebuy scheduled for every Tuesday at 9pm EDT / 1am GMT will cease to take place from April 15th, 2008 onwards.

Our final tournament will take place April 8th, so if you want a piece of this cake before it goes, head on over to our Tournament Calendar and register now!

Our weekly exciting celebrity bounty tournaments saw HollywoodPoker's stars battle it out with players at the tables.

March 18th's Canadian Poker Night wasn't easy for our players as celebrities held on tight to their seats. We saw randy2019x and belt_loop go home $100 richer taking out two celebrities each. Tough fight guys?

clauds12 cashed in on $250 taking out three celebrities, with the likes of Kato Kaelin (Revamped) giving him a run for his money till showdown when Kato revealed his A-9 high pocket cards that didn't get any help from the board's K-6-2-10-5. clauds12 however had better luck with face pocket cards Q-K, managing a King pair victory over the celebrities!

Other celebrities sighted at the tables were Alan Rosenberg (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Shaun Toub (The Kite Runner, Ironman) along with husband and wife pair Yancey Arias (Die Hard 4.0) and Anna Arias (Easy). Head here next week and give our celebrities a run for their money!

The Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational on March 22nd saw four of our players take home $100 each in celebrity bounties. Way to go LuhankaDonk, riskman6464, quality49, PokerJumal! Keep coming back for more guys!

The bounties grew bigger with our HollywoodPoker celebrity Erik Palladino (E.R) taking out fellow stars and walking away with a cool $250 for his third celebrity bounty. Meanwhile player McPeng demonstrated his bounty take out skills knocking out Billy Burke (Untraceable) who revealed J-9 pocket cards for only a 9 pair. McPeng then showed his beautiful snowmen hole cards against the board's 4-8-A-A-9 taking it all at showdown with a full house. Nice one McPeng!

Notable among the many celebrities spotted at the table on Saturday were Kenny Johnson (The Shield), Vince Lozano (E.R.), Mitch Allan (SR-71) and Pamela Gidley (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation).

At the March 23rd HollywoodPoker Celebrity Classic, players were on a roll, cashing in on really big celebrity knock out bounties! First up we saw memo111 take home $250 for his third celebrity bounty, and then we caught hiytimesOO go back $500 richer taking out four celebrities, but that just whet our palates for what was coming up!

As Sunday's tournament drew to a close, ttouch77 was crowned champion having knocked out five celebrities, cashing in on a whopping $2000 in celebrity bounties! In his final take down, we saw celebrity player Ronny Cox go all in with very confident pocket King pair that looked likely for a convincing win. It was however short-lived when ttouch77 revealed his 7 pair hole cards against the board's 4-7-6-6-Q, scooping the big pot with a beautiful full house. We're sure glad to have you on our team ttouch77!

Other celebrities spotted at the table were Ken Howard (Rambo), Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live), Boston Bob (Amazing Race) and Willie Garson (Sex and the City).

With over $300,000 in celebrity bounties won so far, get in on the action to win your share by visiting our Celebrity Tournament Schedule.

HollywoodPoker celebrity player Erik Palladino, showed off his card sharps skills at the tables last week advancing his way through 1,700 hopeful players and winning a handsome sum at the weekly $20,000 guaranteed tournament featured right here at HollywoodPoker!

As this Italian-Armenian hottie was playing his last hand at the tables, all he kept saying when the turn and river came was, "Costa Rica! Costa Rica! Costa Rica!" And that's just what he got! He told HollywoodPoker that his winnings are going to take him and his beautiful wife on a luxury vacation to...do we hear Costa Rica?!

Erik is starring in the recently released High Definition version of the 2007 action movie Crash & Burn, where he plays ex convict Kevin who goes undercover to expose a car theft syndicate proving that fast car thrills and adrenaline pumping action are all up his alley. He stars alongside David Moscow (Riding in Cars with Boys), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) and Mirelly Taylor (If I Didn't Care). Erik will also be starring in Hotel California, slated to be released soon! Lookout for what he's got to say about it exclusively here in your Insider!

Find out more on Erik and other celebrities at the Famous Faces section of HollywoodPoker's online magazine The Green Room or catch him at the tables during our weekend Celebrity Exclusives where he often can be found.

This British Jewel of Thai descent offers more than just hot, smoldering oriental looks as she proves to be quite the actress, being in the running for a spot draped on the arm of suave villain fighter - Bond, James Bond.

A veteran glamour model with vast experience in print advertisements, Jewel has always been a fan of the limelight. Foraying in many arenas, she continuously pushes her limits to excel in growing and developing personally as well as professionally.

Loving life to the fullest, this feisty little lady balances career and personal life finding pleasure in hitting the gym and working out on her fabulous body almost every day of the week. Screen-tested to appear in the Casino Royale sequel, Bond 22, she has been shortlisted and contests the likes of Tinseltown celebrity Sienna Miller (Stardust).

If you want this star class beauty to be on the cover of the 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar keep your votes coming at let her know by voting at www.hollywoodpokergirls.com.

Roulette originating from early 18th century France has borrowed its name from the French word meaning 'small wheel', can be found in almost every casino across the globe to date. Simple to play, the game evokes excitement from the simple mysteries of luck, consequence and maybe some calculation if you're more of the logic than luck sort!

The game begins when players begin placing a bet on either of the following, may it be:

• individual numbers
• the color of a number
• whether the number is odd or even
• or a section of numbers

A dealer or croupier then spins the wheel in one direction, then in quick succession rolls a ball in the opposite direction around a sloped circular surface which have numbered slots running around the border of the wheel. When the ball comes to rest in one of the slots, all bets are settled.

The wheel consists of 37 numbers in the European version (one zero) or 38 numbers in the American version (one zero and one double zero). At HollywoodPoker's Casino you have the choice of selecting your preference of style as well as bet types. So head on over to the Roulette tables and feel the thrills!

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