Doylesroom.com is offering $150,000 that will be up for grabs this April. They are calling it the $150,000 Extreme Points Race and the winners are going to haul away some large amounts of cash. You will have a chance to win one of five large prizes.
All you have to do is play a lot of online poker. The game is a race to see you can get the most Frequent Player Points (FPPs) throughout this entire month.
Extreme Points Race Prizes
Here are the prizes that you have a chance to win:
Each of the 4 weeks this month will have a $25,000 Weekly Race. This $25k will be split between the top 200 players who finish with the most FPPs. The poker player with the most FPPs will get $1,500 to take home, the top 3 get over $1,000 each, and the top 60 get over $100 a piece.
Also, there is one Big $50,000 Monthly Race. This poker race lasts the entire month of April at Doyle’s Room. In this race, the top 300 players who accumulate the most FPPs have a chance to split the $50K prize pool. Top prize is $3,500 and the top 4 places get over $1,200. If you get in the top 15, you can take home at least $500 and the top 120 get $100 in cash.
How do you get FPPs?
At Doylesroom.com, you will earn 1 FPP for every dollar raked (accumulative amongst players) in a real money ring game. You will also get 7 FPPs per dollar paid in tournament fees.
You don’t have to worry if you are starting late. Each week you have a new chance to win some money in this April Extreme Points Race, but you need to start soon if you want to grab a piece of the Month long race $50K prize pool.
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Every poker player who puts some effort into the game learns strategies which can make his winning odds better. Such strategies are definitely very effective but there are times when you need have something extra to emerge as a winner.
This something extra is a set of those extra special strategies which have the mettle to overcome the pro players. The ordinary game skills may beat the ordinary players but to beat players player who are more than ordinary, you need to have strategies which are more than ordinary themselves.
Let’s look at some strategies which can be useful on a table populated with good players:
- Unpredictability: The better your opponent is the easier it is for him to know your plans.
When he sees you trying to change that expression on your face, he knows you maybe be trying to bluff. The moment he sees you looking at the small blind, he knows what your next more going to be.
So, a very important is to make your moves unpredictable. Twist your strategies, make the steps less obvious and use your tricks at the right time.
The right time is when your opponent does not expect you to do so. The important thing is to remember that even your opponent knows that you are trying to do the unexpected and you have to take special care to be truly unpredictable.
- Ending Math: It is essential to be good at math and to be able to do calculation fast.
You have to keep working out the chances and the ways in which your opponent may try to exploit you. All the good players wait for the last part of the game to make their strong moves.
Techniques such as SAGE system and Nash-Equilibrium are mathematic procedures which make it easy for a player to have a better idea of the final moves before they happen.
These may not be very useful when playing on the normal tables, but play crucial roles in high stake pro games.
- ICM: This is another math-based technique which makes calculations easier and presents a clearer picture of the odds to players so that the best decision can be made.
ICM stands for Independent Chip Model and this enable the player to understand the value of stake in terms of dollars instead of the number of chips in the stack.
This is very useful for making long-term game plans.
- Watching the pros: Watch the pro tournaments whenever you can. Take notes of the strategies used by the players and the results of those.
This first advantage of this is that you get to learn new tricks and strategies which make you stronger.
The second and more important advantage is that you will get to know the strengths, weaknesses and playing styles of players who may be your opponents in the tournament.
Knowing how your opponent players can be a major help if you want to outwit them.
If you are only concerned about online poker tournaments, you don’t have to worry about your tells the same way you would at a live poker tournament. Playing small home game tournaments will help you develop the skills and patience needed to win in a live tournament.
But above all this is practice and hard work. Just knowing the skills and strategies cannot help you. You have to master these techniques with actual practice.
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Au.888.com mainly offers Texas Hold’em and Omaha Hi/Lo poker games and tournaments. They also offer a great texas holdem strategy guide.
They also hosts Sit & Go tournaments, which are mini poker tournaments for up to 50 players or so. Just sit down at a table and wait for the tournament to fill up. The tournament starts when all the tables are full.
You can also play single table sit & gos with only 9 or 10 players, which is a lot more like a home game. There are lots of tables available with different buy-in amounts for high rollers and modest bettors.
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Reasons to play at au.888.com:
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Win a seat to the 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship through one of the many satellite tournaments.
The online poker room, Bodog, has announced that they are now accepting Canadian customers. While the site, which was founded in 1994, has been largely popular and one of the largest online poker website, the site did not accept Canadian players because of businesses in Canada that would not be protected from governmental intrusions. The Canadian government has recently changed this stance, allowing Canadians at a new site bodog.ca.
This site will be incorporated with Bodog Europe and will allow Canadians to play in online poker tournaments. Bodog Europe is headed up by Keith O’Donnell. He said, “Canadian players will be able to access a Canada-specific product suite from www.bodog.ca starting in the Fall of this year. I aggressively renegotiated the Bodog Europe brand license agreement to acquire the rights to the Canadian market earlier this year and I would expect the Canadian market – extremely technologically literate, sports lovers, and a very significant poker base – to be a huge success story in 2009 and 2010.”
Canadian Bodog players will also be able to place bets on the website’s sports book and casino, which feautres a myriad of games to choose from. As a promotion, Bodog is doubling Poker Points for players who earn at least 2,000 points in the month of September. Afterwards, Bodog will deposit the bonus points into the player’s account.
This comes during a busy month for Bodog. They have already launched a new online poker network – Bodognetwork.com. Also, they are celebrating their 15th anniversary with a $15,000 Freeroll tournament.
- Update, Monday, September 21
Bodog’s 15 Days of Poker begins today, which is capped off with a $15,000 Freeroll tournament on October 15, 2009.
Right now, SunPoker.com players can gain entry via satellite to the first $1 Million tournament scheduled on September 13, 2009.
The second $1 Million is on October 11th. The buy-in into the big event is $500+35, but of course SunPoker will be running hundreds of satellites for players to win their seats to the tournament. In fact, players can win a seat to the big game for as little as .44 cents with satellites running every day. Click here for the full schedule of satellites
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Poker is without doubt one of the most famous card games in the world, played over kitchen tables, in clubs, casinos and even over virtual tables in online poker rooms. While some other card games, such as casino war, are based on chance, in poker it is skill that often decides who will end raking in the chips. And when skills are at stake, it’s a short way to a tournament.
Nowadays many players choose to play from the comfort of their own homes, visiting one of the online poker rooms. However for many players sitting by a real poker table seems more prestigious, allowing to truly mark your presence in the poker world and perhaps meet face to face with some of the best players there are. Not to mention that prize pools in major tournaments often reach truly astonishing sums. Therefore many choose to travel to often distant places to feel the unique atmosphere and put their skills and luck to the test in hope for fame and big money.
Prize pools benefit very much from buy-ins paid by players when they sign up to a tournament. But paying buy-in to a major poker tournament is often a big expense for an average budget. Because of that tournament organizers offer less wealthy poker players to qualify at a lower cost through satellite tournaments. Apart from that many online poker rooms and casinos offer special tournaments where a skilled player can win a package including not only a seat in one of the events, but also travel, stay in a hotel and some pocket money to enjoy your time in one of the famous casino resorts.
And if by any chance poker action and big money were not tempting enough, the destinations certainly are. The World Series of Poker, the most important tournament in the poker world takes place in Las Vegas, the ultimate destination for all casino fans. But other tournaments do not lag much behind. Poker Tour series organized by PokerStars on various continents invite players to casinos in Monte Carlo, Moscow, Sydney, San José in Costa Rica or an exotic casino resort in Macau. This way even if you are not the one to play at a final table, you can still indulge in the unique casino atmosphere in some of the most exciting places in the world.
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