The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog poker, with the main event awarding $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day tournament will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The popular sportsbetting website will also feature six “Bounty” games, where the contestants can win $109 in tournament credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they eliminate from the poker contest. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just some of the Bodog poker pros challenging all conteders in the event.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably psyched about the Texas Hold em contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has won nearly $1.4 million. He says that if you considered that the first poker tournament was a good one, you will definitely be astonished with this year’s tournament and the awards involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the Texas hold em tournament to step forward.

The opening Bounty Tournament will be the first Texas Hold em game in the contest on Sunday. Any poker challenger has the ability to buy-In straight, and any of the other events with cash. Or another choice is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are presented every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. Bodog will feature six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

In the tournament will be thirteen events which will lead up to the main contest on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the poker championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, regardless of the number of players in the Bodog Open. All the competitors who decide to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in turn will be given 10,000 in tournament chips.

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Is it better to play a tight poker tournament or a loose Texas holdem’ tournament?

You will unquestionably hear both sides of this argument from your fellow poker players or possibly the so-called poker pros. Let’s take a look first at the tight poker players. All players including yourself will find it hard winning, if the entire poker table is playing a tight poker game. Probably what mat occur if you have a table full of tight players is the Texas holdem’ players will finish up exchanging the smaller pots back and forth to each other. In the meantime the poker lounge is raking in heaps of your hard-earned cash, and that of your competition. So now you might say, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better Texas holdem’ players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to come out on top.

How can I enhance my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as simple as a piece of paper and a pen. A great approach to learn a lot about your playing style and strategy, is to keep track of your Texas holdem’ playing. It’s possible to write down this information during the Texas holdem’ game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your opponents playing style, and what is the best strategy to overpower them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every Texas holdem’ game?

If you consider that playing predictable poker is a winning tactic for playing poker, then you should think about altering your Texas holdem’ tactic. The experts have the same opinion that changing your poker playing approach is the best way to confuse and bewilder your poker competition. You should test a number of tactics, discover the best ones for each situation and change them up for each poker game.

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According to the 2006 WSOP winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be recognized as the best bluffer in the world of poker. But if his last tournament is any indication, his wish may not be granted any time soon.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is hanging on in the tournament for dear life. The seat 4 player has just raised his bet to $300, a minor increase with only one player biting the line. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie believed that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold thought that Booth had a good hand, but he was in a good position to make a move considering the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken finally folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie went ahead and made it another $4000. He was thinking, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no possibility they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a considerable move on the flop, as long as no ace was dealt. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s first thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 laid down a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus converting his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 most likely had an ace, but you have to protect it in case he hits his set on the next card.

A 2 of hearts appeared on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 beat Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he created a terrific play and took the bluff all the way through to the finish.

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Poker was a game available only in Sin City casinos or from video poker, but now it is more widespread than ever in Vegas thanks to the internet and TV.

The famous Venetian, is now gambling on the popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its Venetian Showroom, debuting in October.

The new game show will mix comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to take part in the great game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. Many prizes are available for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the poker game show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a vacation in Las Vegas want to play different types of poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big game with the likes of Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the start of the show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two pro poker players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to play in the poker tv show. There are other ways to add to your point total, that doesn’t involve poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a champion in poker in this game.

Creators of the show are also betting on the great personalities of the pro poker players to create some interesting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely knows how to work the crowd and should provide some memorable moments in this TV poker game show .

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Shortly after the beginning of last week’s charity poker event to help the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ben Affleck goes all-in with a flop of Ace-Nine-King and two diamonds. He cringes when two of his opponents call the bet. He yells “Re-buy”, but the turn is a seven of hearts. Affleck is upset when a jack of diamonds is dealt on the river. He took the hand seriously even though there was no actual cash at stake. This is just the kind of thing that Affleck and several other internet poker enthusiasts are lobbying for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only function of the celebrity poker game held in Coors Field. Members of the Poker Players Alliance are working very hard to legalize online poker in the United States. As part of their agenda, they are pushing to repeal the 2006 legislation Congress passed which forbids U.S. Banks and credit card companies from processing transactions related to online gambling websites.

John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, is optimistic about the direction that the new congress will lead this decision. Pappas says that the alliance is pushing for a licensed industry, just for internet poker, and not for all internet gambling. Pappas is interested in having a safe, regulated industry that all Americans can enjoy. The group is fighting for the rights of people and the privacy they deserve in their own home.

“There are misconceptions about poker and about internet poker,” poker pro Andy Bloch said in between hands during the charity celebrity poker event. “Some people think that online gambling is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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