A huge prize pool was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main tournament giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day tournament will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known poker tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” eliminatories, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker contestant they eliminate from the tournament. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just some of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all competitors in the poker contest.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably energized about the poker contest. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has won around $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker contest was a good one, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s Texas Hold em contest and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to eliminate him from the Texas hold em tournament to step forward.

The opening Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the contest on Sunday. Any poker challenger is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker games with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are being played every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. Bodog will feature six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen eliminatories which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prize money, regardless of the quantity of Texas Hold em players in the contest. All the poker players who want to enter the main event will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in turn will receive 10,000 in poker chips.

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Are there more chances to win if I play a tight poker game or loose?

You will undoubtedly hear both sides of this argument from your fellow poker players or even the so-called poker experts. Let’s have a look first at the tight players. Everybody including yourself will find it difficult winning, if the whole poker table is playing tight. What will happen if you have a poker table full of tight poker players is the poker players will wind up swapping the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino hotel is raking in tons of your hard-earned cash, and that of your competitors. So now you may say, is it better to play loose? Well, in this circumstance the better poker 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 better my poker playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as simple as a piece of paper and a pen. A great tactic to learn a lot about your playing method and tactic, is to keep track of your poker playing. You could write down this information during the poker game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your competitor’s playing style, and what is the best tactic to defeat them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every poker game?

If you think that being predictable is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should consider altering your Texas holdem’ tactic. The poker experts agree that varying your poker playing approach is the greatest way to confuse and bewilder your poker competitors. You should test a handful of strategies, discover the best ones for each situation and alter them for each poker tournament.

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According to the 2006 World Series of Poker winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be celebrated as the finest bluffer in the world. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not be granted any time soon.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his bet to $300, a tiny 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 thought that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold was thinking that Booth had a reasonable hand, but he was in a good position to make a move considering the amount of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a sizeable move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. 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 primary 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 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to protect it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts showed up 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 superior hand, he made a terrific play and took the bluff to the end of the poker tournament.

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

The popular Venetian Hotel, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, starting in October.

Their new show will combine comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the well loved 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 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 trip to Las Vegas, Nevada want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament 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 professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

Creators of the show say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the poker tv show. There are other ways to boost your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of 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 poker champion in this game.

The shows producers are also placing bets on the personalities of the pro poker players to create some great moments. Poker players like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience 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 game to aid 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 challengers 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 online poker enthusiasts are pushing for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only function of the poker event held in Coors Field. Members of the Poker Players Alliance are working very hard to legalize internet 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 poker 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 online 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 online poker,” poker pro Andy Bloch said in between hands during the charity poker game. “Some people think that online gambling is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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