The Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, seeks to raise additional funds leading up to a crucial vote this summer on legislation to license and regulate online poker. On July 1, their goal is to raise $50K.
Please donate — even if it’s just a buck!
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| It’s time for the 2010 4th of July Contest featuring Triple Play Draw Poker.
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This month our Bonus Award is called “USAces”. We’re giving away 3 months of GOLD membership to the top five players with the most aces in a 200 deal session. For more information about contest rules and prizes, This should be a fun contest. To start playing, visit the VideoPoker.com home page. |
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Joker Poker online video poker is video poker played with a standard 52-card deck plus a Joker. The minimum paying hand is a pair of Kings or Better, as opposed to a pair of Jacks or Better that is most often the minimum paying hand for video poker games without a Joker. What makes Joker Poker so appealing is that paytables do exist that offer an advantage to the player — if played optimally, of course.
While there is no Joker Poker offered online that has a player edge (also referred to as a +EV, for “positive expected value”), Bodog.com online casino comes close at 99.97%.
For a complete analysis of all forms of online video poker, see my online video poker page.
Deuces Wild (DW) online video poker is an exciting variant of video poker in which 2s are wild. Your bankroll will experience a lot of ups and downs relative to other forms of video poker because your return is based more on higher paying hands than in, for example, plain old generic Jacks or Better.
Optimal play in Deuces Wild will often dictate that you throw away all 5 dealt cards, so be prepared to simply “try again” on a fair number of hands in order to try for the all-power wild cards. For example, when dealt a hand that excludes 2s, a pair, a four-flush
The vast majority of online gambling sites offer Deuces Wild video poker, but not all of them offer a decent payout to players. Grand Virtual offers the best return to players at a whopping 99.72%, but not all players from all regions are accepted at Grand Virtual online casinos; for example, U.S. players are excluded, as are players from other countries. The next-best choices are the Rival Gaming online casinos, offering a 99.37% return. The download version of the BetUS.com Casino is a Rival Gaming casino, and BetUS.com Casino (unlike other Rival Gaming casinos) accepts players from all 50 US states.
For a complete analysis of all forms of online video poker, see my online video poker page.
Jacks or Better (JoB) video poker is the game that started the video poker craze. Every online gambling software vendor that deals any form of video poker deals Jacks or Better. The best odds on JoB are found at what is called a “9/6” machine — 9 for a Full House, 6 for a Flush — and has a 0.46% house edge at optimal play. Compare this to “8/6”, “8/5”, and even “6/5” machines that offer increasingly worse odds for the player.
Online “9/6” Jacks or Better is easy to find, so where you decide to play is mainly about customer service, bonuses, and speed of payout. The top-rated site that offers “9/6” Jacks or Better and that accepts players from most regions in the world — including all US states — is the download version of BetUs.com Casino. Another good choice is BoDog, where you can practice for free without having to download or register.
For a complete analysis of all forms of online video poker, see my online video poker page.
The US-friendly Rival Gaming online casino, Ruby Royal, has a new player promotion this month. While “timed free play” offers are popular for Microgaming online casinos (all of which bar US players, in case you are wondering), this is the first “timed free play” offer that I have seen for a Rival Gaming online casino.
Here is a short summary of the new player offer at Ruby Royal; see their Promotions page for complete details.
“Simply register a real casino account, log into the software and visit the cashier. Claim the bonus ’30 minutes and 888 free bets’. Once you claim the bonus, you have 30 minutes and 888 free bonus cash to go for the jackpot and win as much as you can. Anything over and above the 888 is considered winnings and is yours to keep up to a maximum of 100 credits. Regardless of whether you win or lose on this risk free offer, you will still be eligible to claim our massive 100% matching bonus up to 888 free on your first deposit.”
Registered Intertops.com customers can compete in a $100K World Cup bracket contest. Just pick all 64 matches correctly (team to win or draw in the group phase, team to progress in the knockout phase) and win $100K. Here is the prize structure from the Intertops.com $100,000 World Cup Bracket contest page.
“The customer with 64 correct picks will receive the main prize of $100,000. Should more customers have 64 correct picks, the main prize will be divided equally between them. If there is no perfect bracket, the customer with the most correct picks will receive a $5,000 first prize. Should two or more customers be tied for first, then the $5,000 prize will be divided equally between them. Customers finishing 2nd – 20th in the final Bracket ranking will receive an equal share of an additional $5,000 prize-money. Should more than one player be tied for 20th place, then these players will also be added to those eligible for the prize money.”
Intertops.com is also offering a DOUBLE World Cup boost with two 20% Deposit Bonus offers for the tournament. This promotion runs right up until the start of the World Cup final on July 11th and you can enjoy up to $50 more on each of two separate deposits – and to make things even better, you can choose exactly when you want to claim your extra cash!
If the $100K bracket and the deposit bonuses aren’t enough for you, there’s more: every dollar wagered on the matchups at the soccer World Cup means an extra ticket in the end-of-tournament draw for a luxury trip to Super Bowl XLV!
Intertops.com is a long-time 5-star rated sportsbook. It’s a site that you can trust, and one that I recommend for all players.
As if weekends weren’t fun enough, Online Vegas will be featuring Free Entry Slot Tournaments every weekend in June. Beginning Saturdays at 9AM (ET) and ending Sundays at 10PM (ET), play for free in the $2,500 Bonus Buck Weekend Freeroll Slot Tournament.
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