Online Gambling

Online Poker sites on the Merge Poker Network have recently began accepting new online poker accounts from poker players in the United States. While not all online poker players are accepted, most are eligible to open an online poker account. (Online poker players from the following states/jurisdictions are still barred at Merge Poker sites: KY LA MO MD NY WA DC).

My top three online poker sites on the Merge Poker Network are:

• OddsMaker Poker
• Poker Nordica
• PokerHost

All offer a 100% match bonus on your initial deposit, with OddsMaker matching up to $1K — the most of any Merge Poker Network site that I am aware of. In addition, OddsMaker spreads $40K a month in online poker freerolls: 7 x $200 daily free rolls, with the games varying from Pot Limit Omaha, to H.O.R.S.E. to No Limit Hold’em.

Real money online poker players that reside in the United States have fewer options for their online poker play since Black Friday of April 2011. As I am sure you are aware, many online poker rooms have left the United States market in light of the FBI’s actions on that day.

DoylesRoom.ag has decided to keeps its online poker room open to US players. They are even allowing new accounts to residents of the United States (except WA and MD residents). They have recently moved to the Yatahay Online Poker Network, joining a half dozen or so other online poker rooms on the network. In addition, they are offering a LIMITED TIME initial deposit bonus of 100% when you deposit between $50 and $1000.

Doyle’s Room deals Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo tournaments (both normal and turbo) and cash games in fixed limit (FL), pot limit (PL) and no limit (NL) formats. You can easily find your favorite game using the filters provided in the poker lobby.

The easiest way to make a deposit at Doyle’s Room is with your Visa card. Otherwise, you can deposit via a Bank Wire or a Person-to-Person transfer; however, these deposit options are obviously less convenient than depositing via your Visa credit card. There is a $50 minimum deposit — this is perfectly reasonable, in my opinion.

Your best withdraw option is probably a bank draft / check. Checks can be requested for between $25 and $2500 once per week and have no fee! You can also choose debit cards as your withdrawal method, but there is a $5 monthly fee, plus a load fee of $2 each time that you load the card. Debit cards usually also have a per-transaction fee when you use the debit card to make a purchase.

Your online poker options are limited if you live in the United States. Doyle’s Room is a solid online poker room that you should consider for your online poker play.

Big Bet Poker is getting into the holiday spirt of giving by hosting five online poker freerolls every other day from now through Monday, December 27, 2010. If you missed the first day of poker freerolls yesterday, get into the poker action starting tomorrow. Here is the schedule for each day of the Big Bet Poker online poker freerolls.

Real-money players are all automatically entered into 12 48-hour holiday dashes — the top ten point earners from real money play share in $1000 prize pool. $350 is the prize for the first-place finish, and there’s an additional $100 bonus awarded to any player that wins consecutive dashes (one bonus per player).

Big Bet Poker is on the Merge Poker Network, and welcomes players from all US states.

You heard this right. Doyle Brunson will be playing at the $5/$10 and $10/$20 No-limit Texas Hold’em tables at his poker room, Doyle’s Room. Now, you have a chance to play against Tex_Dolly each weeknight at 7PM ET.If you’re a rank amateur like me, you may want to keep your cash in your pockets and just watch. You can do that, too. Just go to the poker lobby and click on Texas Hold’em > Real Money to observe these tables. Of course, if you want to take your shot against Brunson and some other top-ranked pros, open a new account for as little as $50 and get a 1o0% bonus.Doyle’s Room accepts real-money players from 48 US States, excluding MD and WA.

This one’s a game changer. We’ve added a sweet side pot to select tables to bring you a more intense kind of poker – and UltimateBet is the only place to play it.

It’s called Seven Deuce and it’s guaranteed to bring more action, bigger bets, larger pots and insane rivalries to the tables in a way that makes most regular high stakes games look like amateur hour.

What’s the Deal?

Monstrous pots are what online poker is all about. And Seven Deuce delivers.

Everyone who sits down at a Seven Deuce table places a prop bet into an additional side pot. The next player at the table to win a hand of online poker holding 7-2 as their hole cards wins the side pot.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. Winning with 7-2 isn’t about calling every raise and getting lucky on the river. It’s about playing your cards like a champion regardless of the hand you’ve been dealt.

Winning while holding the nuts is one thing. But winning with 7-2 after enticing big bets and forcing everyone to fold on the river? Now that’s just nuts.

More Action. More Intensity. More Money.

The side pot is a magical addition that dramatically changes the game in a way you won’t believe.

With the additional side pot, you’ll find more players bluffing with 7-2, hoping that everyone will fold like a cheap chair so that they can grab the side pot and laugh in everyone’s face. And that means you’ll find lots of people calling big bluffs to try to stop the worst hand in poker from winning big.

You’ll also find people playing amazing hole cards but trying to fool the table into thinking they’re bluffing so that they can lure in the bets and snag an even bigger pot.

And that means enormous bets and more action from pretty much everyone at the table. It’s a crazy circle and you’re going to love it.

Feeding the Pot

Each time you join a Seven Deuce table, you pay into the side pot. You do not have to feed the pot again until someone wins with a 7-2. If you leave a table, you’ll get your side pot money back.

Winning the Pot

To win the side pot, just take down a pot with 7-2 at any point in a hand. You’ll have to show everyone that you were holding 7-2, but it’ll definitely be worth it.

Read all the Details

Head on over to UltimateBet and click the Seven Deuce banner on the homepage.

Wow. A million dollars for losing a big hand. Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not.

All you need to do is log into your Spin32 Poker account and go to the tab marked Poker Tables. Just take a seat at one of the specially marked Bad Beat tables with stakes that start at 0.50/$1 and go up to $5/$10.

Bad Beat Jackpot requirements:

- The losing hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 7s, with a 2 kicker

- The winning hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 8s, with a 2 kicker

- Both the winning and losing hands must include both hole cards to make Four of a Kind

- AT least four players must be dealt in at the start of the hand

- The hand must have generated jackpot rake (ie. $0.50)

- Only two players can be active at the end of the hand, and it must go to showdown.

Sign up today through February 28, 2009 at Spin32 Poker; use coupon code 100FEB09 to earn a 100% bonus on deposits up to $500. Spin32 Poker welcomes players from all US states.

(Note: The information present on this blog is intended for entertainment purposes only. Please check your local, state and provincial laws before you gamble online. If your local laws prohibit online gambling then we recommend you consider an alternative form of entertainment.)