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Keeping Poker Legal in the United States

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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Try Some New Sites for the New Year

Start off the New Year by trying some new sites. Here are my top picks to start off 2010. All of the sites below accept players from all US States.

Bingo

  • Free Bee Bingo – $50 FREE + 200% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $9999!
  • 123 Bingo Online – $25 FREE + 1000% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $9999!
  • Bingo Flash – $20 FREE + 250% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $9999!
  • BingoVille – $10 FREE + 150% bonus on initial deposits between $50 and $10000!
  • BingoRoom – 150% bonus on initial deposits between $50 and $10000!

Casino

Horses

Poker

  • Poker Stars – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $600!
  • Full Tilt Poker – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $600!
  • Poker4Ever – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $150!
  • Spin32 Poker – 100% bonus on initial deposits of between $10 and $600!
  • Bizipoker3D – 30% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $666!

Skill

  • Spadester – $4 FREE + 100% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $100!
  • Play65 – 40% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $500!

Sports

Have a lucky 2010!

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Full Tilt Poker News

Full Tilt Poker has released a new version of their software that includes two cool new features:

  • Run the board twice in cash game all-in situations (provided all players agree)
  • New Cashout tournaments, allowing players to cashout some or all of their tournament chips before the end of the tournament

Also, you can be a part of the November Nine at the World Series of Poker* via the Full Tilt Poker “Win a Piece of Ivey” promotion that is currently underway at their site. By playing in designated poker games on Full Tilt Poker, you can win a percentage of whatever Phil Ivey wins at the WSOP* Main Event.

* World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s doesn’t sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with, The Online Casino Gambling Directory or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

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Introducing Seven Deuce Tables, only at UltimateBet

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.

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Low Minimum Deposit and High New Player Bonus at Poker Stars

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If you do not yet have an account at Poker Stars, now is the time to take the plunge. Poker Stars is a 5-star rated premier online poker room, touting such players as Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, and dozens more. They offer one of the lowest deposit amounts in the industry — just $10 for credit card deposits, and $25 for eCheck deposits — and recently announced their largest initial deposit bonus ever offered — 100% up to $600 using bonus code STARS600.

Poker Stars accepts players from all US states, as well as from most other countries in the world.

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$10 Deposits, Micro-Limit Tables and $10K Tournaments for just $1

online poker imageCalling all low-rollers! FullTilt Poker has recently reduced their minimum deposit to a mere $10! They have also added micro-limit tables and $10K tourneys for just a $1.

If you can’t scrounge up $10 bucks to start playing online poker, you’ve got a problem. 🙂

FullTilt Poker accepts real-money players from all US states, and offers a 100% initial deposit bonus for new players, up to $600 bucks.

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$33 Free on any deposit at Luck3 on April 3, 2009

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Luck3 is a fairly new addition to The Online Casino Gambling Directory. They offer casino, poker, and other games and accept players from all 50 states in the US.

I just received word that they are offering $33 Free on any casino deposit on April 3, 2009. Now that’s a pretty cool deal!

(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.)

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Check Payout Delays at Doyle’s Room

11 May 2009: Received the check today and deposited in the bank. Will keep you posted if it clears. Even when it does clear, I’m not inclined to raise Doyle’s Room’s star rating above its current level of 2 (below average).

02 Apr 2009 Update: I just received an email from Jessica M., stating in part that: “I”m please to inform you that a check for $xxxxx dollars has been sent and you should be receiving it in a couple days more (5 to 8 days). The check number is xxxxx.”

Check payouts from Doyle’s Room have been delayed for 8 weeks. I’ve been in contact with Doyle’s Room in the past days and have been told that all payout requests since around January have been delayed.

Doyle’s Room moved to the Cake Poker Network about that time, and also picked up new payment processors. It was explained to me that both of these events are responsible for the delay.

Unfortunately (it was explained to me) there’s nothing that can be done to expedite anyone’s payout; they are being processed FIFO (first-in, first-out), and I was told that my check is still weeks away from arriving at my Ohio address.

To make matters worse, Doyle’s Room does not offer any electronic payout methods such as QuickTender, eWalletXpress, or Direct Deposit. Generally, payouts via these methods take days, not several weeks.

As a result of the payout delays at Doyle’s Room, the fact that they have no timeline for when this issue will be solved, and the fact that I have seen no formal communication from them about these delays, I am recommending that: (a) existing Doyle’s Room players make no additional deposits at Doyle’s Room, and (b) poker players looking to open an account on the Cake Poker Network look elsewhere, such as the 5-star rated BetUS Poker and Cake Poker.

Finally, I have reduced the star-rating for Doyle’s Room from 4 (above average) to 2 (below average).

While I have a high degree of confidence that all payments will be made, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I’ll keep you posted on their progress toward resolving this frustrating issue.

(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.)

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Freeroll Frenzy Tournaments 24-7 Through October 22, 2008

If you like poker freerolls, then you’re going to love this offer. From now through October 22, 2008, Cool Hand Online Poker is offering their players hourly freerolls! Each day, they are running 4 X $500, 4 X $200, 2 X $40 and 14 X $20 freerolls. This is a great opportunity to hone your poker skills and maybe even build a small bankroll to get started playing online poker.

Novice and casual online poker players are catered to at Cool Hand Online Poker. Cool Hand Online Poker, unlike most poker rooms, limits players to 2 real money tables and 1 tournament table. This means that sharks have to work so much harder, for so much longer in order to try and take a player’s bankroll. In other words, it’s not worth their time, because to a shark time is money. The average poker player can now get in on all of the poker action without fear of their bankroll being ravaged.

But that is not all that Cool Hand Online Poker is offering! All players can also take advantage of the $350 sign up offer that allows players to earn a $10 bonus for every 100 raked hands up to $350! That’s a massive payout rate that is 2.8 times faster than any of their biggest competitors!

(Please note: Cool Hand Online Poker does not accept players from the following US states: IL, IN, LA, MI, NJ, NV, NY, OR, SD, WA, WI. Wherever you live, please check your local, state and provincial laws before you gamble online.)

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