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

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably energized about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has won over $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker contest was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s poker contest and the prizes involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to knock him out of the Texas hold em tournament to come forward.

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

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

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Is it more effective to play a tight Texas holdem’ tournament or a loose Texas holdem’ tournament?

You will unquestionably hear two theories from your fellow poker players or perhaps the so-called poker professionals. Let’s look first at the tight poker players. Each player including yourself will find it hard winning, if the entire poker table is playing tight. Probably if you have a table full of tight players what may happen is the poker players will finish up trading the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino is raking in loads of your hard-earned cash, and that of your competitors. So now you might think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to prevail.

How can I better 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 terrific plan to find out a lot about your playing method and tactic, is to keep some sort of record 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 challenger’s playing style, and what is the best tactic to overpower them.

Should I use the same strategy for every Texas holdem’ tournament?

If you think that being predictable is a winning tactic for playing Texas holdem’, then you should think about altering your poker strategy. The Texas holdem’ pros agree that modifying your Texas holdem’ playing method is the best way to confuse and puzzle your poker opponents. You should analyze a handful of tactics, find the ones that work for you and vary them for every Texas holdem’ game.

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

The location is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino 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 wager to $300, a pretty small 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 decent hand, but he was in a good position to make a move taking into account 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 wagered another $4000. He was thinking, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no way they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a huge move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

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

A 2 of hearts appeared on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 outplayed Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he created a great play and continued with the bluff straight to the end.

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The game of poker used to be accessible only in casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Sin City thanks to the internet and TV.

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

This new idea will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the World’s most famous poker players have already signed up for the 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 poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big poker tournament with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each 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 poker 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 poker player to join in the poker game. There are other ways to add to 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 champ in this game.

Creators of the show are also betting on the great personalities of the professional poker players to create some interesting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker winner, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience and will provide some great entertainment in this revolutionary poker game show .

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Shortly after the beginning of last week’s charity celebrity 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 winces when two of his opponents call the bet. He yells “Re-buy”, but the turn is a seven of hearts. Affleck is disappointed when a jack of diamonds is dealt on the river. He took the hand seriously even though there was no real cash at stake. This is just the kind of thing that Affleck and several other poker enthusiasts are petitioning for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only purpose of the poker tournament 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 bans U.S. Banks and credit card companies from processing transactions related to online gaming 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 online gaming. 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 event. “Some people think that online poker is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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