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Since the launch of the Internet, people have played games online, and people have gambled online - Through casinos, sportsbooks and online poker rooms. But it’s only in recent years that people have started “soft gambling” - Playing games online for real money. And the providers of such games have been very quick to license games that people already know how to play such as Deal or no Deal, Family Fortunes, The Price is Right, and of course everyone’s favourite - Bingo!
Play Deal or no Deal online now and you could actually walk away with more money than is won on the TV show! Noel Edmonds only gives away up to £250,000 on the Channel Four show, but on the online version, there’s no limit - Last year, Emira from Dewsbury walked away with a staggering £965,728! Could you be the next BIG winner?
Play Bingo and Win £92million
September 5, 2008
We thought that the prospect of winning £1million three times a week was a pretty cool offering from Bingo Bongo, however Bingos have gone a small step further. You have a chance to win a share of this week’s Euromillions jackpot - how? I here you ask - let me explain.
Bingos have dreamt up this beauty of an incentive for you to play bingo at their online bingo rooms. Simply make a deposit into your Bingos account before 10pm on Friday, and you will join their syndicate, giving you 50 chances to win the Euromillions jackpot of £92million.
This incentive is open to all players new and old, and only involves you depositing some funds in your bingo account. For this you will share in the 50 lines bought by Bingos for this weeks Eurmillions jackpot, saving you £75. Ok you share the prizefunds wth your fellow syndicate members, but even so, if the jackpot is scooped, you are still on track to receive thousands of pounds, just for making a deposit to play bingo.
Existing Players: If you have registered at Bingos, then things are really simple, just deposit some funds into your Bingos account, and you’ll be entered into the syndicate.
New Players: If you have yet to join Bingos and experience some of the best online bingo games, then you’ll need to register first, then add some funds, remember as a new player, whatever you add will be doubled as a bonus, up to £50! That’s free cash for you to play Bingo with. Once you have deposited you to will be in the syndicate.
Here are your syndicate numbers:
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If any of these lines scoop the £92Million Jackpot, then congratulations, you’re going to get your share!
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William Hill Poker Promotions
September 1, 2008
William Hill have released a whole host of promotions for new and existing poker players alike.Whether it’s your first visit to William Hill Poker, or you’ve been playing there for years, you’ll be in for a treat when you check your account balance, so what are the promotions that are available?
£250 New Player Bonus
As a new player, you can earn up to £250 cash bonus just for playing at William Hill Poker. Each time you play, you will earn ‘My Poker Points’ (MPP), in order to receive the cash binus, all you need to do is earn a set number of MMP and the cash is yours. You have until the end of the month after joining to accrue as many points as you can, at the end of the month, the total points earnt will decide your bonus. If you reach 1000 MPPs you will earn £50, if you reach 2000 MMPs then £100 will be yours, 3000 will earn you £150, 4000 £200 and if you reach 5000 or more then £250 is yours.
Earn £5 per hour playing Poker
All players new and old are eligible for the Free £25 - Get Paid to Play promotion. Basically for every hour you play poker, you will get £5 credited to your account, up to a maximum £25 credit. Games that are excluded from this promotion are Tournament Games and nor does play on tables below 1.00/2.00 limit tables or below 0.50/1.00 pot limit/no limit tables (in any currency).
£100 a month Loyalty Bonus
For existing players there’s also free cash up for grabs, in fact £100 a month, for playing Poker at Wiliam Hill, A great incentive for you to return and play at William Hill. Again this bonus revolves around collecting MPPs for playing at the Poker tables. For a £50 bonus simply earn 1000 MPPs in a month, and for the £100 bonus, simply collect 2000 MPPs. This promotion is on-going, so you can in fact earn £100 each and every month playing poker at William Hill.
There’s never been a better time to try your hand at poker, with the launch of William Hill Poker School, it’s even easier to find out how to play. With all theis free cash knocking about too, why not try your hands at William Hill Poker?
Devilympics: Olympics promotion from Devilfish Poker
August 11, 2008
DevilfishPoker.com today announces details of the first Devilympics which is set to find the strongest, fittest, and smartest poker players on the planet. Taking place at the same time as the Olympics in Beijing, the Devilympics offers poker players 5 events each day over 15 days with €20,000 added to the total prize pool as players vie on the Devilympics Leader Board for Gold (€5,000), Silver (€3,000), and Bronze (€2,000) medals. To take part in the Devilympics, just sign up at Devilfish Poker
Medals and Points
Each player who makes the final table of any of the Devilympics tournaments (excluding the opening and closing freerolls) will earn the following points:
Gold (1st place) 10 points
Silver (2nd place) 6 points
Bronze (3rd place) 4 points
4th -9th place 1 point each
The top three players who have earned the most points at the end of the 75 events take home Gold, Silver, and Bronze and the corresponding prize money.
This thrilling jamboree of poker kicks off with an Opening Ceremony Freeroll for €1,000 on August 8th with a €250 bounty on poker Olympian Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott’s head. Players then settle into a marathon 15 days of tournaments each with €100 added to the prize pool. The Devilympics culminates with a €1,000 Closing Ceremony Freeroll on August 24th with another €250 bounty on poker legend Devilfish.
Devilympics Tournament Schedule
8th August: 8.30 p.m. - Opening Ceremony €1,000 Freeroll with €250 Bounty on Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott
9th - 23rd August
6.30pm* €10 buy-in Freezeout €100 Added
7.30pm €5 buy-in Rebuy €100 Added
8.30pm €10 buy-in Freezeout €100 Added
9.30pm €5 buy-in Rebuy €100 Added
10.30pm €10 buy-in Freezeout €100 Added
24th August: 8.30 p.m. - Closing Ceremony €1,000 Freeroll with €250 Bounty on Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott
*All times BST (CET -1)
The Medals Race
Players can keep track of the Leader Board at http://www.devilfishpoker.com/ as well as following which countries are performing the best over the course of the Devilympics.
About Devilfish Gaming PLC
Devilfish Gaming PLC takes its name from the well known poker professional David “Devilfish” Ulliott, who is active in promoting the business. Ulliott is one of Europe’s best known and most recognised poker players and in 2007 had his most successful year ever on the poker tournament circuit leading to his winning the prestigious Card Player European Player of the Year award. The company is publicly quoted, having floated on London’s PLUS market in March 2008. The company does not accept wagers from the U.S.A
Devil Fish Poker | The Poker site from Dave Devilfish Ulliott
August 11, 2008
Dave “Devilfish’ Ulliott is one of the most successful, formidable, and well-known poker players of our time. The UK’s most successful player with over $5 million in tournament winnings, he won both WSOP and WPT titles and can claim the 2007 Cardplayer European Player of the Year amongst his many accolades. Devilfish has now launched his own poker site at www.devilfish.com
Born in working class Hull, in northern England, Ulliott drifted out of education and on to the wrong side of the tracks before finding salvation, along with international acclaim and financial success, at the poker table.
Having torn up local cash games the length and breadth of the country he took his first real shot at the big time when he made his inaugural visit to Las Vegas in 1996. It was there too that his nickname was first brought to the public’s attention. Heads-up in a tournament with Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen, Ulliott’s friends began shouting “Go on the Devilfish” to counter Nguyen’s noisy support.
Devilfish went on to win the tournament and when the headline “Devilfish devours The Master” appeared in the following morning’s headlines the nickname stuck. Interestingly, Ulliott had been previously known as Dave “The Clock” because he used a grandfather clock to buy into a tournament once when he knew an antiques dealer was playing. He obviously much prefared the new moniker because shortly after he commissioned two huge knuckledusters emblazoned with the words “DEVIL” and “FISH”, one to be worn on each hand, and he began to revel in his new persona.
In 1997 Devilfish returned to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker where he secured a coveted gold bracelet for winning the $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Considered to be the pinnacle of any poker player’s career, the WSOP bracelet solidified Devilfish’s reputation as one of the best players on the planet and laid the foundation for his imminent TV celebrity.
When Late Night Poker was first aired on Channel 4 in the UK in 1999 Devilfish became an overnight sensation. With his handcrafted “Devil” and “Fish” knuckledusters, his orange tinted prescription sunglasses, his slick suit, and his hilarious table banter it was clear Ulliott was a star turn. Devilfish demolished the opposition in that first, and seminal, televised poker tournament and won £40,000 and enduring infamy as a star of the emerging poker boom (the event was watched by 1.5 million people when it was first broadcast).
Devilfish has over $5 million in career tournament winnings making him the most successful English poker player in the history of the game. As well as his World Series of Poker victory in 2007 he has come second four times in 1998, 2000 and twice in 2001, and third twice in 2001 and 2005.
In 2003 he won his second “major”, taking down the World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship for $589,175 and in 2007 he came third in the $15,000 WPT Doyle Brunson Classic in Las Vegas for his biggest ever tournament payday of $674,500.
Indeed 2007 proved to be Devilfish’s most successful year ever in terms of tournaments with over $1.25 million in winnings. As a result he won the prestigious Card Player European Player of the Year title.
Devilfish has many strings to his bow. He launched the first World Series of Poker Europe held in London in 2007 with his great rival Phil Hellmuth - proof if it were needed that he is by far and away Europe’s biggest poker legend.
He is an accomplished musician and singer playing several instruments including guitar and piano and can often be seen at poker tournaments and events entertaining crowds. Author Des Wilson has also written an acclaimed biography of Ulliott called ‘Swimming with the Devilfish”. Devilfish Poker offers some of the hottest promotions you will find on the Net. Below are the current promotional campaigns available on www.devilfishpoker.com
150% up to €666 First Time Deposit Bonus
Enjoy a baptism of fire at Devilfish Poker with one of the hottest signup bonuses available! Every new player is entitled to a wicked 150% first deposit bonus up to a sinfully generous €666.
The Hellfire Club
The Devilfish VIP Hellfire Club offers you massive amounts of extra cash every month! From the depths of Hades we’ve forged a VIP reward scheme better than any other you will find in Heaven or on Earth.
Once you are a member of the hottest club in Poker your play will be rewarded in both card rooms, allowing you complete flexibility in the games you choose to play.
On Devilfish Poker you can earn VIP points every time you play poker for real money. One VIP point is rewarded for each €0.40 contributed in rake at our cash tables and for each €0.40 paid in tournament fees.
Daily Devil Freerolls
You can feed the Devil within by competing in the THREE daily freerolls. Enter Beezlebub’s Breakfast held daily at 7am with a €50 prizepool, followed by Lucifer’s Lunchtime freeroll at 12pm also with a €50 prizepool. In addition, there is also a 10pm Daily Devil freeroll with a €100 prizepool.
Free to enter, these naughty little freerolls are the perfect way to help build your online bankroll.
Sacrilegious SinDay
The SinDay inferno just got hotter with three sizzling new money-added tournaments from 6 p.m. every Sunday from June 29. So, after church come to worship at the house of the Devil.
“Pray for Your Sins” with the guilty little €100-added tournament at 6 p.m. before entering the hellacious world of the “Living Dead Rebuy” at 7 p.m. With €200-added and unlimited rebuys it will take more than “bullets” and “dead man’s hands” to put the opposition permanently in the grave.
Engraved on the headstone at 8 p.m. is the baddest tournament on the net: “€666 SinDay”. €666-added means 100 dead players in the field, which is DevilfishPoker.com’s little gift to those poker players who’ve been especially wicked all week.
Finally, to ensure survival until the following SinDay, preserve that body and bankroll in the “Cryogenic Freezeout” with €300-added at 9 p.m.
Gone Devilfishin’
With so many double entendres and innuendo, the Wednesday “Gone Devilfishin’” promo will send players out the door from July 2. These money-added tournaments are the perfect bankroll boost before the weekend.
Take a “Firm Grip of the Rod” at 7 p.m. with €100-added but be sure to “Keep Ur Tackle in Ur Trousers” at 8 p.m. in this €200-added tournament with unlimited rebuys.
Finish off the night with the €300-added €10 freezeout at 9 p.m. where the only way for players to keep their mid-week modesty is to never answer the question “What’s Flapping in Ur Fishnets”.
Devilfish’s €100,000 End of Month Guaranteed Tournament
Taking place on the final Sunday of each month, the €100,000 Guaranteed is the kind of big money tournament the Devilfish himself would be proud to win. Buy-in directly for €200 or qualify for as little as €2 from the selection of daily qualifiers.
Devilishly Bad Beat Jackpot
We’ve all felt the forces of evil conspire against us at the poker table, whether it’s having your aces cracked or your nut flush busted by a runner runner full house, but fear not because at Devilfish Poker the Devil is on your side. If you suffer a truly horrendous beat at the cash tables you may be eligible for the Bad Beat Jackpot which could net you thousands of Euro!
Mistakes Made When Using An Odds Calculator
July 1, 2008
People always say that “Practice makes perfect.”
I disagree.
The truth is that “PERFECT practice makes perfect.”
Using an odds calculator at online poker is a crucial way to develop your skills and become a better player…
But I’ve noticed that even though the popularity of programs like Texas Calculatem is booming, many players AREN’T USING THESE TOOLS CORRECTLY.
This “bad practice” can easily cause lost profits, a frustrating learning curve, and unnecessary confusion…
So let’s discuss the seven most costly mistakes players make when using an odds calculator– and how YOU can avoid them.
<h2>MISTAKE #1: Not Bluffing Enough</h2>
Poker is a game of ODDS and SKILL… but it’s also a game of PSYCHOLOGY and LUCK.
If you listen to the advice of an odds calculator 100% of the time, yes, you’ll come out ahead. But you don’t want to become a predictable “robot” who only plays favorable odds and never bluffs.
Get my drift?
There are times in every poker game when you’ll want to buy the blinds because you sense weakness, over bet the pot to give off a certain table image, or “bully” the table with your huge chip stack.
Odds calculators don’t bluff.
And they don’t tell you when to bluff.
That’s why you’ve got to stay alert and make these types of decisions based on your own intuition…
<h2>MISTAKE #2: Not Paying Enough Attention To Your Opponents</h2>
The right odds calculator can quickly become addictive. It’s easy to get in a bad habit of just listening to its “advice” without paying attention to the game.
This allows you to save time, save energy, and play multiple games at once.
BUT…
Just like bluffing, blindly listening to an odds calculator can be detrimental. It can prevent you from catching important TELLS at the table.
Pay close attention to your opponents so that you spot someone on “tilt”, identify an amateur, and pick up betting patterns.
<h2>MISTAKE #3: Not Considering “Likely Odds”</h2>
Let’s say you’ve got pocket Queens. You make a pre-flop raise of 3x the big blind and get four callers (at an 8-man table).
The flop hits: A-A-K
What a TERRIBLE flop, right? You figure one of your four opponents MUST have an Ace… or at least a King. And that means all you can hope for on the turn or river is a Queen.
If someone throws out a sizeable bet in this situation, you would fold… because you know you’re beat.
What’s interesting is that a “primitive” odds calculator would tell you that you have a STRONG hand: two pair with a great kicker. And it would probably tell you to call any bets… or even raise.
Crazy, huh?
You see, here’s the thing: Most odds calculators only lookat YOUR hand… and don’t try to “deduce” what your opponents might have. They don’t look at what’s “likely”.
You and I both know that the only way someone would call a pre-flop raise of 3x the big blind is if they have something good… like an Ace. But an odds calculator that just pays attention to your cards has no idea.
Texas Calculatem is different. Texas Calculatem DOES look at what’s “likely” and what’s not. It takes a look at those four players who stayed in the pot and calculates the likelihood that one of them is holding an Ace or a King… given all the possible conditions.
Don’t download an odds calculator that doesn’t do “likely odds”, otherwise you’re just asking for trouble.
<h2> MISTAKE #4: Relying Too Much On Odds During “All-In” Plays</h2>
In no limit Texas Holdem there is no restriction to how much you can bet. This makes the use of an odds calculator more tricky in this game type.
For instance, let’s say there’s $20 in the pot and your opponent decides to go all-in for his entire stack of $480.
You have to make a decision to call or fold.
The “pot odds” in a situation like this aren’t very good. The reason is because there’s such a small amount in the pot.
In this situation, however, pot odds don’t mean much. Your decision shouldn’t be based on “math”… it should be based on WHETHER YOU THINK YOUR OPPONENT HAS A BETTER HAND.
An all-in situation is so “disproportionate” that odds aren’t really relevant… so don’t get too caught up in them.
<h2>MISTAKE #5: Mis-Interpreting Odds Information When Playing</h2>
Heads-Up (Or Short-Handed)
With just 2-3 players at the table, chances are NO ONE will get good cards. At this stage in the game, winning is more about bluffs and reading opponents.
Proof of this is the fact that most heads-up hands never get to “show down”. Someone almost always folds BEFORE the river.
Therefore, the odds of “winning by river” aren’t as relevant in this type of situation. Who cares if you have 7-2 offsuit? All that REALLY matters is what your opponent THINKS you have.
When I get heads-up, I don’t pay attention to the “hand strength” percentage or “odds by river” on my odds calculator.
Instead, I pay attention to the “odds on next card” feature, because that’s what is IMMEDIATELY relevant.
<h2> MISTAKE #6: Not Adjusting The Odds To Your Personal Style</h2>
When you download an odds calculator, make sure it fits your personal “style” of play. If you’re a loose pre-flop player, you don’t want your odds calculator constantly telling you to “play tight and fold”…
Instead, you want your odds calculator to be “loose” and simply show you when you’re deviating in the wrong manner.
Texas Calculatem features “play settings” that you can customize for your own needs and preference.
(These settings apply both to pre-flop and post-flop play.)
This is also very useful depending on your game type. For instance, I set my pre-flop settings to be extremely tight in large multi-table tournaments… because my strategy is to sit back and be very patient.
But in a shorthanded Sit and Go, I do exactly the opposite, because “loose” hand selection is required to avoid getting blinded out.
<h2>MISTAKE #7: Using The Wrong Odds Calculator</h2>
An odds calculator is only useful if it has the FEATURES YOU NEED and if you USE IT RIGHT.
Avoid the common mistakes we’ve just discussed and you’ll be well on your way to maximizing your online poker profits.
The next step is to simply get the BEST odds calculator possible.
My highest recommendation goes to “Texas Calculatem“. It has all the features we’ve just discussed… and dozens more.
It’s by far the easiest-to-use and most useful odds calculator on the market… and it’s proven to help players like you make more money at online poker.
You can download Texas Calculatem now for FREE (by joining a partner casino).
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