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Bodog Poker King of the Felt Promotion is Red Hot!

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Jan 6 Bodog King of the FeltA few months ago we told you about Bodog Poker’s King of the Felt promotion. The promotion that put you heads up with another player and the chance to win a 2011 WSOP seat. Well things have really heated up since then.

As a matter of fact, one player by the name of “Peeps” is going for win #10 tonight at 8:50 pm Eastern and a win tonight will put him heads up next week against one of the Bodog Pro players! If he can win just two more matches he’ll be headed to Las Vegas for the 2011 Main Event! That is a $12,000 prize package and is in addition to the $11,500 Peeps has already taken home! You can watch the action here, just click on "Scheduled Tournaments" then "Special" and click on the King of the Felt Heads up.

Even if Peeps wins the 2011 Main Event package, the promotion is not over. You can still play in the promotion to qualify for your own heads up challenge and a free Main Event seat!

Here is how you can qualify for the King of the Felt challenge along with a seat in the $1,000 King of the Felt Freeroll plus a special $500 Bonus freeroll!

  • Open an account with Bodog here.
  • Play in real money sit n’ go’s
  • Make it to the money in 3 qualifying sit n’ gos† in a qualifying week* and you are entered into a draw to play the heads up challenge.
  • Cash in 6 sit n go’s and get two draw entries plus a seat in the King of the Felt $1,000 Freeroll
  • Cash 9 sit n go’s and get three draw entries, a seat in the $1,000 King of the Felt Freeroll PLUS a seat in a bonus $500 freeroll!

Click here for complete details of the King of the Felt promotion!

When you open an account with US friendly Bodog Poker here, and use referral code 2429235 you’ll earn a special poker bonus of 110% all the way up to $1,100 FREE! A full 10% of your bonus is paid as an "Instant bonus" so you can take the cash to the tables right away! The remaining 100% is cleared into your playable bankroll as you earn poker points from playing in real money games and the time you spend playing at the tables. Click here to get your instant bonus today! All US players welcome!

*Qualifying week runs from 12:00 AM EST Monday to 11:59 PM EST Sunday.

† Qualifying sit n go’s are 6 to 45 person SNG’s and do not include heads up, beginner tournaments or double up sit n’ go’s.

Intertops to Host $1.5k Bounty Tournament

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Intertops Halloween Bounty TournamentNothing spooky about this Halloween Poker Tournament, just treats for everyone that plays and with a $1500 guaranteed prizepool plus a $5 bounty on every player, you can really record a big winning poker session!

Every player in the game will have a $5.00 bounty on them, so the more players you can send to the rail, the fatter your bankroll will grow! With a buy in of $10+$1, we expect there to be a juicy overlay in this tournament too. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to pad your bankroll! Click here to get started today!

Details of the Intertops Halloween $1.5k Bounty Tournament:

When you sign up to play poker at Intertops, use bonus code PPUS600 for a 110% poker bonus up to $600 FREE!

Intertops Poker is a pioneer in online gaming and has been treating players right since 1996. Players from the US are welcome to play at Intertops Poker, part of the Cake Gaming Network. To learn more, visit our Intertops review page.

Bodog BPO V Satellites Begin!

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Bodog Poker Open VSeptember has arrived, the end of summer, the start of Autumn, and the Bodog Poker Open! Yes, it’s time again to play in the Bodog Poker Open (BPO), now in it’s fifth year. And as in years past, Bodog Poker is hosting satellite games to the events that start on Sunday, September 26th.

Just like in the prior BPO’s there are two paths you can take, the Contender Series that has big prizes with smaller buy in amounts and the Championship Series that leads to the main event with the winner earning a Corum Championship Watch as well as a massive poker payday and the honor of being the champion!

Satellites to the competition tournaments have started at US friendly Bodog Poker and for as little as $1 or even free when you buy in with your Bodog Poker Points! Of course you can wait until the the Bodog Poker Open V events open on September 26th, but why not get in for a minimal investment? You could win huge while only risking $1 or 30 points making your win even better!

Both the Bodog Poker Open V Contender and Championship Series will begin Sunday September 26th and continue daily for 7 days. The Championship Series will have an additional semi-final tournament held on Sunday, October 2nd at 4:00 pm eastern. The tournaments will have various buy in levels and vary from no limit, pot limit, limit, short handed and turbo blind structures all being Texas Hold’em. All tournaments, satellites and qualifiers can be found by clicking the BPO tab while in the tournament lobby at Bodog Poker.

For the Championship series there will be over $55,000 in added and guaranteed tournament cash. Each game will pay a Championship Main Event seat for the event winner. The main event will have a $200,000 Guaranteed prize pool plus a Corum Championship watch for the Main Event winner (valued at over $5,000)!

The Contender Series pays over $35,000 in guaranteed cash plus a seat in the Championship Main Event for the each event winner. The remaining players at each final table will earn a Contender Main Event seats! The Contender Main event will feature a $15,000 Guaranteed prize pool.

How to Play the Bodog Poker Open Free:

Want to take a shot at fame and fortune for free? You can! Simply click here to open an account at Bodog Poker. Once you register your new account you will be awarded 50 Bodog Poker Points. Go to the Scheduled Tournaments lobby, click on BPO, then freerolls and PTS, you will see the qualifiers that have a 30 point buy in. Just register and play to win! One ticket to the Bodog Poker Open V main event qualifier is awarded for every 10 players registered. You really can’t get in cheaper than this! Click here to get started!

Once you have opened your account at Bodog, you will be eligible to claim a 110% poker bonus up to $1,100 FREE when you place your first deposit. Bodog will even give you 10% of your bonus instantly, up front, ready to play right away! The remaining 100% of your bonus will clear into your playable bankroll as you play in any real money poker games. Click here to get your instant poker bonus! Bodog Poker is a US friendly online poker room.

Building a Bankroll With Rewards Programs

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Build your bankrollEarlier this week we talked a bit about playing in guaranteed tournaments with overlays as a way to build your bankroll and to protect it as well. Now I’d like to share with you another way to build a poker bankroll while you are playing at the tables. This is accomplished with playing online poker at a poker room that has a good rewards program. If you are going to be playing anyway, you may as well reap some rewards while you play.

Starting today, December 9, 2009, DoylesRoom has added a new and exciting rewards program that will add cash to your bankroll while you are playing at any real money ring game or tournament!

DoylesRoom has always had Gold Cards and Gold Chips as part of their rewards program, but now they have introduced "Gold Stacks"! As you play poker you will be building your gold stack, as you advance in levels you will first earn more gold chips, but once you hit level 10, you start earning cash! And the faster you can move up the levels the more cash you will be rewarded with! You will earn from the base of $12.50 up to the top levels paying out $682.50!

Each level has three tiers of rewards, if you complete the level at "Super-Turbo" you will max out the cash reward. Even if you take your time, you still cash in but at a lower reward amount. For example, at level 10, Super Turbo rewards with $24.75 while the guaranteed payout is $12.50. Super Turbo is 0-3 days, Turbo is 4-6 and the guaranteed level is set at 7 days or more.

Your level will remain the same or go higher too! The only way you will loose your level is if you don’t earn at least three Gold Chips over the course of two consecutive months. In that case, you will be returned to level 10. You NEVER lose levels if you are under level 11.

Gold Stack MeterTo track what level you are on, what you need to advance and what your rewards will be, you can check the handy Gold Stack Stick in the poker software at anytime. This tool will track your progress in real time and is available 24/7!

To get you started on building your gold stack, and increasing your poker bankroll, DoylesRoom has allowed us to offer you a special exclusive poker bonus matching your deposit 110% up to $600 FREE! That is $50 more than the players off the "street" can get at DoylesRoom and it is just for our readers! Just sign up with our links and use DoylesRoom bonus code PPU110B to claim your free cash!

DoylesRoom accepts US players from all states (except KY) and operates on the Cake Poker Network. DoylesRoom is the only online poker room endorsed by and played at by the "Godfather of Poker" Doyle Brunson.

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Sign up with DoylesRoom today and start building your Gold Stacks to boost your bankroll! Learn more about this great US friendly online poker room at our DoylesRoom review.

The Best Value in Poker Tournaments, the Bodog 100k!

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We are updating this post as Bodog Poker left the USA and was replaced by Bovada Poker. Well, now Bovada Poker was taken over by Ignition Poker. Players were given the opportunity to move their accounts to the new poker room. Ignition Poker is part of the Bodog family and shares players across the network. Visit our Ignition Poker review for more details. The information in this post rings true today as it did when originally posted as Ignition Poker hosts the Sunday $100k! This MTT still remains an outstanding value with large overlays.

In my last article I shared the bankroll management strategy of playing in guaranteed tournaments with overlays. One of the very best values is playing in the weekly 100k guaranteed tournament at Igntion Poker. The 100k is Igntion Poker’s top paying tournament and it has historically had huge overlays. In fact, most weeks may see as much as a $30,000 overlay! There is no other big money poker tournament with this small of a field.

So would you rather play against tens of thousands of other players or would you rather go against 500- 800 players and have a shot at a $25,000 first prize? And… Igntion accepts US players and now Canadian players can play at Igntion too!

To get in on the action of the Igntion 100k you can get in several ways. First off is buyin in direct for $162. Now that might be a little steep for many players (including myself) so Igntion runs a huge amount of satellites to the game. The first level of 100k qualifiers is called the "Cheap Seats". These tournaments only cost 1.10 to play and Igntion adds one seat to the 100k semi-final for every 34 players in the game.

You can also catapult your way into the Igntion 100k from satellites that have low buy ins of $7.70, $17, $22 and 34.00. On game day (Sunday) the lobby is packed with "Last Chance" qualifiers with a new satellite starting about every 2 minutes! Visit the Igntion 100k Qualifier Schedule to see when games start. You can even get a seat in the qualifiers with Igntion Poker Points that you earn from playing poker!

There is another way to get a FREE seat to the 100k! Simply open an account with Igntion Poker here, make your first deposit (you get a 110% match up to $550 FREE) and you will get a seat in six of the $100K New Player Qualifier Freerolls! As I said before, the Igntion 100k is most likely the best value in online poker. If you are not playing this tournament, you are missing out on an incredible value. Sign up with Igntion Poker today and best of luck in the 100k!

Online Poker Players need to be aware of sports bettors

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So you’re a poker player and you’re not very big on nor do you care much about sports betting. You just don’t follow it enough to feel like you’d have much of chance of winning and you prefer a game where you have more control of what happens. Well, that’s fair enough.

But if you play online poker at a site like Bodog that also has a casino and a sportsbook, it’s important to know that one of the biggest perks you get from playing there is that you get to play against less experienced and loose poker players who made money in the sportsbook or casino and have come over to try their luck in the poker room. And you should be the shark just waiting for a feeding frenzy! This is why as an online poker player you need to follow who is winning in the sports world. This is the basic formula for knowing when there’s lots of loose money and if the favored team wins, there will be more sports bettors in the poker room, thus increasing your odds on making a nice Sunday or Monday night payday! I have tested this theory and beleive me it works! Even if you hit the low limits in no limit holdem, you can make some serious cash in a very short amount of time!

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Every week Bodog’s poker room fills up when the favored teams win, so whay not get in there and take advantage of a poker room where the odds are thoroughly stacked in the experienced players favor. Very few of the sports bettors will be experience poker players and what is wrong with you being on the receiving end of a very loose table? A good NFL game to keep your eye on this Sunday is the heavily favored New York Jets against the Kansas City Chiefs. If the Jets win, just take a peak in the poker room and watch as the fish swim in. And more important… watch how fast you can build your bankroll!

And as an added bonus, this weekend is the Breeders Cup in horse racing, watch the fish hit the tables with the “new Money” they win at the track and help them thin out their wallets! Not a member at the Bodog Poker Room? Sign up with this link and take a 110% bonus, that is 100% that you will need to clear and 10% in your account as an up front bonus ready to nibble on the fish! Head on over to the Bodog online poker room and experience the joys of a soft poker game. Read our complete Bodog Poker Review here.