A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main poker tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. The total prizes for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be more than $650,000, throughout the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker Open II will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the contestants can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker contestant they eliminate from the poker eliminatories. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just some of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all contestants in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog pro, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably psyched about the Texas Hold em contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has won about $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the Bounty Tournament to step forward.

The Kick off Bounty Tournament is going to be the first Texas Hold em game in the contest on Sunday. Any poker challenger has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other Texas Hold em games with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are held every night during the tournament week. There will be six bounty eliminatories and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

In the tournament will be thirteen games which will lead up to the main event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, regardless of the number of players in the Bodog Open. All the competors who decide to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in turn will collect 10,000 in Bodog poker chips.

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Is it more effective to play a tight poker game or loose?

You will undoubtedly hear two theories from your fellow poker players or possibly the so-called poker professionals. Let’s look first at the tight Texas holdem’ players. Each player including yourself will find it difficult winning, if the entire table is playing a tight poker game. Most likely if you have a poker table full of tight poker players what may happen is the poker players will wind up exchanging the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino is raking in tons of your hard-earned poker money, and that of your competition. So now you might think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better Texas holdem’ players are going to lose a smaller number of hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to come out on top.

How can I perfect my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as easy as a piece of paper and a pen. A good tactic to learn a lot about your playing style and tactic, is to keep some sort of record of your Texas holdem’ playing. It’s possible to write down this information during the poker game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your competitor’s playing style, and what is the best strategy to conquer them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every poker game?

If you consider that playing predictable poker is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should consider varying your Texas holdem’ tactic. The Texas holdem’ pros agree that changing your Texas holdem’ playing method is the best way to confuse and puzzle your poker competition. You should test a number of tactics, find the best ones for each situation and alter them for each Texas holdem’ game.

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According to the 2006 WSOP bracelet winner, Jamie Gold, he would be pleased to be celebrated as the all time best bluffer in the world of poker. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not be granted any time soon.

The location is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a pretty small raise with only one player taking the bait. “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 was thinking that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea that Booth had a passable hand, but he was in a great position to make a move taking into account the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, 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 sizeable move on the flop, as long as no ace was dealt. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On 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 threw out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus changing his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 definitely had an ace, but you have to shield it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts came out on the turn, and Jamie quickly folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 fooled Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he forced a terrific poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the Texas Holdem’ tournament.

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The game of poker used to be a game accessible only in Las Vegas casinos or from video poker machines, but now it is more popular than ever in Las Vegas thanks to the the internet.

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

This new idea will merge comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to participate in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. Many prizes are available 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 best 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 Sin City casinos want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a world poker tournament with the likes of Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” When the show begins, 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 pro poker player to participate in the poker tv show. There are other ways to build your point total, that doesn’t involve playing 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 big poker winner in this game.

The shows producers are also betting on the great personalities of the professional poker stars to create some interesting moments. Poker players such as Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely can keep an audience entertained and is a sure bet for some great TV moments in this revolutionary poker game show .

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Shortly after the opening of last week’s charity celebrity poker event to help 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 upset 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 internet poker enthusiasts are petitioning for.

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

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