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Cory Tymich from Canada and Damien de Gaye of France will represent Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, this May at the World Poker Showdown (WPS) Ocean World tournament in the Dominican Republic.

Both players have been awarded a $9,000 Prize package to the WPS Ocean World in the Dominican Republic from May 9th through the 18th. In addition to free entry to the $2650 main event, they will also have their flights, travel costs, luxury accommodations for seven nights, all meals at the hotel and spending money provided by Titan Poker.

Cory Tymich has been playing with Titan Poker for two years and has become somewhat of a star considering this is his fourth big win at the popular poker room. Although Cory also enjoys playing poker live, he believes playing online is superior. “It is so easy to get into a game and you can play more than one game at the same time,” he commented.

Fellow winner, Damien de Gaye, has been playing at Titan Poker for a very short time, less than a year. However, on March 9th Damien secured his place at the WPS Ocean World Dominican Republic and is thrilled to be representing Titan Poker at this upcoming event.

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at internationally-known poker tournaments, such as the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. Titan Poker is sponsoring the upcoming Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open this May, Titan Poker’s first “land-based” tournament.

Upcoming Satellite Tournaments at Titan Poker

ECPT Madrid Open Super Sat
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 20:05 GMT
Buy-ins = $30 + $3
Satellites from $3.30 + $0.30
Re-buys and Add-on available
$3,000 Prize Package
Full Details:
http://www.titanpoker.com/eurocity_madrid08.html
Join the giants with Titan Poker and take your seat in Madrid this May!
This tournament event is sponsored by Titan Poker and should take priority in promotional efforts.

ECOOP VIP Satellite
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 19:30 GMT
Titan Poker and TonyGPoker
Diamond and Titanium VIP Players
Buy-in: 50,000 Points
3 winners will receive entries to all ECOOP II events (value of $3420 each)
Special tournament for top VIP players, win all your ECOOP entries in one go!

ECPT Madrid Open Super Sat
Saturday, March 29, 2008, at 20:00 GMT
Buy-ins = $100+ $9
Satellites from $1 + $0.10
$3,000 Prize Package
Full Details:
http://www.titanpoker.com/eurocity_madrid08.html
Join the giants with Titan Poker and take your seat in Madrid this May!
This tournament event is sponsored by Titan Poker and should take priority in promotional efforts.

Players have 4 weekly Super Satellites to win seats to the ECPT Madrid Open!!

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Gibraltar – 20^th March 2008 — PartyPoker.com is excited to announce the return of coverage from the PartyPoker.com Premier League to Channel 4 in the UK at 12.10am on Tuesday 25^th March/Wednesday 26^th March. The groundbreaking event developed by Matchroom Sport, features 12 of the world’s best players playing in a unique league for a $1 million prize pool.

All 12 players will play six times in the preliminary stages. The leading four players will then progress to the final table with the next four battling it out in heads-up matches for the final two seats. Each player bought in for $60,000, with PartyPoker.com adding $280,000 to make the pool $1 million, up from $500,000 last year. Nine of the twelve players from 2007’s successful event return with the new faces being “Flying Dutchman� Marcel Luske, Annie Duke and Alexander Kravchenko. As before, eleven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will lead a top field that also includes Dave ‘The Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Andy Black, Ian Frazer, Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi and Eddy Scharf.

Coverage of the event will be shown for 15 weeks on Channel 4 in the UK. The opener is a cracker with Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, Dave “Devilfish� Ulliott, Juha Helppi, Annie Duke and Marcel Luske at the table. Commentary is provided by Jesse May and Roland de Wolfe.

2008 Prize Money Breakdown

Final Table ($520,000)

Winner $250,000

Runner-Up $120,000

Third $60,000

Fourth $40,000

Fifth $30,000

Sixth $20,000

2008 Prize Money Breakdown

League Stage ($480,000) 12 Matches

Winner $18000 x 12

Runner-Up $10000 x 12

Third $6000 x 12

Fourth $4000 x 12

Fifth $2000 x 12

Sixth $0

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Full Tilt Poker is holding their Race to the Main Event and is giving players an opportunity to win one of three completely free seats every week through June 22nd.

There are also weekly real money guarantee tournaments on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with buy-ins ranging from $200 + $16 to $1,000 + $60 and satellites starting from just $2 + $.25 or 50 Full Tilt Poker points.

Lookout for the 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee on June 15th – with 50 more guaranteed $12K packages than last year, this is the largest Main Event qualifier Full Tilt Poker has ever run.

If you win your Main Event seat at Full Tilt Poker you will automatically qualify for The Full Tilt Poker $10 Million Main Event Mania, and if you win more than one Main Event package, you could on to become the King of the Series and experience the royal treatment in Las Vegas.

Qualify for a tournament at Full Tilt Poker for more.

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Titan Poker is holding a free $1,000 prize pool tournament for any new depositing player that comes from Pokerbonuscodes.co.uk. Titan Poker does not allow US players, but they do allow players from Canada, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.

The What, Where, When:

Date and time: March 30th at 19:05 pm

Prize pool: $1000

Requirement – Must use proper bonus code: PBCUK in order to register and make the
real first deposit.

Any new account that follows these procedures will be automatically registered for this free tournament. If you did everything right and don’t have access to the tournament contact us and we’ll get you squared away.

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I got notice in my email that Full Tilt Poker is testing out Instant eChecks as one of their deposit methods. You may deposit up to $600 per day or $1,500 per week into your player account using Instant eChecks, and all funds transferred from your personal bank account to your player account will be available for immediate use on Full Tilt Poker.

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The rules of texas holdem can be understood via 3 simple questions – who, what, and when; once you know the answer to all of these questions, you know how to play texas holdem.

WHO: THE DEALER, BLINDS, AND ALL THE REST

Texas holdem starts with the dealer; a position that at home rotates after each hand in a clockwise direction by passing the deck of cards. In a casino setting the act of dealing will be fulfilled by a single professional casino dealer. In the case of the casino play, the dealer acts as a proxy for the person whose turn it is to deal. The requirement to maintain the dealer position and its movement is crucial as this determines bet order, play, and blinds (which will be explained later). The dealer position is indicated in a casino by a ‘button’; a small disc with ‘dealer’ stamped on it, which the professional dealer will move a position to the left after each hand, in much the same way that the deck itself would be moved in a home game.

There are two positions in texas holdem play known as ‘blinds’; there’s the ‘big blind’ and the ‘little blind’ and they are the players filling the two positions to the left of the dealer with the little blind being directly to his left and the big blind being directly to the little blind’s left. Blinds are the compulsory amounts entered into the pot before the cards are dealt. Texas holdem requires no ante as other poker games do, instead it uses the blind system to kick start the betting even before the cards are dealt as the blinds are essentially compulsory bets on the unseen cards. The little blind is usually half the size of the big blind and these amounts will always be determined before play begins. Most often, the big blind is equal to the amount of a full small bet, so in a $2-$4 game the big blind would be $2. As the dealer position circulates so do the blind positions, so all players at some point pay both blinds.

If you are not the dealer, and not a big blind or little blind, you are ‘all the rest’, and you have no special role or requirements.

WHAT AND WHEN: CARDS AND BETS

First Round: After the blinds have been paid, 2 cards are dealt to each player face down – these are you ‘hole cards’ and shouldn’t be shown to anyone. The first betting round begins with the player to the left of the big blind. The bet at this point is to value of big blind which was the essentially a preemptive bet. This player therefore has 3 choices; call, raise, or fold. Betting continues around the table accordingly. The small blind, if he chooses to see the bet must make his original bet up to the amount on the table. If for example in a $2-$4 game where there had been one raise, the small blind must add $3 to see the bet. If the big blind wishes to raise the bet after being seen, he may do so once in the first round.

Second Round: following completion of the first round of betting, 3 community cards known as the ‘flop’ are placed face up on in the center of the table. These cards are for everyone’s use and should be used to make up each persons best 5 card poker hand. There will be two more cards dealt in this fashion – rounds 3 and 4. At this stage the blinds are no longer relevant so betting begins with the first player to the dealer’s left that is still in the game. As no bet has yet been laid, unlike in the first round when the blinds were the first bets, the player now has an extra option – he may check. A ‘check’ allows you to not bet so long as no-one before you has bet anything. So, this first player has the options of bet, check, or fold. If he checks, the next player has the same options; if he bets however, no-one else in that round can check but rather have the options of fold, raise, or see. Betting continues until all bets are seen. Some tables will limit the number of raises per betting round.

Third and Fourth Rounds: Following the second betting round, a fourth community card is dealt known as the ‘turn’, and a third betting round occurs following the same format as the second. Following this round, the fifth and final community card is dealt – the ‘river’. All 7 cards with which you can make up your best 5 card poker hand have now been dealt – the 5 community cards and your 2 hole cards. The fourth and final betting round is competed and once all bets have been called, each player still in reveals his hole cards. If a hand is revealed that beats yours, you are under no obligation to show what you have; you simply concede. The winning hand takes the pot.

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The last six months has seen mass changes in attitudes and laws towards gambling and poker playing across Europe. Several European Union nations including Germany have banned online gaming, whilst others, such as Finland, have opted for state sponsored online gaming only.

The UK has not been as drastic but, none-the-less, UK poker players are beginning already to see the changes that have come with Britain’s part in the trend to reassesses gaming control. Until only 5 months ago, British gambling rules were largely based on legislation that had been in place since the mid nineteenth century. The 91 billion pound industry saw in September a shake up that effects all quarters; from video arcade and take away food venues, to bookmakers and casinos, and of course online gaming sites.

Under the 2005 U.K. Gambling Act which was finally passed and enacted in September of 2007 all gaming locations will be subject to the licensing conditions of one regulatory body; the Gambling Commission. The Gambling Commission will grant licenses to British based gaming operators who conform to its requirements regarding fair play, security, as well as information regarding help lines and support centers. Any licensed gaming establishment that fails to comply with these regulations may face fines and prosecution.

Many UK poker players may already have seen some of the effects of the 2005 U.K. Gambling Act. No longer is membership required at casinos, and therefore the waiting period between joining and playing has become superfluous in many gaming halls across the nation. Furthermore, more regional casinos are likely to spring up around the country. However, plans for the first Super-Casino, the initiative for which was bought in under Tony Blair, and the bid for which was won by Manchester has been put on hold indefinitely by Gordon Brown who questions how successful it would be in regenerating the area; one of its major objectives. For the UK poker player however that means that the likelihood of a UK Las Vegas style resort is little more than a pipe dream at this stage. On the other hand, under the new regulations, gaming halls are permitted to keep back stakes for roll over jackpots meaning that in the majority of bingo halls and casinos larger prizes will be seen in the near future; already the first million pound prize has been claimed as a result of the new laws.

Other practical implications of the new regulations include the ability for gambling hosts to advertise on television and radio. All such adverts will be limited to a post-9p.m. watershed and will be required to carry information of gambling help lines.

The extent to which these new laws will help to control internet gambling is unclear at best and dubious at worst as, to date, less than 20 online offshore sites have chosen to register with the Gaming Commission preferring instead to remain outside their jurisdiction.

February saw the future of poker playing in Great Britain bought again to the for front of discussion, when Scottish politician Kenneth Gibson stated a desire to enforce mandatory tax on all gaming organizations operating in Scotland in order to fund what he considers much needed help for gambling addicts.

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