Player's Guide For Making First Deposit

Beyond making the first deposit is where the satisfaction to online poker cravings start. Before that, the searches continues, forever looking for a poker room that can be called home. Maybe some of the hidden features that attracts potential players the most is the aesthetics value of the poker room. It was designed to be appealing and catchy. If it did, it has done its job. 

The next point of consideration left is for the players to decide themselves.

But having so many poker rooms to gorge at can leave almost anyone brain dead. Needless to say, there are few more points anyone can based their decisions on. In no particular order, before making a deposit, read through what their terms and conditions are like. At least find out if the country you are located at are not under their restriction or ban lists. 

From a personal experience, I have signed up for an account and played countless hours of real money games to find my country was restricted. Lucky for me I have yet to deposit. As a player, playing freerolls is a good way to find if the room is up to your taste. Don't like their freerolls, leave. Don't like their software, leave. If a room can't provide a good freeroll, it tells a lot about their company. 

Many poker rooms offer live help through live chat facility. Strike a conversation with their representatives. Ask questions. Find out about the company. Be a responsible player. Conveniently, options are open to anyone for having made a first deposit before at one online poker room to make another at a different one. Because there are just that many online poker rooms. But a happy player will be willing to make more deposits in the future.

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Doylesroom.com Bounty Tournament

TJ Cloutier is back to playing poker at Doylesroom today for it's bounty tournament. Today, this Wednesday May 28 is the last bounty tournament before WSOP. Along with this, a new bounty was added for the occasion. A Bluff Magazine Publisher, Eric Morris has joined the Brunson's team. It doesn't matter if the name does not sound familiar, all there is to know is his bounty head gives $500 reward. 

Doylesroom has definitely move on to be one of the A-list poker rooms. The team behind it is working the room so well, it certainly deserves some attention. Doylesroom is also open to the US players and is therefore having a large number of poker players. With a big bite of the US market, the room is certainly spoiled for loose games if not more competitive. 

Moving on, Doylesroom has recently secured Shanon Elizabeth into their Brunson's team. Be prepare to be seduced. Resistance will be Futile!! The addition of celebrities and poker professionals here, makes the room a complete package. 

Once again, Doylesroom offers the best bounty tournament. Knockout 3 bounties, you get $25,000. Kockout 2 bounties, you get $5,000. Knockout 1 bounty, you get $500. DoylesRoom Bounty Tournament starts this Wednesday at 9:30pm ET.

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Health Issues Poker Athletes May Concern

Knowing poker to the uninitiated can just be a mere gamble of chips, but it is actually a sport. It involves all a sportsman's prowess more if not equal to any other sports. It takes an athlete constant dedication and hardwork to prepare himself for the game.

Being like a sport athlete, poker athletes consume their training on countless amount of hands and time. This proves itself later on the felt where agility meets mental strength and experience.

A poker athlete need to stay fit and on top of his toes to be card sharp. Busily grinding away can easily make the athlete forget of possible health threats.

Most athletes depended on adrenaline to stretch the limit. A poker athlete will feel this rush all the same. Hence with adrenaline too much in the system, it may be too late to realize that you are overworked. It is always important to know when to rest and play.

Playing online poker will mean spending more time in front of a screen. Having countless hours in a seated position reduces one's mobility and this could easily induce numbness along major part of human bodies.

Everyone loves to have a stimulating working environment. When your office can be your bedroom, it is best to always keep it clean and refreshing. A poker athlete's working space is also his resting space lest it be claustrophobic.

Having the eyes fixated for a long time to a screen is certainly not healthy. Our eyes are one of the most sensitive organs. We use it everyday and they should not be a matter to be overlook.

Not having proper sleep due to grinding on the felt can be detrimental. The human body has it's own time clock. Forcing the body to be awake when it should be replenishing itself adds extra stress.

The part of the bodies taking part in this daily activities include our wrist, forearms and fingers. The only thing physical about it is mouse clicking. Sometimes not having an ergonomical pose for our arm and wrist can give a real problem. The most severe case will be developing a Carpal tunnel syndrome. Worst case scenario would be an operation to fix it.

A human body have tells much like poker tells. Fatigue and stress is a sign that tells it is enough session for the day. The body needs to shut down and rest. Often times, playing after this threshold contributes a lot towards a tilting session.

The poker bug continues to take on everybody. It is a simple game to learn and a long way to master. It also makes sense to take in all we can learn and be concern to take care of ourselves. Read more

The Art Of Second Law

I recently had an opportunity to re-read a book I have for a few years now. It was a favourite book of mine. After revisited the chapters, it finally came to me what it all meant. I couldn't get it back then, I got it now. The Second Law, it was something much much more.

It was how everything that was meant to be have got this second law to blame. With this law there was simply a point of no return. Back before its time, if we have waited long enough we could see things running backward instead of forward. Just as how a wheel that spins forward can also be spinning backward. This was however flawed.

The night always chases the day. The trees will rise up to the sky and fall. And human beings will grow old and die. This was how second law acted on us. Global warming will continuously be an issue and oil/fuel will be a resource that is getting lesser by the day. It was not about energy crisis, but more of how energy have dissipated.

All matter, as always, returned into less structured and less ordered state. A bad beat at poker happened not because of variance but because of the Second Law. Because everything will resume into a less ordered state. As I understood it, it was irreversible!!

Having a bad beat was nothing more than Second Law trying to proclaim its existence. Bad beats happened in contrast to the player fighting to reclaim his losses.

In the long run, the end will be inevitable. Humans will be gone. Civilisations will be gone. The sun will collapse. The end of world is nigh. - Will we won't be able to see the end of time?

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How To Qualify For WSOP From Doylesroom.com

The World Series of Poker will start soon. For what it's worth, most online poker rooms had already had it done with for their fair bit of deals. One way of making it available for players to get their chance to WSOP is by offering one of those qualifying tournaments.

Most of the time, the package is given to the winner of it's main qualifying event. The buy-ins can start small and slowly graduating to bigger ones. It caters to all type of players with different bankrolls. Anyone willing to put part of their bankroll into the event can do so. Those that want to start small will have no problem finding the smaller stakes to qualify.

Winning one of those WSOP Main Event satellite packages will have you going to Vegas for free. In a few more days this opportunity will close. All the attention later will be on who is the most deserving to get those bracelets.

In comparison to others, Doylesroom already had its own WSOP package up since early this year. In addition to $10,000 for the WSOP buy-in, each package winner will receive:

#$3,000 for travel and accommodations.
#Breakfast strategy session with the legendary Doyle Brunson.
#Autographed leather bound set of Super System 1 and 2.
#Photo session with Doyle and other renowned pros.
#DoylesRoom gear and bragging rights.

Take advantage of their continuous $14 + $1.40 Sit&Go Satellites, $9 + $1 Daily Turbo Satellites, and $20 + $2 Daily Satellites, as well as weekly satellites and Bi-Weekly finals, and a free trip to Vegas will be waiting for you. Read more

The Online Poker Dream

This is a guest post by Gary from 2milliondollarbills [... the site has been discontinued]. Gary is on a quest towards $2 million dollars. He also writes at his blog about his favourite Scottish recipes.

The Online Poker Dream and the Path to Financial Freedom

The online poker bug has firmly taking hold of millions of people all around the world; it has truly become a global game. Some people play purely for fun, others to make a little bit of extra money, some even play with the dream of becoming good enough to be able to give up the day job.

I personally feel that online poker offers us all the potential to become financially free. What’s wrong with having the dream that one day, you can become good enough to make a full time living from playing online poker. If you want something badly enough and are prepared to work hard enough, you can make the dream become a reality.

For many people, it will sadly never be more than just an unachievable dream. I suppose that’s just the way of the world, not everyone has the correct mindset, to learn what is required to become a winning poker player, or to take it on to the next level, where you are a professional online poker player.

There are literally thousands of people making full time livings from playing online poker and that is no exaggeration, but there are also thousands upon thousand of people that are constantly losing. Some are even going broke and losing their cars and homes. Live poker playing legends such as Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Scotty Nguyen have all at some point in their careers, ended up broke on more than one occasion, yet they used it as learning experiences which helped to make them great poker players. Unfortunately too many online poker players don’t seem to be capable of learning form past mistakes and experiences, they just keep on losing and losing.

If you want to become a winning online poker player and get on the path to financial freedom, you have to become like a sponge and starting soaking up as much information as possible, every time you play, you have to train almost like a professional athlete does. You have to spend time training, reading as much books as you can, learning about odds, analyse your winning hands and losing hands, how could you have done things differently and of course you have to be willing to play for between 8-14 hours a day to gain the experience that will make you a better player and ultimately a winning player.

As part of my dream to make 2 million dollar bills, poker is very much part of my money making plans. I may be a long way off from making serious money by playing poker, but I’m I have finally learned how to win more than I lose. I just wish I could find the time to take it on to the next level and play for more than 10 or 12 hours a week. I have other interests, which I also enjoy being involved in, but such is life I suppose.

For me the online poker dream is very much alive, I have learned from my mistakes and am finally on the path to financial freedom. Read more

The Only Bounty Tournament We Know At Doylesroom

This Wednesday is the Bounty Tournament day at Doylesroom. Every wednesday night, Doyle Brunson participates in this tournament and offered himself as the Bounty. At least, most of the time. A bounty on him is $500 and is a fair share among hundreds of poker players that joined this tournament as always.

It is easy to find where Doyle Brunson is sitting as he goes by the screen name Tex_Dolly. With this, everyone can try to add him as a buddy from the poker software, but it was rumored that he won't approve to be your buddy.

There is also a host that makes this Bounty Tournament entertaining and more lively. The suspense part of this Bounty Tournament is seeing who gets the Bounty. Most of the time anyway.

Once again, knockout 3 bounties, you get $25,000. Kockout 2 bounties, you get $5,000. Knockout 1 bounty, you get $500. DoylesRoom Bounty Tournament starts May 21, this Wednesday at 9:30pm ET. Right now it is about 20hrs away. Read more

Work Poker. Live Poker. Play Poker

Not quite, not yet. But it is a possibility. Sometimes it is a mystery to think about it. I don't really know if it makes sense if one would be so devoted of his time to making money instead of spending time with their loved ones.

Come what may, why would anyone consider being their own boss? It is one of the most hardest job. Seriously, isn't it much better being an employee and getting a fixed salary month to month. The tasks of being your own boss is one of a totally different playing field. It is beyond desk work or any other kind of technical job being schooled to you.

On top of that, sometimes after passing on the experiences to those you employed, they simply just run away. Talking about no return of investments there.

Well, poker on the other hand is unique. It can be seen as a business. It is also a risky business. No employee to hire. No costs on having offices locally or worldwide. The cost is yourself and the investments you made for yourself. But every cents you put into the game, there are chances you might not get it back.

Having said that, there is no time boundaries for when to play poker. It can be somewhere in between Eastern Standard Times, EST, GMT, BST or Anytime. When it is time to open business, Anytime suffice. Playing poker is like being a time traveller, only thing is we can be physically here but our entity is somewhere else in a different time.

How much more can you ask for? Being that good, anyone can join. Not exactly that there is an age limit either. Above 18yrs is quite mandatory though, at least we know you have reached puberty. So when do you want to start? Read more

A Billionth Poker Hands For Celebration

Not exactly a billionth reasons to get you excited about but for Ladbrokespoker it is another milestone achieved. Coming soon, their random card generator will be recording over a billion hands. A billion poker hands is just this many hands, 1,000,000,000 hands. That is an additional two 'zeroes' to a million.

For only just that reason, Ladbrokespoker will be holding a Billionth Hand Freeroll to mark the occasion. Having handed out so many hands is no easy matter. When was the last time you played up to 10,000 hands? And how long did it takes you? It will certainly take you some time.

Just as any good parties are reserved for the invited, Ladbrokes is opening up the invitation for their Billionth Hand Freeroll to players earning 50 Player Points on the day the Billionth hand was reached.

The prizes Ladbrokespoker is offering are :

1. 20, $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Package and
2. 200, $109 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Daily Final seats.

These prizes are given away just like that and of course if you love poker and do nothing but live, breath, eat and talks poker, it is about damn time to make your move. Read more

A Rake Race To WSOP In VIP Style

A little bit of promotion towards the World Series of Poker events can help bring more people to Vegas. It will be something that gets more attention as time goes by. Regular online poker players will have more chances and less reasons not to get there.

With so many promotions everywhere, Ladbrokes is having its own race. Play any cash game tables either Hold’em or Omaha to rake in your way to WSOP. Every cents and dollars of rake you contribute will earn points. Top 100 players of the week from three different stakes levels will get to play WSOP VIP Freezeout. That's 300 entrants.

The WSOP VIP Freezeout has an added $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP Package. Winner gets to go Vegas with Ladbrokes Team players. You got to love poker and play lots and lots of poker. Qualifying with this will be easy and comes naturally.

In addition to this, everyone will also be receiving a 30% rakeback. The WSOP VIP Weekly Rake Races will be held on the following dates:

# Monday 31st March to Sunday 6th April
# Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April
# Monday 14th to Sunday 20th April
# Monday 21st to Sunday 27th April
# Monday 28th April to Sunday 4th May
# Monday 5th May to Sunday 11th May
# Monday 12th May to Sunday 18th May
# Monday 19th May to Sunday 25th May
# Monday 26th May to Sunday 1st June
# Monday 2nd June to Sunday 8th June
# Monday 9th June – Sunday 15th June
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Making Millions. Are You One Of Them ?

The truth is, making this site is an idea of mine. It was meant to be more than what you come to believe as just another affiliate site. I had collaborated with a friend of mine where I would be writing the poker stuff and he would be contributing his share of digital graphics. It would be fun, I thought.

He, who shall not be named have been doing sketches since college. Lately, his artwork had exceeded my expectations of what could just be a past time. His great work can be seen from the about page. It has been a long time waiting. He is busy with his professional career now and asking more from him frequently makes me feel guilty.

So, I am moving on with this by myself now. It will be a long long road ahead and could just as well be boring listening to my lone voice. I will be taking you off the beaten path and back, maybe to the dark dark alley road too and hope you will like it.

I hope I am not losing my perspectives yet. I am in an attempt to make something out of poker. The road to millions!! This sounds unbelievably good. Many people would give up their career to play. But this only depends on what you like to do. It also means where you like to go in your life. Some people doesn't like to work in a cubicle, offices. Some likes to meet people. Some enjoys travelling. You only have one life. You choose yours. Nobody knows what the next day is.

It has always been about you. Your life purpose. So make something of it. Go play some games, g_d damnit!!! Join Ladbrokespoker or Doylesroom. And if I make my millions I promise to buy dinner, seriously. Read more

How Does ClickandBuy Works

Being an online player, you might have had this happened to you. You tried to make a deposit online but it doesn't work. You tried again and still in disbelief that your card was no good for this online poker room. Anybody not able to make a direct deposit using their cards will certainly feel disappointed.

Once again, there are a few of those methods out there that can still change this. ClickandBuy is quite a well known ewallet for online poker room. Their logo can be found plastered on most poker rooms now, which include Pokerstars, Ultimatebet, most of Ongame network sites and a few more other places.

When creating an account, it will be temporarily blocked. ClickandBuy requires you to do a verification to your card. They asked you to approve two transactions where ClickandBuy will charge your card. The amount will be from 1-1.99 Euros. So be prepared for a maximum spending of 4 Euros.

This kind of verification is similar to Paypal. The amount you payed will remained in your ClickandBuy account so you have just deposited up front into your ClickandBuy account. To verify these transactions, you need to confirm the correct amount which can be found from your credit card statement. You see, you were not told what those two amount of charges were. See how it goes now?

Once the verification have been confirmed, the account will be unblocked. Obviously this method is SLOW. Not a very good choice to choose if you want to deposit now and play! This method takes a few days of your time and most probably up to 2 weeks!! Read more

A Bounty Head On TJCloutier At Doylesroom

Without fail, Doyle's bounty tournament on every Wednesday is a spectacular event. It's bounty tournament for the coming week has just become legendary. Six-time WSOP champ T.J. Cloutier has join in the fray to be hunted along others such as Doyle and Mike.

T.J. Cloutier is a formidable player. He has made his name well known in the circles of top poker players. Besides making a living playing poker he is also among the few that was admitted into Poker Hall of Fame.

To become a Poker Hall of Fame player, you need to have played high stakes poker, have played against acknowledged top competitor, played consistently well and gained the respect of peers and lastly stood the test of time.

This coming Wednesday could just be the hardest earned bounty ever. It also gives you the most extreme Braagging Rights if you ever bust them out.

As always, knockout 3 bounties, you get $25,000. Kockout 2 bounties, you get $5,000. Knockout 1 bounty, you get $500. DoylesRoom Legends Bounty Tournament starts May 14, this Wednesday at 9:30pm ET. Read more

Ladbrokes Wants You Play Their SNGS

So what is sngs - you may ask. Sit n gos are the standard single table game for tournament play. Which means once the required 10 players have sit in at the table, the game will start. It is pretty much like a condense version of a multi table tournament. Here you are playing the same tournament format minus off the usual 100s or 1000s of players that is.

Sounds easy ain't it? All you have to do is outplay 9 players and the cup is yours, forever etched in loving memories. A great promotion to get it all started is in Ladbrokes Six-Seat Sit n Go Jackpot. Started in April, it is continuing in the month of May too.

More about Ladbrokes SNG Jackpot

Ladbrokes is pouring in $20,000 Jackpot Freeroll per month for qualifiers from Six-Seat Sit n Go Jackpot. This $20k freeroll is only limited to 10 players and all 10 qualified players will be paid. Even if the pay out for 10th placing is 1%, it is good enough for the hassle. Since you are wining money from the Six-Seat Sit n Go Jackpot anyway to qualify.

For the month of May, the $20,000 STT Freeroll will be played out on Sunday 1st June at 20:00 BST (British Standard Time of course). In circumstances that only 1 make it to the $20k freeroll, he/she will get the whole lot. Read more

Doylesroom Gone MTV!!

Doylesroom going wild for it's bounty tournament. This time it has invited Real World Sydney beauty Parisa to join in the game. Doylesroom's Bounty Tournament is a fixture on every Wednesday every week of the month. And this Wednesday it will be a MTV Real World Celebrity Bounty Tournament.

The spotlight of course will be on 22 years old Parisa from New York. Parisa Montazaran being a daughter of an Iranian immigrants grew up in New York. After fulfilling her parents strict expectations she has decided it is time to realise her own dream or so the wikipedia and mtv site says.




Doyle's bounty tournament offers the most 'Biggest' prize for bounty hunters. Knockout 3 bounties, you get $25,000. Kockout 2 bounties, you get $5,000. Knockout 1 bounty, you get $500. It is also free to enter for first timer.

If you happen to be headsup with Parisa, just lose purposely to her, ok. You might just be able to get a date later. DoylesRoom bounty starts this Wednesday at 9:30pm ET. Read more

Jaws Is Back. Run For Your Lives!!

Not your average Steven Spielberg film but we all know how menacing looking jaws were in that film with its sharp teeth. They can have more bite than we can chew and similarly if jaws would have taken a hold of our chips we would have a big chunk of chips teared up away from our grasps. This big fish is a predator we commonly known on the felt as the shark.

They are constantly lurking around pool of fishes eagerly awaiting their next meal. This vicious cycle of predator and prey have been around since you know when. But when you are playing online, it is always hard even if you are the bigger fish of the small fish.

Who says online poker is child's play? Yes, you can play up to a few cents at stakes at online poker compared to when you are playing with real games. It isn't all that convenient that you come around a live game just to play a few cents?

But knowing how popular poker are right now, everybody is playing it. Along with it, there are tracking tools made available for online poker. This specific tool is one bit annoying. It is called the sharkscope. You can search for anybody almost anywhere at the online poker room and see how they are doing.

You can find how well he is doing with his ROI, return of investments and his state of mind. Yes, this tool can allow you to read your opponent's mind even if he is wearing an aluminium thin foil hat. But wait, this is not a damper yet because you can still use it back to check up on players you have noted earlier to be fishy in their games.

So it can really be an advantage and disadvantage at the same time. If you think playing online poker is for the kids, you might want to think again. The next fish might just be you. However ironic it may seems, this tool certainly is not privacy friendly. Read more

Doyle's New Poker Software

Here is the new spin about Doylesroom, they have recently revamped their poker software. It is now more sleek and cool, no doubt. Of all the poker rooms listed here, this is the best poker software around. It separates itself from the pack. In fact playing around with the software alone simply stimulate your senses!

The functionalities you can see are :

1. New table design
2. New frame
3. Game buttons
4. Best hand display
5. Change table size
6. Poker table options
7. Table appearance
8. Setting preferences
9. Avatar menu
10. Hand history

There is no need to explain the full details for all these as Doyle's team had already put up a detailed page about it at their site.




They have indeed hit the heart of an online poker player with it. Their Ajax-like movement together with necessary functions and neat appearance adds up to a poker player gaming experience. Tired eyes and sleepless nights at the online felt will bring you no more bad beats as you will feel refresh with this software.

Looking back at a Microgaming software, you will notice that you won't be able to see your chip count at the table in numbers. Players need to move the cursor to the chip to display the amount. A hassle in the past.

With this new change you are now able to see those chip counts in numbers. And this alone is really an improvement to be welcomed.

Have you had experience with it yet? Please tell your story. Read more

Bankroll And You

Starting out with nothing and trying to grow a bankroll can be the hardest thing you ever want to do. Because your amount of play are pretty much limited by what you have. Everything can be costly so you will have to rely most on what you know. This also means getting the information you need to achieve your goals.

Your play at first will be quite tight. As your bankroll gets better, things get easier.

Somehow bankrolling can get off to a bad or good start in the beginning. A lot of drama really. After gotten first cash from freerolls you have the insatiable happiness which you recieved and aptly rewarded.




Putting the money where it belongs is up to you. How you grow your bankroll depends on you. I have burned a $8 dollar bankroll playing $0.15/$0.30 limit games. It happened to me, it can happen to you also.

After getting up to 3 figure size, I realized I am doing alright. That is why I feel good talking about poker and many things there are on poker. Similar if you just watched a mind blowing movie and can't stop telling people about it.

I am excited about poker and derived much fun from it. I am growing together with you as much as you are growing your bankroll at the same time now.

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Gameplays At Bodog

As we are working out, curling biceps and shedding away our bulging bellies, we are trying to squeeze one more post that may or may not help you. We are shaping ourselves to look like one lean, mean playing machine deserving of poker rooms we played at.

"This is Bodog. This is the life". - Play hard.

The gameplays at Bodog is not much less than those words above. Players playing at Bodog are truly true Bodog players. You can find loose aggressive plays and you can also find tight aggressive plays that sometimes you feel those players must be really uptight about their tight ass.




No offence, but Bodog players are good players. Raise your chips and you might find yourself getting reverse bluffed.

In terms of tournament aspect for your games, there are many. If you are new, you will appreciate Bodog beginner tournaments - especially the SNGs. Here you will find great bargain for your low buy-ins. Why? Because they payout 5 spots out of 10 players. Any experienced players will tell you this is no joke. Of course, you don't get much if you win than you would if the payout is for top 3.

Now, we are just going to copy and paste what Calvin Ayre had said, "That said, although the Bodog address is changing, this is the bottom line: At Bodog, it's business as usual. Same great site, just a new Web address." This was last year when they have to change their domain from Bodog.com to Bodoglife.com.

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Betsson Tables

We have featured quite a lot of poker tables from Ongame network and Betsson is no less a part of it. We choosed poker tables from Ongame network because there are always constant stream of players available and the assurance of qualities.

Over at Betsson, the tables are ready to go. One of the most important part of playing poker online is that you have to have players to play with everytime you reach the online felt. As Ongame network consistently have large pool of players, you can be sure of the numbers.




Betsson also make available for players to access their tables online using a web browser. There is no need to install their poker client if you don't want to. All you need to do is to have a java enable web browser and you can get to the tables from anywhere. Read more