HollywoodPoker.com, the Kahnawake-licensed site, is now offering members of its free VIP club 14 bonuses that can be earned by exchanging points. It is a new clubHOLLYWOODpoker Player VIP Program. The program ensures that players won’t worry about not having a bonus.

To say more, now, players have a choice: they can reload bonus requiring a modest deposit to be made into the player’s account or no load – reload bonus “where players use their current bankroll and select the points for a bonus offer that suits them”.

Besides, the members will also get invitations to monthly freerolls – the so kind of option to exchange the points for tournament tickets.

Successful poker players, Gavin Griffin and Chad Brown, have been recently added to Team Poker Stars Pro.

The list of their accomplishments is really long. Thus, e. g., Gavin Griffin has become the first player to win the coveted “Triple Crown” of poker, and this happened after his winning at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Classic. He also celebrated his victory at the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in 2007 and the World Series of Poker in 2004. Moreover, Griffin has claimed a title in EPT, WSOP and WPT – the world’s three major poker tournaments.

By the way, Gavin appeared to be the youngest ever player to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. He was 22 at that time.

Gavin’s biggest win is $2.4 million at the PokerStars EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo where he became a favorite when it was revealed that he had been involved in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer charity.

Griffin is very proud to have become the part of the Team PokerStars Pro.

Chad Brown, Gavin’s fellow, is no less excited to have become the part of the Team. He is absolutely ready to make his contributions to the Team.

Other big names in the Team are Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Bertrand Grospellier, Humberto Brenes and 14 other top pros from around the world.

Passing pre-tournament guarantees, FullTiltPoker.com, PokerStars.com and PartyPoker.com managed to attract a large numbers of players last weekend.

Thus, there were 7,520 entrants in PokerStars.com’s Sunday Million event where the prize pool was as high as $1.5 million. With 1,080 players the winners prize totaled to $212,000.

One Million Dollar Guaranteed tournament run at FullTiltPoker.com saw a filed of 2,252 players who generated the prize pool of $1.126 million. 351 players got cash. The winner’s prize amounted to $206,564.

1,735 players took part in PartyPoker.com’s $300,000 Guaranteed on Sunday. The number of participants generated the prize pool of $347,600 and the first prize of $67,665.

A $2,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament will be hosted by Bet365 on March 2, 2008.

Players will be able to buy-in either straight into the main event or they can get into the tournament participating in satellite events that suite all players and methods. “Sit & Go” and Multi-table formats are included into the satellite structure.

Entry to the satellites has just begun. A lot of players are expected to participate in them, as al of them despite their experience will get “a shot at winning big”.

Another monthly final with a total of $100,000 up for grabs in the Million Dollar Freeroll Tournament hosted by PlayersOnly.com is said to take place this Sunday. $400,000 have already been awarded in the ten month long series. Players can expect $600,000 more to win.

Both experienced and new player participate in the event. It is surprising, but lots of players who have hardly participated in tournaments before get the prize money.

Freeroll tournaments at PlayersOnly.com are very popular with the players, as they are considered to be fun and there is nothing to lose there. You don’t play with real money. All you can lose is the entry fee.

To participate in this Sunday’s tournament, a player should finish top in one of the qualifying freeroll events throughout this week. Sunday’s winner will walk away being $75,000 richer.

Now, players preferring cash games are able to enjoy Cash Table Leaders promotion launched by TitanPoker.com. It is believed to be the latest innovative promotion to be staged at the online poker room. The players are said to be rewarded with large cash prizes based on the result of their play in January. The prize money totals to $100,000.

The promotion runs from January 14 to 31. All players are eligible to participate in it. Top 200 players will receive a share of $100,000.

Besides the promotion, TitanPoker.com will host a two million dollar guaranteed prize tournament. It will take place on March 2.

There is to important to realizebetting structure when playing Texas Holdem, so lets describe it shortly:

Betting structure for No-Limit Texas Holdem:

Minimum increase: An increase must be at least as high as the previous record in this round. For example, if the first player who was off, $ 100 sets, the subsequent increase in a player’s minimum amount to $ 100 (total $ 200).
Maximum increase: The entire money that they have in front.

Betting structure for Pot-Limit Texas Holdem:

Minimum increase: An increase must be at least as high as the previous record in this round. For example, if the first player who was off, $ 100 sets, the subsequent increase in a player’s minimum amount to $ 100 (total $ 200).

Maximum increase: The amount of Pottes: The amount of Pottes is composed as follows: The main Pott any adverse Pott + + all previous records set in this round of + the amount that the acting player must first pay before he can increase.

For example, if the sperm big is $ 200 and the first player to hold off, puts $ 150 and the next player called the $ 150, the next player max. $ 800. This sum of $ 800 shall be as follows: Pott $ 200 + $ 150betting 1.Spieler + $ 150betting 2.Spieler + $ 150 = $ 3.Spieler Call 650, the 3.Spieler can now also increase to $ 650, making a totalbetting of $ 800, $ 150 Call + $ 650 increase.

The game structure for No-Limit and Pot-Limit Texas Holdem is up to the same exceptions listed above.

The Dusk Till Dawn poker club is reported to have been officially opened. The club that has become the largest poker room in Europe, with 45tables in operation, is located in Nottingham.

To celebrate the event, a series of tournaments have been launched. It must be noted that two of the events – both Ј100 No Limit Hold’em tournaments – are already full to their capacity.

Poker pro Simon Trumper has been appointed the Live Poker Director for the club.

Current open hours are 6pm to 4am GMT, Thursdays to Sundays.

PartyPoker.com is known to have upgraded its PartyPoints program. As a result, the customers can earn their points much faster (at up to 400 % of the standard rate) and on any of the PartyGaming brands including PartyPoker, PartyCasino, PartyBets, Gamebookers.com, PartyBingo and PartyGammon PartyGaming brands including PartyPoker, PartyCasino, PartyBets, Gamebookers.com, PartyBingo and PartyGammon and exchange for cash, tournament entries. An experienced host providing personal service for every VIP is the offer that is claimed to be the first of its kind in the online gaming industry.

Possibility to expand the poker table for the larger 1024×768 screen resolution, easy replays and rematches are the part of the upgrade program.

With the upgrade program, players won’t give up as they know how close they are to success.

The UK’s first legal poker club is about to be open in Nottingham at Dusk Till Dawn.