Bodog Debuts Anonymous Poker Tables
December 3, 2011
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Bodog Poker’s new software creates a new realm of online poker with a whole host of new features, including their revolutionary anonymous online poker tables now featured site-wide. Bodog’s own Jonas Odman emphasizes these measures as necessary to create fair and fun environment for players of all levels. “We’ve shown before that we are not afraid of controversy by changing the way rakeback was viewed and starting to black data mining sites,” says Odman. “These new features now give players a less biased ‘pure poker” experience.”
We know what you are thinking–where’s the glory if no one knows who you are? As most players know, however, having a name in the game means that resourceful poker pros can use poker software (like PokerTableRatings.com and SharkScope) to dig up all kinds of information on how you typically play your hands, giving these pros an encyclopedic knowledge of the statistics behind your every move. Bodog’s anonymous tables make accessing hand histories impossible to collect, thereby leveling the playing field. This no-name-no-gain poker model may just change how the game of poker is played.
And while the anonymous tables and data protection systems may be getting the lion’s share of the attention, there are several other features of Bodog’s new online poker software that will continue to raise the bar for poker player experience. Things like:
- The Rabbit Cam. Now you’ll never have to wonder what your hand would have looked like if all the cards would have been dealt. Be warned, sometimes this information is best left to mystery.
- A more competitive rake
- Improved table and tournament accessibility (as well as new tournament formats), as will as upgraded site speed.
- A new in-client blackjack game.
- Online poker players can now play up to 20 tables at a time.
With this new software upgrade, the online game will play more like a live and physical game where you hardly know your opponents; you’ll play the game (or 20) with your inherent skill set and make plays strictly with the information provided to you during the course of the game.
No telling what implications this may have on legalizing online poker in the United States, but it certainly couldn’t hurt to empower other poker sites to amp up their level of player protection and commitment to site-wide fair play.
A question I would ask our readers is whether or not any of you have ever used poker data mining sites to give you an edge in an online poker game or tournament. What do you feel are the odds anonymous poker tables will catch on?
ClubWPT Welcomes Online Poker Players from the US
August 19, 2011
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For too long, it’s been “illegal” to join together these two souls that were destined to be together. While it was okay to hold some hands in public, there was media and religious scrutiny about what these people do in their own homes, with people from other countries, and the implications it could have on certain tax laws.
This forbidden relationship has been flippantly linked to terrorism, has been declared unnatural, and more than once has been outted as a gateway to moral and social decline.
I’m proud to report that ClubWPT is taking a stand to protect the sanctity of a legal matrimony between two beings equally deserving of happiness and each other: The Poker Player and the Internet.
Ahem.
ClubWPT is a new type of online poker, and it’s unlike any US-Friendly poker room you’ve played in before–and that’s not just because it’s legal in most states. ClubWPT is a subscription-based poker room. Players pay a monthly fee to compete in US-Friendly poker tournaments for cash and prizes; there are no buy-ins, no additional deposits, no risk, and therefore, no gambling. You won’t lose a cent you weren’t happy to part with.
However, just because you aren’t playing with “real” money, doesn’t mean there isn’t real cash and prizes at the end of a tournament. ClubWPT VIP members (those players who subscribe on a monthly or yearly basis) get access to over $100,000 in cash and prizes every month (including seats to WPT Tour Events) in unlimited tournament play.
And you can even play poker online for FREE all the time. Just sign up for the Basic Membership (free) and get access to daily freeroll tournaments with fun prizes and complimentary access to the inside life of the World Poker Tour.
Right now, get the VIP experience of this US-Friendly Poker Site for free for two whole weeks.
Nearly every type of online poker is represented, so you’re sure to find several tournaments that hit a competitive nerve.From $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournaments to the points-based tournaments, there is plenty to get excited about. Read all that ClubWPT has to say about how they are confident this US-Friendly online poker site will give online poker players all the fun without fear of fines, penalties, and social scrutiny.
May you hold hands with pride.
Carbon Poker Loves Losers. And the occasional Winner.
May 11, 2011
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Carbon Poker offers free online poker software, competitive poker bonuses, and a sleek interface that makes just about everything look cool.
Bad Beats, for example, have never been more socially welcomed, and that’s partially due to the Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot (currently over $190K). If you scored a hand with quad 7′s or better and you lose the hand to someone with quad 8′s or better, you have a shot at that enormous Bad Beat jackpot. And all of the table’s witnesses get a piece of the action, too.
On the other side of the Carbon Poker promotion spectrum is the Royal Flush Bonus, which awards a bonus of 100x the big blind–up to $500–when you snag a Royal Flush with your pocket cards during a real-money Texas Hold’em ring game.
Never played at Carbon Poker? It’s a member of the Merge Gaming Network along with PDC Poker and Walker Poker. Featuring an informative blog, VIP rewards, poker tutorials and a wide selection of online poker tournaments, Carbon Poker welcomes novice and experienced players alike. Players new to Carbon Poker will receive a welcome bonus of up to $600 (a 100% deposit match bonus) and entry into the self-guided New Depositors Cash Chase promotion.
Carbon Poker may surprise your with it’s light-hearted content and serious blogs, but that should just tell you that it’s all about the love of the game.
Accepts all Players
Indicted Poker Site Plans to File for Bankruptcy; Poker Players At a Loss
May 6, 2011
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According to the Games and Casino Gambling News blog and other news sources around the country, the parent company of Absolute Poker and UB Poker is planning on filing for bankruptcy protection. This solidifies some poker players worst fears: losing all the money in their accounts. Blanca Gaming of Antigua announced to its shareholders via email that it plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Norway.
Poker forums around the globe are filled with chatter that confirmed both Absolute Poker and UB Poker have not processed recent withdrawal requests from players residing in the United States, or in any other country.While disappointing, this is the latest in a string of bad business decisions, including the 2007 cheating scandal that stunted its growth.
Nothing yet from PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker regarding their financial future.
Hollywood Poker adds another $192,000 in monthly guaranteed tournament prizes
May 5, 2011
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While some may argue that adding another $192,000 to an already impressive $16,000,000 in monthly payouts is really just chump change, others would argue that any addition of guaranteed online poker tournaments is always a good thing. I would agree with the latter, especially when the additional cash allows new online poker players a chance to test the water.
Hollywood Poker also announced the addition of three new tournaments, coming soon to an online poker table near you:
- The Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic: Get $40 for every Celebrity you knock out for just $20 + $2 (with daily sit & go qualifiers).
- The Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational: Get $20 per Celebrity knock-out, earn bounty hunter points, and play for just $10 + $1 every Saturday afternoon.
- Canadian Poker Night: Another knockout tournament, you get $10 for each Celebrity you take down, bounty hunter points, and an easy-on-the-eyes $5 + .$50. Can you think of another way to spend your Tuesday nights?
No dates have been announced yet for the inaugural run of these tournaments, but stay tuned. Hollywood Poker has never been one to rest on its laurels or its poker tables!
