Hollywood Poker Insider with the latest Happenings
Don’t Forget! Come end of May…The Grand will be celebrating its 25th birthday!
HollywoodPoker’s most prestigious tournament will hit another high in May as it celebrates its 25th Edition in the scene with the prize pool increasing to an astounding $1,000,000 in guaranteed payout.
This prestigious Grand Tournament that adopts a three-day flight structure, taking place at the end of every month is set to blow your mind the end of May, with $1 million up for grabs!
For more information on The Grand Tournament and the many qualifiers available, swing by The Grand at HollywoodPoker’s Tournament section and keep a look out on when you can start registering for this awesome event.
Looking for the WSOP fortune, here’s where you start for absolutely FREE!
Their annual WSOP Freeroll Your Way to Fame tournament has gained momentum with great response from members. With just five weeks left before this exclusive WSOP special wraps up, they don’t want you to miss out on this chance of a lifetime!
Requiring no fee or points to play, each weekly winner will receive a $300+20 qualifier ticket for a chance at their premium class WSOP Seat Packages worth up to $16,000 The rest of you who make it to the final table won’t go home empty handed, they’ll be giving each of you a $30+3 qualifier ticket!
It’s all about the STAR treatment and this is HollywoodPoker’s way of rewarding theirloyal real money players who do what they love with them. Make your first deposit with the exclusive special offer below and you could be on your way too!
Their latest winner hou hou walked away last Saturday as tournament champion, with a $300+20 qualifier ticket. Nice one hou hou, great job! Players’ LuhankaDonk, ALCdi NUIE, bad2pairs, artturi88, DarthAngel, jbnboss77, Vaiss, olivero13 and Zagroos from the final table received a $30+3 ticket each. Great action guys!
For more information on their awesome WSOP promotion, head down to HollywoodPoker WSOP Central and check out WSOP Freeroll Your Way to Fame
A fabulous tournament brews its way into May!
Adding on to the spectacular line-up of tournaments headed your way this May, here’s something that will knock your socks off!
The Mayday $13,000 Added Tournament is slated to take place May 13th at 1.13pm EDT/ 5.13pm GMT. Not only does this tournament offer a whopping $10,000 in added cash, it will also be awarding one Grand Tournament ticket each to the top three finishers of the evening!
With a buy-in of just $10+1, you don’t want to miss this awesome opportunity! Keep a look out for registration at their Tournament Calendar.
If you haven’t noticed, they’ve got a special bonus crafted just for you and specially delivered by their HollywoodPoker girls!
She’s waiting for you! Right there on the right of your Insider edition, HollywoodPoker hottie Adree DeSanti points you towards an exciting 1000% up to $200 deposit bonus crafted specially for you. They don’t just tell you in words how much they appreciate your support, they show you! This first time deposit bonus is super easy to clear, meaning speedier cash-ins and all that’s required is a $20 deposit!
Celebrity Bounty Series Update
HollywoodPoker’s Celebrity Bounty Series has given away nearly $400,000 in cash bounties to date, and they’re not stopping there. So join them at the tables and take that figure higher…they challenge you!
At April 27th’s WSOP/ HPCC Celebrity Shootout VI saw great action from players with champion StyleNForcer taking home a $300+20 WSOP qualifier ticket for winning the evening’s tournament. Good one StyleNForcer!
PokerJumal and Biifen were great at the tables bagging $250 in bounties each for their third celebrity knockout. Player hexxer21 was on a roll taking out four celebrities at the table, making him no less than $500 richer. The first to go was unfortunate Lenny Venito (The Brave One) who had Q-10 pocket cards that produced awesome Queen trips with help from the board’s 3-Q-Q-4-9. Winning by a whisker however was lucky hexxer21 who revealed his A-Q hole cards for an Ace kicker, allowing him bragging rights for the night!
From the many celebrities spotted at the tables, they caught sight of Jeremy Sisto (Law & Order), Kane Hodder (Hack!), Sean Kanan (Hack!) and Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers) Catch more action at their star studded tables next week! No, do better than that - get in on the action for just a $20+2 buy-in. See you there!
April 22th’s Canadian Poker Night players’ coinsrandy10, Godfathr21, chimnissing and Cuba_Libra didn’t miss their chance to take home $100 a piece when they took out two celebrities each at the tournament.
Celebrity Bounty Series frequent champion, telica316 did what he does best on Tuesday taking three celebrities out and making himself $250 real fast. For his final round of celebrity knockouts, a stunning Ace pair on the river with A-4 in the hole saw him taking out Shaun Toub (Ironman) who managed a weak pair with 3-4 hole cards against the board’s 3-J-5-8-A. Looking good telica316!
Amongst HollywoodPoker celebrity players spotted at the tables were Josh Malina (The West Wing), Ken Howard (Rambo) and Rocky Carroll (Yes Man). Head here next week and give their celebrities a run for their money. The entry? Only $5.00 + 0.50 gets you in!
The Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational on April 26th caught players’ Goody_16 and Dragon Wings walk home happy with $250 each for their third celebrity knockout!
The highlight was when player AFHC went on a knockout spree taking out a total of six celebrities and winning a cool $1000 in bounties! Last victim of the night was beauty HP Model: Ashley Dorenzo who couldn’t manage to hang on with K-9 pocket cards against the board’s 3-4-Q-Q-8, which worked out very well for AFHC who had 9 pair hole cards, delivering a two pair win for him! Way to go AFHC! For just $10+1 to enter, that’s a great return on your investment, for sure.
More famous faces spotted at the tables on Saturday were Tom McGowan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Kirk Acevedo (The Black Donnellys), Billy Burke (Untraceable) and Bill Smitrovich (Iron Man).
Get in on the celebrity bounty action and win big dollar bounties by visiting their Celebrity Tournament Schedule. What you waiting for?
Join Seth Meyers and thirty year old geeks have a blast in Spring Breakdown!
HollywoodPoker celebrity player Seth Meyers (Hot Rod) is set to star in a coming of age drama, Spring Breakdown, that’s long overdue for three thirty-something year old ladies who desperately long to break free from being the geeks that they are.
When one of them get the opportunity to unofficially chaperone her boss’ daughter to a vacation on the island of South Padre, their desperate hope of upgrading their lives and becoming hip kick in and before they know it, they’re reclaiming their youth and party like there’s no tomorrow not excluding the beer and bikinis! They however soon discover that there’s more fun in standing out than fitting in,
Seth stars alongside Parker Posey (Superman Returns), Amber Tamblyn (The Grudge 2) and Will Arnett (Ratatouille) in Spring Breakdown which is set to hit the golden screens soon. Find out more on other celebrities in the Famous Faces section of HollywoodPoker’s online magazine The Green Room.
Beauty queen Heather Keckler heads ups for a spot in their 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar!
Being ambitious, athletic and ferociously driven are all the makings of this blonde bombshell who has had vast experience in the beauty pageant industry.
Winning Miss Teen USA, inevitably shot Heather straight to success in the modeling scene, commenting that her career as a model has given her the opportunity to travel the world and meet all kinds of people, making it the best things to have happened to her.
No stranger to the online, print and broadcast advertisements, Heather can be found in television commercials and publications across the globe.
This multitalented individual also participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics Dance Team adding to the numerous accomplishments under her belt including her degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Wow!
Heather, chosen for her brains and outstanding beauty needs you to secure her a spot in their 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar, so you know what you got to do if she’s what you want to see more of!
7 card stud? What’s that all about? Learn about it here…
7 Card Stud is a version of Stud poker that was for a long time a favorite amongst American and European poker players - up till Texas hold em’ gained fame and developed quite a following.
The 7 Card Stud however is still played by many poker fanatics across the globe and is available at most casinos and you might find yourself enjoying this variant of poker that allows you more cards to play around with to create your best poker hand.
Here’s an idea of how the 7 Card Stud poker game is played:
1. All players are required to place an initial bet into the pot,
2. Players are then dealt two cards face-down and one card face-up each. This is followed by the first round of betting, called the Bring In. This is initiated by the player with the lowest face-up card at the table.
3. Players are dealt with one card face-up or Fourth Street. This is followed by the second round of betting and this is initiated by the player with the highest hand showing.
4. Players are then dealt with another card face-up or Fifth Street. This is followed by the third round of betting.
5. Players are then dealt with one more card face-up or Sixth Street and this is followed by the fourth round of betting.
6. The final card is dealt to players face down or the River indicating the last round of betting.
7. Now players are to use 5 of their 7 cards to make their best poker hand, this is called the Showdown
With your odds of making a great hand raised, the 7 Card Stud is a pretty exciting alternative to the regular Texas Hold Em’. So if you’re looking to try something different for a change, check out their Showtime 7 Card Stud Tournament or head over to their Tournament Calendar and register for a 7Card Stud tourney now!
