Happy Birthday is one of the most popular online scatchcard games at winnings.com and not just for those one who are actually celebrating their birthday. The rules of the game are very simple. Like other classical scratch card games,you need to find three matching symbols in a row in order to win. There are also „clown” symbols to increase the excitement and Multiple your winnings.
For a the French player Eveline S. 9th August definitely was a Happy Day. She won the amazing sum of €10,000 with the Happy Birthday game. This is what she had to say about her Big winning:
“I am a player and I often deposit little amount of money.
I like to navigate from a game to another because I find it very exciting!
I then decided to wager all what I have left on one game.

Suddenly I can see 10 000 euros, my eyes stuck on the screen I was astonished, staring at this little yellow rectangle with 5 figures!
I was shaking of joy, completely amazed! That is fantastic and champagne is needed!”

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The worlds most important poker tournament, World Series of Poker Main Event reached it’s finally state. The players left the tables and nine of them will come back in November to make decision about the most prestigious golden bracelet. In all time’s third biggest poker tournament 6865 players paid the ten thousand and entered the playing field this year ,but only nine of them have now the chance to be the winner and take home the massive $8,711,956 first prize.

The nine players needed 8 days to enter the final table. They come from all parts of the world: Belize, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Ireland, Ukraine and the United States and that proves being poker the most popular card game world wide. The nine players are Badih “Bob” Bou-Nahra, Phil Collins, Matt Giannetti, Pius Heinz, Sam Holden, Ben Lamb, Anton Makiievskyi, Eoghan O’Dea and Martin Staszko.

22 players started the final day with Anton Makiievskyi but he closed the day on the 8th. The tournament now takes a 108days break and they return to the Rio All Suite Las Vegas in November 5 to play the final table and continue the game at Level 36 for almost 35 minutes. Each of the finalists are now guaranteed $782,115 in prize money and 8 of them will become a millionaire.

One of the worlds most popular online poker room Everest Poker announced an amazing $125,000 promotion to their players. With Everest Poker International Cup you can enjoy the excitement of a live tournament and play real money poker for completely free. Play your favourite poker games and spend a wonderful weekend in Spain.

In the new Everest Poker promotion 50 lucky players can sit to the poker tables in Gran Casino de Alicante for the EPIC Live Finale $75,000 prize. EPIC is the biggets live freeroll of Everest Poker and the online gualification tournemanest are open to every players from all over the world. The only thing you need to do is to register a seat for you and enjoy the live tournament experience and get your share from the $125,000 for absolutely free.

The freerolls are running now in worthf of $50,000 until the Live Finale in september! The Live Finale Packages are worth $2,500 plus each EPIC Direct Entry gives you 10 Packages and an amazing $25,000 cash prize. On the top of the the best 50 players from all freerolls get $500 cash instantly.

The $50,000 EPIC Direct Entries starts on 1st of August and 29th of August a 20:00 GMT where $50,000 and 20 Live Finale Packages could be won, qualification tournamenst are held from 4th July to 28th August. You can find all qualifier tournaments on the EPIC tab of the Everest Poker lobby.

FullTilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson says: “If your hand is strong enough for a call, it should be good enough for a raise too”. And there are several good reasons that makes raising a better idea than just limping in.

Basically the aim of making a bet is to increase the size of the pot and the amount of money won win at the showdown. It works normally when you have strong hands such as pocket Kings or Aces. But normally your odds to getting rockets is only 1 to 220 and you should player your weaker hands to get involved the game and make some money.

The hands range that you play will depends on several factors, mostly the playing style of your opponents at the table and your position. In early position you will play less hands and late position will play more. So when you decided to put money into the pot, you could do it not for increasing it’s size but getting useful information about the opponents hands, narrow the playing field and take the leading position at the table.

Getting information
Information is one of the most valuable thing at poker and you have to pay for it, but information is a capital that makes profit four you. Just calling the big blind you loose the opportunity to get useful information about the other players hand. If they called your raise than you would know they have strong cards in their hands and that can effect your future actions.

Narrow the playing field
The more players are in the pot, the more chance to have someone better hands than yours. If you need to play against only one or two players your odds are quite better than in case of playing against the full table. In a heads-up a pair is usually enough to win but rarely good enough comparing to 6 or more hands. If you make a raise then most of the players holding speculative hands such as connecting or suited cards will fold and you’ll probably avoid beating by a flush or straight.

Get a better position at the flop
If you’re the last one who made bet at the table pre-flop, then you’ll be the one who need to take an action last time after the flop came down to the table. You will have the better position to make decision. If someone made an aggressive bet and you hand didn’t get better with the flop, you should fold, or the better case, if the flop brought the cards you need, continue betting and make the big win.

Probably the most important rule in te World Series of Poker this year is the so-called „ten-level rule”. It means that in the WSOP 2011 all event will be ended after a maximum of ten levels of playing on a given day. Almost everyone is satisfied with the idea – except the players themselves. When the idea aroused at the very first time, it was obvious that it has a potential of extending some events to an extra day, but it wasn’t expected that many of the players wouldn’t be happy with about it.

The special rule was applied first time in strange circumstances at Event #4 – $5000 No Limit Holdem won by Allen Bari. The 3rd day of the event started with 42 players and however the final table were set soon, the players were informed that they needed to play until the winner left or the ten levels of the days were completed.. Although all players wanted to finish the day and leave the final table to the next one, the tournament staff forced them to continue playing. The tournament went on and the day finished around 3:30 am with four player returning the following day to wrown the bracelet winner.

This wasn’t the only final table that were affected by the ten-level rule. At Event #8 – $1000 No Limit Holden only 3 players needed to return to the final day. Sean Getzwiller, Sadan Turker and Jon Turner didn’t really see any sense of the need to play a few extra hours instead of stopping at the final table and take a rest before that important moment of their life. At Event #11 – $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship George Lind III, Viacheslav Zhukov and Steve Billirakis were forced to finish their session and return to the following day.

Hearing the reflections of the players it’s obvious that they are not really happy with the new rule but WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel seems to be adamant to make even a small adjustment of the rules and said: “those players doesn’t know what’s right for them”. His statement already exposed some more changes of the future WSOP tournaments structure to add an extra to all events as usual on the other poker tournaments of the world such as EPT, APPT or WPT.

At 31st May the worlds most important poker event launched. Now it’s a tradition, World Series of Poker 2011 started with the Casino Employees $500 No Limit Holdem Tournament and won by Sean Drake, a part time poker dealer from California. WSOP is the most prestigious poker tournament this year includes 58 poker events with about $180 million of total prize pool. The tournament is being held in Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas and will be finished on 19th July when the final table participants left.

However the first gold bracelets had been already awarded, there’s still your chance to participate on the Main Event only for $1! Most online poker rooms hold satellite tournaments on regular base. If you are lucky enough, you could be one who travel to Vegas and play poker against the „pros”.

One of the worlds most popular online poker room with nearly 5 million members 888 Poker holds their $500 buy-in WSOP Qualifier on every second Sunday. Of course you don’t need to give up your WSOP play even if you don’t have $500 in your poker account. The 888 WSOP Step1 tournaments start every 2 hours for $1 and one player advances to the next step after every $25 buy-in. From Step2 every fifth player advances to the third satellite and every fifth from there has already a seat in the Sunday $500 qualifier. Register to 888 Poker now and participate at the WSOP Main Event with them!

US authorities continue their actions against the illegal online poker. . This time, Department of Justice Maryland and Baltimore Department of Homeland Security seized ten domain name. The list of the ten domain includes Truepoker.com and the legendary Doyle Brunson founded Doylesroom.com (although Brunson were getting out after the black Friday a couple of weeks ago), and several online sports betting and bingo sites. As part of the procedure three person was charged with organizing illegal gambling activity and money laundering. According to the prosecution the online gambling payments way made through the Linwood Payment Solutions company.

The indictment refers to the fact that the agents of Linwood had maintained a personal relationship with leaders of gambling organizations to keep the money flow smooth between the banks and gaming sites. An unnamed informant testified under oath to regularly visit the gambling sites and could open an account in Maryland, despite the fact that the UIGEA accepted in 2006 prohibits all kind of such activity. The confession gives detailed description about which sites and what accounts have been opened and played and also how a $100 prize was cashed out in March 2010 to his bank account through Linwood.

It is estimated that from 2009 onwards, the Linwood handled more than 300,000 transactions for gambling companies in more than $33 million dollars value. “It is illegal for internet gambling enterprises to do business in Maryland, regardless of where the website operator is located” said Rod J. Rosenstein prosecutor on the case. “We cannot allow foreign website operators to flout the law simply because their headquarters are based outside the country.” If the accusations of illegal gambling confirmed 5 years of prison waits for the three persons and up to 20 years for money laundering.

While the authorities taking stronger steps against the illegal online gambling companies, the Poker Players Alliance supported by several US senators calls for the legalization of online poker in the United States. According to the latest new Nevada Gaming Authority has prepared a draft that probably will be accepted in 2012 so the American poker players finally could make their bets legally at the online poker tables.

Just recently I bumped into this cool moment captured in one of the WSOP sessions from 2009.
In this particular moment Jennifer Tilly is just about to give up before she notices that she’s still in the game.
I’ll let you watch it without telling you how it turns out in the end:

Some of you might not know this, but Blackjack is one of the only casino games in which you can actually divert the results to your advantage by using skills and knowledge. One of the easiest ways to do this is by Using a Blackjack odds table. This table can help you calculate future moves depending on the cards you hold in your hands. Its almost like counting cards, but legal.
Since there are so many ready made tables, we prefer to refer you to a good existing blackjack table we found in this German online casino site – http://www.kasino.com. Just remember you’ve been directed there by Winner Takes All, your source for online gambling winning strategies.

Free Cash Bonus
Free cash bonus at online casinos is described as a reward for players who open a new account or depositing into an existing account. There are different types of free cash bonuses that are popular in most online casinos today:

Bonus for opening a gaming account – Free Cash Bonus
Some online casinos will give you a small, free cash bonus to play before you have ever performed the initial deposit. This allows you the various casino games such as mahjong games first try in peace. This bonus is basically free money.

First Deposit Bonus
This is a free cash bonus that will give you if your first deposit into your online casino gaming account active. This bonus is one of the most generous and most casinos is free of charge to your deposit 100%, sometimes even more. This doubles your, play amount available, and of course your chances of winning.

Recharge Bonus
Also known as the reload bonus called, it will be awarded for a deposit on their first transfer to your account. Most online casinos awarded a monthly reload bonus. For this reason, one should pay his gambling budget per month. For example, if you deposit every week $10, you get the reload bonus once on the first $10, you have paid. With a 100% bonus that you get an additional $10. However, you pay € 40 at the beginning of the month, you will also receive $40 free – your gambling budget then has the value of € 80

Specific games also have special bonuses. You can find online casino sites which offer special craps online bonuses or any other specific casino game. For example, playing blackjack online at Winnings.com gives you the extra Blackjack bonuses.

Other free cash bonuses are often offered in special promotions of online casinos – what you get in a land based casino guaranteed NEVER be found!

The only online gambling I know which doesn’t offer any kind of bonuses is online betting. For instance, you won’t be getting any special offers for placing a hockey bet, basketball bet or even football bet. The reason for that is the way online betting works, which is on a completely different method from online casino games.