William Hill Announces Promotional Code Bonus

William Hill has announced a special bonus for anyone who signs up to play poker, gamble at their casino, or place bets on sports at the William Hill sportsbook. You can receive $30 free with no deposit, plus up to $1000 on your first deposit at William Hill. When you are registering for a new account you will see a William Hill promotional code field. New sign ups must ignore this promotional code field and leave it blank and follow the special instructions below to receive the exclusive bonus:

The first step to receiving the William Hill bonus is to exit the sign up process you are currently in - I know it sucks because yo have already filled out most of the information, but it is the only way to receive up to $1030 in free betting money. You must then visit the William Hill Promo Code site and use the link listed on there that will activate the special bonus. Complete the registration and where it asks for the promotional code you don't type anything in. You will now receive your free $30 and once you make your first deposit you will get another bonus of up to $1000 in free money to bet with.

The second part of the bonus may be a little more confusing to some newer players, but it isn't too hard to understand. The amount you will receive will depend on how much you deposit on your initial deposit (after following the promotional code instructions above). If you are a lower stake player depositing anywhere from $30 - $500 you can receive a bonus up to $150. If you are a mid stake player depositing over $500 you will get $350 free. High stakes players at William Hill who deposit over $1000 will receive an additional $500 in bonuses. And the final stage is the VIP players who deposit over $3000 for their initial deposit who will receive $1000 courtesy of William Hill.

No matter what size of bankroll you have, you will be receiving a nice free money bonus from William Hill! They are one of the top online gambling sites in the world, and once you start wagering there you will understand why. Make sure you leave the promotional code field blank and follow the links above to get your free money when signing up!

UB Offers Crazy Bonus With Referral Code

UB, or as some may recognize them as Ultimate Bet, are offering new players one of the biggest first deposit bonuses in online poker history. Most online poker rooms will offer their new sign ups a bonus of around $500, but UB has gone above and beyond other poker sites with their $1100 initial deposit bonus. In order to receive this bonus new players should enter the UB referral code CASH110 when signing up for their new UB account.

The $1100 bonus is awarded to new players on their first deposit, after they use the referral code CASH110. The bonus is a 111% match of your first deposit, with a maximum amount of $1100 given out. Let's say you deposited $500 at UB for your first deposit - You would receive $555 ($500 x111%) in free money courtesy of UB. It is pretty easy to calculate your bonus, simply multiply your first deposit amount that you are going to do by 1.11 and you will get the amount you will receive as a free money bonus.

UB was previously known as Ultimate Bet, but decided to re-brand their company in late November 2009. Ultimate Bet has gone with the easier to recognize UB name, as well as a slick new logo. With their new design and brand, UB hopes they can become a well recognized online poker room across North America, and the rest of the world. UB is quickly becoming one of the best online poker rooms in the world.

Where do I enter the UB referral code? When you download the UB software and start it up you will see a button that says 'Login'. Click the login button and you then will have to click 'New User'. On the first page of your new account registration you will see a field that asks for a referral code. This is where you type in the referral code CASH110. After that you will just have to complete your registration. Once you make your first deposit you will receive the bonus!

A lot of new online poker players wonder if these bonuses are legit offers. They are. Poker rooms give out free money to attract new players to play at their online poker site over their competitors. Similar to the Full Tilt referral code bonus, UB releases the bonus in $5 increments so that you don't have to clear the whole bonus before receiving your free money. This UB bonus is my first choice when recommending an online poker deposit bonus, sign up today.

Full Tilt Poker Expands Online Rivalry from Two to Three

For a long time now, there has been an online high stakes cash game poker rivalry between Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan, two of the members of Team Full Tilt. In a move that recently gave him some media points over his rival, Patrik Antonius took down the largest pot in online poker history when he won nearly $880,000 in a single pot. Even though Tom Dwan has certainly been the media darling for the last little while, Antonius appears to have the media attention to himself this week with that particular achievement.

What probably makes the win even sweeter from the point of view of Antonius is that the win actually came against player isildur1. Many people reading this article may not recognize the screen name, but people that regularly follow the high stakes cash game action at Full Tilt Poker definitely know that screen name when they see it.

It is the name of a player that has been able to take both Antonius and Dwan for hundreds of thousands of dollars at the cash games that all three have played against each other. In fact, there was one week during which Dwan lost $5 million to isildur1 over the course of just those seven days. The third of the trio of online cash game poker doom at Full Tilt Poker is starting to up his media recognition even more since he has agreed to face Dwan heads-up in a poker challenge that will take place live at a casino in London to be determined shortly.

Full Tilt Poker players are still warming up to the 500,000 hands of poker duelling taking place between Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan. The two players have been at it for a long time now and the excitement over their battling just seems to grow with each passing day. Now, with a third prolific online cash game player being added into the rivalry, things appear to be lining up for Full Tilt Poker to hog most of the online cash game poker media attention for the near future.

Ultimate Bet Rebranded to UB

Up until today, UB was merely the nickname for the Ultimate Bet poker website. From today onwards however, it will move up from the spot of nickname and become the bona fide real name of the franchise website.

In a move that will see Ultimate Bet rebranded to UB, the site domain name UB.com was officially launched. For now, players will be able to access the poker site through both ultimatebet.com and ub.com, although one can expect that eventually the former will start redirecting to the latter. All it will take is enough market exposure to the rebranded name before such a thing can be done.

Now that people know that the rebranding has been undertaken, a question that many people are asking is the question about what is different now that the rebranding has been completed. Well, the answer is that for the most part not much has changed.

The familiar gold theme that Ultimate Bet employed will still be there with UB although there will be some baby blue underpinnings to the color scheme that were not present in the original Ultimate Bet logo. Another difference is that new software updates were introduced at the same time, including things like more powerful cash game filters and improved functionality for the UB software on Macintosh machines.

When push comes to shove however, UB is not that different from Ultimate Bet. The two main people endorsing the site are Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, both of whom were front and centre for the previous site when it was still going by the name of Ultimate Bet. Tokwiro, the company that owns Ultimate Bet, remains the owner of the new rebranded UB and its sister operation over at Absolute Poker.

In fact, it seems as though very little has changed in terms of the practical aspects of the website. However, the rebranding has put a new face on things and seems to have energized the base and the workforce of Ultimate Bet. This type of shakeup in the end might end up being what the franchise needed to gain some ground on Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars.

Titan Poker ECOOP V Start Date Approaching

When it comes to the Titan Poker franchise, the European Championship of Online Poker is something that has long been a tradition. Since Titan Poker is the largest website in the world for online poker that does not allow players from the United States, it has only been natural for them to host this exceptional event.

While not as large as the World Championship of Online Poker that Poker Stars holds regularly, the ECOOP is definitely a place to go if you’d like the chance to win some large prize pools. The fifth instalment of this tournament is going to start on November 23rd and ends on December 6th inclusively. With one tournament running on each successive day, that gives players 14 different opportunities to leave their mark on the championship before all has been said and done.

November 23rd will see a $200 + $16 tournament for No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em being run. That event actually has a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000 attached to it, giving people some serious cash to play towards. The other bookend of the tournament is a $1500 + $80 tournament for No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em taking place on the final day of December 6th. That tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million attached to it and is effectively the flagship finale of the entire championship.

In between, there are excellent events for Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo and Seven Card Stud. With rule structures allowing for normal events, turbo events, rebuy events and events with six-handed tables, there can be no complaints about a lack of choice as players start to consider which tournaments they will participate in.

The largest buy-in for the event will be on November 30th. It is an event for high rollers with a buy-in of $2500 and a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. The average roller will likely be far more comfortable with the tournament taking place the previous day that has the same guaranteed prize pool but a much smaller $500 buy-in to its name.

As is always the case with big online tournaments, satellites are always available. In fact, they have already started running for most events on Titan Poker.

Poker Stars Creates Third Big Sunday Tournament

Just in case anyone doubted the ability of Poker Stars to create new tournaments on a regular basis, they have come through with yet another monster tournament for their already impressive line up of Sunday tournaments.

The newest one is called the Turbo Takedown and it is good enough to offer a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Furthermore, since the Turbo Takedown and the Sunday Million are scheduled to occur consecutively, players can actually play in both tournaments on the same day and have a crack at a total guaranteed prize pool of $2 million between those two particular tournaments.

The catch with the Turbo Takedown however is that you can’t get into the tournament with a cash buy-in. Instead, you have to collect Frequent Player Points (FPPs) through generating take and tournament registration fees at other events at Poker Stars. The buy-in for the Turbo Takedown is 3000 FPPs and of course it does occur every week so a player wanting to play in all of them will need to be quite busy during the week collecting the necessary FPPs to make their way into the tournament.

Of course, one point that is worth noting is that the direct 3000 FPP buy-in is not the only way for you to get into this tournament. Because Poker Stars cannot deny their nature, they will offer excellent satellite tournament opportunities that will allow them to populate the 25,000 player tournament every single week. The satellites naturally come with a much smaller buy-in attached so players wanting to get into the Turbo Takedown without paying the huge buy-in can always try their luck with a satellite tournament.

To sweeten the pot, Poker Stars has offered much more than the $1 million guaranteed prize pool in this tournament. There are going to be $100 bounties on each of the Poker Stars Pro players in the tournament and the player with the biggest cash at the end of the month will get a car or its cash equivalent as an added bonus prize. With this tournament, Poker Stars is definitely doling out the rewards.

Let Us Entertain You at Cool Hand Poker

If the name sounds familiar, it certainly should. Cool Hand Poker is modeled after Cool Hand Luke, one of the most iconic characters in American cinema. He was a man that was known for being a loose cannon, but he was also a man that most definitely knew how to have fun. It is in that spirit that Cool Hand Poker operates and for this reason many of the prizes that they offer in tournaments are a bit unorthodox.

A good example of this is “Let Us Entertain You,” a tournament that is part of the November 2009 promotional offerings from the Cool Hand Poker website.

The tournament finale for this promotion takes place on November 25th and is currently in place for a start time of 1900 GMT. You can buy into the tournament for $5 + $0.50 and during the first hour of play you have as many $1 rebuys as you would like to make. With levels increasing every five minutes however, those rebuys will not be worth a whole lot before too long, forcing you to buy more of them each time you decide you’d like to enter the fray again.

The winner of the tournament will end up with a voucher for $500. This voucher is good for any entertainment event that they would like to attend. You can go see the band of your choice or attend any other live event that falls into the price range of the voucher that you can win.

The best part of this is that throughout the rest of November, satellite tournaments will be available two times a day up until the finale begins. You can get into a satellite for $0.50 and you can purchase rebuys during satellite events as well.

Due to the unorthodox nature of the top prize being offered in this tournament, there are many at Cool Hand Poker that feel that this particular promotion will put them on the map. They are a minor website right now, but if promotions like this become really popular, that could certainly change in a hurry.

PKR Sets Sights on MTTs

PKR.com has been a pioneering poker site right from the first day of it being brought into existence. In fact, the whole idea of the PKR operation is one that could be argued as being revolutionary. Originally modeled entirely on the idea of the three-dimensional graphical user interface that it still boasts, PKR has always been turning heads.

However, one part of their online operation that has been lagging is their multi-table tournament reach. There are simply too many other tournaments elsewhere that have better buy-in to prize ratios as well as a larger draw. However, PKR is attempting to break further into the online MTT market through the revamping of their MTT schedule.

The revamping does a lot, but there are a few highlights that are worth deeper mention. The chief highlight of the MTT revamp is the expansion of the PKR Masters. This event, easily the highest profile multi-table tournament at PKR, used to be a monthly event. Under the new rescheduling however, it can now take place every second Saturday meaning that during some months it could actually happen three times in the same month.

The $100,000 guaranteed prize pool for the PKR Masters is the largest guaranteed prize pool on the site, but is also large enough that PKR cannot afford to run it every week. In order to keep players interested however, off weeks will now have a High Roller MTT that comes with a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000.

In addition to these major changes to the MTT schedule at PKR Poker, they have also added some new Omaha tournaments to the fold. Omaha action is something that PKR is not really known for, but they have definitely pointed out the excellent of their Omaha selections by making more of them available.

Finally, one last change that PKR has made to their MTT operations is the introduction of more satellite tournaments. More satellite tournaments with lower buy-ins mean that more players can get in on the action regardless of the money they have available. Through such populist measures in combination with expansion of the elite tournaments on the website, PKR hopes to draw more tournament players to the website.

Strategy for Online Cash Games

While playing online poker the cash game tips enhance the live poker play and online cash as well.

There are two kinds of poker players. One kind of poker player’s play within limits and the other type does not. One of the theories of Poker clearly states that every time a poker player adopts a different style in his game his chances of losing are higher than if he plays in his unique style most of the times. Excessive experimentation results in loss of concentration on the game and the strategy adopted by the opponents.

This is one of the oldest strategies of Poker and helps in demarcating between good and bad players. The strategy lies in reading the opponents and his cards. This will help him in making fewer mistakes.

The beginners should avoid playing at multiple tables. Ensure that you are conducive to the environment. It is advised that players should indulge in a few games which would help them earn bonuses before starting the game on a particular table. When players are playing with bonuses they have a complacent feeling that they are playing to use the bonus on the poker table. This thought should be eliminated from their minds. Playing efficiently and methodical thinking patterns should be adopted while playing as these strategies would help in earning cash. The bonus can be soon over if the players indulge on multi-tables.

Calculations help tremendously while playing poker. Players should appropriately choose the tables which have large average pots. You should remember that most bonuses are washed away even if the players are not engrossed with the pot. The subscription of Poker and Lobby edge can be your saving grace as their computerized database would help you with choosing the right table.

Playing at multi-tables can be very advantageous as it drives the feeling of boredom which occurs when you play at a single table. It also helps in cleansing bonuses in an adequate manner. Playing at various tables has its own advantages and disadvantages.

One of the most important cash game strategy tip is to memorize all the hand rankings before playing the game.

Poker for Beginners

Are you new to the game of Poker? Don’t worry. This article will help you with all the answers to your questions. Before playing the game you should be aware of all the basic rules of Poker.

There are various kinds of Poker like seven card stud, Omaha and Texas hold’em Poker and so on. You should be well versed with poker terminology or you would feel like a fish out of water. This would help you to succeed in the game as well. The word action refers to a move made by a player in the game. The term all-in refers to betting all the chips a player has. The term bad beat indicates that a particular hand was beaten by another player. Betting refers to putting money in the pot and flop is the initial three community cards which are to be dealt. The highest unpaired card is called a kicker and raise refers to increasing the bets in the pot.

Once you are acquainted with the glossary of poker you should move ahead and learn the various strategies used in poker. You should be educated about all the variations that the game has to offer so that you can win against all odds.

Poker is one of the most popular games and players play in loose and reckless way or they stick to a conservative method of playing. Some players adopt the technique of playing in a vigilant and aggressive manner. Sit and go’s are profitable and are a great way to experiment new styles and techniques of playing poker. You should initially start with a single table and then graduate to multi-tables.

Poker players should have a keen eye and should be able to analyze and judge opponents in a crisp manner. Beginners can learn and experiment myriad strategies by playing poker online. Invest reasonable time to learn the tricks and methods of the game before playing with professionals where large stakes are involved. Methodical thinking and systematic observation of the opponents helps in shaping the game in a concrete way. Familiarize yourself with the different aspects of the game before you realize that you have lost a big amount of money on the poker table.