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December 30th, 2008

Pokerstars Holding Poker Camp

PokerStars, one of the famous online poker rooms, is going to run a second poker camp since the first poker camp was very successful. The second camp is going to be held in the coming year between 7th and 9th January in the Caribbean. The event has the name ‘the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’. The Atlantis Hotel and Casino, the Bahamas will host the camp. The first poker camp was in Barcelona at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in July, 2008.

The poker camp will be held three days; players that will have been qualified will participate in poker modules, morning and afternoon. Famous poker players from Team PokerStars will lead each module. They are Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Vanessa Rousso. When it comes to these gamblers two of them are former WSOP Main Event champions, one is the top female world’s poker players, and one of them also a four time bracelet winner. In addition to them first-class poker instructors will be ready to teach these modules that will learn some tricks of the trade from the best of best in poker.

At the end of the learning modules, all the participants of the camp will be able to implement all they have learned in a unique tournament which is available to PokerStars poker camp participants only.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure qualifiers’ guests are eligible to take part in the poker camp that means family members and friends accompanying the qualifiers can take part in sessions open to an audience. Some sessions are only for the qualifiers.



December 4th, 2008

New gambler wins “Bad Beat” jackpot at UltimateBet

As for a two-day old poker network this could not be much more fitting. The Internet Texas Holdem gambler, who has been registered with UltimateBet many days ago, this gambler, has got over 250,000 dollars gambling Texas Holdem Poker at tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Jackpot.

Because of the significantly enlarged gambler CEREUS’ base, the Bad Beat Online Jackpot at the poker site had been $789,827.72 by Thursday morning before a poker gambler holding a straight flush in his hand playing Texas Holdem was lost.

The similar loss at usual Texas Holdem tables would make any poker gambler devastated. However, the tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Online Jackpot pay for losing.

Such Jackpots are like usual Hold’em poker in the company of an additional jackpot component. Plus to rake, $0.50 is gathered from qualifying online poker hands and put into a pot that grows regularly until somebody wins the jackpot. When a hand is lost by the online poker gambler with four eights or something better, jackpot’s 65 per cents is divided just among Bad Beat Jackpot gamblers (for the next jackpot 25 per cent is put in the pot and 10 per cent is taken as administrative fees). All gamblers at a Bad Beat Jackpot table have the similar game type and limit as where Bad Beat happened also hit jackpot’s piece.

On Tuesday, UltimateBet made known that it had already completed UltimateBet’s transition to the CEREUS Poker Network, giving online poker gamblers a mass of new traits and giving a promise of higher Bad Beat Jackpots, hotter promotions, and bigger tournaments.




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