UltimateBet Donates Aruba Poker Classic Seat

Online poker room UltimateBet has donated an $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package including a seat in the Main Event, to be awarded to the 2nd place winner of the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship scheduled for tomorrow. Hosting the tournament will be none other than UltimateBet's own poker pro, and 11 time WSOP Bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., along with Robert "Mr. Omaha" Williamson III.

The Kentucky Derby Poker Championship is a charity Texas Hold'em tournament that was developed to raise awareness of changes in the climate, and how they are impacting our communities; especially those that are poor and/or underdeveloped. The tournament will kick off at 8:30 p.m. at Caesar's Indiana, Saturday, May 3rd. Environmentally supportive poker players will be gathering from around the country to buy-in to the charitable Hold'em tournament for $2,500.

Phil Hellmuth Jr. and Robert "Mr. Omaha" Williams III will not only be hosting the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship, providing commentary throughout the evening, but as an added entertainment, they will both participate in the event while performing such duties.
Half of the buy-in will go towards the prize pool, while the other half will be donated to a list of charitable organizations, including the Health and Climate Foundation, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Robby Albarado Foundation. These organizations collectively aid individuals whose lives have been effected by disastrous climates, epidemics, as well as the homeless.

UltimateBet will be awarding the $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic Main Event prize package to the 2nd place winner of the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship. The package includes buy-in, accommodations and travel expenses. The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic is scheduled to run September 27 through October 4, with UltimateBet guaranteeing a minimum $4,000,000 prize pool with at least $1,000,000 going to the 1st place victor.

Ultimate Bet - Big Payoff For Bad Beat

If you've had much experience playing online poker, you've probably heard of something called the Bad Beat Jackpot. If you haven't heard of it, you're playing at the wrong online poker room.

A Bad Beat Jackpot is awarded when a Texas Hold'Em player at a 'Bad Beat' Table achieves a hand of 4-8's or better, but loses to a higher ranking poker hand. Not only does the player with the Bad Beat win, every player at the table gets a cut of the prize.

On October 9th, at 8:58am ET, Ultimate Bet online poker player 'DADDYHOUSE' did just that. Losing a hand of 4-8's to his opponents 4-Q's, DADDYHOUSE released the largest Bad Beat Jackpot prize Ultimate Bet has ever seen - $234,812.04.

DADDYHOUSE was immediately rewarded $76,313.92, while his winning opponent was granted $38,156.95. Each player at the 'Bad Beat' table was also awarded a generous $1,603.13. To top it all off, the online poker room also awards any player at any Bad Beat Table currently playing the same online poker game with the same stakes. For this reason, 42 other players also received a chunk of the jackpot, $603.13 each.

The Bad Beat Jackpot is divided as follows: 25% to the next Bad Beat Jackpot - 10% To Administrative fees - 65% to the winners. Of the 65%, half goes to the Bad Beat player, 1/4th to the winner of the Bad Beat hand, and the remainder divided amongst other qualifying players.

What have we learned from this? Well, if you play online poker at Ultimate Bet, you should be playing a 'Bad Beat' Table (marked in red in the Lobby). If not, maybe you should consider joining Ultimate Bet or another online poker room that offers an enormous prize for losing such a good hand ;)

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Win 5 Years Entry To The Irish Poker Open

PaddyPower Poker, as the lead sponsor, is offering qualifiers to one of Europe's oldest No-Limit Hold'Em poker event, the Irish Poker Open. There's nothing new about that fact, however, they've spiced things up for their members this year.

Any PaddyPower Poker player who goes on to win the Irish Poker Open, Ireland's largest poker tournament, will be generously rewarded with paid entry to the major poker event for the next 5 years! Should none of PaddyPower Poker's players goes on to win the event, the online poker room's member who makes it the farthest in the poker tournament will receive entry to the 2008 Irish Poker Open.

Members of PaddyPower Poker are gearing up to take down the Irish Poker Open, with the 5-year prize package worth approximately $43,000, not including the $8,500 package they'll already have received for winning the online poker room's qualifier.

Last year's PaddyPower Poker qualifier winner, Thomas Finneran, skillfully carved his way through the crowd of 708 participants to finish 7th place, taking home €75,000 for his efforts.

Among the 708 entries to the Irish Poker Open were Phil Laak, Dan Harrington, Mike Sexton, Jennifer Tilly, Andy Black, Carlos Mortensen and Antonio Esfandiari. The final heads-up action came down to Rolande De Wolfe, who was eventually bested by Marty Smyth to pocket a 1st place prize pool of €650,000.

Review: Texas-Holdem-Poker-Page

A fantastic resource created for Texas Holdem Poker fans: TexasHoldemPokerPage.com

Poker fans will find Hold'em strategy, Poker room reviews, a poker odds calculator, and so much more. The site is strategically designed with a beginner poker player in mind. Every step of the game is laid out for you in simple easy to follow explanations. Much of the site allows for easy navigation to Online Poker, Resources and Strategy, and all the components therefor.

In the strategy portion of the Texas Holdem Poker Page there is an obvious understanding that many online poker players just starting out need to learn and begin with the basics, thus posted clearly marked are


How To Play:

• Texas Holdem Rules
• Texas Hold'em Cards
• Texas HoldEm Rounds
• Texas Holdem Beginner Strategy

Perhaps you are not brand new to Holdem, however are not up to the point in your poker career that you would consider yourself a poker pro , the Intermediate Holdem Strategy section of the website includes:

• Poker Tips
• Bluffing
• Poker Tells

Coupled with a free poker e book for improving your all around poker game.

The Advanced Strategy guide is a fantastic guide for those who have been playing Texas Hold'em Poker for a long while and are really looking to hone their existing skills as a poker player.

One area of the strategy section that will definitely benefit players at all levels is the Calculate Pot Odds tool. Being able to gauge your odds for any hand allows a player, of any level, to become more profitable, have a better feel for when to fold, and when to chase just a bit.