It is time for the monthly $1000 freeroll poker tournament at Paynorake.com.

If you click the banner below and enter “emielvk” as the sign up code you’ll be awarded 10 black pearls which can be used to get entered in the freeroll tournament.

The details for the tournament are:

• Name: Poker Pro $1000 Freeroll
• Time/Date: 1500 EST/ september 30 2009
• Prizepool: $1000
• Payout: Top 40 paid

Click the banner and use the signup code to get a free entry!

Good luck and please let us know how succesful you are!

the pokerfreerollers.com team

It is time for the monthly $1000 freeroll poker tournament at Paynorake.com.

If you click the banner below and enter “emielvk” as the sign up code you’ll be awarded 10 black pearls which can be used to get entered in the freeroll tournament.

The details for the tournament are:

• Name: Poker Pro $1000 Freeroll
• Time/Date: 1500 EST/ august 31 2009
• Prizepool: $1000
• Payout: Top 40 paid

Click the banner and use the signup code to get a free entry!

Good luck and please let us know how succesful you are!

the pokerfreerollers.com team

Always wanted to organise a tournament at home? But still using a stopwatch for the blinds? You can now organise your own tournament and use a blind timer. The guys from alien software wrote this cool utility, actually there are two utilities in the zip file, a version 1.0 which is your basic counter and a more advanced version 1.3 which adds rebuy options and prize pool settings. Very cool utility check out the screenshots below. Or just click this link to download it and start to impress your buddies.

The tool can be downloaded by following this link

UK Live Poker Tournaments August 09

The UK live poker scene starts off August with the 6th leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) in Luton.  This event will run from the 6th – 9th Aug at the Grosvenor Casino Luton.  The Irish Classic Poker Festival will run from the 10th – 16th Aug at the Macau Sporting Club in Cork, Ireland.  There will be four side events with the feature event being the €1,000 buy in main event.

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The first scheduled stop for the forth coming European Poker Tour (EPT) has now been switched from being in Moscow Russia over to Kiev in the Ukraine.  The event has now been renamed the EPT Kiev Sports Poker Championship from the EPT Russia Open and will run on the same date‘s from 18th – 23rd August 2009.

The switch was caused by a recent change in the Russian laws regarding poker making the event impossible to go ahead.  Any player who has won a seat to the EPT Russia event at Poker Stars will have the option to take a seat in Kiev, partake in any other EPT event this season or to receive a full refund equivalent to the cash prize.

There is still time to win a seat to the EPT Kiev event through the satellites currently running at Pokerstars

Online and live poker are obviously two different variants of the same game. Despite the fact that the game itself is exactly the same, the different environments it’s played in, give birth to particularities that clearly set the two variants apart.

While this difference is not all that accentuated in Limit Texas Holdem, it becomes obvious in No Limit. Those players who have only played online poker (the vast majority of those playing online, fall into this category) also easily recognize the difference in approach, Limit Holdem and No limit Holdem require.

Contrary to common belief, the average skill level of online poker players exceeds that of real live poker players. Commonly, it is thought that players who go to real card-rooms are all world-class, like players you see on TV in the WPT or WSOP. The fact, though, that they play in real brick-and-mortar establishments, doesn’t guarantee that they’re outstanding or any better than their online counterparts. The average online poker player spends a lot more time playing poker, because of the widespread nature and fuss-free accessibility of the game, (plus he plays more hands/ hour than any live poker player) whilst many real poker players only play the game for fun.
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Playing a poker tournament requires skill. If you play it smart you could eventually end up in a heads up situation. When plaing heads up you’re playing a different ball game, all the trick and strategy used to get to the final positions can be thrown overboard. We added a heads up strategy guide to the strategy section to help you sharpen your poker skills!

Playing freeroll tournaments is great way to make an extra dollar and even build a good beginners bankroll to play with. It gives you the chance to earn money while learning the basics of playing poker for free. The good thing about a freeroll poker tournament is the fact that during the course of play the behaviour of the game changes. That way you’ll be confronted with different types of gameplay which are all important to get used to. If you actually get the hang of playing lots of freeroll tournaments then you’ll be able to play the other tournaments as well and you’l also be able to recognize the different playing styles and stages of the game.

When you enter a freeroll tournament you’ll notice some people who will play very aggressive going all in at the beginning of a freeroll tournament is a common way of playing. The trick is not to get on tilt and just keep to the strategy. We at pokerfreerollers.com have written a freeroll strategy guide which can help you through a freeroll tournament so check it out at the strategy pages.

We also wonder how succesfull you are with playing freerolls so maybe you could leave a message in the forum! There are a lot of freerolls available online. There is a monthly $ 1000 freeroll at paynorake. If you click the banner below and use “emielvk” as the sign up code you’ll be awarded with 10 pearls which give you an entry to the tournament.

In a few short weeks, thousands of poker players will descend upon the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for the 40th Annual World Series of Poker. Each of those players will arrive at the Rio with a common goal: to win a WSOP gold bracelet. This year, the WSOP will be introducing a new tradition designed to bring added attention to the achievements of those players who successfully realize that goal — a special bracelet ceremony each day to honor every bracelet winner.

Each winner of a WSOP bracelet event will be asked to return to Amazon Room at the Rio the following day at 2:20 p.m. to receive his or her bracelet in a special ceremony. WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack will be presenting the winners their gold bracelets, which for the third straight year will be produced by the Swiss watch making manufacturer, Corum. The first such ceremony will take place on Monday, June 1. (more…)

Pieter de Korver won the Monte Carlo poker tournament last sunday. The Frysian  managed to bank 2.3 million euros, the biggest prize ever won by a dutch person. Only a few days ago Constant Rijkenberg broke the previous record with 1.5 million euros.

De Korver managed to beat the 934 other opponents who all paid the 10000 euros entry fee for the tournament. It is the second time that de Korver wins a big tournament. He became the dutch poker champion a year ago, that title also gave him a sponsorship deal which gave entry to the European Poker Tour.

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