1st place = $20,000 in cold hard cash.

Cost of tournament buy in = $0 (it’s absolutely free to enter)

Starting April 15th we are going to have a new and improved Guaranteed Tournament schedule with more than double the value previously offered, as well as a whole lot more action at the cash game tables.

To celebrate we’re going to give away $100,000 through a very special private tournament featuring a $0 buy-in. The winner of this tournament will take home $20,000.

Everything you need to know is below. You will also be able to find this information in your Player Admin from the 15th of April and be able to follow your progress via our real-time point trackers.

How do I win a seat into this $100,000 Freeroll?

There is NO Direct entry into the $100,000 Main Event that’s set to take place on Sunday, May 30th at 14:00 (game server time in the poker lobby).

Players MUST win their seat into this special freeroll through one of the following FOUR methods:

1. Freeroll Qualifiers

   Starting April 15th and running through to May 28th inclusive, we’ll be running five (5) daily qualifying tournaments.

   Each tourney will be titled, “Step 1 – $100K Freeroll Qualifier” and will be completely FREE to enter.

   Only a select number of players will advance through to Step 2. You can find these tournaments listed under the ‘Special’ Tab in the Tournament Lobby.

   Step 1 – $100K Freeroll Qualifiers:

   Time	The Prize
   04:05	Top 25 players advance to $100K Step 2 Qualifier
   09:05	Top 50 players advance to $100K Step 2 Qualifier
   13:05	Top 50 players advance to $100K Step 2 Qualifier
   18:05	Top 75 players advance to $100K Step 2 Qualifier
   23:05	Top 50 players advance to $100K Step 2 Qualifier

   Step 2 – $100K Freeroll Qualifiers:

   When

   Saturday, May 29th at 18:30 (Poker Lobby Time)

   The Prize

   The top 500 players will advance to the $100,000 Freeroll Main Event.

2. Deposit Bonus Qualifiers

   Simply make a real money deposit between April 15th 00:01 and May 28th 23:59 using the code 100MAYPK and you’ll not only receive a 100% (max $500) bonus*, BUT you’ll also receive a tournament entry coupon for the ‘$100k Depositor Qualifier’ set to take place on Saturday, May 29th at 17:00 (Poker Lobby Time).

   The top 500 players in this tournament will receive a seat into the May 30th $100,000 Freeroll Main Event.

   

3. $100k Player Qualifiers

   Starting April 15th and running right through until May 29th inclusive, any real money player will have exclusive access to our daily ‘$100K Player Qualifiers’.

   With 2,250 seats up for grabs in these ‘$100K Player Qualifiers’, save the frustration of large fields and freeroll donks, and earn your daily seat.

   Daily “$100K Player Qualifiers (Turbo MTT) will start at the times posted below and will award seats as listed:

   Time	The Prize
   11:30	Top 10 players advance directly to $100,000 main event
   16:30	Top 25 players advance directly to $100,000 main event
   21:30	Top 15 players advance directly to $100,000 main event

   There are only 2 ways to get into one of these ‘$100K Player Qualifiers’:

   1. Earn 150 VIP points in the previous day and the current day up until the time you attempt to register for the tournament.

      For example if you want t register for the 11:30 tournament at 11:00 you need to earn the 150 VIP points in the 24 hours of the previous day plus the 11 hours of the current day combined, giving you a total of 35 hours to earn the points.

   2. Buy-in: 500 VIP Points

      Seats in these $100k Player Qualifiers will be limited so register early.

      You may register for all 3 tournaments in a day so long as you have met the qualification requirement.

4. Earn 45,000 VIP Points

   If you’re able to earn 45,000 VIP points between 12:01am April 15th and 11:59pm May 29th you’ll receive a seat directly into the $100,000 Freeroll Main Event.

   Simply click the register button once you reach the target. Avoid the lines. Avoid the crowds. Start earning today!

The Odds Poker $100,000 Freeroll

The $100,000 main event will take place on Sunday, May 30th at 14:00 (Poker Lobby Time) and will award $100,000 cash total, with $20,000 being awarded to the winner.

Players are only eligible to win 1 seat into the $100,000 Freeroll final.

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With football season just around the corner, it seems like a good time to talk about kickers.

And no we’re not talking about Adam Vinatieri and Stephen Gostkowski.

Instead, we’re talking about that other card you should be paying attention to, when you’re playing Texas Holdem.

You only have to sit down with a few amateur poker players for an hour to see how often they don’t even bother taking their kicker into account.

Hands like King-Deuce, Queen-6, Ace-3, instead of going into the muck where they belong, they end up being played out to the river.

This usually ends up costing whoever was daft enough to play them at least a few chips.

Stretch those few chips over a full game or a full tournament and you’ll see how amateurs go broke and never seem to last until the money without some major luck.

The amateur poker players biggest weakness when it come to scenarios in which they ignore their kicker is an Ace.

For some reason, so many players see that big capital “A” and the other card almost magically disapperars, unless it’s another big “A” or a face card.

The thinking goes something like this:

“The other card in my hand doesn’t matter, I’ve got an Ace! The best card in the deck!”

If you’re thinking like this you may as well hand your chips to the guy sitting next to you before you even sit down.

Here’s where it all falls apart.

Let’s say you’ve just bean dealt Ace-3.

You’ve got your magic “A”, but the 3 isn’t worth much.

You’ve got a shot at a possible straight, but you’ll need a little luck for that to pan out.

Even though someone else raised pre-flop you go ahead and play you Ace, not taking into account the 3 or your position (which we’ll say is early), and the flop hits Ace-5-King…

You made a pair with you Ace, but the 3 leaves you vulnerable to anyone else at the table that might also have an Ace.

If you’re playing at a table of 10 players, another player will have an Ace 62% of the time.

If someone else does have an Ace, the only way you’re beating them right now is if they have Ace-2.

Basically, by playing the Ace-3 you’ve just given away some chips unless you think you can bluff out your opponent.

It could be worse though.

Let’s say you play your Ace-3 again, but this time the flop hits Ace-3-King.

This time you’ve made two pair despite your lame kicker!

Don’t get too carried away, though, because you called a pre-flop raise again and you’re facing an opponent who has Ace-King.

You go ahead and bet your two pair aggressively, only to lose even more chips to the higher two pair.

Unless you get a read on the better hand, you’re toast.

It’s situations like this that make your kicker an essential part of deciding whether or not to play a hand.

You should also look at your chip count, position, and skill level of your fellow players and tendencies too, but for true beginners start by considering your kicker.

By avoiding hands like Ace-3, King-2, etc, you’ll keep yourself from giving away small amounts of money with regularity, and more importantly keep yourself from falling into traps that can cost you a huge chunk of your stack.

by Dave Harrison

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What’s one attribute that most successful poker players possess?
Is it the ability to read people?
A knowledge of number?
A good grasp of the fundamentals of the game?
The best answer to that question is actually “aggression”.

If you want to be a winning poker player you must be aggressive.
A lot of bad poker players find it hard to be aggressive at the table, and their passive tendencies make them fish bait for the sharks.
Some people say you can’t teach a poker player to be aggressive because it’s a natural instinct.
However, if you sat down a fish with a pro and showed him how being aggressive helps him win, it would definitely help them see why it’s so important.

Before we get too far let’s explain the difference between playing aggressive and playing like a donk.
Playing aggressive isn’t just about throwing in big raises and making wild bets.
That’s plain stupid play, not aggressive play.
Being aggressive means putting in those raises and bets with value when the odds are in your favor, or you think you can bluff the pot, or you’ve picked up a tell from your opponent that you can exploit.
Playing like a donk is throwing in a huge bet with no reasoning to back that bet up.
This would include chasing improbable draws and trying to bluff at the wrong time.

Playing aggressive will give you an advantage over your opponent because it puts all the pressure on them.
They have to make all their decisions in reaction to your moves.
By putting this preasure on your opponent you open up more instances in which they might make a mistake and pay you off.

There are three things that playing aggressive will do to help your game…

1. Reduces the number of players – When you’re always betting and raising nobody can check or call a small bet to get a free or cheap card.
   This should limit the number of players playing against you, unless you’re up against a bunch of donks.
   The number of players you are up against makes a big difference no matter what cards you are holding.
   You’ll hear some donks say that by betting and raising you’re keeping the pot from growing.
   This is actually false, and it doesn’t matter how big the pot is if you allow players with crap cards to tag along to the river cheap, only for them to get lucky and beat you with a hand you could have made them fold by betting.

2. Increases the pot size – Playing aggressive really does keep the pot growing.
   If you’re repeatedly betting and raising it will make it harder for other players to know when you’re playing a strong hand and when you’re bluffing with garbage.
   Since you’re hard to read you will receive more calls when you bet big instead of having everyone fold, leaving you only the blinds.
   Think of it like this: “Two players calling a bet of $100 creates a bigger pot than four players calling a bet of $25″.

3. You can win two ways – If you’re betting and raising you can win two different ways.
   You can either win with the best hand or you can win by causing everyone else to fold.
   If you’re not aggressive no one will ever fold to your bets and you’ll only win when you have the best hand.
   That’s playing by luck instead of skill.
   Remember the old adage – “luck fades, skills doesn’t”.

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I’m posting this here because it explains, in a clear way how to deal with all those rookies that enter the poker rooms…

So read a long… enjoy…

One of the hardest things to deal with at the poker table is the play of a “maniac”.
A poker maniac will play any hand, and dump raise after raise on the table even when the cards call for a fold.
Going up against a maniac can be frustrating becayse they’re so dificult to read, and it can be impossible to know if they’re holding pocket Aces or 7-2.

Poker maniacs usually fall into one of two categories.
They’re either a brilliant tactician who actually knows exactly what they’re doing and plays ultra-aggressive, but still very smart.
Then there’s the idiot maniac who flies by the seat of his pants and might as well be flipping a coin to make his decisions.
If you’re playing at low liimits, most of the maniacs you’ll come across will more likely fall into the idiot category.

Many inexperienced poker players end up getting beat up by a maniac because they don’t know how to deal with them.

The wrong approach to take is to go after the maniac with their own game.
Unless you can be even more aggressive than the maniac, or get lucky over and over, butting heads with a maniac head-on isn’t smart poker because you’re not always playing with the odds in your favor.

If your opponent is going into a hand with junk and you’re going after him with more junk, you’re not giving yourself any kind of advantage to stick it to him like you really want.
Don’t even bother attempting a bluff with a maniac.
If they’re willing to make or call a raise with a hand you don’t even feel comfortable checking with, then why would you expect them to run from whatever large bet you make?

Toppling a maniac takes patience to wait for hands that you can bet with confidence, and we mean bet big.

To successfully battle a maniac you need to be very aggressive when you’ve got good cards.
You need to bleed out as many chips as you can when you make a hand, so throw in large bets and hope that the maniac continues to play crazy, either he calls you, or if you’re real lucky he will throw in a raise.
Even if you do somehow force the psycho into folding, at least the chips are going your way.

The most important thing to remember when confronting a poker maniac is to avoid going on tilt at all costs.
Putting other players on tilt, and causing them to make bad plays and bad bets, is how the maniac makes money at the poker tables.
Maniacs are going to get lucky sometimes, and a lot of the time it seems like they get cards more than everyone else at the table, even though they probably aren’t.

Even if a poker maniac flops a 7 and turns over a 2 when he’s holding 7-2 versus your pocket Aces (yes this actually happens!), you still have to keep your cool or you’d be better off handling over your entire stack without playing another hand.
Don’t chase down improbable draws just because you have a chance to bust a maniac if you hit it.

Remember keep you cool, keep your head on straight, and use the poker maniac’s outlandish play again them.

Good Luck! © by David Harrison

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