It really doesn’t matter what you’re selling, everyone knows that having an attractive woman promote your product works wonders and that’s just what online poker site Carbon Poker has done by signing Tina Wallman.

The official spokes model for Carbon Poker is known as the Queen of Hearts and the 30-year-old is no stranger to using her good looks and charm to promoting goods and services. This looker hails from the Land Down Under and her photos have appeared in a different magazines and other venues before she embarked on her online gambling promotion career.

Part of the 30-year-old’s job will be to help promote the site which hopes to attract American visitors who are restricted from playing online poker games because of the UIGEA ruling. She has had an interesting career in promotions including the above-mentioned accolades as well as a stint as Zoo Beach Weeklys Girl of the Year in 2007.

Wallman also has a cheeky side she demonstrated in an interview recently. When asked how online poker and sex are related she replied bluffing was very similar to faking it, and comments like that have industry insiders predicting she’ll have a great career promoting online gambling.

While you might know the name Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, you might not be familiar with his online poker company. Dave is the UK poker player who had earnings of over $5.8 million. So when the news was released in 2005 to much fanfare that he was starting an online poker site, Devilfish Poker, people began expecting big things. So far those things haven’t materialized but the company is expecting a better year in 2011.

However, there was soon trouble. The Kahnawake licensed site didn’t get the UK’s proper approval and the site was restricted from advertising to its niche market. Although the customer base finally grew to 5,000 players in 12 months, the firm had some real economic trouble and lost over £600,000 in 2009 and more than £2m in 2010.

Officials for the company offered several reasons including a troubled financial climate as well as the growing tendency in the online poker market for mergers where bigger firms incorporated smaller ones.

Still, the CEO Paul Barnes is looking forward to the new year being much better for the company. He said recently that the brand has more of a market share now and that he believes it is in a better position to capitalize on the market in general.

The very popular online poker room Titanpoker.com is celebrating the online poker scene at the movies. The online poker room is having a special promo this week that will focus on the new movie that is starring John Travolta and is called From Paris With Love.
    
Titanpoker.com will be giving players everything that they are looking for! They are holding a special tournament in honour of the movie that will be giving away a total of 5000 dollars in prize money and above that will also give players the chance to win some cool movie merchandise as well as passes to see the movie. The tournament will have different levels and many prizes will be available throughout these levels.!
 
The reason that Titanpoker.com is backing this movie in such a strong way is that the movie does feature the online poker room and does give the site a great deal of promoting value. The action movie is filled with many great moments and is sure to be a success at the theatres!

 
The movie is live in the US and other parts of North America already but opens this month in the UK and France which is the reason for this promotion on Titanpoker.com. The movie is not about online gambling but the part that does see Travolta doing some online gambling Titanpoker.com is the site that is highlighted and featured in the film! Either way its a great time to take advantage of the promotion as well as a great time to see the movie as well!

Perhaps you are a great poker player! And perhaps you have always dreamed about the WSOP, - well there’s a current promotion that will see a player just like yourself land themselves one of five seats that is available up for grabs into this year’s upcoming WSOP competition. The WSOP is yet to be the talk of the town this year because it is still a little far away but one online casino has already launched their first promotion that will be giving away five seats in this year’s main event!

The WSOP main event competition will be held in Las Vegas. This particular promotion is a challenge from Titanpoker.com that will see players from around the world participate in a challenge where the top 200 players that are left standing will play for a total of five seats on the final tournament day of May 16th 2010.

There will be many chances to get into this final 200 as there will be two round of tourneys per week with players from all around the world. There will be a leader board in place so that players can see how they are doing and track their play and stats.

Players will then compete May 16th for their chance at a prize package worth over 10K which will take them to the main event for a chance to play with thousands of other poker players that are all fighting to get to the final table which will be aired on TV and the players at this table are likely to win in excess of millions of dollars! This is a great tourney for anyone that’s ever dreamed of playing in the name event!

So we all know about the online poker rooms, the online bingo rooms, there are online casinos that are slot only online casinos as well! There are quite a few specialized online casinos and the rumour is that there will be a lot more specialized online casino rooms launching in the near future!

So for those of you out there that are looking for an online casino that offers only blackjack, only craps, only roulette as well as many others you are just a little while away from having exactly what you are looking for. Online casinos have been going more general or more specific. Many game specific online casinos are doing very well because of the relationship they have made with their players and they continue to get a bigger and bigger membership base.

There are several online casinos that currently have sister brands carry the specialized games. For example, party casino is also responsible for party poker and party bingo and they are all operated under an overall blanket known as party gaming. There are other online casinos that work on the same model as well.

In the future we anticipate that the new online casinos will also be sister companies of other bigger brands as well as new game rooms that launch as a result for the demand in this niche market. It will be interesting to see what develops! And we will surely keep you posted!

Online poker is bigger than ever and everyone wants a piece of the action. Online poker is available at many online casinos and there are many people playing at any given time both amateurs and professional poker players alike. People just like you have started by playing poker online for fun and have become career poker players winning many big pots and making quite a living out of it.

There are many people that think that it takes a certain calibre of player in order to play in a poker tournament. The truth of the matter is that is really not true. No matter whether you played in a tournament before anyone can play; there is just a few things that you need to know. Often times tournament poker is a little different than playing in a cash game. In a cash game, you can usually get up and walk away at any time throughout the game. In a tournament you will have to play from start to finish in order to win it. Players that play in tournaments set aside a certain amount of time hoping to make it all the way.

There are also different things that players must think about. They must watch for players that play at certain speeds. There are those that play faster than others and those that play less and play more. There are players that tend to be aggressive at first to build up their stacks and then slow it down in order to maintain rhythm. It is important to watch your opponents and to play the cards as well as the players and it is also important to have fun! If you have never tried a tournament it is a good idea to play in a few smaller tourneys or even some play money ones so that you get a feel for it before playing in a bigger game!

For those of you that enjoy watching the High Stakes Poker on GSN, you don’t have to worry as the show will be back for yet another season. This season will have one new host alongside Gabe Kaplan who is the regular host for the past seasons as well as a poker player himself.

For those of you that have not seen the show, the show features a bunch of poker players that all fall in the high stakes category as the minimum buy in at the table is at least 200,000 dollars of their own money. Players play big hands as blinds are usually 1000/2000 dollars!

This game surely isn’t joke but is always funny to watch as the players make the game very amusing and are always chatting it up with each other as they try to rob one another of the big bucks. The show gets great reviews and has a large fan base of players and fans!

The players include some very famous poker pros such as David Benyamine , Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan , Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein , Allan Meltzer , Sammy George, Daniel Negreanu , Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Dennis Phillips, Mike Matusow, Lex Veldhuis and many others.

The new season will begin to air February 14,2010 on Tuesdays and will re-air on Sundays so be sure to tune in and catch some great poker action and even get a few tips from the pros!

The 2009 WSOP has yet to play out its final table with the final 9 waiting to play it out in November and poker players all over the world are already gearing up to play in the next WSOP which is to be played in 2010. The online casinos are obviously in tune with this information and are gearing up to give the players just what they are looking for by offering qualifiers that will get those players into the tournament that they seek the most.

The WSOP is the one and only tournament that every poker player dreams of playing in. It is the tournament that will yield the largest payout for the winner of any public poker tournament on the international poker circuit to date. The tournament isn’t for the light hearted and is not in everyone budget to play in with a buy-in starting at 10,000 dollars USD. But online casinos have found a way to make this price much cheaper to the players and have changed the lives of many players by giving them a chance to play.

Many online casinos offer tournaments that help players qualify to play in the WSOP by playing other tournaments that lead up to the main event. Players can get into the smaller tournaments for as little as several dollars and must continue winning the stages to get to the final tournament that will have the players winning the prize of an all expense paid trip to Vegas plus entry into the tournament.

There are several online casinos that have already started the qualifiers for next years main event so be sure to check out your favourite online poker room or online casino to see when you can sign up to qualify!

There are always pros and cons to playing online poker versus playing in a real casino with real players. And probably every poker player will tell you that while there is no comparison to playing poker with real players sitting across from you (after all, Poker is about reading other players AND your cards), there are some real benefits to playing online, specifically to help you improve certain skills.

While you won’t really be able to improve your ability read other players that much, playing online poker can help you improve several other skills like learning how to play the different variations of poker. This will not only help you get a good feel for the different games but will also improve your ability to recognize good, playable hands in comparison to other players or the dealer.

Playing online will also help you test out the waters of the more tricky games like Texas Hold’em poker. Online you can practice to your heart’s content and never be embarrassed at the way you are playing. You can try out different strategies without the in-person intimidation of being at a live poker table.

Playing online poker can also help you practice playing according to the stacks of chips at the table. This is about figuring out the math and how you can effectively leverage your chips to win against all the other players’ chips at the table. If you have the largest chip stack out of everyone, there are different strategies to play then if you had a smaller stack.

So while the debate about which forum is better there is one thing for certain, the only way to learn to play poker is to practice, practice, practice – and the best way to get in the most practice is playing online! There are even free poker tables you can try your hand at online if you’re a total beginner or don’t want to waste your money.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a highly anticipated event for any avid gamer. And now thanks to a deal reached between PKR.com, a tope online poker site in virtual reality, and Bluff Media, owner and operator of top poker mag Bluff Magazine, fans can now watch live coverage of the major event.

PKR has landed exclusive rights from Bluff Media to broadcast 24 bracelet events from the WSOP in Las Vegas, available on a micro-site through PKR.com. Of those 24 broadcast, three will include the $50,000 HORSE competition on June 30th, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship game on June 22nd and the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship tournament on June 15th.

Simon Prodger, Marketing Director for PKR.com expressed PRK’s delight in being able to exclusively offer these 24 events to poker enthusiasts around the world. The deal to broadcast live will sure excite online gamers who might have otherwise had to wait for the televised broadcast which could be delayed for days or even weeks.

But if watching streaming live isn’t good enough and you’d rather be the one sitting at the tables having online players watch YOU then get involved in PKR’s qualifiers to win seats to this year’s WSOP. You can nab yourself a package to the event worth $12,000 by competing in one of the daily super satellites that can cost only a mere $1.26 to enter! That’s hardly anything to lose!