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We have been working on a poker FAQ with answers for the most common poker inquires and its now online. The Poker FAQ will be checked and updated in the event of any changes. Further, we are working on a couple more sections to add into the FAQ. Do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to see certain topic or section in the poker FAQ, we are open for suggestions.

What does the online poker FAQ provide?
The FAQ contains guides and information to take in consideration when starting to play online poker.

Can I find poker tips in the poker FAQ?
Yes, the FAQ contains various tips and keys on how to become a better poker player.

Does the FAQ contain advanced poker strategies?
We have recently teamed up with a couple of professional players that can supply these articles and they will be added shortly.

You can find the online poker faq here

The main event of WSOP or World Series Of Poker 2006 has ended. With the biggest payout in history twelve players became millionaires. Below is the results and top 10 finishes of this no limit Texas Holdem main event.

TOP 10 PLAYERS WITH PRIZEMONEY

1 Jamie Gold $12,000,000
2 Paul Wasicka $6,102,499
3 Michael Binger $4,123,310
4 Allen Cunningham $3,628,513
5 Rhett Butler $3,216,182
6 Richard Lee $2,803,851
7 Doug Kim $2,391,520
8 Erik Friberg $1,979,189
9 Dan Nassif $1,566,858
10 Fred Goldberg $1,154,527

Congratulations to all the poker players that finished high in this event especially too Jamie Gold for winning a $12,000,000 and a WSOP bracelet from the biggest poker event of the year.

Hollywood Poker has decided to run another poker gift bonus throughout August. There are 3 different options of sign up bonus and accordingly the biggest bonus will be harder to play through. All three bonuses includes cash and free gifts:

• Up to $1000 + iPod Nano
• Up to $500 + iPod Shuffle
• Up to $300 + Poker Magazine Subscription

VISIT HOLLYWOOD POKER NOW

Hollywood Poker provides great deposit bonuses for their players. The magazine subscription will be from Card Player or Poker Pro. Please note that this bonus is for new players and first depositors only. The terms and rules for the three different options can be reviewed at Hollywood Poker or in our news section.

World series of poker championship has reached Day 3 and 481 players of the starting 8773 are still in the tournament. WSOP 2006 main event has an incredible payout structure with $1,154,527 for tenth place and $12,000,000 to the winner!

Current top 20 players

1 David Chiu 650000
2 Kyle Bowker 600000
3 Jon Lane 580000
4 Lars Bonding 560000
5 Eric Lynch 540000
6 Dmitri Nobles 530000
7 Mark Garner 525000
8 Johan Wemmenhag 520000
9 Jamie Gold 515000
10 Thomas Wahlroos 515000
11 Dan Nassif 510000
12 Hossein Khoeaban 500000
13 Terris Preston 500000
14 Debra Lalor 475000
15 Mike Hwang 450000
16 John Magill 450000
17 Kankus Andras 450000
18 Albert Padilla 445000
19 Humberto Brenes 440000
20 Mitch Schock 430000

Let the best poker player win.

Yes you have read it absolutely correct. Poker Stars has now launched the “Moneymaker Millionaire” promotion, which is a super free roll, open to anyone, with a total prize pool of 2.5 million dollar in cash, cars and gifts. All you need is a Pokerstars account, which is free to setup. Who knows, it could be you to win $1,000,000 in this free poker tournament.

Take me to Pokerstars now, I’ll return later!

Online poker still continues to grow and the really big poker sites can today offer free poker tourneys, or freerolls, with prizes over 2 Million dollar. Winning this sort of tournament on the other hand will probably be anything but easy; to reach the final event the players need to pass 3 qualification rounds.

MONEYMAKER MILLIONAIRE DETAILS

This free roll tournament is being played online from July 24 - December 3, 2006. Then a live final table in Bahamas awaits the top 27 players.

Round 1
Poker Stars players are given one free tournament ticket to play in any of the Moneymaker Millionaire round 1 events. The top 50 players from each daily round 1 event (4 events every day) will advance to the weekly round 2.

Round 2
These, weekly round 2 events, will be held every Saturday sending the top 240 players to Round 3.

Round 3
Round 3 is played monthly and the top 5 players each month will advance and in December there should be 27 players ready to the 3-table LIVE final in Atlantis, Bahamas.

FINAL EVENT PAYOUTS
1st PRIZE - $1,000,000, $820,000 and one Aston Martin DB9 worth $180,000 makes it one million in first prize. The winner can choose money instead of the car.
2nd prize - $300,000
3rd prize - $170,000
4th prize - $118,000
5th prize - $86,000
…and down to
27th prize - $5,000

Are you ready to play a free poker game and become a millionaire?

Download Poker Stars software and sign up today!

HoldemBonus have a special freeroll for Holdembonus.com readers. August 1st is the date and the Freeroll is open to everyone that enjoys playing online poker for free. All you need to do is find the tournament “HB Freeroll” in the Titan Poker software and register with the password given below.

Freeroll Details

Tournament name: HB Freeroll
When: August 1st
Where: Titan Poker
Password: holdembs
Buy in: Freeroll
Prize pool: $100
Open to: Everyone

Titan Poker Sign Up Bonus Offer

A great opportunity to build you bankroll is by making a deposit at Titan Poker. TitanPoker.com are infact very generous since they award their players by giving out free tournament tokens. One night I played the Rio Sit N Go’s and the day after they had added 2 Rio Sit n Go’s $20 Tokens with the comment “Thank you for playing our sit n go’s, we are rewarding our players and have decided to give you 2 free Rio Sit N Go’s Tokens”.

Sign Up Bonus
Attractive and easy to clear sign up bonus 100% up to $500 and do not forget to use the bonus code “HOLBON“.

We continue to offer our visitors and readers top poker promotions and we recommend subscribing to our feed using anyone of the options to the left. This will ensure that you don’t miss any news or promotions and its totally free.

In just a few hours starts the 4th event of our poker league at Poker.com

Todays event is a $2 buyin event and the prize pool is a $50 overlay, which means it starts with $50 then if for ex. 5 players join the prizepool will be $60.

Further, the poker players participating will receive double points giving them valuable league points in the poker league.

Tonights Password: evenmoney
Tourney Starttime: 8PM EST
Buy-IN: $2+$0.20
Where: Poker.com
Open to: Everyone

Today 16th July is the last day to have a ticket to the main event of world series of poker. As we have allready mentioned a couple of days ago, Pokerstars.com gives away 150 and Fulltiltpoker.com 100 WSOP Main Seat, only tonight!

Good luck all you super satellite hunters you will need it.
I am actually playing at the wsop satellite poker tournament at Pokerstars.com so I will hopefully have something good to write about tomorrow.

World Series Of Poker Championship 2006 is just around the corner. Online poker has become more popular and qualifying online to the WSOP through different poker sites has become more and more common.
The best places or online poker rooms for winning a WSOP main event package would probably be Pokerstars.com or Fulltiltpoker.com

PokerStars WSOP Giveaway - 150 WSOP Seats
Pokerstars.com is running a super WSOP satellite on July 16th at 4.30PM. 150 Guaranteed WSOP main event packages, worth $12,000 each, will be given away in this exclusive and probably biggest WSOP satellite tournament ever gone off. The buy-in will be $370. Head over to Pokerstars.com now and register for the tournament, it does not matter if you places 1st or in 150th place, they will all receive a WSOP package including travels, hotels, pocket money etc for a total value of $12,000.

FullTiltPoker WSOP Giveaway - 100 WSOP Seats
The same day, July 16th at 6PM ET, Fulltiltpoker.com runs their WSOP Super satellite tournament. With a buy-in of $500+$35 they are offering 100 Guaranteed WSOP Seats for this amazing poker event. Prizes are much the same as with Pokerstars, $12,000 WSOP packages including spending money and the main event fee. Head over to Fulltiltpoker.com

Every poker players dream is to play poker in the world series of poker and today it has become a prestige filled event. If you have $500 that’s only collecting dust behind those books, head over to either PokerStars.com or FullTiltPoker.com on the 16th and collect your WSOP package.

Through July there has been some changes in the poker bonus world. Both Ultimatebet and Pacificpoker has increased their bonuses. Anyone not registered at Ultimate Bet or Pacific Poker should not miss this opportunity to increase the bankroll.

Pacific Poker Bonus

Pacificpoker.com has a bigger sign up bonus, 50% up to $100, only offered in July. Although this is not a huge increase its still appreciated in the poker bonus community since they rarely (almost never) change their sign-up bonus. For more information read our review of pacificpoker or you could head over and register at Pacificpoker and start playing poker at one of Internets wildest online poker room.

Ultimatebet Bonus

Ultimate bet is now offering for a limited time an exclusive, 100% up to $650 sign-up bonus, for new players. This is actually the highest pokerbonus Ultimatebet.com has offered and they are not giving out a date when it ends, only that its for a very limited time. First time you heard about Ultimatebet? Then you should read our review of Ultimatebet to gather some information about this poker room before signing up or you have read enogh go directly and open an account at Ultimatebet.