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Absolute Poker is a very popular poker room which features a $50 freeroll every 30 minutes and a 100% up to $300 bonus.
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Poker.com is one of the fastest growing online poker rooms sporting great customer service and over $5,000 in daily freerolls.
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Paradise Poker runs great promotions including the world's only 1 million dollar freeroll and the Paradise Masters.
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Titan Poker features great sit & go tournaments as well as a generous 150% bonus up to $500 for new players.
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PokerRoom.com is going stronger than ever and is now the net's 3rd largest, featuring World Poker Tour qualifiers.
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Hollywood Poker is a great new room co-owned by actor gone poker player James Woods as well as World Poker Tour host & commentator Vince Van Patten.
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Noble Poker is one of the leading online poker rooms with daily $100 freerolls as well as a 50% signup bonus.
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Pacific Poker is generally considered to have the easiest opponents of any site thanks to their many casino players who try to play poker as well.
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  | Game: No-Limit Texas Hold'em | Position: Middle
| Blinds: $10/$20
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You're raising three times the big blind before the flop and get two players with you, including the player on the button. Flop comes and deals Ac-Js-Ts. First player raises by $20 and you decide to raise to $60. One player folds, button goes all-in. You have $620 left, a call costs you $250. What do you do?
| Call (Correct) (74%) |  | | Fold (26%) | |
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| Amarillo Slim (Correct) (45%) | | | Doyle Brunson (8%) | | | James Woods (7%) | | | Phil Ivey (40%) | |
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How many hours do you spend on playing online poker every week?
| 1 hour (4%) | | | 10+ hours (25%) | | | 3 hours (6%) | | | 7 hours (9%) | | | Never tried it (57%) | |
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"If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy."
- Joe Laurie Jr
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| Online poker growth takes punch | 7th September, 2005 |
One of the fastest booming industries of today - the poker business - may have stepped down from its throne. Well, just by a little anyway.
PC Pro Magazine reports that there's a certain stagnation in the lucrative online poker business as world leading Party Gaming announced slower-than-expected progression. Shares of the company plunged down by a third, or a total of 6,000,000,000 US Dollars.The company floated just 10 weeks ago but its prospectus made no mention that a downturn may be just around the corner. CEO Richard Segal pointed out that conversely it had not said that the company would continue to grow at the same 'spectacular' rate.
Nevertheless, the poker business is still growing, and in fact, quite fast. The previous anticipations may have been a tad too high, however.
You can read the full story here. | | | - written by Betty Holden |
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