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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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"Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents."
- Lou Krieger
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| Poker brings income climb | 19th September, 2005 |
According to Oregon based local news paper, East Oregonian, most of the old slot machines in the state will be replaced by newer ones. The reason for this decision lies in the recent profit climb caused by increasing poker gambling.
The news paper writes that a total of 4,300 machines will replace the older ones. Despite a hefty price tag at $8,000 a piece, it is expected that each machine will be profitable after 16 months of use. They expect an average of $500 of income per month.
It may seem to be a welfare programme, too. According to the article, "the lottery sent $425 million to public education, economic development, state parks and stream restoration efforts. One percent of lottery proceeds pays for intervention for problem gamblers", which is near half the total income.
The Oregonian article may be found here. | | | - written by Betty Holden |
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