“Even politicians in power who are deeply committed to improving Toronto’s financial situation may not be able to bring a casino to the city, Canadian-poker spokesperson Leon Daniels explained. “But nowadays, when anyone can login to the internet and play online poker, who needs a land based casino?” Says Daniels.

“Following the events of April 15th, when sites such as Pokerstars, Full tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were shut down, People are waiting for live poker tournaments to come to Toronto at a traditional casino, However, they are not aware that there are much better alternatives.” Leon Confirmed.

“888 poker, one of our readers favourite, offers a special PokerCam Tournament feature that create the illusion of playing against live players without having to travel to an actual casino. “888 has grown to accommodate the ever-increasing popularity of poker for Canadians, and our readers reviews show it.

Bwin Poker offers online poker tournaments as well, “Canadian readers have great things to say about bwin, from daily tournaments and freerolls to special events to bring out the best competition around,” Daniels said. “Between these two sites and all the opportunities they present, the debate over a Toronto casino can wait.”

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You are offered a reactivation promotion where all existing players get a onetime free £3 for mFortune Texas Hold’em and all new players get a onetime £5 plus the standard 100% deposit bonus.

MFortune’s Texas Hold ‘em mobile game offers players a wide variety of options. The game is available in real cash and free play options. Cash games are offered with three varying levels of blinds, with 10p/20p for beginners, £1/£2 for novices, and £10/£20 for professionals.

Game Features

• Play free or real money
• Fun play demo to practice
• Real players only- NO robots!
• Private tables to play friends
• Play with phone credit or bill

The game is supported on all mobile platforms including, Android, iPhone, iPad, and blackberry.

Rules
Texas Holdem is the most played version of poker in the world. It is also simple to learn and play. Explaining poker by text isn’t ideal – so we have just provided a short overview to help. Our best advice is to download the game and practice on the free play version! There’s no better way to learn to play then by free practice!

The basic concept of poker is to win the chips (cash) by making the best hand possible from the cards available. You can play tactically, bluff, play your opponent, or simply ride your luck – You decide!

Texas Holdem uses a standard 52 card deck, and the cards are ranked as follows: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace (Aces count as both high and low). There is no strength in the suits of the cards, they are equal.

The aim of Texas Holdem is to create the best five card hand possible out of the cards you are dealt, in accordance with the appropriate hand ranking from high to low.

You will see a maximum of 7 cards as follows.

A player is dealt two ‘hole’ cards, followed by 5 community cards that all players share and are displayed in a specific sequence: the ‘flop’ (3 cards at once), the ‘turn’ and the river. A round of betting is carried out after each of the four rounds: pre-flop (when each player has only their two hole cards), post-flop, turn and river. Once all betting is completed, there is a “showdown” where the best poker hand by a player will win the pot. If a player decides to fold at any point before showdown, then the last remaining player will win the pot.

Poker hands are ranked as follows, a royal flush being the best:
- A royal flush (A K Q J 10 same suit)
- Straight flush (i.e. 4 5 6 7 8 same suit)
- Four of a kind (i.e. K K K K)
- Full House (i.e. KKK QQ) 3 of the same + 2 of the same
- Flush (i.e. 3 4 5 8 10 all same suit, any order)
- Straight (i.e. 4 5 6 7 8 any suit in order)
- 3 of a kind (i.e. Q Q Q)
- 2 pairs (i.e. KK QQ)
- 1 pair (i.e. KK)
- High Card (i.e. Ace)

Blinds

Texas Holdem has forced bets to make sure there is action and money in each and every pot – these are called the blinds. Otherwise, a player could fold until every time until they had the best possible hand. They are named blinds as a player must enter the pot ‘blind’ and commit chips before they ever see their hole cards. The blinds will rotate around the table and come in the form of a big blind and a small blind – a small blind is approximately half the size of the big blind. The blinds ensure that there is always money in the pot that may be won on each and every hand.

Payout
If you win the poker pot, you will then be paid the pot total minus a standard rake (very small percent retained by the casino).

However, in Texas Holdem it is not unusual to have two hands that tie for the winning hand. A tie may occur primarily because players are sharing cards (every card that is on the board – flop, turn, and river). When players have the same winning poker hand, the pot is simply split between them.

A Side pot

If a player does not have enough chips to cover a bet, a side pot is then created. Remember, in Texas Holdem, everyone must contribute to the pot equally. Don’t worry however, in the case of side pots, mFortune casino will calculate these automatically for you.

How to Bet
Betting is easy in mobile poker – you simply click / press the button for the action you would like to take:
- To bet, simply click bet and click on the amount you want to bet
- To call, click call and you will call the player who has bet
- To raise, click raise and enter the amount you would like to raise
- To check, click check (continue without betting any more money)
- To fold, simply click fold

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The series includes a High Roller event on Thursday 3rd November as well as a £10,000 Guaranteed Bounty Hunter tournament, which will kick the series off on Monday 31st October. Team Sky Poker players will be playing throughout the series, and they will be joined by one of the UK’s top tournament players, Julian Thew as well as some of the Sky Poker TV presenters and analysts.
While the prize pools are mouth-watering, Sky Poker has ensured there will be plenty of opportunities for poker players of all bankrolls to qualify for UKOPS too, with satellites to the events currently running from as little as £1.20.

Over £140,000 in guaranteed prize pools are up for grabs in Sky Poker’s new online poker tournament series to run over October and November.

“The UKOPS is the natural follow-on from the Sky Poker Tour,” said Sky Poker’s Dave Bland. “With such a popular live event series it was only a matter of time before Sky put its name to a huge online series too, and we hope the first ever UKOPS will cater to high roller and recreational players from all around the UK.”
Full details of the UK Online Poker Series can be found on the Skypoker.com website, with the schedule for UKOPs below:

Sky Poker’s UK Online Poker Series – Schedule

UKOPS Event 1 – Monday 31st October, 8pm

£100+10
£20,000 Guaranteed Bounty Hunter
4,000 chips/12 min blinds

UKOPS Event 2 – Tuesday 1st November, 8pm
£50+5 Pot Limit Omaha
£10,000 Rebuy
1 Rebuy and add on
4,000 chips/12 min blinds

UKOPS Event 3 – Wednesday 2nd November, 8pm
£100+£10
£10,000 No Limit Hold’em Double Stack
8,000 chips/12 min blinds

UKOPS Event 4 – Thursday 3rd November, 8pm
£500+£30
£25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller
10,000 chips/15 min blinds

UKOPS Event 5 – Friday 4th November, 8pm
£50+5
£15,000 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy
Unlimited rebuys/1 Add on
4,000 chips /12 min blinds

UKOPS Event 6 – Saturday 5th November, 8pm
£20+2
£10,000 No Limit Hold’em Turbo
Unlimited rebuys/1 Add on
3,000 chips/5 min blinds

UKOPS Event 7 – Saturday 5th November, 8pm
£100+£10
£10,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout
4,000 chips/12 min blinds

UKOPS Event 8 – Sunday 6th November, 7pm
Main Event
£200+£20
£40,000 Guaranteed
8000 chips/15 min blinds

About SkyPoker.com.

Sky Poker is the British Sky Broadcasting’s online poker division, which allows users to play poker on their website and screens selected hands from various tournaments and cash games on Sky Poker TV, allowing players on the site to become the stars of the TV channel. Sky Poker focuses on UK poker players, with all play at the tables in pounds rather than dollars, as well as its own Sky Poker Tour around the country.

Sky Poker is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC).

About Sky Poker TV

Sky Poker TV launched in February 2007 and since then has expanded to show more content from the site, highlights from the Sky Poker Tour (SPT), as well as regular live appearances and interviews from the top names in poker.

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The British Poker Awards (BPA) is hosted annually and is where new and seasoned pros from the world of poker congregate to show their appreciation for the year’s best card players. The free online poker games at PKR are incentivised with big bonuses such as tickets to major live tournaments like the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Jake Cody, a young professional Brit, claimed the biggest UK accolade of the night – ‘Player of the Year.’ Cody’s table aggression and skill helped towards him bagging ‘Best Tournament Player’ for 2011 as well. His passion for the game is evident in his play style, which he sometimes takes to the virtual tables like those at PKR.

Cody enjoyed a hugely successful online year before adding to his long list of honours by winning a World Series of Poker bracelet at the heads-up event in June.

Founded in Britain, PKR have always supported the home grown players like Cody and the site has a great community of Brits who play together regularly in satellite tournaments, cash games and ‘grand prix’ events.

A spokesperson for the poker site commented:

‘We want to say a big congratulations to Jake who thoroughly deserved to win his awards. Young, unique players like him are what make the game immortal and who knows – the next young star could be playing on our online tables right now. We’re inviting everybody to play for free on PKR and be in with a chance to go to the big live tournaments.’

The award for ‘Best Online Player’ went to Chris Moorman, who also hails from the UK. PKR are constantly updating their site with free poker tournaments which can lead to major opportunities like Cody and Moorman have gone on to seize with both hands this year.

Membership is free and signing up is easy, to find out more visit pkr.

About PKR

PKR is a revolutionary new concept in online poker that has changed the way the game is played.

Featuring stunning real-time 3D graphics and a uniquely engaging and immersive gaming system, PKR brings an unparalleled and previously unseen level of realism to online poker.

Developed by some of the brightest stars in the video games and poker industries, PKR continues to be the most innovative poker room in the world.

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While legal actions have been taken in recent months against some of the major online poker rooms, players at Titan Poker continue to play their favorite game at cash tables and tournaments, make deposits and unrestricted withdrawals, and enjoy the full functionality of a safe, secure, and graphically pleasing online poker room.

Titan Poker offers its new players an improved First Deposit Bonus up to a maximum level of 200% up to $1,000. This bonus is released to players automatically as they play at Titan Poker and the redemption rate is set to enable players to enjoy the full benefits of this bonus as quickly as possible.

Titan Poker and the iPoker Network withdrew from the United States market following the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006. The room continues to stage regularly scheduled guaranteed prize tournaments with discounted entries, and has increased its standard tournament offering as an additional way of demonstrating its stability and its user-friendly software.

In response to the AGCC’s announcement regarding the suspension of Full Tilt Poker’s license and operations, Marc Kenigsberg, VP of Marketing for Euro Partners, the affiliate program behind the Titan Poker brand, released a statement saying “Online poker lost one of its major players today, and has left both poker affiliates and poker players questioning the future of our industry. As the exclusive promoters of Europe’s leading, legally-operated online poker rooms, Euro Partners is confident that the online poker industry as a whole, and our poker affiliate partners in particular, will continue to flourish. To help in jumpstarting their activity, we’re also staging a lottery during the month of July to give away a brand new Porsche Carrera to affiliates who place our brands in top position and increase their poker traffic.”

New players are invited to try out the free poker download and experience the exciting poker action at Titan Poker.

About Titanpoker.com:

Titanpoker is the number one online poker room in Europe and part of the iPoker Network. Titan Poker’s software is developed and maintained by Playtech, a public company and leading gaming software developer. With tens of thousands of online players at peak hours, Titan Poker guarantees millions of dollars in monthly prizes, features special sit ‘n’ go tournaments with progressive jackpots as high as $300,000, and awards players with entries to major worldwide poker tournaments.

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Carbon Poker has been serving real money poker players for a number of years now, but never did it receive quite so much attention than it has in the past two weeks. When Black Friday rained down upon the internet poker community, the top US-facing operators, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, deserted their American patrons in an effort to save their own hides. Their closest rivals, Absolute Poker and UB, chose instead to abandon ship, claiming bankruptcy and dropping off the virtual map of cyberspace.

All of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of US online poker players were left scrambling about, looking for a new poker site—a safe, secure destination—that would accept their deposits and real money poker play. It was right around this time that Carbon Poker was promoting its new VIP program, wherein the poker site offers cash back rebates to all new players.

The Carbon Poker VIP program overhaul comes on the cusp of an expiring 35% rakeback offer via leading poker gateway CarbonPokerRakeback.com. Carbon Poker is doing away with its rakeback scheme as of June 1st, but everyone who already has an active rakeback account prior to June 1st, 2011, will continue to earn rakeback beyond this date.

According to CarbonPokerRakeback.com, this is a very opportune moment for US players to get in on both promotions, plus a limited time offer of 100% up to $600 on a new players first deposit. Signing up an account, or using a pre-existing account with no history of deposits, and making an initial purchase with the promotional code 35CARBON will grant the unique welcome bonus, plus 35% Carbon Poker rakeback and instant entry to the VIP loyalty program.

An existing member of Carbon Poker will only be able to take advantage of the special promotional code and subsequent rewards if they have never made a deposit. In addition, the player must not have played on any site operating on the Merge Gaming Network in the previous 60 days. Questions, concerns or difficulties using the code 35CARBON should be directed to carbonpokerrakeback@gmail.com for immediate assistance.

The Carbon Poker bonus is released by generating VIP points. From the very first VIP point earned, players are also entered into the VIP program. Points are awarded at a rate of 10 points for every $1 contributed to rake, and 10 points for every $1 paid in tournament fees, including sit-n-go and multi-table tournaments.

Each time enough points are collected, a $10 portion of the bonus is delivered to the player’s real cash account. Unlike many similar poker promotions, bonuses are not deducted from rakeback earnings. In addition to earning points towards the bonus release, players are also given 35% of their contributed rake, and tournament fees, paid daily into their poker account via the Carbon Poker rakeback program.

As players continue to earn VIP points, they can climb the status level, scaling form the lowest level, Earth, up to Wind, Fire, Water and the highest of all, Ether. Every rung of the VIP ladder grants a player access to a higher monthly freeroll tournament, ranging in value from $750 at Earth level, up to $3,500 at Ether.

The Carbon Poker VIP scheme is worth an extra rakeback equivalent of 7.5% to 35%, depending on the VIP level. A player’s points can be traded in for cash rebates. The higher the player’s VIP level, and resulting point accumulation, the higher cash rebates they will have access to.

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Carbon Poker Rakeback officially announced that Merge skins such as Carbon Poker will not be accepting new rakeback accounts after June 1st, 2011. Get your Carbon account today to secure your rakeback and your $2K first-time deposit bonus!

Every online poker site has its own range of promotions to entice new players to join. One of the less common, but widely appreciable promotions is known as online poker rakeback. According to a leading poker portal, one of the most beneficial rakeback promotions is on the verge of expiring.

For a long time now, online poker players who signed up an account with Carbon Poker and made their first deposit using the promotional code 35CARBON were privy to 35% online poker rakeback. Prominent rakeback provider CarbonPokerRakeback.com now reports that Carbon Poker has set an expiration date of June 1st, 2011 on its poker rakeback provision for new players.

As of June 1st, 2011, Carbon Poker will no longer be supplying rakeback to new player accounts. Any accounts opened prior to June 1st are still eligible to receive 35% Carbon Poker rakeback, and their accounts will continue to be paid rakeback dividends once the date passes. Thus the only way to lock in rakeback from Carbon Poker is to join the poker room and make a deposit with the promotion code 35CARBON before the month of May runs out.

Online poker rakeback is a program that reimburses players for the funds they contribute to the rake in a cash game. Whenever a cash game is played for real money, a small portion of the overall pot is collected by the online poker site. This is the rake. By claiming the rakeback promotion before June, players are given back 35% of their contributed rake, paid directly into their poker account.

Carbon Poker also awards rakeback on all tournament fees, again at a rate of 35%. The tournament fee should not be confused with the buy-in. When a tournament has a buy-in of $10, for example, the standard fee is 10%, or $1. Thus the player is refunded $0.35 (35% of $1) as tournament rakeback.

CarbonPokerRakeback.com is confident that the expiration of rakeback after the given date will not have a detrimental effect on the frequency of new player sign-ups at Carbon Poker. The poker site has a vip program that provides redeemable cash rebates which are, in effect, the same as earning poker rakeback.

In addition to the ability to lock in an active rakeback account with Carbon Poker, the card gaming site is also promoting a special, limited time offer to all first time depositors that will award a bonus of 100% up to $600 on a member’s initial deposit. Welcome bonuses of this nature are common in the online poker industry, but the enhanced size and matching percentage of this particular promotion far exceeds the standard online poker welcome bonus.

The poker portal goes on to point out that existing members of Carbon Poker may still take advantage of the 35% Carbon Poker rakeback deal provided they have never made a deposit. Like most online poker rooms, Carbon Poker allows its member to play for free with play-money chips. Anyone who has been doing so for any amount of time may still make an initial deposit using the 35CARBON promo code to start earning a lifetime of rakeback before the offer expires.

Players are encouraged to contact the webmaster of the rakeback provider via email – carbonpokerrakeback@gmail.com – should any problems occur, or if any questions arise, concerning the use of the rakeback bonus code.

In the last few weeks, Carbon Poker has sidled its way onto the top 10 list of most trafficked online poker sites, thanks to its unwavering acceptance of USA poker players. It is, in fact, one of the few remaining options for Americans seeking a safe, secure and accessible poker site where their deposits are permitted. US account holders are still able to transfer funds to Carbon Poker via MasterCard, Visa, UseMyWallet and Western Union.

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However, Bodog Poker Network believes the industry is now heading in the opposite direction; balkanization instead of consolidation, with player liquidity will no longer being viewed as the key to success.

The PWin merger is, ineivtably, big news in the industry but may not, as many think signal a consolidation phase. As Steven Stradbrooke pointed out in his analysis of the merger, there are a number of question marks around how successful this merger will be and the driving forces behind it. More recently, the stock market has given its verdict.

Striving for player liquidity has been a way of catering for the winning players. Remember, that before Bodog Poker Network opened up the debate about depositing players versus winning ones, these winning players were considered “high rakers” and everyone was competing for them. Having a large pool of net depositing players was a way of competing for these winning players, but the user experience of the net depositing players was not seen as important.

As a natural consequence of focusing on player liquidity, everyone has expected the online poker industry to enter a consolidation phase. However, Patrik Selin challenged the consolidation issue more than a year ago as did Kim Lund, an e-gaming analyst, in a series of articles on liquidity in October 2010.

Of course, to run a successful online poker room you need a critical mass to keep the games going, but after you have achieved that level of players, liquidity is not key anymore. The battlefield of the future is in entertainment and since different players have different ideas of what entertainment is, we will, for the first time in the short history of online poker, start to see differentiation in poker rooms.

Some players may find it important to be able to chat in their own language, others may want a user experience close to what you can get playing a video game. Some players may find tournaments with huge fields more entertaining than small fields. For those players, player liquidity will continue to be an important entertainment factor, but for the majority of players, liquidity has only a small part to play of the total entertainment package.

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The new training section hosts a wide variety of training tools to suit all levels of skill and across all poker disciplines. It is specially designed to help readers sift through the confusing mass of information available to find the right strategic fit for them to begin improving their game.

Leading Poker Media Website Partners With Elite Poker Training Sites For New Educational Section Of Website.

Poker players can hone their skills and techniques using coaching software Hold’em Manager and video training from Cardrunners, BlueFirePoker, DeucesCracked, Deepstacks University, Tournament Poker Edge, Drag The Bar and Card Player Pro powered by PokerSavvy Plus.

Cardplayer.com users can view each site’s landing page and watch sample videos to help them decide what product suits them best, learning form leading pros such as Vanessa Selbst, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Tony “Bond18″ Dunst, Mike Matusow, and Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt.

A spokesperson for Cardplayer.com said, “Finally, on one page, we’ve gathered the best of online poker knowledge and put it at our readers fingertips. Poker players of all levels can now browse Cardplayer.com’s training partners and choose a site with confidence to begin honing their play and boosting their bankrolls.”

About CardPlayer Media:

CardPlayer Media is the leader in poker news in both online an offline formats. It publishes CardPlayer and CardPlayer Europe magazines and operates CardPlayer.com.

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Affiliates, players and spectators can embed tables in their own website, blog or forum by simply copy and pasting HTML code, just like sharing a YouTube video clip. This way the clients are being spread throughout the internet, reaching millions of new players. The Flash-based client, accessible in any compatible web-browser, is intuitive, responsive, fast and smooth.

“We recognize the importance of the affiliate in a continually changing online poker market. This revolutionary concept gives affiliates more control and may turn the entire industry upside down,” says Ola Akselberg, CEO of Miles Ahead. “The response from our test users has been very positive!”

In addition to the revolutionary idea of ‘embedded distribution’, the poker client also incorporates key features from online social media, such as achievements and real-time sharing of the gaming experience.

“Poker, like all gaming online, is really changing! It’s not all about money anymore. It’s entertainment. It’s socializing, respect and fame. That’s why we’ll add a wide selection of achievements for players to pimp their community profile,” says Jan Ridenfeldt, COO of Miles Ahead, and ends “15 seconds of fame!”

Through the new commission plan, affiliates get two sources of revenue. In addition to the established referral fees, affiliates can create, embed and host private or public tables in their own websites, forums, blogs and social mediums. On these tables, they will receive a share from all rake generated, a hosting fee. The concept is currently being tested by selected operators, affiliates and players. The application will be available to other partners in February.

New and improved cross-platform clients for wireless touch-screen devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone, are in development. The first versions will be available Q2 2011.

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