$300 Reload Bonus

From now until Tuesday, October 11th at 6pm GMT get a 50% reload bonus up to $300 on your next deposit when you use the code: 50RELOAD.

Don’t miss out on our Sunday Guarantees

Register for the Cake Poker $15,000 Guaranteed tournament playing at 3pm EST (7pm GMT) and our $25,000 Guaranteed tournament playing at 5pm EST (9pm GMT). Buy-ins start at $100 or just 440 Gold Chips.

From now until Tuesday, September 20th at 6pm GMT receive a 50% reload bonus up to $300 on your next deposit when you use the code: 50CAKE.

Don’t miss out on our Sunday Guarantees

Register for our $15,000 Guaranteed tournament playing at 3pm EST (7pm GMT) and our $25,000 Guaranteed tournament playing at 5pm EST (9pm GMT). Buy-ins start at $100 or just 440 Gold Chips.

Tournament seating is limited to the first 200 players that Pre-Register.

Golden Nugget Casino Special Rate

We have a special code for you to use when booking at The Golden Nugget Casino and Resort for your stay. Use code Grand10 and get a rate of $39 Weekdays and $69 weekends. Visit www.GoldenNugget.com or call 1.800.634.3454 to book your room now. Need help making your travel arrangements? Use our travel search at http://www.InvadeVegas.com

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

5:00-7:00 PM – Invade Vegas check in and pick up gift bags – This will be held at the Golden Nugget Casino extended poker room area. Cash bar available.
5:00-7:00 PM – Meet and greet. Players will also be able to register for the tournaments for Monday and Tuesday. Cash bar available.
8:00 PM-? – Gold Diggers Nightclub opens up 1 hour early for our group with a cash bar.

Monday, June 28th, 2010

12:00 PM – The Lou Krieger Shrimp Adventure. Everyone will meet at the Golden Nugget extended tournament area and then head down the road to Golden Gate Casino and enjoy some shrimp cocktail. (there are other options if you don’t like shrimp)
2:30-4:00 PM – Invade Vegas check in and pick up gift bags (for those who didn’t check in on Sunday) – This will be held at the Golden Nugget Casino extended poker room area.
4:00 PM – Warm Up tournament. Buy in will be $50+15. In addition to the prize pool, a $1000 WSOP entry to Event 54 will be ADDED to 1st place* by Felt Stars.

* 4000 Starting Chips & for $5 Tip to the dealers you will get 1000 more
* Blinds start at 25/50
* Blinds increase every 30 minutes

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

4:00 PM – OFC Live Forum Challenge Event – $100+15 Buy In. In addition to the prize pool, a $1000 WSOP entry to Event 54 will be ADDED to 1st-3rd place* by Felt Stars.

* 4000 Starting Chips & for $5 Tip to the dealers you will get 1000 more
* Blinds start at 25/50
* Blinds increase every 30 minutes

$1000 Added in forum prizes as well!**

1st – $200 Freeroll and $200 to the forum owner as a bonus.
2nd – $100 Freeroll and $100 to the forum owner as a bonus.
3rd – $100 Freeroll and $100 to the forum owner as a bonus.
4th – $50 Freeroll and $50 to the forum owner as a bonus.
5th – $50 Freeroll and $50 to the forum owner as a bonus.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

7:00 PM – Pub Crawl – Join us as we bar hop in downtown Las Vegas! We will be stopping at 4 different bars.

* Stop 1 – Hennessey’s Tavern
* Stop 2 – Mickie Finnz
* Stop 3 – To Be Determined
* Stop 4 – Hogs & Heifers Saloon

The cost of the Pub Crawl is $25 and includes 4 drinks and a special Invade Vegas Pub Crawl Survivor T-Shirt. You will get the T-Shirt at the beginning of the tour, if you don’t survive, they’ll will take it back!

Tournament seating is limited to the first 200 players that Pre-Register.

*Players winning WSOP Entries agree to wear FeltStars gear during the event.
Tournament times and all details are subject to change. Please check back often for updates.

Learn more about what Holdem Poker Chat is doing for it’s players by visting this link.

How it works

Each player assigned a personalized frequent player point (FPP) target and a time frame to achieve this mark by. By hitting any stake or level of the real money ring and tournament tables from 8 PM ET on September 30th through 8 PM ET on October 14th you’re earning FPPs that will be tallied up against your target.
Oktober ChipFest Time Schedule
Target Achievement
8 PM ET September 30th to 8 PM ET October 14th
Reward Bonus 8 PM ET October 14tht to 8 PM ET October 31st

Earn up to 300% more Gold Chips

Hit your target and we’ll reward you with a Tournament Ticket to our exclusive $10,000 Oktober ChipFest Freeroll playing Saturday, October 17th at 3:30 PM ET. Exceed your target, and you’re setting the stage for a flurry of rewards up for grabs October 14th through 31st.

Reward Schedule
Target Gold Chip Bonus Rewards
Hit your Target
$10,000 Oktober ChipFest Freeroll Tournament Ticket
Achieve 25% over target
Earn 50% more Gold Chip rewards.
Achieve 50% over target Earn DOUBLE Gold Chip rewards.
Achieve 75% over target Earn TRIPLE Gold Chip rewards.
Double your target Earn QUADRUPLE Gold Chip rewards.

So let’s say Player X reached their target FPP number and exceeded it by double – they’d earn50 % more rewards for their game play in the latter half of October. Under that reward schedule, if they earned 10 Gold Chips during game play October 14th to 31st, they would receive an additional 20 Gold Chips! Bonus Gold Chip rewards will be added to player accounts during the first week of November in a lump sum.
Your Target

Cake Poker has set a frequent player target specifically for you, based on your previous game play at the Cake Poker tables. You’ll find your personalized target FPP number in the Rewards tab, when logged on to our Cake Poker games.

Earning Frequent Player Points
Ring Games: $1 Rake = 1 FPP
Tournaments: $1 Fee = 7 FPP

Good luck!

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An expected field of over 800 players will compete this January for a coveted spot at the internationally broad casted final table, and make a run for the Aussie Millions guaranteed $2 Million first place prize.

While there, enjoy true Aussie hospitality, barbies and a few Fosters perhaps while taking in the world’s largest cash game that features a $1 Million AUD buy-in that’s sure to attract the world’s best players. Here are the details mate,
Your Cake’s 2009 Aussie Millions Prize Pack gets you

* A Seat into TWO Aussie Millions events including:
o Aussie Millions 2009 Main Event, January 18th to 24th ($10,500 AUD value)
o Aussie Millions 2009 Feature Event (Pro Bounty) January 16th ($1600 AUD value)
* Ten nights at the luxurious Crown Promenade Hotel January 15th to 25th
* $4000 USD added to your Cake Poker Player’s Account for help with travel expenses

Cost for the tournament is $5 for the prize pool, plus an additional $5 for the charity. We have also added $150 to the prizepool. Full TIlt Poker pro Rafe Furst will be playing the tournament, and we hope many more of the Full Tilt pros will also be in attendance.

Details for the tournament are as follows:

November 22nd, 2:01pm ET
Private tournament tab: Bad Beat on Cancer
Password: charity
$5 plus $5 with $150 added to the prizepool
Tournament #64689765
(Under the Private Tournaments tab)

Even if you can’t make it, please consider registering anyway since all proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. I hope to see you all there.

About the Prevent Cancer Foundation:

The Prevent Cancer Foundation was started in 1985 when Founder and President Carolyn Aldige first understood the power of prevention to defeat cancer — and recognized that too few of the country’s resources were used to promote cancer prevention research or education. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Since its inception the Foundation has provided more than $74 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research and education programs. CRPF peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to more than 250 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies.

About Bad Beat on Cancer:

Bad Beat on Cancer was started a few years ago by Rafe Furst and Phil Gordon to help fund cancer research and prevention – by playing poker. They ask professionals and amateurs alike to donate 1% of whatever they win at the WSOP. They’ve been extraordinarily successful over the last few years, raising over $1 million for a very worthy cause. It’s a very fiscally responsible organization, nearly 86 cents from every dollar goes to the cancer research programs that they’re funding. It’s a great organization and they have most of the world’s greatest players signed up.

Earn your seat today via cash or Gold Chip satellites to the first WPT direct qualifier playing Sunday, July 20th at 8 PM ET ($200 + $15).

New Depositors gain entry into a $500 Freeroll

This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

We will begin on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $100 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin on Cake Poker, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, and Reefer Poker! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with $800 added to the prize pools!

The Top 20 in each freeroll and the Top 30 in each buyin will receive points.

The leaderboard will consist of $250 up for grabs over the top 5 places.

More details

Situation 1: Joe Schmoe is playing in a fullhanded no-limit hold’em ring game. Action folds to Joe, and he raises with A9 from the cutoff. The button and the blinds call, and the flop is AA9. The blinds check to Joe, and he makes a pot-sized bet fueled by two hopes: 1.) One of his opponents has the case ace and will go over the top. 2.) An opponent with a pocket pair will call on the flop 3.) An opponent with a flush draw will call or semibluff All three of Joe’s opponents dash Joe’s hopes and quickly fold.

Situation 2: Joe Schmoe is playing shorthanded no-limit hold’em. In 100 hands of play there’s only been one reraise preflop. Joe raised from the button, the small blind reraised, and Joe folded. This happened around hand #50 of Joe’s session.

During hands #101 and #102, Joe (who has been playing somewhat aggressively but far from manically) opens from the button and the cutoff with raises. Both times, the same player reraises. After not doing much for 8 hands, Joe opens for a raise with JJ. Joe is reraised again this time by a different player who has never reraised preflop. Being that this is the third time in the span of about 10 hands that he’s been reraised preflop, Joe has faith in his JJ, goes over the top, and ends up losing 100 big blinds versus his opponent’s AA.

Hope and faith adversely affect our poker playing. In situation #1, Joe needs to think about his opponents. Instead of betting pot and hoping, he should think realistically about his opponents’ distributions. In many but not all games, a half-pot bet (or even something slightly less) will be ideal. A pot-sized bet might actually force a player with the case ace out of the pot if he has a bad kicker to accompany it. And anyone who mucks an ace with a bad kicker here will do the same with a pocket pair. Instead of betting big and hoping for a monster confrontation, Joe should bet smaller and get value from his hand.

In situation #2, a lot of things happen within a short span of time, and Joe makes a common mistake. At a table where no preflop reraising is happening, the reality of the game is that players are waiting for cards. The player who reraised Joe twice in a row probably had big hands both times. It could be possible that the different player who reraises him the third time observed Joe’s reaction to the prior two reraises, but the texture of the table dictates that Joe probably ran into another big hand. If preflop reraises begins happening regularly on the order of once every two orbits or so Joe can reason that the dynamic of the game has changed. But by letting faith replace reason with a hand like JJ and a random short spurt of events, Joe got himself into a lot of trouble.

Tony Guerrera is the author of Killer Poker By The Numbers and coauthor of Killer Poker Shorthanded (with John Vorhaus).