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Games Guy | December 3, 2011

Any person driving or flying to Las Vegas is definitely giddy.  There you will see lots of mesmerizing places, lights, women, and all you ever dream of can be found there.  Vegas creates an ambiance where people who go there can easily be distracted that they would never want to leave.  There are no clocks inside the casinos, no windows so you could not tell when it is already dusk, and the carpet patterns are designed in a way where it does not seem to lead to the exit door.  Vegas spends tons of money each year to formulate whole new means of distraction.  They concoct new drinks to impair the senses where the guest only stays happy and will not want to leave happy land.

If you are a poker player who enjoy the thrill of placing bets and want to feel the rush of actually winning, you need not go anywhere.  In the internet, hundreds of online casinos now feature video poker which is very similar to the video poker in Vegas.  The difference lies in the ambiance.  There are no distractions if you play online poker in an online casino.  You can play among the smartest poker players in the world and can concentrate because you are merely at home. 

But before going to online sites, you first have to know the poker terms. 

HAND: The player’s hand is the combination of cards that he is holding. 

PLAY: It is a single round after a shuffle.

POT:  The pot is the total amount of money contributed by the players during the course of the game.  A round of poker has the pot as the prize and all the players fight over to win it.

ANTE: A mandatory bet that every player has to place in order to motivate action in the game.

There are also many kinds of poker games as there are poker terminologies.  The most popular and the most widely played game is the Texas Holdem. Omaha and Seven-Card is also widely played in online casino all over the internet.

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Games Guy | September 5, 2010

Never in the history of online poker has a room offered 1.8 million prizes in a single promotion. But that’s exactly what Party Poker is doing with their Card Rush XL promotion.

Prizes aren’t hard to earn either because every time you get 15 points by playing in poker games at Party Poker, you’ll receive a card. Once you get a card, you can simply visit your Party Poker account to reveal the prize. Some of the prizes include entries into free poker tournaments, travel prize packages, and of course cash.

As mentioned before, all you have to do is play poker at Party Poker to earn one of the 1.8 million prizes that will be awarded. As you earn more and more points during the Card Rush XL promotion, you will climb up the Card Rush leaderboard. If you end up in one of the top 2,000 spots, you have a possibility of a cash prize; if you finish in one of the top 200 spots, you are guaranteed a cash prize.

For any internet poker player finishing anywhere between 61st and 200th will automatically earn anything between $100 and $500 dollars. Any player who finishes from 11th place right through to 60th will receive money between $1,500 and $650. Finally, places 4th through 10th will earn between $6,000 and $2,000.

If you happen to play the most poker hands during Card Rush XL, you could be in line for one of the three travel prize packages. 1st place will earn a $10,000 prize package to the 2010 Ryder Cup, 2nd place will get a $10k prize package to the Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander race, and 3rd place will receive a $10k prize package to the 2010 Major League Baseball World Series.

Card Rush XL will run until all 1.8 million cards have been given away. In addition to the cards you earn during the Card Rush promo, you can also receive up to a 40% return in VIP Loyalty from Party Poker.

If these don’t interest you, then why not take a look at some of the other games currently available. Perhaps you would prefer to have a game of PokerStars Rakeback or perhaps Littlewoods Poker? With so many different games now being played, the choice really is endless.

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