UB and Absolute Poker’s Craziest Last Longer Bet is Sending Four Lucky Players to the WSOP*

 The wildest last longer prop bets will see MANIMACK and PROOF1459 play off against their poker rivals in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker*, and the losers face some pretty embarrassing tasks ahead to settle the score.

Miami, FL (Marketwire), Monday, June 21, 2010 – UB and Absolute Poker cast the net last month to catch The Craziest Last Longer Bet, with the caveat that only the sickest last longer bets would be in contention to walk away with one of two VIP prize packages for the World Series of Poker* (“WSOP*”) this July. Now the votes are in, with UB’s MANIMACK/JUSTIN74 and Absolute Poker’s PROOF1459/SHORTSTCK all on their way to Las Vegas to play out their outrageous prop bets in Event # 54 of the WSOP*.

At UB, the 31 year-old MANIMACK (Gregg Mardirosian) issued the ultimate challenge to his buddy JUSTIN74 (Justin Leichter), a 32 year-old entrepreneur and poker player, whose grandmother taught him to play poker with pennies at the age of 4. The player who busts out earliest in WSOP* Event #54 faces the daunting task of having his losing hand and the UB logo tattooed on his body, and then having to meet and marry a girl in Vegas before being allowed to return home to Florida.

“Thanks for choosing our craziest last longer bet, and thanks to UB for putting the money into my account. I’m excited about flying out to Vegas. I’m excited about the tournament, and I’m really excited about Justin getting married,” said MANIMACK. “I’m a little concerned. Justin stays in practice, and I haven’t been playing poker much lately, but the last few days I’ve been on UB trying to shake the rust off, and I’ve been cashing, so see y’all in Vegas.”

Over at Absolute Poker, PROOF1459 (Michael Arnese) and SHORSTCK (Tom Lipko) have been longstanding poker rivals, and they were both itching to put their No Limit Hold ‘em skills to the test on poker’s biggest stage. Whoever of the two buddies from Carbondale, Pennsylvania gets sent packing to the rails first will be forced to walk home all the way from Las Vegas in under a week. If the loser can’t complete the walk within deadline, they have to pay the cost of the $1,000 entry to the winner of the bet.

The four poker adventure-seekers earned the most votes when their prop bets were put to the test with UB and Absolute Poker’s online poker community. Their gutsy, creative efforts will see them get shipped to Sin City to play out their bet in Event # 54 of WSOP*, a $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold ‘em event that kicks off at the Rio on July 1, 2010. The VIP Vegas package includes return airfares, hotel stay, Event # 54 tournament entry for two, plus the chance to hang with the cool crowd – Team UB and Absolute Poker pro players during their Vegas jaunt.

For full details on the competition, visit http://www.ub.com/wsop/2010/the-craziest-last-longer-bet and http://www.absolutepoker.com/promotions/wsop/2010/contests/craziest-last-longer-bet/ *World Series of Poker® and WSOP® are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with, UB, Absolute Poker, the CEREUS Network or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

Craziest Last Longer Bet Video

WSOP is here! OK not the main event yet but it’s a coming!

Hi Everyone!

All you hear about now is WSOP this and that, WSOP packages given out left right and centre and all things to do with WSOP.  

It’s all nice and interesting but I wanted to share some little known facts and some general facts about WSOP and Poker. Here they are:

Fact #1: A fifth suit was added in 1937. As you can tell this did not catch on. It was mostly because people would have to buy new decks. This fifth suit was called: Eagle, Green Suit or Royal in England. It was green in colour

Fact #2: Thanks to French influence the suits have actual connotations to classes of people. The Diamond is said to symbolize merchants, the Spade Royalty, the Club symbolizes peasants and the Heart the clergy.

Fact #3: The Main Even in the WSOP has been a $10,000 buy-in no limit Texas Hold’Em tournament since 1972.

Fact #4: The WSOP was first televised in 1973.

Fact #5: The WSOP was founded in 1970. Benny Binion invited 6 of the best poker players to the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.

Fact #6: Doyle Brunson won the Main Even consecutively in 1976 and 1977 with the same hand! That hand is the 10-2

Fact #7: Tod Brunson won a bracelet at the 2005 WSOP. This made him and Doyle the first father-son combination to win Series Bracelets.

Fact #8: In 1973 Benny Binion speculated that one day the WSOP would have 50 participants!

Fact #9: There are 2,598,960 possible poker hands with 52 cards.

Fact #10: Each of the kings in a deck of cards represents a great kind in history: Spades: King David, Hearts: Charlemagne, Clubs: Alexander the Great and Diamonds Julius Caesar

Alex

Mixed Martial Arts and Poker

Does that title sound a little off? Am I gonna talk gibberish? Oh no, I’m not. UB has proven itself ahead of all and has, once again, amazed us. The launch of a new minisite, that I’m pretty sure all you, poker players, will appreciate as it will not only entertain but teach you, as well.

So, MMA and poker? Once again, yes! The WSOP 2010 is just around the corner and all poker players are preparing themselves to win big and become legends. The same as with past event Bellator for the MMA fighters had to prepare themselves, both mentally and physically (we can leave the physical preparation aside for the poker players ). No, seriously, we are talking about having focus, training, practicing, learning and executing in order to reign victorious.  Every player has to apply discipline, endurance, quick-thinking, emotional control, deception, aggression, the same as a fighter prepares their battle strategies to out-perform and out-last their adversaries.

Everyone knows patience is a must when it comes to poker, but add to it the patience and perspicacity you need to have so you learn to read your competitors, to foresee a move, a kick, a bluff, a hit.

But I don’t want to give it all away. I’m inviting you to find out for yourselves, you don’t want to miss our biggest master sharing his secrets, the same as Mr. Miyagi would have done.

Wax on…wax off, Daniel-san!

http://www.trainforpoker.com/

What is ROI ?

ROI Stands for ‘Return on Investment’ and is a commonly used way of calculating your profits in poker. The exact method of calculating ROI will vary depending on which form of the game is played. A more useful figure for poker players may be ‘hourly rate’ which takes into account the time spent playing.

1) Calculating Poker ROI for Tournaments / Sit and Goes

ROI for tournaments is expressed as a percentage of your original buy-in. It is standard in poker to remove 100% (buy-in) from the calculation at the end. For example:

You play 100 tournaments each with a buy in of $10 + $1 fee and end up with a total bankroll of $1600.

ROI = (1600)/(1100) or 145% – remove the 100% (standard format) and you have a ROI of 45% for those tournaments.

2) Calculating ROI for Cash Games

ROI for cash games becomes a little more difficult. This is because you need a time frame over which to calculate your return. The standard poker format for this is to use 100 hands. For example.

You play 1000 hands of poker over a single session and make $500 profit. Your buy-in for the game  start was $200. ROI is thus 50% per 100 hands. It is also common in poker cash games to calculate profit as the number of big blinds won per 100 hands. In this example with blinds at $2/$1 you could note your profits as 25 Big Blinds per 100 hands.

3) Hourly Rates – A More Useful Number?

ROI in both of the above examples does not factor in the time you spent playing the game. To get a truly useful number you need to divide your total profit by the time at the tables. This figure can then be used to compare different formats of the game, buy-in levels or different poker sites to see which is the most profitable.

Stay tune! I’ll be giving up more info J

Don’t forget to check out our latest promotions:

 

  Absolute Poker: South African Soocer Spectacular

UB: The 50K Soccer Freeroll Frenzy

 

Cheers

GB

What is Omaha and No Limit

Just for beginners

Omaha

Omaha hands are played out in a similar fashion as those in Texas Holdem. However, instead of two down cards, four are dealt, followed by a betting round. A three card flop follows, with another betting round. Next comes an one card turn card, with a another betting round. Finally a fifth river card, and a final round of betting.

At the showdown, five card hands are created by using exactly two cards from a player’s hand, and exactly three cards from the board cards. All four of a player’s cards must be shown to qualify for winning a pot. If you only show two cards and discard the other two, your hand is dead and you forfeit claim to the pot.

The basic rules of Texas Hold’em apply, except the “use two cards from your hand” requirement means a player cannot “play the board” like in Texas Holdem. Regardless of what is on the board, without exception players must use three cards from the board and two from their hand. Even if there are five spades on the board, you must have two spades in your hand to have a flush

No Limit
No Limit Texas Hold’em is the game that determines the World Championship of Poker every year. It is the form of poker most commonly seen on televised tournaments. In No Limit, there are very few betting restrictions that a player must follow. You must bet the minimum of the big blind and when raising, you must at least double the amount of the bet (or raise) of the previous better. Other than those two restrictions, you can bet any or all your chips at any time.

Stay tune! I’ll be giving up more info and maybe a tip or two J

Don’t forget to check out our latest promotions:

Absolute Poker: Table Skin Promo.

UB: The Annie Duke Heads up Challenge

If you have any questions do not hesitate in contact me and I’ll be more than glad to help you.

Cheers!

Gustavo Badilla

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet

Hello Everyone!

As usual our brands Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet have something up their sleeves for this Sunday. DOUBLE your points, yes I said DOUBLE your points at any ring game this Sunday May 22nd all day long! Just a little thanks to our players for the continued loyalty to the brands. Keep in mind that this does not apply to heads up. Good luck at the tables, and have fun!

On another note keep in mind the current promos that we are running:

South African Soccer Spectacular:

http://www.chipleader.com/promos.asp?brand=ap&pr=soccer

Craziest Last Longer Bet:

http://www.chipleader.com/promos.asp?brand=ap&pr=cllb

*THIS PERTAINS TO YOU AFFILIATES*

Send your players to the BIG one in Vegas:

http://www.chipleader.com/promos.asp?brand=chip&pr=wsop

If you have any questions please shoot an email to support@chipleader.com

Have a good one,

Dani

Poker Facts

Poker Facts

I have to admit it, I love trivia and random facts about anything (no wonder one of my favorite shows is “Who wants to be a Millionaire?”). So, after doing some homework I decided to share with you some of the most interesting poker facts I found out there. I’m posting some familiar facts- which I believe all of us- involved in the poker industry, should know already, but some I betcha didn’t have a clue before reading this… so, enjoy!

• Poker origins (speculations as always!):“Pochspiel” is a German game that most believe had the biggest influence on today’s poker, since it involved bluffing, hand ranking and betting. But the Persian game “As Nas” has been denoted as the true game from which poker derived (five cards dealt from a 20-card pack). The first US poker games date back to the early 1800’s, in the Mississippi River Delta area.
• One of my favorites is this bit of historic trivia about deck of cards:  the king of spades represents David, King of Israel; the king of Clubs represents Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia; the king of Hearts is Charlemagne, King of France; and the king of Diamonds is Caesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome.
• As I browsed around, I bumped into exaggerated and more realistic figures. These are the lowest and highest numbers I got for US players who play poker on a regular basis: 40 to 80 million regular players. So, if the US has a population of 309 million, that’d be 1 in 4. That’s a lot! That’s more people than who chew gum!
• Ex-president Richard Nixon played his share of poker, winning $6000 during his first 2 months in the U.S. Navy (WWII); this would be an equivalent of $42,640 in 2004 dollars. With this money he was able to finance his run for U.S. Congress in 1964, which he won.
• And what about Edmond Hoyle? Great grandfather to poker? Not even close! Poker was played as it is today almost 150 years after he died. He used to play whist and wrote a book about it, but people hear the phrase “according to Hoyle” and have made up a story that wasn’t true. It only makes reference to playing according to the rules, playing straight.
• The first WSOP event was held in 1970 at Binion’s Horseshoe (now part of Harrahs’ Entertainment, owners of the Rio Hotel and Casino- where the WSOP currently takes place). The winner was Johnny Moss and he received a silver cup as he was elected the first World Champion of Poker.
• Now some numbers to be in awe about:
  • More than 70 million decks of cards are sold in the U.S every year.
  • The youngest player to win the WSOP main event was 24, the oldest 80.
  • Phill Hellmuth has the most bracelets (11), while Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have won 10 each.
  • The biggest prize to be awarded in a Main Event at the WSOP was in 2006 with a total amount of $12,000,000. Jamie Gold took this home, winning with pocket Qs,9c.
  • Total number of possible poker hands in a 52-card deck:  2,598,960.
  • Odds of being dealt a pocket pair: 16 to 1. And a Royal Flush? 649,740 to 1.
  • The number of 2009 WSOP participants in all combined events: 60,878. And this year? Who knows, I’ll let you know once I do my count!

And because I like videos, here’s one a lot of you would remember. I love their attitudes! I just couldn’t help it! You want to laugh and hug the poor guy at the same time!

Prague Conference

Hi Guys and Gals!!

It is May! This is the month that sees Save the Rhino day, Cinco de Mayo, Eat What You Want Day ( May 11^th so let’s pig out today!), Memorial Day and who can forget, the iGaming Super Show!

This time around the Conference will take place in Prague. Ah beautiful Prague, (not that I’ve been there before so how would I know?) but who has not seen xXx with Vin Diesel, Blade II or even the Kanye West video “Diamonds from Sierra Leone”? They all have had some part or another shot in Prague. I know and you all know, the city looks beautiful so having the Super Show there will most definitely make one amazing Conference!

 Now then moving on to the real nitty gritty of the blog post…

We will be going to the Super Show and we will be having a booth for the Conference. We would love to meet with you if you are attending, so please contact alex@chipleader.com or danielle@chipleader.com and arrange for a meeting.

 See you in Prague!!

Alex

Creativity will fly you and a friend to this year WSOP with The Craziest Last Longer Bet Promo!

 

Absolute Poker is asking our players to brainstorm with a friend and come up with the most foolish, humiliating or embarrassing Last Longer Bet that they can think of.

 We’re about to launch a fun contest for the Absolute Poker community that challenges our players to think up an outrageous prop bet, post a YouTube video of it, and maybe win themselves two seats to an event at the World Series of Poker.

Some Chipleader employees and AP Marketing members have made their own videos already. Shaving eyebrows and head, swimming on a public pool wearing a jaguar g-sting and sunbathing naked under a tree across the street, are just some insane ideas we have come up with. All you have to do is come up with the idea, turn on your webcam, explain your bet and upload your video to youtube!

For more information about this promo please visit

http://www.absolutepoker.com/promotions/wsop/2010/contests/craziest-last-longer-bet/

Get creative!

Diego Mena – Chipleader Affiliate Manager

What is Ante and Blinds.

Hi Guys!,
Here I am again bringing you some basic info on this game that we all love: Poker!
Just for beginners

Antes

If a game has an ante, every player contributes a certain, predetermined amount to the pot before each hand. It’s usually a small bet. For instance, in a nickel-dime-quarter game, it might be a nickel. The important thing about antes to remember is that a player’s ante doesn’t count as a bet. It’s just a way of getting a pot started.

Blinds

The other way to start the action rolling is by making players put in a forced bet, called a “blind” before the deal. It’s called a blind because you haven’t seen a card when you put in this bet — you’re going in without seeing, or blind.

The most common practice is to have the two players to the left of the dealer pay the blinds. The player immediately to the dealer’s left places a smaller bet called the “little blind,” whiles the player two places to the left puts in the “big blind.”

The amounts of the blinds are fixed and determined before the game begins. Usually the “big blind” is equal to the smallest bet possible, while the little blind is 1/2 or 1/3 of that amount. So, if the minimum bet was $3, the big blind would place a forced bet of $3 and the little blind might put out $1.

The difference between blinds and antes is that blinds do count as a player’s first bet. This means in the first round of betting, no one can “check,” that is, everyone has to bet.

Stay tune! I’ll be giving up more info and maybe a tip or two 
Don’t forget to check out our latest promotions:
Absolute Poker: TRIP TENS IN APRILUB.com: OWN THE YEAR WITH UB
If you have any questions do not hesitate in contact me and I’ll be more than glad to help you.
Cheers!
GB

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