Online Poker Player Hits $741,741.14 Jackpot at Absolute Poker

Hey Poker Players,

You got to get over to Absolute Poker and start playing on those jackpot winning tables. Someone just won the second biggest jackpot in Absolute Poker’s history won Thursday evening.
An online poker player from Atlanta, Georgia has popped Absolute Poker’s latest Bad Beat Jackpot, taking home a life-changing piece of a jackpot that had soared to nearly $750,000.

The latest bad beat happened on June 5th at 21:33 ET when BUDYLOVE, an online poker player from Atlanta, Georgia, lost with Four Nines to a King-high Straight Flush in a hand of Texas Hold’em. Seated at one of Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables, BUDYLOVE’s losing hand netted her $246,362.82 in cash. The pot winner, an online poker player named MAMEDURI, walked away with $131,126.80 in cash. The participants in the hand and those playing at tables with the same stakes split over $100,000.

The latest jackpot win was just shy of beating the previous Bad Beat Jackpot world record set by Absolute Poker last year. On August 29th, 2007, KADI, a Texas Hold’em player from Australia, lost a 10-high Straight Flush to a King-high Straight Flush, setting off Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot bells to the tune of $821,670.69. Absolute Poker still holds the record for the largest Bad Beat Jackpot ever won in online poker history.

Since the latest Bad Beat Jackpot was so high, $185,435.28 was dedicated to the pot of the next jackpot. As of Noon ET on Friday, the jackpot had already reached $208,000.

In poker, the term ‘bad beat’ refers to losing a hand that is clearly favored to win. Normally, such a loss can leave even the most hardened poker player distraught. But at Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables, losing a monster hand has the opposite effect. If a player loses a Texas Hold’em hand holding four 8s or anything better while seated at specially-marked tables, they’ll win a large piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot.

To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The jackpot keeps growing until someone hits a qualifying bad beat, at which time a large percentage of it is distributed amongst the bad beat victim, the participants in the hand, and those playing at tables with the same game type and stakes.

Full details on Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot game can be found at www.absolutepoker.com.

Absolute Poker’s Liv Boeree Wins Major European Poker Tournament

Hey Poker Players

Look out guys, looks like the ladies are playing some great poker these days. Liv Boeree is on a role and Absolute Poker’s UK Ambassador has taken first place in Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship. Congratulations Liv!!!
If you’ve ever dreamed of playing Texas Hold’em against one of Europe’s best female poker players, look no further than Absolute Poker. Liv Boeree, the online poker site’s UK ambassador, finished first among a field of 53 players in the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship last weekend.

“I’m utterly over the moon about winning the European Ladies Championships,” stated Liv Boeree. “It was a fantastic tournament with a great sense of camaraderie and a really tough final table that I enjoyed playing from start to finish. This is also a great boost to my confidence going into the World Series of Poker* which is drawing ever closer.”
The land-based poker tournament, held on May 3rd and 4th in London, featured some of the best female poker players on the continent including Annette Obrestad, the winner of the WSOPE Main Event. Liv Boeree placed first in the tournament, securing a commemorative trophy and $30,000 in cash.
In February 2008, Absolute Poker signed Liv Boeree, a former astrophysics student and aspiring 23-year-old pro poker player, to represent the online poker site in the UK marketplace.
Boeree began her poker career on the television series UltimatePoker.com Showdown in August 2005. There, she learned some valuable tips from Annie Duke, one of the poker world’s best female players, and caught the attention of popular online poker site Absolute Poker.
Most recently, Liv reconnected with Annie and gained additional insight and playing tips from the world poker champion – an experience that no doubt helped her conquer the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship.
In a little over two years, Liv has amassed several top-10 finishes in Texas Hold’em tournaments across London including multiple first place wins.

Liv Boeree is featured in Absolute Poker’s UK marketing communications pieces and can be found playing in tournaments across Europe as well as online at AbsolutePoker.com.

UltimateBet donates 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to charity

Hey, affiliates and poker players…you care about our planet? Well looks like UltimateBet does, they are giving away an Aruba Poker Classic Seat at the Kentucky Derby worth $8,500 this weekend!

UB recognizes the effects of climate change by donating Aruba Poker Classic prize package to charity poker tournament

UltimateBet.com has sweetened the pot for online poker players looking to make a difference on planet earth. The online poker site today donated a 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship, a charity Texas Hold’em tournament created to raise the awareness of climate change and its impact on all communities, particularly those that are poor and underdeveloped.

The Kentucky Derby Poker Championship takes place at Caesars Indiana on Saturday, May 3rd at 8:30pm. Poker players can buy in to the tournament for $2,500.

The charities that will benefit from the tournament’s proceeds include the international Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, the Health and Climate Foundation, and the Robby Albarado Foundation.

The second place finisher in the charity poker tournament will secure the $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package featuring a Main Event seat and money for travel and accommodations. The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic takes place from September 27th through October 4th. With 750 players expected to descend on the island for the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic, UltimateBet.com is anticipating an estimated prize pool of over $4 million. The online poker site has announced a guaranteed first place prize of $1 million.

The Aruba prize package won’t be UltimateBet’s only presence in the tournament. Phil Hellmuth, one of the online poker site’s top pros, is slated to host the charity event.

About UltimateBet
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world - Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke – UltimateBet provides the best poker games available on the net. Players can download the free poker software, play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from these pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy. UltimateBet currently has over 2 million registered players.
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Optimize your Affiliate Website

Top o’ da morning to all the Chipleader affiliates or maybe afternoon or late evening if your on the other side of the pond, whatever time it is you can rest assured that its always a good time for a cocktails(nk nk nk) especially on Friday.  Anyways I have been going through alot of the affiliate accounts in the last couple months and it seems that there is alot of missed potential out there.  I see alot of really good looking sites with good content on them but they are not producing any numbers that would justify the time put in to building the website.  I want to give you guys a couple pointers on optimising your sites and hopefully improve your traffic which translates into $$$, which is why we all got into this buisness in the first place right?

Blog

Blogging is an easy, efficient, low cost way to drive traffic to your site.  Develop a blog and then register it with a bunch of blog search directories for example, Digg, Blogger, Technorati.  These are all great directories and help readers find exactly what they are looking for. If you write a blog on folding a certain hand when faced with certain situations say “Folding 9 10 Suited” based on position at the table or being reraised or whatever it may be you can bet that someone will find your blog and be intrested enough to read it all because I’m sure that everyone that plays poker has had to fold a 10 9 suited or stayed with it chasing the inside straight and got busted.  So now that you have reached someone intrested in what you have to say you can now stear them to your site by placing hyper link text in your blog leading back to a certain section of your website. So if your site has a section on pot odds and calculating odds then when you discuss that you can link for example, “your pot odds on playing a hand like that,” you hyperlink that so that they click on it and it takes them to your site.  Once you have them at your site you can then try to convert them into a player at either AP or UB I hope (nk nk nk).  The point is that its an easy way to increase the traffic to your site and the blog directories basically do all the SEO for you and its ALL FREE!

Google Analytics:

This is a free tool that the SEO Czars, Kings, Maharishis, Sultans and some would say Mythical Gods at Google have provided for all of us for FREE! Simply signup a gmail account and you are then entitled to a plethora of tools to help you increase your searchability (not sure if thats a real word but after using plethora I get a freebie).  After you setup the account you are given a HTML code that you have to embed on your site for tracking to begin.  The metrics provided are incredible, you can track what countries people are coming from, the average amount of time they are on your site, the number of pages they view, the keywords that are being searched that you are being found on as well as the search engine that sent the visitor, the reporting features are not endless, but damn near.  You can create goals as well to measure the effectiveness of an action your are trying to make the visitor take such as signing up an account so if you had a registration page on your site you could set a goal to measure how many times people went to the page as well as how many times they completed the registration which in turn would give a conversion rate.  This is just one of the many aspects of Google Analytics that can help you be more effective in driving real money players and get your MGR up up up!

I will be posting more little tips on optimizing your sites and generating more revenue in the near future and perhaps beyond depending on how enlightened I become, sometimes there are dryspells.  I will leave you with one last little tip and then I’m done, “Impress someone today with Verbal Acupuncture” think about it……..

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UltimateBet adds more exciting promos and tournys

More poker players are coming to UltimateBet now, you gotta check this out!

UltimateBet Makes Waves Again With More Innovative Promotions

Online poker site adds even more new promos days after announcing revamped and enhanced tournament scheduleU

Days after igniting excitement in the online poker community with a groundbreaking tournament schedule, UltimateBet today introduced two more lucrative promotions, destined to attract a herd of poker players to the site. Read more

Affiliates, Chipleader wants to send you and your players to the WSOP.

ATT: Poker players and affiliates get ready to win your seat to the Big Tournament for free! We’re sending an unprecedented number of players and this could be your best summer ever in Las Vegas. Read the post below and get ready to win!

UltimateBet to Give Away Record Number of Free Seats to Poker’s Biggest Main Event

Players invited to compete in month-long contest for multiple shots at free WSOP* seats

They say you can’t put a price on the World Series of Poker* experience. One online poker site is taking that sentiment a little too literally by handing out a large number of Main Event seats for free. UltimateBet.com today announced a new promotion that solidifies the poker site as the best place to win a free seat in the series.

“This is an historic promotion for fans of the world’s greatest game,” stated UltimateBet spokesperson George MacLean. “We’re handing out loads of Main Event seats and online poker fans can win one just by doing what they love – playing poker.”

Annie Duke, UltimateBet’s new Cardroom Consultant, created the Ultimate Main Event Giveaway promotion so that more online poker players are able to experience Texas Hold’em on the world’s biggest stage alongside poker’s best pros.

To qualify for the promotion,UltimateBet players must simply play in any real-money poker Sit ‘n Go, ring game or multi-table tournament at UltimateBet.com between April 24th and May 23rd and climb their way up the Main Event Giveaway leader board.

At the end of the qualifying period, the player who has earned the most RAI$E status points will automatically secure a $12,000 Main Event prize package featuring the $10,000 buy-in and $2,000 for travel accommodations. Read more

Annie Duke is now managing the tournament schedule

UltimateBet Hires Annie Duke to Manage New Tournament Schedule

Online poker site recruits world poker champion to enhance tournament schedule and overall poker offering.

Leading online poker site UltimateBet.com announced a groundbreaking new tournament schedule while welcoming one of the world’s greatest poker professionals as its new Cardroom Consultant. The online poker site has taken the bold step of handing over the management of its tournament schedule to Annie Duke.

“Annie Duke has a proven track record of not only playing the game, but also knowing exactly what online poker players want to see in a tournament schedule,” stated UltimateBet spokesperson George MacLean. “We’re confident that her unparalleled insight will significantly enhance our poker offering and strengthen our online poker community.

The world poker champion is no stranger to the UltimateBet brand. Duke was a key player in designing the UltimateBet software and was a consultant for the cardroom several years ago. She is excited to be back on board to build a schedule that will attract old and new players to the site.

“I opted to accept the Cardroom Consultant position after spending time with UltimateBet’s new senior management team,” notes Duke. “I am extraordinarily pleased with their commitment to wanting what’s best for the poker player and I have a renewed sense of enthusiasm in the future of UltimateBet.”

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$1 Rebuys $5k Guareenteed Pro Bounty Tournaments

Hey Affiliates listen up!  Ultimate Bet is pleased to announced that this month they will be launching a new tourney format called “$1 Pro Rebuy Madness Bounty!” Heres how it works:  Play our $1.10 $5K guarantee Rebuy tournament any night, knock out one of our pros and win the amount they used for rebuys and add ons.  Our pros have been known to get pretty crazy and we hear they are side betting on who can spend the most on rebuys.  So, for example, if P0ker H0 sails for 24 rebuys and one add-on (a low number for him!) you would win $25! So be sure to get your piece of their madness!  To all UB affiliates get this info on your sites as it is an invaluable way to get your registrations up. Keep checking back or signup for the RSS feed and get up to the minute info on promos that you can use to raise your MGR.

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Welcome to the Official Chipleader Blog

Hi guys,

Just wanted to welcome you all to the new Chipleader blog where the entire Chipleader team will be writing posts on our affiliate program as well as whatever else might be on our minds that day, please feel free to leave comments and interact with us.  Also we will be posting all the new promos and newsletters for both Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet to keep you informed on whats going on at 2 of the hottest brands in online poker.  Ciao

JR