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Gold Bracelet for Guillaume Humbert in 6m Event

The 2011 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off on October 7th with a €2,680 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event that saw a field of 360 players take a break from the best Euro poker sites for the chance at a bracelet. This sent the prize pool up to €753,600, leaving €215,999 for the eventual victor.

The big story going into Day 3 was the fact that Phil Hellmuth was 2nd in chips with just 12 players remaining. Already holding the record for 11 WSOP bracelets, Hellmuth was in prime position to increase that record to 12. On top of that, a final table appearance would allow him to overtake Ben Lamb in the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year rankings.

However, Hellmuth spent the majority of the day stuck in reverse as his stack dwindled leading up to the final table. He ended up the bubble boy and busted in 7th place. Perhaps he drowned his sorrows in some real money slots after collecting his pay cheque.

Marton Czuczor started the final table as the short stack with 24 big blinds, and the chip leader was Matan Krakow with 66 big blinds. Czuczor didn’t stick around too long as he got in the last of his chips with QT against Azusa Maeda’s AK and failed to connect, busting in 6th place.

Maeda was responsible for the next knockout as Adrien Allain chose a bad time to get aggressive with KT when Maeda held QQ. Allain didn’t hit his three outer and busted in 5th. It was from here that everything went downhill for Krakow. He lost a substantial pot to Maeda, then doubled up both Guillaume Humbert and Roy Finlay.

Not long after these hands Krakow made his stand with JT, jamming over Humbert’s button raise. Humbert made the easy call with AQ suited and managed to hold up for the big pot, knocking Krakow out in 4th place.

As three handed play wore on, Finlay found his stack heading south. He shipped his short stack from the button with KT and was called by Maeda’s A7 suited. An A84 rainbow all but sealed it with Finlay finishing in 3rd.

Maeda began heads-up play with a 1.6-1 chip lead over Humbert. The chip deficit didn’t discourage Humbert, however, and he came out of the gates ready to grind it out. Within the hour, Maeda found himself with a very short stack and made his move on a 967 flop bluffing with 34. Humbert had 58 for the goods, however, and Maeda lost to his flopped straight.

Congratulations to Humbert for winning the bracelet and €215,999. To make his win even more impressive, this was apparently his first major live tournament!

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The Incredible All-In Winter

Titanpoker, one of the best Euro poker sites online, introduced the All-In Winter promo at the start of last month. The best thing about this promo is that it includes everyone, including both cash and tourney players. There is even something for the people looking to play freerolls!

Cash players that download free poker this season have the opportunity to participate in the Cash Tables Races. The goal is to basically produce as much rake as possible by playing as much as possible. The players that pay the most rake rank the highest on the leaderboards. Stakes $1/$2 and higher show up on the High Binds leaderboard, and the Low Blinds leaderboard is for everyone that plays less than $1/$2.

Titan really shows that they are one of the best online poker rooms by giving out a ton of cash. Every week the High Blinds leaderboard has $7k available for its winners, with a generous $1k for first place. Similarly, there is $3k available for the Low Blinds leaderboard, with a cool $425 for first place.

The Titan Poker bonus code also benefits Sit-n-Go players this month. The Sit-n-Go competition is very similar to the cash game promotion, and there are also two leaderboards. The High leaderboard awards $6,000, and there is $2k reserved for the Low leaderboard.

If you just started on the Titan Poker download and therefore your bankroll is limited, take note of two freerolls happening on January 11th and February 11th. The prize pool is $10,000 for both tourneys!

And, of course, there is a special promo for multi-table tournament players. Forget about those free bet sportsbooks because you need to compete in as many MTTs as you can handle on Titan. There is a $50k prize pool up for grabs, and first place also receives a live tournament package worth $14k!

See you on the felt!

Titan Poker's VIP Program

Titanpoker, one of the best Euro poker sites, has put together (in their opinion) the best rewards programs available today. If you like collecting points and saving for huge cash bonuses, they might be on the right track. Today I will go over the process of collecting points, and then we will talk about the cash rewards.

Using a Titan Poker bonus code and receiving points is simple, especially if you are a tournament player. Tourneys give seventeen points per one dollar in tournament fees charged. For example, a tournament worth $20+$2 would give 34 points.

If you are a ring game player, the amount each pot is raked determines how many points you receive. If you took advantage of a Titan Poker deposit bonus, you should take a look at this since these points are also used to clear your bonus. You will need to see the Titanpoker download’s website for a full chart, but if you want a couple examples, here you go: $0.09 rake would hand out 0.3 points, $0.90 would hand out 4 points, and $4.80 would hand out 24 points.

Just like the rakeback program provided by the PokerStars bonus code, certain VIP levels provide point multipliers. For instance, obtaining 1,000 points in one month would take you up to VIP Silver and give a 20% points boost. VIP Diamond is found at the very top of the ladder. It takes 35,000 points per month to get there, and the point boost is a whopping 120%.

When it comes time to trade your points in for cash, it pays to wait. The reason for this is that the more points you cash in, the more bonus dollars you get per point. If you read the previous articles on this site, you will know that the Everest Poker download does not do this. One end of the spectrum has you paying 2,000 points for $10 and the other end has you paying 7 million points for $120k. That is a huge difference!

All the top Texas Holdem sites boast rakeback or rewards incentives, and what is best for me might not be best for you. If you have not already done so, be sure to read my previous two entries.

Software on Titanpoker

Last time I mentioned that Titan Poker is among the best Euro poker sites online today. Over the next month, I would like to expand on that. Today’s article will talk about their interface and my next entry will talk about their VIP program.

The Titanpoker download offers a beautiful 3D layout and animated characters that verbally say “call”, “fold”, or “raise”. This adds a lot to the poker experience. You can choose to have the chat bar on the side, under the table, or removed completely. You can even pick and choose between the chat you see in the bar, whether it’s dealer, players, summaries, or all of it. Since chat can be annoying to some players but great to others, this really gives you the chance to have exactly what you want. You get to pick your own avatar as well, but unlike some US friendly poker sites, you are not able to make a unique one for yourself. When it comes to the tables, you can choose to have a warning displayed for large all-in bets, a great feature for preventing misclicks. If you are a picky person, the customized options should make you very happy.

Once you sit down to play some cards, you will find that your tables are in separate windows from the lobby. If you are serious about money poker sites, you likely prefer to multi-table. To help out, the room offers a Mini Table option that automatically tiles on your screen based on resolution. This makes it easy to see all the action on many tables at once!

If you like images, you will enjoy viewing hand histories as they are presented as graphics. There are, however, plenty of people that dislike graphic hand histories and prefer text hand histories, especially those comfortable with the PokerStars marketing code.

If you need a flash site for your Mac, you will be pleased to know that the software was updated in a number of languages. If you are a fan of free poker no downloads, you can’t go wrong with Titanpoker.

Play at Titan Poker

Titanpoker is on the list as one of the best Euro poker sites on the Internet today. Because Titan Poker is on the iPoker network, they have a large player base that a large number of other skins contribute to. TitanPoker employs high quality Playtech software and you can really tell because the rooms look great. It is unfortunate that they cannot offer their services to players from the United States.

The Titanpoker download is one of the best sites for Texas Holdem, but you can also try Omaha, Stud, and Razz. They offer all of these as heads-up games from $0.02/$0.04 up to $300/$600. If you prefer tournament poker, you can play for one of the many daily guaranteed prize pools. Titan Poker also turns your first deposit into free entry tokens to their $20,000 New Depositors Freeroll, something that PartyPoker bonus code enthusiasts won’t know much about. Since many people completely forget about this event, it becomes a great chance at free money.

Sit & Go tournaments on this download free poker site have lots of players in them. They also offer a lot of action with buy-ins ranging from $0.10 + $0.02 up to $5,000 + $200. The last time we looked, we estimated that at least 600 people were playing or about to play. I am the first to admit that Titan Poker can’t compete with the traffic on the largest US friendly poker sites. This is true, but most players will be more than satisfied with the traffic in this room, especially at peak hours.

If you are using the Titanpoker bonus code for tournaments, you will find the traffic pretty good. Even if the scheduled MTTs don’t hit their guarantees, that just means overlay for you. They offer an excellent range of game types and buy-in amounts. If your bankroll needs rebuilding you can play freerolls, and if you recently scored huge, you can play $172s. Occasionally they even host exclusive events for VIP players and send out special invitations to them. Don’t feel guilty if you decided to forego your Lucky Ace Poker download in favor of Titan Poker because you’ll be playing on a truly excellent site.

VIP Program at Everest Part II

(Continued from last entry)

The Death Zone – The benefits from the Death Zone should be able to compete with the top US poker sites. To get into the Death Zone, you have to earn at least 30,000 SPs, and this level increases your SP multiplier to 700%. Now you can convert SPs up to a maximum of $2,000 every month. Your refer-a-friend bonus becomes $200. You also will be given access to special monthly freerolls which have a $25,000 prize pool. It is nice to see that some download free poker sites feel a need to give back to their players with freerolls. In addition to the special customer support you already receive in lower VIP levels, you now receive assistance for live tourney registration and can exchange SPs for live MTT seats. Here’s even more good news: you keep your perks for an entire three months rather than just the usual one.

The Summit – If you dream of being the top player on one of the top Texas Holdem sites, you will want to be in the Summit. The Summit is the highest VIP level, and you reach it after you have collected at least 50k monthly SPs. Since only the cream of the crop reach this level, the players that make it have their SP bonus rate increased to 750%. Every month points can be converted for up to $5k in bonus funds. You keep the bonus features of the Death Zone, and the perks stick around for an entire 3 months. This is better than the 1 month you usually get when you use a PokerStars marketing code.

You may have already figured out that the bonus SPs do not contribute to your VIP level. Just like VIP programs on most of the best Mac poker sites, you only move up in VIP levels with non-bonus SPs. For an estimate of which VIP level you might achieve depending on how much you play, take a look at their points calculator. For instance if you played 50,000 hands per month at $1 - $2 6-max, you would earn about 33,000 base SPs, putting you in the Death Zone. Considering the highest VIP levels on some flash Texas Holdem sites, this is not so difficult. And don’t forget that you get even more SPs from your multipliers!

All cash bonuses cost 250x the amount in Summit Points on your Everest Poker download. For example, $200 would cost 50k SPs. You might think to yourself that other money poker sites charge less for their bonuses at higher VIP levels. Don’t forget that moving up in VIP levels means you are earning points much faster, though. When everything is considered, Everest’s rewards program offers a large amount of rakeback. Prior to using a Titanpoker bonus code, definitely give Everest a hard look.

VIP Program at Everest

Today I will continue with my Everest Poker discussion, with the focus on their rewards program. You might notice that their rakeback program is better than at many of the US poker sites. When you play real cash games, you earn Summit Points (SP), and earning tons of points will get you great benefits. When you reach the highest VIP levels, you can get up to $5k/month in cash bonuses as well as an SP multiplier of 750%. This yields up to 50% in rakeback!

Unlike with a Full Tilt Poker 下载, in order to start participating in the Everest Poker VIP Summit Club, you have to enroll. To do this, go to “My Account” and click on the VIP Summit Club button.

Let’s go over the VIP levels and their benefits now.

Base Camp – If you can earn 500+ SPs on this download free poker site in one month, you will earn your way into the Base Camp. You receive a 250% multiplier for SPs in the first VIP level. So when you earn 100 SPs, you will actually be credited with 350 Summit Points (a 250 point bonus). You can also convert your SPs to cash now. Your maximum at Base Camp is $50 for 12,500 SPs. Your refer-a-friend bonus increases to $50, and you get to play in a $1,000 freeroll every week. Similar to the PokerStars download rakeback program, you get the benefits for each Camp level for a month.

Camp I – You will be put into Camp I once you collect at least 3,000 SPs in one month your Everest Poker download. This VIP level increases your SP multiplier to 500%. This time earning 100 SPs would net you a bonus of 500 SPs. For 62,500 SPs, you can get up to $250 in bonus cash. The other benefits from Base Camp also remain.

Camp II – Admission into Camp II requires 10k SPs in one month on Everest, one of the softest money poker sites on the Internet. Your SP multiplier increases to 600% at this level. You can convert SPs up to $750 every month, for the cost of 187,500 Summit Points. Your other benefits improve even more at this VIP level, and you will be happy to learn that they beat many of the benefits found in online casino USA sites. Your refer-a-friend bonus increases to $100, and you can access priority customer service with in game chat support. Where freerolls are concerned, you get to enter the monthly $10k tournament.

Camp III – Everest Poker's Camp III requires a minimum of 20,000 points to become a member. You will earn a bonus of 650% on all Summit Points. The amount of cash you are able to receive from Summit Points is up to $1,000, which cannot be matched by a lot of the top slot machine downloads. The maximum amount will cost 250,000 SPs. And, as expected, all the Camp II benefits stick around.

To be continued…

Interface at Everest Poker

The people that have the freedom to look outside of US poker sites will find that Everest Poker is a very good room for those new to poker. Today I plan to continue reviewing the site by moving on to its software.

As I explained a couple weeks ago, the main problem with Everest’s download free poker site is the amount of memory the software uses when playing tables on the site. Before you start thinking that the software is useless, though, let me mention some of the positives.

Most people expect seamless navigation on the best online poker sites, and Everest Poker has acted accordingly. You can choose to search through the poker room using a tabbed menu system, or you can customize it to show you only the games of your choosing. Either way works just fine and is more than sufficient.

One of the best things about having access to money poker sites is the ability to play more than one table at a time. With regards to table sizing, you can stretch and expand Everest Poker's tables however you'd like, but they also give you a feature that not many sites offer: you can choose to size the tables to four different resolutions. These resolutions are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x728, and 1280x960. Combined with the ability to resize your tables to your own custom choices, the Everest Poker download is ahead of most other sites.

In the end, though, the memory problem is still a big one. To come even close to a Bwin Poker download, they at least need to provide the option of reducing graphics at the tables. There is an option to remove table animations, but it doesn’t really help matters.

If you would prefer to wait for Everest to change their software prior to playing on their network, there are numerous other rooms to download. You already know about Tiger Gaming, so why not start there?

Everest Poker Download

The topic of this article is similar to Tiger Gaming in that it is also not on the list of US poker sites on the Internet. Everest Poker is targeted mostly at players new to poker, making it an ideal place to rebuild a bankroll. The lowest NLHE stakes available are $0.10 - $0.10, and they only go as high as $50 - $50. Most players are satisfied with this range of buy-ins, but the high-stakes crowd will need to look at other money poker sites. And just so you aren’t confused: all no-limit stakes are described by using the same value twice, even though it’s just the amount of the big blind with the small blind being half that number. Why they chose to break with tradition and list stakes in this confusing way is a mystery to me.

I don’t need to explain the Limit stakes, thank goodness. They begin at $0.02 - $0.04 and the highest you can play is $50 - $100. Just like for No Limit, this won't suit the players with the biggest bankrolls. Sit-n-Go’s, on the other hand, can be entered at stakes as low as $0.04 + $0.01 and progress up to a fairly large $500 + $30. I have already stated that, similar to Tiger Gaming, Everest Poker is not on the US poker rooms list. Residents of Russia and China are also not allowed to play on Everest.

Everest Poker is a lot bigger than it was a few years ago, and the team is trying as hard as possible to become a favorite way to download free poker. Their growth is impressive considering they don’t share networks with anyone else; they have their own network called the Everest Network. They've become the sixth most-played network on the Internet in the past few years. If you’re a new player looking to build a bankroll, an Everest Poker download is a solid starting point.

As with all sites, there are still a few downsides. For example, Everest offers just Holdem or Omaha which is disappointing because the best online poker sites have the option to play at least Stud. Also, unless you have a newer computer, you may find yourself getting irritated as the software uses a lot of resources. When it’s all said and done, however, there is a good chance you'll see that the pros outweigh the cons on Everest.

Tiger Gaming Software

I know that Tiger Gaming is not among the US poker sites available today, but I still want to discuss them for another entry. They recently updated their software, making it much more pleasant to play there. They still have the clean look, but now they also have more of the functions that are really just necessary in today's world of online poker.

Instant hand histories have finally arrived at the Tiger Gaming tables. Also, they have added the option of completely resizing tables and added to the amount of tables that you can have open at one time, which used to be just 4 but is now 30! Furthermore, if you like stats but don’t use a HUD, you can even view some basic stats at your tables.

Tiger Gaming has the requisite advance action buttons. One interesting observation is that compared to other money poker sites, the No Limit tables do not have the advance action buttons "call any" and "raise any". This is very nice because it can be a huge source of tilt while playing No Limit when they are accidentally activated.

Tiger Gaming’s chat interface has the option of showing dealer chat, player chat, both, or neither. And like number one sites such as a Bwin Poker download, there’s a four color deck option which helps multi-tabling and prevents mix ups with suits.

Making bets is a little different at this site. When you elect to bet, you have to press the “bet other” button to bet greater than the minimum. Pressing this button brings up a pop up where you can bet as much as you want. It sounds like a pain in the butt but it’s actually a smooth process, although the fact that it is set to automatically bet the pot will irk a few people. It’s true that this can be bad sometimes, but it can also benefit you. The PokerStars download has no “bet pot” button and therefore people often make very small bets, but the same players would just bet the pot at Tiger because it is so convenient. This, in turn, destroys your odds at drawing and you have to fold. There are many situations in poker when betting the pot is very bad, though, and this is when the preset amount is a great advantage for you.

Another difference from many of the best online poker sites is that people can leave their table after winning a big pot, and then they can buy back in for what they want. This is known as “rat holing”, and it angers many serious poker players.

The cash tables at Tiger also feature different minimum and maximum buy-ins. Tiger has 40-50BB minimums at their tables, which is much higher than the typical 10-20BB minimums. Many people will enjoy this as short stackers are usually disliked and are better off playing with a free slots download (according to me, at least).

I hope this review of the Tiger Gaming interface has helped you decide whether to play there. You might not think that Tiger is as good as Full Tilt or PokerStars, but it is at least better than playing with a Roulette bonus. Thanks for reading my blog today; I’ll be back later this month or early next month.