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Cool Hand Poker is a newly-established online poker room, launched about a month ago by Belle Rock Entertainment and powered by Microgaming. As well as welcome bonuses, Cool Hand Poker is using a leader board campaign to attract new players to the site. The welcome bonus, however, is not to be sniffed at – 100% up to $350. Still not better than a couple of established rooms, so we will have to see if they can gain the liquidity needed.
The leader boards are well worth your time, though, as they can earn you far more than $350. In most Leader Board races, it is only the top point collectors who receive perks and prizes from their efforts. At Cool Hand Poker, virtually anyone can win big. Those who don’t have the time to play 100,000 hands a week to make the top spots usually suffer in these competitions but Cool Hand Poker offers $25 to anyone who can make a significant jump in points. There are also weekly and monthly Leader Board competitions. The top weekly leader board competitors can win one of 16 MP3 players, while the top 100 in the monthly leader boards earn a piece of $5,000. MP3 players are so 5 years ago as prizes.
The world’s largest online poker room has been busted by the Advertising Standards Authority out of Great Britain. PokerStars.com has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for implying that gambling could make a person more confident and courageous, according to the Guardian newspaper.
A PokerStars.com poster campaign ran with the headline “play mind games” and featured world poker champion Daniel Negreanu holding an ice hockey stick with the line “Poker is a sport of courage, conviction and confidence”.
Under the advertising code, ads are not allowed to link gambling with sexual success, an improved self-image or appeal to children or young people.
In the past a number of online gambling firms have been cited by the ATS for failing to comply with its strict advertising standards. I agree that all gambling companies should adhere to tight advertising laws so as not to further incidents of addiction.
I was playing a $7.25 NL HE tourney and I had the biggest, fattest, dumbest donkey I have ever seen at my table. I wish I remembered his screen name, I think I did make notes on him so if we get sat at the same table I will just go AFK till he is out or one of us is moved. He went all-in on almost every hand….and just kept re-buying. He must have re-bought around 15 times just at my table.
Finally I was moved but not before I lost a huge all-in pot to him. I had A Q suited and he went all-in pre-flop and had 7 5 offsuite. Can you believe that??? This guy was just really stupid, and of course he won that hand when the river came a 5 and I did not match up with anything. It was very frustrating and the guy just kept going bust and reloading.
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