Poker Academy in Hollywood, California: AbsolutePoker & Hooters Team Up
Online poker players at Absolute Poker invited to a night of poker, beer and free wings
For most poker fans, nothing goes better with poker than beer, wings and beautiful women in tight clothing cheering everyone on. So this month, AbsolutePoker.net is mixing them all together to create a poker experience unlike no other.
Together with Hooters, the online poker site is presenting the AbsolutePoker.net Poker Academy in Hollywood, California in late February.
Matt Vengrin will host the free poker event, scheduled for February 25, 2010 from 7-9pm. The acclaimed professional poker player will offer free poker tips to those in attendance while they enjoy free wings and beer.
Poker fans will have the opportunity to compete at on-site tables or play against a world of online poker players at one of several on-site AbsolutePoker.net gaming terminals.
I’m all about trying new stuff to increase the appeal of poker. This is one of the first of many new things I will be doing to help bridge the gap between the poker world and the world outside of poker.
Poker professional Matt Vengrin
Matt Vengrin is one of online poker’s most successful young poker players. In a little over two years, the 24-year-old has won nearly $2 million playing at the online poker tables and in land-based events around the world.
Making appearances at the Hooters event and giving the Hooters’ waitresses a run for their money are Absolute Poker’s Trishelle Cannatella and Lacey Jones.
To gain access to the Poker Academy at Hooters in Hollywood, poker players can sign up for a free account at AbsolutePoker.net using the promo code HOOTERS. Once their free online poker account has been activated, new users can email their Screen Name, First Name and Last Name to events@abgpr.com to secure an invite.
About AbsolutePoker.net
AbsolutePoker.net is part of the CEREUS poker network and is dedicated to providing players from around the world with a free online poker game experience that is second to none. Players worldwide can access the free AbsolutePoker.net online poker tables 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any PC or Mac and experience the best multi-player game free online poker has to offer. AbsolutePoker.net is committed to remaining the most trusted and best online poker experience, created by poker players for poker players.
What do Absolute Poker’s Matt Vengrin and Miss Teen California Have in Common?
Miss California Teen USA Title in the Hands of Professional Poker Player Matt Vengrin
Professional poker player Matt Vengrin was taking a break from holding Kings and Queens to help crown the next Miss California Teen USA. The Absolute Poker pro had been a celebrity judge in the recent Miss California Teen USA Pageant 2009. Some guys have all the luck!
As a poker player, I know how fierce competition can be. Just like playing in the World Series of Poker, these girls are in for a grueling but fun weekend and I’m excited to be an integral part of the experience.
Poker Pro Matt Vengrin
Matt Vengrin is one of online poker’s most successful young poker players. In a little over two years, the 24-year-old has won nearly $2 million playing poker at Absolute Poker, a number of other sites and at land-based casinos. In 2009 alone, the online poker pro has amassed six top 10 finishes in several popular online poker tournaments, including a 1st place finish in a recent No Limit Hold’em event for $61,600 in February and a 2nd place finish in a $100k tournament for $21,327 in January.
Most recently, Vengrin finished strong in the Main Event of the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic, a $5,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament held at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. Vengrin collected $13,820 for his 27th place finish.
Being surrounded by beautiful women is anything but foreign to Vengrin. The poker professional sits alongside Lacey Jones, one of the hottest women in poker, on Absolute Poker’s team of pros. Most recently, Reality TV bombshell Trishelle signed on as Absolute Poker’s celebrity endorser, making the team even more attractive. Online poker players at AbsolutePoker.com can employ the online poker site’s free Absolute Buddy software to discover where Matt Vengrin is seated. He will be featured in red text while playing at Absolute Poker’s tables under the name vengmoney.
About Absolute Poker
AbsolutePoker is part of the CEREUS poker network and is dedicated to providing players from around the world with an online poker game experience that is second to none.
Players worldwide can access Absolute Poker online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any PC or Mac and experience the best multi-player game online poker has to offer. Absolute Poker is committed to remaining the most trusted and best online poker experience, created by poker players for poker players.
Absolute Poker – Cash in on Huge Bad-Beats
Cash in on Bad Beats at Absolute Poker
It’s time to get defeated!
It’s easy to put a price on defeat at Absolute Poker.
Since the launch of Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpots, they’ve given away $43,034,978 to 28,743 players across the CEREUS Network, including $11,974,634 in 2009 alone! Lose large and snag your share as we celebrate $50-million worth of rewarding Bad Beats.
U.S. Visits to Online Gambling Sites on the Rise
Eleven Percent Increase
There was an 11% increase in the number of unique visitors last month by Americans to online gambling sites as reported by marketing research company comScore Incorporated, who reported 16.1 million unique visits to online gambling sites in November 2008. That figure represents an increase of over 1.5 million from October’s total.
The biggest escalation reported came from online coupon sites, which saw a 32% rise to 35.6 million unique visits, which is a reflection of the current economic climate. As the holiday season began, retail sites including toys, consumer electronics and department stores held second spot with a 25% increase (19.2 million unique visits).
Sites owned by Google remained the most popular online properties with 147 million visitors followed by Yahoo! domains with nearly 144 million visitors. In third place was Microsoft with 123.5 million visitors while AOL held down fourth with 110 million.
List of the Most Popular Online Poker Casinos for U.S. Players
Absolute Poker Powered By CEREUS System
Chipleader Launches CEREUS!
If you haven’t visited Absolute Poker in a while, or if you’ve never been there, now is the time to visit!
After much hubb-bubb and industry insider talk, Chipleader.com, the company behind popular poker and online casino gaming websites AbsolutePoker.com and UltimateBet.com, has finally launched their new gaming platform: CEREUS.
CEREUS is a new poker platform that integrates the customers and features from these two leading poker rooms, creating the third largest online poker network in the world as of this writing. More importantly, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet.com will share more players, more tournaments, and offer desirable new features and gigantic promotions.
The website update looks great, and the interface feels really good. It may turn out to be one of the best online poker experiences. Time will tell, but things are already looking pretty damn good!
Our company’s goal is to provide poker players with the ultimate online experience. The launch of CEREUS is a major step for us in achieving our goal and we look forward to making many more exciting announcements very soon.
With the proud launch of the unified network CEREUS, our company is well placed to provide significantly better value and superior service to customers of both the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet brands.
Paul Leggett
Tokwiro’s Chief Operations Officer
Poker players on Absolute Poker and UltimateBet will be seeing a lot more of each other as they are now sharing the same tables and tournaments. The new poker platform is backed by industry-leading technology and a 24/7 security center to offer players a safe environment in which to play cards. New features include new table views, downloadable table skins, create private tournaments, rabbit cam, avatars, tools for personalization, and a whole lot more. Because of the integration of both of these already large, popular the poker sites, CEREUS instantly becomes one of the largest poker communities. Players at both sites should notice larger tournaments with more players, bigger guarantees and better promotions.
Absolute Poker Record Breaking Freerolls
Record-breaking FREEROLL ACTION
It looks as though Absolute Poker is getting ready for a hot summer, as they roll out another record breaking run of freeroll poker action! Otherwise known as JUICY JULY: 31 DAYS OF FREEROLLS.
All you have to do to qualify for Absolute Poker’s 31 Day $20,000 Freeroll Bonanza IS DEPOSIT JUST $100. The confidence is so high at AbsolutePoker.com that we all will enjoy our time spent at the tables, that we don’t even have to gamble a single cent. 
Every day, Absolute Poker will hold a $500 Juicy July FreeRoll and – on Thursday, July 31 – we will finish the month with a $5,000 special. If you’re a player making your first $100 minimum deposit, you will be able to register for the $5,000 game. All other players will have to finish in the TOP TEN in any other Juicy July FreeRoll to reserve a seat.
Your $100 Deposit Unlocks Access to $15k of Freerolls
- Remember: ANY PLAYER depositing just $100 or more, automatically unlocks access to $15,000 worth of freerolls.
- The games will all appear under the FREEROLLS and SPECIALS tabs in the Absolute Poker card room lobby.
- To prevent ‘no shows’, you will still have to register for your free game.
Registration will start two hours before the game starts.
Good Luck and enjoy!
Download now and start playing now!
Absolute Poker Pays Out Record ‘Bad Beat’ Jackpot
Absolute Poker ‘Bad Beat’ Breaks Record
Not only was it Bad… as well as BIG… but it was incredibly beautiful, too!.
Last Sunday, history was made in the online poker world when Absolute Poker paid out a record breaking win, the world’s largest Bad Beat Jackpot. The win brought in an eye-popping $996,115.28. Just one monkey-hair away from being a cool million dollar pot!
Monster Jackpot for the Losers
A lucky Absolute Poker player, a “loser” whose moniker is RIVERMAN1969 took home the lion’s share of the prize: $325,212.40.
The Pasadena, California based poker player won the jackpot when his quad 10s were beaten by a royal procession of four Queens. That’s the beauty of a BAD BEAT! Almost 90 other happy poker players also enjoyed a share of this record prize. Maybe next time, you could be one of them. Start playing now!
Congratulations to the losers (in this case, winners!) each of whom had made the wise decision to play at Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables.
Don’t miss out when the next monster jackpot hits. Get in on it. If you’re lucky, you might just get your butt kicked!
The Absolute Poker Saga
Wow… it’s so sad the goings-on at Absolute Poker, what with the scandal about the insider security breach and ensuing major cheat. It’s really sending ripples throughout the entire online gaming world.
If this unfortunate incident transforms into a big-time wake-up call, it could bring the entire online gambling industry to a higher level of security and integrity. Which I imagine would be good for the gaming business. Time will tell, though given the fact that most online poker players are not experts and most do not read poker blogs and forums, it’s not likely that the news of the security breach and ensuing cheat will ever reach their ears. This may not even create a tiny blip in the bottom line for online gambling establishments.
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