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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.

Absolute Poker – Cash in on Huge Bad-Beats

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 Powered By CEREUS System

Drop by and visit the Cake Poker website. Cake Poker.com has been up-and-coming for a while and they seem to be making all the right choices. They rock!

You’ve got nothing to lose by checking out the CakePoker.com web site. If you’re a poker player looking to get into a well-run, excellent online poker facility, you owe it to yourself to have a peek. You just might decide to stay a while.

Act quickly and get in on some of the great promos Cake Poker is currently offering. CakePoker.com intends to stay around for a while, and to do so the managers there know that they need to keep their players happy, winning, and coming back for more. Apparently, they have been making all the right business decisions, because they keep on growing and retaining poker players continuously.

Cake Poker Promotions

The Poker Players Alliance is helping raise awareness about Prevention Connections’ First Annual Texas Hold’em Charity Tournament where you have a chance to win a $10,000 seat for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.

• Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008
• Location: Downtown Marriot, 500 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219
• Entry: $500 tax-deductible donation

This charity poker tournament will benefit the work that Prevention Connections does to prevent and reduce tobacco use through education, intervention, policy development and community outreach to improve the health of individuals and communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Have you ever watched WSOP Final Tournament on TV and said to yourself, “I play better than some of those players!” Then here is your chance to see how well you play against other poker players from your area – and it’s for a good cause, helping to prevent Virginia’s young people from using tobacco products. Your ticket to play for a chance at the $10,000 seat is a $500 tax-deductible donation.

You could be in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event July 3, 2008 – July 15, 2008! We hope you will join us. Tickets for the event will be on sale through April 22, 2008 and will only be sold online. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Space is Limited!

The event is April 26th, 2008 and there will be a morning session and an afternoon session. Once you register to play you will receive an email letting you know which session you will be playing in. If you have a preference for which session you would like to play in, send an email to:

charitypoker@preventionconnections.org

and we will make every attempt to accommodate you.

PreventionConnections.com

Texas Holdem Poker Charity Tournament

Good News for US Based Online Gamblers

However, there were a few savvy online casinos that decided to stay in the US market, and found ways to insure that payments would be processed. One of these gambling houses is Cake Poker. According to the Cake website, there is good news for players based in the USA:

On Friday September 30, 2006 the 109th sitting of the US Congress passed a Port Security Bill including a rider that affected online gambling in the US. The common media description of this act called it a ‘ban on online gambling’. This is patently false. All previous attempts at passing legislation banning online gambling have failed. Instead, this act championed by Bill Frist (R-Tennessee), attempts to prohibit payments to online gambling companies from US residents via US based financial institutions.

CakePoker will not restrict access to our players from the United States. It appears that some of our competitors have decided to take this preemptive step for business reasons that are most likely related to the fact that they are publicly listed companies. In other words, they cannot be seen as doing anything that would put their shareholders in a ‘gray’ or precarious position. CakePoker N.V. is a legally licensed and privately held company in the country of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. As a privately held company we have no such pressures placed upon us.

Cake Poker
website announcement

Cake Poker’s Open Policy Toward U.S. Poker Players

It looks like there might be a new online poker casino well worth looking into. Carbon Poker has been around for a relatively short time. Carbon Poker is the latest high quality brand in the network of poker site. As of this writing, CarbonPoker.com has up to 8,500 poker players at peak times. Not quite as big a number as you’ll see on the more established gambling sites like Full Tilt Poker, Keeping in mind that bigger isn’t always better. However, the number of players on the Carbon Poker network seems to steadily be growing, which is a testament that they offer a quality product.The Carbon Poker team has been a market leader and player favourite since June 2005. Not a long period time in this growing online gaming industry, but in the short time that Carbon Poker has been around, they have garnered a loyal following, (this writer included!).

Carbon Poker – A Brand You Can Trust

Add to the list of benefits this poker facility provides the fact that they also accept new poker players from the USA, and you pretty much can’t go wrong! If any of this sounds intriguing to you, and you’d like to start playing some poker online, or perhaps joining an exciting and potentially very profitable poker tournament, have a look at CarbonPoker.com. Click on one of the banners above or below to see all the games and tournaments currently occurring at Carbon Poker.

A Great “New” Poker House: Carbon Poker

Former New York Senator Alfonse D’Amato has recently put out a request for interested parties to step forward into a leadership role by becoming state directors for the Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA), and building momentum in the United States to bring about fair and beneficial change in how online poker is legally classified. Former senator D’Amato is the chairman of the PPA, and an avid poker player.

A Message from PPA chairman Alfonse D’Amato

Happy New Year! Please read this important email. Poker needs you!

2008 will be a critical year for poker. The success and momentum we built together in 2007 must continue into a more vocal and mobilized grassroots efforts this year. We cannot move forward without broad support and active involvement from our members. With that in mind, I am pleased to extend to you an invitation to become a State Director for the Poker Players Alliance.

I can tell you from my own political experience that there is no more important mission for the PPA than to have a strong, vocal and coordinated grassroots effort. With 2008 being a major election year, it is even more pressing that the PPA become a player in the key battleground states and districts.

We are taking steps to empower our State Directors. Currently we have state directors in 30 states, but this important component of our organization will not be complete until every state in the Union is fully represented. State Directors are volunteer positions. You will not be compensated monetarily for your work; however, neither will you be expected to incur any expenses of your own. We are expanding the program so that there are multiple representatives from each state. And then, with guidance and support from the PPA, State Directors will engage in activities at the local and national level that are aimed at building the organization while promoting and defending the great game of poker.

These activities will include:

• Training from grassroots professionals who will teach you grassroots tactics and share ideas
• Active recruitment of new PPA members
• Direct communications with the thousands of PPA members in your state
• Organizing local events/poker tournaments to promote the PPA and/or raise monies for charity
• Participation in local political events and arranging meetings between poker players and elected officials
• Engaging in PPA national initiatives such as our planned voter registration campaign

PPA State Directors will also receive access to special events planned for the 2008 World Series of Poker and in Washington D.C. You will also be given recognition on the PPA Web site and in leading poker publications. State Directors will be the frontline in the fight for poker. Your fellow poker players will know you are a leader in the fight to protect the great game.
If you are interested in becoming more actively involved in the PPA, please apply today to be a State Director by filling out this simple online application (click here). Current PPA State Directors needn’t apply again. The submission period ends on Monday, January 28th. The PPA will review all applications and selections will be made in early February.

Again, a strong a viable State Directors program will be a major thrust of the PPA’s efforts in 2008. I hope you will consider applying for these important positions.

Proud to Play Poker,
Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman
Poker Players Alliance

Poker Players Alliance Seeking State Director