“We’ve revamped our Leaderboard system to make them more accessible for all players, so that everyone has a fairer chance to win in a big way,” said Annie Duke, UB’s Cardroom Consultant. “Absolute Poker continues to be a top choice for the world’s best poker players and a magnet for a growing number of young, emerging online poker guns. With $1 million on the table in this year’s Leaderboard competitions, expect the CEREUS Network to be an even more exciting place for poker fans to park their chips.”

The most notable update to the UB and Absolute Poker 2010 contests comes as part of the Multi-Table Tournament (“MTT”) Leaderboard’s prize structure, which awards more Aruba Poker Classic (“APC”) and World Series of Poker (“WSOP”) seats, as well as tournament dollars to their TLB winners.

The yearly TLB winner will scoop the ultimate prize package comprised of a $10,000 WSOP seat, a $5,500 entry for the 2010 APC, plus $4,500 in tournament dollars. The top 50 yearly MTT TLB winners will also be invited to participate in an exclusive tournament giving 1st-3rd places a full $8,500 APC package, and 4th-5th spots, a $5,500 Main Event entry.

The Monthly MTT winner will walk away with a $6,500 Aruba package, which includes the $5,500 Main Event entry plus $1,000 towards travel expenses. Players who finish in 2nd through 10th will share in the remaining $7,500 in prizes up for grabs each month.

2010’s weekly MTT TLB winners each receive $1,000 in tournament dollars for their standout efforts at the tables, except this month, when UB celebrates their annual UBOC online tournament series, set to kick off on January 20th. During January, each player who climbs the weekly TLB ladder and finishes in first place will bank an added $1,000+50 UBOC Championship seat, as will each of the weekly SnG TLB winners in the Diamond, Heart and Spade categories.

One player who knows what it takes to top what proved to be a highly competitive Yearly Leaderboard is 51 year-old Wyoming resident PISCATO77, who took down the 2009 MTT Yearly Leaderboard with 12 months of exceptional poker play. The regular visitor to the UB poker room entered the New Year $10,000 richer after acing the $100,000 MTT Yearly Leaderboard that ran across UB.com and AbsolutePoker.com on the CEREUS Poker Network throughout 2009.

PISCATO77 finished the year ahead of his closest rival SPIN33, who pocketed the $6500 runner-up’s purse, with BELANDATOR securing third place to take home $5,000. All three of them also bagged a $5500 seat for the 2010 APC, and on Sunday, January 17th at 14:00ET, they will line-up for a shot at more cash against 97 others in a $50,000 freeroll open to the top 100 players in UB’s 2009 MTT Yearly Leaderboard.

“I have cashed at a few live tourneys including the WSOP and the WPT, but my proudest accomplishment to date is the 2009 UB Yearly Leaderboard, “ said PISCATO77. “I love the camaraderie amongst the UB players, their tournament structure is the best on the web, and I’ll be back at the UB tables trying for back-to-back TLB wins in 2010.”

Find out how you can cash in at UB.com and AbsolutePoker.com on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis by playing the games you love. There are more prizes, bigger rewards, and fistfuls of tournament dollars going directly to top performers.

They’ve just drafted 25 of the greatest Sports Legends the world has ever known and they’re inviting lucky sports fans to join their all-star team for the ride of a lifetime. Are you up for the $10 Million challenge?

How To Qualify
To qualify and play with Sports Legends earn your Step 10 ticket and fight it out at the table for a VIP package to the Sports Legends Challenge. You can also qualify from July 20th through August 24th in the daily qualifier called Sports Legends Special Qualifier at 7pm ET with a 500 points buy-in.

Play your cards right and they’ll ship you to the sumptuous sands of the world-renowned Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, where you’ll compete with and against Troy Aikman, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Richard Petty, Sugar Ray Leonard, Emmitt Smith, Reggie Jackson, Joe Namath, Mike Ditka, Julius Erving, Fuzzy Zoeller, Herschel Walker, Laffit Pincay, Jim Brown, Bobby Hull, Jerry West, Brooks Robinson, Gale Sayers, Kyle Petty, Michael Strahan and other superstars in a full deck’s worth of compelling contests and extraordinary events.

They won’t be treating the game of poker like it’s some kind of fourth-string quarterback. They’ve invited 25 of the planet’s premier poker pros, including Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, to get in on the action. You’ll learn hands-on from your veteran coaches.

Even though cavorting with royalty is rewarding enough, you’ll be playing for more than mere glory. The four-day event features tons of casino freeroll tournaments and up to $10 million in prize money, culminating with a $1-Million No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em finale that will air on Fox Sports on Thanksgiving Day.

With daily celebrity golf tournaments, lively player Q&A sessions, sports trivia competitions, and an evening cocktail reception, you’ll definitely stockpile enough footage for a stupefying highlight reel!

Sports Legends Challenge Prize Package

This monumental four-day event happens on September 14-17, 2009 at the world-renowned Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas. This prize package includes:

* Round trip air fare to and from the Bahamas
* Five nights accommodations at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
* $500 in spending money
* Entry to the opening draft party where you will join one of the sports legends teams and meet your team’s poker pro coach
* Multiple freeroll gaming tournaments of your choice
* Daily golf tournaments
* Access to cash games with sports legends, poker pros, and other participants
* Access to Sit ‘n Gos with valuable sports memorabilia prizes
* Access to Sit ‘n Gos featuring each sports legend

Who needs home court advantage when you’re on the beach? Download now to get started!

* Sports Legends Prize packages are transferable, but NOT redeemable for cash.

Play your cards right at Absolute Poker and you could be heading to Los Angeles for A Night of Hedonism at the Playboy Mansion on February 28th.

The prize package includes:

* VIP tour of the Playboy Mansion grounds by a Playmate.
* Two VIP invitations to the Kandy Masquerade ball - where you will enjoy VIP treatment with your own private cabana, champagne, a personal waitress, and unlimited Grey Goose.
* Three night’s hotel accommodation.

The Kandy Masquerade is a black-tie masked ball which promises to be a night of “Mystique and Seduction”. You can expect body-painted models, trips to the legendary grotto, and some truly mind-blowing memories.

Best of all: you can bring a friend to deny all rumors or confirm the bragging rights.
Are You Ready To Play?

To get your sweaty hands on this sexy prize, all you have to do is play poker.

The next Main Event for Kandy Masquerade at the Playboy Mansion starts at 8:30 PM ET, on Monday, February 2nd, 2009.
Qualify for your seat today!

Use your CREDS wisely and you could be spending some quality time with the Prince of Darkness himself.

Absolute Poker is giving away a LCD TV, a DVD player, and three horrific DVD box sets: the Exorcist, the Omen, and Halloween.
To win this frightening feast of devilish entertainment, all you have to do is put a few CREDS on the line and play your way to the massacre that is the DREADRoll Main Event.

Bring some clean underwear, a crucifix, and a fresh virgin. It’ll be a bloodbath.

Cost for the tournament is $5 for the prize pool, plus an additional $5 for the charity. We have also added $150 to the prizepool. Full TIlt Poker pro Rafe Furst will be playing the tournament, and we hope many more of the Full Tilt pros will also be in attendance.

Details for the tournament are as follows:

November 22nd, 2:01pm ET
Full Tilt Poker
Private tournament tab: Bad Beat on Cancer
Password: charity
$5 plus $5 with $150 added to the prizepool
Tournament #64689765
(Under the Private Tournaments tab)

Even if you can’t make it, please consider registering anyway since all proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. I hope to see you all there.

About the Prevent Cancer Foundation:

The Prevent Cancer Foundation was started in 1985 when Founder and President Carolyn Aldige first understood the power of prevention to defeat cancer — and recognized that too few of the country’s resources were used to promote cancer prevention research or education. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Since its inception the Foundation has provided more than $74 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research and education programs. CRPF peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to more than 250 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies.

About Bad Beat on Cancer:

Bad Beat on Cancer was started a few years ago by Rafe Furst and Phil Gordon to help fund cancer research and prevention – by playing poker. They ask professionals and amateurs alike to donate 1% of whatever they win at the WSOP. They’ve been extraordinarily successful over the last few years, raising over $1 million for a very worthy cause. It’s a very fiscally responsible organization, nearly 86 cents from every dollar goes to the cancer research programs that they’re funding. It’s a great organization and they have most of the world’s greatest players signed up.

This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

We will begin on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $100 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin on Cake Poker, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, and Reefer Poker! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with $800 added to the prize pools!

The Top 20 in each freeroll and the Top 30 in each buyin will receive points.

The leaderboard will consist of $250 up for grabs over the top 5 places.

More details

Beginning at 12pm EST on April 26th, 2008, HoldemPokerChat will be launching a ground-breaking 24 hour Poker Marathon!

What does this mean? 24 hours…24 poker tournaments!

Yes, you read that correctly. In the span of 24 hours, we will be hosting 24 poker tournaments!
This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

The tournaments will begin and end on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $250 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, Carbon Poker, Cake Poker, Ultimate Bet, and Poker Nordica! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with over $2500 added to the prize pools!

And… There will also be a tournament Leaderboard with over $1000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.

So, get your comfortable chair ready, bring the fridge to the computer (or the computer to the fridge), make sure to be stocked up on pizza and chips.

Visit HoldemPokerChat for more details.

When asked about the philosophy I take to the tables, I recently put forth the following two aphorisms: 1.) Embrace the process, and have no attachment to outcomes 2.) In general, don’t generalize

I didn’t put focus and discipline on this list because they didn’t even cross my mind. I’ve always assumed that focus and discipline are part of who I am. But after a recent edition of Killer Poker Analysis (in which Todd Brunson emphasized the importance of focus and discipline) and a careful look at my own game, I realize that focus and discipline can never be taken for granted.

Since landing my deal for Killer Poker By The Numbers back in the fall of 2005, I’ve been a writing machine. Add coaching and some random consulting here and there, and well, 2006 and 2007 weren’t exactly spent playing a lot of poker. Now we’re in 2008. I’m still writing, coaching, and consulting, but I’m also putting in some serious online playing time.

My old stomping ground, Party Poker, is no longer a possibility for me. After some serious scouting, I decided to adopt Cake Poker as my new home. Their rakeback deal is excellent, and the competition on Cake is easier than average. I don’t know exactly why it’s easier, but one hunch of mine is that it’s because they don’t allow the use of player tracking software and heads-up displays (HUDs); the hoards of HUD-using multitablers on Poker Stars and Full Tilt aren’t at Cake.

Of course, this means that I myself can no longer be a HUD-using multitabler. Luckily for me, I was multitabling before HUDs. But in those days, I was playing 4 tables at most. The beginning of 2008 has been all about honing my 6-max no-limit hold’em multitabling chops to where I can play 8-10 tables without a HUD. 6-tabling seems quite comfortable. 8- and 10-tabling territory has been tough. Observing opponents when not involved in a hand is difficult, as is typing player notes (I’m currently working on a system of note-taking acronyms to help in this department). Fatigue is also a factor (both mentally and physically). And leaving tough games can be a hassle especially when it comes to navigating through the lobby to find a new game to sit in.

Unfortunately, the difference between success and disaster is slight. If you have KK preflop, and you’re facing a preflop reraise from a very tight reraiser, is he on {AA, KK, AK} or {AA,KK}? Is a suspicious looking bet on the river coming from a known floater or a straightforward, hit-to-win player? The difference between my big wins and my big losses at Cake (well, big in terms of big blinds anyway) has been subtle, almost undetectable shifts in judgment. Focus and discipline are the keys to reigning in these shifts.

Tony Guerrera is the author of Killer Poker By The Numbers and coauthor of Killer Poker Shorthanded (with John Vorhaus). Visit him at Killer Poker by the Numbers: Poker Math, Strategy, Coaching, News, Online Deposit Bonuses and More, by Tony Guerrera | Home.

Another great online poker site that’s full of easy competition is Carbon Poker. The 20k guaranteed always has a massive overlay.

However, even professionals find it difficult in selecting a poker website from this galore of options that they have to confront in the modern world. In the initial stages, they used to opt on the basis of the promotions or the number of games that were provided. The current scenario sees every poker site providing them with similar promotions. Most of the sites use such options for disguising their drawbacks. Again, they might be waiting to trick you in loosing a large sum through these promotions.

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Absolute’s VIP program is made of three tiers, VIP, Plantnium and Elite. Players earn VIP Status Points for their play. The VIP level requires 5,000, Platnium, 20,000 and Elite, 40,000.