PKR, the online 3D poker room, recently announced their new online professional poker team. PKR has never had a sponsored poker pro team so this is the first time the poker room will have pros to send to live events. PKR has signed six players to their team and they recently went to an event in London. The members of the team are up and coming in the poker world and have been seen at the PKR poker room on a regular basis.
Each player added to the first ever PKR.com team brings something to the table. Some are well known and others may never have been heard of but have shown great knowledge in the game of poker. The six players signed to the team are: Henrik Eklund, Ashley Hames, Raymond O’Mahoney, Kai Paulsen, James Sudworth and Andrew Teng.
Teng, known online as ‘Golfpro699, appeared at the GUKPT earlier this year and outlasted the field at the Thanet leg of the tour to take the win. Sudworth also made the GUKPT final table earlier this year and is one of the newest young poker players to hit the scene.
New team member Kai “KingKai84” Paulsen has seen the most live game play success on the team. Paulsen is from Norway and he has an impressive tournament record including fifth place at the Irish Open last year. Ashley Hames is known more as a television personality instead of poker play. Hames is a writer, television presenter and for working on the Sin Cities show. Hames has been playing poker at the Vic for many years.
Henrik “Pokey85” Eklund is from Sweden and loves the High Stakes games. Eklund played well at the APT Manila as well as finishing second in the first ever PKR live event last year. The last player on the new PKR team is Raymond “callmebabe” O’Mahoney and he is a cash player at the high stakes tables and made the final table at the live PKR tournament last year.
It has taken two long years but online gambling provider, Bodog, finally has regained control of their domain name. The online operator recently announced that they now have the rights to the bodog.com domain after they lost back in 2007.
An agreement was reached recently between 1st Technology, LLC and Morris Mohawk Gaming Group. Morris Mohawk is the company that markets Bodog in North America. The agreement put an end to all of the lawsuits between the two companies. Back when the original court ruling was made, Bodog was told to pay $50 million in damages.
While the lawsuits were going on, players who typed in bodog.com (or BodogPoker.com) would be sent to bodoglife.com. This was the change that was made when the domain was taken from the bodog company. Now pocker players looking for bodogpoker will be able to type bodog.com and be sent directly to that domain name.
Alwyn Morris the Chief Executive of Morris Mohawk Gaming Group commented in a press release about the agreement stating: “While the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group was not the judgment debtor, the MMGG is the exclusive licensee of the “Bodog” brand within the region and, as such, activities that impact the brand necessarily impact our business. “
Morris also commented: “We are pleased to have worked constructively with 1st Technology and its principals to bring an end to this protracted dispute. This resolution will provide certainty and will allow us to continue to enhance our technology base for online gaming in order to provide our users with unfettered access to the best technology.”
If you’re a new poker player or you just don’t have that much experience playing poker yet then before playing for real money you might want to consider playing for play money first. The first thing we would recommend is to get the latest PokerStars download now. Most of the larger online poker rooms offer a play money poker room where you can play in full table cash games with play money. Typically you can play on the play money poker room for as long as you would like and if you run out chips you simply request more and your account will be credited.
There are numerous reasons as to why you would want to play poker with play money before using your own money and we’re going to take a look at those reasons right now.
To become a better poker player on carbon poker you need to be able to gain as much playing experience as you possibly can so that you can learn from first hand experiences.
If you haven’t played online poker in the past then you might want to check out how everything is set-up and how everything runs. You will also be able to try out different poker rooms so you can find out which poker room you like playing in the best.
By playing with play money there is no risk at all to you so you can try out new strategies on the play money tables to see how they work out for you before using them on real money tables.
There are also some reasons why playing for play money isn’t going to work forever and why eventually you will need to play for real money. As you can experience playing poker and become a better player you won’t be able to improve your game anymore at the play money tables. You will also find that on the play money tables your opponents will be extremely loose because most of them don’t know what they are doing exactly.
When you’re playing on the play money tables at Poker Star you should make sure that you always play as if you’re playing with real money. If you don’t then you won’t be properly getting ready for the real money tables which is what you should be trying to do when you’re practicing on the play money tables. Once you’re ready to play for real money you will be able to receive a first deposit bonus from the poker room you decide to play with so make sure you find out how to get the bonus. Typically it’s automatically assigned to your account when you make your first deposit, but some poker rooms will make you use a code.
When you first move from the play money tables to the real money tables I would recommend playing the low limit tables until you’re comfortable with the pace. You don’t need to jump onto the biggest table right away because often it will result in you losing your bankroll. Playing online poker for free is definitely the best way for new players to get some practice time in before investing their own money to play.