The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the participants can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker event. The biggest poker celebs will be playing all rivals in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the event. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has brought home nearly $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker championship was big, you will definitely be astounded with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

The Kick off Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker player is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker matches with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are presented every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. There will be six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen eliminatories which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, despite the amount of poker players in the Bodog Open. All the players who decide to enter the main poker contest will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will be given 10,000 in tournament chips.

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Can you imagine walking into a famous Sin City casino and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or poker cards? Well if this seems difficult to believe, you may be in for a big shock. The Sin City based hotel Excalibur is now trying out with this new radical idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Executives from the casino hotel are going to equip the poker rooms with 12 digital machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based business PokerTek is in charge of the automated machines, which are reinventing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The enterprise already has 230 computers around the world, with the biggest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 computers were installed in this Canadian casino).
So what are the side-effects of this makeover? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new jobs. Some of these dealers have been functioning at the casino since its opening in 1990. Todd DeRemer, Excalibur’s Vice President of Casino Operations, says that the poker dealers will be offered other dealer careers in the same casino hotel.
According to DeRemer, the makeover is being made to give rookie players a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the renovation. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the gamblers”.
The improved computers will allow the poker players to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the center of the table, will display each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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There are a tremendous amount of individuals already focused on competing at the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas. These players have already begun to practice and hone their abilities to the highest possible level of skill in order to reasonably compete against the high level of competition that will be present at the 2008 World Series of poker tournament. Naturally, everyone who intends to make this journey to the Vegas area is determined to win and consider themselves to have a shot at the bracelet at the final table. With all of these individuals so determined to win, it can be extraordinarily difficult for any one player to claim victory predictably. Because of the existing level of overwhelming competition, the player is generally required to make all sorts of concessions and make the most of their abilities, putting forth an extreme effort to compete against these extremely skilled players. When competing against the level of experienced players at the World Series of poker tournament, nothing but the most experienced players will be able to make it to the final event.

For those players who are not already planning their strategy for the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, many simply do not have the skill or funds to finance such an extraordinarily expensive trip. But for those players who are talented and skilled enough, competing in the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is a critical matter that stands head and shoulders above any other mediocre tournament that the player might have competed in in the past. The level of professional players at the World Series of poker tournament is far higher than that found in the run-of-the-mill online poker rooms or at the local casinos that many players have built their skills at through endless years of practice. Competing against these types of extraordinarily skilled players can be nearly impossible without taking the time to build up the player’s ability to a sufficiently competitive level suitable enough to take on this type of challenge.

By taking the time to build the player’s skill level to an extraordinary level, the professional level poker tournament player can theoretically succeed at the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas. But it is interesting to note that there are only a few winners out of the many thousands upon thousands of individuals who make the journey to the Las Vegas World Series of poker tournament on an annual basis, raising the odds to extraordinarily low high level for the inexperienced player.

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When an event such as the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is advertised and hyped to such an extent that it is at the forefront of the popular conscious of the world, it can sometimes unbalance the level of activity and interest that takes place in the gaming and gambling capital in the desert. With this extremely polarizing effect, the players who are fascinated with the World Series of poker might forego traveling to the area for any other reason throughout the year, preferring to save up for the one big shot at the World Series of poker tournament. While it is true that the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is one of the most exhilarating and exciting experiences in the gaming and gambling world, it does not make sense to put all of the emphasis on this one event to the exclusion of all other events throughout the year, this is exactly what happens as the Las Vegas World Series of poker tournament becomes more and more hyped through marketing and advertising efforts around the world. With professional level players who travel less and less, intending to put all their effort into this one annual competition, the revenues generated throughout the rest of the year in Las Vegas tend to dwindle at the gaming and gambling tables only to resurge again when the famous events such as the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas are held. Beginning weeks in advance and lasting till long after the event itself is over, the hyping and marketing of the event has much to do with Las Vegas hotels and casinos and their determination to earn revenue from the investments that they have made in these types of events as well as the excitement and buzz that builds around the tournament on its own.

With the extreme popularity of this one type of event, it makes it easy to overlook the wealth of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that take place throughout the year in various locations including Las Vegas and other cities around the world. By overshadowing and even eclipsing the popularity of the lesser-known Texas Hold’em poker tournament events, the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas creates a warping effect on the Las Vegas economy that is focused on the one world-famous event to the exclusion of all others, creating a vacuum of advertising and exposure that is detrimental to the Las Vegas economy in general due to the lack of year-round income and effort to stay strong at the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments.

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With the extraordinarily concerted effort by the United States government to crack down on the online poker rooms and casinos that are so prevalent on the Internet such as Fulltiltpoker.com, it seems strange to think that only a few years ago online poker rooms and casinos operated with autonomy. After releasing all manner of different types of legislation that prohibits players from funding their bankrolls through American banking institutions as well as dictating how much and how little online poker rooms and casinos can dole out in the manner of residual income sharing programs, the United States government has continued to look into ways to restrict players abilities to generate income through these types of Internet-based poker rooms. One method of restricting players ability to earn is the 2% tax on the player’s bankroll that has been proposed and looks as if it may pass. With the concept of billing the player by their available funds, rather than what they actually win, the United States government is being un-believably harsh, as many players simply do not win on a regular basis, making the level of taxation highly unfair for those types of players. While on the other hand, many players win far beyond the expectations of even the United States government, which tends to expect a lot, making for another unfair case of taxation, although this time in the favor of the gamer.

With all of these extremely difficult to comprehend rules and aggressive criminalization of online poker rooms and casinos, it seems very obvious that the government has little concern for the needs of the player and is only interested in generating revenue for the legislators and lawmakers that all have their hand in the pot. With this famously draconian policy against online poker rooms and casinos, the United States government leaves little doubt that there is no room for free enterprise and the American way on the Internet. Fortunately, there are no end of lawyers and even judges who have come down against the almost brutal ruling by the United States government to tax online poker rooms and casinos out of existence in America. While it is already considered to be strange enough that the government has eliminated any possibility of United States citizens from sharing in the profits that these online poker rooms and casinos generate, it would seem that this is not enough and another, additional step is required, forcing players out of the online poker rooms and online casinos altogether.

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