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Rivered's aim is to stop you getting rivered. We aim to do this by providing you with articles and information online and also by telling you what poker books and videos/dvd's you should watch/read in order to improve your game and stop that dreaded river!

New Poker customers at Ladbrokes Poker can still claim a fantastic welcome bonus of up to £675.

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If you're looking for the perfect online poker start to 2012 we suggest you look at Noiq Poker's next big online poker promotion package of over €170,000 in January 2012. The main Rake Races are divided into 4 parts worth €15,000 each plus this month there are 4 extra €5,000 Low Limits Races for low stakes poker players. Additionally Noiq have two Endurances races with a total prize pool of €40,000, 8 Iron Man Freerolls in January 2012 and a new upcoming promotion called "Winter Tournament Series" worth €21,000 starting at the end of the next month.

NoiQ January 2012 Promotions
€60,000 January Rake Races 4x €15,000 with overlapping Race dates.
€20,000 Low Limits Rake Race 4x €5,000 Races for low stakes poker players only.
€40,000 January Endurance Challenges two endurances from 1st - 15th and 16th - 31st January 2012.
Iron Man Prague 8 Iron Man Freerolls worth €16,000.
Winter tournament Series (€21,000)
200% up to €1,000 First Deposit Bonus

All these promotions come on top of Noiq Poker's 200% up to €1,000 First Deposit Bonus and the fact that all new customers at NoiQ can earn up to €1,000 in First Deposit Bonus and you get 30 days to clear this generous bonus.

Poker players can participate in all races simultaneously and these promotions come on top of each players deal (30% flat Rakeback or VIP Program up to 45% Cashback) in an EU-licensed Poker Room.

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Online Registration to DTD Poker Live Events

The deadline for online registration for live events at DTD Poker is now 5pm on the day of the event which means you can reserve your seat up to 2 hours before the tournament starts and avoid any queues at the cash desk! For details on how to buy-in online, see DTD's step-by-step guide. If you miss the 5pm deadline, you can still buy in on the door if there are still seats available.

BRAND NEW FPP REWARDS & SHOP

All accumulated FPP's can be spent in DTD Poker's FPP Shop. Their outstanding programme that's tailored, bespoke and completely unique to Dusk Till Dawn offering players up to HALF their rake & reg fees back in rewards!

Now use your FPP's to purchase items such as:

This week at DTD Poker

NEW 150 Deepstack satellites
1000 Golden Chips for the Grand Prix VI
FPP Rewards

NEW 150 Deepstack satellites have started

If you liked DTD's monthly 300 Deepstack, you'll LOVE the 150 Deepstack - it's half the price!

Fri 17th - Sun 19th Feb
£150 + £18 Freezeout + RE-ENTRY
£50,000 GTD | 15K chips & 40 min clock

ONLINE SATELLITES
DTD Poker are running FREEROLLS every day at 1pm & 5pm. These are a great way to sample online satellites without parting with a penny. Feeder satellites run daily from €0.60.

CLUB SATELLITES
MEGA SATS for the 150 Deepstack will run on Thu & Fri before the event. For just £30, you'll be playing for at least TEN x £150+£18 seats!

1000 Golden Chips for the Grand Prix VI

Grand Prix IV (Aug 11) - 2 Golden Chip players made the final table & won £15k each Grand Prix V (Jan 12) - 0 Golden Chip players made the final table to win a Mini Cooper Car

To increase the chances of Golden Chip winners getting to the Final Table at the Grand Prix VI (April) DTD are QUADRUPLING the number of Golden Chips to be won. The first 1,000 people to win a Grand Prix satellite will also win a Chip. If they then go on to make the final table, they'll walk away with a £6K Caribbean Poker Party Package on top of their winnings, courtesy of Dusk Till Dawn. Satellites commence on Monday 30th January.

FPP Rewards

Dusk Till Dawn run a fantastic loyalty programme called FPP Rewards. This programme offers online players up to 50% of all their rake and reg fees back through rewards.

"Rastafish" wins Monte Carlo Main Event

For info on our live & online satellites please visit Dusk Till Dawn Poker

For full details click here.

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Deal done in DTD £300 Deepstack as Lintonon takes home £21,000!

4 players decided to make a deal at the Final Table of the Dusk Till Dawn £300 Deepstack with Peter Lintonon taking home the biggest share of cash.

Last weekend we saw 323 players competed in the DTD £300 Deepstack over the two Days with a final day taking place on Sunday hoping to win a share of the £100,000 Guaranteed prize pool.

64 players managed to fight their way through to Day 2 with the top 36 places being paid, with the field chasing the big stacks of Peter Lintonon, Luke Hallinan and Sunil Mistri. These 64 players also included Caicau Huang, who was hoping for a repeat performance after winning the £300 Deepstack last month.

As we approached the bubble players seemed to be flying out left right and centre, including Ceri Rees who got his Aces cracked, and Caicau Huang unable to pull off back to back wins. This pace seemed to continue as we broke into the money, and soon enough we were down to the final table with Tom Hall as chipleader.

Once we got to the final table time seemed to stand still, as it was 8 handed for at least 2 hours of play. Eventually we were down to just 4 players who decided to make a deal, with the payouts as follows based on a rough chip count: The £300 Deepstack is receiving a facelift in January and DTD are guaranteeing £150,000 for a £500 buy in.

Also we want to send out a big congratulations to Jonathan Kittridge. After winning a satellite into the Monte Carlo for just €8 he decided he would get some live practice in with this event, finishing 8th for £2,264, definitely one to watch for the Monte Carlo.

For details on how you can qualify for our Monte Carlo, £500 Deepstack or Grand Prix events for a cut price please see the DTD website.

Read a review of DTD Poker.

New Poker Players get $5 free – no strings attached

Use your $5 free to try out PokerTime and also get a 100% match bonus up to $300 on your first deposit.

PokerStars increase 1st Deposit Bonus

PokerStars have finally increased their first deposit bonus and are now offering a 100% up to $600 first deposit bonus. Poker players may make up to three deposits in total to claim the full bonus amount, but they must be made within 60 days of the first deposit.

Poker players have 6 months to earn the full amount of the bonus. It releases in $10 increments and has a clearance rate of 17 VPP per $1 of bonus. The first deposit code is STARS600 and this will need to be entered on every deposit.

The Road to 100 Billion - 70 Billion Hands dealt!

More than $770K was paid out to ring game players when PokerStars hit 65 billion hands, and now it's time to do it all again. The winner of the 70 Billionth Mega Milestone hand will receive at least $70k in cash, and there are 300 other milestone hands along the way, starting from hand number 69,700,000,000.

See the Road to 100 Billion page for more on how prizes are awarded and how much you can win, plus tips on how to improve your chances of being dealt into a milestone hand.

You can easily see your current hand number in the top left corner of the table you are seated at. If you see the numbers ticking towards the next milestone, it's time to play more.

PokerStars obtains gaming license for Denmark

PokerStars has been awarded a license to operate in Denmark and will launch www.PokerStars.dk on January 1, 2012 when the license takes effect enabling Danes to access the largest number of online poker tournaments and compete against poker players from all over the world.

Read a full review of PokerStars here.

$150 Free Poker Bankroll

Want to play poker, but don't want to deposit? If so, we have the perfect poker deal for you. Get $150 free to play poker with at Titan Poker, click here for full details.

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Playing Freeroll Tournaments

Freerolls play somewhat differently to regular buyin tournaments. There are many weak players whom you should aim to exploit, which is what we'll try and teach you in this poker article.

Exploit the calling stations
Freeroll players are notorious for calling too much. What does this mean exactly and how can you exploit this in your playing So your strategy should be to exploit these calling stations. In a normal poker tournament, people will respect your bets and raises more often than in a freeroll.

Due to the nature of a freeroll e.g. no buy-in fee coupled with the fact that the players are not experienced, freeroll poker players will often not be able to get away from their hands. They might get JJ pre-flop and even though the flop comes AK2, they will just not believe their strong pre-flop hand can now be losing. Those jacks just look to good to fold! For this reason when you know you are winning BET BIG as these in-experienced players will call you anyway.

The value of top hands like AA or KK goes up as you are more likely to get paid off when you are dealt these 220/1 shots. If your opponent has shown strength before the flop, you should try to just get all the chips in the middle. More often than not you get called by hands like pocket 9's, even if there are 3 overcards on the flop. Aim to double up several times in the early stages in a freeroll. Once you get to the later stages of a poker freeroll, you should be playing slightly better opponents.

You are in middle position with 2000 in chips. The under the gun player limps for 50 and you look down at AcKc. You raise to 250, knowing that if you'll flop an ace or a king you are likely to get paid off. Button player calls, and so does the player UTG. The flop comes KdTc2c and the first player checks. If this wasn't a freeroll tournament you might check to induce a bluff, due to it being a freeroll, lead out at the pot maybe even overbet the pot something like 1000.

Button folds, UTG thinks for a while then pushes. Of course you call - you have to you are pot comitted and he shows Jc9c, he is in serious trouble!

Online Poker Tips

Looking to improve your poker game? If so we have Online Poker Tips, plus many poker articles for you. We hope these will be beneficial to your poker profitability.

New London Poker Club sponsored by PKR

London's new fully licensed club gets online poker sponsor

Online poker site PKR and the Fox Poker Club have signed a sponsorship deal for London's first fully licensed poker venue. The new venture - The Fox Poker Club in association with PKR - opened on August 7th and is located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the heart of London's famed West End.

The club, named after the famous 18th century politician Charles Fox, and connected to Mayfair's renowned private member's club, will occupy 6,500 square feet with seating for 200 players, as well as a poker library, smoker's deck and a bar/lounge. The club will provide a full spectrum of poker with daily tournaments and cash games and includes free afternoon tutorials. PKR Marketing Director Simon Prodger said, "This is a great opportunity for PKR. To have a fully licensed poker room in central London is fantastic for the poker community, and we look forward to seeing it flourish as we host events at the venue."

Chris North, Managing Director of the Fox Poker Club commented, "I'm extremely pleased to partner with such an exciting company as PKR. We have similar goals of bringing poker to a wider market."

The Fox Poker Club in association with PKR is situated at 93-107 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY. The club is accepting pre-registration memberships via their web site, www.foxpokerclub.com.

Jake Cody marks Team PKR Pro debut with blistering 2nd place

New Team PKR Pro Jake Cody finished runner-up in the 2011 GUKPT Grand Final which took place at The Vic in London this weekend. The newest young star to join Team PKR Pro, Cody almost pulled off a point-to-point win in the event having been chip leader at the end of both previous days. However the Brit was denied a fifth major title at the last by Germany's Fabian Quoss.

After agreeing a deal with his opponent when heads-up, the Triple Crown star collected £115,000 for his runner-up finish, increasing his lifetime live poker tournament earnings to more than £2 million. The performance sees the young Brit rise to 13th in the GB All Time Money List and he also ends the year as one of the world's top 50 earners in the live tournament arena. The 23-year old now heads to Dublin in January for the PKR.com WPT Ireland, where he will seek to add his name to a select roll call of multiple WPT title holders.

Also participating in the event were fellow Team PKR Pros Vladimir 'Beyne' Geshkebein, Sofia 'wellbet' Lovgren, James 'james666' Sudworth, who reached the final table of this event in 2010 and Scott 'PKR_Scott' Shelley. Despite Shelley's elimination on Day 1 at the GUKPT, the WSOPE bracelet winner went on to enjoy success online later in the weekend, finishing fifth in the Sunday Million for $58,000.

High Stakes has all your reading needs

www.highstakes.co.uk offers all the poker books you could want, from Newly released poker books and pre-orders to Harrington on Hold'em Vol. 3. Visit the Rivered section of High Stakes for more information.

Live Omaha Games in the UK

The International Private Members Club at 53-55 East Road London are well known for holding the biggest and best Omaha cash games in the UK, so it would be a shame not to also have a PLO tournament of note. With this in mind, they're introducing something a little bit different.

Starting Wednesday 11th November 2009, this brand new tournament will run every Wednesday and will take the form of a £10 Pot-Limit Omaha re-buy with a twist.

On buying in for the event, your initial £10 will be returned to you by way of a token which can be used on the night in any PLO cash game, so in effect you get to enter the tournament for free. There'll be plenty of choice with £1-£1, £1-£2 & £2-£5 Omaha games running.

The International Club want as many of their members as possible to learn this beautiful game and as such, one of their resident pros will be on hand from 18:30 each and every Wednesday to provide an Omaha master-class. This should give any Omaha beginners enough to go on and hopefully even take the tournament down.

Please do support this event and try and make it down on Wednesdays - we're sure you'll have a lot of fun, as all skill and bankroll levels will be catered for.

Finally, if you're worried about missing any Champions League games, don't fret, as they have all the best matches shown live and in HD at the club.

Play Poker with Paypal

PayPal is now a viable payment method for all poker players playing online at Littlewoods Poker. PayPal is a safe, free, simple and secure way to send and receive money online without sharing financial information. PayPal helps protect its members’ credit card information with industry-leading security and fraud prevention systems.

Littlewoods Poker are now a major place to satellite into Major Land Based Events. They are currently holding qualifiers for the Irish Poker Open, the NZ Poker Champs 2009 and the World Series of Poker*. Littlewoods Poker are one of the few sites currently offering seats to the celebrated WSOP* tournament which will be held in July. Packages are worth $17,000 and are the most valuable in comparison to other sites. These satellites begin at the ‘WSOP for Free’ level, where poker players can freeroll their way up to the big league!

*World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with, www.rivered.co.uk or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.