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Friday, April 08, 2005

March 8, 2005

After years of holding two $500 daily free tournaments, Empire Poker has doubled their free poker output by adding two additional free entry tournaments each with a $500 prize pool. Daily poker freerolls website http://www.nlfreeroll.com announced that the new tournaments launched February 1st, and have been running smoothly.

These free poker tournaments, known as freerolls, have become more and more popular with online players, and have proven to be one of the most effective ways for online poker rooms to get people to try out their product. In the past year the online poker community has witnessed the arrival of free daily tournaments with pay-outs as high as $1000 to $3000 prize pools for weekly free tournaments. The biggest freeroll to date was a $100,000 freeroll held in Decemeber 2004.

Empire Poker shares traffic with internet poker giant Party Poker, together playing host to up to 75,000 online poker players on 10,000 tables every day. By expanding their free tournament offering, Empire is partaking in the recent promotional trend among online poker rooms of offering bigger bonuses and other free cash incentives such as free tournaments with large prize pools.

According to the free poker tournament schedule at http://www.nlfreeroll.com , the $500 Empire freeroll tournaments run every day at 12 am, 3 am, 3 pm, and 7 pm Eastern time.

The popularity of poker continues to explode online and offline, thanks mostly to ESPN's broadcasts of the World Series of Poker and the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour. Even celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Macguire have taken up poker recently. Poker freerolls have also gained in popularity as unknown internet qualifiers Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker have won the 2004 and 2003 World Series of Poker Championships.

With thousands of new players pouring onto the internet to play poker every day, the various online poker rooms have gotten very serious in their competition for new customers. This has lead to what the popularity of web sites like http://www.nlfreeroll.com.

Khalsa News Network

4:07 PM · Wednesday, April 06, 2005

April 6, 2005

In a charity event at the World Horror Convention famous authors will compete in a Texas Hold 'Em tournament.

(PRWEB) -- Poker and horror will come together at the 2005 World Horror Convention in New York City, when 20 famous horror authors compete in a Texas Hold'Em tournament with all proceeds going to the winner's prefered charity.

This tournament will feature twenty authors competing under Texas Hold 'Em rules. Participants include F. Paul Wilson, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Tom Monteleone, Michael Arnzen, David Morrell, Christopher Golden, Carlton Mellick III, Monica O'Rourke, Michael Huyck, Adam Pepper, Bill Breedlove, Valarie Thorpe, Simon Wood, Chris Treagues, and Jeremy Robert Johnson with others to be announced.

The event is organized in support of the forthcoming novel Play Dead by Michael A. Arnzen, and sponsored by Raw Dog Screaming Press. The poker game will be held at the Park Central New York Hotel on Friday, April 8th, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Afterwards there will be a mass autograph signing where fans can meet all the authors involved. Later that night Raw Dog Screaming Press will also be hosting a release party free to the public.

The World Horror Convention will be held from April 7th to April 10th, 2005, and features many events with celebrities from film, literature, and visual art. More information can be found at http://www.whc2005.org/.

Michael Arnzen has been publishing ground-breaking horror fiction and dark poetry since 1989. His first novel, Grave Markings, received both the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards.

The high-stakes thriller Play Dead will be released in hardcover on August 23, 2005.

Monday, April 04, 2005

The World Series of Poker. Celebrity Poker Challenge. Cable poker television just can’t wait to broadcast the next Texas Hold 'Em Poker tournament because they know the ratings will go through the roof. This card game is arguably the most popular game of chance on the planet - multibillion-dollar casinos are all planning to double, triple, even quadruple the amount of floor space devoted to Texas Hold 'Em, just to keep up with the demand.

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