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New & Improved!

Paddy Power Poker have revamped, upgraded, improved, enhanced and plain old spruced up the C*A*S*H VIP programme! It is now easier to:

1. Earn PADDY POINTS
2. Climb the ranks
3. Earn BIG cash bonuses
4. They’ve now got BIGGER BONUSES than ever before with General’s receiving a minimum of $500 with UNLIMITED ADDITIONAL BONUSES

Captains, Majors and Colonels will all benefit from lower qualifying criteria and faster accumulation of points, as well as an increase in the monthly cash bonuses on offer!

As for the top dogs among you, not only is it easier to reach General level, but now all players who reach this highest rank in the Paddy Power Poker army can avail of an UNLIMITED CASH BONUS! That’s right, in addition to receiving a $500 monthly cash bonus, each General will receive $100 bonus dollars in exchange for every additional 12,000 PADDY POINTS generated in excess of the monthly qualifying criteria of 60,000 PADDY POINTS, with no limit on the size of the bonus a General can earn per month.

NOW STEP TO IT, SOLDIERS, AND GET EARNING!

Doyle’s Room - the only online poker site endorsed by poker legend Doyle Brunson.

Players enjoy over $4,000,000 in monthly freerolls and guaranteed tournaments.

Players can also play against Doyle and guest pros every Wednesday night in the famous $25,000 Doylesroom Bounty Tournament.

You can PLAY FOR FREE! They offer play money tables where you can sharpen your skills totally free! Download their software and play for free!

Remember, when you’re ready for real money poker action, visit the cashier and step up to the cash tables.

You can also really play online poker with Doyle Brunson or Mike Caro.

Not only that, you get to play them for free your very first time. Sign-up now to compete against the pros and guest celebrities in the Bounty tournament which takes place every other Wednesday night, then request your one-time Bounty Rebate.

Bodog offers all the excitement of great multi–player poker, served up with typical Bodog flair and the best customer service in the poker world.

The Bodog Poker software features clean, stylish graphics, easy–to–use and reliable features. It’s even customizable – among other things you can choose between a dozen different felt colors! Multi–tabling has never been easier.

The Bodog Poker Room features daily tournaments with a monthly guaranteed prize pool of $5 million, including a $100,000 guaranteed tournament each Sunday. Stake your claim in Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7–Card Stud, 7–Card Stud Hi/Lo, and 5–Card Stud.

Remember, Bodog is all about community. Bring yours to ours. For each friend you refer to Bodog, you instantly receive 20% of their initial deposit (up to $100). Plus, there are always opportunities to win prize packages for referring friends. Those gifts include a trip to the WSOP.

Bodog also offers many, many guaranteed seats to the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker. Who knows, the next member of Team Bodog could be you!

Join Team Bodog and be part of the team that brought home the 2006 WSOP Main Event gold bracelet – and the record $12 million victory. See Bodog Poker.

Call 1-866-909-2237 or go to Bodog Poker to open an account.

Founded in 1994, Bodog Entertainment, with its head office in the lovely island country of Antigua in the Caribbean, is one of the world’s fastest growing media and digital entertainment companies and has offices world wide. Bodog offers a host of entertainment services, including
online gaming, an international record label, a publishing division and, and an international television production division.

Poker is Rigged forum is running a sign up competition for all new members, where you can win $100 just for signing up to the forum and making a few posts.

- The competition will run until 12:00pm GMT on September 3rd.

How It Works

- The competition is only open to new members from August 3rd.

- Each member who has made 10 posts after the 3rd of August will have 1 ticket to win $100.

- Each member who has made 25 posts after the 3rd of August will have 2 tickets to win $100.

- Each member who has made 50 posts after the 3rd of August will have 3 tickets to win $100.

- Each member who has made 100 posts after the 3rd of August will have 4 tickets to win $100.

For each ticket, a member will have one chance of winning.

The winner will be drawn on September 4th.

- 1st place gets 100$

- 2nd place gets 25$

- You must contact an admin once you’ve posted enough for an entry. Admins will keep track of post counts above 10.

- SPAM WILL BE DELETED

It’s as easy as that! To sign up, get over to Poker is Rigged.com.- Poker Forums

Time to start taking your “special supplements” and keeping a spare bag of pure urine on your person at all times in case the inspectors make a surprise visit, the PPP Olympics are on the way! We’re lighting our flame on August 8th (just like that other, smaller event will do over in Beijing, China…I believe it is a sports festival of sorts) and for the real poker athletes out there, we’re serving up a full week of different money-added tournaments, culminating in a giant Gold Medal Freeroll on August 15th @ 9pm. We’re awarding over $20,000 in cash and prizes over the entire week, so register today!

You can choose from a variety of Hold’em and Omaha freezeout and rebuy tournaments, all costing $5 + 50c to play, with differing structures to suit everyone’s tastes, while the final PPP Olympic event will be the PPP Marathon $10 + $1 (5k starting stack, 15 minute blind levels) with a tasty $1,000 added to the prizepool by your favourite poker room! And that’s not even the main highlight of this feast of poker!

Yes, we’re making qualifying for the Gold Medal Freeroll as easy as possible. To be eligible to play in this tournament of champions, simply take part in at least three of the preceding week’s PPP Olympic events, listed below. You’ll still have to manually register for the freeroll on the day itself, but with an Irish Winter Festival package, dozens of Super Satellite tickets and tokens and $10,000 CASH up for grabs, that shouldn’t be too off-putting, should it?!

The PPP Olympics are all about pride, glory and scoring some free cash! Register for your chosen events TODAY!

There’s been a lot of interest lately concerning the UIGEA. (Not sure what the UIGEA is? You should know! But if not, check out the Wikipedia entry here.) 

Passed in 2006 as a “rider” to the Safe Ports Act, the UIGEA has been controversial from the beginning (even though it was voted for almost unanimously). It was attached to the Safe Ports Act by conservative Republican Senators Bill Frist and Jon Kyl, but its inclusion was voted for by almost every member of Congress.  

In recent weeks, some legislators have made efforts to overturn the bill — or at the very least, to clarify the nature of its vague wording. Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank has recently emerged as the default leader of this movement. His anti-UIGEA bill, HR 5767, has so far been defeated, but seems to have clued Congress in to the fact that many Americans dislike UIGEA.

Since then, Texas Republican Pete Sessions has introduced a bill that seeks to “clarify” UIGEA, claiming (with justification) that UIGEA is basically unenforceable because it relies on financial institutions to do the work of the Justice Department. However, some online poker players have spoken out against Sessions’ bill, stating that it’s not the proper solution to the problem. 

So, although no real progress has been made in the fight against the UIGEA, we are definitely seeing more legislators cluing in to the fact that it might help their popularity to try to get the law changed.

And this is where you come in: Congress acts on the will of the people, so don’t be afraid to send a letter (or letters!) to your representatives and let them know how unfair this bill is.