http://usapokerlife.com Breaking News on US Friendly Poker Rooms Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:19:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chan Poker is officially closing their virtual doors on August 21st. The move was announced last night in an email from the Chan Poker team. The reasons for the closure were not made clear, but it has been made clear that Chan Poker will be moving to the Merge Network, ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/chan-poker-announces-closure-and-move-to-merge-network/ America Online has announced that they will be awarding six main seats to the World Series of Poker this year via free roll tournaments.  This will be the third consecutive year AOL is giving out these seats.  The tournaments to win the seats are being played through AOL's Games.com service.  ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/aol-will-again-award-six-seats-to-the-wsop/ In the past years the WSOP Main Event has become the most popular poker event in the world. Thousands of players enter the $10,000 buy-in event, hoping to take a 7 figure pay day by winning it all. Also, the event is televised which brings tons of publicity to the ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/wsop-2008-main-event-final-table-delay/ As many of you know BodogPoker.com is a huge online poker room, especially in the USA market. What most people don't know however, is that Bodog actually does much more than just run an online poker room. While on their site recently I saw tabs for Bodog Casino, Bodog Sports, ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/bodogpoker-takes-bets-on-preakness/ Everyone hates bad beats, so most casinos and online poker sights have a bad beat jackpot.  The money for the bad beat pot is taken out of every pot that has a rake of 25 cents or more.  This jackpot is very rare to win, so it us usually a ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/bad-beats-are-not-always-so-bad/ It's that time of year again to start claiming your seat in the largest poker event in the World, the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Many poker rooms are hosting events where the winners get their seat in this event for free. Last year, PokerStars was sent a ... http://usapokerlife.com/general-posts/free-wsop-seats-win-your-poker-seat/ PokerStars has landed even more media exposure for themselves, as many of their major pros are going to be featured in the new poker movie, Deal. Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, and Chris Moneymaker all make appearances in the movie, mostly at the end of the film when the new pro ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/poker-stars-pros-featured-in-new-movie-deal/ Sportsbook.com runs things a little differently by allowing ONLY US players, which seems a little strange, but has proven to be successful.  Sportbook.com isn't only an online sportsbook, it is also a popular online poker room and online casino. There are different bonuses offered for each depending on ... http://usapokerlife.com/general-posts/sportsbookcom-open-to-us-players-and-offers-1k-bonus-promotion/ The Poker Players Alliance (PPA for short) has finally reached one of its major goals; having over 1,000,000 members enrolled. At the time of this publication there are a total of 1,000,045 total members, and they are sure to see a surge now because of all the publicity they are ... http://usapokerlife.com/usa-poker-news/ppa-eclipses-one-million-members/ For quite a while Pacific Poker has offered one of the smallest first time deposit bonuses out there, a 25% up to $100. Even though this was one of the smaller bonuses offered, they did allow you to play with you bonus money at the tables to “release” it, ... http://usapokerlife.com/general-posts/pacific-poker-launched-new-bonus/