CarbonPoker’s Bad Beat Jackpot is currently sitting around $997,000 and is still climbing steadily. If the bad beat jackpot does not get hit soon it could reach over $1million in the next hours/days.

This may soon be the world record for the largest Bad Beat Jackpot amount from any poker room currently online. Players who play at bad beat table at Carbon Poker within in the 24 hours that it reaches the million dollar mark will get free access to Bad Beat Jackpot Freeroll tournament which has a $1000 prize pool.

Use CarbonPoker coupon code: 600PK when depositing for a 300% up to $600 bonus.

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Only 400 poker players will get the chance to battle it out for their shot at one million dollars at the World Poker Tour Manilla in 2009. You can qualify over the next 6 weeks between 1st December until 14th January at PartyPoker to claim your seat at Manila for only one dollar. World Poker Showdown prize packages are also available if you fancy to head off to the Caribbean’s Ocean World Casino this January.

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One of the most popular variations of poker is Texas Hold’em and a great game to learn which is currently in full bloom due to all the television exposure received by No-Limit Tournaments like the WSOP, luckily it is rather the easy to learn the basics yet difficult to truly master the finer intricacies of the game.

The basics of Texas Hold’em are as follows, a minimum of 2 up to a maximum of 10 players can play on one table at a time in Texas Hold’em Poker, each player seated at the table is dealt two cards face down, these two cards are what is known as the players ‘hole cards’ and only the player can see and use these cards throughout the entirety of the poker hand.

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