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One of the longest running internet poker leagues is moving to PokerStars.com starting on March 11th. This is a real money league that offers bonus prizes to the winners. It is organized and managed by the team over at KickAssPoker.com and new players are always invited. It is a real money league, so you will need to get a real money account to play. The Pokerstars software download works both with PC’s and Macs and accepts people from around the world so if you want to test your skills in a competitive online poker league, saddle up and jump on board.

The “KAP online poker league” caters to the player who wants to play in a weekly online game that challenges them against other good players with modest buyins. The stakes range from $10 - $20 each week and usually there is around $500 in bonus prizes awarded at the end of each season.

The team at “KAP” said they chose Poker Stars over FullTiltPoker.com because the biggest difference was that most league members already have accounts at PokerStars so it is much easier getting funds over there and ready to play in our weekly events combined with the excellent software and sheer size of the poker room itself make moving to PokerStars a fairly easy decision.

Get signed up and good luck at the tables!

Carbon Poker, one of Smack Dog Poker’s favorite online poker rooms, has teamed up with Bluff Poker Magazine to offer an online poker league that will award the top points earner a $12,500 World Series of Poker prize package! The tournament series runs through April 16th, 2008 and events are hosted at Carbon Poker every Wednesday evening at 20:45 EST on the Carbon Poker Server clock.

Every league event is a $11 buy in and players begin the tournament with 2,500 in chips. Not only are points and cash awarded in the league events, but there is also a $25 bounty if you are able to knock out the player who is on top of the leader board before the league event begins.

Overall, the top 9 finishers on the Carbon Bluff League Leaderboard will win prizes. With the top 3 winning WSOP prize packages.

League Leaderboard Prizes:

1st - $12,500 WSOP 2008 Main Event Package
2nd - $1,500 WSOP 2008 Tournament Buy-in
3rd - $1,500 WSOP 2008 Tournament Buy-in
4th - 9th place winners : CarbonPoker Player Pack

Let’s get over to Carbon Poker and gamble it up!

Smack Dog Poker will be launching our fall league series coming in September! This new league will feature not only great freeroll cash prizes, but will also include prizes to online satellite tournaments from our sister site www.pokersatellitecenter.com.

While it is uncertain which events the satellite tournaments will lead to, it will most likely be the upcoming 2008 Aussie Millions! This tournament will feature todays top poker professionals and will be awarding millions of dollars in cash to the best players in the world.

Be sure to check in at our Smack Dog Poker Forums to keep up to date on when and where the Fall Smack Dog Poker League will take place and how you can get in on the action.

Let’s Gamble,

SmackDog

Smack Dog Poker is offering up our best FREE CASH month yet with free rolls, our Smack Dog League returning to Absolute Poker for a second straight month, and bonus cash tournaments all going on during February!

Smack Dog is offering up over $575 in free rolls for the month of February! These include $100 events at CD Poker and Purple Lounge Poker as well as a $75 event at Poker.com! This also includes $300 in free rolls during our February league at Absolute Poker!

Our February league at Absolute Poker could be the most profitable league yet at Smack Dog Poker.  This league will again feature 3 events per week.  One $2 buy in, where the winner receives a tournament ticket to a $100k satellite, one $3 buy in, where the winner receives a tournament ticket to a 2006 World Series of Poker satellite, and 2 $50 free rolls every Saturday!  One free roll will be open to everyone who signs up for the league, while the other free roll will be for players who play in one or both of the buy in events for the previous week.

Smack Dog Poker will also be offering up bonus cash tournaments at Paradise Poker and Titan Poker!  These tournaments pay out bonus cash to players who win consecutive tournaments.  Our Big Bang $1 Sunday’s at Paradise Poker have been heating up lately with 128 players playing in our last event in January!

I am looking forward to getting more and more players involved in our Smack Dog community!  This should be a perfect way to introduce some new poker rooms at no expense to you the player.  Good luck and…

Let’s Gamble,

SmackDog

Free Roll Night at Paradise Poker! Woo Hoo!

Smack Dog Poker put up a free roll tonight with no prize money! What no prize money? Yes, the top 10 finishers instead gained a seat at our next buy in league event on 12/15/05. Well, I couldn’t let my money float out there for free so I had to ge tin on the action. And this in turn turned out to be a mistake.

I first play a heads up hand with someone and I hold A K offsuit with a King on the flop and all low cards up to the turn. I decide to force the action and go all in. The guy calls me and I had him covered. He turns over K 8 off suit. So I have him dominated. To the river we go and low and behold an 8 shows up and he takes down half my stack on a crappy call by him.

So now I am short stacked and I’m looking to double up. I get pocket 10’s and when the flop produces nothing of threat I go all in. I get called by Ace high. DAMN! You know what’s coming and of course it is an ace and I am out of my tournament. First out none the less!

Well, it was then time for the PAW free roll for affilaites. I started off strong taking down a good pot in the early moments of the tournament. However, this also got me playing kind of loose. This led to me calling an $800 all in with pocket 8’s only to be met by pocket Jacks. This produced a loss and knocked me down to $400 in chips.

However, I quickly was delt A 10 off suit and was pleased to see that I was called by 3 5 suited. The flop produced a straight for me and I doubled up to get back in the game. The next half hour brought me some great cards and I was quickly able to get back into the top 20 in chip stacks. This was punctuated by my flopping of two pair and someone trying to bluff me off the pot. When I reraised his $200 chip bet to $400 he folded and this landed me at over $2000 in chips.

Well, I got caught trying to take someone out with pocket 7’s when they went all in with K 8 suited. Of course flop brings a King and I can’t catch up. The very next hand I’m delt A K off suite and of course can’t get any action. oh well, no action there brought me plenty the next hand though.

I get pocket jacks and get 2 players in front of me going all in. One had me covered and one didn’t. I call and get met by 6 7 off suit and A Q off suit. The flop produces all low cards making a straight possibility for one player. However, nothing comes on turn or river to help either player and I take one out and cripple the other one and in the process almost triple up! YES, i’m back in the game!

And so quickly i’m out of the game. For some reason I go all in after flop with 3 10 7 on board and me holding pocket 8’s. Some sort of brain disorder I guess. Well, I got called by 10 6 suited and my night was over. Not sure why I thought my 8’s were good there. Had a massive brain fart and threw away a chance at some free money. Oh well, I was also running up against the clock to go to work so maybe that had something to do with it.

There is always next time. Smack Dog signing off.

Let’s Gamble,
SmackDog

Smack Dog Poker is pleased to announce that Paradise Poker will be hosting one of our December Leagues! Paradise Poker is one of the largest and most reputable online poker rooms in the world. Sponsoring such events as the Million Dollar Free Roll, $100k weekly tournaments, and many more fun and exciting tournaments and ring games!

Smack Dog Poker is excited to be once again working with Paradise Poker in an online league for my members. See the sign up thread in the forum in order to take advantage of some great offers by Paradise Poker and Smack Dog Poker.

When you sign up with Paradise Poker using a Smack Dog Banner, you will receive your 25% initial deposit bonus match as well as a $10 tournament ticket from Smack Dog Poker. This tournament ticket gains you entry to a weekly satellite to give you a chance to qualify for the weekly $100,000 tournament on Sunday evening! The winner of this event takes home $20,000!!!

Sign up for Smack Dog Poker League Here

Let’s Gamble,

SmackDog

November is almost over and so are the November Leagues at Smack Dog Poker. We completed our 7th league event at Absolute Poker this afternoon with Odessa2 taking top honors. Odessa2 not only won $10 to add to the bankroll, but also earned 10 Smack Dog League Points. This vaulted Odessa2 into the top 15. The top 15 players receive an invite to the league finals where someone will walk away with additional cash and prizes and the coveted Smack Dog League Champions Bracelet!

The top 15 players after event 7 are as follows:

Rank - Points - Name

1 - 54 - sb36pats

2 - 52 - Drauger

3 - 34 - mud shark

4 - 24 - marleybob1
4 - 24 - chevyman20

6 - 20 - ruth99

7 - 18 - shyababy

8 - 17 - Luckysoandso1
8 - 17 - joker63

10 - 14 - HOKIEFAN816

11 - 13 - Sleebz

12 - 11 - fyocouch

13 - 10 - george25
13 - 10 - Arjon
13 - 10 - Odessa2

Our Absolute Poker League has been our most succesful league to date, with todays event setting a new attendance record of 114 players! Way to go Smack Dog’s!

League Event #8 is coming up on November 30th and will start at 8:30 pm (EST). This event will award double points to the top ten finishers and when it is over we will have our final 15 and be set to crown a league champion on December 2nd.

Don’t forget to sign up for our December League at Titan Poker! This league will feature 1 free roll and one buy in event per week. The buy in events have been reduced to $3 for this league. I hope all you Absolute Poker Players can make it over to Titan a couple times a week to win more cash and prizes.

Let’s Gamble,

SmackDog

Well, congrats to Muckinpizza, who took home top honors this afternoon at the $50 Absolute Poker League Event #3!

We had a great turn out of 87 players today and I hope we can continue that turn out at our next event!

Smack Dog Poker is committed to brining you high quality free online poker leagues for your enjoyment. Here is the top 10 in the points standings after 3 events:

1 - ruth99 - 20 points
1 - Drauger - 20

3 - sb36pats - 18

4 - chevyman20 - 16

5 - hokiefan816 - 14

6 - fyocouch - 11

7 - rake06 - 10

8 - btown32 - 9

9 - marleybob1 - 7

9 - joker63 - 7

11 - woodsy44 - 6

11 - st_h - 6

13 - forrests_gal - 5

13 - sleebz - 5

15- hookshot - 4

The top 15 players at leagues end will advance to the finals, where the winner will walk away with cash, plus the Smack Dog Champions Bracelet!

Let’s Gamble,

SmackDog