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CakePoker Easter Long Weekend Full of WSOP and Satellites

We’ve stuffed the Easter long weekend full of WSOP* and new Hef’s Mansion satellites!

Add yourself to our growing list of World Series prize pack winners in your choice of two direct qualifiers. Saturday’s $10 R&A will take you to Event #52, a $1500 NL bracelet event and Sunday’s WSOP* $12k Final puts you in this summer’s main event in Vegas!

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Hef’s MansionSunshine, LA, and a Celebrity Poker Tournament in Beverly Hills. Sound good? Jump in a satellite under the Events tab today to earn a seat in our first Hef’s Mansion qualifier playing Thursday, March 27th. You could find yourself among Hef’s girls in a Celebrity Poker Tournament May 17th, 2008 in California! Full details coming soon.

Check out our full live event schedule under the Events tab within Tournaments or check for more details in our CakePoker Promotions page.

Good luck & Happy Easter,

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Full Tilt Poker Team Email updated on 3-18-2008

Affiliate Newsletter March 2008 The year is flying by, so don’t miss the opportunity to build your business and reach new players. This month we have plenty of new features and promotions designed to help you build your brand and your player base. WSOP* Qualifiers are Running Now New Features The Doubles - Now with a $1 Million Bonus CAC Amsterdam - April 3rd - 5th WSOP* Qualifiers are Running Now The World Series of Poker* is the world’s biggest poker event - and it’s a great chance to attract new players. Everyone wants a shot at the big time, so make sure you let your players know all the ways they can win a Main Event package at Full Tilt Poker. This year our Race to the Main Event is giving players an opportunity to win one of three completely free seats every week through June 22nd. There are also weekly real money guarantee tournaments on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with buy-ins ranging from $200 + $16 to $1,000 + $60 and satellites starting from just $2 + $.25 or 50 Full Tilt Poker points. Remind your players to bookmark their calendars for the 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee on June 15th - with 50 more guaranteed $12K packages than last year, this is the largest Main Event qualifier we’ve ever run. Make sure your players know if they win their Main Event seat at Full Tilt Poker they’ll automatically qualify for our $10 Million Main Event Mania, and if they win more than one Main Event package, they could become our King of the Series and experience the royal treatment in Las Vegas. We also have the Race for Bracelets and a chance to win a seat at the $50K HORSE event for your players who are interested in playing in more than just the Main Event. Remember to check out the Affiliate Center for new banners, and please follow the guidelines provided by Harrah’s regarding the use of their trademark and logos in online and offline advertising. New Features New Features Keep your site fresh and point your players back to the tables by telling them about our great new features, including… Tournament Dollars (T$) - Players will now have the option to un-register from satellites they have qualified for and will receive the equivalent buy-in in T$, which they can use to enter any other tournament or Sit & Go on our site. T$ can even be combined with real money to buy into tournaments, and can be exchanged for real money through the Cashier. Auto Top-Up and Sit Out Next BB - If players decide to set their buy-in at a default level and their stack falls below that limit, Auto Top-Up will automatically add chips before the start of the next hand. Players at speed tables will now be able to choose to be dealt out from the next blind from any position at the table by ticking the Sit Out Next BB. Player Notes in Main Lobby - If a player clicks on a ring game table, they’ll be able to see if they have notes on the seated players along with the color code they assigned. Color code indicators will also be available in all tournament and Sit & Go lobbies. Players will also be able to roll their mouse over a player’s name and see the notes they have made.   The Doubles - Now with a $1 Million Bonus The Doubles - Now with a $1 Million Bonus! We have three daily progressive jackpots that your players would love to know about. The Early Double, Daily Double and Big Double - each involves two tournaments starting simultaneously with a jackpot that pays out if a player performs well in both events. There’s plenty of ways to get a share of the jackpot, plus if a player wins each of the six individual Doubles tournaments in one calendar month, we’ll reward them with a $1 million bonus! Visit Us at CAC Amsterdam - April 3rd - 5th The Full Tilt Poker Affiliate Team will be at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam from April 3rd through the 5th. If you’re attending, be sure to stop by our booth to say hello and to find out all of the ways we can help you grow your business with Full Tilt Poker.   Sincerely, The Full Tilt Poker Affiliate Team Learn From the Pros - www.FullTiltPoker.com. You received this email because you are an affiliate of Full Tilt Poker. To be removed from this List, visit: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/unsub.php *World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (”Harrah’s”). Harrah’s does not sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with Full Tilt Poker, or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

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The history of poker - where did it come from?

The history of poker is not exactly clear until this date and then it is still even confusing and hard to understand. There are so many different stories trying to justify the history of the poker game. We do know, however, that the poker beginning dates all the way back before Jesus Christ, thousands of years ago. What we know as poker has changed many times over. The game itself used to only have 3 cards and did not have suits like we know today. Trading from kingdom to kingdom is what allowed card games and poker in general to become the popular game it is today.
Poker history and all the texas holdem poker games have developed extremely over the years. This game was once the choice of thieves, pirates and people with lower than normal ethics. Poker became associated with smoke filled rooms and dirty street clubs come the turn of the century. The idea of poker has changed these days, the smoke rooms are limited and not allowed by most poker halls, there are professional poker announcers, there are so many tournaments available through the internet now, the world poker tour, the wsop, poker training is now a game about skill, not luck.
Today’s poker is tomorrow’s poker history and it seems to have features to receive a welcome from all classes of people. People are simply beginning to love poker.

Poker history tracks back to times when the game was played with real money, later on it was replaced with clay chips and now it has graduated to being played with metal chips, plastic chips etcetera. The traditional concept of money and bet still remains, but it has just undergone some modifications in betting structure and strategies.

Poker history has expressed probability from the following:-
• Domino cards that were used by the Chinese
• As Nas Persian card games
• Ganjifa Indian card games
• Poque French card games
• Primero Spanish card games

These are some of the common card games associated with games tracking back to old age resemblance to poker. The poker history relating to the term poker is also quite confusing and related to many things like:-
• The name could have been because it was played by pickpockets it is called poker
• Could have been derived from the Indian term Pukka
• Could have been derived from the French term Poque
• Could have been derived from the German term Pochspiel
• Could have been derived form the words used by magicians like hocus-pocus

What ever could be the poker history, there is one thing common in all these games and that is betting and tricking to win the game. All other forms of poker games are not widely played in every country. The current age card game with 52 decks is being played throughout the world these days.

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