Poker Affiliate

This is the time of year that I’m swamped with work covering the World Series of Poker. The World Series of Poker is a great time to do poker SEO and get the ball rolling on your sites. I spend 8 hours a day watching chip counts and keeping track of who’s on a streak or not. Phil Hellmuth is always fun to watch!

For me, the 2010 WSOP Player’s Championship is the most important event other than the main event. Well, it’s the most important for SEO because it signifies what cash game players have the bankroll or backers to play in the toughest tournament of the year. Here is are the current chip counts in the 2010 WSOP Player’s championship:

1
Alexander Kostritsyn1,620,000
-30,000Moscow
-
Russia
2
David Oppenheim1,170,000
+280,000Calabasas
CA
United States
3
Mikael Thuritz1,060,000
+180,000-
-
Sweden
4
Vladimir Schmelev820,000
-10,000St Petersburg
-
Russia
5
Nick Schulman820,000
+160,000New York
NY
United States
6
Lyle Berman810,000
+545,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
7
Erik Sagstrom730,000
+85,000Goteborg
-
Sweden
8
James Van Alstyne730,000
+10,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
9
Michael Mizrachi720,000
+30,000Miami
FL
United States
10
Andy Bloch688,000
-12,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
11
Erik Seidel680,000
+70,000Henderson
NV
United States
12
Abe Mosseri640,000
-New York
NY
United States
13
Robert Mizrachi630,000
-196,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
14
Eli Elezra610,000
+400,000Henderson
NV
United States
15
David Singer605,000
-60,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
16
Kirk Morrison570,000
-10,000Wichita
KS
United States
17
Cole South570,000
-30,000Richmond
VA
United States
18
David Baker540,000
+165,000Rochester Hills
MI
United States
19
Brett Richey528,000
-52,000New York
NY
United States
20
Ilya Bulychev460,000
-30,500-
-
Germany
21
Hasan Habib415,000
+255,000Downey
CA
United States
22
Allen Bari340,000
+200,000West Orange
NJ
United States
23
John Juanda305,000
-45,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
24
Daniel Alaei300,000
+15,000Los Angeles
CA
United States
25
Chris Ferguson290,000
+110,000Pacific Palisades
CA
United States
26
Nikolay Evdakov160,000
-150,000Moscow
-
Russia
27
David Steicke145,000
-175,000Rome
-
Italy
28
Joseph Serock115,000
-215,000Albuquerque
NM
United States

Hot poker babes in the WSOP are also great to write about and post pics. Trust me, these get great traffic that returns for many years to come. Like poker player Samantha Ryan Photos :

The Poker News and WSOP.com coverage has been horrible from the sites crashing. This is the time to take advantage of that and promote your own site! Full Tilt Poker is even covering all there pros at the 2010 WSOP with their WSOP series coverage page.

Full Tilt Poker signs Annette Obrestad

Annette Obrestad is now sponsored by Full Tilt Poker. The news has come shortly before her first entry into a World Series of Poker event in the United States. She is no stranger to the WSOP, since she has won a WSOP main event, it’s just that the one she won was in Europe. I’m pretty sure Betfair could no longer sponsor her because of UK laws in advertising. Sorrel Mizzi also departed a few months back. This is great news for Full Tilt since Annette and Tilt make a perfect match. Imagine sitting down with Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, and Annette Obrestad. That would be one sick short handed table!

As a poker affiliate, I look for news like this to post on my poker affiliate blog and other poker blogs. This is the kind of news that gets traffic. Be sure to research poker news daily looking for stories like this and perhaps even some poker gossip from Twitter.

Be sure to check out the recent interview with Annette Obrestad on Full Tilt Poker’s Poker From the Rail.

He has frustrated players for years online. He has played the best players in the world both live and online and won money from them all. He is also one of the newest Full Tilt Poker pros on the roster, and now, he has his own commercial. This he is Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The newest Full Tilt Poker commercial features a rather dapper looking Dwan going up to a table with a mirror and then explaining to viewers how he started playing poker. In the mirror you see Dwan’s idols playing and Dwan imitating them. The pros he “imitates” are Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. Finally, Dwan explains that he learned to play like himself.

A very simple ad, but the commercial has impact. Dwan is one of the first Full Tilt red pros that have been featured in a commercial that rose to superstar status after the “Poker Boom.” Dwan is most known for his high stakes play both online and on television. Only in the last couple of years has Dwan been eligible to play in live tournaments, but he primarily sticks to the live games online where he won and lost Millions.

Dwan made headlines last year for starting up the Million Dollar Poker Challenge with Patrik Antonius. This 50,000 hand challenge is still going on with Dwan currently holding a commanding lead. However, it was a relative unknown that made the biggest headlines against durrrr. Last year, Isildur1 racked up over $5 Million in winnings in a short time span against durrrr before losing it all back to other pros.

Since that loss, Dwan has rebounded strong and has erased most of that loss. He also is among the leaders this year in money won online. Of course, now that Dwan is beginning to be marketed heavily by Full Tilt, it will be interesting to see whether he can keep up an aggressive online schedule while meeting his obligations. One thing is for certain and that is wherever Dwan is playing, fans will surely rail.

Full Tilt Poker just released a cool new way to play poker and it’s called Rush Poker. Rush Poker is a new fast paced way to play poker. Having played 370 hands in little over an hour mostly on one screen, I can say it’s truly awesome. Rush poker allows players to simply fold their hand out of order without the rest of the table knowing, and the player gets moved to another table with the cards being instantly dealt. This creates ultra fast play and is conducive to tight and loose players alike. Loose players can make moves on people stealing blinds preflop, and tight players can simply keep folding hands until they get AA KK AK or QQ etc etc.

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Rush poker is going to be great for MGR poker affiliates. If you have a poker blog or website, I suggest you start promoting Rush Poker right away and switch to MGR.

2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Results

The 2009 World Series of Poker Main event is finally over after over 20 hours of final table play. The final table went on so long that they had to postpone the heads up play until Monday night. Darvin Moon played Joe Cada heads up for the bracelet. For the complete results of the 2009 World Series of Poker.

Tom Dwan

There is an official press release from Full Tilt Poker, that Tom Dwan has been signed as a team member. Tom Dwan goes by the screen name of Durrrr, and has been one of the top money making online poker players in the world.
Tom is not just a Red Pro, but a full fledged Full Tilt Team member. It is unknown how much money Tom Dwan got to sign up his contract for, but I’m sure it’s a lucrative deal. Typically team members have a 4% stake in the company, but the figures are not public.

There a plans for a Tom Dwan Blog, and other webpages including a Tom “durrrr” Dwan Bio, were added to Full Tilt Poker featuring Durrrr. And the durrrr challenge VS Patrik Antonius is sure to continue. Durrrr is well ahead in that match.

What will the new durrrr avatar look like?

Tom has made millions as an online poker player, and knows how to make money with online poker. Durrrr’s best game is NL Texas Holdem Poker and has millions of hands played under his belt. It is said that he has more hands played at age 23 online than all the other Full Tilt team members combined.

Congratulations to Tom and Full Tilt Poker!

In what has to be the most expensive misread of a poker hand (if he doesn’t win), Phil Ivey mucks the winning hand at the 2009 WSOP main event.

Father Andrew Trapp just won 100k in the Pokerstars Million Dollar Challenge on Fox, now hes going for $1,000,000.00. Father Trapp gave his winnings to his church. Father Trapp won his first 100k vs Daniel Negreanu on national television under the watchful eye of Catholics who think gambling is bad.