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Reefer Poker Announces Surf's Up Promotion to Celebrate Launch of New Online CasinoBeach.com

Malta, June 29, 2010 - ReeferPoker.com, in partnership with ReeferCasino.com, has announced the launch of their new online casino partner; CasinoBeach.com.

As part of the launch promo for this new Real Time Gaming casino, the group of sites, which includes the social network ReeferPeople.com, has created a promotion that has players visiting all of their sites on a hunt for branded surfboards.

In appreciation of all the women poker players, well actually, in appreciation of all women in general, especially those that are mothers and most especially those that are marijuana smoking mothers, Reefer Poker announced that they would be hosting a special "Mothers Day Poker Tournament". This event is planned for Saturday May 8th at 4:20 PM (CST), intentionally scheduled for the day before the official Mother's Day, just in case the family has plans that may be more important (ie. day at the spa or special family dinner etc...) but we certainly know how some marijuana mom's love to play poker....

To make this tournament even more meaningful Reefer Poker decided to match 100% of the player buy-ins for this tournament and send them to the American Cancer Society to aid them in their ongoing efforts to combat breast cancer. Obviously this is a disease that touches so many people in our lives, and this weekend, with Mother's Day, it is even higher in people's minds.

Reefer Poker is adding $200 to the $3 tournament prize pool, and then matching the entire player buy-in total and donating that amount through Cancer.org. The "Mothers Day Poker Tournament" will be held on Saturday, May 8 at 4:20 pm Reefer Poker time, which is the equivalent of 5:20 pm Eastern Daylight Time.

The $100,000 Poker Freeroll Tournament (main event) will take place on Sunday, May 30th at 14:00 (Reefer Poker Time) and will award $100,000 cash total, with $20,000 being awarded to the Poker tournament winner.

There is NO Direct entry into the $100,000 Main Event, poker players MUST win their seat into this special freeroll through one of the FOUR methods listed here: Reefer Poker $100k Freeroll
The top 500 players will advance to the $100,000 Freeroll Main Event. Players are only eligible to win 1 seat into the $100,000 Poker Freeroll final.

Pot odds are one of the most important parts related to a Texas hold'em poker game, odds are important in any poker game. Pot odds are related to the relationship of the size of the tables pot which is then compared to the size of the bet you will have to call. A good example would be, if the pot is at $40 and you would only need to call $4. In this case the odds are 10 to 1. You can relate your pot to the odds that you will improve your hand to decide of you is going to call. If your odds of improving are lower than your pot odds then you would want to call the hand. You will want to remember when playing any form of hold'em poker that there can be two different players who will not understand the idea of pot odds.

The first are player they will play very tight. They will fold even when the pot odds would make it profitable for them to call the hand. The second are poker players that will call any hand to the river even when they should know that they are beat. These second set of poker player is where the real money is at. If you can learn how to use pot odds to your advantage you will be able to profit from these kinds of players mistakes. There are more advanced concepts like implied odds and reverse implied odds that can also help you profit from weak player. You just need to remember that poker is a game of math not luck. If you learn the math behind it you will end up a winner in the end.

If you want to learn more about math behind poker odds there are many different books you could read. I would suggest starting out by reading Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No Limit, and Tournament Strategies by Mathew Hilger. This book will give you the tools need to understand everything you need to know about odds and everything about odds percentages and poker. The book has many tests and charts to help you out. Well, do your homework and you'll be winning poker games in no time.

Michael Bush is the Webmaster of www.smallstakespoker.net Strategies and Tools for winning at Small Stakes Limit Texas Holdem

For over two years Reefer Poker have been one of the top performing poker rooms on the Merge Network and were amongst the first brands to build a poker community featuring the popular Merge poker room management system. Around 40,000 players have registered to play Merge through Reefer Poker and from the beginning the relationship has been super-symbiotic, as the two teams collaborated on the development of versions 2 through versions 4. The evolution of a brilliant poker platform has been realized, and now the stakes are about to be raised, in a major way, since the network is preparing to welcome it's 40th poker brand, and this time the communities and player base of that brand, is larger by far than the original sum of the previous 36 brands.

Merge Network, Reefer Poker and every other brand on the system is about to experience a quantum leap forward in player activity, player registration, and an overall increase in the amount of money played, with more higher limit cash games and way more variety of cash tournaments.

The level of excitement at Reefer Poker is palpable as the group have planned some very exciting announcements as we approach 4/20. We promise to continue trying to blow people's minds with our strategic marketing.

To date our most new players in a single month was approximately 5,000, which unto itself may be a record considering the low amount of money spent to win those players from our competitors, in a very tough market during competitive times, reeferpoker.com wins hands down in it's word of mouth, social/guerilla marketing.

After more than 2 years building the Reefer Poker brand our community has reached a steady maturity and earned a great reputation for fairness and honesty with our partners and customers. At the end of the day it's been a great steady stream of fun poker but the best part has been the sub-niche "reefer", a very unique and loyal affinity group. We are the poker room for pot heads, there's no other game online for weed smokers and the sheer number of poker playing weed smokers, just in California alone, let alone the entire web population, is staggering! It's a huge niche inside a 100 million player market but it's also the most well established sub-culture, super hip society (this moment), due to positive portrayals in movies, pop culture icons, athletes and celebrities who smoke weed, caused the overall sentiment surrounding reefer to shift, at a time of great legal change in the U.S. market, at a time with medical marijuana in 15 states and California voting to legalize altogether. So the reality is, for the purpose of developing a massive online community, that the cannabis culture demographic is the most ideal group on the planet.

Reefer Poker has reached a size where it is self-sustainable due to the loyalty amongst our members. We love our poker community, love playing poker with you, and love being part of the Merge Network.

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Reefer Poker wants to send players to the World Series of Poker so they're offering event packages as tournament prizes.

• Daily - $1 + .10 Rebuy Tournament - 8:20 pm Eastern - For every 12 players one will earn a coupon for the WSOP 2500 $11 Satellite


• Daily - $5 + .50 Satellite - 9:20 pm Eastern - For every 11 players one will earn a coupon for the WSOP 2500 Main Event


• Tues, Thurs, Sat - $11 + 1 Satellite - 10:20 pm Eastern - For every 5 players one will earn a coupon for the WSOP 2500 Main Event


• Wed - Freeroll with $1 R&A - 10:20 pm Eastern - Winner receives a WSOP 2500 Main Event entry


• Sunday, April 11 - $50 + 5 10:20 PM - Main Event - For every 50 players, a $2,500 WSOP package will be awarded

Every week there's a great bounty poker tournament on Reefer Poker on Thursday night at 20:00 Reefer Time with an entry fee of just $3 + .30 for a No-Limit Holdem Tournament with no rebuys, where everyone begins with 1,500 starting chips then we play 15 min blinds with antes. The thrill of the game though, is winning a $30 bounty on RPDave, or $30 bounty on previous week's tourney winner TheRealVVViper and $10 bounty on any other RP staff that you knock out of the game. Guess what? There's also a bounty on ReeferSmoke! Plus a $50 bounty when we have a special guest/pro poker player.

NOTE: Tonight's Special Guests will be CiaoBush and xXlimogalXx and next Thursday 3/4 the Special Guests will be reefer96822 and whitewidow9999.

Reefer Love is the name of the newest event at Reefer Poker where players are awarded with a free coupon to a $200 added Reefer Love tournament by winning a poker hand with a heart flush.

Details: From Saturday, Feb 13 through midnight on Sunday Feb 14 any player that wins a cash (ring) game hand with a heart flush, using both of their hole cards, will earn a free coupon to a $5 + .50 tournament with $200 added that will be held on Monday Feb 15th. Only games of Texas Holdem will qualify for this promotion, and both SnG and multi-table tournaments will be excluded. Players that have the qualifying hands must email love@reeferpoker.com with the winning hand number. After verifying that the hand qualifies, players will be awarded their coupons on Monday, February 15 at least 2 hours prior to the start of the tournament.

So don't be shy, whip-out that big sticky cola, roll it up and show some love, enjoy it with your sweet hearts....

What is it that makes the Weekend 420 Poker Tournament on Reefer Poker so much fun? Could it be hanging-out with the coolest people online? Or is it just the thrill of the game and the love of the ganja?

Every Saturday and Sunday at 4:20 Reefer Time they host a $4.20 + $0.00 (yup, no fee) tournament with $50 cash added, PLUS an exclusive, highly coveted and cool Reefer Poker Prize Pack for the winner! This is your chance to really "smoke the competition"!

The Reefer Poker Prize Pack consists of a Reefer Poker shirt, hat, papers, and stickers, and will be sent to your address on file. If you are the winner.

On February 28, 2008 (2.28.2008 = full house) Reefer Poker enjoyed the most successful launch of an online poker room in the history of the Internet. As the second year anniversary approaches the managing partners are very enthusiastic about what lies ahead for this counter culture iGaming company and are planning a series of events and promotions to celebrate the anniversary with the 50,000 registered players that made it happen, to give back cash because that's how they roll.

California has so far been the most important market for Reefer Poker and the founders believe that they've played a part in helping to dispel the age old myth started by "Reefer Madness" that marijuana was bad or evil; they've done this by supporting the pro-marijuana movement and advocates. In many ways the brand has become another loud voice for rallying cannabis activism. Also, Reefer Poker worked alongside the leading organizations and chapters to promote the reformation of marijuana laws.

During January take part in the Reefer Tourney Madness and earn free cash and tournament entries simply by making your next deposit!

Select any ONE of the 3 following offers;

1. Deposit $100 - receive a free $11.00 tournament entry PLUS $5 FREE CASH (after earning only 100 VIP points) PLUS be entered into the $2,000 Reefer Depositors Freeroll. Enter code MADNESS100
2. Deposit $200 - receive 2 free $11.00 tournament entries PLUS $10 FREE CASH (after earning only 200 VIP points) PLUS be entered into the $2,000 Reefer Depositors Freeroll. Enter code MADNESS200
3. Deposit $300 or more - receive 3 free $11.00 tournament entries PLUS $15 FREE (after earning only 300 VIP points) PLUS be entered into the $2,000 Reefer Depositors Freeroll. Enter code MADNESS100 - Visit Reefer Poker to learn more.

Why do many of the best poker players in the world smoke weed? What is it about marijuana that gives the smoker an advantage in tournament poker? These are questions that get asked more often than you'd expect and not just at online poker rooms such as Reefer Poker, which obviously, by it's namesake, cater to the hoards from the cannabis culture, who are in their own homes and have chosen to play with other like-minded individuals but what about the Poker Pros we see on TV?

Many Professional Poker players who compete in high-stakes tournaments, often televised, such as the World Series of Poker on ESPN, are known to be chronic marijuana smokers. California and Nevada have booming businesses in medical marijuana, it's fast, simple, and affordable to acquire a license in Las Vegas to smoke marijuana legally and once licensed an entire catalog of medicinal marijuana is available to the patient/card player. Various cannabis strains have recommendations for various ailments as well as reviews and testimonials of the effects of smoking, plus a qualified bud-tender is always on hand at the cannabis dispensary, to suggest certain types or strains that are best suited for playing poker.

Let's drop the Hollywood stoner stereotype for the sake of this discussion and consider that a Poker Pro has been smoking weed for 10 years or more and is good at bluffing (that he's not stoned) and after a break only his closest friends, or whomever he's been smoking with, has any idea that he's just quaffed (ie. Smoked) a reefer of the strongest, medicinal grade cannabis, known to mankind, and now he has his Poker-face on, behind a relaxed nonchalant looking, often smiling face. However his heart is beating slightly faster but more importantly a part of his brain that is usually not very active has now kicked-in to high-gear and the Poker Pro is collecting detailed information about his opponents that they're not even aware he can read. In short, the Card player high on marijuana is like a poker scientist in stealth mode. As a side note: I've referred to the Poker Pro as "he" because the vast majority of Pro's are male but I happen to know that female poker pros also regularly play high, especially online.

During this holiday season the Reefer Group of sites would like to present you with some free presents! To make this fun, they have hidden 3 presents on each of their sites; Reefer Poker, Reefer People, and Reefer Casino, you have to find them!

When you find a present, (and they're pretty easy to spot), simply click on them to collect. When you find 3, you will earn a tournament entry coupon for the weekly Stoners vs Staff tournament on Reefer Poker. When you have found 5 presents you will win $5 cash on Reefer Poker. Find all 9 and you will receive $10 cash on Reefer Casino, PLUS entered into a draw to win one of the gifts for yourself.

Details:
The 9 presents will be images of traditional wrapped Christmas gifts which will be placed on the 3 participating websites. A banner with the promo name and graphic will be on the home page of each site, which link to content (below) on the promotions page of Poker and Casino, and Community section of People
Each different present will "open" when clicked, and will show one of the following gifts, subject to change;
~ $50 Gift Certificate at Grass City
~ Poker Chip Set
~ $50 Reefer Casino Player Account
~ iPod Nano
~ Snowshoes
~ $50K Tournament Entry
~ Cheech & Chong DVD Set
~ $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
~ $50 Reefer Poker Player Account
When the first gift is clicked on a pop-up form will appear that will ask you for your email address. This is the email address that we will use to send you notification of any prizes that you win, so please enter it carefully.

On the last Sunday of every month the Reefer Community get's together online for a major Poker tournament. The good folks at Reefer Poker say that the Pot would be a pound of B.C. Bud if laws would permit but instead they share $3,000 in cash prizes amongst the top 100 players, with the first prize being $750, second prize $420 and third prize $225, that would buy lot's of weed no matter where in the world you live but that's just one of the things that makes the Reefer Community Freeroll so much fun, the other is that over 1,200 players join in, from more than 50 countries and you can bet that most of them are smoking ganja while they play poker and socialize.

Reefer Poker host other Freeroll Poker Tournaments aside from the Reefer Community Freeroll, they host a $1,000 Depositors Freeroll each month for any player who makes a deposit that month, then a $500 New Depositor Freeroll for first time depositors, then the $50 Freeroll for new players that have downloaded the Poker client and are playing on the free tables.

The Reefer Poker Winter Series includes 8 separate tournaments over a 4 week period. There will be 8 regular events, and then a final freeroll event open only to top finishers of previous events and leaderboard top places.

Regular events are open to all registered players on Reefer Poker, with added prizes to the top players on the leaderboard.

Final event will be open to top 10 finishers from each of the 8 regular events plus the top 20 positions on the leaderboard for a maximum player count of 100.

Regular Event Details:
• RP League Winter Series I
• Mondays & Thursdays, 21:15 Reefer Time (9:15 pm Eastern)
• Nov 16, 19, 23, 30 December 3, 7, 10, 14
• $5.00 + .50
• No rebuys or add-ons
• Winner of each of the first 8 events to receive an added coupon to an Aussie Millions satellite tournament worth $60

Final Event Date & Details:
• RP League WSI Final Event
• Thursday December 17, 21:15 Reefer Time (9:15 pm Eastern)
• Restricted Entry - Coupons

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Wake 'N' Bake Tournaments on Reefer Poker - That's right...get up early and get online with Reefer Poker! They added money to this weekend morning rebuy tourney, happening at 10:20 AM Reefer Time every weekend morning. (That's 4:20 GMT of course)

Every Saturday and Sunday morning Reefer Poker host a $20 added, $2 + $0.20 with $2 rebuys and one $2 add-on tournament.

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The Reefer community brings together open-minded people who make their own decisions and feel good about the decisions they make, despite what others think about the plant we love to smoke, or how we choose to live. Playing poker together online is just another expression of our desire to be free from the dogma that hangs-up so many, over such petty things, like a harmless plant or a deck of playing cards.

Our mission with the Reefer brand is to unite the masses we call "Reefer Culture" for the purpose of peace, fun and good-times. Tomorrow (Sunday October 25th) is just such a day, when the Reefer Community get's together online, in the masses, over a thousand strong, just because we like to. The $3,000 prize pool makes it all the more interesting but what is so cool is that most of the people who come out to play, love to smoke ganja.

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Guaranteed Tournaments are generally multi-table tournaments with more than 10 players. Guaranteed means that there is a guaranteed prize pool, no matter how many entrants are in the tournament. Guaranteed tournaments have a buy-in and entry fee. Usually the prize pool is guaranteed above the maximum number of players in the tournament, this ensures bigger prizes even if there are only a few tables competing.

Some Guaranteed tournaments have "rebuys" and "add-ons", noted as an R/A tournament. This means that if you bust out (lose all of your chips) you can "re-buy" into the tournament and continue to play (same as the original buy-in amount). An add-on is usually offered at the first break, in which the re-buy period ends. Add-ons give those who are short stacked a chance to "top up" their chips (generally the same as the original buy-in amount). Some tournaments have "double add-on" which will give you twice as many chips as the starting chip count, but for the same cost of an original buy-in.

A freeze out tournament means there are no rebuys, once you lose all of your chips, you are out of the tournament.

NEW! $50,000 Guaranteed Tournament each and every Sunday on Reefer Poker.