It would be free books plus safe money. Cardoza Poker, the same poker room that offer 4 free poker books to our players, launched a great promotion this week, that will go until November 30th 2008.

The basics: if you make your first deposit, you get a 50% ALL-IN PROTECTION. This mean that, if you lose the money you spent, you get 50% back. Let’s say you deposit $50 on this month of November. If everything goes wrong, and you lose all your money, Cardoza gives you 50% back.

You can find the conditions to the promotion on their site.

Remember that, by using the bonus code FOURBOOKS , you will get four free poker books after your deposit, as soon as you acquire 10 Cardoza Points (one hour of play should be enough). You also get 200% bonus on your deposit.

If you were thinking about making a deposit on a poker room, now it would be the best time, on Cardoza Poker.

His book: Power Hold’em Strategy is a masterpiece of Texas Hold’em poker strategy, containing many helpful hand examples, and focusing in tournament no limit holdem. Sections deal with specific topics like heads-up games, short-handed tables and bluffing. Negreanu discusses what he calls the “small ball strategy”, and how it can be excellent against aggressive players.

The book also have good chapters written by young poker pros like Evelyn Ng, Todd Brunson, David Williams, Paul Wasicka and Erick Lindgren. These sections deal with specifics like online play, short-handed cash games, “mixing it up”, high limit cash games.

However, most of the book was written by Daniel Negreanu, with a writing style that will impress a lot of readers that didn’t like other poker books.

This 504 pages book is a must read for anyone interested in improving their no limit holdem tournament play. You can find this book on the Cardoza Bookstore.

The buy-in is not cheap ($1500+80), but you can get there a lot cheaper with their satellites.

Qualifying satellite tournaments are divided in stage one (giving tickets to the main tournament) and stage two (giving tickets to stage one satellites).

• Stage One Satellites: from $8 to $160 buy-in, running daily.
• Stage Two Satellites: from $3 to $18 buy-in, running many times daily.

This is a great chance for a big pay-out. The winner alone will be awarded with one million dollars or even more.

To participate, all you have to do is play in ring games, from the limits $0.5/$1 and up. There will be a leaderboard of raked hands, divided according to the limits you play (in US dollars):

• $0.5 / $1 and $1 / $2 : prizes to the top 40 of the week.
• $2 / $4 and $3 / $6 : prizes to the top 30 of the week.
• $5 / $10 and $10 / $20 : prizes to the top 20 of the week.
• $25 / $50 and up : prizes to the top 10 of the week.

That’s U$30,000 in cash per week and 100 players will get their share. In the lower limits more players will get prizes, but the highest limits will get the highest amount of cash.

Head to the tables and be one of the winners of this month!

Extra Cash Bonus!
I any of our players make it to one the leaderboards, get one poker book for free!

Cake Poker Game Selection

The no-limit Texas Holdem games are where you will find the majority of the action at Cake Poker. More than 7,500 simultaneous players at peak times ensure that there is always a good selection of tables to choose from. Betting levels start at just 10c / 20c and the majority of the action is at $2 / $4 and below. 6-player cash games are very popular in addition to the full ring games – heads-up poker games can also be found at Cake.

Omaha and Stud poker are available at Cake Poker, though only busy during the peak periods. The tournament selection (including SNG tournaments) is growing rapidly, with a range of satellites and freerolls alongside the regular tournament schedule. The weekly showcase ‘$150k Guaranteed’ tournament runs each Sunday

Cake Poker Software And Service

The ‘designed by players for players’ is obvious as soon as you begin to play poker at this site. The main benefit of this site is the smooth and clean game-play, in addition to some nice graphics with their mock 3d view.

Cake Poker’s lobby is clearly laid out, the ‘top level’ split being between cash games and tournaments before seeing tabs for the different poker variations. The tables can then be quickly sorted by seat availability and buy-in levels.

An innovative feature is the ‘time at tables’ display – showing that Cake Poker take responsible gaming seriously. Their customer service is available via e-mail 24/7, expect fast turn around times and clear responses to any query.

Cake Poker Bonuses And Promotions

Cake Poker offer regular incentives to both new and regular players alike. The generous 100% to $500 Cake Poker sign-up bonus is further boosted by our ‘2 Free Books’ offer when using bonus code FREEBOOK. For more information check the page: Cake Poker Promotion. New players at Cake are also invited to join numerous freerolls and enrolled on both the ‘Gold Chip’ and ‘Gold Card’ reward schemes. Regulars at Cake Poker will also be rewarded – with regular ‘reload bonuses’ and the chance to spend accumulated points in the Cake Poker online store.

Cake Poker – Final Overview

Cake Poker offer a nice combination of player-friendly interface, generous promotions and a growing game selection. One of a small number of US-friendly poker sites to have maintained significant growth over the past couple of years, Cakes focus on the players should see this growth continue.

This review was written by one of our readers. If you want to submit your articles or reviews, contact us!

Not only you get a chance at the money but, if you finish in the first 20 places you get points for the Cardoza Freeroll League.

These points will accumulate, and at the end of the month, $300 will be distributed between the 20 best players in the league.

Every week, four lucky depositors will win $250 each.

The minimum deposit in $25, and every week that you put money on your account you will get a new chance.

There will be four drawings, with a total of 16 winners until june 30th 2008.

Good luck!

1. $500 no deposit bonus, released in increments as you get
MyPokerPoints (MPPs).

2. $2,500 freeroll on June 28th, 2008 7 pm UK time. The requirement
for this tournament is only 1 MPP acquired during june 2008. Send an
e-mail to us to receive your password. (CHECK OUR FPB BOOST BELOW)

3. $5,000 freeroll on June 29th, 2008 7 pm UK time. The requirement
for this tournament is 50 MPP acquired during june 2008. Send an
e-mail to us to receive your password. (CHECK OUR FPB BOOST BELOW)

4. $10,000 new player freeroll: monthly freeroll for new depositors,
has a 100 MPP requirement.

In addition to all of this, you still get the chance to win free
books, as explained on Sun Poker free books promotion page.

FPB Boost: Finish in the first three positions of the $5,000 or $2,500
tournaments and win the following prizes in addition to your money:
1st place $100; 2nd place $50; 3rd place $25. The boost is paid by
neteller, paypal, or moneybookers.

To be eligible, you have to meet the following requirements:

1. Use the bonus code FOURBOOKS when you sign-up to Cardoza Poker

2. Acquire 10 Cardoza Points in the week before the event

3. Send us an e-mail to receive access to the event.

It is as simple as that and you can play on the tournament every week
as long as you meet the requirements.

You can’t miss this chance.

Cardoza Omaholics is a giveaway of prizes according the leader boards from Omaha tables.

How It Works. All you have to do is play! According to the number of played raked hands (only in Omaha Pot Limit tables) you are put on a leader board. There are four leader boards, related to the level/blinds:

1. Pot-Limit Omaha $10/$20 and up (top 20 win)
2. Pot-Limit Omaha $2/$4 to $5/$10 (top 40 win)
3. Pot-Limit Omaha $0.5/$1 to $1/$2 (top 50 win)
4. Pot-Limit Omaha $0.1/$0.2 to $0.25/$0.5 (top 50 win)

The leader boards will be split in two months: February and March. Top players will receive extra cash on their accounts, and there is $100,000 to be distributed!

FPB Extra Cash Bonus
Our players get the following extra prizes if they make into the top 200 each month in any Omaha leader board:
1. $10/$20 and up leader board : top 200 get extra $80
2. $2/$4 to $5/$10 leader board : top 200 get extra $50
3. $0.5/$1 to $1/$2 leader board : top 200 get extra $20
4. $0.1/$0.2 to $0.25/$0.5 leader board : top 200 get extra $10

FPB Extra Cash Bonuses are only available only to players first registered to Cardoza Poker through our links and using bonus code 4BOOKS . Payment made by neteller, paypal or moneybookers. Contact us if you have any doubts. Payment made after the qualifying month, player must contact us to request the prize.