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HollywoodPoker.com is an online poker site endorsed by Hollywood celebrities James Woods and Vince Van Patten.

Featuring both free play and real money games, Hollywood Poker offers Limit and No Limit Texas Holdem, Omaha (and Hi/Lo), 7 Card Stud (and Hi/Lo), and 5 Card Draw.

Tournaments are available in single table or multi-table formats. Satellites to major poker events like the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tour are also offered.

The site's gimmick is that it allows players the chance to play with celebrities, mostly actors and comedians.[1] Celebrities periodically host special tournaments, some of which offer participants the opportunity to earn bounties by eliminating celebrity players. Players are also afforded the opportunity, by exchanging points obtained through playing on the site, to play the celebrity of the player's choice "heads up."

In 2006 the site began publishing an annual calendar, featuring "the girls of Hollywood Poker." Calendar models are afforded celebrity status on the site. Players are able to vote for their "favourite" girls and the top 12 make it to the actual calender.

As of October 2006, the Ongame Network that Hollywood Poker is a part of stopped taking bets from United States players because of the signing of the Safe Port Act.[2] Curiously, the site's many American celebrities, who the site uses as a gimmick to attract customers, remain able to play despite this ban.

In November 2006 the site began offering casino games, including blackjack, craps, pai gow poker, roulette and others.

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For the online poker cardroom see Hollywood Poker


The origins of this game are unknown but it can be found at the kitchen tables across the Canadian Prairies

Equipment

  • Chips
  • 3+ Decks
  • 2+ Players

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James Woods

James Woods at the 1995 Emmy Awards
Birth name James Howard Woods
Born March 18 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
Vernal, Utah, U.S.
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Vincent Van Patten

Born September 17 1957 (1957--) (age 50)
Bellerose, New York  United States

Spouse(s) Betsy Russell (divorced)
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Omaha hold 'em (or Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game (often referred to as a "flop game") similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five
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High-low split games are those in which the pot is divided between the player with the best traditional hand (called the high hand) and the player with the low hand.

There are two common methods for playing high-low split games, called declaration and cards speak.
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Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards.
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Sport Texas Hold 'em
Founded 2002
CEO Steven Lipscomb
Motto "May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters" (Unofficial)
No. of teams No officially recognized teams
Country(ies)  United States (Founded)


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'bwin'

Public limited company
Founded 1999 (Austria)
Headquarters Vienna

Key people Manfred Bodner, CEO
Norbert Teufelberger, CEO

Industry Entertainment
Products sports betting, online gambling
Website www.bwin.
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casino is a facility that accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are often placed near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other vacation attractions.
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Craps (previously known as crabs [1] ) is a casino dice game. Craps is a simplification of the Old English game hazard. Its origins are complex and may date to the Crusades, later being influenced by French gamblers.
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Pai Gow poker (or Double-hand poker) is an Americanized version of Pai Gow, in that it is played with playing cards using poker hand rankings, while Pai Gow is played with Chinese dominoes.
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