Posts Tagged ‘Carbon Poker’

Shannon Elizabeth joins the Merge Network

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Carbon Poker of the Merge Gaming Network recently chose Actress Shannon Elizabeth as one of their new sponsored poker professionals.

Shannon Elizabeth is known for playing roles in movies like “American Pie” and “Jack Frost” along with many televisions appearances as well. Shannon Elizabeth feels poker is like here second career so being selected as a sponsored professional for Carbon Poker is a good step in Shannon Elizabeth’s poker career.

Although Shannon Elizabeth played in a couple of roles prior to 1999’s “American Pie”, she reached cult status for here role as the sexy Nadia who made her sex scene in that movie help Shannon Elizabeth become a big name in Hollywood. Shannon Elizabeth has also played roles in movies like “American Pie 2”, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, “Love Actually”, and “The Grand” amongst others.

Shannon Elizabeth’s poker career has not been too shabby either. Shannon Elizabeth took down a celebrity tournament at the Caesar’s Palace in January 2006, for a first prize of $55,000. Shannon Elizabeth beat out 83 celebrities and poker professionals for than win at the Palace.

Elizabeth has also cashed in over 4 events at the 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker, although she has not been able to reach a deep run in one of the big one. One of Shannon Elizabeth’s most impressive poker performances was in the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Shannon Elizabeth made it past four rounds where she knocked out big time poker professionals like Barry Greenstein and Humberto Brenes. Shannon Elizabeth made it to the semi finals where the eventual champion of the event, Paul Wasicka, knocked her out. Shannon Elizabeth received $125,000 for her performance that day.

The Merge Gaming Network which added Shannon Elizabeth to one of their best poker rooms is also doing other types of additions and growing. The network added Players Only and a site called Sportsbook.com. Now the network has moved up to the number 16th slot as the world’s largest poker room by its size volume at their cash game tables. Besides Carbon Poker who signed Shannon Elizabeth, Merge Network’s rooms include Poker Host, Iron Duke, Poker Nordica, and more.

You can chat with Shannon Elizabeth about poker at Carbon Poker’s blog. Shannon Elizabeth is also planning on doing some poker videos which you might see coming out soon on Carbon Poker. Carbon poker wanted a star and a good poker player and they got just that with the addition of Shannon Elizabeth.

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Some Cake Poker play

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Ok so I get myself setup. I got registered and deposited on Cake Poker. I get my Pokeredge installed and ready to play with.

When I log into Cake Poker, I sit down at a 10NL table and decide I want to try to see cheap flops (I am trying to work off 200 raked hands) and otherwise I play only premium hands and then just mash the bet button.

This seems to be what I read around forums and stuff when playing these micro limits. I sit down with my first 5$ and start to try to see as many flops as I can for $0.10, both hoping to flop monsters and also to work down those raked hands. It takes me a while and a really bad suck-out to realize this isn’t your normal poker table.

I am down stuck 4$ and laughing at both my play and the tables play. Without realizing it, I am trying to play poker when these people certainly are not. I quickly toss aside my “cheap flop” idea and go super tight and when I get a premium starting hand, I basically just mash the “bet pot” button.

Sure it’s boring as I am basically card dead for the next hour and a half. I decide to change the skin design on Cake Poker, so I have to log out back in and with that comes a change of table. I immediately start to get decent cards, not premium but at least stuff I can think about playing.

I play a few AKo and they pay off pretty nicely and I am back to just under my initial buy in. Finally I get pocket 7’s and spike the set on the flop. The good thing about these tables is it’s pretty easy to get paid off and I do for about 2$ and that puts me up for the 3 hour session. Not exactly what I had in mind, but now that I got it sort of figured out, I should do much better.

I worked off whatever Cake Poker bonus they had and got like 10$ bonus to my bankroll. I haven’t decided if I should count that to my bankroll, but I suppose I should as it was gotten from playing poker. I plan to sit down today and clock at least two three hour sessions and see what I can do.

My goal is to sit at the 10$ NL table and try to triple that up in both sessions. If I get stuck for 10$, I am done for that session and if I triple I walk as well.

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