If you are a regular reader you know Doyle Brunson opened up a poker room called Doyle’s Room. Doyle’s has lots of cool and innovative stuff like weekly knock out tournaments where you can win extra cash for knocking out Doyle, his son and WSOP champion Ted, and the mad genius Mike Caro. Knock out all 3 for some extra bonus money!
BOUNTY TOURNAMENT UPDATE
For the 9/23 Bounty Tournament: VICTIMLESSG knocked out “the Robin Hood of Poker,” Barry Greenstein and won the $250 bounty. PAPYNO captured “The Mad Genius,” Mike Caro for the other $250 bounty. No one claimed the $10,000 prize for knocking out both Barry Greenstein and Mike Caro. 
On the 9/29 Bounty Tournament: KGILBERT13 knocked out Todd Brunson and cashed in the $250 bounty. DANNYV73 won $250 for capturing Doyle and JJALL-N knocked out Mike Caro for the last bounty.
Congratulations to all the bounty winners! Be there this week for even more Bounty excitement!
New in October
Doyle’s usually has a special bonus hand. If you win a hand with those whole cards you win an extra bonus. This month they’re adding another bonus.
Hit a royal straight flush in any of their real money games (ring games) and receive a special bonus! They’re calling this a progressive bonus, which implies that if no one hits a hand the pot will grow!
Check out Doyles Room if you are looking for a new place to play poker (and because its Doyle, you’ll probably find a lot of newbies that are attracted to the place just because it’s run by the legendary Doyle Brunson & Mike Caro.
- Fittsy
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I hear this complaint a lot!
I can’t play Poker Stars on a Macintosh!
While it certainly is true, PokerStars does not have a version for the Macintosh; PokerStars is not the only choice in online poker! There are several online poker rooms that allow you to play on your Mac!
Looking for Macintosh Poker? Try these sites.
Hollywood Poker - Play their online version over the web. Works for Windows, Mac, and Linux too! 500% first deposit bonus! Play in special celebrity knock out tournaments! Very cool site.
Bugsys Club - is one of my favorite sites and they recently added support for Mac OS X. They offer some pretty cool features such as Poker Leagues where you can measure your skills against other players and win extra cash every week. Plus they offer small satellites for the WPT, WSOP, and EPT. I really dig this site and you will see me playing here as all the time.
Poker School Online - now has a Macintosh Poker Version. Plus you can play at Bugsys Club with the same software!
Poker Room - You’ve seen the advertisements on TV. Did you know they have a web based version of their software? This software works for Macintosh, Linux, and PC users!
So Macintosh users quit complaining about not having Mac Poker versions! And start playing poker!
- Fittsy
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Full Tilt poker continues to be the best online poker room, in my humble opinion!
Full Tilt offers a double your money first deposit bonus. Thats right you open an account and they will DOUBLE your money up to $600. You simply have to play in their cash games to earn Full Tilt Points; collect points, and they’ll put cash in your account. They’ll do it in small increments so you don’t have to get all your bonus points to get your money back! Most online poker rooms aren’t that friendly! So lets say you have to get 1000 points to release your $100. They might let give you $25 at 250 points instead of making you earn all 1000 points to get your money back. So if you have a bad run of luck you’ll still get some of your money back. Cool, right?
High roller? During the month of October play in any of their $50+5 multi-table tournaments, and win, and you’ll be entered in a special $5,000 freeroll on November 5th. Win the freeroll and you’ll not only win your share of the $5,000 but you’ll go on to play against 3 of the full tilt pros in head to head matches. Beat all 3 pros head to head and you win $50,000! Beat just one pro and win $5,000. Beat two pros and you win $10,000! Not bad right? If you are a high roller you should definitely check out Full Tilt.
Are you a newbie? Thats ok too! At Full Tilt they offer daily freerolls to get you started. Once you get the hang of it you can start playing for real money with $4 + $.40 satellites into their $200,000 tournament! Thats how poker pros like Greg Raymer got started by playing satellites. What do you have to loose when it only costs $4.40 to enter? I won my way into my first $215,000 tournament in a similar satellite.
Good Luck!
Fittsy
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Dear Fittsy,
Hello, this is, “The Mad Genius of Poker”, Mike Caro and on behalf of Doyle Brunson I want to thank you for making the Bounty Tournament at DoylesRoom.com such a resounding success. I am having so much fun playing in them. I am happy to announce that this week we will be holding a second Bounty Tournament Friday night, September 23rd at 9:00PM EDT (1:00AM GMT September 24). The buy-in will remain $25.00+$2.50 and the game is still No-Limit Hold’em with 12 minute rounds and no re-buys.
While Doyle and Todd sit this one out, my good friend Barry Greenstein will be joining us. Barry is excited to play in the tournament and is eager to fend off all of you. You knock me, “The Mad Genius of Poker,” or Barry out of the tournament and collect the $250 bounty. If you have the audacity to knock both of us out of the tournament, you will win $10,000. And don’t forget, if Barry or I win you all get your $25 back. Again, sign up for another Bounty Tournament this Friday night, September 23rd at 9:00PM EDT (1:00AM GMT September 24).
See you in the tournament,
Mike “The Mad Genuis of Poker” Caro
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You guys gotta check out Dr. Pauly’s blog the Tao of Poker. Dr. Pauly is at the WPT Borgata Open in Atlantic City, New Jersey. They actually have wifi in the poker room so Pauly can write about the event as it happens.
Today at 6pm EST will start the final round. There are 6 players left including one woman, Kathy Liebert!
I read Pauly’s blog all day yesterday as I was anxiously awaiting the results of one of my favorite players Mr. Barry Greenstein. Barry was knocked out in 38th place.
After Barry was knocked out it was time to cheer on the women! Two of the hottest female poker players proved they have more than good looks. Connie Glowen cashed out in 31st place with $14,987 and Evy Baby rocked the house and almost made the final table. I kept reading Pauly’s blog anxiously as Evy was short stacked for quite awhile and yet she managed to double up at the right time. Finally Evy was knocked out in 11th place and earned a $64,942 paycheck.
Final Table Chip Counts:
1 David Singer $ 3,200,000
2 John D’Agostino $ 2,295,000
3 Robert ‘Action Bob’ Hwang $ 1,795,000
4 Al Ardebili $ 1,425,000
5 Kathy Liebert $ 1,045,000
6 Richard Festejo $ 540,000
Check out Pauly’s blog about 6pm EST as the final table kicks off.
If you’ve missed the previous days you can also find them as well as a few photos from the event.
- Fittsy
Envious of Pauly because I’m stuck in Boston this week!
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Dear Fittsy,
Hi, this is Doyle Brunson and I want to personally invite you to play in this weeks Bounty Tournament at DoylesRoom.com. Last weeks tournament was so much fun that the three of us Mike Caro, Todd and myself have decided to all play again. Only this week we are upping the ante: If any one of you knocks out all three of us, DoylesRoom will pay you a bounty of $25,000; if any one of you knocks out any two of us they will pay you $5,000. If Mike Caro, Todd or I will the tournament you all get your $25 back.
Last week one player knocked me out and then ended up sitting to the left of Mike where he did his best to felt Mike too, but Mike survived. So if you want to take a shot at the three of us you be there Wednsday night, September 21st at 9:00PM EDT (1:00AM GMT September 22). The buy-in is $25.00+$2.50 and we are going to play No-Limit Hold’em with 12 minute rounds and no re-buys.
See you in the tournament,
Doyle (TexDolly) Brunson
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The Borgata poker open is going on right now in Atlantic City New Jersey. It is one of the Main events in the World Poker Tour.
There are only 62 players left and the tournament is getting really interesting! Quite a few name pros are still in the event including Mike Matusow in second place. A couple of my other favorites Barry Greenstein is in 19th and Evelyn Ng is doing very well in 12th.
Unfortunately I’m not there. However if you want to read about whats going on in the tournament poker blogger Dr. Pauly is live blogging from the event on his blog the Tao of Poker. Dr. Pauly is a cool dude and has been writing for years. He frequently gets press passes to the biggest poker events like the WSOP, WPT, and EPT. You guys should check his blog out even if you miss the live blogging event.
Visit Poker Wire to check out the chipcounts at the end of day two.
- Fittsy
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This was a pretty cute email I received today from Doyle Brunson. For those of you that are living under a rock, Doyle has put together a cool new online poker room called Doyle’s Room. In my experience so far a lot of newbies hang out there and it is a good place to make a few bucks.
Doyle has now started putting together Bounty tournaments. In these tournaments you win extra cash by knocking out the players with bounties on their heads. This week the bounties are for Ted Brunson (Doyle’s son and WSOP champion), Doyle Brunson, and Mike Caro.
Dear Fittsy,
Hi, this is Doyle Brunson and I want to personally invite you to play in this weeks Bounty Tournament at DoylesRoom.com. This is the first time that my good friend Mike Caro, my son Todd and I will all be playing in the same tournament with a price on our heads. So I’ve upped the ante, if any one of you can knock all three of us out of this tournament DoylesRoom will pay you $10,000.00.
That’s right, you read it correctly Ten Thousand Dollars. So if you want to take a shot at the three of us you be there Thursday night, September 15th at 9:00PM EDT (1:00AM GMT). The buy-in is $25.00+$2.50 and we are going to play No-Limit Hold’em with 12 minute rounds and no re-buys.
See you in the tournament,
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