DoylesRoom Promotions for September 2011

• $30,000 Points Race - Standard points race. 250 players paid, $30,000 guaranteed. 

+++ $30,000 instead of $25,000 and 250 places paid instead of 200 in August

• Free Parking is Back! -Free Parking will be slightly different, starting with $10 as first step and a $75 option next. Check out the rewards tab in the poker client for more info.

+++ Easier to earn the first step since it is $10 instead of $25

• 12 Seats Guaranteed throughout September to the Punta Cana Poker Classic - Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday we will guarantee 1 seat to the PCPC. 

• Freeroll Frenzy - Every Friday we will be running freerolls once again. This time there will be $400 cash up for grabs and $400 in satellites.

• Bankroll Building Tournaments - Every night there will be a $200 guarantee with a $1 buy-in. 

+++ In September this tournament will offer a $1 onetime rebuy and a $1 add-on.

• Max $2 rake on all Omaha, 7 Stud and 32 Card Poker 

+++ These tables will take a max rake of $2 through the month of September instead of the usual $3 cap

If you don't have an account on DoylesRoom yet, you can get 27% Rakeback here!



The current $25,000 Race is also almost on the finish line as well and you can check out the ranking here: $25,000 Points Race

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DoylesRoom is hosting $25.000 Race in August

August has just kicked off and DoylesRoom is hosting it's popular monthly $25.000 Race again. The top 200 places will be paid and the more FPP you earn, the higher you will be placed in the ranking. The stats are updated daily and you can find the current ranking here: Doyles 25k Race August 2011

Free Parking:

Another promotion that active players will benefit from is the "Free Parking". As you play you can unlock free cash: You will receive a $25 cash rebate if you earn 25,000 FPPs. Once the first $25 has been completed, another $25 rebate is available and after the second $25, you will be entitled to earn a $100 rebate if you happen to earn 100,000 FPP.

The total rebates available are:

·         $25 for 25,000 FPP X 2

·         $100 for 100,000 FPP

·         $500 for 500,000 FPP

·         $1000 for 1,000,000 FPP

·         $1000 for 1,000,000 FPP

BankRoll Builder Tournaments:

For just $1+$0.10, you can participate in the BankRoll Builder Tournaments with a guaranteed prizepool of $200 - the action kicks off every day at 5:30pm ET. Besides that, every Friday in the month of August DoylesRoom will have 12 hours of Freerolls:

Time	Prize
12:05	$50
13:05	$50
14:05	$50
15:05	$75
16:05	$50
17:05	$50
18:05	$100
19:05	$50
20:05	$150
21:05	$50
22:05	$75
23:05	$50

Punta Cana Poker Classic 2011:

Qualifiers for the Punta Cana Poker Classis 2011 also take place regularly and if you are lucky enough, you can win a $3,500 Premium Package:

• One $1,500+150 buy-in to the big tournament.
• 5 nights at the 5-star Hard Rock Punta Cana Hotel & Casino in Dominican Republic, November 8 - 13.
• Airport-hotel-airport transportation.
• All-inclusive food and beverages.
• 24-hour premium room service.
• Access to poker cash games, great side events and the biggest casino in the country.
• $1,500 hotel credit for spa, golf, tours at the hotel.
• Roundtrip Airfare up to $500.

As you can see, it does pay off to play at DoylesRoom in August 2011 and if Lady Luck is not on your side, you can still take a shot at the Bad Beat Jackpot as well.

If you don't have an account yet on DoylesRoom, you can sign up and receive 27% Rakeback as you play.
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DoylesRoom presents the Punta Cana Online Extravaganza

Just a few days after the development of May 23rd and the domain seizure, DoylesRoom has switched to their new .ag domain and should also not be affected further by the recent actions taken by the Department of Justice @ Maryland. Yesterday they sent out a notification to all affiliates with a statement regarding the domain seizure and today I had a newsletter in my inbox about the newest promotion for their Punta Cana experience.

Notable at the bottom of the newsletter: Please check with your local jurisdiction regarding the legality of internet gaming.

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From June 15 to 19, DoylesRoom is hosting Punta Cana Online Extravaganza – a 5-day extravaganza where 30 poker vacation PREMIUM PACKAGES to the Punta Cana Poker Classic will be up for grabs!

The $3,500 PREMIUM PACKAGE Includes

• One $1,500+150 buy-in to the big tournament.
• 5 nights at the 5-star Hard Rock Punta Cana Hotel & Casino in Dominican Republic, November 8 - 13.
• Airport-hotel-airport transportation.
• All-inclusive food and beverages.
• 24-hour premium room service.
• Access to poker cash games, great side events and the biggest casino in the country.
• $1,500 hotel credit for spa, golf, tours at the hotel.
• Roundtrip Airfare up to $500.

 The full details can be found here:  Punta Cana Online ExtraVaganza

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Official DoylesRoom press release regarding domain seizure

The following press release will be sent out tonight to all partners of DoylesRoom, I am allowed to post it already:

Doylesroom official statement to affiliates and partners

Doylesroom has temporarily lost the rights to the Doylesroom.com domain.  The company has launched a temporary site at this location: doylesroom.ag and manifests it is business as usual.

Las Vegas, Nevada – May 23, 2011 – The URL www.doylesroom.ag is new location and of the product you have been promoting and endorsing and bears the same guidelines and reliability with which this organization has conducted business throughout the years. Even when the .com domain was lost, none of the normal business operations have been affected.  We assure you that player account balances and information are safe and secure.  Effective immediately, players, affiliates and partners can log on to www.doylesroom.ag where business is conducted as usual.

Please be assured your funds are safe and secure.

No further changes will be noticeable at all and customers will still be able to enjoy the same player experience, with all the features and usual advantages as our original site.  This change reflects just a new address. 

To further clarify any question or concerns please contact us at:   affiliates@dbpn.com

About DoylesRoom.com:
Online since 2004, DoylesRoom (www.DoylesRoom.ag) provides players from around North America and the world with an online gaming experience like no other. DoylesRoom is famous for providing players with access to unequaled poker promotions, fast action, and countless opportunities to play with Doyle Brunson and other legends of the game. With free poker software, lessons, tournaments, nonstop Sit-and-Go tournaments and ring games available at all limits, DoylesRoom is the preeminent poker destination for real live game play—online or anywhere.

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The DoJ strikes again - BlackMonday?!

Just about one month after the crackdown and domain seizure of FullTilt, PokerStars and AP/UB has passed and April 15th 2011 may forever remain as BlackFriday in the history of online poker. But as already assumed, this was not the only thing that will happen and now just appears to be the beginning of an unstoppable shockwave that goes through the online poker scene in the United States.

An affidavit from a Maryland Homeland Security special agent reveals many interesting details already and according to an official press release of the Maryland Department of Justice (DoJ), many government agencies were involved in the investigation. A total of 10 domains has been seized, but this time the banners don't display the FBI as 2nd partner in crime, but rather the Homeland Security.

• Bookmaker.com
• Truepoker.com
• Doylesroom.com
• Beted.com
• Betehorse.com
• Betgrandesports.com
• Goldbnarchcasino.com
• Funtimebingo.com
• 2Betdsi.com

More details are getting published, one of the most interesting is surely the news article in the Baltimore Sun. As a direct result of this, indictions against two gambling processors have been released. The first charges against K23 Group Financial Services (BMX Entertainment) and Ann Marie Puig state “conducting gambling business” and money laundering. The second charges ThrillX Systems, Ltd (BetED.com) are directed at Darren Wright and David Parchomchuk and contain the same allegations as well.

Both indictments specifically mention online sports betting “a gambling business involving online sportsbetting”, but no other forms of online gambling are included, whereas Doylesroom and Truepoker don't have any sportsbook activity at all and may get out of it. All other sites on the Yatahay network though that also operate sportsbooks have recently pulled out and informed affiliates that they can no longer pay commissions. I guess this should have been the first warning signal already and you can check out an interesting post on RoundersRadio.

Bet DSI said “Offering poker has always been an add-on with hopes of keeping our sports players who also enjoy a bit of poker at BetDSI.com, therefore we have added the sportsbook directly into the poker clients, and will be offering our poker players notifications of upcoming games, halftimes, etc.”

Even though there is no official statement yet, it appears that TruePoker and DoylesRoom are guilty by association with the other sportsbooks on the Yatahay network and they may get their .com domains back in the next few days. It remains unclear as of now though, which specific influence the payment processors have on the online poker activities.

Earlier today Bradley Franzen, one of the 11 individuals named in the indictment against PokerStars, FullTilt and AP/UB as well as a number of payment processors from April 15th 2011 ("BlackFriday"), plead guilty to lesser charges in a Manhattan court today. You can guess already that he has not done this because he is a nice guy, he will contribute towards the investigations with a testimony against some of the other individuals named in the indictment and will probably get out of it with a deal similar to Daniel Tzvetkoff, who has been caught a year ago and helped the FBI to get the ball rolling.

11 bank accounts in total have been seized as well and one of them appears to be the american Quicktender bank account that has been used for the processing. You can read a quick follow up in this blog post: Important Quicktender / UseMyWallet follow up!

Stay tuned for the next updates, as the action will soon move out of Maryland as well ... I also can't wait for the official name for this "incident". BlackMonday is one option, but since it may soon be another massacre we can also consider RedMonday as a possibility as well.

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DoylesRoom releases new software

When DoylesRoom left the Cake Network by the end of January 2011 and joined the small Yatahay Network, most players were quite disappointed with the "new" software because it looked very old fashioned and the overall traffic dropped. Ever since they have been working on releasing a more stable and smooth software and the long awaited update has finally taken place. If you now download the new software, you will get to see the following lobby - if you cannot see the details, simply click on the screenshot and you can see it in original size:

As you can see, it looks by far more professional now and you pretty much find everything you need on first sight. The new rewards program will also be added in the very near future as well and despite some minor bugs, the software is by far faster and the gameplay is quicker than the previous version. The  table layout is more clean and two new features have been implemented for cashgame.

The "Chop" feature will just be available if both players next to each other have activated it and there are at least 6 players at the table. Even though it might not happen that often because someone usually tries to attack the blinds, it still is an interesting feature that I personally haven't seen on another online poker site.

The "Straddle" feature will probably be more commonly known, be it from playing live at the casino or the action in the highstakes cashgame that you can see regularly on TV nowadays. What is a straddle? Basically it is a minraise under the gun and it is announced before you have even seen your cards. This might seem like gambling, but is part of what makes the game more interesting and creates more action in general.

Especially at the highstakes cashgame tables behind closed doors, the straddle is a common part of the game and some even use the double straddle. The pot is already bigger preflop and gives even more incentive to steal the blinds. So far I have not seen it anywhere else, I already tried it just for fun and like it.

Hopefully, the minor bugs will be fixed with the next patch as well, but so far it looks quite promising and DoylesRoom also continues their monthly Cashrace as well as the Bad Beat Jackpot on the Hold'em tables. They also still accept players from the United States and if you don't have an account there yet, you can get 27% Rakeback here.

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Doyle Brunson on Affiliate Life Radio This Friday

Just got this interesting email today:

Affiliate Life Radio - Interview With Doyle Brunson

Tomorrow, Friday February 11th, we will be back on the radio at 3:00 CST.  We're excited to announce that our co-host Tony from PAS was able to secure an exclusive interview with the legendary Doyle Brunson.  In this interview Tony asks Doyle everything from his Superbowl bets to the big decision to move DoylesRoom.com from the Cake Network to Yatahay.  It's definitely one of the best interviews we've have had on the radio in a while.  After the interview we'll also discuss the other news and developments in the poker affiliate industry.

I encourage you all to join us in the live chat tomorrow during the show.  You can find the link to the live show here: Affiliate Life Radio - Interview With Doyle Brunson

DoylesRoom also has a $65,000 Race in February 2011 where the top 350 spots share their part of the prizepool - if you want to know more about this, click here: Doyles 65k Race February 2011

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