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Special Features

• Over $14M in GTD tournaments each month
• Red Carpet freerolls - Deposit and gain access to four weekly freerolls.
• Sunday $200 GTD with Huge Overlay

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Deposit Options

Overview

Hollywood Poker rolls out the red carpet as Vince Van Patten welcomes you to the Hollywood Poker web site, explaining some of the benefits of Hollywood Poker and providing you with your first look at playing with the Stars. Hollywood Poker is modern, colorful, and state of the art with very easy navigation and filled with eye catching promotional information and coupled with Vince's welcome gives an excellent first impression.

Hollywood Poker Bonuses

Hollywood Poker has six first deposit online poker bonuses to choose from - 100% up to $25, 200% up to $50, 200% up to $100, 500% up to $250, 500% up to $500, and 400% up to $1000
dollars. You will also qualify for four new player $100 freerolls in your first week.

Each bonus clears in different increments, for example the $25 bonus clears in $5 increments, but the $1,000 bonus clears in $500 increments. The bonus is released at a rate of 8 player points per bonus dollar.

Player traffic

During peak hours you can find up to 9,000 players and that amount is increasing on a daily basis. The Stars that play here attract many new players to the ring games and tournaments which ensure a steady growth in traffic. Hollywood Poker is part of the busy Ongame network, which includes PokerRoom, giving them the benefit of sharing the OnGame network platform and drawing traffic from the networks shared player base.

Games/Limits

Hollywood Poker offers a wide variety of poker games including; Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo and 5 Card Draw. The focus is on six-handed tables more than most other top rooms and the games vary between No-Limit, Pot-Limit, and Fixed-Limit. Full-table games, short-handed, and heads-up tables are all available. Ultra high-limit tables are available with $500/$1,000 stakes in Fixed-Limit and $50/$100 in No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Game limits start at 10¢/10¢ insuring a game for any size bankroll.

Rake

The house rake is calculated as 5% of the matched bets in the pot, with a $3.00 maximum for all limits.

Promotions

Hollywood Poker offers many promotions including their exclusive chance to win an extra payout, four times a week at table games by playing during Happy Hours. On Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, players can win extra cash with the Top Set and Quad Aces & Faces promotions. Players who get these hands win special cash bonuses.

Hollywood Poker makes sure all levels and types of players will receive a great first time deposit bonus. Bonuses range from 200% up to 1000% depending on the amount deposited.

With a deposit of $25, players get up to $50 free, a ticket to the WSOP (or other current live event) special tournament or a qualifier ticket to the $150k BIG DEAL, the $750k THE GRAND or the $70,000 GRAND PRIX events. Plus added bonuses of a HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar or Playing Cards, and an exclusive new player Red Carpet welcome Tournament Ticket.

With a $400 deposit, players receive a bonus of up to $2,000, a ticket to The WSOP (or other current live event) tourney worth at least $320. Plus, anApple® iPod Shuffle, Hollywood Poker Girls Calendar, Playing Cards, and an exclusive new player RedCarpet welcome tournament ticket.

Hollywood Poker offers one of the best Refer-a-Friend bonuses to be found anywhere. For each friend a player refers who signs up and makes a deposit, they will receive $200 per friend.

Player Points

Club HOLLYWOOD Poker Walk of Fame Player's Club Rewards Program is Hollywood Poker’s player point program. Player points are earned by playing.The concept is simple: the more you play in the ring games, the more Poker Points (PPs) you receive, and you also receive PPs whenever you sign up for a tournament. Poker Points are automatically tracked, and your official PPs tally can be viewed anytime on your account page.

Players can use their PPs to: Gain free entry to special tournaments, win Hollywood Poker merchandise and participate in daily, weekly and monthly cash rewards and draws.

Points can also be used for collecting bonuses, qualifying for special tournaments and for claiming freeroll tournament cash prizes.

Poker Points are awarded every time you play and the rake taken is $0.10 or more. Plus, 5 Poker Points are awarded for every paid dollar in tournament entry fees.

Features

Hollywood celebrity star James Woods and Hollywood Home Game King Vince Van Patten are the welcoming committee for HollywoodPoker. They boast of being the premier place to play poker with celebrities, since James Woods and Vince Van Patten have both invited their entourage of celebrity poker friends to play online poker at HollywoodPoker.

There are Hundreds of Celebrity Players at Hollywood Poker whom you can compete with in the three weekly Celebrity Tournaments and on demand Sit n’ Go single table Tournaments.

There are many nice features at Hollywood Poker including; the Green Room and private tables. The Green room is a player’s community where players meet to chat, discuss, and exchange stories. For those players who want to play with friends, relatives, or a select group of people, the private table option is available. Also available are player stats and note taking options.

Software

Hollywood Poker offers the standard windows download and also the no download java poker version. The software is quick, smooth, and fashioned after a real casino environment. Players can also use avatars, which add more real poker character to the game. Hollywood Poker has regular software updates, ensuring the latest advances in technology and ease of operation.

Support

The highly knowledgeable support team provides 24/7 support via phone, live chats, e-mail, forums, and in game lobby support. The support team will do its best to answer your queries within the shortest possible time.

Security/Integrity

Hollywood Poker takes every possible precaution to make sure that their games are always trustworthy. Their goal is to eliminate any concerns about security and leave players free to enjoy the game of poker.

All communications between the Hollywood Poker server in Canada and the client program running on the player’s computer are encrypted. Names and credit card information is always encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Credit-card processing is handled by Optimal Payments, a publicly traded company with many years of experience as one of the leading credit-card processing companies on the Internet. Optimal Payments is located in Montreal, Canada, and currently processes over $1 billion of consumer payments annually.
For player protection, all game activities are logged and saved in Hollywood Poker’s database.

Banking

Deposits can be made with NetTeller, InstaCash, Firepay, Click2Pay, Moneybookers, Visa and MasterCard.

Summary

Impressive graphics, attractive lobby and tables, easy navigation, a wide range of games, good traffic, and of course the Hollywood stars playing here make this room one of the best.

A big plus of HollywoodPoker is the weekly celebrity tournaments featuring the largest celebrity attendance online, each loaded with cash bounties for knocking out a Hollywood Star.

Daily freeroll poker tournaments, regularly held big money freeroll tournaments, World Series Of Poker and World Poker Tour qualifying tournaments, frequently offered deposit bonuses and player promotions all add up to make Hollywood Poker a unique place to play.