I'll not eat this cat for $1 million

You’d expect poker to be the biggest entertainer on shows like High Stakes Poker, but history has showed that this is not always the case. It certainly wasn’t on the Saturday night episode, where an interesting bet was made between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. Dwan bet Ivey that Ivey wouldn’t be able to resist eating meat for an entire year.

After lengthy discussions and negotiations between the 2 players, Ivey agreed to the bet. If he avoided all meat, including fish, for a year he’d get $1 million from Dwan. Later on, Ivey seemed happy with the deal, saying to co-host Kara Scott: “I was thinking about doing it for a while, so this is kind of like an added incentive.”

This particular High Stakes Poker episode was filmed a few days after Ivey finished in 7^th place at the WSOP main event final table and had won millions in side bets, including $1 million from Dwan. Do I detect some revenge in the air?

“I’m used to having million-dollar sweats with you,” Dwan said in response to losing $1 million in the game and the subsequent bet with Ivey.

Ivey even tried to wager the bet up to $2 million which he felt would have given him an even bigger incentive to give up meat for 365 days.

Dwan has since claimed that Ivey is not getting vaguely close to fulfilling his side of the bet- Dwan reportedly mentioned to Sammy George that Ivey was already trying to buy out of the bet.

Perhaps if Ivey borrowed some of Mel Gibson’s cow brain goo for his poker games he’d stay on top without having to eat meat.

So, just a reminder to those of you who are not in the know.  We’ve got a great Facebook Fan page and we’ve been drawing  in fans left right and centre. We’ve seen quite a fantastic tight knit community been built, and both ourselves and our fans have benefited from these endeavours. We’ve hosted numerous community exclusive  freerolls for our fans. and well as using the Facebook page to provide a platform for you guys to further engage with PokerTime brand on a personal level

The PokerTime Facebook fan page, which has been a platform for positive two way dialogue between both the brand and its players has grown at an accelerated rate, and has seen growth since day one of its conception.

“Our building of personal relationships with all of our players has been extremely beneficial to both ourselves and our players.” explains James Grant, PokerTime’s customer relationship manager. “We’ve learned a lot from our players and expect that we’ll learn a lot more in the future from them.”

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Goodbye Noughties and Welcome 2010!

We started off 2010 with a killer $1000 USD Freeroll l and we saw 1262 of you PokerTimers take part in this great New Years Day event.

Without further a due, I present the top 20 winners of this year’s first big event!

1. csicso78
2. romi397
3. Madmanreturn
4. Nikky3706RUS
5. snicker01
6, DASCHA
7 .georgitime
8. jun0722
9. petike16
10. Bennu2
11. Koala09
12. misu_unic
13. Kostadin9
14. renezz
15. TWISTED8s
16. xxxWMxxx
17. hddntx
18. hunpodekor
19. mixan7
20. patzu

Well done to you guys!

We are going to be having another big Fan Page Freeroll in a little while so keep your eyes peeled!

What better way to start off 2010 than with a $1000 USD freeroll! Join us as we celebrate the start of a New Year in style with this fantastic event. Make sure to get your seat…

A couple of details about the freeroll.

Freeroll Facts:
• Pot: USD1,000
• Buy-in: 1c
• Time: 12:00noon GMT
• Date: Friday, 1st of January 2010
• Where: In the software, choose Scheduled Tournaments >> Special >>$1000 2010 Freeroll

• The Top 101 players will receive payouts!

We are  offering an all inclusive package to the Aussie Millions Tournament at the Crown Casino

The Aussie Millions is one of the most anticipated poker tournaments held each year and will take place between the 24^th and 30^th of January 2010 at the prestigious Crown  Casino in Melbourne Australia. Online poker room PokerTime is giving their players the opportunity to win an all expenses paid trip to the prestigious event and join some of  the biggest names in poker such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Joe Hachem by qualifying in daily satellite tournaments from as little as €4

PokerTime is hosting these daily tournaments for players to work their way up to the final tournaments held on the 6^th of Decembers and the 3^rd of January 2010 where players will compete for a chance to win this illustrious package. The $10,000 package consists of 10 nights’ hotel accommodation, buy-in to the main event and €2,150 for travel expenses and spending money.

James Grant, our customer relationship manager had this to say, “The Aussie Millions poker tournament has always been a different type of poker tournament. The fact that it isn’t attached to any major poker tour, it’s huge prize pool, in which we saw the winner go away with $2 million AUD, and that its being held in sunny Australia, definitely makes it a draw card for the poker community, and we are extremely happy to be able to send our players through to this annual event.”