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Just a quick post to let you all know about what's new on the NoPokerFace.net website and other sites we manage.

First off, we added a couple of new pages on NPF. We added a page explaining Where to play poker online, that's also available in French at Comment jouer au poker en ligne sur Internet.

We then added a page with information to buy poker chips sets , and in French où acheter une malette de poker.

On Rush Poker For The Player, we added a page about Rush Poker Tournaments, and we will soon be adding an ebook about rush poker strategy.

Jean Pascal won last night against Chad Dawson. With the win, Jean Pascal retains his WBC title and gains the IBO belt as well. Pascal won the fight by unanimous decision.

What does this have to do with poker? Not much, I'll admit. But being a Jean Pascal fan, him being from the same hometown, I just had to share his win on here.

Furthermore, if you're sports bettor, you made a good chunk of change if you bet on Pascal since Chad Dawson was the favorite on most sportsbook. To bet on sports, I recommend Sportsbook.com for Americans, Bet365 or PartyBets for bettors from the UK and Europe and Bodog.ca for Canadians.

So Carbon Poker has just released a new reload bonus for its current poker players. From now until May 31st, you can receive a 50% Carbon Poker Reload Bonus for any deposit of up to $500. Hence, with this bonus, you could get as much as $250 extra in bonus.

Also, with this reload bonus, Carbon Poker will also give you a free $5.50 Allin or Fold Step 2 HU SNG entry Coupon.

To receive this reload offer, you must deposit at least $20 and use the carbon poker reload bonus code 50HU.

If you don't already have an account at Carbon Poker, you can qualify for their 1st deposit bonus of 100% for up to $600 + an entry in a $500 freeroll. You must use the Carbon Poker Bonus Code NPF600.

Carbon Poker is a site that I like a lot, which is why I talk about it a lot here. If ever you have any questions or issues with playing on their site, shoot me a PM and I'll get in touch with them on your behalf. They have great support.

There are a lot of new poker rooms popping up lately, and I will be checking out a couple of them. On this site, I'm mainly focusing on what I believe are the top 5 poker sites out there, but that doesn't mean that there aren't others that I recommend. Actually, if you take a look at our Poker Bonus Codes page, you will notice a couple of more sites with interesting offers.

In any case, one site I've been meaning to try is Victory Poker. It's a new site on the Everleaf Network, and it's being sponsored by a couple of pros, including The Magician, Antonio Esferiandi - did I spell that right? In any case, I haven't tried the site yet, but I've hearing good things about fellow poker players. If you want to check it out, head to Victory Poker Rakeback for more information.

I will try my best to get a review up on the site as soon as possible. Actually, there are a number of poker sites I intend to feature on the site; I need to first play at these sites and provide a review. There are some sites I have played at, but will never feature here, I'll get into that another day... Also, I'm always trying to work out good bonus deals with the rooms that are featured on this site, but if there's a site you'd like to get a deal for, or would like to see featured here, just let me know.

While we're on the general topic of poker sites, there was a big move this past week, where two skins joined the Merge Poker network, whose main site is Carbon Poker. This means that Carbon saw a nice boost of players online. They've couple that with some recent promotions, like the one I emailed to you newsletter' subscribers, and I heard they're working on some good things for their tournament line-up. That's always good to hear...

Just a quick note to let you all know about a new promotion at Carbon Poker. They're throwing a $100,000 Freeroll for all their players.

You can find more information about the freeroll on their website here.

Remember, if you don't have an account at Carbon Poker, make sure to use the Carbon Poker Bonus Code NPF600 to receive a 100% bonus of up to $600 on your first deposit.

(Contribution by Aaron Lambert)
In order to be a successful poker player you have to have three things; skill, bankroll management, and discipline.  If you lack in any of these areas your profit won't be sustained and you risk losing it all.  The one attribute that I think is most overlooked is bankroll management.

Let me start by explaining my background into this particular subject.  I had absolutely no bankroll management skills when I was playing poker for a “living”.  I use that term loosely as you'll see soon.  I would basically deposit $32 dollars at a time. I would play a $12 180-man tournament and sit with the rest playing cash.  I would try to run this deposit up playing with the entire roll and get myself to cash a couple hundred dollars or maybe even a few thousand.  If I bust I repeat the process.

This added a whole new dimension of stress to the game of poker.  I would reach deposit limits or I would run up a roll to $2000+ and bust the whole roll in a matter of minutes.  This was something that my soon-to-be wife didn't appreciate very much.  I needed to make a change so I decided to get a backing agreement and this taught me bankroll management.

Proper bankroll management can reduce the stress of poker variance.  It can allow for you to play your A+ game longer because the fears can be reduced of going broke.  These two reasons alone or worth learning proper bankroll management.

For tournament players you should know that variance is rather high.  I suggest trying to set your bankroll requirements according to your ROI and couple that with your average buy-in.  For example my average buy-in for March was $46.  I played some $215 tournaments but the blunt of my work was at a smaller level.  So with this example I would need a bankroll of $4600 with my ROI over 20%.

ROI of 20%+ should have 100 average buy-ins
ROI of 10-20% should have 150 average buy-ins
ROI of 5-10% should have 200 average buy-ins
ROI of 1-5% should have 400 average buy-ins

For sit n gos you can be a little more aggressive since the variance isn't as high as multi-table tournaments.  Following the same method of determining your ROI to your average buy-ins this is what I would suggest.

ROI of 10%+ should have 50 average buy-ins
ROI of 5-9% should have 100 average buy-ins
ROI of 3-5% should have 150 average buy-ins
ROI of 0-3% should have 200 average buy-ins

For cash game players I would suggest that you have around 30 buy-ins before you sit down at a game.  For an example if you are playing 1-2 NL (200NL) you should have a bankroll of $6,000.

Notice in these examples I don't suggest a bankroll unless you are a winning player.  This is because setting a bankroll as a losing player ensures that poker is going to become an expensive hobby.  These suggestions are for those who are winning players and want to conquer bankroll management and turn poker into a real business.

Full Tilt Poker is offering a special promotion until March 14th. If you log in into your account and request your bonus offer, you should find a $50 (and sometimes even $100) free poker bonus waiting for you to clear.

Full Tilt is offering this exclusive bonus to get players to play their new game, Rush Poker. Rush Poker is the new poker game that FTP launched about 2 months ago, which offers the same type of poker as normal poker, but much much faster. You can quick fold at any time, even out of turn and you're redirected to a new table immediately.

If you don't have an account at Full Tilt, I suggest you sign up now using the referral code "MTLBONUS" which will give you a bonus that will match your first deposit all the way up to $600.

Full Tilt Poker has just launched a new game, Rush Poker. It is super fast. Basically, it's just like regular poker on steroids - it's the Jose Canseco of poker.

You sit on a table as usual, but you have the option to fold out of turn - as in you can fold your hand at any time. And as soon as you fold your hand, you're moved to another table where a new hand, and so on, and so forth. I love it.

It is very different though, and it takes some adapting. Read more about it in this Rush Poker Review.

Just a quick heads up that PokerStars is offering a 25% reload bonus to all its poker players for the beginning of the new year. You must use the code '2010'.

The bonus gives a 25% bonus on your reload deposits up to $150 in bonus for North American players. It gives 25% up to 100€ bonus for European players.

The reload bonus code '2010' is valid from 9:00 ET on January 1 until 23:59 ET on January 10. You have 60 days to clear the bonus and can make up to 2 deposits to claime the bonus.

If you don't have a PokerStars account yet, visit our pokerstars bonus page, to receive a 100% up to $600 bonus when you create a new pokerstars.com account.

PayNoRake.com is offering not one, but two $5000 Guaranteed Tournament this weekend.

To qualify for free in one of the two poker tournaments, you must make a $50 or more deposit and you'll receive a free entry to one of the $5,000 Guaranteed Tournaments running this Saturday and Sunday at 6pm EST.

If you want, you can also buy in directly for a $15 + $1.50 buyin.

To play in the Saturday, use the bonus code Beat17 when making your deposit. For th Sunday tournament, use the bonus code Sun5k when depositing.

There will also be a $30 bounty on a guy named Stanley - naw, I don't who he is either, but I'll be gunning for his head nonetheless!!

You can visit PayNoRake here.