Centaurus Games Poker Blog

It’s freezing in Las Vegas.  Isn’t it supposed to be hot in the desert, even in December? I just glanced outside and it’s pouring down rain. Glad I just washed my car. I came back from Washington last night, where of course it was sunny and clear. A bit cold, still beautiful.

But it’s all a trick.  You think “Oh, I want to move back…”, then comes the 200 straight days of cold, grey and wet.

This month also reminds me that I need to keep in touch with old friends.  So I spent a little more time on Facebook updating them and on my new addiction: Twitter @brettcalapp. 

If you didn’t get to read this month’s newletter, you missed a nice little featurette on our Four Color Deck option.  I now have a much greater appreciation for this functionality because I’ve been informed by my doctor that I need to get glasses.

The Club supports a four-color deck, which allows you to change the color of the suits to help in identifying them during game play. Spades are black, Diamonds are blue, Hearts are red, and Clubs are green.

To turn on the four color deck feature:

1.            Right click and choose “options” from anywhere on the poker table.

2.            Under table options, click the check box next to “Four Color Deck.” This will put a checkmark by this feature.

3.            Click “apply” and then “okay.”

4.            Go to a table and you will now see all four colors!

You can switch back at any time. Just follow the instructions above and uncheck the box next to “Four Color Deck.”  The best thing about this feature is that it’s only seen on your computer, so nobody else needs to know; our little secret.                       

 The “Holiday Hookup” started yesterday with lots of great extra prizes just in time for the holidays.  The tournaments are fast and furious using our “ultra turbo” format (two and a half minute blinds). So if you find yourself without a lot of free time, these are the ones to play. There are video games (think Modern Warfare 2 and Tony Hawk), gift cards to Walmart, iTunes and ToyRus, TAG Heuer sunglasses, movie tickets from Fandango and some ultra stylish clothing from KSINO.com.

THIS JUST IN…to celebrate New Years in style, the club is going to be giving away gift packs of Zino Platinum cigars. These cigars have received countless honors and are an incredibly bold, beautiful cigar with a full bodied aroma. zinoplatinum.com .  And if you don’t like cigars, remember these make a great gift for that favorite uncle or best friend.

October isn’t even halfway over and it’s already been an exciting month. First and foremost we awarded our three-millionth dollar earlier this month. Hard to believe, but it wasn’t that long ago when we awarded dollar one. I can’t wait until we’re giving away a million a month. Congrats to everyone who has helped get us this far.

This month has some great new prizes including a custom built Big Slik poker table that includes the winner’s name on the felt. Tuesdays in October feature TAG Heuer sunglasses – the ones Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen wears. We’ve even got something fun cooked up for Halloween night (besides the $10,000 in cash we are already giving away that night). But wait! There is something even bigger on the horizon. I can’t announce what it is yet but it’s an extra special October treat from our friends at the World Poker Tour. More information will be available shortly.

In other WPT related news, we are sending 3 Club members (jlopez74, qhorses, wantsome) to play in the 2009 Foxwoods World Poker Finals on Nov 5^th 2009. This $10,000 buy-in event always stirs up some great poker competition. We’ll have to see if there will be another marathon match like last year when the two Jonathans (Jonathan Jaffe and Jonathan Little) played heads up for over five hours before Little took down the final hand and $1.12 million.

What I can’t stop doing is eating these Blue Diamond almonds. As you know, you can win a year’s supply of these “Bold” flavored almonds (my favorite is Jalapeno Smokehouse) right now at the Club. We were lucky enough to have the folks at Blue Diamond send us a couple extra packs (actually a whole case) for us to try out all the flavors. Now there are almonds everywhere in our offices; which may be why visitors seem to be lingering a bit longer than usual.