The Christmas spirit has come to most of the top online Texas Hold’em sites this year, and they are super charitable with their bonuses. Whatever sort of internet poker site special you are searching for; there is one out there for you. Looking at the biggest internet No-Limit Poker websites, we discovered these promotions.

Beginning with the very well-known internet Texas Hold’em Poker site Full Tilt Poker, they are offering “The Holiday $100k”. The site is giving all their poker members a break to take home $100,000, by investing just 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will commence on Dec. 27th and a second tournament on December the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing members an opportunity to gain entry into one of the promotions by competing in a Freeroll.

The next poker website we visited was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are holding bonuses every day throughout this month. Already they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” special running throughout this month.

Finally, Party Poker is presenting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by working your way up levels and the more points you collect, the better the prizes you will be able to take home. There are many prizes available to win for example access into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Additionally if you play on the No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double the points you gain on the real money Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

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According to the 2006 WSOP bracelet winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be known as the best bluffer in the game of poker. But if his last tournament is any indication, his wish may not come true any time soon.

The site is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a minor increase with only one player biting the line. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie thought that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea that Booth had a good hand, but he was in a good position to make a move considering the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a considerable move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Coming out of the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s primary thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus turning his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to look after it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts showed up on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 beat Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he created a terrific play and kept the bluff going all the way through to the finish.

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