Many online poker rooms go beyond providing poker related attractions in order to promote themselves. Hollywood Poker is one such poker room.

Its calendar with a bevy of a dozen attractive girls is a much waited for event since the past few years.

Enthusiasts of the Hollywoodpoker calendar can check out the poker girls from 2006 onwards at the web site. They can download photographs and wallpapers and also learn more about the girls through the statistics and interviews.

The process of choosing the Hollywood Poker girls is getting bigger every year and is generating a greater degree of anticipation. What is fantastic about this process is that members of Hollywood Poker can participate by exercising their votes online at the poker room website. For the Hollywood Poker 2009 calendar more than 10,000 girls from over 20 countries filed their entries. Being chosen a Hollywood Poker girl has become a prestigious benchmark for beauties all over the world. On July 31 the twelve lucky girls who will be posing for the 2009 calendar were finally selected. Their names are Gelusa Zaripova, Emily Marie, Tracy Nova, Laura Leigh, Melissa Jo Berry, Mellie Zadeh, Kelli Lam, Claudia Verela, Hillary Fisher, Noelle Joy, Cat Cornish and Mandy Lynn.

The chosen girls are undoubtedly beautiful but they also possess poise and intelligence and a unique individuality. Laura Leigh hails from New York and likes partying, modeling, puppies, Harry Potter, having fun and the color gold and dislikes attitudes, drama and restricted phone calls. Her poker rating is Barracuda. Claudia Verela can be seen sporting the tiniest of bikinis if one can call it that. She likes manners, kindness, laughter, shopping and lots of love and dislikes dishonesty, bad breath and white shoes. Her poker rating is guppy.

Ashley Dorenzo, the November 2006 girl, stayed on with Hollywood Poker and plays celebrity poker there. She also blogs. Ashley, who earlier worked as a cocktail server for the MGM Grand Casino, is at her vitriolic best when taking on the male poker player. She writes, “…just because I have boobs doesn’t mean I don’t know how to play poker, and just because I don’t scratch myself and fart (in public), doesn’t mean I can’t beat you.” She has no qualms about using her sexuality at the tables like showing leg or cleavage. She says, “As a woman, I have learned one thing in life, you can get anything you want from a man, because a man's happiest moment, is his weakest. If you know what I mean.”

Though the selection of the girls has been done, the anticipation is not yet over. Fans all over the world are now eagerly awaiting the release of the calendar. Till then they will have to be satisfied with the photographs on the web site. The anticipation for thousands of new girls is about to begin. Hollywood Poker will shortly launch its search for the 2010 calendar girls.

And in case anyone has forgotten, poker is very much on at Hollywood Poker. The poker room is known as much for its high profile celebrity players as it is for its first class graphics, high game speed and fantastic bonuses.