01 Nov 07
Negreanu: Reading Tells Early
fcnp.com - The subtle tells you pick up at the poker table will often occur well before you’re faced with your big decision. Why? Because tells happen early. To make a good read, you must pay attention to the action at the beginning of the hand, even though the table action doesn’t yet seem exciting.
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01 Nov 07
Understanding Poker Blinds
point-spreads.com - Both Omaha and Texas hold’em have poker blinds because they are often played without the use of antes. This allows for the player to fold his hand without placing a bet. In short, the poker blinds require a regular cost to play in the game. What this does is encourage a player to get involved in pots to balance the price of taking part in the game.
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01 Nov 07
Doyle prepares for High Stakes Poker war
pokerlistings.com - The stakes will be higher than ever in the upcoming episodes of High Stakes Poker. "It's going to be a war," says poker legend Doyle Brunson.
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31 Oct 07
Day Three of the North American Poker Championship
cardplayer.com - With 79 players still in contention for the title at the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship, the $1,387,224 first-place prize seemed light years away. But the day started with a flourish of bust-outs, and players dropped from the race at an extraordinary rate.
It didn’t take long to lose several well-known professionals. In a span of an hour we lost Jordan Morgan, Kathy Liebert, J.C. Tran, Joe Cassidy, and Jeff Madsen, among others.
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31 Oct 07
888 revenues jump in September
sharecast.com - Online gamer 888 lifted third quarter revenues by nearly 40% and said September was its best month since its pull-out from the US following the crackdown on online gambling.
Group net gaming revenue from its businesses outside of the US rose by 37% to US$52.5m (Q3 2006: US$38.3m) in the three months to September with revenue from casino and poker up 24% to US$47.6m.
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31 Oct 07
Lee Childs Wins First EXPT Main Event
cardplayer.com - Lee Childs, represented by Card Player Media, recently won the first Executive Poker Tour (EXPT) event at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The $2,500 event was attended by some of the biggest names in poker and will be broadcast on TV at a later date.
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30 Oct 07
European Poker Tour Preview
pokernews.com - One of the most exciting events on the European poker calendar returns today as Pokerstars present their European Poker Tour Dublin event. The Merrion Casino is once again the place for the €8000 buy-in event and all eyes are on the Brits for this one.
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30 Oct 07
Cookery on the box works
tvscoop.tv - Food Poker, according to a BBC press release some time ago, is "an innovative take on a cookery show... combining the thrill of a poker round with the competitive edge that always ensues when you put two or more top chefs in a kitchen together."
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30 Oct 07
More Bad News For Absolute Poker
Contacting a numerous and wide range of major newspapers, Virginia-based Publicity Guaranteed revealed that it was owed some $43 000 by the Costa Rica based online poker company.
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29 Oct 07
Poker growing in Asia
pokerlistings.com - Poker appears to be expanding in a market that everybody in the industry has their eye on. ...
China is not the only country in Asia where poker is starting to flourish. Recently PokerStars held a very successful APPT event in Manila and, according to the Cebu Daily News, a Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.
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29 Oct 07
Absolute Poker Spokespro Mark Sief Interview
gambling911.com - Sief said he was consulted by Absolute Poker as to how they should handle this matter and he responded by suggesting "overpayment" and "over compensating" those who were harmed. Management was all for that.
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29 Oct 07
Day 2 WPT's North American Poker Championship
pokerpages.com - A total of 504 players entered the tournament, each contributing their $10,000 buy-in to generate a prize pool of almost $5 Million. First place in this event will take down an impressive $1,361,724!
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29 Oct 07
Sweden Votes to End Gambling Monopoly
Sweden’s ruling Moderate party has giving its backing to the de-monopolization of the country’s gambling industry and sell-off of Svenska Spel at the party’s annual conference in Gävle on Saturday.
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26 Oct 07
B.C. Poker Championships set for November
pokerlistings.com - British Columbia's largest poker tournament is set to return for a third year at the River Rock Casino as the British Columbia Lottery Corporation presents the B.C. Poker Championships Nov. 18-25.
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26 Oct 07
AbsolutePoker POTRIPPER Cheating Footage
A report from MSNBC states that a player with the username POTRIPPER hacked into Absolute's system and could see his opponents hole cards.
Watch the YouTube video to see what POTRIPPER could see ...
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25 Oct 07
Pros lobby for online gaming
latimes.com - When trying to convince lawmakers that her career is more than just a card game, professional poker player Annie Duke refuses to fold. "What I do is not gambling," she said.
The world-champion player joined other poker hotshots lobbying Wednesday on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade members of Congress that poker, like chess and mah-jongg, is a game of skill -- and not, like roulette, a casino game that leaves players' fortunes to chance.
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25 Oct 07
PartyGaming shares jump 10%
marketwatch.com - PartyGaming said its poker revenue from continuing operations slipped 3% to $74.8 million after the loss of a number of high-value, non-U.S. players, who have moved to gambling sites that still cater to U.S. customers.
The loss of those players broadly offset a 37% rise in the number of unique active players to around 430,000.
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24 Oct 07
Macau To Host China's 1st Intl. Poker Tournament
allinmag.com - PokerStars today announced the first ever real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament to be held in the People’s Republic of China. The ‘PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open’ USD $2,500 buy-in Main Event ... takes place from November 22-27 at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino on the historic Chinese island of Macau.
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24 Oct 07
Party Poker Returning to the US?
poker-king.com - When the first person that I trust in this industry told me that he heard that Party Poker might be trying to find a way to get back into the US market, I had [this] reaction: "Stop teasing me, it'll never happen."
However, after speaking with a number of people that I trust and hearing them say the same thing, I am starting to think that there might be some truth to this rumor.
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24 Oct 07
AP, SBG Global Controversies a PR Nightmare
gambling911.com - Today, in the midst of what is arguably the biggest scandal to ever hit the billion dollar industry, the press is paying attention....close attention.
ESPN's Gary Wise is already promising a major expose on the Absolute Poker scandal come later this week. Apparently ESPN has been in contact with customers of another online gambling establishment, this a sportsbook, SBG Global.
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