18 Sep 07
More Lies About Poker
pokerplayernewspaper.com - Every day we're bombarded with statistics that are carefully constructed to obscure the truth and confuse those who try to parse them. Not that many folks do much parsing--they blindly accept whatever numbers are splashed before them without considering the fact that those numbers might be misleading or even bogus. ...
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17 Sep 07
Seoul to Host Global Poker Match This Month
koreatimes.co.kr - The first ever world-class poker tournament in the Asia Pacific region is to be held in Seoul late this month with a three-day schedule to meet fast-growing popularity among Korean poker enthusiasts
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17 Sep 07
Ladbrokes Poker to go 3-D
pokerlistings.com - Playwize announced today it has signed a development and licensing agreement with Ladbrokes International Ltd. that will bring 3-D poker to the Ladbrokes Poker site.
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17 Sep 07
EU: Norwegian teenager becomes poker millionaire
guardian.co.uk - Norwegian Annette Obrestad, 18, beat a string of professionals in a five-day £10,000 buy-in no-limit hold 'em event [the WSOPE Main Event], winning a prize of £1 million, the biggest-ever single payday for a female player.
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14 Sep 07
EU: France considers online gaming
parttimepoker.com - French and EU officials are presently in Brussels discussing the relaxation of policies controlling online gaming activities in France. Despite the apparent move forward, nothing is promised in the poker arena, as officials are unwilling to work around France’s monopolies to allow any France-based online gambling other than sports betting.
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14 Sep 07
2007 WSOP Europe - Main Event
pokerpages.com - 119 players returned to the felt yesterday to play day 2b of the World Series of Poker Europe. Play was scheduled to last through four levels, with the remaining players joining the 40 players who made it through the first day 2 flight.
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14 Sep 07
Titan Tournament: One Million Dollars
4flush.com - Titan Poker is about to make the record books. For the first time ever, Titan Poker will host the wealthiest online sit and go poker tournament.
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13 Sep 07
EU: £1 million for WSOPE Main Event Winner
cardplayer.com - “Top prize in our European main event is now a cool £1 million” said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. ...
“Nearly all of the world’s top poker players entered the World Series of Poker Europe, making it one of the most competitive poker tournaments in European history,” said Pollack. “Anyone who plays well enough to make it to the top 10 percent of the field deserves — and will get — an excellent return on his investment.”
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13 Sep 07
PA May Be Next State to Have Poker
cardplayer.com - Pennsylvania Democratic House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese told colleagues at a special committee meeting concerning his proposed table game bill that although a table game initiative probably wouldn’t pass at the moment, it’s not too early for them to be thinking and talking about one.
Last November, Pennsylvania became one of the many states in the union to allow establishments to have slot machines where 34 percent of revenue goes to the state; 14 such establishments are currently authorized.
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12 Sep 07
EU Hits Swedish Gambling Monopoly
The European Union is taking aim at Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, arguing that it violates rules promoting competition among its 27-member nations.
Sweden says the monopoly is needed to protect the public from "addiction," illegal rackets and fraud. But EU regulators don't buy the argument.
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12 Sep 07
SA Moves Toward Legalizing Online Poker
cardplayer.com - South Africa’s parliament yesterday passed the National Gambling Amendment bill which aims to regulate online gaming, including poker.
The bill, sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry, stipulates that online gaming vendors would have to obtain a national license and locate their servers and records within South Africa.
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12 Sep 07
Pam Shags For Poker Debt, Will Wed?
Anderson would not say who she was going to marry but said “He’s this guy, this poker player.” She hinted that Ellen might know him, and he is famous. The relationship started when she owed him $250,000.
Instead of paying the debt off in cash, she paid it off with sex.
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11 Sep 07
EU: Team USA Wins World Cup of Poker IV
cardplayer.com - Greg “Fossilman” Raymer led Team USA to victory in the fourth PokerStars.com World Cup of Poker at the Gran Casino Barcelona in Spain last week. Raymer, the former patent attorney who picked up $5 million for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker, was the star player of the five-man U.S. team that also included John Kenlan, Randy Principe, Shaun Deeb, and team captain Tyler Netter.
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11 Sep 07
How to Lose at Online Poker
gambling911.com - With so many articles out there on winning online poker, how about one that deals with losing at online poker. Well, if you pay attention to these rules of how to lose at online poker, you probably stand a much better chance of winning by avoiding these pitfalls.
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10 Sep 07
Germany's Thomas Bihl Captures First-Ever WSOPE Bracelet
cnn.com - The first round in the new battle for global poker bragging rights goes to Europe, thanks to Thomas "Buzzer" Bihl who made poker history today at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair.com.
Bihl, a native of Frankfurt, Germany, who started playing poker just four years ago, won 70,875 pounds Sterling and the first-ever WSOP bracelet awarded outside the United States.
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10 Sep 07
EU: 24-Hour Cash Game for TV
cardplayer.com - PartyPoker yesterday announced the ‘PartyPoker Poker Den: The Big Game II’ will take place on Monday Sept. 17. It will be broadcast on television around the world next year. The format is a 24-hour continuous cash game where each player buys in for a minimum $10,000, with blinds starting at $25-$50. Players are free to leave the table at any time they want.
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10 Sep 07
Omaha High Poker Online Strategy
gambling911.com - Omaha High poker online strategy is important for those living in Europe who seem to be adapting this game. ... Omaha High Poker is a community card game, with players sharing the cards on the board, but Unlike in Hold'em, each player is dealt 4 hole or down cards, and must use exactly 2 cards from his/her hole cards and 3 from the board to make a 5-card poker hand.
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10 Sep 07
The Mathematics of Poker
pokerplayernewspaper.com - I believe that "The Mathematics of Poker" is the most important book on poker written in the last decade, arguably the most important poker book of the last 25 years. Despite this, I believe that this book will help relatively few poker players, and as such, its impact on the games played in most card rooms will be relatively minor.
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07 Sep 07
Euro Poker: WSOPE Betting Markets Live
cardplayer.com - The World Series of Poker Europe started yesterday, Sept.6, in London with the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. event. While players from all over the world are expected to travel to play in the £10,000 buy-in main event starting Sept. 10, bookmakers in Europe and the U.S. are pricing up their markets in anticipation of the event.
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07 Sep 07
Bot Wins No-Limit Poker Showdown
pokernews.com - The recent, much-hyped 'Man-Machine Poker Championship' match-up pitting pros Phil Laak and Ali Eslami against a software program named Polaris might have drawn plenty of poker-media coverage, but it wasn't the only result from this year's University of Alberta's recent Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence [AAAI] Computer Poker Competition.
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