25 Sep 07
Busy week for poker world
pokerlistings.com - The World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour go nearly head-to-head as each kicks off a tournament, one in Turks and Caicos tomorrow and the other today in London. The Asia Pacific tour will be throwing its hat in the ring at the end of the week as well with its tournament in Korea.
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25 Sep 07
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama A Poker Fan
The Associated Press is running a fluff piece in which several legislators and lobbyists talk about current presidential candidate Barack Obama and the poker game that they used to play with him, sometimes referred to a the "committee meeting." ...
They usually played stud or draw poker for low stakes, and the atmosphere was jovial and relaxed.
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24 Sep 07
Easter 2008: €3 Million Guaranteed Irish Open
cardplayer.com - Paddypowerpoker.com today announced Citywest Hotel as the venue for the €3 million-guaranteed Irish Open. The week-long festival of poker will take place over Easter from Mar. 19-24, 2008.
Europe’s longest-running poker tournament has relocated to Ireland’s premier conference, leisure, and golf resort to accommodate an increased capacity of 1,000 players.
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24 Sep 07
Poker Star Sheikhan Could Be Deported
casinogamblingweb.com - Sheikhan served nine months in jail and was placed on 5 years probation for a misdemeanor sexual battery charge. The case involved a 17 year old girl who he had relations with when he was in his early 20's.
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21 Sep 07
Euro Poker: VC Poker Launches ECOOP
cardplayer.com - VC Poker has announced its European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) set to run for 10Y days this November. The inaugural series has a combined $2.5 million-guaranteed prize pool. The poker tournament will also showcase an exclusive $50,000 MVP freeroll where the winner claims the title of 2007 ECOOP Most Valuable Player.
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21 Sep 07
T.J. Cloutier: How the 2007 WSOP Improved
pokerpages.com - [T]he floor staff this year was very congenial and very good at their jobs. We didn't have any mix-ups like we had last year in the six-handed event and the shoot-outs.
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21 Sep 07
Poker Giant Takes a Stand Against Ranking Sites
cardplayer.com - PokerStars recently put its foot down on the online poker ranking sites, and the poker community noticed. ...
It was the unmitigated access to profitability statistics that got some players up in arms. Enough concerned players contacted PokerStars about their privacy being breached that the site decided to do something about it.
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21 Sep 07
Online poker still booming
pokerlistings.com - If the Facebook community is any indication, interest in online poker is still growing at a rapid rate. ...
Amazingly, over 150,000 Facebook users now play Texas Hold'em poker on a daily basis, making it one of the most popular applications on the Web site.
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20 Sep 07
Full Tilt Makes Major "Bot" Bust
poker-king.com - Many Full Tilt Poker players woke up today to find out that they have received emails from Full Tilt Poker, informing them that they would be receiving money after FTP management busted numerous accounts that had been using "unauthorized" software. ...
Apparently these "bots" were playing Heads Up Limit Hold'em cash games.
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20 Sep 07
Matusow Makes Final Table of the WPT Borgata
poker-king.com - Roy Winston enters the final day of play as chipleader with 5.35 million in chips. Other players at the final table include Heung Yoon, Matusow, Eugene Todd, Mark Weitzman and Haralabos Voulgaris ...
Matusow continues to be on a roll, as he took down season 3 of the Poker Superstars Invitational for $500k, came second in the 2007 Bellagio Cup III event for just under $700k, and had multiple cashes at this year's World Series of Poker.
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19 Sep 07
The Mortal Sin of Poker - Giving a Free Card
pokernews.com - The idea of giving a free card extends beyond the obvious, to actually any situation where you are ahead in the hand, and fail to make a bet or raise. Some of these situations are of course unavoidable, as you may be ahead with a very marginal hand, but even on these hands, you have technically made a poker mistake.
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19 Sep 07
Bodog Poker moves again
pokerlistings.com - Bodog Poker has moved once again. The online poker site's new home is now BodogLife.com ...
"Hey, the world changes, and if you don't change with it, you get left behind. We've been leading the good times for a long time, and nobody will leave us behind," said Calvin Ayre, Bodog's founder and CEO, in a press release.
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19 Sep 07
IRS to Collect More Poker Winnings
cardplayer.com - The IRS has advised sponsors of poker tournaments that they have an obligation to issue W-2G forms and to withhold tax from payments that exceed $5,000. ...
Congress has not enacted any new laws. This is just the IRS now interpreting what Congress did back in 1976 when it enacted the present, confusing law on withholding from various gambling activities.
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18 Sep 07
Absolute Poker in 'Superuser' Scandal
"Doubts about the safety of Absolute Poker have become rife over the internet forums. There have been allegations that Absolute Poker have a 'superuser' account which allows that user to read players hole cards."
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18 Sep 07
Poker king insists anyone can become an ace
google.com - Want to outwit the planet and win millions of dollars on the poker table? Phil Hellmuth, the world's greatest poker player, insists you can, and will tell you how. ...
Hellmuth believes casinos and online poker dens are brimming with potential champions -- and reckons the excitement of the game is in never knowing who the next hot-shot is.
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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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