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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07 Sep 07
Top-10 poker player nicknames
What do "Jesus", "The Mouth", and "Miss Slick" have in common? Great nicknames if nothing else. ...
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07 Sep 07
Chili Signs Liz Lieu
4flush.com - Chilipoker, one of the growing online poker rooms, recently announced an exclusive partnership with Liz Lieu, a top professional and ‘poker diva’.
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06 Sep 07
EU: Gus Hansen Teaches Poker Online
4flush.com - Danish poker star Gus Hansen has just opened an online poker school were poker players from all skill levels can watch instructional videos and discuss poker and poker strategies not only with each other but with Mr. Hansen himself. In the future the plan is for Gus to provide poker analysis also.
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06 Sep 07
UK: ITV bets on poker partnership
thisismoney.co.uk - ITV is cosying up to online poker giant PartyGaming, as it seeks to rebuild revenues lost from the premium rate phone-in scandal. ...
The unlikely pair started working together a few months ago. The original deal allowed ITV.com visitors to click through to PartyGaming's sites. Now the games have been given ITV branding.
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06 Sep 07
US: New Tax on Poker Winnings
4flush.com - A new approach brings the US closer to taxation instead of banning online poker rooms. Effective March 4th, 2008 a new law will tax tournament winnings by 25 % for all who case more than 5000 thousand dollars. Poker Hobbyists are the people who will find the biggest pinch to their earnings.
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05 Sep 07
Bodog Announces Odds for Inaugural WSOP Europe
eog.com - Poker's premier event, the World Series of Poker, begins a new chapter this week in London when the inaugural WSOP Europe kicks off on September 6 ...
While everyone expects the $10,000 buy-in Main Event in London to draw a much smaller field than its counterpart in Las Vegas, how much smaller is anyone's guess.
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05 Sep 07
The WSOP Europe Preview
pokernews.com - Well, we've been talking about it for months and now it is only a day away. The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) starts tomorrow
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05 Sep 07
Swedish government targets poker clubs
pokerlistings.com - According to the Swedish gaming board Lotteriinspektionen, illegal poker playing in the country is getting out of hand. The institution is now demanding police crack down on underground clubs.
In Sweden, the government-owned company Svenska Spel has a monopoly on hosting poker games, both live and online.
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05 Sep 07
CPPC at the Hollywood Park Casino
pokerlistings.com - The conference, whose theme is "Gain a POSITIVE EXPECTATION! Learn to be a WINNING Poker player," is being held in conjunction with the 12-day National Championship of Poker Tournament at the Hollywood Parks Casino in Inglewood, CA.
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05 Sep 07
Cybercrooks Use Bots To Deal Winning Hand
Bots, the millions of compromised computers remotely controlled by crooks, are doing more than spreading spam and phishing. Increasingly, they're agents for various forms of fraud, such as money laundering.
Over the past five months, RSA senior researcher Uriel Maimon has witnessed a spike in the use of bots on gaming sites to move money overseas.
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04 Sep 07
PokerStars' World Cup of Poker IV Finals Set to Begin
pokernews.com - Besides the USA, Canada and Germany, the other countries in this year's WCP include Ireland, Portugal, Iceland, Mexico and Romania, which bested Hungary in a playoff to grab the final WCP spot. All eight teams will vie for the title won last year by Poland, which failed to qualify for this year's finals.
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04 Sep 07
Devilfish and Poker Brat to face off
pokerlistings.com - On the eve of the inaugural WSOPE, Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth and England's own David "Devilfish" Ulliott are on a collision course.
The European series, presented by Betfair, will finally officially launch at 11 a.m. today, at the Odeon West End Cinema in Leicester Square.
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03 Sep 07
Negreanu: Check your game plan at the door
chron.com - I'm often asked poker strategy questions by amateurs who hope to get concrete answers in return. That's rarely how poker works. There are simply too many variables to consider. The best approach in one situation might be the absolute worst in another.
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03 Sep 07
Poker Stars: E-Check Option For U.S. Players
online-casinos.com - "Instant eChecks are now available to a limited number of players, with plans to make eChecks available to all U.S. players in the near future," says a message on the cashier section of the PokerStars website.
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03 Sep 07
Incredible Hand Makes Poker History
allinmag.com - Three players were left. Young Phan was heads-up against Mack Ham with pocket 7s against Ham's pocket 5s. On the flop, Ham took the lead with a set when the flop came 6h-5s-3h. He made a small trap bet of 16,000 and Phan moved in. Then a 4h turned to give Phan a straight. But a river 5h gave Ham quads! He jumped up excitedly, until Phan pointed out that one of his 7s was a heart, giving him a straight flush!!!
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31 Aug 07
New Tax Law Bites Into Tournament Winnings
cardplayer.com - A new tax code has been released that spells out just how much money the government will take from those who are lucky enough to cash for $5,000 or more in poker tournaments.
Starting March 4, 2008, casinos and cardrooms are supposed to start withholding 25 percent of any poker tournament winnings of $5,000 or more.
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31 Aug 07
Absolute Poker Giving Interest to Elite Players
cardplayer.com - Absolute Poker has announced that its “Elite VIP” members will receive 9 percent interest on their online daily balance. The daily balance is required to be more than $1,000, and the maximum eligible balance is $500,000.
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31 Aug 07
Canadian Police Raid Illegal Poker Games
onlinecasinonews.com - After an investigation that began in December, Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Illegal Gambling Unit in co-operation with the Peel Regional Police executed search warrants on four businesses in the southern Ontario city, one July 21, two August 26 and one Monday.
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