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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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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