21 Aug 07
Top 10 poker strategy guides
casinocitytimes.com - With nearly every great player writing some type of quick book, locating the difference makers proved to be the key. The books in this top-ten don't necessarily represent the best strategy guides available. The list takes into account those books that changed the game or have stood the test of time by still being relevant in world gone poker crazy.
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21 Aug 07
UK Open Main Event Result
cardplayer.com - British pro Peter Gould has beaten 33 challengers, including his son Josh, to win the £2,500 no-limit hold’em main event at the National Poker League UK Open. He collected £32,500 for his victory.
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21 Aug 07
eCOGRA Welcomes UK Regulatory Tests
cardplayer.com - ECommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eGOGRA), the online gambling standards and dispute mediation organisation, expressed support today for the UK Gambling Commission's recently published testing approach for online gambling software.
The player protection and standards body chief says his organisation is especially pleased that the Commission has recognised the validity of outcome-based testing principles and methodology.
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20 Aug 07
Negreanu: It doesn't take much to outplay a dummy
chron.com - There's an old poker saying that goes something like this: "If thou attempts to bluff a bad player, thou becomes one."
The meaning behind that adage is extremely important. Learn what it means and your poker results will improve immensely. I like to call it dummying down your game.
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20 Aug 07
Beware Of The Bot in The Future
casinogamblingweb.com - Not only do amateur poker players have to worry about playing against more skilled players when they play online, but now there is an opponent arising that might not be beatable, a computer program.
Poker playing computer programs, which are commonly known as bots, are a growing problem for online poker sites. The technology has been tested against top pros, and just recently Phil Laak and Ali Eslami barely defeated the computer program named Polaris.
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20 Aug 07
US men threaten poker host with rattlesnakes
iht.com - Two Colorado men who allegedly tried to use rattlesnakes as deadly weapons to collect on a debt have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said.
The men were allegedly trying to kill Matthew Sowash, owner of Amateur Poker Tour, because he owed them $60,000
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17 Aug 07
Strategy can be useless if others don't play along
philly.com - You can plan all the check-raises you want when you're playing a hand, but unless someone goes along with it by betting, you will have to adjust your strategy to figure out where you are in a hand.
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17 Aug 07
Asia Pacific Poker Tour Starts Next Week In Philippines
eog.com - In another show of the international force that poker has become, the new Asia Pacific Poker Tour kicks off next week in the Philippines with three stops planned. The launch event begins on Aug. 23 at the Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila. The second event is scheduled for Sept. 27 at the Sheraton Walkerhill Hotel and Casino in Seoul, South Korea, and the tour wraps up in December with the Grand Final at the Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia.
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17 Aug 07
Last Chance to Qualify For WSOP Europe on Bodog
cardplayer.com - Players looking to qualify on Bodog for the World Series of Poker Europe main event will have their final opportunity to do so this Sunday.
Bodog is holding its two WSOPE semifinal tournaments, which will send a guaranteed combined six winners to the Series.
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16 Aug 07
Boss Media Profits Rise But Poker Falls
cardplayer.com - Boss Media, the Swedish publically quoted gaming software provider, yesterday announced its results for the six months to Jun.30, 2007. Sales increased by 5 percent to SEK 161.9 million (€17.9 million) from the same period in 2006 while operating profit amounted to SEK 27.5 million (€2.94 million) up from SEK 26.8 million in the first six months of 2006.
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16 Aug 07
New Card Room For Dublin
cardplayer.com - Respected Irish tournament director Luke Ivory opens his own club on the site of the old Merrion Casino Club in Dublin on Friday Aug. 17. The Georgian building at 81 Merrion Square has played host to previous stops on the European Poker Tour and ‘Cool Hand Luke’s’ contiunes the tradition of offering a comprehensive tournament schedule to suit all pockets.
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16 Aug 07
Neteller Co-Founder Pled Guilty
cardplayer.com - As our readers know, Canadian citizens, Stephen Lawrence and co-founder John Lefebvre started Neteller in 1999, took it public in 2004 (London Stock Exchange) and were arrested by the FBI in January, charged with conspiring to transfer funds internationally with the intent to promote illegal online gambling.
During a hearing before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan Friday, Lawrence pled guilty to conspiracy. ... What does this guilty plea teach us regarding the law of online gaming? Absolutely nothing.
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15 Aug 07
Negreanu: Cracking Under Pressure
fcnp.com - I recently played in the $10,000 buy-in main event at the World Series of Poker, and the key reason that I was eliminated was because I did something that I haven't done in a poker tournament in a very long time: I cracked under the pressure.
What led to my demise was not just the final hand, but also, and more importantly, the previous hands that caused me to lose my cool.
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15 Aug 07
Harvard Prof Forms Global Poker Society
cardplayer.com - A Harvard law professor with a special interest in Internet law has formed a University-based think tank called the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), which he hopes will take root in colleges and universities everywhere and will use poker as a an educational tool to teach everything from basic life skills to war games at military colleges.
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15 Aug 07
SA Online Gambling Bill Criticized
pokerpages.com - Long-awaited legislation introduced by Fungai Sibanda, the acting Director General of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to the South African Parliament last week to regulate online poker and online gambling has run into opposition from some members of Parliament.
The National Gambling Amendment was proposed specifically as a way to prevent crime and to protect players, problem gamblers and the under aged as an alternative to the current completely unregulated environment.
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15 Aug 07
Be the best in the (Canadian) west
mapleridgenews.com - British Columbia Lottery Corporation is proud to present the second annual Pacific Poker Shootout Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 at Cascades Casino in Langley.
The tournament has a total estimated prize pool of $600,000 and a top prize of $125,000 to the last player standing. Stuart Bagri of North Vancouver took home $51,300 last year.
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14 Aug 07
Poker Coming to at Least Two Counties in WV
cardplayer.com - Table games, including poker, are coming to at least two of the four West Virginia counties that have casinos, and depending on the results of a recount, a third county might also allow table gambling.
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14 Aug 07
Harvard Law Prof Backs Poker as Educational Tool
Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson will announce an international effort to organize "poker strategic thinking societies" at universities and secondary schools around the world that will use poker as an educational tool to teach everything from basic life skills to war games at military colleges.
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14 Aug 07
Top Woman Online Poker Player Named By Party
online-casinos.com - Beverley Pace, wife of comedian/poker-player Norman Pace, took home $50 000 and the title of first Party Poker Women's World Open Champion this week after a tough competition and a tense heads up with runner-up Jen Mason in London. After a number of swings Pace's pocket sixes held-up all-in against Mason's Ace Jack off suit.
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13 Aug 07
Event One at National Poker League UK Open
cardplayer.com - The final table of event one of the National Poker League UK Open plays down this evening with Tony G starting as chip leader and Dave Colclough the second short stack.
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