16 Jul 07
Danish Court Deems Poker Legal
online-casinos.com - The Copenhagen Post reports that a Danish municipal court has ruled that poker tournaments do not contravene Danish gaming laws.
Poker is not merely a game of chance but also requires skill and is therefore legitimate competition, a municipal court in the district of Lyngby ruled Friday.
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13 Jul 07
2007 WSOP Championship Event - Day 4
Spiderman got squished after calling a player who went All-in. Tobey Maguire was holding pocket Ks and the other player was holding Aces. Maguire wouldn't recover from that hand and would be KOed a few hands later.
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13 Jul 07
NETeller Update On U.S. Situation
As stated in the Company’s announcement of 12 July 2007, NETeller stated that it had advised the USAO that it will use its best efforts to resolve the investigation on or soon after 13 July 2007. The Company believes that it is making significant progress towards achieving a resolution and hopes to be able to announce this within a number of days.
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13 Jul 07
Female touch a winner in gaming
chicagotribune.com - High-stakes women gamblers who use the Internet to wager on games win more often than men, according to a Harvard Medical School study.
The results of the 40,499-person study "favor women as exhibiting more effective sports gambling behavior than men," wrote Medford, Mass. based author Richard LaBrie and his team of researchers.
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12 Jul 07
2007 WSOP Championship Event Updates
Jesus couldn't save himself and busted. Ferguson had the least number of chips as the day began.
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12 Jul 07
WSOP affected by online poker crackdown
casinocitytimes.com - The main event drew 6,358 entrants [this year], down about 27 percent from last year's record turnout of 8,773. The culprit for the drop-off was the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which made it more cumbersome for Americans to move money to and from online gambling sites and prompted some online poker rooms to pull out of the U.S. market.
It also changed the dynamics of how players who won a World Series of Poker entry online - an estimated 55 percent of last year's field was generated by Internet qualifiers - actually registered for the tournament.
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12 Jul 07
WSOP Academy Announces HORSE Poker Camp
bodogbeat.com - The WSOP Academy announced today the launch of the WSOP Academy H.O.R.S.E. Edition, the first-ever poker camp dedicated to the five games that make up H.O.R.S.E.: Texas Hold 'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, 7-Card Stud and 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight or Better.
The comprehensive, three-day poker camp and experience is scheduled to take place November 2 - 4, 2007, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
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11 Jul 07
Poker pros have to use new tricks at WSOP
sportsline.com - In a starting field of 6,358 players, the pros are facing many well-educated players who have read the professionals' books, studied them on TV, know their strategies at no-limit Texas Hold 'em and try to fight back with an eye on the tournament's $8.25 million top prize.
As play began Tuesday for 1,032 players, or about half the remaining field, many of the missing were poker's pros.
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11 Jul 07
The 1st Worldwide Amateur Poker League
mmdnewswire.com - Regardless of the widely televised professional Texas Hold’em tournaments, the vast majority of the estimated 150,000,000 poker players around the world play in amateur leagues, poker clubs, private weekend games or other online venues. The WAPL will offer free tournament play for such “week end amateurs” who feel they have the skills to compete with other highly skilled players.
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11 Jul 07
Brown scraps plans for UK supercasinos
Despite four years of intense lobbying by casino organisations, an unprecedented competition between councils and a huge parliamentary effort, the Prime Minister today signalled that vast Las Vegas-style gambling dens will not come to Britain.
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10 Jul 07
WSOP Announces Total Prize Money
bodogbeat.com - The numbers are in for the total number of entrants in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event is 6358. While that's a far cry from the nearly 9000 players in 2006 it's also 739 more than the 2005 field.
This year's total prize money will be $59,784,954 with $8,250,000 going to the winner.
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10 Jul 07
Poker Writers Walking the WSOP Walk
pokernews.com - A common critique of writers is that they can talk the talk, but many of poker's noted authors walked the walk this WSOP. While you probably wouldn't want to share a table with any of them, it's comforting to know our industry's writers have what it takes off the page and on the felt.
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10 Jul 07
WSOP Should Have Had 14,000 Playing
gambling911.com - World Series of Poker organizers seem content that they have attracted 6358 players in the 2007 event. To anyone who hasn't followed the WSOP numbers these past few years that's a mighty impressive number. ... there was actually more than a 25% decline in actual attendance this year over last year.
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09 Jul 07
Sunday: Day 3 of the main event of the WSOP
lasvegassun.com - The field increased to a total of 4,583 players on the third of four starting days at the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event Sunday. Organizers said Day 3 had 1,751 entrants, compared to 1,287 on Friday and 1,545 on Saturday. The field most likely will not reach the record 8,773 of last year.
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09 Jul 07
Negreanu: Getting to the river is half the battle
chron.com - Playing in a No Limit tournament is much different than playing in a cash game. In cash games, your goal is simply to play each hand optimally, thinking only about getting maximum value for each hand while minimizing losses.
In tournaments, great players avoid thin edges and play marginal hands with extra care. By doing this, they often sacrifice a little bit of value in order to protect themselves from losing a big pot.
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09 Jul 07
The Dark Side of Professional Poker
poker-king.com - I would say that at least half of the big-name pros are entering tournaments staked; they simply can't afford to enter themselves. These are guys with millions of dollars in career tournament wins. ... [M]ost of the poker players that I came into contact with seem to be complete degenerates, begging and borrowing money for stakes and prop bets and side games.
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09 Jul 07
Phil Hellmuth Commits To WSOP Europe
Pre-registrations officially opened today for the World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair.com, and all-time WSOP bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth Jr. has made an official commitment to play. ...
“I’m going to London to make history again by winning the first WSOP bracelet ever awarded outside of Las Vegas.”
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07 Jul 07
2007 WSOP Championship Event (No. 55) Updates
The bracelet of all bracelets is up for grabs at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Jamie Gold is the defending champion and everyone will be looking to knock him off his perch. Here is all the latest news.
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07 Jul 07
WPT Launches Real Money Gaming Website
WPT Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: WPTE) announced today the official launch of its new online real money and "play for fun" gaming site, WorldPokerTour.com. WPT executives are in London to celebrate the launch and invite players from around the globe to register and receive the $1500 "You Play, We Pay" bonus program, one of the industry's largest bonuses ever offered.
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06 Jul 07
MGM Mirage Exec Keen On Internet Gambling Action
The giant Vegas-based MGM Mirage gambling group would get involved in online gambling as quickly as it could if the United States legalised the online gambling market in that country, a senior company exec told a newspaper journalist earlier this week. ...
[Senior Vice President Alan] Feldman appeared in the interview to support the efforts of Congressman Barney Frank to legalise online gambling in the USA by licensing and strictly regulating it under the proposed Bill HR 2046 the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act.
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