06 Jun 07
Bracelet Could go to Annie Duke
gambling911.com - Annie Duke, one of the world’s best poker professionals and arguably the best female player to ever grace the poker tables, is on course to win her 2nd WSOP bracelet.
Annie has secured a seat at the final table in the Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi/lo 8/OB event at this year’s World Series of Poker.
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06 Jun 07
WSOP card row
pokerplayermagazine.co.uk - Players were disappointed with the new style cards introduced by Harrah’s and the United States Playing Card Company, known as ‘Poker Peek’.
Complaints were rife, and mostly focused on the fact that the nines and sixes were difficult to tell apart, and the digits too small.
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05 Jun 07
Canada: 60 people charged in poker raids
Three Winnipeg clubs have been accused by police of illegally profiting by holding Texas Hold'em poker games and taking a cut of the money.
The Barca Club, the Bari Club and Shooter's Billiards were raided last Thursday, along with a Tuxedo home belonging to one of the club's owners.
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05 Jun 07
Rap Dealer Wins WSOP Poker Title
online-casinos.com - Eric Narciso, a 24 year old Vegas dealer at Orleans Casino is the latest champion in a World Series of Poker Casino Employees competition that attracted 1 038 entries.
Narciso, who also seeks fame as a rap singer using the handle QuietLike and has made a record album of his verses, took down the main prize of $104 701 after a long 14 hour competition which he entered via a $90 satellite.
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05 Jun 07
Poker After Dark Returns
gambling911.com - Poker fans are eagerly anticipating the filming of the second season of Poker After Dark is scheduled to take place this May at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, with the first episode scheduled to air on NBC during the week of June 11. Shana Hiatt returns as the program’s host, as does Oliver "Ali" Nejad to provide limited commentary.
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05 Jun 07
U.S. House Holds Net Gambling Hearing
A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Monday it will hold a hearing on Friday to look at Internet gambling, which is effectively banned in the United States.
The hearing will examine whether Internet gambling can be regulated to protect consumers and the payments system, said the House Financial Services Committee.
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04 Jun 07
WSOP Event #3: 3rd Largest in Poker History
bodogbeat.com - While preliminary reports and estimates were seemingly very wrong concerning the number of players that registered for the $1,500 buy-in event (something to do with double-counting pre-registrations), the hyperbole-ridden official “news flash” we received tells us that the number of players is actually a new record. The event still did break its own record from last year of 2,891, but also apparently set a record for poker as a whole.
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04 Jun 07
Shawn Buchanan Wins WPT Mandalay Bay
bodogbeat.com - The WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship is now officially in the books. After a fairly lengthy heads-up battle with Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Shawn Buchanan of Vancouver has emerged the newest WPT champion.
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04 Jun 07
WSOP '07: So Far, a Comedy of Errors
poker-king.com - The good news? The poker boom is obviously not dead. The crowds already at the World Series of Poker are awe-inspiring. Anyone worried that the UIGEA would take a bit bite out of the numbers planning on playing at the World Series of Poker would have been sorely mistaken.
The bad news? According to preliminary reports, the World Series of Poker is hugely disorganized and is already a nightmare for some of the players.
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04 Jun 07
Party Enters Talks With U.S. Authorities
PartyGaming, the internet gambling group, on Monday said it had initiated talks with the U.S. justice authorities as analysts speculated that the U.S. government may be preparing to relax last year’s clampdown on online betting.
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01 Jun 07
EU Criticizes Germany Over State Gaming Treaty
In its second statement of position, the European Commission has strongly criticised all key aspects of the draft State Treaty on gaming proposed by the Federal German states. The Commission has voiced serious reservations as to the treaty's compatibility with European Community law.
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01 Jun 07
Down to Final Ten at WPT Mandalay Bay
bodogbeat.com - As the poker world shifts its focus today to the first event of the 2007 World Series of Poker, some unfinished business still remains down the road from the Rio at the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, where they’re down to just ten players all aiming for a seat at the televised table and the first place prize of $768,775.
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01 Jun 07
WSOP Starts Today
pokerpages.com - Today, the 2007 edition of the World Series of Poker, the planet's longest-running, most prestigious and richest poker and gaming competition, gets under way with what Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP Commissioner, termed "the best schedule and widest range of events in the tournament's storied history."
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31 May 07
Sports Bet Bill To Be Introduced In Delaware
State Rep. Vincent Lofink, R-Bear, said Wednesday he plans to introduce a bill that would allow the Delaware Lottery to set up a state-run sports book, most likely at the state's three existing racinos. Armed with a new study showing that such an operation could bring at least $70 million to the state, Lofink said he'd like the legislation to hit by late next week.
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31 May 07
Poker Bots Learn to Bluff
wired.com - Poker-playing software programs are great at calculating odds and keeping, so to speak, a straight face. But the bluff -- that highest art of the game, the ability to intuit when and how to successfully play a low pair like a full house -- has always been beyond the grasp of their code.
All that may have changed: Evan Hurwitz, a computer scientist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and his colleagues developed an artificial intelligence that learned to bluff.
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31 May 07
Free Money for Las Vegas Poker Regulars
cardplayer.com - A trend in Las Vegas poker rooms has caught on, and players are enjoying it. Casinos are coughing up some of their money to reward their regular and most frequent players with freerolls. Those who log in a certain amount of hours during a specified time period will get to play in these special tournaments.
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31 May 07
Playing Cards Evolve at the WSOP
bodogbeat.com - Bicycle, the world’s largest maker of playing cards, is launching the new Bicycle Pro "PokerPeek" playing card at the 2007 WSOP. The PokerPeek is designed to prevent people from having to lift the corner of their poker cards up too high when checking to see what they’ve been dealt. By installing the cards appropriate icon in each of the four corners players nedd only peel it up an inch or so to see what you’re holding.
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30 May 07
Victor Chandler saucy ad campaign nixed
theregister.co.uk - The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered the firm behind Poker.com to stop advertising online gambling as likely to get you laid.
A complaint was levied at betting house Victor Chandler, which ran a VCPoker.com campaign featuring a scantily clad young lady with the strapline: "You love sex. She loves sex. You love money. She loves money. You have money. She loves you."
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30 May 07
WSOP Forms Committee For Non-US Players
gambling911.com - Eight top poker professionals have agreed to join a new International Players Advisory Council that will consult with World Series of Poker management on ways to enhance the player experience for registrants who come from outside North America.
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29 May 07
Expect 2007 WSOP To Produce Unexpected Champ
[I]t's much more likely the eventual winner will be an amateur player taking a shot at a big score, a middling pro or an online qualifier than an accomplished elite professional poker player.
"The odds are against a recognized pro making it through to win," said Larry Grossman, Las Vegas gaming analyst, photographer and longtime World Series of Poker aficionado.
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