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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29 May 07
Gambling And Online Poker Coming To Illinois?
Illinois would license bookies and let floating casinos move slot machines ashore, under a controversial gambling plan key Democratic leaders are pushing to come up with added billions for state spending.
At the heart of the proposal unveiled last week are four new casinos - to be in Chicago, Waukegan, near O'Hare International Airport and the south suburbs.
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29 May 07
'Other' Poker Tournaments During the WSOP
pokernews.com - Lest you think all the other properties in [Vegas] will be offering fewer events to avoid competition with the big happenings at the Rio; think again! Not only will most venues be offering their regular schedule of tournaments, several properties are stepping up their tournament schedules to draw some of those WSOPers into their poker rooms.
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28 May 07
U.S. Action Contrary To Purpose of GATS
winneronline.com - Having announced that its will accept the findings of the panel, the U.S. jolted the entire WTO membership with its subsequent announcement on 4 May that it will withdraw its commitment for gambling and betting services under what is known as "Article 21" of the GATS agreement.
"This astounding and unprecedented action by the U.S. opens up a whole new chapter in the WTO jurisprudence, which runs contrary to the object and purpose of the GATS, the DSU and other WTO agreements," said the Minister.
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28 May 07
World Headsup Poker Championship in Barcelona
pokerpages.com - The largest headsup poker tournament in the world, the 2007 World Headsup Poker Championship (WHPC) is being sponsored by 888.com and is now running in Barcelona, Spain from 21-29th May. ...
The WHPC features 128 players going one-against-one in face to face, single elimination matches of no-limit Texas hold'em.
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28 May 07
Live Poker "Pros" Are Overrated
poker-king.com - Remember all those people that said "Online poker pros may be good, but they'll never be able to compete with live poker pros?" ... Well, 2007 is officially the year of those people being proven wrong. Online poker all-stars have switched over in large part to live poker (largely coinciding with the implementation of the UIGEA), and the results have been catastrophic, if you are a "live poker pro."
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25 May 07
First Annual Binion's Poker Classic Scheduled
cardplayer.com - The legendary Binion’s Casino will host the first annual Binion’s Poker Classic this summer during nearly the same time frame as the World Series of Poker (June 1-July 17), Bellagio Cup III (June 11-July 15)and the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza (June 1-July 1). However, the much smaller buy-ins and variety of events will likely attract a different crowd.
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25 May 07
Pacific Poker gets new face
pokerlistings.com - Pacific Poker, it seems, was due for a makeover. So they went in the tank and came out with a whole new face - and are so happy with the results they'll send you around the world to celebrate.
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