12 Feb 07
Edler The New Heads Up Champ
online-casinos.com - Las Vegas poker pro Bill Edler proved that expertise travels well when he took the World Heads Up Poker Champion title at the beautifully renovated Crystal Casino in Los Angeles this week, beating a series of top opponents drawn from a pool of 64 top players on the way.
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12 Feb 07
Everest gains as US pressures increase
uk.pokernews.com - In the clearest signal yet that the multi-lingual community is taking up the online poker reins, Everest Poker has leapt to number 4 in the table of cash games traffic, fast catching up with Pokerstars, Party and Full Tilt!
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12 Feb 07
Alberta Gov't Studies Poker Options
pokerpages.com - The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is reportedly considering creating websites for people to play poker, blackjack or to bet on sports online. The commission has ordered two polls to gauge how Albertans feel about the idea.
Marilyn Carlyle-Helms, spokeswoman for the commission, says they're in the early stages of player research. She says they're "moving slow and steady" on the idea.
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09 Feb 07
Sportingbet to Close Paradise
cardplayer.com - Sportingbet, the parent company of Paradise Poker, announced it will shut down its Paradise Poker platform and transfer all its players over to SportingbetPoker.
SportingbetPoker.com runs on the Boss Poker Network. Paradise Poker ran on its own network and it didn’t make much sense to company officials to run two separate networks.
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09 Feb 07
GB Poker Tour Launches, Prize Pool Tops $1.4 M
cardplayer.com - The Great British Poker Tour - www.gbpokertour.com - in association with Gala Casinos, will feature five televised Festivals across the UK and a £2,500 buy-in Grand Final, for a combined estimated prize pool of over £750,000 (over $1,400,000).
The inaugural tournament starts at the Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh on 21st February 2007 followed by Festivals in Teesside, Nottingham, Bournemouth, and Bradford before culminating in the GBPT Grand Final in late October 2007.
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08 Feb 07
Plenty of Poker, But Not For USA
online-casinos.com - The past few weeks have seen several major poker site launches, underlining yet again the confidence in this sector by large and well backed companies.
Probably the highest profile launch was that of Playboy Gaming ... Playboy's investment in the market shows that even established big-name brands are bullish in their approach to the future of the industry.
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08 Feb 07
Intelligent Holdem Raises
gambling911.com - Let’s begin by examining what to do when you get a strong hand in Holdem. Intelligent Texas Holdem poker raises should occur before the flop with a strong hand because you really only want one caller. If you have the best two starting hands of aces or kings, you can handle a couple of callers, but you never want more than two. Why is that? It is because too many hands mean too many drawing opportunities. Your raise needs to be big enough to force most everyone out of the hand.
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07 Feb 07
WSOP Champ Gold Settles
pokerpages.com - Reigning World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold agreed to an out-of-court settlement with Bruce Crispin Leyser. Terms of the agreement, tentatively reached on Friday, February 2nd, were not disclosed.
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07 Feb 07
Virgin Poker to Become Major Player
gambling911.com - If online poker site Virgin Poker's premiere launch on the Gambling911.com website is any indication of how successful this new venture from the Virgin Group will become, we might be in for an incredible ride.
"The results over a three day period on the Gambling911.com website have been staggering," disclosed Payton O'Brien of G911.
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06 Feb 07
FBI Freezes NETeller Funds
The FBI has frozen funds held in customer accounts at NETeller, the "virtual wallet" payment processor, as part of its case against the firm's two Canadian founders who were last month arrested and charged with racketeering and money laundering.
NETeller refused to disclose how much had been frozen but company filings make clear huge sums were flowing between its U.S. customers' "e-wallets" and online merchants - particularly gambling websites - up until the firm was pressured to close its American operations in the wake of last month's arrests.
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06 Feb 07
The Venetian Announces "Deep Stack Extravaganza"
pokerplayernewspaper.com - Poker excitement continues this February with The Venetian Poker Room's latest tournament, Deep Stack Extravaganza. The tournament runs February 21st - March 11th. ...
“The Deep Stack Extravaganza offers both the novice and professional player a chance to win big,” stated Kathy Raymond, director of poker operations. “With the variety of the games being offered and the substantial amount of starting chips, this tournament is sure to attract poker players from all over.”
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05 Feb 07
Everest Identifies EU Poker Playing Trends
igamingbusiness.com - Everest Poker has commissioned Jupiter Research to conduct a Pan-European survey identifying the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the poker playing community in Europe.
Nearly 2,000 players in France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Italy completed the survey online which is the first poker-specific survey on European players to be published.
According to the survey, poker remains a predominantly male game, particularly in southern European countries. ...
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05 Feb 07
Player of the Year Race Starts With a Bang
pokernews.com - With a flurry of activity, the 2007 Poker Player of the Year race is already being hotly contested. The leader board after the plentitude of January poker tournaments brings poker fans some familiar names and also highlights the efforts of the previously unknown players who may have an impact on the game over the next eleven months.
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05 Feb 07
National Heads-Up Championship begins March
pokerpages.com - A veritable who's who in the poker world will be attending the third season of the popular National Heads-Up Poker Championship, March 1 to 4, 2007 in Las Vegas.
The tourney pits 64 top players competing in a series of heads-up games (one-on-one games of Texas Hold'em). The tournament has a unique, single-elimination, bracket-style format modeled after college basketball tournaments.
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02 Feb 07
WY: Poker bill wins House backing
casperstartribune.net - Wyoming poker fans won another hand Friday when the House Travel Committee approved a bill, already passed by the Senate, that would permit the return of "social" poker games to state bars and restaurants.
"The counties were not consistent in their interpretation of the gaming laws of this state, and we felt we needed to clean that up," House Travel Committee Chairman Rep. Pat Childers, R-Cody, said.
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02 Feb 07
Sexual Stereotypes Apply, in Unexpected Ways
newswiretoday.com - In January 2002, Amanda Dickman, Professor of Social Psychology at Purdue University of West Lafayette, Indiana, conducted a survey of over 800 adults regarding the personality traits of men and women. Professor Dickman reported that women are subverting sexual stereotypes by displaying characteristics that are traditionally considered male.
... [S]ince men expect women to play a more timid and passive poker game, women are increasingly subverting their expectations by playing more aggressively, introducing more opens and raises to their games. Just as Professor Dickman stated, "Women are perceived as having become much more assertive, independent, and competitive over the years."
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02 Feb 07
Negreanu: Pass on aggressive play
nj.com - Poker books and television commentators constantly preach to players about the importance of aggressive play. However, playing cautiously is often equally important. It's critical that you're able to figure out both styles of play.
Let's look at various scenarios and decide where aggressive play is best used ...
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02 Feb 07
Bluff Europe: Free Rooms at Asian Poker Classic
igamingbusiness.com - The Asian Poker Classic, the first major poker tournament held in India, is a $1,000,000 Guaranteed prize pool with a guaranteed $250,000 add-in, making it one of the best equity tournaments in poker history.
To celebrate the event, Bluff Europe will be offering 12 complimentary hotel rooms to players of the APC that mention Bluff Europe Magazine when signing up for the tournament.
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02 Feb 07
Titan Receives Best Customer Service Award
Titan Poker has received Gambling Online Magazine's Gold Award for providing the Best Online Poker Customer Service in the year 2006.
The Best Online Poker Customer Service award was given to Titan Poker as a result of the voting of hundreds of thousands of Gambling Online Magazine readers and website visitors. The award was presented to Titan Poker representatives at a special party held at the Scottish bar and restaurant, Albannach, in conjunction with the International Casino Exhibition (ICE) held in London during January 2007.
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01 Feb 07
3rd National Heads-Up Poker Championship
pokernews.com - NBC and Caesar's Palace are teaming up for the third edition of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, to be held in early March. A ratings hit since its inception, the bracket-elimination tourney pits 64 top players against each other in poker's annual version of the NCAA basketball playoffs.
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