02 Nov 06
List of Sites Accepting U.S. Players Updated
The list of poker sites accepting the U.S. at www.compatiblepoker.com/usa.php has grown to over 38. The page was completely updated last night to ensure accuracy.
The review of deposit providers listed has grown to 14 with only 2 not accepting US gambling deposits.
Because the US poker news page has grown so large a page index was added for easier use. The webpage is still being updated on an hourly basis as breaking news comes into play.
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01 Nov 06
Poker As A Career
wagerweb.com - With the popularity of poker as high as it is right now, the game is seeing more and more people who have crossed over from other careers to make playing poker their full-time occupation.
... It is a trend that will continue, I believe. There are more and more hobbyists turning professional, and as purses increase it will make it more financially viable for business professionals to enter the game.
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01 Nov 06
Shortcuts: How to win at poker
(CNN) -- If your poker face generally involves looking glum as someone takes away your life savings in a wheelbarrow, you need the Briefing Room's Texas hold 'em survival guide.
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31 Oct 06
APAT Announces UK Amateur Poker Championship
APAT, The Amateur Poker Association & Tour, today announced details of its premier UK based live event. The APAT United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship, a two day event will be hosted by Aspers Casino, Newcastle, on December 2nd & 3rd, 2006.
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31 Oct 06
Mike Caro On The Psychology of Poker
"As part of my MCU training, I asked Mike if I could interview him from time to time. Today's interview focuses on the psychology of poker.
DM: You mentioned that until recently psychology hasn't played a major role in many of the top players' arsenal of weapons against their opponents...
MC: ...There are two main reasons. One, oddly, is Internet poker. That sounds strange, because on the Internet you can't act in physical ways that will influence opponents to call or fold."
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31 Oct 06
Rockers Show Off Their Poker Faces
ZZ Top star Dusty Hill, Godsmack's Sully Erna and KISS guitarist Ace Frehley are among the celebrities who will literally play the world's poker kings at their own game in Las Vegas on Thursday (01NOV06). The rockers will deal with poker professionals Phil 'The Unabomber' Laak and Antonio 'The Magician' Esfandiari at the VH1 Classic Rock 'n' Roll Poker Tournament.
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30 Oct 06
Free Poker Audiobooks for iPod
"The biggest British online audio book publishers AudioBooksForFree.Com PLC (ABFF) has produced and recorded a number of mp3 audiobooks especially for poker players.
These mp3 audiobooks are available as free downloads or for sale as part of ABFF's popular "gigabulk" compilation."
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30 Oct 06
Company Attracts Recruits With Poker Tournament
"When Susquehanna International Group LLP (SIG), a financial institution, decided to recruit the best college students for their organization, they settled on a unique way to go about it - by holding a Texas Holdem poker tournament. Inviting 83 candidates from top colleges, all of them seniors, to play in their poker tournament was a way for SIG to test their potential employee’s analytical skills."
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30 Oct 06
Online Poker Thriving Despite Ban
"As a result of Party Poker disappearing from the US market other smaller, yet probably more reputatable poker halls, like Doyle's Room, have risen in popularity.
Poker Stars is now the leading poker room in the world, but Doyle's Room is emerging as the player favorite. Doyle Brunson is the king of poker and more people feel secure playing at a casino endorsed and run by a name of his stature."
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27 Oct 06
Europe's largest international poker tournament
online-casinos.com - Next month sees the annual return, this year for the fifteenth season, of the Master Classics of Poker. One of Europe's largest international poker tournaments, the competition will run November 3 through 11 at the Holland Casino in Amsterdam.
This year Holland casino is adding at least Euro 64 000 to its sponsorship, taking the prize pool over last year's Euro 2.4 million.
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27 Oct 06
Its Pay Back Time For Kyl
Reports today suggest that dozens of websites focusing on Arizona will join the campaign to unseat Kyl for his role in the attack on online poker and online gamblings' rights whilst his own state runs diverse forms of online gambling including state lotteries and Horse racing, which were excluded from the online gambling ban ....
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26 Oct 06
Be wary of sly calls from early position
mysanantonio.com - [M]any poker players that get dealt a big hand will try to milk their premium hands for all that they are worth. Folks like to get sneaky before the flop in an effort to build a bigger and better pot after it.
One of the real red-flag warnings to look for in reading your opponents lies with early-position play. ... [W]hen an early-position player limps into the pot and simply calls the big blind or makes a minimum raise, it's time to blast the poker sirens.
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26 Oct 06
Ladbrokes Investing Big in Poker Million
cardplayer.com - Ladbrokes is investing major dollars in an attempt to make Europe’s Poker Million tournament on par with the World Series of Poker. But unfortunately, Americans aren’t invited to the party.
Ladbrokes, which runs one of the biggest sportsbooks in the U.K., is investing $3 million to expand its online qualifiers and general production of the Poker Million, which is aired on Europe’s cable sports channel Sky Sports. The actions of the U.S. government have influenced Ladbrokes’ decision on the matter.
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26 Oct 06
Spanish Player: "Winning Seat to $1M Tournament Was Easy"
prweb.com - Titan Poker announced that Jordi Bonell, a father of two from Spain, is the fifth player to have qualified for The Tournament Titan. The Tournament Titan is a Sit & Go tournament with a massive $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and is the richest Sit & Go tournament ever played online.
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25 Oct 06
Prohibition II: Good Grief
msn.com - Perhaps Prohibition II is being launched because Prohibition I worked so well at getting rid of gin. Or maybe the point is to reassure social conservatives that Republicans remain resolved to purify Americans' behavior. Incorrigible cynics will say Prohibition II is being undertaken because someone stands to make money from interfering with other people making money.
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25 Oct 06
Will WSOP See Record Numbers again?
There is a wide range of speculation about the ramifications of the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Some expect the equivalent of the 1929 stock market crash in terms of its impact on poker events, related businesses and all people concerned, since the bill literally affects over 12 million online gambling Americans. Others compare its effectiveness and ridiculousness to Prohibition ...
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25 Oct 06
Ban Won't Stop Online Gambling
ibtimes.com - Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won't keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law's reach.
"It has put a terrible scare into people," said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law at Whittier Law School. "But it won't by any means wipe out Internet gambling."
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24 Oct 06
2007 WSOP may not welcome online qualifiers
gambling911.com - According to a report filed by John Caldwell of PokerPlayersNewspaper.com WSOP will "most likely not" be taking online poker room qualifiers for the 2007 World Series of Poker. Emphasis is on the "most likely" since there is still plenty of time and Harrah's may just be pumping its chest this early in the game.
... The majority of the players who played in this years World Series of Poker Main Event qualified online for the tournament, according to Caldwell.
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23 Oct 06
Poker in the Pub League Launches in the UK
cardplayer.com - The first league runs over 12 weeks in pubs and clubs across the UK, and at the end of this league, we will hold a set of regional finals. Each year, we will run three leagues, and then a national final just before next year’s World Series of Poker.
To ensure the legality of each regional final that takes place, they are open only to the qualifiers from each pub, and therefore are treated as a private event.
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23 Oct 06
New Group To Fight For Poker In America
online-casinos.com - "We all know that this 'prohibition' is more 'protectionism' disguised as morality, so let's face this reality together."
The besieged American poker player has another champion following the launch of the Poker Patriots this week, joining various other groups that are striving to protect the game and the rights of poker players in an increasingly repressive US legislative landscape.
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