13 Feb 08
WPT Season Six TV Schedule Announced
WPT Enterprises, Inc. and its new network partner, GSN, announced the sixth season television schedule featuring 23 two-hour World Poker Tour episodes.
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12 Feb 08
Bodog Launches Online 2008 WSOP Qualifiers
It may still be wickedly cold outside, but things are heating up this February in the Bodog Poker Room with the launch of online qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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30 Nov 07
First legal UK poker club to open today
jackpot.co.uk - The first legal poker club in Britain is due to open in Nottingham today.
Rob Young, managing director of Dusk Till Dawn, was granted a casino licence in September and cannot wait to get the doors open.
He said: "It's been a long struggle but it's been worth it. The club is looking great and I know the poker community are going to love it."
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30 Nov 07
Possible cheater caught at Full Tilt
pokerlistings.com - In yet another online poker world scandal, the winner of one of the bigger monthly tournaments has been stripped of his championship title and winnings. And, it's rumored, a top online pro has been banned due to his association with the rescinded victory.
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29 Nov 07
Smart Poker Table prevents cheating
pokerlistings.com - "Our project aims to simplify the poker playing experience by providing each player at the table with information about the game in process," the inventors have stated on their Web page.
Not only will the Smart Poker Table make the game a lot easier; it will also prevent players from cheating with their chips.
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29 Nov 07
World Poker Congress '07 Opens in Malta
pokerpages.com - Sue Schneider of Clarion Gaming opened the 2007 World Poker Congress today in Malta, saying that one of the challenges in arranging poker and gaming related conferences is finding a friendly and hospitable environment, and that Malta meets both of these points.
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28 Nov 07
Negreanu: One Hand Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
by Daniel Negreanu, fcnp.com - It’s obvious that every player makes mistakes. Sometimes, though, what seems to be a mistake is really just a marginal play. Here’s the thing: These plays can actually yield more profit in the long-run than a textbook move. And that’s especially true when these moves are intentionally designed to deceive opponents who wrongly assume that your play is easy to predict.
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28 Nov 07
Bodog Celebrates 1 Billion Hands of Poker
onlinecasinonews.com - Online casino BodogLife.com celebrated dealing its one-billionth hand of poker on Sunday with generous rewards for each player at the table where the milestone hand was dealt.
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28 Nov 07
Kath Liebert Tops Women's Career Earnings With Latest $1M Win
point-spreads.com - Liebert began her professional poker career as a prop player in Colorado. She subsequently went on to enter various tournaments, and won the first Party Poker million event in 2002. Throughout her career, she has made several final tables in the World Poker Tour, including a third place finish in the 2005 Borgata Poker Open which made her the highest finishing woman on the World Poker Tour at that time.
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27 Nov 07
Tsawwassen man wins B.C. Poker Championships
pokerlistings.com - The numbers for the B.C. Poker Championships at the River Rock Casino were a little lower than last year, but that doesn't mean the top players didn't still cash in big this year. Just ask Daniel Idema, of Tsawwassen, British Columbia, who
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27 Nov 07
Record "High Stakes" win for Doyle
pokerlistings.com - Doyle Brunson and Guy Laliberté clashed in an $800k pot in the latest episode of TV show High Stakes Poker.
Cirque du Soleil billionaire Guy Laliberté has been one of the most active players at the High Stakes Poker table since the minimum buy-in was raised to $500,000 a few weeks ago.
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27 Nov 07
Nicolas Cage to Star as Amarillo Slim
pokerpages.com - The film, currently categorized as "in production," has been in development for some time. Nicolas Cage, who will take the lead role as Amarillo Slim, is credited as a producer alongside Braxton Pope.
Christopher Wilkinson, whose credits as screenwriter include "Nixon," and "Ali," both biopics, is adapting Amarillo's book, "Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived," for the big screen.
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27 Nov 07
Dress Code Can Give Away Clues
Judi James, author of "Poker Face: Mastering Body Language to Bluff, Read Tells and Win," said the way someone chooses to dress can give valuable clues to the way he or she plays cards.
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26 Nov 07
Negreanu : To deal with three-barrel bluffers, act weak
azstarnet.com - Poker has changed in many ways. The game has become mainstream, and its tactics have evolved.
And there are just so many more great players today than there were in the past. It's remarkable to see how quickly these players have been able to introduce new winning poker strategies.
There's one simple reason for this: online poker. It seems as if an Internet player can cram seven years of experience into one.
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26 Nov 07
Out Of Africa, A New Poker King
online-casinos.com - The recently crowned All Africa Poker Tournament champ Greg Ronaldson (24) has ambitions next year to repeat or better the outstanding performance at the 2007 World Series of Poker of previous champ Raymond Rahme.
Ronaldson excelled in the Tournament, held at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, taking home a million-Rand winner's prize together with a $10 000 seat in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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23 Nov 07
China's First Poker Tournament is Also Asia's Largest
cardplayer.com - The first poker tournament on Chinese soil kicked off today with 352 players buying into the $2,500 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Asian Poker Open. The winner of the event will take home $222,640 and the bragging rights of having won Asia’s largest poker tournament to date.
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23 Nov 07
Absolute investigation nearing end
pokerlistings.com - Gaming Associates is in the process of finalizing the audit of Absolute Poker's operations and will soon be submitting its report to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Then the commission will review the report to determine the appropriate course of action.
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23 Nov 07
New All Africa Poker King crowned
pokerlistings.com - Greg Ronaldson walks away with a million-Rand prize plus a $10,000 seat in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. During the 2007 Main Event, Rahme turned the seat he won in a Piggs Peak tournament into a third-place finish for $3 million.
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23 Nov 07
T.J. Cloutier Wins Nguyen Poker Challenge
cardplayer.com - Self-proclaimed “dinosaur” of the game, T.J. Cloutier rose above all 123 other players who competed in the $5,000 buy-in Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma and won the first-place prize of almost $241,000.
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22 Nov 07
University Poker Championships Launched Online
onlinecasinonews.com - Life Of Sports Inc announced the launch of its University Poker Championship (UPC) weekly online free-roll tournaments in the UK and throughout North America yesterday in partnership with CakePoker.com in Great Britain and PokerStars.com in the America.
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