27 Sep 06
5th Annual Aruba Poker Classic is Under Way
cardplayer.com - Grab the tanning lotion, flip-flops, and, of course, the most universal poker accessory — your sunglasses — because the fifth annualPokerHo, Annie Duke, and MammaHo at the APC Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic is under way at the Radisson Hotel Casino in Palm Beach, Aruba. And this year, UB has introduced the Ultimate Blackjack Tour to the mix of events for even more thrills during nine days of jam-packed action.
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27 Sep 06
Time Magazine Looks At Poker
One of the venerable journalistic institutions in America, Time Magazine, has recently come out with an article that fairly looked at the question of young people playing the game of poker.
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27 Sep 06
Student Builds Poker Networking Site
Provided you don’t live under a rock, you are aware of two of the hottest online trends today, MySpace and poker. A student at SUNY Fredonia University used this rationale to create CardsLife.com, a social networking site specifically for poker players. ...
Jeremy Miller, 18, of Fredonia, NY ... stated, "I’ve met many of my poker friends online, but never in person. Naturally, I’d like to get to know them better, and I assume many other people are in the same situation. My site lets that happen."
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27 Sep 06
William Hill: No Bets From U.S.
Bloomberg -- William Hill Plc, the second- largest U.K. bookmaker, said it has acted to stop taking online poker and casino bets from American customers until the scope of a U.S. crackdown on Internet gambling has become clearer.
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26 Sep 06
TV host and poker writer wins London Event
online-casinos.com - The weekend saw the exciting finish at The Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London of the European Poker Tour UK leg, with the final 12 survivors of a starting field of 400 top players coming together on Sunday afternoon.
With a GBP 500 000 grand prize at stake for the winner, the competitive tension was palpable as play commenced
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26 Sep 06
Ivey Wins First Pro-Am Equalizer
cardplayer.com - Phil Ivey outlasted a tough group of professionals during filming of the Pro-Am Equalizer today. He’s the first of six players to advance to the final where he has a chance to win the $500,000 first prize. ...
Negreanu was the first player eliminated not long after the match began at 11 a.m. this morning. The elimination hand also gave Ivey a fairly large chip stack early in the day.
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25 Sep 06
Dealers get their chance to play
When the time came to shuffle up and deal this weekend for a tournament at Binion's Horseshoe Gambling Hall and Hotel in Las Vegas, the dealers where dealing to a select group of their fellow dealers from around the world for the World Poker Dealer Championship.
All public card rooms worldwide were invited to send one of their dealers to represent them at the tournament. Participants are required to wear the uniform and name badges of their casino or card room.
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25 Sep 06
Straight Wins UK Writer £½ million
A Guardian columnist was £500,000 richer last night after becoming the first woman to win the London leg of the European Poker Tour, one of the three biggest poker tournaments in the world.
Victoria Coren, 33, who writes a weekly column, How to Play Poker for G2 and has presented TV poker shows, said she was stunned to win the top prize after producing a [3-7] straight to beat an Australian rival in the final hand.
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22 Sep 06
Harrah's wants WSOP.com
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. has filed a lawsuit to try to gain possession of the domain name WSOP.com which is currently owned by Federico Schiavio. The company claims that it owns the trademark on the name "World Series of Poker" and has applied for a patent on the name "WSOP" so the site should be passed to them.
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22 Sep 06
Play the Pro's at Bodog
Interested in taking a shot at the pros? Try the Bodog Poker Leaderboard.
If you're good enough to win the monthly leaderboard you can sit down with Josh Arieh or David Williams in a $1,000 heads-up match.
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21 Sep 06
Poker sites target gay and transexuals
gambling911.com -- Poker sites are now targeting the gay population, which just happens to have more disposable income laying around than any other ethnic group. ... Those hunky boys at WickedChopsPoker.com report on the new phenomenon.
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21 Sep 06
Newhouse Wins 2006 Borgata Poker Open
allinmag.com -- Mark Newhouse is this year's WPT Borgata Poker Open champion. The student from Chapel Hill entered Tuesday’s final table with $7,025,000 of the $13,500,000 chips in play, more than doubling his next closest competitor. Newhouse was, in a word, unstoppable on Monday. Every break went his way, and every big pot seemed to get pushed toward him.
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20 Sep 06
Poker Pays Off for Indie Filmmakers
(PRWEB) September 20, 2006 -- It’s the kind of storyline you would see in a film – but one online poker win means that a new film will make it to the big screen.
"We’re pretty sure that ours is the first film to be entirely funded by online poker winnings," says film director Nick Scott, who turned to poker after being frustrated by the lack of official film funding. "It’s difficult for British filmmakers to fund their projects. We had a great script and just wanted to make the thing, but it was going to take us months to raise the cash ourselves."
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20 Sep 06
Chimp Lights Up Convention
Banned from playing in the World Series of Poker due to a blatant display of monkey discrimination by the organizers, Mikey the Poker Playing Chimp has refused to let the setback end his career.
Mikey stole the show at the recent 2006 Casino Affiliate Convention (CAC), drawing fans from all over and beating a high profile online casino affiliate in a heads-up match, much to the delight of the many spectators.
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19 Sep 06
Two Million Questions
It's been about two weeks since we released our first three articles on the two million extra chips introduced into the 2006 WSOP Main Event. We have gotten feedback from a lot of different segments of the poker community and we thought, in order to further the conversation, we would share what we have been hearing.
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19 Sep 06
Top Poker Movies
We take a look at the best poker movies. Grab your popcorn.
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
It's New Orleans and a new kid is in town to beat the notorious Lancey Howard (Edward G. Robinson), the best poker player in the country. With the help of an old friend and card dealer, Eric Stoner (Steve McQueen) manages to get in on the highest stakes game of his life.
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18 Sep 06
Change strategy at final table to win
By Daniel Negreanu, chron.com - Poker books go into great detail discussing the various strategies necessary to get to the final table of a tournament. However, not as much has been written about final table playing strategy.
Here are some tips to help you make it from the final table to the winner's circle:
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18 Sep 06
ND Rep Wants to Legalize Online Poker
launchpoker.com - Online poker organizations looking forawrd to establish their businesses in the state of North Dakota may soon be able to do so. Jim Kasper, the state′s representative, has plans to introduce a bill that, if accepted, will allow online poker in North Dakota.
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18 Sep 06
Norwegian is Euro Poker Tour Champ
online-casinos.com - This weekend saw the conclusion of the third European Poker Tour, with Norwegian Bjorn-Erik Glenne triumphing over a starting field in Barcelona, Spain of 480 poker players, 118 of them qualifying in online tournaments.
Three days and plenty of excitement later, the thirteen players still in the hunt gathered for the final day of play and a crack at the Euro 691 000 top prize.
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18 Sep 06
Real Celebrity Poker
wagerweb.com - I couldn't help but think about which celebrities would be interesting to go heads up against at a card table. Granted, thanks to the huge popularity of poker, we've seen the likes of Ben Affleck, Norm MacDonald, Tobey McGuire and Jennifer Tilly try to parlay their celebrity status into a successful poker career. Yet there are tons of other celebrities that would make for an interesting presence at a table.
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