31 Aug 06
WPT's Legends of Poker Reaches The Final Table
cardplayer.com -- Poker can be a tough numbers game. Complicated pot odds, the unstable percentages, and fluctuating chip stacks all lead to an environment obsessed with mathematics and the numerical bottom line. For the 51 players who returned on day three of the 2006 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, the cruel numbers game dealt with the simple fact that 45 would make the money, and seven would walk away with nothing.
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30 Aug 06
Police Search Home of Poker Champ
woai.com -- Vice officers executed a warrant to break up an alleged illegal gambling operation at a Shavano Park home owned by a San Antonio poker champion. ...
Police would not confirm who owned the home. However, Bexar County Appraisal District records show the home is owned by a Richard Lee.
A man identifying himself as Lee's lawyer confirmed the home's owner is the same Richard Lee who placed 6th at the World Series of Poker and won nearly $3 million a few weeks ago.
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30 Aug 06
IRS Has a Plan For Your Tournament Winnings
cardplayer.com -- Confused about the Internal Revenue Service withholding rules when it comes to poker tournaments? Well, it won’t be long before tournament players are presented with a government solution. ... on August 15, the Department of the Treasury released its 2006-2007 Priority Guidance Plan. The plan includes a list of 264 tax projects slated to be complete within the next 12 months. Four final regulations listed within the tax administration section include a project on revenue procedures regarding withholding rules applicable to poker tournaments.
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29 Aug 06
WPT Legends of Poker: Competitive
casinocitytimes.com -- While poker legends are scarce going into Day Three of the $9,700 World Poker Tour (WPT) No-Limit Hold'em Legends of Poker Main Event, there is enough star power remaining in the field of 27 to make any poker fan happy.
Tuan Le, in second chip position with ($405,000 chips) is vying for his third WPT title after a strong showing in the first two days.
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29 Aug 06
The Top Six Poker Mistakes
casinotimes.co.uk -- Ever wondered where you're going wrong with your poker? We reveal the six most common mistakes you may be making.
1) Not Considering Opponents Hands:
Poker is a game of 'relative' strength. The strength of your hand is not as important as how strong your hand is in relation to other people's hands. ...
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28 Aug 06
Online players face new Prohibition
sfgate.com -- Inside the quiet San Francisco headquarters of the Poker Players Alliance, a political group that boasts 100,000 members, a laminated poster hangs above the desk of executive director Michael Bolcerek that reads "The Threat is Real."
In this case, the immediate threat to Bolcerek and his poker-playing army is the growing anti-gambling forces that argue the game is bad for American family values and want to remove it from the Internet.
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28 Aug 06
World Poker Tour Hosts Ladies Night IV at Bicycle
cardplayer.com -- The World Poker Tour is hosting its fourth annual WPT Ladies' Night tournament, pitting some of the most fascinating figures in poker against each other as they vie for a $25,000 entry fee into the WPT World Championship.
The ladies invited to play this season are among the top-ranked women from WPT Season IV: Anahit Galajian, Joanne "JJ" Lieu, Vanessa Rousso, Erica Schoenberg, Jennifer Tilly, as well as Kelli Griggs of Folsom, California, winner of The Bicycle Casino's Ladies Event.
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28 Aug 06
Tournaments Involve More Luck Than Regular Poker
casinocitytimes.com - Since the average tournament contestant is about a 9-to-1 underdog to get any money back, tournaments are obviously more volatile and riskier than regular poker, which is closer to a 50-50 proposition. You can win much more money in a tournament than in single table open play, but the vast majority of the time you'll go broke.
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28 Aug 06
The 2006 Bicycle Casino Legends of Poker
cardplayer.com -- Unlike the online-qualifier dominated cattle calls of WSOP events, the LOP featured a much smaller field made up almost entirely of big name poker pros and seasoned tournament veterans. On Day 1A (the first of two day ones), an elite roster of 234 players turned out for a shot at a $1.5 million first place cash prize, and the bragging rights inherit to a WPT tournament victory.
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25 Aug 06
Are These Breakout Players The Real Deal?
pokernews.com -- The following is a list of just a few of the noteworthy newcomers that showed the characteristics associated with longevity in the tournament scene. While many may have earned more money, these players showed promise for their consistency – look for them to be around for a while:
Jeff Madsen ...
Kevin O'Donnell ...
Theo Tran ...
Jason Strasser ...
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25 Aug 06
Skill or chance - NC revisits poker
pokerlistings.com -- Howard Fierman, a businessman in Durham, N.C., is challenging a ruling made by a Durham judge that classifies poker as a game of chance and therefore illegal according to state law. The case is now in front of the state Court of Appeals.
Games of chance where betting is involved are currently illegal in North Carolina. If Fierman succeeds in his bid to have poker declared a game of skill, it would be legal, and he could open a poker parlor in Durham.
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24 Aug 06
Poker Nation: "The weird and sometimes not-so wonderful"
uk.pokernews.com -- If you like factual, autobiographical stories that take you on an a roller-coaster ride along with the author and the main characters, whilst recounting amusing tales of degenerate gambling, high stakes poker games in low-rent establishments then this is the book for you.
Part memoir and part exposé, ‘Poker Nation’ is a story of the obsession of one man (Andy Bellin) that takes the reader on a truly mesmerising journey through the ups and downs of life as a gambler.
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24 Aug 06
Book Review: Killer Poker Online 2
casinocitytimes.com -- In Killer Poker Online 2, [John] Vorhaus, author of six poker books and more the 3 million published words on the game, spends four chapters and more than 200 pages explaining how you should play online poker and then devotes the last chapter to doing the exact opposite.
The final chapter is a diary of Vorhaus' attempt to play online poker for 24 straight hours. The full-time writer/part-time poker player provides a how-not-to account of online poker play that works to drive home his previous strategy points.
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24 Aug 06
Court order freezes Gold's WSOP payday
canoe.ca -- Jamie Gold's win at the World Series of Poker might be only half as sweet.
A Nevada judge has frozen half of the $12 million US top prize after a Gold acquaintance sued, saying the two men agreed to split the winnings.
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24 Aug 06
Purdue student wins 'Win Your Tuition' tournament
pokerlistings.com -- David Wood, a 20-year-old student at Purdue University, was this summer's winner of the Absolute Poker "Win Your Tuition" tournament. He won a full year's tuition for his efforts and also took home a new laptop.
Wood was one of six finalists who made it to the final table of the "Win Your Tuition" tournament offered by Absolute Poker.
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23 Aug 06
3rd-place Vegas finish nets physicist $4 M
Stanford.edu -- "Since middle school, I've always had plans to get rich," says Michael Binger, a theoretical particle physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Last week, his dream came true. On Aug. 11, Binger placed third at the World Series of Poker Championships in Las Vegas and walked away with $4,123,310.
"The championship included all the best players on earth, and a lot of the worst players," Binger says. "It's about knowing how to weave your way through people and survive."
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22 Aug 06
€2 M Prize Pool For 2007 Irish Poker Open
The Irish Poker Open, Ireland’s largest poker tournament and Europe's most historic, returns in 2007 for its 26th year.
Building on the success of the Irish Open 2006, paddypowerpoker.com has doubled the guaranteed prize pool to €2 million, making it not only one of Europe's richest tournaments but also its largest in terms of players – this year’s capacity will be 800 with players being split into groups of up to 400 for two day ones.
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22 Aug 06
World has first official strip poker champ
UPI -- A freelance British journalist has become the world's first official champion of strip poker, escaping nudity with wily playing of Texas Hold'em.
The inaugural World Strip Poker Championships were organized by the Irish Paddy Power bookmaking company at London's Cafe Royal, where John Young beat out 194 players of both sexes in eight hours of play, ITN reported.
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21 Aug 06
World's Largest Online Tournament Set to Begin
(PRIMEZONE) -- The fifth annual PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) begins on September 16 with a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million. The WCOOP is truly a "world championship" series of events, featuring a menu of 18 poker tournaments. This year's WCOOP is expected to attract players from more than 80 nations, making this the most international poker event ever in history. Players will compete for WCOOP commemorative gold bracelets and millions in cash prizes.
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21 Aug 06
Mass peel off starts strip championship
LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 200 strip poker players competed on Saturday to see who will lose their shirts -- and more -- and who will scoop 10,000 pounds by retaining their clothes and modesty.
Organised by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, the inaugural World Strip Poker Championship takes place at the prestigious Cafe Royal in central London with players battling it out in games of "No Limit Texas Hold 'em".
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