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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18 Aug 06
Poker Stars Shine at WSOP
onlinecasinonews.com -- Now that the dust is slowly settling on what was an extraordinary 2006 World Series of Poker, online poker rooms are embracing the opportunity to reflect on the successes and disappointments of their sponsored WSOP players, with PokerStars.com in particular having much to smile about.
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18 Aug 06
Negreanu Searches for New Protege
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Give a man a fish, feed him for a day ... teach him how to play poker and watch the chips fly. Now Daniel Negreanu and FullContactPoker.com (FCP) will ante up again with the launch of Negreanu's Protege 2, a contest where one lucky member of the FCP community will win the chance to become a poker star in their own right -- bankrolled by FullContactPoker.com and under the watchful eye of Kid Poker himself, Daniel Negreanu.
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17 Aug 06
Poker Room Giving Away Up To $1 Million
online-gambling-insider.com -- There are big online poker rooms and then there is the monster online poker room, Party Poker, that dwarfs them all. To give you an idea of their size they are about to deal their five billionth hand, and to celebrate that mammoth achievement they are giving away a potential $1 million prize.
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17 Aug 06
Harrington on Hold’em – Volume 1
uk.pokernews.com -- In the first volume of the Harrington on Hold’em trilogy; author “Action” Dan Harrington walks us through his expert strategy for No-Limit hold’em tournaments.
The book begins in typical ‘poker book’ style with an introduction to the game of poker, the history of the game and a brief glossary. However, this is not a beginner’s book so we are spared the usual basics such as an explanation of the hand rankings, the mechanics of the deal, the betting and the point of the button ....
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16 Aug 06
Research Indicates a Rise in Online Poker Rooms
press-world.com -- As reported to PokerTeam.com, according to the latest listing by PokerSiteScout.com, there are now some 600 operating poker rooms that populate cyber-space, and the number keeps growing. PokerSiteScout.com is an independent website offering latest information concerning the evolving world of online poker games, and has been used before by PokerTeam.com as a reliable source of poker market information.
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16 Aug 06
No 'Sophomore Slump' in Poker?
pokernews.com -- In a game that is known for its streakiness and element of luck, poker seems to have dodged the stigma of a sophomore slump, at least as exhibited by recent WSOP Champions Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Both Raymer and Hachem had decent, but hardly stellar, tournament track records going into their WSOP bracelet year. No one would have been surprised if they turned in lackluster second year performances after their big scores. But in defiance of the curse, both Raymer and Hachem knocked the ball out of the park in their WSOP sophomore years.
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15 Aug 06
GSN Renews 'High Stakes Poker'
pokernews.com -- After the success of the first season of the series and the continuing growth of viewership during its current second season, GSN (formerly known as the Game Show Network) has decided to run a third version of the series. While announcing the taping schedule for the third season, GSN has also sent out an invitation to the gentleman who just won the largest poker tournament of all time.
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