27 Jun 06
Live Internet Poker Debuts Soon
"Pharaohs Poker Palace claimed this week that it is set to become the first online poker room to offer live interactive poker play over the Internet.
Using proprietary software on a new dynamic poker platform, the company is about to offer the webcam-based service as an optional, complementary facility available to all players, in an effort to help move poker to the next level of competition and social interaction."
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27 Jun 06
World Series of Poker is under way
"The World Series of Poker kicked off the first of 45 events yesterday at the Rio casino-hotel, as defending champ Joseph Hachem faced 26 other elite players for a 2-day, $2 million prize pool Tournament of Champions.
Thousands of players from around the world are expected to come to Las Vegas over the next 2 months before the final table in the $10,000-buy-in main event plays down for the grand prize Aug. 10.
Hachem, a 40-year-old mortgage broker, beat 5,618 players to win the main event last year. This year, organizers say seating will accommodate up to 9,000."
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27 Jun 06
Consumer's Guide to Poker, PART 3
"We learned in the last two articles how to evaluate what it costs to play poker in a public card room. Here are some other considerations for determining how consumer- friendly a poker room is.
Some places cut the rake or reduce the time charge if the game is short handed. This is more significant when there is a rake. Smaller hands mean smaller pots which means that it is more likely that the maximum percentage will be charged. Remember, the larger the pot, the more likely it is that the maximum rake will be met before the pot is won - meaning a relatively smaller rake."
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26 Jun 06
A Year of Free Poker
"William Hill Poker have launched a new promotion that poker addicts will adore. To celebrate the 2006 World Cup William Hill are giving away £50,000 and the chance to play poker free for a year."
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26 Jun 06
Poland Beats USA to Win The World Cup of Poker
BARCELONA, Spain, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Poland won the third annual PokerStars.com World Cup of Poker. Members of Team Poland defeated Team United States in heads-up play to win the $100,000 top prize.
In a dramatic finish, Jacek Ladny, 40, an online qualifier, called a massive bluff by the USA Team Captain Joe Harwell. With A-6 of spades, the ice-cool Warsaw stockbroker called Harwell's unsuited 6-3 to win $20,000 for himself -- and an additional $20,000 for each of his four teammates. "We're going to play poker to see who takes the trophy home," he joked.
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26 Jun 06
2006 WSOP Should Top Last Year
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The 2005 World Series of Poker was the event's most successful run in its history ...
The 2006 series stands to be even bigger.
Harrah's Entertainment executives are projecting that some 41,000 participants will enter this year's 45-event competition. The world championship event could draw a crowd of more than 8,000 players.
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26 Jun 06
Lindgren Wins Poker Pro Showdown
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – (PRESS RELEASE) -- It took nearly four hours for Erick 'E-Dog' Lindgren and Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow to get heads up at the FullTiltPoker.Net Pro Showdown at Red Rock Casino, but just one hand for Lindgren to claim the victory and the $600,000 first-place prize.
On June 22, Lindgren and Matusow outlasted five other Team Full Tilt members, including Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, and Clonie Gowen who each paid $120,000 to enter this invitational poker tournament broadcast live on FOX Sports Network.
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23 Jun 06
Interview With I. Nelson Rose
"Professor Rose is perhaps the best legal mind in the poker world, continually monitoring the ever-changing landscape of the gaming world and commenting on it frequently. His website (gamblingandthelaw.com) presents an excellent overview of the legal state of gaming across the United States and delves into the online world as well. He has also written extensively on the subject, with four books (including his latest effort, 'Internet Gaming Law') and hundreds of articles in differing publications on gambling."
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23 Jun 06
Pros About to Take Big Leap
"On July 26, Phil Laak, Scott Fischman, and four more players to be named later will load themselves into an airplane that will take them to 10,000 feet where the last person on the plane (other than the pilot) will be the latest Extreme Poker Champion.
As soon as a player is knocked from the flying table, he’ll be tossed out of the plane. It’s a good thing he’ll be wearing a parachute. The name of this Extreme Poker Tournament is, of course, the 'Loser’s Leap.'"
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23 Jun 06
888 Sponsor WSOP Ladies Team
"July 9th 2006 is a big day in the sporting calender. No, we're not talking about the World Cup final here, we're referring to The World Series of Poker Ladies Event. 888 Poker are sponsoring a team of European ladies with serious credentials."
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22 Jun 06
Live Poker Back On FSN Tonight
"Full Tilt Poker and the Fox Sports Network continue to provide the best live tournament poker action on the television today. In the past, the two entities have teamed up to present invitational events from Las Vegas (July 2005 at the Wynn Hotel) and Monaco (following last year's Monte Carlo Millions) and Fox Sports Network was the first and only network to ever broadcast a final table from a major tournament in 2004. Now they team up to present what might be a preview of some of the action at the World Series with the 'FullTiltPoker.net Pro Showdown From Red Rock' on June 22nd (Tonight) at 6PM Eastern Time."
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22 Jun 06
Clonie Gowen to be Featured in Maxim
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 22, 2006 -- Maxim Magazine’s highly anticipated July issue will have a World Series of Poker insert which will feature Full Tilt Poker Pro Clonie Gowen. On stands June 22nd, Maxim’s “Guide To The World Series of Poker” will lead with a cover photo of Clonie Gowen as you have never seen her before. In addition to the cover, she is also the subject of a two-page spread. Ms. Gowen is a member of Team Full Tilt, a group of the best and most accomplished poker players in the world, backed by Fulltiltpoker.com.
Clonie Gowen, known to some as one of the sexiest women in poker, burst onto the poker scene by following up her top 10 finish at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Costa Rica Classic with a win at the World Poker Tour Ladies’ Night event in 2003. Her victory against world-class players Annie Duke and fellow Full Tilt Poker pro and Team Full Tilt member Jennifer Harman was watched my millions of viewers and was the highest rated WPT show ever.
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21 Jun 06
$1M Poker on US TV this week
Fox Sports Net (FSN) will be airing more live poker tomorrow (Thursday) with the Full Tilt Poker Pro Showdown, during which a Magnificent 7 group of poker pros will be battling for a $1 000 000 prize pool. The winner will receive $600 000, with the second place winning $280 000 and third place winning $120 000. ...
Entertainment and excitement is assured - the top players in this showdown will be Phil Ivey, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Erick Lindgren, and Clonie Gowen.
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21 Jun 06
Find Game Anywhere
ATLANTA, Georgia -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Pokermashup.com, a recently launched Web site, allows poker players to find the ten nearest live poker games from wherever they are. The new site sorts casinos by distance and includes driving directions and links to each casino's Web site.
"Pokermashup.com was designed to serve a need that other poker sites were leaving out," said Jay Sandhaus, co-founder of pokermashup.com. "This site is for the traveler who's always looking for a nearby card room wherever they go, or for a new player to the game who's trying to find where to play in their area."
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20 Jun 06
Washington Stretches Its Tentacles
"In an article in the Seattle Times by Danny Westneat on June 17th, it is reported that a poker information site has come under fire from the state. The site, called Integrity Casino Guide, is basically an information site for other Internet users which culls different information on the poker rooms on the Web and offers other pertinent details.The owner of the site, Todd Boutte, was concerned about the new law but, since he wasn't taking any wagers on his site, figured that all would be OK.
In a chilling sequence that could be compared to an Orwellian scenario from '1984', the state has said that he is still in violation of the new law in Washington. Because the site contains advertisements, links and information about poker rooms, it is viewed in the same manner as the offshore sites themselves."
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20 Jun 06
Ladies WSOP
"There is more bargain hunting news for the 2006 WSOP Ladies Event. The Gold Coast Casino has joined up with the LIPS Tour to host a ladies super satellite on July 7th at 7:00pm. The buy-in is $100 +25 and they will be awarding one seat into the WSOP Ladies event on July 9th for every ten women in the starting field. Any residual prize pool less than $1000 will be awarded as either a buy-in for the Orleans Open Ladies Event held on July 10th or cash."
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20 Jun 06
The Origin of Poker
"Let us go back in time, before there was a game called Texas Hold'em, or even before there was a game called poker.
While it is commonly believed that poker was created about the same time that Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, or even that playing poker in the Garden of Eden was the actual reason for them leaving, despite what other sources may say about apples or snakes, the actual appearance of playing cards occurred around 1377."
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19 Jun 06
Poker Olympics at CBS
"Over the past weekend CBS started broadcasts on the first episode of the Intercontinental Poker Championship, bringing together 21 top global poker players in an intense competition for a $350 000 first place prize and trophy.
In the programs, the players are broken into three groups of 7 who play a single table tournament, with the winner advancing to the semi finals. The remaining three groups of 6 players each then play another set of single table tournaments with each winner moving on, presenting a double elimination style tournament.
The final six players then play down to two who will square off in a best of three heads-up match to determine the champion."
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19 Jun 06
Record Set For Online Poker Cash Game
(PRLEAP.COM) A player by the name of Fast_Freddie and bad_ip played a heads up game of texas holdem last night at the Prima Network and set news records. This was the biggest cash game in the history of online poker and the largest hand was recorded.
A hand that was valued at over $465,000 was won by Fast_Freddie when he flopped 3 aces. This is said to be the largest hand ever played in online poker during a regular cash game. The buy-in to get into this game was $40,000 so both players re-bought several times to accumulate such a high table value.
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19 Jun 06
Countdown To The WSOP: Going Global
"While it may seem commonplace now, the World Series of Poker wasn't always the worldwide event that it is today. In the early years of the event, it was thoroughly dominated by Americans. Over the years, however, this has changed radically.
The first international blood to break into the tournament was in 1976, when Jesse Alto (Mexico) was the runner up to Doyle Brunson in the final 'winner takes all' Championship Event."
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