05 Jul 06
WSOP Tips for Visitors
"If you're a casual player planning a trip to Las Vegas in the next upcoming months, the WSOP season might be the best time of the year to come out. The thrill of watching WSOP events combined with the large number of games being hosted makes it an excellent time for the amateur poker player to visit, regardless of level. There are some important things, however, that you should take into consideration before you arrive."
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04 Jul 06
30% Rake Back at Ladbrokes
"Ladbrokes Poker have been giving poker players 30% rake back during the World Cup. This great promotion ends on July 7th, so there is still time to rack up your rake back bonus."
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04 Jul 06
Weird Name, Good Site
It's not often you find a good gaming directory online. Most of them are link and/or banner farms that virtually define "waste my time".
However there's a poker specific one that's popped up recently that is actually worth checking out. It's called TheOnlinePokers.com, but don't let the odd name throw you because it looks like these guys have really put some effort into it. User ratings of at least 100 poker rooms, bonuses offered, freeroll listings, Top 10 lists, etc. Nice job TOP but _where_ do you get that name???
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04 Jul 06
Nam Le Wins Nguyen Poker Challenge
Nam Le won the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, taking home $204,579 and a championship bracelet worth more than $35,000. He outlasted a field of 107 players who came to the Cherokee Casino Resort in Tulsa, Okla., a few weeks ago and paid $5,000 to enter.
“The Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge reinforces the fact that Cherokee Casino is a major venue for top poker players and tournaments,” said David Stewart, CEO of Cherokee Nation Enterprises, which operates Cherokee Casino. Nguyen signed as a poker ambassador with the casino last year. The first Scott Nguyen Poker Challenge was held in November.
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03 Jul 06
Hachem in the money again
"AUSSIE poker king Joe Hachem is in the money again after winning $345,000 in a Las Vegas tournament.
The former Melbourne chiropractor, who won $10 million playing poker almost a year ago, yesterday outlasted 822 poker players to finish runner-up in the World Series of Poker event."
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03 Jul 06
The Other Danger in Slow Playing
"You've probably heard the standard reason to avoid slow playing: It's dangerous, because when you slow play, you give an opponent a chance to make a bigger hand at a minimal cost. This is absolutely true. But there's another reason to play your big hands fast, and this one isn't talked about as frequently. A slow play can give an opponent a chance to get away from a hand more cheaply than he would have had you played it fast from the start."
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03 Jul 06
World Of Poker TV Launches Tonight
uk.pokernews.com - The show will air every Monday on Sport Nation Sky Channel 440 at 11pm and will be repeated throughout the week. The hour long programme will be a current affairs poker show, targeted at the "Man on the Street". Weekly competitions are on the agenda for viewers along with an informative, yet light hearted, style of content. Filmed at The Mailbox studios in Birmingham, the show provides a nice central location for any viewers wishing to join in the fun in the audience.
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03 Jul 06
Professional Poker Tour Premieres Wednesday
"The day after Americans everywhere fill the sky with pyrotechnic flowers to celebrate the Fourth of July, the real fireworks are set to begin as the first season of the Professional Poker Tour premieres on the Travel Channel.
The 24-episode season is set to move right into the 9 p.m. EDT time slot July 5. It’s the same spot the World Poker Tour occupied. New WPT episodes will return later in the winter. A sneak-peak of the show was aired a few months ago, and viewers got to see what it’s like when nothing but pros filled with encyclopedic knowledge of the game go to battle."
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03 Jul 06
Party Gaming Eyes Gamebookers
"THE world’s largest internet poker company, Party Gaming, is in talks to acquire Gamebookers, the online sports-betting company, for about £50m.
A deal would be the first acquisition for Party Gaming since it floated a year ago. An announcement could be made in the next two or three weeks."
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30 Jun 06
Poker Channel Launches Free Broadband TV
"The Poker Channel have announced the launch of their new free broadband poker TV channel. This free-to-air broadband channel will allow a worldwide audience to tune in and watch the programmes. ...
The service features exclusive world-class tournaments such as the British Poker Open, World Speed Poker Open and the European Poker Championships. Also airing are documentaries such as the ‘Up Close’ series giving an insight into world class pros such as Greg Raymer, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson.
The service will also be providing daily coverage from major worldwide poker tournaments, featuring exclusive news podcasts and downloadable video clips."
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29 Jun 06
Understanding Poker Odds, Continued
"Every one knows that if you have a drawing hand, it is important to figure out the pot odds before you make a call.. What that means is are the odds of you making the hand and winning the pot greater than the amount you have to call relative to the pot. Clearly it is hard to figure out the exact percentages in the middle of a hand when you only have twenty seconds to act. However there is a rule of thumb that will get you the correct odds within a percent or two and takes only seconds to learn and remember."
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29 Jun 06
WSOP Opens with 2nd-Biggest Live Poker Event in History.
"The 2006 World Series of Poker opened with a bang. The world’s largest and most prestigious poker spectacle began with the first open event on the schedule – the $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em competition. A record 2,776 players entered the event, making it one of the largest poker tournaments ever in history. Only the 2005 WSOP main event attracted more participants (5,619). The total prize pool amounts to $3,789,240."
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28 Jun 06
Proliferation Of Poker: Really Big Deal
casinocitytimes.com -- "Poker is an authentic piece of Americana as much as baseball," said Jeffrey Pollack, Harrah's vice president of sports and entertainment marketing. "Poker is not a luxury property and we're not the NFL. But by some accounts, poker is the number one participation game in the country, and that's the market we're hoping to tap into."
Harrah's wouldn't reveal the sponsorship dollar figures. The Wall Street Journal estimated the ESPN and Miller deals together are valued at more than $20 million.
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28 Jun 06
TAPP Aims to Legalize Poker in Texas
"Wayne Long used to play small buy-in Texas hold’em tournaments in a bar outside of Houston’s city limits. He even won one of the events, and says the couple who ran the little “beer joint” got assurance from county officials that they wouldn't be bothered, even though holding poker tournaments in a public place in Texas has been illegal for decades.
And the owners were right, the county didn’t bother them at all. It was state officials who came in and shut down the game, which shouldn’t have been a surprise for any of the players who play poker in Texas."
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28 Jun 06
Wins the WSOP Tournament of Champions
"The Tournament of Champions kicked off the start of the WSOP festivities at the Rio on Sunday. Twenty-seven players were invited to this epic event including every player who made the final table of the 2005 WSOP main event. The winners of various WSOP circuit events were also invited to participate in the $2 million freeroll where first place would walk away with a cool $1 million in prize money."
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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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