06 Jun 06
Poker mum's £1 wins £200,000
"A lucky Manchester mum scooped a £200,000 jackpot after placing a £1 stake in a poker game.
The 42-year-old, who does not want be named, was playing Super Stud Poker with friends at the Grosvenor Casino on George Street, Manchester, when she landed the bumper payout."
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06 Jun 06
Big Slick, Playing It Right
"Ace King ... It's monster hand and you plan to get as much money out of everyone as you can.
Big Slick is called Big Slick for a reason. Yes its a monster drawing hand but it is a drawing hand all the same.
IF you hit either an Ace or a King on the flop then you've got yourself top pair with the best kicker. You might get lucky as is connected to get the nuts straight, if its suited you have got the table crippled if you draw that flush. It's worth noting A-K suited is 5th best starting hand but A-K off is 9th best.
But this is the thing - when you haven't seen any cards what have you got really ? An Ace high ... with a King kicker, just about any starting hand could beat it."
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05 Jun 06
Maximizing Your Winnings With A Strong Bluff
"Most poker players, regardless of their experience level, know about bluffing when they’re holding nothing. Fewer understand the power of bluffing when they’ve got a terrific hand. The idea is to keep opponents in the hand (and putting chips in the pot) for as many rounds as possible.
A lot of novice poker players get so excited when they realize they’re holding a great hand - 3-of-a-kind, a full house, straight, flush, or better – that they get ahead of themselves in their zeal to win that hand. Keeping your emotions in check is the first goal. Don’t give your opponents any indication that you’re holding a hand you’ve waited for all night."
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05 Jun 06
Countdown To The WSOP: H.O.R.S.E.
"For the entirety of the history of the World Series of Poker, the $10,000 Championship Event has been the pinnacle of success not only of that particular year's tournament schedule but also of the poker world itself. The winner of each Championship Event tournament has been graced with the title of 'World Champion' since the inception of the World Series back in 1970 and only thirty men have ever taken that prize home. In 2006, however, there may be a new benchmark as to who the best poker player in the world is."
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05 Jun 06
Two New No-Limit Poker Books
"Dan Harrington has team again with Bill Robertie with the long-awaited Harrington on Hold 'em Vol. III -- The Workbook: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments (352 pages, paperbound, $29.95), and Ed Miller has again teamed with David Sklansky in No-Limit Hold 'em Theory and Practice (3l7 pages, paperbound, $29.95). Both books arrived at Gambler's Book Shop this week and are expected to be the hottest poker titles at the store for a long time."
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02 Jun 06
Italy continues to ban foreign casino and poker websites
(Italy)- AAMS (the Italian Authority on the gaming market) has recently banned some more 35 betting poker and casino websites deemed illegal to add to the previous list of banned sites. At present, the number of websites which players from Italy cannot connect to amounts to 586.
This measure for the first time has affected two .it sites (expekt.it and delicato.it) because they were not abiding Italian rules. In the latest Italian list of banned sites names such as Ladbrokes, Betandwin, Betshop, Eurobet, William Hill and Betfair appear.
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01 Jun 06
Small blind play can lead to big mistakes
"Poker is a game in which danger lurks around every corner, and one of the game's more devious aspects is the temptation to enter too many hands from the small blind.
The small blind has a lot of attractive aspects:
You already have an investment in the pot, so you get a discounted rate to see the flop given there were no raises ahead of you. ... If the action folds around to you, there is a reasonable chance to steal the big blind with a raise.
But these aspects can get you into serious trouble, and a leak in this portion of your game can bring danger."
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01 Jun 06
Picking Your Addictions
"Some people think that online poker is addictive and should be illegal.
Well, I'm addicted to basketball. It would be nice if I had a normal addiction to, say, crack or sex-there are focus groups for that-but being addicted to basketball just makes me a loser."
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01 Jun 06
'Legends of Poker' Opens Tomorrow
"The world of art and poker collides tomorrow with the opening night exhibition of The Legends of Poker at Jack Gallery in Mandalay Bay, an art exhibit that features the poker photography of Larry Grossman. The free reception runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
'It’s really a celebration of the greats in poker and also the game itself,' Grossman says. 'I always felt that there was more to be offered than dogs playing poker.'"
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31 May 06
Players to challenge SC gambling law
Associated Press
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - A group of poker players arrested for gambling have asked for a jury trial in an effort to change South Carolina's 200-year-old gaming law that bans games of cards and dice.
"The law was basically set in place way back in 1802 because of the morality of the times," said Robert Chimento, who pleaded not guilty during an appearance in town court Tuesday.
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31 May 06
New 'Celebrity Poker Showdown' Season Kicks-Off
"BravoTV.com antes up for another online poker tournament this summer, kicking off with the new season premiere of the Bravo original series 'Celebrity Poker Showdown.' This year's online tournament grand prize winner will receive a non-speaking walk-on role on the NBC hit series "Las Vegas," including round trip airfare and hotel accommodations in Los Angeles for two. Filmed entirely in New Orleans, this new season of 'Celebrity Poker Showdown' will donate the million-dollar jackpot to Hurricane Katrina Charities in support of the rebuilding effort. The online tournament will launch with the new season premiere on May 31 at 9:00 pm ET/PT."
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30 May 06
Bullying a poker bully
Daniel Negreanu, The Poker Column
It can be really frustrating to have an extremely aggressive player at your table who just won't seem to leave you alone. No matter what you do, the bully keeps coming after you, especially if you aren't getting any good cards of your own.
Hopefully, after reading this column, you'll have all the tools you need to fight the good fight and start pounding back. If you know anything about a bully, you know that if you stand up to him, he'll usually run away and hide.
Let him run, but get his chips first.
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30 May 06
Professional Poker' A Must Read
"It seems that everyone today wants to chuck their particular nine to five job, hop onto the Internet or into their local card room and say they are a 'professional poker player'. Tell the truth…you've had the thought, after a particularly large tournament win or a good month in the cash games (wherever they may be), of doing just that. Some interesting food for thought before you make this monumental decision can be found in the new book from Mark Blade called 'Professional Poker' (available at his website, markblade.com ...."
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29 May 06
Consumer's Guide to Poker, PART 1 OF 3
"Have you ever thought about how much money you have paid to card rooms for the privilege of playing poker? I'm not talking about how much money you may have lost - just the price for using their facilities. I did some calculations and they amazed me."
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29 May 06
WA Makes It a Felony to Play Poker Online
By I. Nelson Rose, 28 May 2006
As of June 7, it is now a felony in the state of Washington to play poker on the Internet.
The bill, S.S.B. No. 6613, has stirred up great anxiety in poker forums. Many feel, correctly, that they have been blind-sided. I searched the databases of Washington newspapers and could find almost nothing written about the law as it was making its way through the Legislature. In fact, when the Seattle Times published an article about bills to make Internet gambling a crime, it only mentioned proposals pending in Congress.
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29 May 06
Big Brother Co wants in on online action
"Endemol UK, the owner and creator of reality-TV series Big Brother, has its eyes set on the online gaming industry, including online poker. Attracted by the potential of an industry that generates billions of dollars each year, the British company reportedly decided to develop new gaming concepts through its recently-launched division, Endemol Gaming."
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29 May 06
$3M On The Table This Past Weekend
"These weekends only come once a month, but this past weekend was an online poker players dream as far as money on the tables go. With Party Poker having their monthly million dollar guaranteed tournament on Saturday, in addition to their standard $750,000 guaranteed on Sunday, it meant that the top half dozen or so online poker tournaments over the weekend would have combined Guaranteed prize pools in excess of $3,000,000."
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26 May 06
Russian champ sets new record
"What is probably the biggest poker prize in Russian gambling history was paid out this week to a 27 year old Moscow-based professional player who won the first Party Poker.com St. Petersburg Open poker tournament in Russia.
The media were describing Peter Vlasenko as Russia’s Poker Tsar after the young professional hit an $84,000 jackpot at the event, held in St. Petersburg’s Golden Garden Casino which, over an action-filled four days, generated an incredible prize pool of more than $500,000."
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26 May 06
PokerShare Gives New Yorkers Free Gas
'May 26 - PokerShare.com, the first poker site in the world to offer its players the opportunity to share in its success with 40% back, is offering New Yorkers FREE gas today. With gas prices soaring, PokerShare.com have decided to throw a little party, and give a little gas...'
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25 May 06
Bill to Ban Gambling Online Gets 4th Chance
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
Today, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up a bill introduced by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R) that would ban much online gambling, including bets on sporting events and games of chance -- namely poker, which has enjoyed a boom in recent years.
The legislation could get an unexpected boost from the Jack Abramoff scandal. The disgraced lobbyist was key to blocking one of Goodlatte's three previous attempts to ban Internet gambling, and backlash over corruption charges could help the current effort.
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