24 May 06
'High Stakes' Back For Season 2
"By far one of the most popular new poker programs on television this year has been GSN's 'High Stakes Poker'. The show ... featured the greatest players in the game, including Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Sam Farha and Phil Hellmuth, in a No-Limit cash game where the minimum buy-in was $100,000. Calling it 'the only real game of poker on television' wouldn't be far from the actual truth."
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24 May 06
Poker Pros, On Your Phone!
"Sports-Stuff.com Inc has announced that it has acquired the exclusive wireless rights for poker pros Huck Seed and Paul 'The Truth' Darden.
Sports-Stuff will produce and publish voice ringtones and create wireless web pages (WAP sites) dedicated to these poker stars."
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24 May 06
Mansion Poker Introduces the Poker Dome
"MANSION Poker COO David Kinsman is in Las Vegas this weekend to introduce Americans and the world to “speed poker,” an exciting and unique way to view and play the game. Kinsman ... believes that after fans and participants experience the Poker Dome, with its stadium seating, fast-paced action, and spectator-friendly arena, they’ll finally lay to rest the question of whether poker is a sport."
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23 May 06
Paddy Gives Players a Second Chance
"This Saturday, PaddyPokerPoker.com will give away two World Series of Poker seats in a freeroll available to players who got close to already securing a seat, but missed.
The WSOP Wired Freeroll takes place May 27. It’s open to players who placed in the top 18 in any of the regular WSOP Wired multi-table tournaments that take place daily at the site."
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23 May 06
One Quality You Just Can’t Learn
"Maybe you’ve just learnt the basics and you’re ready to plunge in and have a go. Do it! Just don’t risk your shirt because with the best will in the world you’re probably going to lose.
But the experience that you pick up from those first games is probably the most powerful lesson you will ever learn in poker. Realizing that you can’t just stroll in and clean up might come as a bit of a jolt to you, but the experience gained will be worth it’s weight in gold."
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23 May 06
UK Student On His Way To The Big One
"Chester University student Simon Pettet, 21, will be at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this summer after winning a competition in London. ...
The Maths and sports science student was very proud of his victory, in what was his first ever major poker tournament.
He told the Chester Daily Post: 'Playing online was brilliant training for tournament play.'"
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22 May 06
Best Ways To Steal The Blinds
"Certain players can begin to panic when they are receiving a bad run of cards as the blinds will be reducing their stack every round.
The way to counter this is to try to steal the blinds from other players. Here is some advice to make stealing as successful as possible.
First of all don't try if they are not worth stealing. If you are playing in a tournament you should wait until the middle stages at the earliest before you start."
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22 May 06
Biggest Online Tournament in History
In partnership with the Ongame Network Canbet Poker is giving it's players a chance to win the largest Guaranteed Tournamnet online.
The prize pool for this tournament is a guaranteed Five Million Dollars with the winner taking home a 1st place prize of at least One Million Dollars! You can win your way into history from as little as $1!
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19 May 06
Big Time Poker is Back in New Orleans
"The residents of any disaster torn area crave one thing: A return to 'normalcy'. In the modern poker world, normalcy can be defined as a $10,000 No Limit Texas Hold em tournament. Today, cards went in the air for the first event of the WSOP Circuit tournament series at the Harrah's casino in New Orleans. The $10,000 Main Event gets underway a week from today."
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19 May 06
24/7 Worldwide Poker Room Stats
"Whichpoker.com extracts information every 10 minutes, reviews it and stores it. This provides a unique view of the online poker world and enables whichpoker.com to provide visitors with free and very powerful poker tools.
The only site to aggregate worldwide poker stats from top online poker rooms and offer them free to players, whichpoker.com allows visitors to search for any game they want, search for any tournament they want, check out the hottest tables and have up to the minute poker stats and latest news at their fingertips."
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18 May 06
Legends of Poker: Daniel Negreanu
"In 1996, Negreanu made his first trip to Las Vegas and says, 'The minute I got to Vegas, I sat down in a $20/$40 game during the WSOP,' and in that very first session he lost most of his $3,000 bankroll. Deciding to call it a night, he walked to the bathroom, and upon his return he was shocked to see that 'there wasn't a game in sight (the other players had already quit since he had left the table) – it dawned on me right then and there that for the first time in my life, I was the sucker!'"
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18 May 06
Mirage Poker Showdown - The Final Table
"Four days of intense high-stakes poker came to a close today at the final table of the 2006 Mirage Poker Showdown. The six remaining players, survivors from a starting field of 384, entered day 4 knowing exactly what was at stake - $1,294,755 and a seat at the WPT Championship at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino. ...
On the last hand of the 2006 Mirage Poker Showdown, Stan Weiss, at this point the chip leader, made a preflop raise of $2,000,000. Demetriou came over the top for the rest of his chips and Weiss called. Demetriou took a commanding lead when he showed his K-6 to Weiss' K-5. In a hand that will no doubt go down in WPT history, the dominated Weiss spiked a five on the J-9-7-3-5 board. His pair of fives eliminated Demetriou from the tournament ($673,232)."
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18 May 06
Heads-Up Championship Ends Sunday
"Once again the National Heads Up Poker Championship broadcasts on NBC have been a success across the board, from the players who competed in the event to the ratings for the six week broadcast run of the tournament.
This Sunday (May 21st) from 1-3PM, the semi-final matchups and the best two of three Championship Tournament will feature some of the greatest names in the game."
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17 May 06
Mirage Poker Showdown Day 3
"Day 3 of the 2006 Mirage Poker Showdown started the same way day 2 ended, with plastic bags. The 27 bags, spread out over four tables, represented the number of players left in the tournament. At the end of day 3, only 6 bags would remain.
Play began at 1:00 pm Pacific time (an hour later than normal because of last night's 1:30 am finish) with $4,000-$8,000 blinds and $1,000 antes. Players on short stacks felt the heat from the first deal. John Juanda, Alan Brodsky and Eric Mizrachi all exited within the first half hour of action."
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17 May 06
Poker Whispers
"The Poker Whisperer is back again with more no-nonsense poker comments. This month he shares his views on The Hendon Mob, gambling poker players and the recent trojan horse virus scares. ...
I can't say enough good things about The Hendon Mob. I was very pleased for the boys when they announced their new sponsorship with Full Tilt Poker."
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16 May 06
Determining pot odds
-- Daniel Negreanu, The Poker Column
When you watch poker on TV, you hear the term pot odds thrown around all the time. What in the world does it really mean? Well, hopefully, after you read this column you'll not only know what pot odds are, but you'll also understand how to quickly calculate pot odds and apply them to your game.
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16 May 06
Tips Site Delivers Trojan
"... This isn't particularly unusual in itself, but anti-virus researchers at Finnish security firm F-Secure discovered the malware was hidden in a ostensibly legitimate package offered for download at checkraised.com, a site which provides advice and tools to online poker players.
... After F-Secure reported the malware to checkraised.com, the site acted promptly to sanitise the software it offered for download."
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15 May 06
Trojan Horse Hits Poker Networks
"Betfair Poker released a statement on the back of influx of trojan horse virus attacks to hit the Cryptologic network. Players were advised by a mystery user to visit the BBC website in regards to an employee fraud. Upon loading the site, it was apparent to many players that this was not the BBC's website. ... However, a downloadable .exe file was easily available. It is believed this file was a trojan horse virus."
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15 May 06
WPT Showdown: "The Long Day"
"Players have just settled in for a marathon day two at the Mirage Poker Showdown, the first event of the WPT's fifth season.
The $10,000 buy-in event attracted 385 players, and 195 survived yesterday's day one. Today is being dubbed "The Long Day", as play will continue until only 27 players remain, no matter how long it takes."
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12 May 06
Smith Named WPT Player of the Year
Los Angeles, CA -- (Press Release) -- Professional poker player Gavin Smith capped his strong year of play in Season IV of the World Poker Tour by being named the tour's "Season IV Player of the Year."
Over the past year, Smith reached the final table in three separate $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour events, including a first-place finish at the 2005 Mirage Poker Showdown.
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