20 Nov 07
WSOP Circuit coming to Harrah's New Orleans
casinocitytimes.com - The largest and most prestigious poker tournament series in the world is coming soon to Harrah's New Orleans. For the fourth consecutive year, Harrah's New Orleans will be hosting the south's premier poker extravaganza, which is sure to attract players not just from the United States, but from all over the world. The Harrah's New Orleans Winter Bayou Poker Championship will take place from Nov. 26 through Dec. 5, 2007. This year's schedule includes ten tournaments, as well as multiple satellites and around-the-clock cash-game action.
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19 Nov 07
European Poker Rankings Set for Exciting Conclusion
pokernews.com - With Christmas lurking just round the corner, the Mansion Poker European Rankings are at the final furlong. No change at the top, which has been Soren Konesgaard for the vast majority of the year, but a few household names could make a late smash and grab for the title.
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19 Nov 07
Net Worths: A Lot Smaller Than Imagined
poker-king.com - A pretty popular message board topic is to speculate as to the net worth of the most famous poker players in the world, both online and "live."
While it can be fun to try and guess as to what each player is worth, there are several key details that most people overlook.
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19 Nov 07
World Series of Poker adds 11th event
tahoedailytribune.com - The popularity of this year's World Series of Poker circuit event has resulted in standing-room only crowds in the poker room and in the area surrounding Hard Rock Cafe at Harveys.
Because of the crowd and the interest to play tournament officials have decided to add an 11th event on Sunday, a $200 buy-in No Limit Hold 'Em tournament that will begin at 1 p.m.
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16 Nov 07
MANSION Announces Sponsorship of B.C. Poker Championships
earthtimes.org - MANSIONPOKER.COM announces sponsorship of the 3rd Annual B.C. Poker Championships, to be held in Canada's largest Poker Room at the River Rock Casino Resort in British Columbia, between November 18 and 25, 2007.
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16 Nov 07
Will Springtime See Open Poker EU-wide?
pokerpages.com - Norbert Teufelberger, CEO and co-founder of Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG (Bwin), whose Ongame Poker Network includes PokerRoom and EuroPoker, told Reuters this week that he is optimistic about European countries getting onto a path towards liberalizing online gambling by next spring, creating more legal certainty throughout the European Union (EU) nations.
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16 Nov 07
Your Poker Toolkit
pokerplayernewspaper.com - As we grow in the game of poker, it's useful not to expect too much too soon. One way to curb expectation appropriately is to think of ourselves as serving an apprenticeship
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15 Nov 07
World Series of Poker to go online?
pokerlistings.com - Gary Loveman, chief executive of Harrah's Entertainment Inc., has revealed plans to take the World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand online.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Love spoke about the possibility of starting a WSOP poker site at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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15 Nov 07
Harrah's mulls UK poker site
businessweek.com - Casino giant Harrah's Entertainment Inc.'s chief executive said Wednesday he's looking at taking the World Series of Poker brand into the realm of Internet poker in the U.K. and continental Europe.
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14 Nov 07
Gov. Patrick Wants Some Gamblers In Prison
If you place a bet in one of the three casinos Gov. Deval Patrick wants built in Massachusetts, the governor will thank you for contributing to the Bay State's economy. If you place a bet on the Internet, Patrick wants you to go to prison for two years.
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14 Nov 07
Aggressive poker doesn't always pay off
tahoedailytribune.com - Winning a poker tournament also requires the ability to put your opponent to a decision for all his chips. It's an effective maneuver that hinges on the situation, not your cards. A dangerous player is someone who uses his position and chip stack - not just quality cards - to push people around.
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14 Nov 07
Majority oppose U.S. Government position on online poker
online-casinos.com - According to the poll, conducted by RT Strategies National Omnibus Poll, Americans, by a two to one margin (51 percent - 21 percent) oppose government attempts to ban Internet poker, and strongly support federal regulation of Internet poker as a means to control underage gambling and help problem gamblers.
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13 Nov 07
New York Times: Poker Bots on the Rise
nytimes.com - Researchers at University of Alberta ... has just shown that their Polaris program is on the verge of taking down poker professionals. In the recent “Man vs. Machine” Poker Championship, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Ali Eslami barely beat Polaris two sessions to one (with one a virtual draw). After the tournament, Laak candidly acknowledged that “the bots are closing in.”
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13 Nov 07
Congressional Hearing Set For Regulated Internet Poker
Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine the United States policies as they relate to Internet gaming. Annie Duke, one of the top poker players in the world will testify before the Committee on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA).
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13 Nov 07
Fulltilt.com Available - Too Much Poker Traffic
FullTilt Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based provider of enterprise product information management software, has finally had enough with all the online poker queries for Full Tilt Poker it regularly receives.
The company, who stresses it is "not an online poker site", says it now receives "in excess of 60,000 unique visitors per month looking for the online poker site that uses the same phrase."
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12 Nov 07
One for the ladies in Paddy's online poker tourney
online-casinos.com - Next year's Irish Open week long poker epic will see the introduction of a new event - the Irish Open Ladies - on May 22 2008. The new contest will take the form of a no limit hold'em freezeout with a reasonable buy-in of Euro 300 + Euro 30 that should ensure a good attendance.
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12 Nov 07
Full Tilt Introduces "Knockout" Tournaments
poker-king.com - Full Tilt Poker does a pretty good job when it comes to introducing new and interesting tournament formats to their site. Full Tilt realizes that you always need to keep your site fresh and make sure that you are always offering something new and exciting to your loyal customers.
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12 Nov 07
Cage to play "Slim"
dallasnews.com - A film about the life of gambling legend "Amarillo Slim" is in development and some of it will be shot in Texas, the project's producer said.
"Slim has led a picaresque life and is a true American original, and the breadth of his experiences requires a fair amount of research," Braxton Pope said of the life of Thomas Preston Jr., also known as Amarillo Slim.
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09 Nov 07
Executive Poker Tour winners announced
pokerlistings.com - The inaugural Executive Poker Tour events played at the end of October at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, and now the results have finally been released. The biggest news from the events was Lee Childs winning the main event of the three-tournament series.
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09 Nov 07
EU: Svenska Spel barred from expanding Poker
thelocal.se - Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, has been forbidden from expanding its net-poker services - for the time being at least.
On Thursday, the Swedish government rejected Svenska Spel's request to expand its existing licence to organize and distribute net-poker services.
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