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This might mark me out as ‘old School’ and I see a lot of poker player’s posting about there being no honour in a game where the objective is to take the other players money, but personally I feel the word’s of The Wire’s finest character, Omar Little have to be heeded “Indeed, a man’s gotta have a code”
Among the best writers--if not the best--on Team PokerStars Pro is Ms. Vicky Coren. We're very happy when we get a submission from the lady who wrote the book on poker.
Roberto Romanello leads day 1 of the English Poker Open at Dusk Till Dawn, where the $1 million guarantee has been met. Speaking of millions of dollars, a huge cash game takes place in London today.
An innovate new festival from Dusk Till Dawn.
With both the WSOPE and the London leg of the PokerStars EPT going off back-to-back next month, the U.K. was already poised to become the center of the poker universe.
I played the main event of Caesars Mega Stack tournament toward the end of the WSOP. 305 players put up the $1,000 entry fee and we got started with 50,000 chips (a mega stack, when you think of it).
A new tax regime for casinos was introduced in late April, which may result in the closure of the country’s most successful poker rooms.
I was eating breakfast at the Rio when a friend from Texas dropped by to say hello. We were both waiting for the $2,000 no-limit hold'em event to get started at the WSOP (about three city blocks of hallway away from the buffet) and naturally, our conversation turned to the tournament action.
It seriously amazes me at the speed a rumour spreads in poker circles, and how people feel they are qualified at giving reasons and advice to a situation they know not a great deal about.
The home of UK poker, Dusk Till Dawn, was left licking its wounds this week following an expensive DTD Grand Slam Main Event.
Yesterday I had a marathon session because the games were so soft... Every time I was about to quit more fish would sit not letting me get up. I got extremely stuck off the get go and pretty much took the whole session to get even.
Some players act with class at the poker table, others don't. Two slimy things that poker players universally hate-slow-rolling and asking to see the losing hand-show no class whatsoever, yet you still see them happening.
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
-- Chinese Proverb
A few years from now when someone asks, ?Who is the greatest living poker player?? the answer might be a surprise.
Went up to Atlantic City on Thursday, after Keon's $1/$2 NL game broke. Ricky rented a nice roomy sedan since we all have pick-up trucks, compacts, and vehicles otherwise unsuited to five degenerates to travel in a single sitting.
The game of poker hasn’t had a whole lot of legal victories over the past few years. The most crushing blow has been the UIGEA which put some severe restrictions on poker in the United States while causing many poker rooms to pull their services from the US.
People who play poker on a regular basis will immediately know where I’m talking about. You sense that your hand isn’t good enough, but you make the call anyway, most of the times because your own hand is so enormous.
You've encountered him before. Typically a white male in his early 20s wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. He likes to talk during hands that he is involved in and often provides full-scale analysis after a hand is done.
I just finished an absolutely crazy session. Its about 2:30am, I haven't played this late in a while, but the games were so good I just couldn't get up. I've been sticking with the 2/4nl cap games because they are just loaded with fish.
As promised, I thought I'd give a little report on what I got up to in Teesside at the weekend...I Set off from Blackpool at about 10.30am and had a straight run through with little traffic.
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19th October 2009 3:08pmSource: Poker News HeadlinesIs SEGA Poker On The Way?
Video game provider SEGA could be set to launch their own poker and casino platforms following the granting of a gambling licence by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission today.
18th October 2009 10:25amSource: GoodLuck Poker BlogThe 5 Dumbest Things I Ever Did Playing Poker
As with anything new in someone's life - whether it's a new job, or a new recipe or even a new game, you have to learn about it before you can say you understand it. Same thing goes for poker.
17th October 2009 10:32pmSource: Poker News DailyFull Tilt Responds to Poker Bot Lawsuit
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is known for keeping mum when it comes to its legal and business matters, but the company broke its silence to comment on a recent lawsuit by former customers Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotov.
16th October 2009 7:02pmSource: TJ CloutierFrom Canada to Texas: Football & Poker
Anybody who sees me at a poker table says that I look like a football player. And of course, that's what I was in my youth. After I got out of the Army, I signed on as with the Montreal Allouettes, where I played first string tight end until I was traded to the Toronto Argonauts.
14th October 2009 8:05pmSource: Poker News DailyDoyle Brunson Inducted into Hardin-Simmons University Athletic Hall of Fame
Legendary poker player Doyle Brunson will be feted yet again on Friday night, but not for any of his performances over his 50-plus year career in the game of poker.
13th October 2009 6:50pmSource: PokerListings.comWSOP introducing November Nine Academy
The final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event represents the pinnacle of a poker player's career, but every player has to start somewhere.
12th October 2009 10:05amSource: Poker King BlogA.J. Benza Out as Co-Host of High Stakes Poker
When "High Stakes Poker" returns for its sixth season in February of 2010, there will be one major change - A.J. Benza will no longer be a part of the show.
9th October 2009 5:18pmSource: Poker News DailyAaron Gustavson Defeats Peter Eastgate in EPT London
As the great wrestler Ric Flair said, ?To be the man, you gotta beat the man!? In this week?s finale of the European Poker Tour?s (EPT) London stop, Aaron Gustavson did just that, besting reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate heads-up.
7th October 2009 7:04pmSource: PokerListings.comdurrrr Challenge: The half way mark and more
Possibly getting underway with the half-way goal in mind, the latest session in the durrrr Challenge only ended after a total of 1,063 hands were played.
6th October 2009 6:36pmSource: Poker News DailyDoyle Brunson Advocates WSOP Europe Venue Change
Even though he has more than 50 years in the poker world under his belt, poker legend Doyle Brunson continues to be one of the leaders in the community, advocating suggestions for improvements to the industry.
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