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Final Table Weekend for Poker | 15.03.2008
Within a space of less than 36 hours the three major poker tours will all have final tables going off. The World Poker Tour is already down to the final six at the Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, California. The European Poker Tour at Casinos Poland in Warsaw will hold its nine player final table tomorrow and the WSOP Circuit event at Caesars in Atlantic City, New Jersey has a final ...
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The Future of the World Series of Poker | 12.03.2008
With the 2008 World Series of Poker now less than three months away, it is time to speculate what the future holds for this largest of all poker tournaments.
Certainly the WSOP managers seems to have settled at around 55 events a year, at least a $10,000 tournament for each major game. They also seem committed to having bracelets within the grasp of as many players as they can...
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Bizarre Poker Disqualification in Atlantic City | 07.03.2008
In what many poker professionals and media members believe is a first, the chip leader in a major tournament was disqualified at the final table and his chips were removed from play. The bizarre incidents took place during the first event of the World Series of Poker Circuit now running at Caesars in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Reports of players and spectators who were there, relate a st...
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Update: Politics and Poker | 26.02.2008
Ten years ago we could have gone a year or more without finding any legislation or regulation that pertained to how we entertain ourselves in our spare time with our money by playing poker. Now you can't go a day without some governmental agency cranking up a new regulation to restrict what free people do with their lives.
Whether fueled by greed (taxes) or political morality ...
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Freeroll Entry Wins European Poker Tour Copenhagen | 24.02.2008
I love these kind of stories! EPT Copenhagen was won by a player who earned his seat in an online freeroll.
Tim Vance, a 46-year-old American construction company boss from near St Louis, won the EPT Copenhagen and a record first prize of 6,220,488 Danish kroner. Vance didn’t pay anything to enter the 50,000 DKK No Limit Hold’em event – instead he qualified online in a satellite.
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New Poker Spokespersons | 23.02.2008
Two new poker spokespersons were named this week and both were a bit of a surprise.
First, the World Poker Tour announced at the L.A. Poker Classic that Antonio Esfandiari would be their first every poker player representative. Duties and responsibilities for this first time ever move by WPT are unclear but there is now a professional face to the WPT other than the corporate imag...
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Poker Profits in Nevada | 22.02.2008
As of December 31, 2007 there were 907 permanent poker tables in card rooms in Nevada. This includes, of course, all of the tables in Las Vegas. This does not include any of the temporary poker setups for tournaments; these are tables used in daily poker play as enumerated by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
When players and media speculate about the profits from ...
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World's Largest Automated Poker Room | 21.02.2008
Last month, Casino de Montreal opened the largest completely automated poker room in the world. With 25 PokerPro tables, the new poker room is by far the single largest poker room with only automatic tables. Now the folks at Casino de Montreal have hosted the world’s largest multi-table poker tournament ever run on solely automated poker tables. The entire tournament was run w...
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World Poker Tour Season 7 | 20.02.2008
The World Poker Tour has released it's schedule for season seven and it is a much reduced tour from season six.
Gone from last year's schedule are:
Mirage Poker Showdown, Las Vegas
Turks and Caicos Poker Classic
Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, Las Vegas
WPT Spanish Championship, Barcelona
World Poker Open, Tunica
World Poker Challenge, Reno
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Cheating at Online Poker | 19.02.2008
It is way past time that someone had a few sane words to combat all of those "high moral" opinions being yelped about all over the web. Our topic today: cheating at poker on the internet. By the way I respect your right to find my words insane or at least devoid of morals or standards. I will exercise those same rights when your four letter responses arrive du...
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