Arena Of Poker

BAKERSFIELD, Calif — A Bakersfield man will be in Las Vegas this weekend for the opening round of the World Series of poker. James Holbrook has been blind since he was injured in a car accident in 1991, but that hasn’t stopped him from playing cards.

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On 5 July 2007, Professional Poker Player Annie Duke and Hollywood actor Don Cheadle will host the “Ante Up For Africa” Charity Poker Tournament during the 2007 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel Casino Las Vegas. The event features celebrities and professional poker players. Image Masters Photography and Digital Imaging (IMPDI) will be the exclusive photographer for this event.

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Producer extraordinaire Steve Albini, an avid poker player, has offered a slice of his musical wisdom on a poker forum, of all places.

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The World Series of Poker bestowed the game’s ultimate honor today on two of poker’s premier players, inducting Barbara Enright and Phil Hellmuth Jr. into the Poker Hall of Fame. Enright is the first woman inducted into …

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Bikers will gun their engines Sunday in support of Hope Family Services in a poker run that will take participants on a tour of local bars.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s World Series time. Not baseball, of course, but poker.

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Titan Poker players can win a share of $1,000,000 in Guaranteed Prizes in one of the largest online tournaments to be staged this year. (PRWeb Jul 6, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U2luZy1Mb3ZlLVNxdWEtUGlnZy1UaGlyLVplcm8=

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Titan Poker players can win a share of $1,000,000 in Guaranteed Prizes in one of the largest online tournaments to be staged this year.

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The stakes are up in Florida as poker players in Jacksonville and anywhere else in the state can go all in thanks to a new law that went into effect this week.

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On the eve of the WSOP main event, it’s clear poker’s lost some of its buzz. Kerouac Smith tries to ascertain exactly how much.

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Often when players get involved in a pot they will end up with the same hands or similar, and it is the difference in position and playing style that determines who wins the pot. This was the case during the Father and Son Event held during season five of the WPT.

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Sportingbet and Austrian Internet bookmaker bwin Interactive Entertainment, both major players in the online poker world, have ended the take over talks begun in March. A preliminary approach was made by bwin after Sportingbet left the US market, but those talks have been ended “mutually and amicably” according to Sportingbet in a report made to the London Stock Exchange. Both companies are publicly traded and as such are very careful about how their behaviors appear to the public…

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The World Poker Tour is full of new changes this season, including new stops on the tour and a new hostess, and their virtual footprint is following suit. World Poker Tour.com had set out to launch a bigger and better online poker site, and they have recently succeeded. This week they re-launched on Cryptologic’s poker software, playing off of that company’s reputation for delivering top quality product to their subscribers…

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The poker boom ruined poker is not an idea you would expect would gain many supporters, and you would be right. But some think that the poker boom ruined at least part of the experience of poker, at least the way it was before it became a world wide phenomenon. Poker author Anthony Holden says as much in his latest book, “Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom” where he takes a look at the World Series of Poker now compared to 1978 when he first attended…

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Check out the official schedule for the next eleven days of poker, starting today, July 6th - all Main Event. Now that we know what is happening when, the next big question is - who? Speculation and discussion has ignited over the last day or two after a few weeks of weak sparks, and the real money seems to be on the unknown player.

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Winner - Freddy DeebPrize - $2,276,832It has been remarked by a number of people and sources of poker news that the $50K H.O.R.S.E. event is the most respected of the bracelets that are awarded during the World Series of Poker.

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It’s July 4th: Independence Day for most of the people who call the United States their home. On this day when Americans celebrate their liberation from a country to which tea is almost a religious experience, Tony G is lamenting his liberation from Event 54.

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There were 12 people playing a six handed game, and in this particular hand a pro player made what could be seen as an amateur move or an advanced move, depending on the reasoning behind it.

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Millions of players worldwide play Holdem. They come from many different cultures and countries. Most of them fit into one of the commonly held Holdem player categories. You can call them tight-agressive players or calling stations or fish or maniacs. But with millions of people playing, sometimes you run into the downright weird.

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Poker is a game of second bests versus bests. The key to winning a big pot is convincing second best he’s best and then robbing him at the river. Second best usually doesn’t have a chance of winning, unless he’s pulled a good bluff. Tournaments are different, however.

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