Arena Of Poker

LAS VEGAS — Traveling with Jamie Gold has its perks. A flight to Las Vegas, for example, isn’t simply a one-hour trip from San Francisco to Sin City; it’s a theatrical production worthy of a casino showroom.

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One essential tool for your mafia toolbox: the poker face Mobsters are the quintessential social misfits. They flout all social rules and live by a code of their own.

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THE VILLAGES — Bob Boor was excited about his club’s golf cart poker run. “It’s fun,” the Village of Lynnhaven resident said. “We go to visit these locations, which are clues, and we draw a card. When we get back, they tell us who has the best poker hand.”

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The World Poker Store, a Nevada corporation with corporate offices in St. Paul, MN, awarded its sixth WPT Satellite Seat as The Bar Poker League hosted another well attended No-Limit Texas Hold ‘em tournament at Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel this past weekend.

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Little Rock police raided a poker club and arrested four dealers and the owner on felony charges of running an illegal gaming establishment.

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Sigma Tau Delta will hold its second annual Texas Hold ’Em Poker Tournament at 7 p.m. Tuesday in University Center Rio Grande Ballroom. The tournament is a fundraiser for the International English Honor Society organization that was established in 1924.

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Reggie and Veronica Gremmel are looking for more prizes and donations to sweeten the pot their third annual Bill Fekas Christmas Charity Poker Tournament Dec. 1 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building, 1108 W. Crawford.

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When players at the National Poker Challenge in Little Rock shelled out money, it wasn’t to ante up. Instead they paid a $100 monthly fee for someone to keep track of their playing statistics. Then, they and others could compete in tournaments for cash prizes. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

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LITTLE ROCK - Little Rock police raided a poker club and arrested four people on felony charges of running an illegal gaming establishment. Police also arrested four people Monday in a separate raid and seized 70 gaming machines.

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The site is user friendly, pleasing to the eye, and about as reliable as any engine not found in a Ford product. The site features the sort of graphics that will please anybody who would consider an inappropriate relationship with their X Box a legitimate romantic option, and the traffic is reasonably brisk with thousands of players online at any time. Add to this an extremely generous bonus structure and you have a winner on your hands.

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The Third Annual British Columbia Poker Championships has scored a sponsor for this week as online poker room Mansion Poker has announced. The Canadian event will be sponsored by Mansion as it is held at the River Rock Casino Resort near Vancouver. The events will be filmed for later broadcast in a 2 hour special next month on Global TV…

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Actor Mekhi Phifer, who stars on the hit TV show “ER”, is no stranger to poker. He was a staple on the Bravo TV series “Celebrity Poker Showdown” with Phil Gordon and later Phil Hellmuth, even winning an event against fellow actor Neil Patrick Harris. His love for the game continues as he introduces poker into a family Christmas party for some 80 people over the holidays…

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Former World Series of Poker winner Joe Hachem was there, but he didn’t win the event. It was the Adelaide Holdem Championship at the Skycity Casino in SA, Australia, and the $96,000 top prize was instead claimed by a part-time supermarket shelf-stacker and university student. Daniel Booth, just 19 years old, won a spot at the event via a regional poker tournament, while others paid $3,000 to play…

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With the Poker Brat and the Magician gone, the two remaining players in this episode of Poker After Dark seemed to have little to say to each other. Each was a powerful personality in their own right, and perhaps they felt that.

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A little over a year ago, poker players everywhere were hoping for big changes when control of the American Congress was wrenched from politicians who preferred Jerry Falwell to Jerry Yang. Internet poker was an issue of moral turpitude as far as they were concerned. Of course nobody seemed to care that Mr. Yang has more evangelical street cred than anybody who spent their afternoons discussing earmarks over a lobbyist sponsored three martini lunch, but that is a point for another day.

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Exiting the elevator at the casino floor in your hotel, you are excited to spend some time unwinding. The business that has brought you here is done, and you have a day before you need to fly home, and you are eager to try your luck in the poker room. You walk in and notice that all the tables are full and you need to put your name on a waiting list. But which table?

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Certain combinations of hole cards in Holdem bring with them certain expectations. The suited ace and other suited hands tempt towards the development of flushes and straights. Pairs suggest the hope of three of a kind or a full house. These hole card combinations are the kind you wait for, and the kind you act upon.

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