Nov 27 2007
Poker Pro Europe Reader Wins Televised Tournament (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Magazine Promotion Brings Success to Poker Pro Europe.
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Archive for November 27th, 2007Nov 27 2007 Artist’s presidential poker games finding audience (Tuttle Times)By Scott Meeker THE JOPLIN GLOBE (JOPLIN, Mo.) CARTHAGE, Mo. — It was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, but there was a subtle difference about it that took some people by surprise. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Poker Pro Europe Reader Wins Televised Tournament (PRWeb)Magazine Promotion Brings Success to Poker Pro Europe. (PRWeb Nov 26, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/UGlnZy1TdW1tLVRoaXItSG9yci1UaGlyLVplcm8= More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Playing Poker by Daniel Negreanu : To deal with three-barrel bluffers, act weak (Arizona Daily Star)Poker has changed in many ways. The game has become mainstream, and its tactics have evolved. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Poker profits boost revenue at state casinos (Charleston Daily Mail)WHEELING — The state’s racetracks are cashing in on poker. According to the West Virginia Lottery Commission, from Oct. 20 through Nov. 17, Mountaineer Casino Resort and Racetrack in Chester earned $711,352 in poker revenue alone. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Heartland Poker Tour ArizonaThe Mid West got a stop from the Heartland Poker Tour as the poker series descended on Arizona for the first time. The latest HPT champ that was crowned comes, appropriately, from Arizona, as did five other final table finishers. 53 year old Andreas Foulias from Gilbert took the championship and nearly $60k when he won the No Limit Texas Holdem poker event… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 University Poker ChampionshipsBoth the United Kingdom and North America have a new poker series to pay attention to now that the University Poker Championships have officially launched. These events are free to enter and have prizes for the winners, including free tuition, a trip to a European Poker Tour event (for the North American player) and a trip to the World Series of Poker Europe for those players in the United Kingdom (where the event is held.) The University Poker Championships are run by Life of Sports, Inc and are designed for students, who will play in weekly freeroll online tournaments and attempt to progress to final events for the big prizes.Related Articles:The Professor of poker speaks at HarvardCollege poker class runs charity event. … More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Ferguson Adds WSOP Ring to CollectionWhen a player wins a World Series of Poker event, they get a fancy bracelet along with the cash. When Chris “Jesus” Ferguson won his latest, however, it was a ring, not a bracelet, that came along with it. That was because the event was part of the World Series of Poker Circuit series, which takes the WSOP brand out of Las Vegas and to the rest of the US throughout the year… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Macau Poker Event a Record BreakerThe Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Macau event was already a trail blazer, being the first legal live poker tournament to take place inside the borders of the People’s Republic of China, and now it is a record breaker. The Macau event brought in enough players to make it the largest ever poker tournament to be held on Asian soil. 352 players paid $2,500 to play in the event, making it Asia’s largest poker tournament ever… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Swaziland Poker ChampSouth Africa has been making its mark on the poker world lately. Raymond Rahme placed at the final table in the 2007 WSOP, and the All Africa Poker Tournament has been making waves. Greg Ronaldson is the latest winner of that event, as it concluded at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Russell Crowe to Play Poker for CharityAustralian actor Russell Crowe is just one of many to play poker for charity on Friday, November 30th at the Crown, Melbourne. The event, which is the biggest charity poker event held in the country, will also see Glenn Robbins, Livinia Nixon, Nathan Buckley, Fifi Box, and Dave Hughes, all joining former World Series of Poker champ Joe Hachem to raise money for The Shane Warne Foundation. The event, called “The Joe Hachem & Shane Warne Charity Poker Tournament”, has a $1000 buy in… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Florida Poker Room’s Biggest TournamentThe Sarasota Kennel Club’s poker room hasn’t been around very long, but it has gotten a lot of attention. The One-Eyed Jacks Poker Room continues to do so as they prepare to launch their very first $150,000 Pros vs. Joes Texas Holdem event… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Aussie Poker Room Rocked by Bomb BlastAn explosion rocked a hotel in NSW’s Hunter Valley when a poker machine exploded, itself ripped apart by the bomb planted within. The Cessnock’s Sofitel Wentworth Hotel was hit with the blast before 1:30am, shattering a large window in the poker room. An explosive device was recovered from within by firefighters… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Helping Those Who Can’t Always Help ThemselvesIn the United States this week marks the Thanksgiving celebration - a holiday that celebrates the prosperity of the nation by doing to the turkey population what the Minotaur did to anyone who didn’t show the proper level of appreciation for his freakish bovine head. Despite the annual slaughter of a bird that falls squarely into the “easily distracted by shiny objects” category, America is not the world, and not everyone celebrates this holiday. The one thing we have in common is that at this point in time most of the civilized world starts to gear up for the Christmas season. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Online Poker Room Has Six Figure JackpotWith some popular online poker rooms, winning isn’t the best thing that can happen to you. Bad Beat Jackpots offer payouts if a player suffers a bad beat under certain circumstances, such as when they have a quad ten hand and some beats them with a better hand. In these instances the entire table usually gets some kind of payout, with the person suffering the bad beat getting the lion’s share… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 No WSOP Champ at Macau Poker EventWhile Jerry Yang was scheduled to appear at the Asian-Pacific Poker Tour event in Macau, and in fact did his best to appear at the event, problems with his Visa kept him in the United States. The event, the first ever of its kind in the People’s Republic of China, is sponsored by PokerStars online poker room, which also sponsors the current World Series of Poker champ Yang. While Yang is a resident of the US, he holds refuge status, and thus needed a Visa to enter Hong Kong… More: continued here Nov 27 2007 WPT Season 6 - Crowd FavoriteWith much of poker TV dominated by the Americans with many WPT shows and the WSOP, the Grand Prix de Paris gives many European poker players a chance to show their stuff. At this final table were two players from Denmark, one from Sweden, one from France and two from Finland. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 Slow It DownFor the most part, when you are trying to control the game pace in Holdem, you are trying to increase it. You’re wanting more action, so you and your opponents can build bigger pots, and you can win larger sums. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 The HorrorPoker is not usually a frightening experience. There are much worse out there, wars, horror movies, weddings. But sometimes, a game of poker may become a very frightening experience. You may find yourself bleeding out chips like the screaming teenage victims of Jason or Freddy bleed out regularly. You may find yourself facing players who you can’t beat, like the monsters in a Resident Evil game. More: continued here Nov 27 2007 “How to Win the Championship: Hold’em Strategies for the Final Table” by T.J. CloutierMany poker greats praise T. J. Cloutier for providing the rock-solid poker playing advice that made them who they are today. Now you can learn the secrets of Cloutier’s phenomenal tournament success in one of his latest paperback releases which is available from online outlets for around $20. More: continued here |
