Archive for December 12th, 2007Dec 12 2007 Poker Match Goes to UCLAWhen the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society got started in August they lost no time in organizing poker matches at colleges in the United States. The idea behind the GPSTS was to further college students’ education using the skills and tactics that poker players use in making decisions. Schools have hosted poker games before the GPSTS, but not inter-college competition… More: continued here Dec 12 2007 The Dragon Closes on Poker POYDavid Pham was already in the lead when it came to this year’s Card Player Magazine Player of the Year race, but he held his lead by only 300 points over his closest threat, Jonathan Little. Should Little do well or win a POY ranked game, he would over take the man they call “The Dragon.” Pham doesn’t have to worry much about that now after a victory at a $2,500 buy in event at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The win bought Pham more than a thousand points, putting his lead up over 1,400… More: continued here Dec 12 2007 Online Poker Funding Problems ComingPoker players use various companies to fund their poker accounts, and the number of available options seem to be dropping every few months or so. The latest casualty is PayTrue, as their customers got an email telling them that at some online poker rooms they won’t be able to use their PayTrue VisaDebit card anymore. While card holders can still use their PayTrue cards to take money out of an ATM or make purchases anywhere that Visa is accepted, they won’t be able to use them to fund online poker accounts at certain rooms.Related Articles:No Neteller for Canadian poker playersPoker players getting money back from Neteller… More: continued here Dec 12 2007 Playing for T.J.T.J. Martell was a young man whose courage and fighting spirit helped him hold out against the onslaught of leukemia for a full two years longer than the doctors said he was capable of. More: continued here Dec 12 2007 Slowplay on the TurnSlow play either describes the style Eric Clapton favors when playing his Stratocaster, the act of pretending your poker hand is a stinker when it really isn’t, or the speed at which Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy’s engine idles at this point in his life. For the purpose of today’s discussion we will be focusing on option B: playing possum with a good hand. More: continued here Dec 12 2007 Power ManPoker requires domination for success. You cannot be a submissive player and expect to win. If you defer to the other players, you will lose your chips, no matter how good your cards are. Without a forceful and agressive personality, the best hands are still trash. If you want to win, you have to become a power man. More: continued here Dec 12 2007 WPT Season 6 - Beware the StampThe man they called “the Stamp” picked up his name in an innocent enough way - he made his living as a stamp buyer before he turned to pro level poker as a profession. More: continued here Dec 12 2007 Everest Poker Avalanche FinalIt was a long time coming. Online poker room Everest Poker had been teasing and enticing for nine long months about their Everest Poker Avalanche event, and they wouldn’t even tell the players where the final event was to take place. It turns out it wasn’t going to happen just in one place, but in a traveling tournament aboard a Costa Cruise ship in the Mediterranean. More: continued here |
