Dec
22
2007
Australian actor Russell Crowe has come out against poker machines in a club where he is part owner and successfully lobbied for the machines’ recent removal. Together with business partner Peter Holmes a Court, Crowe looked for 60 poker machines to disappear from the South Sydney League Club in Redfern, Sydney. In response to why he cared, Crowe said he was “not moralizing” about poker, but thought that the low income area needed fewer poker machines as opposed to more poker machines…
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Dec
22
2007
The PlayStation 3 is one of those game systems that some find hard to justify, considering the cost is higher than most and the game selection is smaller than most. If, however, you happen to be one of those who own a PS3 and are looking for games, you will be happy to know that the poker game World Series of Poker 2008 is out and by all reports enjoyable to play. The game costs $79.95, and is a single player game, unless you take it online…
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Dec
22
2007
The debate over whether or not poker is a game of skill versus a game of chance continued when the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a show that took a look at the question from three different points of view. A regulatory authority spokesperson was one, a statistician was the second, and a professional poker player completed the trifecta. In the course of the program the topic was battered back and forth, with even the poker pro admitting that luck does play a role, but that the overall success of a poker player is primarily dependant upon skill.Related Articles:Poker still popular search termPoll shows opposition to US poker position…
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Dec
22
2007
In his glorious film career Russell Crowe has played a gunfighter, an 18th century ship’s captain, a Roman General, ironically he has also played a genius, but his newest role is that of a politically correct uber sissy. Mr. Crowe has joined his voice with those who think it is perfectly acceptable to tell a bunch of grown men and women how they should be living their lives.
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Dec
22
2007
Playing against aggressive players can be a very difficult prospect simply because most of these players approach the game like it was a demolition derby and they were the infamous Malachi brothers, but what do you with a group that treats each hand like they were tip toeing through a minefield?
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Dec
22
2007
Poker is a game of solving mysteries. How will your hand develop is a mystery. Will your opponent fold, call, or raise is another mystery. Is your another opponent bluffing, or is his hand really that strong is yet another. Mysteries are constantly developing and being solved during the course of a game of poker.
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Dec
22
2007
When two players are all that is left in a poker game, they call this heads up play, and it is the most exciting part of a poker tournament. By this point all the other players have left the table, and it was down to only two people to see who will come out as the champion, and win the lion’s share of the money.
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Dec
22
2007
The Asian Pacific Poker Tour is new this year, and it has already set a number of records. With the first live poker event to take place on the soil of the People’s Republic of China, the APPT Macau event turned a lot of heads, and the Big Event at the end of the season - the Asian Pacific Poker Tour Sydney - is likely to do the same.
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