Arena Of Poker

Sometimes the strategy of the game of poker goes beyond the Xs and Os of the game, and the tactical plotting about how to get somebody who probably has a full house to fold their cards in the face of your muscular pair of 2s.

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Double deuces is like a double edged sword. On one side, you have yourself a pair, and that’s always decent. On the other side, you have the worst pair possible, and pairs aren’t really strong hands to win with. Getting double deuces almost feels like an insult. Couldn’t it have been fours at least, or threes? The question is: can you win with double deuces? The answer is: yes, you can and no, it’s not likely.

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It was Poker After Dark, the NBC late night poker show that each week had a special theme. This time all six players were among the only 12 living that had five or more WSOP bracelets, and only three players were left at the table.

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Pub poker is not a new idea. As long as there has been poker, people have been playing it in pubs, and the idea of organizing these games into a league has been around for a while. Online poker isn’t new anymore, either. What is new is a live pub poker league moving online, and that is just what The Nuts Poker League has done.

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This Wednesday a special charity poker fundraiser is set to take place at The Venue of Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Hearts and Helmets poker tournament – and the accompanying party – will be presided over by Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson and NBA star Shawn Marion. The event will raise money for several charities…

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The Maine Snowmobile Association was all set to support as many as 30 snowmobile clubs to host fundraising poker runs this winter, but those plans have changed. The events had to be canceled when the clubs got the word that they would have to buy a gambling license to run them. What was to be a fun event became bogged down with paperwork and regulations, and these non profit events would have to shell out money to take place…

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In Canada, the Century Casino & Hotel in Edmonton has recently reported via press release that their new non-stop, 24-hour poker room has been a success. With more people coming to play and more money flowing into the casino’s coffers it looks like the all poker, all day, every day concept is a good one that will continue. Texas Holdem poker tournaments are held weekly on Thursdays and Sundays while cash games – sometimes called ring games – run all the time…

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There will be thirty tables to start off play at the 2008 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship, which means they need 60 poker pros to agree to play, but the problem with the NBC show was not in getting enough players but narrowing the list down. Plenty of big names will be on hand to play, including many of those that have won the World Series of Poker over the last twenty years. The most recent champ, Jerry Yang, will be on hand, one of his few appearances since winning the 2007 WSOP…

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The winner of the first ever World Series of Poker Europe event has showed a knack for investing in the industry that made her a millionaire. Nineteen year old Annette Obrestad has bought stock in Poker Manager.com, a Norwegian community and information website. She has upped her share to five percent, and actually had a hand in developing the site…

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Decks of cards were handed out last year to Florida prison inmates with wanted felons printed on them in hopes of dredging up new leads, and now a new deck is being unveiled with cold case info. The 52 card deck has local cold cases profiled on each card, and police are hoping that the people that might know the most will be forthcoming with information if they see something that jogs their memory while they play poker. Ten thousand decks of cards will be deployed to the Tomoka Correctional Institution and local jails.Related Articles:Retired Arizona poker judge bucks poker lawPoker player robbed of $30,000…

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The current chip leader was Allen Cunningham, who alone was left to face Eli Elezra at the table for the win. Each of these players had a one in two shot at walking away with that three hundred grand, although Allen had the advantage by about six to one with his chip lead.

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As we know, in the game of poker all the talk of strategy, bluffing, tells, etc. are about one thing: making money. Most people don’t get into casino or competitive poker for the purpose of giving away their paychecks. Anybody who does that sort of thing probably also uses a cactus as a loofa.

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Most people who take poker playing seriously will eventually wind up in the city of Las Vegas. This is something that is way beyond their rational control. Even if they have a personal aversion to neon or Elvis, sooner or later they will come to Sin City like a salmon driven instinctively upstream. Most men who come to Vegas to play poker will celebrate a dramatic loss at the tables in the same manner that they commemorate a stunning financial victory against the house: they will visit one the city’s many strip clubs.

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The news that Austria was looking for a solution for state run online poker room has turned to popular online poker provider and a leader in the field Boss Media. The new Win2Day online poker site will be supported by the network of Boss Media, which also supports many of the more popular online poker rooms today. The poker room in Austria will be limited in that players can only put up one thousand dollars per week in wagers…

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The state of Washington is the only place in the USA where playing online poker could land you in the same class as someone who tortures a cat. The law passed in 2006 makes playing online poker a Class C felony, something that Lee Rousso finds excessively punitive. Rousso is going to run for the August primary against current Governor Christine Gregoire in hopes that he could win on poker fan votes…

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The World Series of Poker Circuit brings the WSOP brand all across the USA, and the most recent event closed down in Tunica with one player taking a $415,595 victory. Bart Tichelman was the winner, outlasting over 170 other players. The other top winners were Donald Nicholson ($229,309), Giovanni Marcacci ($126,000), John Devia ($100,925), Benjamin Sabrin ($75,751), Mark Garner ( $63,165), Ryan Young ($50,578), Tom Schneider ($37,991) and Jordan Rich who took $25,404 for ninth place…

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The Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi will once again host the World Poker Tour during their 2008 World Poker Open, the sixth year in a row that the casino has done so. There will be plenty of poker for everyone with the ubiquitous Texas Holdem games and Stud and Omaha as well. The prelims got started at the beginning of the month, but now the main event is underway…

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The 2008 Aussie Millions Poker Championship is over, and the winner is one Alexander Kostritsyn. Kostritsyn is a poker player from Russia who will return home with a check for $1,650,000 AUD, taking the victory away from a man who was famously in second place once, Erik Seidel. Seidel took second to Johnny Chan in the 1988 World Series of Poker main event, a moment captured for the poker film Rounders…

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Whoever thinks that poker is on the decline only has to look at the players signing up to play in the Borgata Winter Open to see they are mistaken. The event, taking place in Atlantic City, NJ, often called the “Las Vegas of the East Coast”, put up record numbers with 482 players signing up to play in event number five, a $1,500 buy in tourney with over $2.2 million in the accumulated prize pool. Hevad “Rainkhan” Khan was on hand amid local pros, such as New Jersey’s Robert “Action Bob” Hwang.Related Articles:World Poker Tour World Poker Open underway2008 Borgata Winter Poker Open begins…

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He’s done it twice before; the experience served him well as Bill Blanda took down his third Borgata Poker Open. The main event, Event #5, got underway yesterday as the remaining players - less than forty - tried their best to get the first place prize of over $200k. In the end the prize and the champions Tag Heuer watch went to the man who has been there before, Bill Blanda…

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