Arena Of Poker

The next Xbox poker game will not be branded with the WSOP or WPT, or even EPT, and it won’t be for sale in the game stores. The next game is coming down the Xbox Live Arcade pipe, and in a very real way it isn’t even a poker game. The name of the game, form developer Void Star Creations, is Poker Smash, and it is a poker themed puzzle game that borrows a little from Tetris in its make up…

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This weekend a number of TV stars will be sitting down to play poker and help fight wildfires at the same time as part of the No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament which will be held at the Hollywood Park Casino. Child stars from the past that are certainly old enough to be on the casino floor today include Christopher Knight from the Brady Bunch and the Beaver and his older brother, Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow from the old favorite Leave it to the Beaver. The $450 buy in will have a player eligible to win a seat in the 2008 World Series of Poker main event this summer in Las Vegas…

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German and Swedish poker players are facing an uncertain future in terms of online poker play now that the European Union has come after their governments for what is essentially a breach of contract. Sweden has a state run company, Svenska Spel, that has a monopoly on all online poker in the nation, while Germany has restrictions on online poker that are similar to those found in the United States with their Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The EU holds that member nations cannot interfere with the businesses of other nations and defines Germany and Sweden’s rules as doing such.Related Articles:Retired Arizona poker judge bucks poker lawNo online poker in Finland?…

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Sometimes you just want to make a few bucks. Maybe there’s that new flashy toy you want, maybe you have bills to pay, or maybe you just like having your wallet a little fatter. There are a thousand different reasons why someone would want more money, and not many reasons why someone would want less.

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Nobody has a good hand all the time. Anybody who does is probably getting the cards from up their sleeve. So when the player to your right seems to always be stealing the pot when you’re in the big blind, you can either assume he gets the best hand in the world whenever he is in that particular position or he is bluffing most of the time.

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Recently there has been some media carping about the World Poker Tour’s move from the Travel Channel to the GSN network. The problem with the move to GSN is that it actually will cost a lot of people money. Most basic cable packages do not include this particular offering. This means that a segment of the WPT fan base will not be able to follow the show to GSN without bumping up their cable costs by at least nine dollars per month.

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When Poker After Dark brought 6 players who had more than 12 WSOP bracelets together, there was no surprise when the two left to battle heads up for the $120k cash prize were none other than Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson, having just ousted T.J. Cloutier.

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